The road to get rich through salted fish

If you want to sell Roujiamo, you must first prepare tools, trolleys, ovens, and brine materials.

In ancient times and modern times, because most people lack oil and water in their stomachs, fatty meat is better than lean meat in the market, and the price is also more expensive. Lean meat usually costs 20 to [-] yuan a catty, while fatty meat costs [-] yuan.

Liang Feng reckoned the weight, and the wharf is full of hardworking people, and a full stomach is the first need.

Therefore, they deliberately made the noodle cakes tighter, twice the size of modern ones, and spent more flour.For the meat stuffing, they will add some stewed vegetarian dishes. For every 2 catties of flour and 1 catty of meat, about 9 to 10 pancakes can be produced.

Counting the firewood and marinated ingredients, the cost of each Roujiamo is about 4 Wen, and that of Cai Jiamo is 2 Wen.

If this is the case, then the pricing will be based on 4 renminbi for each dish and 7 renminbi for each roujiamo.

After all, it is only a county town, and the normal daily salary of a strong laborer on the wharf is 20-30 Wen. If it is too high, those who work hard will not be willing to spend money.

In fact, if it is put into modern times, just eating every day will account for about half of a day's salary, which is definitely an extremely unhealthy way of life, and will be complained to death by people around.

But in this backward ancient times, having enough to eat was the ultimate pursuit. They had no extra entertainment, and there was no place worth spending more money than eating. Such an abnormal allocation of resources seemed to be the most normal in this environment. .

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"Father, you still have a good brain. What do you think of this small cart with wheels? It's really suitable for setting up a stall."

Facing the morning light, Liang Mengchun and Liang Zhongxia were holding a blueprint and couldn't help but marvel.

Liang Feng raised his eyebrows and said, "Otherwise, you think I'm just like you, thinking about eating all day long."

"Oh, dad, don't keep mentioning this." Liang Zhongxia jumped up again angrily.

"Unfortunately, our family only sells steamed buns now. When our family sells noodles, wontons, etc., those people will probably sit down and drink tea. At that time, you can use the folding table and chairs I typed out some time ago. , take it and place it together, it’s very convenient to carry.”

"It's just your brain." He habitually slapped the second child's shoulder, and the showman started yelling again.

Liang Mengchun couldn't help laughing when he saw the two of them fighting each other everyday, "Father, it looks really practical, but your hands are not very good now, I guess I can't do it with the skills of the second and third children." , I have to ask Uncle Leizi to help me."

"Well, you can discuss this matter with your Uncle Cheng Lei." Liang Feng had no objection at all, and his son took control of the whole process, and it happened that he was taking a break.

Liang Mengchun nodded, "It just so happens that our family doesn't have any suitable woodwork right now, so we go to the mountain to cut it, and then kill it and dry it in the sun. It may take a lot of time, so let's go directly to Uncle Leizi to order it. I will follow the carpentry all the way. "

"You can bring a bowl of braised pork from home later. Also, it doesn't matter if you, Uncle Cheng Lei, want to start this business by yourself."

Hearing this, Liang Zhongxia pouted, "Father, why are you so much more generous to outsiders than to your son?"

"Who made you so annoying."

Liang Zhongxia snorted at his father, but didn't say anything else.

When his mother gave birth to his fourth brother, he was only six or seven years old. It was the time when he was hungry for delicious food, but basically the things at home couldn't reach him.

Only Cheng Lei couldn't see it, and would often give their brothers something to eat in private.

He has been flexible since he was a child, sweet-mouthed, likable, thick-skinned, and has first-class ability to climb up the pole. Knowing that Cheng Lei treats them well, Cheng Fulang is also generous, so he often goes to Cheng Lei's place to eat and drink .

It can be said that the entire Liang family benefited from Cheng Lei

The most people, so it's fine for him to talk about being cheap, and he really doesn't have much dissatisfaction in his heart.

Liang Feng told Fan, "Boss, you should explain this matter clearly to your Uncle Cheng Lei. I will go to the county pier with my second child tomorrow to find a suitable stall."

Shuzhou has one prefecture and eight counties under its jurisdiction. Its vast territory ranks among the top in the entire South Zhili, but it is also famous for its large population.

Therefore, after allocating, in fact, the area of ​​planting land that each of their households can occupy is really not large, just enough to fill their stomachs, and their living standards are completely inferior to those in Xuanzhou next door.

Xuanzhou is rich in mineral resources and sits on the golden waterway of the Yangtze River. The copper and iron ore of their entire South Zhili, even including the southeast coastal areas, are almost entirely produced by Xuanzhou.

The water transport conditions are unique and extremely developed, and the entire Xuanzhou wharf is lined with trees. As the poem says, "The waves in the sky are still and the whales breathe, and the sails that reflect the sun are full of treasures."

However, although Shuzhou does not have these resources, due to climate reasons, Shuzhou's tea, silk, ramie, etc. are not as good as those in the Central Plains.

Therefore, with the water conservancy and transportation close to Xuanzhou, many traveling merchants will come to them to do some business by the way. Whether they sell to the southeast coast or go north to Yingtianfu, they can make a lot of money. Pen.

And now this season is the time when the tea business is booming. Not long after Mingqian tea is on the market, there is an endless stream of boats coming and going from the wharf.

The riverside wharf in their county was built by the Yuan family, a big tea family, and the Hu family, a big ramie family in Tong'an County.

Therefore, the ships entering the water here, as well as those who set up stalls and open shops on the pier, all need to pay the market fee to the two companies according to their location.

Liang Feng and the others chose a location closer to the pier. I heard that they used to sell buns and steamed buns. The market fee was 20 Wen per day and 550 Wen per month.

He still has a little confidence in his business, so he paid the city fee on a monthly basis, which also saves him from having the problem of changing his position and always changing this and that.

"Father, why did you buy so many things?"

"Let's stop by to see your sister."

"Oh."

Liang Feng took Liang Zhongxia for a while along the lower reaches of the river, and stopped at a dilapidated and abandoned wooden wharf entering the river.

Here, due to the terrain, there is a small tributary lake. The water surface is covered with green reeds, and the wind blows to make green waves undulate. A few small boats are tied sparsely among the reeds. There are several wooden houses built correspondingly in the poplar forest on the bank.

According to the memory of the original owner, Liang Feng quickly walked to a wooden house. There was a rope tied to two wooden sticks at the door, and a young woman was drying clothes on tiptoe.

"sister."

Hearing the sound, the woman turned around quickly.

His expression was a little hasty and startled, his head was covered with black hair in random coils on his head, his sallow face was already covered with wrinkles, a tattered gray apron was tied around his waist, and his toes were worn out. cloth shoes.

There seemed to be wet tears on the cheekbones, and the strands of hair hanging from the temples were slightly shaken by the wind, as if expressing her bitterness and sorrow.

"Father, Zhong Xia..." She rubbed her eyes in surprise, "Why are you here at this time?"

The river wind coming from afar makes people feel cold all over their bodies, and the sun above their heads seems to be hidden.

This is his cousin's only daughter. After having three sons in a row, the baby girl she was looking forward to.

She is only in her early 20s. In modern times, she is still drinking milk tea, watching movies, and discussing the good times of celebrities on the university campus...

If my cousin was still alive, how sad would he be when he saw her now?

Liang Feng closed his eyes, came back to his senses slightly, and said in a gentle voice, "We're going to the county seat in the morning to do some business, so I'll stop by your side to have a look."

"Well, you go to the house first, and I'll get you a glass of water."

Liang Feng and Liang Zhongxia glanced at each other, and followed her into the room.

As soon as I got close to the wooden house, I could smell a strong musty smell. It rained for several days after the spring sowing, and they were next to the riverside. Once the rain rose, the house was half soaked.

Taking a casual glance, I found that a lot of furniture in the hall had been soaked. Although the doors and windows were all opened because of the clear weather today, the effect was not so immediate.

Liang Feng sat down and calmed down for a while, and after drinking the hot tea she brought over, he asked, "Why are you alone at home?"

Liang Xueer frowned, and slowly replied, "Ah Qing went fishing, safe...in the house..."

After hearing this, Liang Feng suddenly had a bad guess.

In his impression, this little grandson named Ping An is actually very lively, and because of the family situation, he is also very diligent and sensible. He is not the kind of child who lies in the room during the day and does not make a sound. Something is wrong with the body.

"It has been raining for the past few days, is Ping An getting wet and hot?"

"father……"

Seeing how she couldn't help but almost cried, Liang Feng knew that he had guessed right.

He put down the tea bowl, got up and walked straight into the house.

On the crude plank bed, lay a boy with a face flushed with fever. He was clearly asleep, but his brows were still tightly frowned.

Perhaps because his body temperature was too high to bear, one of his feet had unconsciously protruded from the quilt.

Liang Feng stretched out his hand to check the temperature between his forehead, it was a little scary hot.

A child, if he continues to burn like this, his brain will probably burn out.

"What's going on? Didn't the family get him any medicine? He's been burning for a few days?"

"Ah Qing bought several medicines before and came back..." Liang Xueer suppressed her tears.

Hey, Liang Feng unconsciously let out a long sigh.

Traditional Chinese medicine is different from modern Western medicine drips or injections. It acts directly on the blood, and the effect of the medicine has always been very slow. In ancient times, it was common for a cold to last a whole winter.

Adults can consume slowly and rely on their own immune cells to defeat the virus, but children simply cannot withstand such a long-term high fever.

"Is there any wine in the house?"

She shook her head helplessly with tears in her eyes.

Liang Feng took a deep breath, not knowing what to say for a while.

"Second brother, you take off your coat and give it to me, and you go and change into your brother-in-law's old clothes."

After several days of heavy rain, their house was damp everywhere, and it felt like a handful of water could be squeezed out when touching the quilt. This place was safe to live in no longer.

He took off the child's original clothes, hugged him tightly, wiped off the cold sweat all over his body, and then wrapped him tightly with his second child's clothes to avoid being hurt by the cool spring wind.

"Second brother, you take your sister to the pharmacy in the county, grab some more medicines and come back, and then go to our house together, Axue, you say hello to the neighbors next to you, and when Aqing comes back, let him also directly Go to our place."

Liang Xueer was taken aback when she heard the words, thinking he was joking, she looked up at her own father for a long time.

Seeing that his expression was indeed extremely firm, he subconsciously rubbed his hands together, hesitantly said, "But mother, she won't agree..."

The person she calls mother has always been extremely dissatisfied with her, and it can even be said to hate her.

Throughout the year, unless Zheng Shi took the initiative to call her back to help, at other times, she would not dare to step into the door of the Liang family. Even obscenities forced him to flee.

I can't believe it, since she got married, she hasn't even eaten a meal in Liang's family. Even when her second and third brothers got married, she was called back as a free laborer to help wash vegetables and cook. Still haven't been able to eat a bite.

Even after the banquet was over, when cleaning up the kitchen waste, Mrs. Zheng came to the kitchen to supervise and inspect it personally, in case she took something and secretly brought it back to her home.

It's so ridiculous...

Liang Zhongxia saw that her face was obviously not quite right, so she immediately calmed down the atmosphere, and said, "Oh, sister, you don't have to worry about it, Zheng Shi has already left, she reconciled with her father, and took the old man with her. Si and Mingzhu are no longer in our house."

This news directly blasted into her mind like a thunderbolt, Liang Xueer's whole expression changed several times in an instant, and she couldn't believe her ears at all.

Things happened so suddenly, it was too surprising and exciting...

Liang Feng put one hand on Ping'an's face, feeling the continuous heat coming from his palm, and his expression became a little impatient, "Second brother, explain to your sister when you have time on the road, let me go as fast as you can." Hurry up, I'll go back with safety first."

"Got it, Dad."