Rebirth: Don't Be the Best

Early the next morning, Zhang Shu got up to wash the autumn potatoes. When Li Mujin got up, Zhang Shu had already washed one of the baskets.

There are big ones and small ones in the big tub, and they are all rubbed clean.

Li Mujin squatted over, and Zhang Shu moved her hands away before she could put her hands into the cold water, "Go, the kitchen has brought hot water for you, and don't get your hands wet when you're done washing."

Li Muqin looked at Zhang Shu's red hands soaked in cold water, feeling a little distressed for him.

Zhang Shu knew what he was thinking, smiled and said, "It's okay, I'm very hot, washing a few of these won't cool me down."

Li Mujin pursed her lips, squatted there and did not make a sound.

Zhang Shu looked at him, shook his head, and sped up his movements.

After washing the autumn potatoes, Zhang Shu brushed the pot clean, then poured the autumn potatoes down, added a few scoops of water, and then covered the pot.

After drying his hands on the cloth towel, Zhang Shu went over and pulled Li Muzhen up, led him into the room, and let him sit on his lap, "What's the matter, Jin'er?"

Li Mujin didn't speak, but put her head on Zhang Shu's shoulder.After a long time, he said sullenly, "Do you treat me as an outsider?"

"No! Why do you think so?" Zhang Shu quickly denied.

"Then why don't you ask me to work? I do everything by myself. I feel like I'm living for nothing. I can't do anything."

"It's too late for me to love you, so how can I let you work? I married you to let you enjoy life, not to make you work."

"But, I married you because I wanted to support this family with you, not because you were working hard outside and I was idle at home."

Zhang Shu was very moved. Ordinary people are afraid of being asked to work by others, and wish they could be idle all day long. Why is his Jin'er so stupid, and wants to work with him instead.

"Okay, let's do it together next time!"

After coaxing Li Mujin, Zhang Shu took him out to wash up, and then ate the porridge and boiled eggs that Grandma Zhang had left for them.

The two elders went to the town to go to the market today. They said they were going to see if there was anyone selling cattle today, and if there were any, they would bring one back.

Before the autumn potatoes were cooked, Zhang Shu and Li Mujin went to the backyard to pull out several green onions, wash them, and cut out a large bowl of chopped green onions.

Zhang Shu thought for a while, and found a handful of cinnamon, star anise, and peppercorns from the cupboard. These were the things Grandma Zhang prepared for the stew. He crushed them with the back of a knife until they were almost powdered.

Li Mujin picked up the autumn potatoes in the pot with a strainer, peeled them one by one and put them on the cutting board, and then crushed the chapter trees one by one. Together, the two of them used half of the autumn potatoes in the big pot. The hours are running out.

Because there are a lot of things today, Zhang Shu washed a large wooden basin for vegetables, and then scooped a few bowls of flour to mix the paste.

Pour the autumn potato paste, salt, green onion and powder, and beat four or five eggs into it. Zhang Shu uses a stick like a rolling pin to stir them until they stick together and can be squeezed into small cakes. .

Then there is another pinch and a fry. The fried autumn potato cakes are placed on a round bamboo plaque with a layer of oil paper on it.It took nearly an hour, and the two finally finished frying a large pot of autumn potato cakes.

After the bombing was over, Zhang Shu took Li Muzhen to settle the accounts together. He went to private school when he was a child, and he came back to teach Li Muzhen the characters he learned, so Li Muzhen can also write, but both of them can't write very well.

"A total of 120 autumn potato pancakes were fried, and we ate three of them, which counted as 120." Li Muzhen forgot how to write the word pancake, so he replaced it with two sesame seeds on a circle, and wrote below: 120.

"I used half a can of oil. Based on the market price, it should be about 25 Wen. I knocked five eggs down. Calculated as one penny per egg, that would be five Wen."

Zhang Shu waited for Li Muqin to memorize it, and then continued, "Four bowls of flour were scooped down, about two liters. One liter of flour costs six fen, so just record twelve renminbi."

"Autumn potatoes are relatively cheap, so let's count these two baskets at ten cents." In fact, the autumn potatoes vary in size, and they can be sold for less than ten cents.

"Just remember one penny for the chopped scallions." Zhang Shu thought for a while, and it seemed that there were no other expenses, and the only thing was labor.

Li Muqin showed Zhang Shu what he had memorized, and Zhang Shu silently calculated in his heart that it took about fifty renminbi to make these autumn potato pancakes.Of course, this is the result of converting it into the market price. Except for the small half tank of oil, everything else is self-produced.

"Ashu, how much do we sell for our autumn potato pancakes? If they sell at a lower price, I'm afraid we won't be able to make back our money."

"The steamed stuffed buns in the county sell for one penny and two. They are quite big, but they are filled with wild vegetables. The flour and oil residue are not used much, so they should still make money." But that family is an old brand, and it is not easy to raise prices. This is the price since his grandfather, but can the money now be compared with that at that time?But other things in his house are not at this price. To be honest, they don't rely on this to make money, basically just selling their reputation.

"Are we two for a penny?"

"No, we sell one for a penny." How can it be possible to sell two for a penny that cost so much oil?

"Will the people in the county buy it?" If Li Mujin himself probably wouldn't, he might not even be able to buy buns that cost two cents, let alone this small pancake.

"The target we want to sell is those rich people. They don't care about one penny or two pennies, as long as they are delicious."

Now they haven't sold it here, it's a novelty, those people are definitely willing to spend a penny to buy one and try it.

"Then if we can sell one for a penny, we'll make some money."

"Yeah, I can earn more than working as a part-time job." Of course, the premise is that it can be sold.

The two of them were imagining that all these pancakes would be sold and exchanged for a bag of copper coins, when they heard a cry of "moo" coming from outside the yard.

Zhang Shu and the others went out to take a look, and saw a black bull standing at the door of his house. The horns on its head were not particularly big, and it looked about three years old.The big eyes are moist and moist, and they are obedient at first glance.

Grandpa Zhang came back first with the cow, and Grandma Zhang was talking to the villagers in the back. The addition of such a big guy to the family made others envious!In addition to the village chief's family in this Shuitou village, there is also the Lin family who runs an inn, but no one else has cattle.

"Master, is there really someone selling a cow today? How much is it?" Zhang Shu touched the cow, looking like he couldn't put it down.

"Today is also a coincidence. A dealer brought some cows from other places to sell. This cow is now two years and nine months old, just at the age of working. That person costs six taels of silver. We will see if we ask. The man of the cow, he said that the cow has a good frame and a good mouth, and it is capable, and I bought it after I agreed with your milk."

The money in his grandma's hand was used to hire him and serve him wine, which probably wasn't much, and now he spent six taels of silver, even less.

But anyway, he will still make money. If the business can be done well, then the cow's money should not take long to earn back, so there is nothing to worry about.

Moreover, the arrival of this cow did bring him a lot of convenience, and he thought about going to the village head's house to borrow it again today.

The next day, just after dawn, Zhang Shu fed the family cow, then put it on a cart, and Li Mujin and Li Muzhen went with the prepared pancakes.Before leaving, he told his grandma that he should come back later today, so he should keep a bottom line for the old man first, so that he can keep it in mind.

The cart is no better than the carriage of a carriage, and it can't block the cold wind at all, so Li Mujin hugged a bed of torn cotton wool on the cart today, wrapped it up when it was cold, and it could also block the wind.

There is also a small stove in the car, a pot of charcoal, and a large earthen pot for cooking soup.Zhang Shu thought of this on the spur of the moment, because their pancakes were not freshly fried and tasted a bit cold, so he was going to give a bowl of hot soup to the guests who bought pancakes.There is also a wooden board and a few benches on the cart, and when the things are moved down later, the wooden board can be used as a table directly on the cart.

With a lot of things, the people are a bit crowded, but fortunately, the two of them don't mind, and it will be warmer if they sit close together.

Bullock carts are much faster than walking, and it usually takes only an hour to travel more than 40 miles.They set off early, and it was still early when they arrived at the county seat.

The streets are full of people, hawkers, bargainers, chatterers, and shoppers are everywhere.Zhang Shu came here at noon twice before, so he didn't know that there were so many people in the morning.

He unloaded the cow in the backyard of Lin's Inn, and gave Dongdong a few wrapped pancakes.Zhang Shu and Li Mujin pushed the cart out together.

All the good places in the market were occupied by people, Zhang Shu and the others searched for a long time before they found an open space to push the cart out.

The two neighbors are all vegetable sellers, and they don't compete with their cooked food sellers, so no one feels unhappy.Zhang Shu set up the boards, then asked Li Mujin to look at the stall, went to the meat stall to buy some broken bones and came back, and bought a big white radish from the next door, took them to the Qingshui River and washed them together, filling them full A can came back, and then lit the stove, and began to simmer the soup.

The biscuits were placed in a basket, covered with a piece of cloth to save ashes, Zhang Shu took out a plate and put a cut biscuit, at least to let others know what they were selling.

He looked around, then took a big bowl out, went to a nearby place that sold hot bean curd, bought a bowl of bean curd, and put the boss's own sauce in it, it should be very good to eat with steamed buns.

Li Mujin was a little distressed, "I haven't sold a single penny yet, why did I spend so much again?"

"It's okay, you can work hard only when you are full, right? Don't feel bad, you can definitely earn the money back today."

Li Mujin knew that Zhang Shu just wanted him to eat better, so he suppressed his distress, and Zhang Shu and he ate the steamed buns brought from home with bean curd.

Before the hot soup was cooked, some people were attracted by the pancakes. Although it was not as crispy as yesterday, and the aroma was not very strong, the smell of deep frying was still easy to smell.

A child passed by holding his mother's hand, and he smelled it all at once.

"Mom, it smells so good! I want to eat that!"

Zhang Shu looked at the child, who wore a silver Baijia lock around his neck. His family background should be quite good, and he should be able to make this first business.

The two stopped in front of the scooter, the child was full of excitement, but his mother was not very satisfied, "I will buy you hot buns later, this one is cold."

"No! This is delicious, I will eat this!"

The child was about to cry, so Zhang Shu quickly picked up a piece of biscuit with chopsticks and gave it to the child. The child took it and stuffed it into his mouth, and then his eyes lit up, "More!"

His mother frowned, but it's hard to say that Zhang Shu shouldn't give it to him.

"Madam, if you don't mind, you can have a taste." Zhang Shu took another piece for the child's mother.

The child ate his mother, and I understand why the child likes it so much. The child is like a little mouse, whose nose goes all the way to fragrant things.

"How much is it?"

"One yuan for one penny." Sure enough, when Zhang Shu proposed the price, the man said without frowning, "Give me two yuan."

Zhang Shu wrapped two pieces in oiled paper, and said, "Madam, if you're afraid of chilling your child, you can fry the oil again when you get home. It will taste better then, or you can steam it, and the taste will be the same."

The lady nodded, and felt much more comfortable. She led the child and taught him a lesson, "Now I bought something for you, so I'm not allowed to ask for anything more. Do you hear me? I want to go back and let your father beat you..."

Zhang Shu compared the two coins in his hand to Li Mujin, and said triumphantly, "Look, the money for Douhua is back."

Li Mujin took the money in his hand and put it into the cloth bag he was carrying, "Understood, you are good enough."

Zhang Shu smiled, then remembered something, and said seriously, "Jin'er, after we have a baby, you can't scare him with me. If he makes a mistake, you can beat him, and I can't do it."

Li Mujin squinted at him, could he be a villain if he dared to do so?