HCB Chapter 212: The Merchant's Daughter Wants to Marry the General 09
Chapter 212: The Merchant's Daughter Wants to Marry the General 09
It was already evening, and they couldn't let the whole village eat dumpling soup for dinner. Shen Guli and his men quickly left, leaving the kitchen to the cooks.
"Everyone has worked hard all day. Cherry will give each of you one or two taels of silver later as a reward for your hard work today."
"Oh, this is unacceptable. It is my duty to do things for the young lady. How can I take the young lady's money?"
"This is my reward to you, take it. From now on, you will come to make dried noodles for me! Let's start from tomorrow."
Aunt Lin was a little worried. "Two sticks of dried noodles are enough to last for a while."
Shen Guli raised her index finger and waved it, "That's not enough. I want to take it to the grain store in town to sell it."
Aunt Lin was in a dilemma again, "Will this sell well? What if we make too much? Wouldn't that be a waste of food?"
"We can make a small amount and put it in the shop to try it out. After all, the noodles can be kept for three months after being dried."
Shen Guli encouraged everyone, "I'm afraid that by then your speed of making noodles won't be able to keep up with the speed of delivery."
Aunt Lin felt the change in her hand was hot, her lips moved several times but she didn't dare to speak. She was worried that the young lady would make the noodles on a whim. If she couldn't sell them, wouldn't it all be thrown into the water?
How could the eldest son bring such a thing upon himself?
Shen Guli was impatient to say more, "Go back and rest, we'll continue tomorrow."
Fanglan pulled her mother-in-law back and said, "We just need to do things according to the young lady's requirements. Mother-in-law, don't always spoil her fun!" She could see that the young lady was unhappy.
"What do you know? As servants, we have to share the worries of our master. Didn't you see how much food was wasted today?" Aunt Lin put all the change of two taels of silver into her pocket.
Fang Lan didn't even have the qualifications to touch the silver. She curled her lips and said, "We've already eaten all the waste noodles!"
"You really don't know how expensive oil and rice are until you become a farmer. Haven't you seen the famine a few years ago when people down in the mountains were so hungry that they had to eat tree bark?"
"We have the protection of the Lin family, but we have never lived like that." Fanglan muttered quietly. Seeing that her mother-in-law was about to get angry again, she hurriedly said, "What the young lady wants to do is not something you and I can stop. Even if it can't be sold, the people on the farm can eat it. What a big deal!"
Aunt Lin wanted to pinch Fanglan, "You stupid woman, don't you worry that the unsold goods will have a bad impact on Dashan, and will make the boss think that Dashan is not capable enough!"
Thinking of her husband who was the shopkeeper in the town, Fanglan stopped talking and obediently followed her mother-in-law back to the yard where their family lived.
At night, Aunt Lin told Uncle Lin about her concerns again. Uncle Lin almost fell asleep while listening to her, and he only said: "Just do whatever the master asks you to do, it's no big deal!"
Aunt Lin was so angry that she wanted to pull her old man up and have a good talk with him, but considering that he had worked hard all day, she stopped making a fuss.
Aunt Lin, who didn't sleep well, felt a little nervous the next day. When Shen Guli saw her, she didn't say a word and just waved her hand and asked her to go back.
Aunt Lin was so frightened that she broke out in a cold sweat. She felt that the young lady disliked her.
The head of Linzhuang also knew about this. He looked at Aunt Lin with some regret and said to her son, "You don't treat the young lady as your master. Don't think you can take advantage of your age just because you have lived in the manor for a long time. I am still here!"
This sentence made Aunt Lin feel ashamed. Although her father-in-law said this to her husband, she knew that he was talking to her.
Aunt Lin's eyes immediately turned red. "I, I'll go and beg Miss for mercy----"
Lin Zhuangtou interrupted her: "Since the young lady asked you to come back, why are you still going there? Do you have to disobey the master?"
To be able to become the head of the village, Mr. Lin has the ability to judge people. The young lady looks still young, lazy and doesn't care about things, but she is definitely a person who can make decisions.
Fortunately, the granddaughter-in-law was capable and was kept by the young lady.
On the day when the first batch of dried noodles were dried, Shen Guli had them all taken down, and she treated everyone in the farm to noodles.
Is to eat noodles at the same time.
Bowls of noodles are poured into large bowls with seasonings, and you can take the noodles out and choose your favorite toppings.
Including the servants that Lin brought from the Shen Mansion, there were more than sixty people in the farm. If they were to roll out noodles, the cook would probably be exhausted to death.
But the bowls of noodles that appeared on the trays brought out from the kitchen were really eye-opening.
Even Lin was a little curious.
But, after all, it's just a bowl of noodles.
"Mother, this pound of wheat flour can produce about 1.4 pound of dried noodles. The selling price of noodles should be higher than that of wheat flour, so there is a profit to be made."
Lin smiled.
Shen Guli sat next to Lin, tapping the table with her finger, "I've asked, the grain shop sells one pound of wheat flour for three cents, and if you take more, you can bargain for a lower price. I took ten stones of wheat flour, which is 1,200 pounds, at one time, so it's not too much to ask Brother Dashan to charge me three taels of silver.
One thousand two hundred catties of wheat flour can theoretically produce about one thousand six hundred and eighty catties of dried noodles. Excluding some losses, there should be one thousand six hundred catties. I set the price at ten cents per catty, which can earn me sixteen taels of silver, a net profit of thirteen taels!"
Thirteen taels of silver may not seem like a lot, but for an ordinary farmer, ten taels of silver could cover his family's expenses for a year.
Lin pondered for a moment and reminded her daughter, "But you've spent ten taels of silver on rewards these few days, and that doesn't even include the store expenses and packaging for the grain store. I think the price can be raised a bit more! Once the price is set low, it won't be so easy to raise it again in the future."
They are truly a family of merchants. Even though Lin has lived in the backyard for a long time, he sees business matters farther and deeper than Shen Guli.
"So how much do you think it should cost per pound?"
"The biggest customer base for these noodles shouldn't be the town's residents, but travelers and peddlers who need to travel far away! They probably won't be sold at the price I want in the food store."
Shen Guli:----
My mother is quite capable.
"But these are all figured out by you. You can figure out how much to sell them for and how to sell them yourself!"
In fact, Shen Guli had already thought of a sales channel and was just waiting for an opportunity. At present, she just wanted to test the waters in the town first, but she didn't expect Lin to see the essence of the dried noodles at once.
Seeing that her daughter seemed confident, Mrs. Lin did not say anything more and changed the subject.
Two days later, Xie Rong sent someone to invite Shen Guli, saying that he had recovered his memory.
Xie Rong also said that he wanted to visit the Lin family, so Shen Guli simply took her mother to the flower hall to meet him.
Upon learning that the person who rescued her daughter from the back mountain was actually a third-rank General Anyuan, even though Lin had seen a lot of worldly things, she was really shocked.
As a merchant, she had never met an official, and had only had superficial interactions with the wives of officials.
Lin was caught off guard and found out that there was a third-rank official living in the manor where she lived. She panicked and quickly stood up to give up the main seat.
Xie Rong refused and sat down at the lower seat with his back straight.
Shen Guli pretended to be surprised for a moment and then stood calmly beside Lin.
Finally, this day has finally come.