roccoschili Chapter 535 Busy
Chapter 535 Busy
In the evening, Dan Niang prepared a sumptuous dinner for everyone, and the family sat together to have a long-awaited reunion dinner.
After dinner, Xu Han took a shower and waited for Lu Chuan to come back to the room. She wanted to calculate with him the expenses of the trip to the provincial capital and the money earned from selling eggs.
Lu Chuan wiped his freshly washed hair and walked into the house. "Why haven't you slept yet?"
"Of course I'm waiting for you! I've been out for a few days, and I don't know if the money I earned these days is enough for us to buy things. Come over here and let's calculate the total bill together."
Xu Han sat cross-legged on the bed and wrote down all the expenses of the past few days with a pen, while Lu Chuan was counting the bill beside her.
After checking, he found that he spent a total of 17 taels and 3 qian on sugar and some miscellaneous items, with sugar accounting for the bulk of the money, almost more than half.
I bought a lot of other things as well, but overall there wasn’t much, after all, the quantity of each item was quite large.
Xu Han held the account book and said with a smile, "We made a total of 30 taels and 9 cents from selling eggs. After deducting the expenses for shopping, accommodation and car rental, we not only did not lose money on this trip to the city, but also earned 13 taels of silver. Not bad, not bad. Let's try to make more next time."
Lu Chuan also said, "Well, it's pretty good. We still have more than 20,000 eggs at home. Next time when we have time, we can sell them again. We should be able to make a lot of money."
"That's fine. Whether I sell it in the shop or continue to sell it in the capital, it will eventually be sold.
Although it seems that we made a lot of money on this trip, we saved these eggs for almost a year. If you spread it out over a day, it really isn’t much money.”
"Now we have about 300 eggs a day, which is not a lot. We can only earn about 300 coins from the eggs alone."
Xu Han thought about it and realized that her family didn't have much of a business at the moment. If they only relied on selling eggs, they really couldn't support so many people.
But it doesn’t matter. There are still canned fruits that have not been sold. Add to that the fruit wine and other things that will come later, and I should be able to make a small profit before the end of this year.
However, the prerequisite for making a small profit is to open a shop in the county town. Then you can not only sell these things, but also some of the output from the mountains.
If you add it up piecemeal, you can earn quite a bit of money in a year, which is more than enough for the daily expenses of a family.
Xu Han said, "Tomorrow I will take them to pickle all the duck eggs at home into salted duck eggs. As for the remaining duck eggs in the space, I will also find a time to pickle them all when they are not here.
Fresh duck eggs are hard to sell, so it’s better to sell them as salted duck eggs.”
Lu Chuan glanced at Xu Han and said, "Don't do it by yourself. Let's do it together in the evening. There aren't many left. It will be quicker with more people. If you do it by yourself, it will probably take you several days to finish."
"That's fine. It's too late today, so let's start tomorrow night!"
After the two of them confirmed it, seeing that it was getting late, they blew out the lights and went to bed.
The next day, Lu Chuan took them to work, and Xu Han took a few girls to start pickling salted duck eggs.
All the salted duck eggs were pickled in a short while in the morning, it didn’t take long.
At noon, Qi Yu, Chun Chan, Chun Mei and others started to make clothes for winter.
The rest of the people were all helping to lay bluestone slabs in the courtyard of the valley.
This was done for more than ten days in a row, and before the blink of an eye it was October, and the yard in the valley was finally completed.
Looking around, there is a large area of bluestone slabs. Even if there are more fields next year, there is no need to worry about having no place to dry the harvested crops.
The space originally reserved for building a warehouse was temporarily paved with bluestone slabs. The main reason was that there was no time to build a warehouse now, as we were about to go into the mountains to pick pecans and the like. There was no time to build it, and there were no bricks and tiles to use.
Xu Han looked at the newly completed courtyard and said, "That's great. When winter comes, we can build a wall with adobe bricks. It will be much safer to live in then. We won't have to worry about wild animals coming over when we sleep at night."
Lu Chuan continued, "I told Zhang Yi and the others some time ago, asking them to prepare the adobe bricks when they have time. They can start building the wall when winter comes."
"Don't worry. It won't be completed in a short time. Now that the safety issue is guaranteed, it's better to take it slow and finish their furniture first."
Zhou on the side said, "Madam, the master helped us make a lot of furniture some time ago. We already have the most needed items. There is no rush for the rest. Just make them slowly.
Didn't you say before that you wanted to go to the mountains to pick pine nuts and wild walnuts? I think it's about time now, why don't we focus on the work in the mountains first!"
Xu Han thought about it and realized that it was true. If she didn't pick them now, the small animals in the mountains would probably destroy them all.
Today is the second day of October. In previous years, the fruits have already been picked at this time. This year, due to the weather, we have not been able to pick them until now. If we delay any further, we may not be able to pick many.
Xu Han smiled and looked at everyone and said, "Okay, since you have no objection, then of course I have no objection. Then starting from tomorrow, let's all go into the mountains to pick mountain products. When we are done with this busy period, let your master go and hunt some game for you. I will cook you a delicious meal and reward you well."
When everyone heard this, they were so happy that they didn't know what to do for a moment.
Since moving to the valley, I haven't eaten the food my wife cooked for a long time, except for the last Mid-Autumn Festival.
Although the food cooked by Dan Niang was delicious, she had to cook for Xu Han and the others at the old house all the time. The food in the valley was cooked by several women in turn.
Although the taste is not bad, once people have eaten something better, they will always miss it.
They have no shortage of meat to eat on a daily basis, but they always feel that even though the ingredients are the same, the taste of the food cooked by Madam and Dan Niang is completely different and tastes better than what they cook.
Especially the food cooked by my wife, the taste is very special and you will never forget it after having it once.
Now they have no shortage of shelter and clothes, and they have money in the mountains but can't spend it all, so aren't they just thinking about the delicious food that his wife cooks?
So when everyone heard that Xu Han was going to personally cook a feast for them, they were so happy that they wanted to jump for a few circles on the spot. But after all, they were no longer children, so they could only suppress their excitement and look forward to the lady showing off her cooking skills.
Li Si heard this and shouted, "Did you hear that? You have to work hard tomorrow and try to eat the meal made by your wife as soon as possible."
Mrs. Li joked, "You don't even need to tell me that. Look how passive everyone is when they hear that Madam is cooking."