Traveling through 1942 with space

Chapter 182: Lies Need to Be Covered Up

Hou Xiaoge could understand the concerns of the elderly in the village. After all, no one would feel at ease if Kuku had to trust a child after spending all his money.

But Hou Xiaoge has a firm grasp on this matter, where is his vest identity? This little bit of stuff is nothing.

Besides, the Chinese New Year is coming soon, so he will ask the Yanhuang League to help contact the paper box packaging factory to produce a packaging sticker for Hawthorn Snowball.

When the time comes, you can wrap it in the village and stick the sticker on the oil paper. It will definitely be a great gift for visiting relatives and friends during the New Year.

"Fifth Master, Seventh Master, don't worry about this matter. I have a plan in mind and I will definitely make money when the time comes.

But once the workshop is running, you can’t stop, and then you’ll have to find ways to buy hawthorns everywhere!” Hou Xiaoge joked.

"Well, the candied haws workshop in the village depends on you." The old man held Hou Xiaoge's hand with a smile on his face.

A workshop was set up in the village, and the younger generations from the five clans who had learned the craft of making candied haws and hawthorn snowballs in advance all went to work in the workshop.

As for Hou Xiaoge's six childhood friends, perhaps having tasted the sweetness of doing business, they did not join the workshops, but chose to work on their own.

After the village workshop was established, three people were responsible for making candied haws and fruit snowballs, while two people were responsible for teaching villagers the candied haws making techniques.

As expected, after the workshop was established in the village, only few people chose to learn the technology, and most of them chose to wholesale candied haws for sale.

As for why no one learned it, it was naturally because of the money they collected. The village would not waste rock sugar, hawthorn, and coal to teach the villagers.

If it were free, so many people would not cherish it and it would immediately become a waste.

Therefore, Hou Xiaoge gave some advice to several elders in the clan, asking them to pay for their studies first, with each person paying 40 cents for the tuition.

After all, the cost of a pound of rock sugar is 25 cents, plus hawthorn and coal, 40 cents is really just the cost, and this pot is not even counted.

Of course, there are also human expenses, but these are considered benefits for the tribe and are not included.

The workers in the village workshop are paid 1.5 cents a day, which may not be as good as making candied haws by yourself, but it is more stable.

Just like Yangwa's family, although they sold fifty candied haws for one dollar yesterday, the hawthorns were their own and didn't count, but the cost of rock sugar was more than 40 cents, plus 10 cents for the city entry tax and 5 cents for protection fee.

The profit of one dollar is about 70 cents in cost, so the maximum profit is 30 cents.

So I didn't even think about earning more than one dollar a day as Chunxiang said yesterday. That was because Chunxiang forgot to mention the cost of rock sugar.

If we take into account the money spent on purchasing hawthorns later, a family could earn at most 50 or 60 cents a day by selling two sticks.

If you take bad weather into account, they are not sold out.

A family of four or five people works hard for a month and earns at most twelve or thirteen dollars.

Working in a workshop, one can earn a steady $4.50 a month without being exposed to the wind or rain.

Besides, how can you not eat when you work in a food factory? These are all hidden benefits!

As the elders of the village, they were naturally very smart and quickly sent their younger generations to work in the workshop.

As for the villagers, they will also settle accounts.

I had no money to begin with, and I was so hungry that I almost vomited. I struggled to buy pots, sell rock sugar, and buy coal and firewood.

If sales are good, with two strong laborers in a family delivering the food and one or two people cooking at home, they can make 50 or 60 cents a day. But what if they can't sell it?

The price of one candied haws in the village is 1.5 cents. They buy 50 a day. If they can sell them all, they can make 25 cents a day. At the very least, they can make 8.1 cents.

By this calculation, buying and selling goods is not a bad idea. At least there is no risk. If the business is not good, the wheat straw cobs will be burned under the kang and that will be the end of it.

As for time, does the time of cattle and horses count as time? To cattle and horses, time is the least valuable thing.

Hou Xiaoge also had some free time. He no longer had to teach his own skills, and he gained a reputation. He also helped the villagers and made his own home less conspicuous. It can be said that he killed two birds with one stone.

"Heiwa, there's no water at home again. You and Tongtong go to the village head and carry back a few buckets of water." As soon as they got home, the stepmother lifted the door curtain and instructed Hou Xiaoge.

"middle!"

Hou Xiaoge called his brother, and the two of them went to the front yard and took out sticks and two large and small wooden barrels.

The big wooden barrel was lifted up, and the small wooden barrel was carried by Hou Xiaoge.

Hou Xiaoge has been eating delicious and spicy food every day to keep fit in the past few months. It's like he's been eating growth-enhancing feed. He was measured a few days ago and was already 1.5 meters tall.

Although this height is the size of a Japanese soldier and a cripple for an adult, it is very tall for a ten-year-old child.

Regarding this height, the family members were just surprised for a moment and didn't say anything else.

After all, some children grow really fast if they eat well when they are young, and can be 1.78 meters tall when they are 14 or 15 years old.

When Hou Xiaoge was a child in his previous life, many of his friends in the village were like this. They were about 1.7 meters tall when they were in elementary school, but they stopped there. When they were 20 years old, they had only grown a few centimeters at most.

In his previous life, Hou Xiaoge was from the north and was only 1.7 meters tall. He was always in the first two rows during school exercises, so he attached great importance to height in this life.

However, this growth also made his vest suffer. After all, once a lie is told, it will require countless lies to cover it up.

When Zhou Debiao first appeared in front of everyone in the Yanhuang Alliance, he was only about 1.4 meters tall. In just a few months, he suddenly jumped to 1.6 meters tall.

(There are insoles in the shoes. Otherwise, if I were the same height as Hou Xiaoge and had connections, it would be easy for people to suspect me.)

So the recent news that Zhou Debiao has grown taller has really shocked everyone in the Yanhuang League. Didn’t you say you are already over 30 years old? Why are you still growing taller? Are you an alien?

Fortunately, Hou Xiaoge had laid the groundwork before, and the several kinds of pills in Curry's body in the Yanhuang Alliance were incredible.

Moreover, the high-ranking gang members have seen significant effects from taking it recently, especially those who practice martial arts, who can achieve twice the result with half the effort.

As the leader who provided the magical pills, they naturally believed that Zhou Debiao must have more and better pills for them to take.

Hou Xiaoge also lied to them, saying that the reason he didn't grow taller was because he had lost some of his energy while practicing martial arts when he was a child. Now, as his body gradually recovered, he was also growing taller.

Another time, the leader of the gang lifted up a stone mill and did squats. It weighed four or five hundred pounds. Who could do it so easily? This made people even more convinced.

However, since then Hou Xiaoge has tried to reduce the number of times he tells lies, after all, it is really difficult to cover up a lie.

Now Hou Xiaoge’s biggest “lie” in the alliance is the issue of supplies. He will have to build a few more forces later to make it easier to cover up.

The two brothers went out in a lazy manner. Hou Xiaoge carried the bucket, while Xiao Shuanniu ran in front, waving the water-lifting stick around and shouting from time to time that he was the little monkey descended from Sun Wukong.