ebookland Chapter 17 Trial Sale
Chapter 17 Trial Sale
When the prepared jelly was placed in front of them, the other people did not move.
Qin Huiyin urged: "Try it!"
Li Taohua picked up one and put it into her mouth tentatively.
"How is it?" Qin Huiyin looked at Li Taohua expectantly.
Li Taohua's eyes were full of surprise: "Delicious."
The jelly was chilled in well water, so it was ice-cold. When paired with the seasonings she prepared, it was so fragrant.
Qin Huiyin wasn't surprised by the comments. She handed a piece of pig's ear to Li Taohua and said, "Try this one."
The pig intestines and ears are cut into thin strips and then mixed evenly with the jelly seasoning. It is so fragrant that you want to swallow it.
"Delicious, so delicious."
"You guys try it too." Qin Huiyin said to the two people next to her.
Tang Luwu and Tang Yixiao picked up their chopsticks and started eating.
Like Li Taohua, they carefully tried the taste first, and only believed what Li Taohua said after tasting it.
It’s not that they don’t believe Li Taohua’s judgment, but Li Taohua dotes on her daughter too much, and they think she is exaggerating to give her face.
"Uncle Tang, what do you think?" Qin Huiyin shouted inside.
Tang Dafu was chewing a pig's ear. After hearing what Qin Huiyin said, he said vaguely, "It's delicious."
"Then you have to eat more, I'll need your help later!"
Li Taohua asked, "He can't even get out of bed, how can he help you?"
"I want to take these things to town and sell them. What do you think, Mother?"
"How do you plan to sell it?" Li Taohua did not answer her immediately, but asked her about her plan.
"It's half the size of ours, three cents a bowl. If you want braised pork, you'll have to pay extra. I need Uncle Tang to help me carve some wooden sticks to use as chopsticks. They're disposable, so you don't have to make them like the chopsticks we usually use. You just need to carve them into two thin strips so you can pick up the jelly and eat it."
"Where's the bowl for the jelly?"
"We don't need bowls because it takes too much time and effort to make them. We can cut some bamboo buckets to use. Bamboo is everywhere on this mountain, so it's easy to get."
"Okay, I'll go up the mountain with you later."
"What I mean is..." Qin Huiyin was embarrassed. "Let's all go up the mountain. There's strength in numbers!"
Li Taohua looked at the Tang siblings and asked, "Are you willing to help?"
Qin Huiyin said, "If I don't help you for free, how about paying you?"
Tang Luwu waved her hands and said anxiously, "No wages. We are a family, we should help each other."
Tang Yi smiled silently, lowering his head to eat the jelly.
He has to spend a lot of money on medicine every month. It's good enough that the mother and daughter don't dislike him for being a burden to the family. How dare they ask for wages?
Tang Dafu had been a useless person for so long, and was suddenly told that he was useful. He was so excited that he repeatedly promised that he would carve out useful disposable chopsticks.
Li Taohua and her daughter went up the mountain with the Tang siblings, and the villagers gathered together to discuss what they wanted to do.
"Li Taohua bought some meat, and my dog, Ergou, was so greedy that he started crying. This woman is so stingy. Ergou waited at her door for so long, but he didn't even get a taste of meat."
"His aunt, it's a good thing your Ergou didn't eat it, otherwise he might have gotten into trouble. The Tang family is in such a state, and she still has money to buy meat. I don't know if that money came from clean sources."
"Didn't you say you sold your clothes to buy the meat?"
"She'd rather sell her clothes to buy meat. Is that something a normal person would do? Who knows which man that vixen is trying to seduce. You better keep a close eye on the men in your family. If they dare stay out, they might get seduced by that vixen."
"Isn't Li Taohua a little too nice to the Tang siblings? When she married Hunter Song, she wasn't this nice to that little monster Song Ruize."
"What's so strange about this? The Tang family has Tang Yichen, who is the most knowledgeable person here. Song Ruize has a weird temper and is also a coffin-dweller. Who wouldn't find him unlucky?"
"This Song Ruize is so pitiful."
"You pity him? He can kill a wild deer with one punch, can you?"
Everyone: "..."
After Hunter Song died, Li Taohua took advantage of Song Ruize searching for his body in the mountains to sell the land cheaply to his brother. When Song Ruize returned, he didn't make a scene, but simply kicked the mother and daughter out. A fourteen-year-old boy, taller than his father, he became even more of a loner and less popular.
Qin Huiyin took her family to the mountains to cut bamboo and carve bamboo barrels.
She was an adult woman, but she had never done any rough work before and couldn't stand it after a few strokes.
The remaining three were half-grown children. They did work, but this kind of hard work was too tiring for them and was extremely strenuous.
Qin Huiyin wanted to give up. She saw large leaves in the mountains, which could be used if washed, but they wouldn't look as pretty.
So she decided to carve only fifty bamboo buckets, pick the leaves and wash them before use. If the bamboo buckets were used up, she could use the leaves as an emergency measure.
It was already late when they returned from the mountains.
Originally, the family had an oil lamp, firstly for Li Taohua's use and secondly for Tang Yichen's occasional use. However, they had been trying to save as much as possible during this period, resting at nightfall and not using the lamp again. Today, Li Taohua took it out and used it, and when the last bit of oil ran out, they finally had everything they needed for tomorrow ready.
On the first day of trial sales, Qin Huiyin only used one pound of pea flour to make jelly, then put it in a water tank to freeze it, and took it directly to the town to sell the next day.
One pound of pea flour makes six or seven pounds of jelly. She didn't have a scale, so she couldn't calculate the exact amount. However, if she packed it into the bamboo buckets she'd prepared, she should be able to sell fifty bowls. As for the braised meat, she could add it to the jelly or sell it separately. It wasn't a large amount, but it still made a small profit.
Qin Huiyin lay in bed, tossing and turning, unable to sleep.
In modern times, she only did live broadcasts on the Internet and had never tried to run a business. Now she is starting over with a different identity, and she is also nervous and excited.
Tang Luwu didn't fall asleep either.
Qin Huiyin had just said that everyone would go to town to sell jelly tomorrow and would pay everyone. Although she hadn't thought about asking for wages, she was still a little uneasy about doing business for the first time.
"Sister Luwu, do you think we will succeed tomorrow?"
"Sister Yin's jelly is so delicious, it will definitely be popular."
The next day, Qin Huiyin was awakened by the noise outside and quickly got up.
I couldn't sleep last night, so I slept so soundly today that I didn't even notice that Tang Luwu had gotten up early.
Li Taohua had already prepared breakfast. Seeing that she had woken up, she said, "Are you still sleepy? You can sleep in the car later. Now wash your face and get ready to go."
Qin Huiyin took a look at the clothes on Tang Yixiao and secretly decided to buy him two new sets of clothes when she had money. Even if the material was of poor quality, it would be better than those full of patches.
Now, Tang Yixiao was the only one in the family whose clothes were patched up. Tang Dafu used to work outside, so he dressed quite well. Needless to say, Tang Yichen was the master's favorite, and his mistress had to make him new clothes every season. Tang Luwu now wore clothes that Qin Huiyin had altered to fit her, which was quite nice.
After spending the past few days together, Qin Huiyin felt that Tang Yixiao had begun to change his attitude towards her. He would do what she assigned him, and he no longer said harsh words to irritate her. Since he was so obedient, she had to reward him and encourage him to continue cooperating with her work in the future.