Su Qingluan recalled the serious and unsmiling look of the old butler, and then imagined the scene of such a thin and pine-like old man squatting under the eaves of the corridor, snoring and eating the stewed soup, and his expression was a little cracked.
...This scene is really scary and she should stop imagining it...
After mending his broken filter, Su Qingluan coughed lightly and sighed: "No wonder everyone says recently that the longer you line up for the soup, the less you can eat."
The boy smiled bitterly and nodded: "It's true that the livestock's sewer sounds disgusting and cannot be put on the table. It also has a strong fishy smell and is not suitable for nobles. It is only thanks to Madam Su's superb cooking skills that she can cook this Inferior ingredients make superior taste..."
Su Qingluan heard him blow out a series of rainbow farts without any drafts. She felt a little unbearable and shook her hands: "Hey, I told you, brother, please don't put a high hat on me."
"Why is it a high hat?!" Seeing that Su Qingluan didn't believe it, the young man was a little unhappy, "Ms. Su, please ask around. Not to mention that there are many servants in our house, as well as the surrounding people, who come to buy secretly. Here’s the soup!”
As he said that, he turned to look at the long queue of people waiting for the water soup on the front street, and stretched out his hand to point over there: "Ms. Su, look at the man wearing a blue-gray robe with two patches on the sleeves, and there is a gap behind him. A few people, the one with a particularly skinny figure, and..."
"Okay, okay..." Su Qingluan quickly hugged him and said, "Master, please stop reading." She finally knew why there were more and more customers recently and there were even ticket sellers.
"Ms. Su..." After hesitating for a long time, the servant finally muttered and asked, "Do you think your family can make more of this soup every day?"
After sending the boy away, Su Qingluan only explained to his parents that this person had no ill intentions, but that someone in the family didn't like to eat in the water, so he didn't dare to eat in the open, so he was so secretive.
Su Guangfu and Yang were both honest, and they were members of their own family, so they accepted the reason without thinking too much, left the weird little brother behind, and turned around to get busy again.
But Su Qingluan listened to what the boy said.
Now it is obvious that more and more customers come to her house to buy soup, but it takes time to process the water, and it takes even more effort to prepare the soup. Now it is the best that can be produced if the three people in the family can ensure adequate rest. A lot of water was poured into the soup.
Even since she started selling sesame soup, Su Qingluan has not had time to develop new recipes for "Hongfu Lou". The last time shopkeeper Liang came to buy sesame soup, she half-jokingly said that she "had sesame soup as her new love." "Forget about the 'old love' of Hongfu Tower." Su Qingluan was a little embarrassed when she said this.
In fact, Su Qingluan could increase the unit price of the sewer soup, so that some customers who could only choose within a limited budget space would be forced to give up her sewer soup, thus reducing the number of customers, but she did not want to and could not. Do that.
First of all, starting from the actual interests. Although many servants from wealthy families in the Xie Mansion come here to eat the soup for fresh reasons, Su Qingluan can see clearly that they have more choices anyway and will not do it just for food. worry.
In other words, one day they get tired of eating watery soup, and they will turn their attention to other foods.
On the contrary, it is the consumers at the bottom. The only animal protein they can obtain at a low price is the animal protein. Not to mention the relatively expensive ingredients such as fish, mutton, dog meat and venison. Even pork, which is "as cheap as dirt", is worthless in comparison. It is said to be much more expensive.
The sewer soup that was originally difficult to eat due to the fishy smell is now made so delicious by Su's stall. Naturally, everyone is willing to give priority to Su's sewer soup. In the future, the main purchasing power of Su's sewer soup will be these. Low-level consumers of other options.
Besides, from an emotional point of view, the reason why Su Qingluan wanted to open this sewer stall in the first place was because he saw that all kinds of sewers were being wasted, and even being used as livestock feed was disliked by some, so he wanted to "use waste" to make money at the same time. , and can also add some protein to the poor folks who are usually reluctant to part with them.
In this way, the Su family has income, and everyone gets extra nutrition, a win-win situation.
As for raising unit prices to increase profits, you can, but it's not necessary.
The daily net income of the Su family's water stall is three to four hundred taels, with an income of nearly 10 taels in one month. This is the Su family's previous two-month income.
What's more, Su Qingluan still has the dividends from the "recipe" she got from Hongfu Tower, and whether she went to Xie Zian's place to make sweets as a reward - although the latter two parts of the money are now allowed to be kept by Yang and Su Guangfu. Used as dowry, not used by the family - in general, the Su family is really not short of such a little profit from the fingers of the villagers.
So since we don't want to increase the unit price, and the supply of soup is now in short supply, there is only one way left - to recruit people, to recruit an honest and reliable guy who can work all year round.
In this way, we can "expand the scale of production."
But where can one find such a person?
Originally, Su Qingluan thought of finding it from the villagers of Huaxi Village, but Su Guangfu rejected it.
Su Guangfu's reason is simple. In less than a month, it will be the autumn harvest. Everyone in Huaxi Village is a farmer with land, and they are very busy at this time.
Since the Su family hired people, they naturally didn't have to worry about farming, but other families couldn't do that. It was okay to do part-time work for the Su family's house and yard, but not if they left the fields alone for a long time.
This is also the reason why although there are many capable people in the village, they are always unable to do long-term work.
If you want to hire people from the village, you will most likely have to pay an extra price for hiring day laborers in the fields. Then most of the Su family's income will probably be spent on double wages.
As for those idle guys who spend all day doing nothing...just kidding! Even if they had more time, the Su family would not dare to hire such an idle second-rate man!
So in the past few days, Su Qingluan, Su Guangfu and Yang had a headache in order to choose a reliable man who could be stably employed for a long time.
Ever since Su Qingluan told Madam Xi how to improve the homemade cakes last time, Madam Xi has had more smiles on her face, her shouting voice has become louder, and she has become more confident in promoting her homemade cakes.
For people with bad teeth, Mrs. Xi's cooking cakes may be a bit "teeth-consuming", but Su Qingluan really likes the chewy texture that gets better and better the more you chew it.
Although she is not unable to make it herself, she is just impatient with the dough, so most of the steamed buns and pastries at home are made by Yang.
And if you want to eat chewy cooking cakes, you will occasionally go to Mrs. Xi’s house to buy two cooking cakes - although Mrs. Xi always tried her best to stuff her copper plates back, which made Su Qingluan feel a little embarrassed to go there later. .
But on this day, she still used the excuse of "buying cooking cakes" to go to Madam Xi's cooking cake stall opposite.
"Oh, how many times have I told you, you can eat it if you like it!" Mrs. Xi packed five pieces of cooking cakes and handed them to Su Qingluan, "My family makes all this money through your little kid, how can I ask you?" Money!"
Su Qingluan did not take the cake, but stared at Madam Xi's dark circles under her eyes and asked, "Aunt Xi, are you in any trouble?"
