"I'm short of a manager here, mainly to receive customers who come from far away to place orders and pick up goods." Cheng Wanwan went straight to the point, "If shopkeeper Yan is willing, it's easy to negotiate the wages."
Shopkeeper Yan was a little shocked: "I, I have never made any money in business. Sister-in-law Zhao, if you entrust me with such an important matter, aren't you afraid that I will fail?"
"You don't know how to do business because you don't have a pair of eyes that are good at discovering business opportunities, but you don't have any problems in dealing with people." Cheng Wanwan said with a smile, "Before the pigs and sheep grow up in the first half of next year, shopkeeper Yan The family may not have any income, so why not let me be the manager for a while? It would be better if you can train me to be a capable person during this period."
Shopkeeper Yan felt a little hot in his heart.
He really knew nothing about farming, raising pigs and sheep. If there was no way out, who would be willing to settle down in the village.
What he likes most is being the shopkeeper, chatting with customers, drinking tea, counting money, and spending the day carefree and at ease.
He nodded immediately: "After my house is built, I will be the steward of Sister-in-law Zhao!"
Cheng Wanwan laughed: "Then it's a deal."
Shopkeeper Yan’s house is built with blue bricks and tiles. Firstly, it’s winter, which is not suitable for making adobe, so he can’t build an adobe house. Secondly, because his whole family is from the city and has lived in a blue brick house since he was born. , is really not used to living in a mud house, and the cost of building it is more than one hundred taels, which he can still afford.
Over the past few days, the house has taken shape. In more than half a month, it should be completed.
After sending Shopkeeper Yan away, Zhao Dashan walked in and took in all the rewards he won from today's competition.
Wu Huiniang's one hundred taels of silver, Zhao Sanniu's ten taels of silver, and Zhao Ergou's one hundred taels of silver, a total of two hundred and one taels of silver.
In the past few days, merchants came from time to time to collect the final payment and some deposits. Adding up the money, she already had a huge sum of more than 7,000 taels of silver.
With the money, she would do something that she had always wanted to do - upgrade the storage space.
It took five thousand taels of silver to upgrade once. Cheng Wanwan's heart was bleeding. How much soap would he have to sell?
【Ding! The mall's storage space has been upgraded successfully, with a current capacity of two cubic meters! 】
She looked at the empty panel.
Two cubic meters doesn't sound like much, but it looks quite spacious. It's a rectangular space that's two meters long, one meter wide and one meter high. To put it more intuitively, two cubic meters can be used to store food. Store about three to four thousand kilograms of rice.
If something unexpected happens in the future, this storage space can save lives.
Cheng Wanwan checked the conditions for the next upgrade.
【Ding! Spend 10,000 taels of silver to expand the mall locker five times! 】
Five times, that is ten cubic meters, which is equivalent to a relatively small room and can hold a lot of things.
Ten thousand taels of silver, there is a long way to go, keep working hard to make money.
Cheng Wanwan took out a pen and paper and did some calculations. Currently, the daily profit from the braised food business is about twenty taels of silver. The soap workshop produces a thousand pieces of soap per day. After excluding the cost, the daily profit is about four to five hundred silver. Looking at it that way Come, her space will be ready for the next upgrade in about twenty days.
The soap workshop produces a large amount of crude glycerin every day, which can be used to make skin care products. However, a small workshop for extracting glycerin needs to be built, which will require a lot of workers... Nowadays, some of the men in the village are in her She helps at home, part of which is building a house for shopkeeper Yan, and part of which is patrolling, and going up the mountain to repair the canal dug in the summer... After these things are done, she will ask someone to dig a lotus pond when there is less rain in winter. If she builds another small workshop Get up, it’s hard to invite people.
It's not that others don't want to come, but she doesn't want to hire two workers for one household. If it affects agricultural production, she, a Suiru, will have to do everything.
It seems that the risk is higher since we have to go to other villages to recruit workers.
Forget it, let’s think about it after winter is over.
The most important thing at the moment is probably Ergou's marriage.
The family used to be poor, so Dashan and Huiniang didn't spend a dime on their marriage, so they got a daughter-in-law for nothing.
Now that the family has some wealth, and the future second daughter-in-law is from the famous Cao family in Hekou County, she must be more particular about getting married.
Cheng Wanwan doesn't understand the specific details.
Who made her single? It’s unclear what the modern marriage process is, let alone ancient times.
It was still early, so she got up and went to Old Zhao's house. It was best to ask Old Mrs. Zhao about this matter.
As we walked along, the village was very lively.
It turned out that Mrs. Zhu had made wedding cakes, and they were being distributed to every household.
She won first place today, and the county magistrate rewarded her with one hundred taels of silver. She used the two taels of silver to buy a lot of flour and made wedding cakes as big as a baby's hand. Several were distributed to every household.
"I, an old woman, can raise my grandson to such a large age only because of the help of the villagers." Mrs. Zhu said with great emotion, "There was a drought half a year ago, and the rice jars at home were all gone. Li Zheng raised three kilograms of grain from everywhere and sent it to my family. Another time, the whole village dug jade bamboo shoots. As an old woman, I had no strength, so I dug out more than ten kilograms of tiger cubs that were too small. The villagers also chipped in a hundred kilograms and gave them to our grandparents... If it weren't for everyone's help, Huzi and I have starved to death a long time ago... These wedding cakes are just a little bit of my old lady's wishes..."
She is a lonely old woman in the village, and Li Zheng and the villagers have really helped her a lot.
Now that she has the ability to repay, she naturally wants to express her gratitude. The wedding cake is nothing, the important thing is to express her gratitude.
The villagers gathered around to congratulate him.
"Good times are coming for the Zhu family!"
"With a hundred taels of silver in hand, I will repair the house and give Hu Zi a wife."
"Huzi is only twelve years old, what kind of wife do you want to marry..."
"Twelve years old is not too young, you should start looking early."
The people in the village were lively and no one was jealous because Mrs. Zhu had one hundred taels of silver. Even if someone was jealous, they would not show it openly.
Nowadays, the management of the village patrol team is becoming more and more standardized, and there will be no one who doesn't have the foresight to steal money from the Zhu family.
As Cheng Wanwan passed by, Mrs. Zhu forcibly stuffed her with a few wedding cakes, and a group of women gathered around to inquire.
"Da Shan Niang, Ergou is already sixteen years old. Why haven't you heard about marrying a wife yet?"
"This kid Ergou is getting more and more promising. Have you ever thought about what kind of wife you want to find?"
"I have a second aunt's daughter who is from the city. She is quick at work, has good hands inside and outside, and is good-looking. How about giving it to Ergou?"
"..."
Cheng Wanwan kept smiling: "There is no rush about the child's marriage. Let's take your time and tell everyone when there is good news."
This is equivalent to a refusal that is neither soft nor hard.
The villagers didn't dare to ask any more questions. After all, Dashan Niang's identity was different and she was no longer in the same world as them.
Cheng Wanwan walked to Lao Zhao's house.
Mrs. Zhao was about to go to the soap workshop for the last round of inspection. When she saw her coming in, she immediately said with a smile: "Why are you here? Sit down quickly."
