The three of them were stunned. They had never thought of buying someone, but their daughter was right. Now they couldn't spare any manpower to visit the shop. No matter what they said to outsiders, they wouldn't be as reassured as their own family, but buying someone would be a big deal. Not a small expense.
"I still have three hundred taels of silver here, which is enough for our family. Besides, after the fifteenth day, the ducks raised by the villagers will be released, and our family will have another income."
"Okay, listen to my daughter. When we have some free time after the New Year, we will go to the dental shop in the town to see if there is anything suitable. If not, we will go to Fucheng to have a look."
Su Yu felt relaxed. She only said she wanted to buy people, but she didn't say how many. It wasn't up to her to decide how many people to buy. She was very tired these days, and she had a lot of things to do at home. When the time came, she would have to Buy more.
The Su family is celebrating the New Year happily, but hundreds of miles away in Wangjia Village, the old house of the Su family is in a state of gloom. Without the help of Su Lao'er's family, the life of the people in the Su family's old house was very unsatisfactory for more than half a year. Everyone had to do a lot more work than before. Just like today, if Mrs. Lian was here, they wouldn't have to worry about the work on the stove.
There is also the matter of Su Chen's study. Studying is expensive, let alone going to the town to study. At least ten taels of silver will be spent in a year. Everyone in the family can't make ten taels of silver in a year. This year is enough, but what about next year.
"Boss, have you found out where your second brother and his family are now?"
"not yet."
"The conscience of your second brother's family has been eaten by dogs! You left me and your father behind, and the whole family went to live their own free and unrestrained life without thinking about our life and death at all."
Ever since Su Laoer's family left, Mrs. Su has been scolding her several times every day, and everyone has become numb to it. Mrs. Su didn't feel it was against her will at all when she scolded her. She completely forgot that two days ago, she received two taels of pension money from Mr. Su.
But no matter how they asked, the person who brought the money wouldn't tell them where they brought the money. They just released the money and left.
Even if Su Yu had been to the old house a long time ago, she might touch her home based on the person who sent the money, so how could she give the people in the old house this opportunity. She couldn't believe that her father had arranged for him to do something, and she had spent half a tael of money on it. It was impossible for that person to tell the people in the old house about Xinglin Town, unless the old house was willing to spend more money. In Su Yu's view, this was impossible. The people in the old house were all Pixiu people, and they could only go in and out.
After the Chinese New Year, it was the third day of the Lunar New Year, and all the people who came to work next door also came. Su Sheng wanted to continue studying at the clan school. Since there was really no room to store the bacon at home, he planned to move to a new house and start making it. The winter here in Xingyang Mansion is quite long. At least it starts to get warm after February, so more than a month is enough.
The Su family didn't make bacon, but the Xu family was in a hurry and lost more than 100 yuan of income a day. After the Xu family discussed it, they asked Yang Ermei to come over to the Su family to discuss it, and planned to buy the braised pork recipe from their family. The Su family didn't plan to sell it anyway, so they would probably sell it if they bought it from his family.
When Yang Ermei brought Doudou over, mother and daughter were the only ones at home. Doudou could walk now, but she was still not very steady. As soon as they arrived at Su's courtyard, Xiao Doudou left her mother behind and ran towards Su Yu. Go, the little guy was running so fast that Su Yu was worried that he would fall, so he rushed over to pick him up.
"How many times have my aunt told you to slow down? What will you do if you fall?"
"road."
Doudou can only speak word by word now, and people who are not familiar with it really can't understand it.
"eat."
"You little bastard."
Seeing the two of them acting like this, Yang Ermei ignored them and took the sewing basket to talk to Mrs. Lian.
"Er Mei is here, come and sit down."
Mrs. Lian didn't get up. They are all neighbors. They are not used to you being too polite.
Yang Ermei sat on the orange beside.
"What are you busy with, aunt?"
"It's not like I tore the cloth a year ago, but the clothes haven't been finished yet."
It would be a lie to say that I am not envious. Look at Lian's body, it is not newly made.
"Why, I'm not busy today, so you can come over if you have time."
"It's not that busy. Dad Doudou is at home today. I came here to talk to my aunt about something."
Yang Ermei is a straight-tempered person and doesn't like to mince words when talking or doing things.
"Just tell me if you have anything to do. Why are you so polite to me?"
"Then let me tell you, don't be surprised, Auntie. It's the brine business. Doudou's father thinks it's good to do it. My family wants to buy a son from your family, but I don't know if it will work out."
I didn't expect that this was what Yang Ermei was talking about. Mrs. Lian hadn't heard the head of the family talk to her daughter, so she didn't know much about it.
"You also know that your uncle is in charge of my family. I have to ask your uncle about this."
"That's the truth. If it doesn't work, it's okay."
"Then when your uncle comes back, I will tell you when he has a letter."
The two sat and talked for a while, and then Yang Ermei took Doudou back. There were still more than twenty people to eat at home, so the stay couldn't be too long.
As soon as they left, Mrs. Lian called Su Yu over.
"Your sister Ermei came over just now and said she wanted to buy a recipe for brine from our family. What do you think we should do about this?"
"If Sister Ermei wants to buy it, just sell it to her family, but it will cost twenty taels of silver. If her family agrees, next time our family is in trouble, mother, please ask Sister Ermei to come over and learn from me. "
"Is twenty taels of silver too much?"
Mrs. Lian hesitated.
"Mom, the gang was a gang before, but selling the son is another matter. There is nothing wrong with the Xu family, but the human heart is the most untestable. If our family sells it cheaper, next time our family will have another What kind of prescription? If their family wants to buy it, if ours is expensive, will their family have any idea? Anyway, twenty taels of silver does not feel expensive to me at all. If it is sold to Taihe Building, I can at least sell it. Fifty taels.”
Mrs. Lian heard the same thing.
"Then I will go to Xu's house later to talk to your sister Ermei."
"Well, don't worry, Mom, the Fangzi Xu family will buy it."
When Mrs. Lian went there in the afternoon, all three members of the Xu family were there. After some discussion, they all agreed. Although twenty taels of silver was a lot, I thought I could earn four or five taels a month. Twenty taels of silver would not be enough for a few months. I came back and won’t suffer any loss if I buy it.
"Since you agreed, next time my family kills the pigs, Ermei, you and Zhushan go and watch, and take a good look at how the pigs are braised. It's actually not difficult. You just need to write down the seasoning recipe."
"Okay, thank you Auntie."
"What's this?"
When Mrs. Lian came home, Su Laoer had just finished listening to his daughter's words. Seeing that nothing happened to him, he went to do some work.
Taking advantage of the fact that there was no bacon cooking at home these days, Su Yu planned to make soap from all the pork suet he had accumulated not long ago. He cooked it for half a day in two large iron pots at home, and then poured it into molds to cool down overnight. Then take off the film and put it away. Su Laoer made dozens of molds, all of which were rectangular. The soap that had now peeled off its film was stacked piece by piece in a wooden box, which contained two large boxes.
After three days of work, I have finished making lard. I have made seven or eight boxes of soap. I plan to wait until the bacon is sold and sell it at the door of the store.
These days, the Su family has accumulated a lot of chicken and duck eggs, and Su Yu has made a lot of salted duck eggs. In the winter, Su Yu does not plan to hatch duck seedlings. The weather is too cold, and even if they hatch, the survival rate is not high. Might as well wait until the weather warms up before hatching.
In the meantime, the batch of ducks raised by the Su family had already been taken away by Taihe Building in more than ten days. The first batch of ducks given to the villagers on credit has been over four months. By that time, trucks from Taihe Building will come and take them all away to various branches around Taihe Building. Although there are more than 6,000 ducks, they will be divided into individual stores. Not many, so now the number of roast ducks in Taihe Building has increased from two taels to five taels.
