On this day, except for the goods that were kept for personal use or given away, all the goods shipped back from Huai'an were sold out.
Yang gave Huo Erhuai dinner, while Huo Xi and Yang Fu settled accounts at home.
At first, two thousand pieces of linen were sold for eight pieces a piece, and some were evenly distributed, leaving one thousand three hundred and twelve pieces for the family. Excluding the thirty pieces kept for personal use and the thirty pieces given away, the profit was nearly ninety taels.
This is the big head.
I kept some leather goods at home, and when I sold them for one hundred taels, I made almost fifty taels. I didn't buy much candied pears and dates, so I made less than ten taels.
There are still three dan of sugar left. If all are sold, a profit of more than 20 taels can be made.
Calculated in this way, the profit of linen is the largest, nearly doubled. The second is leather goods, with nearly 56% of the profit. Sugar and pear and date preserves are the least profitable.
Why is it that food in the capital doesn’t sell well, but clothes that sell well?
It seems that life-improving business cannot be done now, and we have to focus on the business of feeding and clothing the people.
Huo Xi frowned as she looked at the account book, her thoughts racing.
Yang Fu watched from the side, listening to Huo Xi calculating how much he earned in each category and how much he earned in total, and felt happy. He turned to see Xi'er frowning, not as happy as him, and took some more.
thought.
Watching her from the sidelines.
Before it got dark, Mrs. Yang returned, with a worried look on her face.
"What's wrong, Mom? Is there something wrong with Dad?"
"What happened to my brother-in-law?"
Yang slapped him, "Can't you hope that your brother-in-law will do well?"
"Then why do you look so sad?"
Yang sighed, "It's Zou Sheng's grandma."
"What's wrong with Grandma Zou?"
"Didn't she return to the ship from the hospital? She has been on the ship for the past two days, and her condition has relapsed. Maybe it's because the weather is cold and she can't stand it. Hey, she is getting older. If there is still land and houses in the village, she can still
Go back to the village to raise her."
"Then what should I do? This keeps happening over and over again, and the disease can't be cured?"
"No. So your brother-in-law can't stand it and feels sorry for her. He wants to lend her our yard for a few days so that she can live there until she recovers and then returns to the ship."
"This..." Yang Fu glanced at Huo Xi, "Did my brother-in-law tell his family?"
"No. Your brother-in-law just had this idea in his mind and told me. I thought about coming back all the way. We do have a place where we live, and we can let her stay here to recuperate..." After saying that, he looked at two
A child's glance.
I don’t know what the two children think.
Yang Fu agreed in his heart. It was nothing, and it wouldn't delay his family. He just wanted to borrow a house for her to recuperate.
But when Huo Xi didn't open his mouth, he was afraid that she wouldn't agree. He looked at her and was about to open his mouth to defend her, when Huo Xi spoke up.
"Okay. Mom, tell dad to pick him up."
"Ah? Xi'er, don't you want to add someone to our family?"
"I don't think so. I saw my parents working hard before, and I wanted to hire laborers and buy someone else."
"Ah? No, no. Our family's life is a little better now. What kind of small job do we need? We can't buy servants. We can't add green onions to make a fool of ourselves. How can we buy servants with my status?" Yang waved her hands and disagreed.
.
"Well, I understand, mother."
Yang breathed a sigh of relief.
Hearing that the two children agreed to pick him up, a smile appeared on their faces.
"We're just borrowing her to live in for a few days, so it won't hinder us. We don't have any valuables in the courtyard now. All the things are sold out, and the remaining ones are for ourselves to use and to give away."
"There are still three stones of brown sugar." Yang Fu shouted.
According to his wishes, since there are people buying it here at Mochou Lake, just sell it. You don’t have to wait for the price to rise if you keep it. But his sister insists on selling it on the boat, saying that she will sell it to people who make a living on the water.
woman.
How could those people be willing to eat such precious brown sugar?
But Xi'er also agreed, so it was hard for him to say anything else.
His sister now drinks a bowl of brown sugar, distiller's grains and eggs every day, and she had forced him and Xi'er to drink it before. He didn't want to drink it at all, but Xi'er said that children couldn't drink it, so he didn't follow suit.
"Sister, I just calculated the profits from these goods at home with Xi'er."
"Really, has it been calculated?" Upon hearing this, Yang's eyes lit up, she ran into the house and glanced at Huo Nian, then came out carrying a heavy box.
I even exchanged some banknotes before, otherwise I wouldn't be able to move it.
"Tell me quickly, what's the biggest profit, and how much did you earn?"
"Sabuli is the biggest, followed by leather goods."
"Ah, leather goods are very profitable?" Ms. Yang was a little puzzled. She was worried when she couldn't sell them before.
Huo Xi nodded: "The leather goods are well made, which are rare in the south, and they are expensive. We usually double every piece of leather goods to sell. If we sell all the ones we have left, it will be included.
, the profit will be even greater.”
"Then let's sell them for money!" Yang's eyes were astonishingly bright.
Huo Xi disagreed: "I won't sell it. It's colder on the water than on land, and the river wind makes people's faces hurt. I plan to keep it to make clothes for our family."
Huo Xi didn't want to sell it anymore. Yang had no choice.
Although it is a pity, it is also sweet. It is much more cost-effective to buy it cheaply at home than to buy it outside.
"We only sold those brown sugars for seven or eight cents more per pound than the original price. We sold them all and made less than twenty taels. We will no longer sell brown sugar. It is still very heavy on the ship. We have been careful all the way back to now.
It’s not cost-effective to protect it just because it gets wet.”
Huo Xi talked about those brown sugars. The profits were so small that she didn't want to sell them anymore.
Yang wanted to say that twenty taels was a lot, but when she thought of the money she earned from linen and leather goods, she shut up.
The profit is small. If there is another conscription next year, Xi'er probably won't sell brown sugar. She doesn't want to sell it. She has to look at the pile of brown sugar in the house several times a day, squatting and looking carefully, for fear of the saccharified water.
"We don't make much money from pear and date candied fruit. We are always worried that it will go bad and become moldy, and that others will come to our door with bad stomachs after eating it." This food business is not very profitable, so she doesn't want to do it anymore.
"That's right, we won't sell pear and date preserves anymore." Yang Fu nodded in agreement.
Mr. Yang has been selling goods these days, and seeing the bustle of his stall, he feels that he doesn't have to worry about selling anything. He feels that his brown sugar can help women maintain their health, and she feels quite fulfilled.
I still want to sell brown sugar.
But after listening to Huo Xi's analysis, I realized that doing business is not just about attracting customers and being smooth-talking. You also need to be like Xi'er who can analyze the customer situation, the place of sale, the purchase price and sales price, etc.
, and had to calculate various data that she didn’t understand.
For example, when everyone goes to Huai'an together, others make twenty taels for transporting a ship of goods, but you only earn five taels. You also carry more cargo than others, and the boat draft is heavy, and you are almost exhausted from rowing all the way back.
After working hard to sell the goods, shouting until your voice is hoarse, and your legs are numb when you stand, it is not as good as others who have made more profits, so I ask you if you are angry?
Therefore, I still have to listen to Xi'er in the future.
"Okay, our family will listen to Xi'er from now on. We will sell whatever Xi'er tells us to sell."
"Sister, are you still thinking about selling goods? Our goods are all sold out!"
"Don't we still have a floating grocery store? Your brother-in-law sells goods in villages along the river these days, and his sales are pretty good."
"Really?" Huo Xi hadn't boarded the ship for several days and didn't know what was going on on the ship.
Hearing what Yang said, he was quite impatient.
Ah, it's been cloudy and rainy these two days, so the quilt won't be able to dry out anymore~ It will have to be covered for a few more days.
