Except for Huo Xi, who was thinking about something, the family was happily counting coins.
The corner of Yang's mouth curled up: "I only collected fifty pieces of kudzu today, and we sold thirty pieces at Taoye Ferry. One piece sold for ten cents more, so that's three hundred cents. We also sold some other things.
How much are the things? Xi'er, what are the prices of the things you bought today?"
Huo Xi came back to her senses, took out a small accounting book from her arms, checked the accounts with Yang, and compared the cost and selling price.
I also made thirty or forty cents from other miscellaneous items, including oil, salt, tung oil and other items, and everyone bought some. But the bulk was still cloth and wine.
In addition to the three hundred coins for the cloth, "the wine actually got three hundred and sixty coins!"
Darling, that’s all I got this night!
"Sister, how can there be so much? These copper coins are less than 300 coins."
Yang glared at Yang Fu: "The fish in the water tank, the shrimps and crabs in the shrimp pots and crab pots don't count? They can't be sold for money? Wait until Xi'er and I make bald butter and choking shrimps and dry grilled shrimps.
If you sell it, you will not only get your money back, but you will also get a lot more.”
Yang was very happy.
Huo Erhuai hugged Huo Nian and happily watched her counting the silver, with a smile on his face. He didn't expect to get so much on this day.
Yang's hand counting the silver paused again: "Xi'er, you said that cloth and wine are so profitable, will everyone go to the countryside to collect them and sell them?"
Yang Fu and Huo Erhuai also looked at Huo Xi. Before they taste the benefits, the business will not be done?
Huo Xi was also stunned, thought for a while, and shook his head: "Maybe there is, but it's just a small fuss. Their ship can't hold much."
"That's right, it's not as big as our boat."
Most people would not be able to make the decision to buy a big boat in order to start a business. Yang looked around at his big boat, and the more he looked at it, the more satisfied he became. This big boat was worth the trade.
Huo Xi's family was counting coins, and other families in Taoyedu were also talking about the Huo family.
Mrs. Sun had just bought an old boat from the Huo family for brothers Xiaoyu and Xiaoxia. She was very happy to see the two brothers fishing hard in the past two days. They also got a lot of copper coins from selling fish in the past two days.
With four workers and two boats, how can her family not be able to defeat the Huo family?
There are five members of the Huo family, two adults and three children. Yang also has to take care of the younger one. How much can Huo Erhuai earn with only Huo Erhuai as a laborer?
Who would have thought that they would open a shop in a blink of an eye? What a novelty, a floating grocery store! I have never seen anyone do this in so many years.
And looking at the excitement tonight, four jars of wine were being sold one after another, and they were sold out in a moment. And the cloth, she was counting, and she sold thirty pieces! How much profit would she make!
He tossed and turned and couldn't sleep: "Dad, what do you think we also go to the village to collect wine and cloth to sell?"
Qian Sanduo was about to sleep when his mother-in-law poked him and opened his eyes.
He also saw the liveliness of the Huo family today, so how could he not feel warm in his heart? How could he not want to make money?
but……
"How much cargo can you collect? How much can we put on the ship? It's okay to collect some for our own consumption, but I'm afraid you can't collect it for selling. If it's only for our own use, why bother to go to the countryside to collect it?
It’s time consuming and troublesome.”
There are already people who are trying to take advantage of this.
They didn't expect that this would allow the Huo family to take the lead. Now if they try to imitate it, they won't be able to make much money. If they don't succeed, it will also delay their main business of fishing. They are picking sesame seeds and throwing away watermelons.
Sun was angry.
"The Huo family has an idea for a while. What's going on in their head? They want to open a grocery store on the water." Watching other people's coins come into their accounts, it would be a lie to say that they are not jealous.
There are obviously ways to make money, but I can't make it, which is even more frustrating.
"Then you should make good friends with the Huo family. If they have any good ideas in the future, let us know. If they eat meat, we can also eat some soup."
Mrs. Sun pinched the tender flesh of his waist and abdomen and drank the soup, but she couldn't eat meat at home!
There are many people who think the same as Mr. Sun.
But after careful analysis, I felt that if I wanted to do a business like the Huo family, I didn't have the capital.
One is that the ship is not big enough, and the other is that there is no capital to receive the goods. To buy a piece of cloth from the Huo family, you have to exchange fish and shrimps. How much goods can be prepared? What if the goods cannot be sold and are thrown away?
After all, there are only a few people who can take risks.
Before going to bed, Huo Xi was also thinking about this matter. What if someone opened a floating grocery store like them?
What solution can she have?
It seems that we still need to find a solution from the source of goods.
First, we must ensure the supply of goods and always have a stable channel for receiving goods. Second, we must control the cost at the source.
When costs are lowered, selling prices can be lowered. Even if others are doing the same business as you, but others can't compete with you on selling prices, you won't have to worry about not being able to sell your goods.
Huo Xi wrote and drew on paper, calculating the family's capital, how much goods could be purchased, and what to do next.
Before going to bed, he put the purse he snatched from Wu Youcai today, together with his personal jade pendant, into the box he bought specially today.
She was about to open the bottom of the bilge and put it in. After thinking about it, she took out the purse that Yang made for her, picked up five gold beans and five silver beans and put them in, and then put a hundred taels of silver notes in them.
The rest was still in the box, locked up, and hidden among the clothes in the bilge.
Take a hundred taels of silver notes and broken silver with you, so that if you see something good in the city, you won't be out of money to buy it.
After placing the bilge board and spreading the mattress, I lay down to sleep.
There were three cabins on the ship. Huo Xi had one room by himself. He closed the cabin door at the bow of the ship and closed the curtain separating him from the Yangs and his wife, forming a space of his own.
It's two meters wide and 1.5 meters long, enough for her to sleep on.
Huo Xi pressed the purse on her chest and thought about the scene in the inner city today.
One day she will get her mother's dowry back from Mrs. Wu. Let her manage it, and let her spit it out with profits in the future!
These five hundred taels are not from Wu Youcai or the Wu family, but from the mother. The mother sent them to her and Nian'erhua.
Huo Xi thought about her mother and shed tears again.
He turned sideways and covered his head with the quilt. Thinking of the past with his mother, the tears fell more and more fiercely. He gritted his teeth, wiped his eyes again and again, and finally fell asleep slowly.
In the compartment, after rocking the boat all day, Huo Erhuai started snoring early. Only Yang stared at the dark top of the boat, listening to Huo Xi's suppressed cries, and sighed deeply.
Their family was poor, had no power, and could not help the child, so they had no choice but to follow her and let her do whatever the child wanted. No matter what she did, she and Huo Erhuai would stand firmly behind her.
The next day, Yang woke up early and made breakfast for the family. When Huo Xi came out, she pulled her over and took a closer look.
Huo Xi was still in a daze and her eyes were a little swollen. She hugged Yang and squinted for a while.
Mrs. Yang's heart was so soft that it turned into water. This is her little cotton-padded jacket.
"It's still early, why don't you go into the cabin and sleep for a while?" He stroked her hair.
Huo Xi nuzzled into her arms and said, "No, mother, twist a handkerchief, wipe my face, and I'll wake up."
Upon hearing this, Mrs. Yang let go of her, quickly scooped up water, wetted the handkerchief and gently wiped her face.
Huo Xi woke up as soon as the water aroused her. She raised her head and smiled at Yang. Yang's heart suddenly relaxed.
