Siheyuan: Walking the Path of Qin Huairu

Two days later, Xu Huizhen returned to Sijiu City. It took her six days to go back and forth. The space was full of dried and fresh seafood. She was really tired. Traveling in this era was too inconvenient, especially with a child. If it weren't for the space, she really couldn't bear this suffering.

When Cai Quanwu saw Xu Huizhen, his eyes lit up as if he had seen the God of Wealth. Xu Huizhen saw that the tavern was well managed and was very satisfied with Cai Quanwu's performance, thinking that he was a capable helper.

Xu Huizhen knew that Cai Quanwu was anxious, so she said to him, "The goods will arrive tomorrow morning. This batch is all fresh seafood. Go ask Qian in how much he can get in a day. Also, how do you decide the price? We have to let them make some money."

Cai Quanwu: "How about 10% lower than the price we sold it for last year?"

Xu Huizhen: "Is it a little expensive?"

Cai Quanwu: "Is it expensive? Pork is 88 cents a pound, but you need meat coupons. It's useless without coupons. Such a fresh big fish, if you come in and sell it for 50 or 60 cents a pound, it can't be said to be expensive. Fish is also meat!"

Xu Huizhen: "Okay, I'll get some samples later and you can take them to him to have a look and confirm the price. Tell him that our goods are fresh, just caught from the sea and shipped directly to Sijiu City." Her space has a fresh-keeping function, how can it not be fresh!

Cai Quanwu: "I told him a few days ago to be prepared because the weather is getting warmer and seafood won't last long. I'll go there again later."

After Cai Quanwu left with the samples, Xu Huizhen lay on the bed she hadn't seen for a long time and stretched comfortably. There is a saying that goes, a nest of gold or silver is not as good as your own thatched nest. It is still more comfortable at home.

At 4:30 the next morning, Cai Quanwu and Li Shunfa rode their tricycles to the back door of the tavern as agreed yesterday. Xu Huizhen had released baskets of fish from the space in advance.

Both of them were experienced laborers, and they silently loaded the fish onto the tricycle. Before dawn, they went to meet Qian Jinlai to take over. It took them four trips to deliver 3000 kilograms of seafood. They were so tired that sweat was pouring down their foreheads.

Xu Huizhen asked them to go to the tavern to rest for a while, and served them a bowl of rice porridge, an egg, and two steamed buns. If you want a horse to run, you have to feed it well. Xu Huizhen grasped this point very well.

Li Shunfa drank the hot rice porridge, but stuffed the remaining eggs and steamed buns into his arms. Needless to say, he was going to take them home for the children to eat.

Before leaving, Li Shunfa also took 200 kilograms of seafood home. His wife Huang Cuihua had no goods to sell during this period, and she was very anxious. People are like this. It is natural to be happy when there are more ways to make money, but it is suddenly interrupted, and it feels not so good, as if the money has slipped away again.

Xu Huizhen gave him small fry, firstly to avoid conflicts with the goods that brought in money, and secondly, she was afraid that Huang Cuihua was a lonely woman, and if she gave her too good goods, she was afraid that people would be jealous and cause trouble. Small fry are inconspicuous, but they are cheap, and they are the first choice for housewives who know how to live.

At this time, Qian Jinlai's eyes lit up when he saw so many baskets of fresh fish and shrimp. After hearing what Cai Quanwu said a few days ago, he asked the people who followed him to find buyers.

Who doesn't have a relative who works as a minor official in a factory or a purchasing agent in a restaurant? The key is that food is in short supply now, and it is a seller's market. Look, more than 1600 kilograms have been booked. You can make money by reselling it. Such a good thing is hard to find even with a lantern.

Qian came in and gave orders loudly, saying, "Zhang San, you want 150 kilograms of fish and 50 kilograms of shrimp."

Zhang San: "Okay, brother, I'm short of money. Can I send you the payment this afternoon?"

Qian Jinlai said: "If you don't deliver it this afternoon, I will beat you till your ass is yellow!"

Zhang San laughed: "No way, no way! I don't have any food in my stomach, where did that thing come from?"

Everyone laughed.

Qian Jinlai: "Li Si, this is the goods from XX Restaurant that you wanted. Wang Wu, this is the goods from XX Factory that you wanted."

After the reserved goods were distributed, there were still more than a thousand kilograms left. Qian Jinlai waved his hand and said, "These seafood are sold fresh. Mazi, you go to the pigeon market at Chongwenmen. Sanmao, you go to Dongzhimen. Laoliu, you go to the pigeon market at Yonghegong."

Everyone took their goods and left. There was no other way. These people had no jobs. If they wanted to support their families, they had to make money. On weekdays, they roamed around in every corner of the capital, doing any job as long as they could make money.

Cai Quanwu was also on his way to Hongxinglou at this time. He had made up his mind that he would go to Cuihualou to look for Sha Zhu's master and also make a trip to the steel rolling mill. No one should miss such fresh seafood.

When she was free, Xu Huizhen lifted the stone slab on one side of the yard. She wanted to open a vegetable garden in the yard and grow some vegetables, so that it would be convenient to eat, and the vegetables in her space would have a source. Otherwise, if you don't go out to buy vegetables every day, where do the vegetables in your house come from? It's better to be safe than sorry.

Just as she was sweating profusely and working hard, she heard someone knocking on the door in front of her. She put down her tools and went out to see that it was Mr. Hu and Hu Yingzi.

The two people were wearing clothes of the same color, parent-child outfits, very avant-garde.

The cloth was what Xu Huizhen left for them. It was probably made in a hurry before she left. In those days, rural people had many children at home, so their clothes were patched.

She led the two to the backyard and poured them some hot water. Xu Huizhen asked with concern, "Godfather, have you had lunch?"

Mr. Hu: "I ate some of the dry food I brought from home. I'm not hungry."

Hu Yingzi also waved her hand to indicate that she was not hungry.

Xu Huizhen knew that it would be a lie to say that she wasn't hungry. Judging from the weather, it would take a while for dinner. She walked into the kitchen, lit a fire, poured hot water into the pot, and cooked eight poached eggs. The hen in her space was very powerful and laid eggs every day. Xu Huizhen couldn't eat much by herself. So she kept it all in her space.

When she walked out of the kitchen with the poached eggs, she saw Mr. Hu tidying up the vegetable garden in the yard, and Hu Yingzi was also helping. It seemed that the old man was also a hardworking person.

Xu Huizhen: "Godfather, come over here and have a fried egg to fill your stomach. There's no rush for that little job."

When they saw the white eggs in the big bowl, their stomachs started to growl. Hu Yingzi couldn't help swallowing. She couldn't even eat an egg skin at home. Occasionally there were some eggs on the table, but they were eaten by men. It wasn't her turn.

Four came at once, and happiness came so unexpectedly that she said with tears in her eyes, "Sister, you are too wasteful. I can eat two, and I will give you two."

Xu Huizhen: "I had a full meal at noon, so I'm not hungry now. Just eat if I ask you to. Just help me take care of the kids in the future."

Hu Yingzi quickly expressed her opinion: "I promise to treat Li'er as my own sister. Oh, no, I treat her as my own daughter. Oh, that's not right either..."

Seeing her uneasy look, Xu Huizhen smiled and said, "I'm glad you have this intention. As long as you do well, I won't treat you unfairly."