"This is food, something that enters the mouth. I can't guarantee that you will encounter any problems when you leave this door. But if you can take good care of the tofu outside, there will be no problems with what you sell." He Yunxi
Said, "I am doing this to prevent problems before they happen. Of course, if it is unacceptable, I will not force you to do it."
"You're right. I'll take twenty pounds." Wang Youcai said.
"I want my twenty pounds too."
The villagers expressed their opinions that this is how the responsibilities for food should be divided.
"Come here if you want, and I will register it for you." He Yunxi said, "This is the form I made. I will register your name every day when you come here. After you confirm that there are no problems, just put your fingerprint here.
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Everyone watched as He Yunxi randomly selected some tofu from each plate to eat.
After He Yunxi finished eating, he said: "In addition, this tofu comes from Wangjiacun. I hope that when you go out and others smell it, you can tell that it is Wangjiacun tofu. In the future, this tofu will be one of the signatures of our village."
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After a quarter of an hour, there were no problems. Everyone pressed their fingerprints and left carrying the tofu and the samples prepared by He Yunxi.
There are rules for who goes where. After everyone gets the tofu, they rush to where they want to go.
Some places are so far away that it takes an hour or two to walk there.
Those who went to the county town took the village chief's ox cart. Because they were given copper coins, the ox cart would wait for them at the county town.
After everyone left, Xiao Huang said, "I don't know if they can sell out."
"Things that go to counties and towns should be sold quickly, while those that go to villages may be slower." He Yunxi said, "But it will be better once the reputation of tofu is fully established. The tofu tastes good, and it will not be bad in the end."
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Xiao Huang thinks about it too.
"Fourth Aunt, Uncle Yougen, you go back and catch up on some sleep." He Yunxi said to the two of them. "When we come over at noon, we still need Uncle Yougen to grind beans."
"Yunxi." Xiao Huang stopped her.
"What's wrong, fourth aunt?"
"Yunxi, I gave it a try. I don't have much to do at this job, and the wages you paid are a bit high." Xiao Huang said a little uneasily.
"Fourth Aunt, you will know when you come at noon." He Yunxi smiled, "Go back and rest now."
Xiao Huang didn't know what He Yunxi was going to do, so he had to go back first.
He Yunxi didn't rest when he went back. After breakfast, he started looking for dirt. The wooden planks had been put up yesterday, and today he had to fill them with mud. He also had to go to the brick store to buy some bricks and put them on top after the mud dried.
At noon, He Yunxi went to the workshop. This time she was going to teach Xiao Huang and Wang Yougen how to make yuba.
The yuba made yesterday has no moisture, but it is not dry enough, so it needs to continue to dry.
"Fourth Aunt, this is yuba, and it is also an edible food." He Yunxi said, "What we are going to make this afternoon is yuba."
"Is this also made of beans?" Xiao Huang asked.
"Yes." He Yunxi said, "Yuba is also very simple, but it is also very tiring." He Yunxi said, "Now let's grind the soy milk and cook it, and Uncle Gen will continue grinding it later."
Making yuba is not difficult. Xiao Huang quickly mastered the method, and she is more skillful in lifting the yuba than He Yunxi. She can do it with ease when adding five pots of soy milk.
"Fourth Aunt is just quicker than me." He Yunxi said, "Now you know that this salary is not easy to get, right?"
Xiao Huang smiled, her smile relaxed and relieved, "This is also relaxing."
She and Wang Yougen calculated that the two of them earned forty coppers a day, which equals twelve hundred coppers a month.
One tael of silver and two hundred copper coins, this is their income for almost half a year. And this year, the total is fourteen taels and four hundred, which was unimaginable before.
As far as they know, those working in shops in the county town don't have the wages they do.
"It's still tiring in the long run." He Yunxi said, "But winter is coming soon. If we store more things, the winter will be better."
"In the past, we could only eat pickled cabbage and the like every winter. It was too difficult to eat fresh vegetables." Xiao Huang lamented, "Now that we have tofu and yuba, we will be able to have more vegetables in winter."
He Yunxi heard this and said: "Now while there is still some food, let's make some dried vegetables."
"I've tried it before, but it's not easy to make, and you can't eat the dried ones," said Xiao Huang.
"It seems like the white radish hasn't ended yet?"
"No."
"Then you can dry some dried radishes and save them for winter. You can also dry some eggplants and bamboo shoots and other vegetables, not just cabbages." He Yunxi said.
"I have tried all these, but if they are not properly exposed to the sun, they will be damaged," Xiao Huang said.
He Yunxi knew that these were not cut and dried directly, some needed to be salted, and some needed to be blanched before being dried. Salt is very expensive now, so few people would want to use it to make dried vegetables.
It would be great if the price of salt could be brought down.
She does know how to extract salt, and she also knows that there is a sea in Daliang, but salt is something she can't touch now.
Since she mentioned this matter, she planned to get some more dried vegetables while there are still plenty of vegetables. Otherwise, when winter comes, she won't be able to eat any vegetables at all.
After Xiao Huang got the yuba, He Yunxi went back to continue making kang.
When Pei Yuan came over in the afternoon, he saw He Yunxi and three little guys moving bricks, and asked her: "What are they used for?"
"For putting it on top of the mud."
"Then why don't you just use bricks?"
"The cost is high. This way, the cost is low. Not everyone can use bricks," He Yunxi said.
"You've thought it through quite a bit."
"If there is really a cold winter, it will definitely not be the rich who freeze to death. Only the poor will really suffer from the cold. So it is better to save a little."
Pei Yuan felt that He Yunxi was young but knew a lot.
"Then why don't you make everything out of clay?"
"People are going to lie on it. If it is made of this, the kang will collapse easily." He Yunxi heard his master mention it before, so it should be like this.
Pei Yuan didn't understand, so she just said so.
He tied up his sleeves and helped her carry the bricks. Thinking that today was the first time for people in Wangjiacun to sell tofu, he asked casually: "How is the tofu sold today?"
"It's not bad, they're all sold out." He Yunxi said, "The ones in the county are sold out first, and the ones in the town are sold out quickly. The ones that travel from village to village are sold out the least, but they are also sold out."
“Everyone’s sold out?”
"Yes. Just now the village chief said that people in the county town need 40 jins, and those in towns and villages need 30 jins." He Yunxi responded.
"It seems like the business is going well."
"Because the advertising was good before." He Yunxi moved a tall pile of bricks under the eaves and put them down, wiping the sweat from his forehead. "This is the effectiveness of advertising."