Chapter 63: A Day's Flow
It was not until after noon that the store was empty. Reading
Everyone was exhausted and had no energy to cook. Seeing Aunt Zhou coming to help, Su Qingmei asked her to order a table of food from the small restaurant where Lu Bocheng had taken her.
Originally, Su Qingmei was afraid that everyone would not accept this form and would still go to the vegetable market to buy vegetables, but she did not expect that so many people would come to watch the excitement today. They actually bought out all the vegetables prepared for the day.
After dinner, Su Dahu hurried to the countryside with his ox cart and cart, saying that he would bring another cart back to catch the evening market. Since he followed Su Qingmei to work, Su Dahu used all his savings to buy a strong ox and a cart to make it easier to go to the village. Not only did it make it convenient for him, but it also brought a lot of convenience to the store.
Su Qingmei watched him leave, thinking about the amount sold today and the amount to prepare in the future. Once vegetables are left overnight, they wilt and almost all go bad, and it is not easy to prepare too much. But it would be even worse if there were no goods on the shelves when opening a shop.
"I didn't expect so many people today, even my mother didn't expect it. I didn't expect so many people to buy chickens and ducks when they were sold separately! Later, your father and your sister and I just boiled water to remove the feathers of the chickens."
Su Qing'an saw that her parents were exhausted and felt a little sorry: "Father and mother, I have made you tired today."
Su's mother didn't care at all: "Well, why do you say something to your father and mother. Mother was afraid that your shop would have no business, and your father and I didn't sleep well last night. Seeing the shop like this today, your father and I are much more relieved."
Su's father nodded repeatedly with a smile on his face.
"Yes, uncle and aunt, I didn't expect there would be so many people! I couldn't keep up with my eyes, for fear that someone would take things without paying. In the morning, I was worried that today's vegetables would not be sold, but I didn't expect that the vegetable shelves would be empty in just one morning." Zhou Dajiang exclaimed repeatedly.
Father Su patted his nephew on the shoulder: "Work hard for your cousin in the future, learn more, and don't let your parents worry."
"Well, I will." Zhou Dajiang's fighting spirit was ignited in his heart. He also broadened his horizons today.
The shop was busy again in the afternoon.
Most of them were people who got the news and rushed to see the novelty. Seeing that the price of vegetables was not expensive, meat could be bought in batches, and there were many fruits, they also bought a lot.
Su Qing'an and others were tired and happy.
Before closing the shop in the evening, everyone gathered together to compare the flow of each stall. It was found that today's flow was very good, and the gross profit was almost seven taels of silver!
Su Qing'an expected that vegetables and eggs would have low profits. If these two items were sold at a high price, no one would come. She didn't expect that the meat stall would have a gross profit of one tael. And the largest item was from fruits. It actually accounted for nearly half of the profit.
Everyone was a little surprised.
It seems that many people in the town are still willing to eat.
In this era, the ripening and storage technology of fruits is not mature. Is there anything to be done here? Su Qingmei looked at the flow of fruits and thought about the future of this stall.
The shop is very lively today, but after everyone has seen the novelty, the flow of people will flow back to the vegetable market and fish market. She has to ensure that I have what others don’t have, and I have something new.
Su Dahu and others were also very excited after seeing today’s flow.
Su Qingmei was also satisfied.
She originally thought that the profit would be better than the rent of Lu Bocheng’s grandfather’s land, and then she would start a small business first, and then slowly do other things. Unexpectedly, this small business would make a few taels of profit a day, which is still considerable in a month.
Su’s father and mother were also very happy. They kept busy until the shop closed. Su Qingmei saw that it was too late, so she asked them to help in the town for a few days, and they stayed.
After dinner, she held Yaya and sat with everyone to discuss.
"Qing'an, what should we do with the chicken necks, chicken feet, duck feet, and internal organs left in the store?" Su's mother asked.
When Su's father mentioned this, he was a little worried: "It's easier to sell the meat if it's sold in pieces, but everyone will pick and choose when buying. It's better to sell the whole one and save trouble. There are a lot of leftovers. No one wants to add them, but it's a pity to throw them away. After all, it's meat, so what should we do?"
Su Qing'an really didn't think of this before.
She just wanted to kill the chicken well, and then cut it in half, and then cut it in four. The neck and feet attached to the top would naturally be weighed together, but she didn't expect that everyone would ask to cut them off. It was the first day of the store, and it was not good to offend the customers.
She had thought of the internal organs before, and she asked Su Dahu to put them on the stall with the chicken and duck blood, and sold them half and gave them away. She really didn't think of the neck and feet.
As a result, there were two full buckets of necks and feet left. She asked Aunt Zhou to take them back to Lu's house and her house, and there were still a lot left.
"Yes, it's a pity to throw it away. Look, there are still a few chicken and duck bones." Su Qingliu was also very worried. It's impossible for the family to eat these every day, and they can't finish them.
Su Qingying didn't expect these chicken and duck bones. There are customers who only want a piece of meat, not chicken and duck bones.
Fortunately, these chicken and duck bones are easy to handle, and they are also very good for making soup.
But I can't use so many of them. If there are a few left over every day, I still have to find a regular customer to buy these chicken and duck bones.
"Today's leftovers will be used to make soup in the evening, and boiled noodles tomorrow. If there are leftovers in the future, I will put them on the stall to see if anyone buys them. If no one buys them, I will find a store to sell them. For example, some noodle shops and restaurants want to make soup, we can sell them to them at a low price, and it shouldn't be difficult to sell them."
"Will anyone buy it?" Su's mother was a little uncertain. Nowadays, everyone wants to eat meat, who wants to eat bones. And it's also a weighing.
"Yes, there will be. Chicken and duck bones plus meat or beef bones, boiled for a few hours, the soup is simply amazing! If the gods smell it, they will come down to earth." Su Qingmei said with a smile.
Everyone laughed.
Su's mother rolled her eyes at her: "What have gods not eaten? How can they come down to earth just by smelling a mouthful of soup?"
"Because it tastes good. If you don't believe me, I'll let my sister make it later, and we'll eat it tomorrow morning. I'll definitely make you swallow your tongues."
"Okay, I'll make it with your sister later. If it doesn't taste good, you can eat the rest." Su's mother said jokingly.
"Then don't fight over it."
Because Su Qing'an said she had a way, everyone went to rest after a busy day.
She also went back to Lu's house.
Lying on the bed, Su Qing'an applied a facial mask and thought about the chicken and duck scraps. She put some of the leftovers into the system and exchanged them for facial masks and daily necessities, but the poultry scraps were too big for her to operate.
Does she have to open a delicatessen?
There are a lot of things to do.
The four of them are enough. The chickens and ducks were killed before the shop opened. Su Dahu was in charge of the meat stall; Dajiang was in charge of the fruit and vegetable stall and replenishing the goods; she patrolled the stall and did the cashiering; her sister was mobile.
But today, even with her parents, there was still a shortage of manpower.
It takes a long time to boil water with firewood to scald the chicken feathers, and it takes a long time to remove the feathers, plus the internal organs. It takes a long time. Her sister almost never came to the shop and hid in the backyard.
And Su Dahu's stall was also in various situations today. Customers made various requests. He said that his head was buzzing after a day.
As for her and Dajiang, they couldn't keep up with the crowd. They had to deal with problems on the spot and prevent people from smuggling goods. They were also busy and dizzy...
Ah, I miss the automatic feather removal machine in the future.
Throw the chicken and duck in, and a naked chicken will come out in a few minutes, even the small fine hairs are removed cleanly. Manual plucking, plucking duck feathers will make you want to die.
Then there is an automatic detector, which will sound an alarm if someone smuggles goods.
Oh, this ancient times is so frustrating.
Su Qingmei was thinking about a lot of things while applying a facial mask, and then she fell asleep.