I feel so good after dressing up as a peasant girl

Chapter 261: Doing a Little Business 2

The latter was compulsory labor, but for the former, Gu Wenxuan not only sent her a carriage and guards every time, but also gave her a monthly salary of five taels of silver.

In addition, Lin Shuzhen also had to cooperate with Li and Jia Guizhi to take care of the two younger boys in the family. It can be said that she was quite busy.

Jia Guizhi actually knew all these situations, so after Gu Wenxuan reminded her, she decisively gave up asking Lin Shuzhen to rescue her.

After considering other reliable candidates, Jia Guizhi suggested to Gu Wenxuan, "Then you can find your second aunt. She will definitely be happy to spend every day with your grandmother."

Gu Wenxuan raised her hands in surrender, "Okay, okay, I'll find a partner for you."

Jia Guizhi didn't understand what it meant to be a partner or not, but she understood that Gu Wenxuan was compromising with her.

Realizing that she had successfully put the blame on Gu Xing, Jia Guizhi ran to Fang's house to look for someone without saying a word.

Gu Xing is different from Jia Guizhi. As Jia Guizhi said, she is indeed happy to work with Li, and she is not opposed to staying in the workshop to do repetitive and mechanical work of making preserved eggs. She is not opposed to helping Li manage the workshop and supervise the aunts and sisters-in-law who come to earn money in the future.

But Gu Wenxuan also gave Jia Guizhi a heads-up in advance, "My father will definitely be very busy in the future, so don't expect him to accompany you into the mountains like before."

Jia Guizhi didn't care. "Then I can accompany him to the town, the county, or the village. Anyway, I don't want to stay in the workshop."

Gu Wenxuan:......

Well, anyway, she is not the old-fashioned person who insists that men should work outside and women should work inside.

She can run around with Bai Jingzhou, and of course her mother can also go around with her father.

There are several ways to make homemade preserved eggs, and Gu Wenxuan chose the one that is most convenient to operate.

Prepare duck eggs, salt, quicklime, wood ash, tea leaves, yellow mud, etc. Wash and dry the duck eggs. Boil the tea leaves for 5-8 minutes to dissolve the quicklime, then add the remaining ingredients and mix well to make a paste. Add the washed and dried duck eggs into the paste, then put the duck eggs into the jar and seal it for about 10 days.

Li and Gu Xing are both good at work. With Gu Wenxuan telling them the production steps, the two of them easily pickled the first jar of homemade preserved eggs.

While waiting for the preserved eggs to be pickled, the Gu family’s pond was dug, the workshop was built, and recruiting was officially put on the agenda.

After discussing, the two brothers Gu Yongming chose Gu Tong's son Gu Yongkang, Li's two nephews from her mother's side, and Bai Yu, who came from a poor family but was a good person and worked hard.

After checking the pickled eggs, Li and Gu Xing, who were in charge of pickling the preserved eggs, began to discuss with the female family members who should be asked to help with the work.

In the end, the aunt and sister-in-law chose Gu Yongkang's wife Xiao Wang, Fang Youcai's wife Xiao Liu, Fang Yougui's wife Feng, Bai Jingshan's mother Wu, Bai Rong's wife Ji, Han Dajiang's wife Zhou, and the young wives of two other Bai families in the village who had no young and middle-aged men to support their families and only had the elderly, the weak, women and children.

It is worth mentioning that they had originally planned to include Bai Jingzhou's eldest cousin Huang in the plan, but Huang was worried about leaving her daughter to her weird mother-in-law, so after much thought, she refused with a look of regret.

Li and Gu Xing did not have the right to interfere in other people's family affairs, and they did not hire more people just because Huang refused. Anyway, the source of goods and customers for their workshop was still unknown, and the more than ten people they had were more than enough.

After the workshop was built, Gu Yongming and Gu Yongqing took the people they recruited to the town and village to collect duck eggs. Of course, this was only temporary. Once the news spread, they could wait at home and have the duck eggs delivered to their door.

As for the source of customers, Gu Wenxuan had no intention of doing business with individual customers from the beginning. After the first batch of preserved eggs was successfully trial-produced, she and Bai Jingzhou drove a horse-drawn carriage to deliver the preserved eggs to the Mu Family Restaurant in the county town.

The shopkeeper of the Mu Family Restaurant was well-informed. He had eaten preserved eggs in other places, but in Qingshan County and even in the entire Xingzhou, the preserved eggs of Gu Wenxuan's family were truly unique.

The product has a unique flavor and authentic taste. In addition, Mu Hanzhi had specifically told him to maintain a good relationship with Bai Jingzhou and Gu Wenxuan. After tasting it, the shopkeeper gave Gu Wenxuan and the others a fair price without saying a word.

The two parties signed the contract, agreeing that the Mu's Restaurant would come to Bai's Village to transport goods every ten days, and that Gu Wenxuan's family would supply a certain amount of goods to the Mu's Restaurant each time. Then Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou took the contract home.

They don't have to worry about what happens afterwards. Li and Gu Xing will be in charge of the production, while Gu Yongming and Gu Yongqing will be in charge of all external matters and workshop safety issues.

Gu Wenxuan and her team didn't have to find other sales channels for the excess goods beyond those supplied to the Mu family restaurant. The villagers of Baijia Village, Liulin Town and other villages around the town just divided them up among themselves.

At the same time, the family of Bai Jingzhou's second uncle also began to sell new varieties of soy products such as bean curd sheets, fried tofu, dried tofu, bean curd sheets, and fermented bean curd. Unlike before, their family mostly sold old tofu, and only a few times would they sell some soy milk and tofu pudding according to customer demand.

According to Bai Jingzhou's suggestion, his second uncle's family did not launch all new varieties of soy products at once, but launched one of them first and tried to sell it to test the market.

After finding that Qianzhang was selling well, Uncle Bai and his family launched Youdoupao.

Now that the situation is better, they not only do business at home, but also set up stalls in the town during market hours. In addition, several families in the village who are building new houses are willing to take care of their business. They buy some soy products from them every day to entertain the construction workers and villagers who helped build the houses. During this period, small amounts of money have been pouring into their family.

Bai Jingzhou's aunt was extremely jealous and wanted to say some sour words, but before she could even start to say anything, her husband and son retorted back at her.

The reason is very simple. The group of people building new houses, led by Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou's families, did not forget to take care of Uncle Bai and Bai Jingtai's business.

The father and son are carpenters, and they have agreed to help make the furniture for these families.

Since other families placed small orders, Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou asked the father and son to make furniture for other families first. As for their own two families, they had already selected the wood and styles. After the spring plowing was over, they would invite the father and son to their home and slowly make the furniture.

Uncle Bai and Bai Jingtai are well aware of their own skills. Their skills are indeed quite good, but not so good that others have to rush to them to line up to make furniture.