Traveling through 1942 with space

Chapter 180 Couple’s Night Chapter

Sixteen-year-old Yangdan and ten-year-old Yangwa had never seen so much pocket money in their lives. They snatched the bills from their old father, put them in their pockets, and laughed foolishly.

"Mom, I only have one cent. Can you sell me half a candied haws? I ate two yesterday, and they didn't taste good." Little Doudou looked at the candied haws neatly arranged on the sticks in the cave and swallowed.

When Yangwa and Yangdan heard that their sister wanted to buy candied haws, they swallowed their saliva and clenched the money in their pockets tightly, for fear that it would fly away.

"Silly Ni'er, my family makes candied haws. It doesn't cost much to make one candied haws, and you guys can still eat it.

Here, this is the one you have left over from selling today. Mom is giving it to you as a reward.

But you have to sell well tomorrow. If you sell well, I will give you a candied haws every other day. Do you understand?" Chunxiang took the last string of candied haws from the lonely stick of Yangwa and the others and handed it to the children, saying pua.

When Hou Yangsheng heard that his wife was going to give them some candied haws, he felt a little distressed for a moment, but it only lasted for a moment.

Then I immediately remembered that I had failed to make a few of the candied haws today and the sugar was not prepared well, so I quickly replaced them for the children to eat.

"Chunxiang, wait a minute, give it to me. I'll give you another one." Hou Yangsheng snatched the candied haws.

Just like that, Hou Yangsheng snatched the candied haws in a lightning speed, then changed one from his stick and handed it to Ji Xiao.

Although the sugar on this defective candied haws is uneven, it does have more sugar content.

"Dad, Mom, you guys eat too."

There were five candied haws and each of the three children took a bite. Xiao Doudou took the remaining two and came to her parents with a happy face.

"Mom won't eat it, Doudou, you eat it."

"No, one for each person."

"All right!"

"Dad, you eat too."

"Ahhh, so sweet!"

"Ha ha!"

The fire soon went out and the family quickly went to sleep.

In the only cave dwelling, the family huddled together in two quilts, and the children, tired after a long day, quickly fell asleep.

"Boss, tell me if I am dreaming. We only earned one dollar and thirty cents today.

If it goes on like this every day, there are still 20 days until the Chinese New Year, and our family can earn more than 20 yuan, and this year's Chinese New Year will be better." Chunxiang said with a smile while nestling in her husband's arms.

"You old woman, you are really blinded by money.

The remaining hawthorns in our house can only be used to make more than a hundred strings of candied haws. After selling them all, we will have to buy more hawthorns, and then there will be no such big profit!

Besides, in two days, the village will organize people to teach other villagers this craft. If there are too many people selling candied haws, it will be difficult to sell them. We have to run farther. "Hou Yangsheng analyzed to his wife while staring at the dark cave roof.

"Oh! What a joke Heiwa is. Why does he pass on such a good skill to the villagers? It would be better for us to sell it to just a few families." Chunxiang was stunned after hearing what she said. She sighed and complained a little.

"Just talk to me about this, don't tell the kids or outside. It would be bad if Heiwa's family heard it and offended others.

Our family is only related because Yangwa and Heiwa play together, otherwise how could Heiwa let our family learn this good thing.

That kid must have been afraid that the villagers would have to borrow money from them if they couldn't make ends meet, and that would make it unsafe for them to live in the village, so he taught us this craft.

In this way, everyone can learn this skill, at least earn some money to celebrate the New Year, have food to eat, and live a peaceful life.

Heiwa is a very smart kid with a clever mind.

I can earn 70 cents a month by delivering spicy soup to the people, and I also sell candied haws, all of which are given because of our good relationship with them.

Anyway, you can let the sheep boy and the black boy get along well in the future, so that the sheep boy can also benefit from it when he grows up. "Hou Yangsheng advised his wife beside him.

"I know. When I have nothing to do, I go to Heiwa's house and chat with Mai Miao. We have a pretty good relationship. She gives me meat soup every now and then!

Otherwise, the reason why you and your grandpa can grow so strong is all because of me." Chunxiang said proudly, nudging the man with her elbow.

"Mother of my child, you are still the best." Hou Yangsheng said as he began to grope in the quilt with his hands.

However, their earthen kang had no firewood to burn, so they huddled together at night, their feet locked together. They fanned themselves with palm-leaf-leaf-leaf-leaf-leaf fans in the quilt, and the cold wind immediately blew in, extinguishing their fiery hearts.

"Oh! When I make money, I must buy some firewood. The winter in Qin Province is too cold." Hou Yangsheng curled up in the quilt and sighed deeply.

"Well! I'm just jealous of the three-meter-high straw stack at Heiwa's house. There's so much firewood that even if Heiwa's two kangs were burned hard they couldn't burn it all." Chunxiang said with a blushing face.

"Let's just be down-to-earth and work hard!

I asked, Heiwa's family spent a lot of money on the wheat straw, a full twelve dollars, and our family can't earn that much money in several years. "Thinking of this, Hou Yangmin felt a little discouraged.

Speaking of haystacks, Hou Yangsheng's mind emerged with the image of ten horse-drawn carriages pulling hay to Hou Xiaoge's house. At that time, his eyes almost fell out of envy.

"Humph! It's because you, an old man, are not good enough. You are more powerful than Heiwa's father, but Heiwa, a little naughty boy, is more powerful than you.

Now that we have a business, you have to work hard for me in the future. If you don’t sell all the thirty candied haws tomorrow, you are not allowed to go to bed.” Chunxiang reached into the quilt, groped for Hou Yangsheng’s soft spot and twisted it hard.

"Hiss! Where are you twisting your body, woman? Do you want to be a widow?" Hou Yangsheng tightened his legs and contributed a large breath of gas to the greenhouse effect of the earth.

"Hehe! I didn't see it. Let me rub it for you." Chunxiang reached out her hand and said with a smile.

"Hmph! You did this on purpose. Rub it for me well." Hou Yangmin scolded with a relaxed face.

"By the way, head of the household, you heard what Mai Miao said in the house today! I want to buy a pot tomorrow and we can cook at home.

After a few days when everyone in the village has learned how to make candied haws, most families will not have a pot and will not be able to make it.

I thought, we can make it at home and sell it to villagers at a lower price. Then many villagers will help us sell it, and our income will definitely be higher. " Chunxiang said as she patted the naughty part that Hou Yangsheng had raised.

"Hiss! When did you become so smart, woman?" Hou Yangsheng looked at his wife, suppressing his satisfaction and shock.

"It was Hei Wa who whispered to me after you left at noon today because of Yang Wa's relationship. He said that now that we have earned some money from the first wave of dividends, we can be bolder and buy a pot to cook at home.

Otherwise, when everyone in the village learns this skill, it will not be our turn to use his pot.

Moreover, many people in the village don’t have the money to buy iron pots and rock sugar, so it’s a waste of time to learn this skill.

So let us buy a pot in advance and make it at home. When the time comes and everyone in the village wants to learn, we can directly wholesale it at a low price. Those who have no money don’t have to be jealous, they can just sell it wholesale from us at a low price.

"Boss, can you calculate the cost of a string of candied haws? Can we sell them wholesale?" Chunxiang said, staring at her frowning husband.

"You're right. So many people use one pot. I only made thirty candied haws tonight. I have to queue up again tomorrow. I wasted half a day.

When there are more people behind us, I really don’t dare to think about whether it will be our turn in one day!

I earned one yuan and thirty cents today, and I still have some money left. I'll use it to buy a pot tomorrow!

As for the wholesale business, I calculated the cost. A pound of hawthorn is three cents, which can be strung into eight strings. A pound of rock sugar is two cents, which can be strung into twenty-eight strings, and then add firewood.

Well! Excluding the pot, our cost is about a little over one cent.

This business can be done. Our wholesale price is 1.5 cents, and the villagers sell it for 2 cents. If we wholesale 50 pieces at a time, they can earn a maximum of 25 cents a day.

After paying protection fees and taxes, you can still earn at least 1 cent. If you don't go to the city, you can earn at least 2 cents.

You can make 200 of them by yourself at home in just two hours.

I can earn 3.5 cents from one candied haws, 70 cents from 200, and 21 yuan a month. I don't have to pay protection fees, and after paying taxes, I can still have at least 15 yuan left. This business is really profitable." Hou Yangsheng became more and more excited as he calculated.