vrcanaries Chapter 919: So Poor I Want to Beg for Food
Chapter 919: So Poor I Want to Beg for Food
Zhou Mi said: "Now when we come to Yunzhou next time, we don't have to rush back because we feel bad about the cost of staying in an inn. We can play as long as we want."
With so many people in the family staying in the inn, they need one tael of silver every day. After staying there for a long time, they all feel distressed because the silver could buy a lot of paper.
A few scholars are not engaged in production, so they should be as frugal as possible.
The family finished their meal leisurely and sat in the yard to cool off.
There are some flowers and plants in the yard that are not found at home. Everyone looks at this new house with curiosity.
After sitting for a while, Zhou Guo said, "Go to sleep, you have been traveling all day. If you want to pick berries tomorrow, you have to get up before dawn."
"Oh, pick berries, pick berries!" Xiaohua shouted beside her.
They were really tired, so they simply washed up and went back to their rooms.
Zhou Guo lived in the east wing and thought the house was really big, but when she thought of Li and Xu living in the west wing opposite her, she felt something was wrong.
But I was really tired and fell asleep soon after lying down.
The next day, she got up early and began to practice. Before she finished a set of kung fu, the lights in everyone's room were turned on and everyone got up.
It was still dark.
Breakfast was also simple, a bowl of porridge, steamed buns, dumplings and pickles. The family gulped down the breakfast and then got on the carriage and went out.
The city gate had just opened at this time.
It only took half an hour to get there by express train.
As soon as I got off the car, several people from the farm were already waiting there, with baskets and scissors ready, but I hadn't picked any yet.
It was already daybreak.
Zhou Guo took a basket and said, "Let's go. Today, we each pick one basket of red ones. It's okay if we don't pick enough. We can pick as many as we can and leave some for tomorrow."
The all-red, bright red fruits are the most delicious. They are fragrant and sweet, and you will want to eat more after eating one.
Two people from the family took a basket and went down to the field.
There was also a lot of hay in the frame.
Zhou Guo searched along the berry ditch one by one, but there were not many fully red ones. She looked at these small fruits, her eyes lit up, and said to Li: "Mom, these small ones are not easy to sell. Why don't you pick them and bring them back to the pastry shop? Put a few petals on the small cakes, and the price will be at least half higher."
I did the same thing before, but this thing is only available for about a month every year, and it’s gone when I want to eat it again.
Li said, "I think the desserts with these small fruits are both pretty and delicious. Even people who don't buy them will come over to take a look. The girls from wealthy families love to buy them. They will come in to take a look when they pass by to see if there are any new variations."
Wu Ya smiled and said, "I went to see it too. It's really good-looking, delicious, and fragrant. That dim sum shop has been making more and more money in the past two years. Now sometimes they can even sell seven strings of cash in a day!"
It is really good for a dim sum shop to sell seven strings of dim sum every day.
Zhou Guo fell into deep thought. Although Lu County had become increasingly wealthy in the past two years and the common people had accumulated some savings from selling duck eggs, mushrooms, and grain, it was still small after all. Lu County was not even as big as Yunzhou.
If she opened a dim sum shop in Yunzhou, she might be able to earn more than ten strings of coins a day. More than ten strings of coins would mean three hundred strings of coins a month and three thousand strings of coins a year, which is a lot!
In addition, there have been more and more fruits at home in the past two years. By this time next year, there will be more ground berries, at least quadrupled, and these small fruits will have a place to go.
Thinking of this, she asked Mrs. Li beside her: "Mom, there are four shopkeepers in your shop now. Do they all know how to make snacks?"
Li asked, "What are you going to do?"
Zhou Guo chuckled, "This snack shop is so profitable, I'm thinking of opening one in Yunzhou as well."
Li and Wu Ya were stunned. "Didn't you say you didn't plan to open more, just this one?"
Wu Ya said: "You said a few strings of money a day is not much, and it's a hassle."
"Did I say this?" Zhou Guo tried hard to recall, but found that she couldn't remember.
Zhou Mi crossed over from another ditch and said, "I remember you said that."
Then Zhou Mai and Zhou Gu also came over. When Zhou Su and Li Lai saw them, they thought they were discussing something important, so they hurried over.
The old man is even more unwilling to fall behind, so he has to follow in any good way.
So except Xu and Xiaohua, everyone gathered together.
Seeing so many people squatting in this area, Zhou Guo was afraid that the land would be flattened, so he said, "Let's go outside and talk."
"The snack shop makes so much money, it can make as much as the grain shop in a month. If we put the snack shop in Yunzhou, it might make more money than the grain shop. Well, that family is broke, right? They need to make more money."
She is in urgent need of money.
I didn't feel it before, but now that the stall has expanded, I'm stretched to the limit and I'm so poor that I want to beg for food.
As soon as the last few words came out, everyone from the old man to Li Lai looked over.
The old man said, "How can this sentence be so unbelievable coming out of your mouth?"
Everyone nodded.
Zhou Guo has never worried about money over the years. Even when the family was the poorest, he never said that he would hurry up to earn money. The family has such a big business now, but they are out of money?
Zhou Su looked at everyone and said, "How about we spend less? I have saved quite a bit, more than 600 taels, is that enough?"
The whole family looked at him again. The monthly allowance was only three taels, and before this year it was only two taels. How did he save up more than six hundred taels?
Zhou Mi said: "I didn't spend much money, only over 400 taels, how did you save over 600 taels?"
Coincidentally, Zhou Mai and Li Lai have about the same number.
They just bought some of their favorite writing brushes, inkstones, and inkstones, socialized with their classmates, and bought some of their favorite books and small ornaments, but they didn't buy much else.
Zhou Su said, "I don't have much to spend money on. I save the monthly allowance and the New Year's money my sister gives me. I don't have anything to buy."
He doesn't like small ornaments either, and his brothers always buy some for them as well.
There is no shortage of books. There are so many in his sisters and brothers' study rooms. He can read one book a day for many years. There is no need to buy new books.
The house is already well-equipped with food, drink and clothing, so there is no need to spend any money.
The only thing that costs money is the social interactions between classmates, but we are all classmates and live in the countryside, so no one is that rich, so social interactions don't cost much.
That's how the money was saved.
Everyone was silent.
This child has always been like this, very frugal. He would not spend money if he could avoid it, and he can still save money.
Li touched his head and said, "You don't have to be so frugal. Spend what you should spend. Doesn't your sister always say that if spending money can make us happy, then it's worth spending some money."
Zhou Su nodded, looked at Zhou Guo with sparkling eyes and said, "Sister, I will give you the money I saved later! Anyway, I don't have much use for it, so I'll give it all to you."