The next day.
Wu Da brought a man who was also a peddler to pick up the goods. Wei Cheng sold them by the catty, including seasonings for every catty of coleslaw- they bought the goods at a price of eight wen per catty and made about two small servings per catty. Steward Chen was given the price of six wen a catty.
Wei Cheng asked people to go to his house in the afternoon, and he taught them how to make coleslaw, there were also people called by Steward Chen to study the dish.
Wu Da and the other peddlers were to sign a contract, which was also to restrain the other party. He has the right to refuse people from taking any goods if he violates the regulations.
After studying for two days, they managed to learn all that they could.
Wu Da and the others didn’t dare to take too much, each of them took ten catties.
Steward Chen determined the number of catties needed and he provided him with about 500 catties a day- they’ll come to pick it up early in the morning the day after tomorrow.
Wei Cheng asked Wei Lei to go back and inform Aunt Lu to start buying vegetables and also asked Aunt Lu to tell Li Shuiqing that he didn’t need to deliver the goods to his house, but he’ll have to send them directly to Aunt Lu’s house, and then they would be delivered together. He told Aunt Yang that they’ll start work tomorrow.
In order to do a good job in this batch of business, he also purposely set up a shed in the yard of his home, so that they would not be afraid of the sun and rain. He also bought several large wooden basins for washing and storing vegetables, and he also set up two large pots in the yard to boil vegetables.
As for Aunt Yang, they have to go to work early, just like when he gets up early in the morning to work. They have to come to help early in the morning and there is a break at noon, with breakfast and lunch included.
Aunt Lu got his message and went door to door to confirm the variety and quantity of vegetables in each family, and then went to the outskirts of the village.
When Aunt Lu came, Li Shuiqing’s family was cleaning the bamboo shoots. There were smiles on their poor faces, and they were surprised to see Aunt Lu coming.
Aunt Lu spoke directly, but after she did so, the whole family turned pale with fright.
“Qing-ger, Wei Cheng told me to tell you not to send mushrooms and bamboo shoots to his house anymore……”
“Auntie, has Wei Cheng decided to stop buying my bamboo shoots? Is there something wrong? We can change it.”
Li Shuiqing’s family misunderstood that Wei Cheng would no longer accept his family’s goods, and Li Shuiqing’s mother’s eyes were as red as when she was sick. The family finally had hope but it was gone so suddenly.
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Li Shuiqing’s father’s cloudy eyes showed sadness, and the two young ones were about to cry.
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Li Shuiqing’s family was almost frightened.
Because of Wei Cheng, the family has an income of more than twenty wen a day. They can endure their days, his mother and father can take medicine, the family no longer needs to be hungry, and there is a smile on their faces every day, but at the same time, they are very afraid of losing it so they cherish it very much. They put their focus on doing a good job.
Aunt Lu: “By the way, Cheng-zi also said that the number of bamboo shoots should be doubled. If your family can complete it, he won’t have to buy from others. As for the number of mushrooms, he will take whatever amount you could give.”
The mushrooms had to be collected by someone else as well since they feared that Li Shuiqing would not be able to collect enough catties.
“We can do it, my family can do it well!” Li Han trembled with excitement and stuttered.
Goodness, doubling it would mean they would have at least forty wen each day, plus the mushrooms, their daily income would be more than forty wen.
This huge surprise made Li Shuiqing speechless, Li Shuiqing’s mother’s sickly face turned colorful as the two children cheered and jumped up.
*
Aunt Yang took the people she called there early in the morning.
The other two helpers were notified to go to work since the two lived close together, they came together. They waited at the door of Wei Cheng’s house before dawn, planning to come earlier to make a good impression on the boss.
The two stood for a while before Wei Cheng came out to open the door. He didn’t know that someone was at the door so he was a little surprised when he opened the door. He usually opened the door so that Wei Lei and Aunt Yang could come in directly when they came over.
Aunt Yang also came out at this meeting and introduced the two directly to Wei Cheng.
Wei Cheng took a look at them and said, “Come in.”
When the two came in, they just stood aside timidly and cautiously. Wei Cheng looked at both of them. An aunt in her early forties with a slightly bent back came to his house to cook and eat earlier so the most crucial thing for him was hygiene.
Wei Cheng was quite satisfied with them and stated the rules.
“Come here at this hour every day. You don’t need to cook vegetables today but you will help prepare the food to be sold at the stall. Every day when vegetables are delivered, you will be responsible for cleaning them, cutting them, and placing them on the kitchen shelf. Cook them early the next morning. I’ll do the majority of the cooking after those steps.”
“Breakfast and lunch are included, pancakes and rice porridge for breakfast while Aunt Yang is in charge of lunch. Every day, I will tell Aunt Yang what to cook, and you can eat whatever she cooks. The most important thing is to be quick on your hands and feet, pay attention to hygiene, and if something happens that makes you unable to come, you must inform me in advance. The trial period is half a month, if you are suitable, you will stay, if you are not suitable, you will be notified in advance but the salary will still be paid.”
“Okay, you guys come here and work with me- you’ll have breakfast later.”
Aunt Yang and the others didn’t expect to have two meals, and their eyes were very excited.
They all thought to themselves that they had to work hard so they could be hired for this job.
After a while, Wei Lei came and got to work.
Zhou Yuan slept soundly in bed, unable to get up.
The family has invited people to help so the wife can get up late. He finally got to eat a few times last night so Wei Cheng was very energetic at work.
Zhou Yuan was asleep until it was time for breakfast when Wei Cheng woke him up.
Zhou Yuan’s waist was slightly sore, his face was rosy and moist, and he was angry and glaring at Wei Cheng.
Wei Cheng had no choice but to coax him.
Zhou Yuan wasn’t too angry. There was no time to be angry at this hour, the stall was about to open.
When Aunt Yang and the others saw Zhou Yuan coming out, they all shouted respectfully, “Master.”
Zhou Yuan was embarrassed, he was not used to having people greet him like that, and one of them was the neighbor Aunt Yang, who was considered an acquaintance, so he was very embarrassed about this.
Just as he was about to correct him, Wei Cheng took his hand and signaled him that this is what they should say.
First, the three of them were helpers hired by him. Secondly, this family will continue to hire more people in the future, and his husband needs to get used to this name from now on and learn how to manage people.
He will teach him little by little.
The three people hired by Wei Cheng still ate breakfast together.
The two new people and Aunt Yang ate on the stone bench in the yard. Although there was only a bowl of white rice porridge and a pancake, they had rarely eaten such a good meal, and they were reluctant to eat it.
The ger even wanted to secretly take it home and give it to his family to taste, but he didn’t do so because he was worried that it would cause dissatisfaction with his boss.
And after eating, he will have the strength to work, could better complete the work, and he could keep this job.
Only then, can his family can have enough to eat.
*
Next, in addition to being busy with business every day, Wei Cheng was also busy shipping goods to Steward Chen.
From the first three days, the number of catties supplied per day increased to 800 catties.
As for Wei Cheng’s stall, there is an endless stream of customers who come to eat every day, no matter the morning market or the lunch market, the number of customers is increasing every day.
After so long, Wei Cheng wondered why the popularity was getting better and better.
The main reason is that there is a market near the wharf, which is a place for ship merchants to bring their goods and trade. Many people from the outer county and the inner county will go to the wharf market to find good things. When they see people eating Wei Cheng’s food- they see that it looks delicious so they’ll inquire about the location of the food.
In this way, without publicity, the customers can automatically increase the flow resulting in an increase in the number of customers, not a decrease.
There are also peddlers who go through the streets and alleys every day, which has a certain publicity effect, and the amount they sell every day has also increased appropriately.
Excluding Steward Chen’s orders, there are seven to eight taels of profit every day, and the income of the stall is more than that of a small restaurant.
The business at the Wei Cheng stall is good, but there are no red-eyed people for the time being- it was partially thanks to the scattered diners of the stall so it was not noticeable when they took their food to restaurants.
Customers who buy and take them home will not attract the attention of rival merchants. Although they know that there is such a popular food stall and the number of customers in the restaurant is not small, they don’t care.
It wasn’t until the accounts were settled at the end of the month that they realized that the turnover had decreased, and they began to pay attention to the matter and went to inquire about the news one after another.
For now, Wei Cheng’s stall has not received any attention from anyone.
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