372 Impressive
Liu Guixia was squatting in front of a pickle jar. She removed the lid and took out a handful of yellow-colored cowpea. The cowpea looked very sour at first glance. Even the pregnant Yu Hongyan couldn’t help but swallow her saliva as she watched.
The vegetables had been pickled too well.
This cowpea was the first batch of cowpea this year. Back then, his family had eaten some of it, and the rest had been pickled. Now that they were done, they could naturally be taken out to be cooked at night and eaten as salted vegetables with rice.
Hearing the sound of the ox cart outside, Liu Guixia knew that they would probably get the saltpeter today. She quickly put the cowpea aside, closed the lid, and washed her hands. Then, she went out to take a look with Li Hehua and Yu Hongyan.
“How was it, did you get it?” Liu Guixia and the others asked anxiously.
Xue Yifu felt that they might need his help, so he stopped what he was doing and came out of the courtyard.
Xue Sifu didn’t even get off the ox cart as he laughed, “We got it, we got it.”
This was great. Liu Guixia and the others were all excited. They were eager to know if they could make ice. Of course, they naturally hoped that they could.
Seeing Xue Sifu get off the ox cart, Xue Yan also got off.
Jiang Yue got up and wanted to jump down like before, but Li Hehua had already walked over and carried her down.
“These two sacks are filled with saltpeter, right? Come, come, Yifu, quickly carry them in.” Liu Guixia immediately called out.
“Okay.” Xue Yifu was the best at physical work, and he did not even need to carry a bag over his shoulder.
One bag was about 60 kilograms. Two bags would be 120 kilograms.
Xue Sifu didn’t even struggle. With two simple trips, Xue Yifu managed to bring the two bags into the house.
Liu Guixia and Li Hehua quickly took the other things from the ox cart into the yard.
Xue Sifu himself quickly removed the wooden cart from the cow and sent the cow to the cowshed. He poured a lot of water into the trough for the cow to drink and fed it grass before returning.
Before they entered, Xue Sifu said, “Mother, now that our family’s workshop has been built, we can make more rice noodles every day. Although we didn’t sell many bowls of cold rice noodles today, we sold four-point-two kilograms of packed dry rice noodles. I sold it for twenty-five coins per kilogram. Other people’s rice noodles are twenty coins per kilogram, so twenty-five coins made sense. Anyway, our family will be doing this in the future. People told me that the stall is hot and they don’t want to eat at my stall, but they still want to eat rice noodles. Some felt that cooking the rice noodles was faster than cooking other meals for various reasons. I’ve already bought a scale to measure the noodles next time to sell it to the customers.”
“Okay, okay, okay. The workshop that Xue Yan wants to build is working well. It’s so energy-saving and fast. Look, this is how much we have made in one morning.”
Liu Guixia asked Xue Sifu to look at the rice noodles on the bamboo poles. The three layers of bamboo poles had dried noodles on them. There wasn’t any space left in the yard. If one stood inside, one couldn’t see anyone.
In the past, it would take at least two to three days to do so much.
“I’m impressed by Xue Yan’s idea.” Xue Sifu laughed. “It’s all thanks to Xue Yan’s workshop. In the future, our rice noodle business will have a much lower capital, and it will be easier than before. We can also make more than three times the rice noodles at the same time. No matter how you look at it, we can make a lot of net profit.”
“That’s good, that’s good.” Liu Guixia was happy that she could make more and more money, but she didn’t forget about the important thing. “Let’s see if this saltpeter can be made into ice.”
