allonlinenovel Chapter 307 People are afraid of being famous and pigs are afraid of being strong.
Chapter 307 People are afraid of being famous and pigs are afraid of being strong.
There is strength in numbers. With so many people from Tangjia Village helping, the base is rising visibly. Every time a layer of soil is covered, there will be people tamping the foundation to make it solid.
"Everyone, try your best!"
"Ahhhhhhhh!"
Amid the men's shouts, the base was finally completed. God was particularly supportive this time and it didn't rain in the past few days. Although rain would relieve the heat, it would delay the work.
All the weeds in the wasteland have been cut, and the deep plowing of the land has been completed by half.
The construction of the stone bridge will be completed in two days. Everything is going in a good direction.
Today we have finally come to the stage of digging the foundation. Shen Zhiqiu means the foundation of the wall, together with the foundation of the house. The planning of the wall is to leave a distance of one and a half steps around the entire base and start building the wall.
When the house is built, we will plant saplings on the slope to better stabilize the foundation. Otherwise, if the flood season really comes, everything may come to nothing.
However, when laying the foundation, the corner position is the most important. When building a house or a wall in the countryside, you must first start laying bricks or tamping the earth from the corner.
Because if you don't start from the corner, even if the construction is completed, the two walls may appear independent of each other and cannot be connected at all.
This is also the reason why farmers usually hire experienced craftsmen to carve the corners when building a house.
You must have excellent skills and be a leader even among bricklayers.
However, there is another key point in building a house, that is, the newly cut wood by Shen Zhiqiu and his team has not been air-dried.
It also contains high levels of moisture and volatile substances. Direct use will cause the wood to deform and crack easily and release a strong odor.
Therefore, it was the villagers of Tangjia Village who helped them achieve their goal. Every household in the rural area would always keep some better wood at home, preparing to build new houses or for other uses.
It was this wood that the villagers exchanged with them, exchanging their already dried wood for the newly cut wood by Shen Zhiqiu and his team.
This touched all the people of the Jiu clans. Without them knowing, some old men in Tangjia Village had already thought of it. The best timber for beams selected by every household was transported to the west side of the river.
Shen Youyou has not relaxed these days. She has been working hard to develop offline business. For example, the old Yu who sells bamboo shoots became her first offline business.
This has to start with the geographical location of Fang County. There are several county towns around Fang County, namely Liang County, Zhuo County, and An County. They are all far away and can be reached even in two or three hours' walk.
Her offline business is to buy steamed cakes and jelly, and then go to other counties or villages to sell them.
In recent days, baogao and jelly have become famous this summer. Many people hear the street vendors shouting jelly and baogao, and when they go out of the house, they will buy some for their family members to change the taste.
But as the saying goes, people are afraid of being famous just like pigs are afraid of being fat.
What followed was that some people began to covet the recipes of jelly and steamed cake.
Shen Youyou and her brothers and sisters set up stalls as usual. Because of their offline relationships, they go out earlier and earlier recently.
They agreed to meet at the south gate of Fang County, and after handing over the jelly and steamed cake to their offline colleagues, including Lao Yutou, they continued to go into the city to set up a stall.
Now Old Yu no longer digs bamboo shoots, so Shen Youyou and the others also brought the bamboo shoots from home.
I cleaned them at home and cut off the pointed ends of the bamboo shoots to make them more neat when used to wrap food.
They had just set up their stall when Zhou Qian, a mountain product merchant nearby, came over to take care of business. Recently, he had become addicted to the jelly from Shen Youyou's house, and he felt unwell if he didn't eat it for a day.
"Uncle Zhou, I'll make you a bowl of jam water today. I heard your throat is a little hoarse."
Zhou Qian said cheerfully: "You are a good judge of opinion. I did a big business yesterday and bought more than a dozen wolf skins and one bear skin. You said a lot."
When Shen Youyou heard this, she became interested. She had seen many wolf skins, but had never seen a bear skin.
Zhou Qian was eating the cool and delicious jelly. When he saw Shen Youyou's eyes suddenly light up, he chuckled and said, "I'll open your eyes later. Let's do business first."
Shen Youyou nodded: "Uncle Zhou, a bear is a ferocious beast that most people can't kill, right? Who sold this to you?"
"They are a hunter family living in Fangshan. They are well-known for their skills in this area. However, they also suffered a lot of injuries when hunting blind bears. A blind bear can smash a person's head with a slap, and can scrape off a person's face with a lick."
This is because there are many keratinized spines on the surface of the black bear's tongue, which can help the black bear lick the meat attached to the bones more thoroughly when eating.
Shen Youyou asked with a smile: "How much is that bear skin?"
Zhou Qian ate without even looking up: "I bought it for fifty taels. If I'm lucky, I can make half of it or even more by reselling it. But if I'm unlucky, I might lose money, because the rich people dislike the heavy bear skin and prefer to wear mink skin."
Shen Youyou said: "Sable fur?"
Zhou Qian raised his head when he heard this, and looked at Shen Youyou who had stopped eating jelly. "Sable fur is only worn by the nobles among the nobles. Ordinary people can't afford it."
As the two were chatting, the jelly stall started to attract customers.
"Little brother, I have guests at home today, give me ten pieces of jelly and twenty pieces of pancake."
That means they are taking it away directly. Dabao and Erbao quickly wrapped it up with bamboo shoot skins and said, "Thank you for your patronage. The jelly is 20 cents, and the pao gao is four more pieces."
They are now very familiar with receiving the money handed over and then entertaining the next customer.
Erzhuang and Erhu went to deliver goods to two restaurants in the county town. This was also what Shen Youyou had discussed. They would order four or five buckets of jelly and several bamboo trays of steamed cakes every day.
Of course, there are also people who want exclusivity. After all, two restaurants in one county are definitely in competition.
But Shen Youyou had one idea: "Exclusive is not exclusive. If you are not willing to order, only the other side will have it and you won't. Think about whether you are giving others a bargain.
It would be better for both of them to place orders, so that both companies are at least at the same starting line. Otherwise, you will just be giving away the opportunity to others."
As Shen Zhiqiu's daughter, she was quite good at deceiving people. Besides, she felt that what she said was true.
As the sun grew hotter, the stalls on both sides of the market gradually became busier. Erhu and Erzhuang finished delivering the goods and came back to continue helping.
This is usually their busiest time, with basically no time to rest. Customers at the stalls leave and sit down one after another.
Each of Shen Youyou and the others has a small bamboo tube hanging on their waist, just like a waist bag, which makes it convenient to collect and change money. When they move, a crisp sound of copper coins colliding can be heard.
It shows how good the business is. Everyone gives 200% to every customer.
"Sir, please enjoy your sweet jelly slowly."
"Auntie, here you are again, same as always, three pieces of jelly?"
"Oh, so it was Chen Xiucai who introduced you here. Our jam can relieve coughs, huh? Your children don't like to take bitter medicine?
Then you should buy my jam, which is sour and sweet, and it will save your child from crying and refusing to take medicine.
I'll get it for you. You have to drink it quickly. Even if children can't drink it, adults can drink it. It's easy to get angry when it's hot. But there's one thing: it can't be kept for a long time. It will spoil easily."
"Oh my! Sister-in-law, you are really good at talking. I'll give you another piece of pao gao. You can go back and eat it first!"