The first legitimate son of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 140: Children of poor people become rich early (please subscribe)

"Where is Yiyi Duoduo?"

Li An turned back and glanced at Liu Yiyi. At this time, Liu Yiyi replied with a smile: "I was selling ice cream with Huzi and Ergou early in the morning. It seemed that I wanted to save money and prepare to go to Chang'an City on the day of the Qiqiao Festival. , and also said that he would buy a lot of gifts to give to everyone in the village."

"Oh!" Li An laughed: "So that's it. Is there anyone following you?"

"Yes. Liu Yi will follow with his team, nothing will happen." Liu Yiyi replied.

"Then Team Liu Yi will be paid overtime when they come back!"

"No!" Liu Yiyi smiled and bowed.

The Qiqiao Festival is the Qixi Festival. Chang'an City will be very lively on this day. Basically, young men and women will gather at the Qujiang River on this day, providing everyone with an opportunity to fall in love freely.

However, because the girls must be dressed up to attend, it gradually evolved into "Girls' Day".After the Song Dynasty, Neo-Confucianism became popular, etiquette became increasingly strict, and the custom of begging for cleverness gradually declined.

Li Duoduo is only five years old. In fact, she doesn't have a very big concept of money, but children like Liu Huzi and Ergou have great ideas about money. Selling ice cream is a way to make money that Li An came up with.

Although the method of making ice cubes has been made public now, if you want to make money with ice cubes, the profit you can earn is basically not a lot, but it is not without profit. If you sell ice cream, there is still a certain profit, but the profit is very small. , Unlike before, you can earn several pence from a piece of ice cream. Now you can only earn half a penny from a piece of ice cream.

This half penny of ice cream money must be very small for adults, but for children, it is a huge sum of money.

There is a saying that poor children become rich early. In the 80s, Li An was in the second grade of elementary school, about ten years old. During the summer vacation, he carried a popsicle box from village to village and sold popsicles.

How to sell popsicles at that time?The wholesale price of a sugar popsicle is seven cents, and the retail price is ten cents. A popsicle can only earn three cents.There is also a kind of popsicle with mung beans or red beans added, which is slightly more expensive. It costs [-] cents to wholesale. If you sell it for [-] cents, you can earn [-] cents.

Some people would say that you have to sell more than thirty popsicles to make one dollar. Who would do such a low-profit business?
Yes, this is what everyone thinks today. Maybe people are too lazy to pick up the few cents on the ground now. I remember that when Li An was in the first grade of elementary school, his tuition fee for one semester was only 40 to [-] yuan, or one yuan. For a child, it is a huge amount of money and can buy a lot of snacks.

At that time, there were still many people vying to start a business with a few cents profit. When summer came, there were people riding bicycles with popsicle boxes tied to the back seats. There were also people carrying popsicle boxes while walking around the streets shouting and selling. Popsicle.

It was an era that believed that "labor is the most glorious". Of course, the young Li An also joined the team of selling popsicles.

At that time, refrigerators were not yet popular, and many kiosks did not have freezers to store popsicles.

So, there was this business of selling popsicles on the go carrying popsicle boxes.The popsicle box is a wooden square box with green paint on the outside and the word "popsicle" written on it. There are straps on the left and right sides of the box. The inner wall of the box is pasted with a layer of foam, which is used for thermal insulation. In order to prevent The popsicles melt when heated, so some people put a layer of quilt in the popsicle box. After the popsicles are put in, they are covered with a layer of quilt.

The popsicle boxes are usually distributed to everyone by the popsicle factory. Li Duoduo's popsicle boxes are made by their respective fathers. There are no quilts in them, but grass quilts. This kind of grass has a good thermal insulation effect and is small and wooden. The box is covered with such a straw quilt, which can still keep the ice cream from melting.

In the past, Ang Lee was doing business for adults, and if you want to sell more, you have to choose the occasion.Li An usually goes to work places to sell popsicles, such as in the fields, where the people have worked hard for a long time under the scorching sun, sweating profusely, and their lips are parched.

At this time, when you pass by with a suitcase on your back, you will often meet a few uncles and aunts who want to buy popsicles in twos and threes.

Secondly, the place where Ang Lee often goes is a local ceramics factory. The workers just came out of the stuffy factory building. When they saw the popsicle box, it was like "rain comes after a long drought". Everyone was pure and simple, and they rushed to pay for popsicles. Distribute to fellow workers.

When he is lucky, Li An can go around the factory and sell ten or twenty popsicles. Although it is only a few yuan, it is already a big deal for Li An.

Sometimes, I see a few people playing cards and chess together under the big tree, enjoying the cool air and chatting. This is also a good opportunity to sell popsicles.As long as one of them buys it, he will buy several popsicles at once. After all, when friends are together, there is no reason to eat popsicles by yourself and let others stare.

But here you must also know that if you sell to these people, you will also have to experience the scorching heat they have experienced. They work under the scorching sun, so you also have to brave the scorching sun and walk with a heavy wooden box on your back.

You have to endure hardships to become a great person. Li An has experienced this, so he also hopes that the children in his village will also experience it. It happened that during this period, the school was still under construction, and these little guys had nothing to do, so Li An came out. Got such a money-making idea.

Children can go to the ice making shop in the village to get ice cream. Each person can take up to 50 yuan, which is one cent a penny. If you sell it for 50 yuan, you will get fifty cents. When the time comes, you only need to pay 25 cents, and the rest is You can keep the 25 notes yourself.

Basically every day, children come to bring ice cream to sell. In the fields around Lijia Village, the entire village is occupied by children.

You must know that the fields in the Tang Dynasty were difficult to walk. In order to have more fields, the track and field roads were repaired to be only as wide as a palm. If you are not careful, you can fall into the fields. If you step on wheat, you will be reprimanded, but The children enjoyed it very much. They always stood on tiptoes and tried to pass the cold popsicles to the uncles and aunts, and then took one or several copper coins from their muddy hands.

Often a box of popsicles with just a few popsicles will be sold out after the track and field run.

If the time is early, you can buy another box of popsicles, and continue to sell them in time for the big sun in the afternoon. In this way, the income will be more calculated, and you can earn more than ten yuan.

It is difficult along the way. The saddest thing is that it will be sunny tomorrow, but suddenly it rains or the weather turns cloudy. At this time, it is the most difficult to sell the popsicles. If you cannot sell the popsicles, you will only get more and more money if you carry them on your shoulders. It's heavy. If my right shoulder hurts, I'll switch to my left shoulder. The cloth straps will tighten my shoulders. If my feet get swollen and I'm tired, I'll find a shaded place to rest and check whether the popsicles have melted.

There is often no way for the heartache to melt the popsicle. I usually hate to eat it, but I have to eat it at this time.

If it melts a lot, you will eat a few sticks in a row until your stomach is cold. The deliciousness of your childhood can be released freely at this moment. As for having diarrhea after returning home, just ignore it.

At this time, the sun was shining brightly. Li Duoduo and his group of five people were walking in the fields about three miles outside Lijia Village. There were melodious wheat fields on both sides. The breeze blew through, and the wheat smell was sweet. Behind them, Li Duoduo and the other five people were walking. There are two teams, one is the team led by Liu Yi, and the other is the bad guys team.

　I'm very sad today, because today is the 3rd. You can see this month's manuscript fee. My manuscript fee is 50 yuan. My mother scolded me directly. It was very hard to hear. I wanted to cry without tears. I must write a million words. After finishing the book, I have no regrets. Whether it’s working or leaving home, it’s so uncomfortable!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)