Born into a farm family, I became rich by pressuring my parents.

Chapter 13 Make Money
If I hadn't stayed up late to make candy today, I wouldn't have lit a cottonseed oil lamp at home.

After dinner, an hour later, the glutinous rice and malt were finally fermented.

Jiang Jinyu was standing by. She would tell her father how to make candy later, so she would definitely not be able to sleep now.

She looked at the house that became much brighter under the light of the fire, and thought happily that fortunately her house was surrounded by trees and she couldn't see anything from the village. Otherwise, if it was illuminated by the fire, there would be a crowd surrounding her house. It was full of people watching the fun.

Pulling sugar is not difficult, but it requires a lot of strength.

For Jiang Mingshun, who has been doing farm work in the fields since he was a child, the most important thing he lacks is strength.

It didn't take long for the candy to gradually take shape. Jiang Jinyu almost immediately stopped when he saw it: "That's it, just leave it to tomorrow morning."

Finally able to sleep, Jiang Jinyu, who had been busy since early in the morning, felt that her small body could no longer bear it. After washing, she climbed onto the kang and mumbled: "Mom, don't wake me up tomorrow morning. "He fell asleep directly before he finished speaking.

Jiang Jinyu, who was not woken up by anyone, did not wake up until daylight the next day.

Only her mother, Bai Shi, was sitting at the table and continuing to cut soap. She looked out and said, "Mom, where is daddy?"

Bai was busy with the work in hand without raising his head: "He's going to the city. You're tired these days, so don't follow him. Just let him sell it by himself."

Okay, Jiang Jinyu shrugged, changed his clothes and went outside to wash up.

Although she didn't go out with her, it was still a busy day today, and she still had to finish the remaining soap.

Jiang Jinyu made two more items, but she found them very boring. She really didn't like doing such boring repetitive work.

Seeing Mrs. Bai watching with gusto, Jiang Jinyu rolled her eyes: "Mom, do you want to try it? How about you make one?"

Bai waved his hands repeatedly: "No, no, how can I do it?"

Jiang Jinyu put the cup used for pouring liquid soap into Bai's hand: "It's very simple. Just pour it wherever I tell you. If I ask you to change the color, just change the color."

Bai held the cup in her hand and still didn't dare to touch it.

Jiang Jinyu encouraged: "It's okay. Mother, please be brave. If possible, you can melt it again. It won't be wasted anyway."

"Then let me give it a try?" When Bai heard that it would not be wasted, her expression became much more relaxed.

Jiang Jinyu gave her an encouraging look.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for Bai to master the technique of controlling the amount of soap. She tried it twice as Jiang Jinyu said, and gradually she got the hang of it.

Smiling proudly, Jiang Jinyu thought, she'd better buy pen and paper so that she could finish the drawing and then hand it over to her mother to do, so she wouldn't be limited to just one or two patterns.

Seeing that it was almost time for the village boat to return, Jiang Jinyu felt that time was passing slower and slower. Why hasn't his father come back yet?Could it be that he didn't sell it and planned to stay in the city for one more afternoon and come back in the evening?

Just when Jiang Jinyu was looking around, Jiang Mingshun rushed back.

Seeing the unconcealed joy on her father's face, Jiang Jinyu finally felt relieved.

As soon as Jiang Mingshun entered the door, he put his backpack on the table and took out several strings of copper coins.

He divided more than half of it: "480 Wen was obtained by selling three kilograms of maltose at the drug store, and five hundred Wen was obtained by selling four kilograms of maltose at the pastry shop." He then pointed to the remaining four bunches of money. : "This is four hundred coins from selling soap."

Jiang Jinyu knew the prices of maltose and soap, but this was the first time she sold maltose. She calculated in her mind that based on the current sugar price of 9 cents or two, 125 cents per pound of maltose was really cheap.

Now there are 16 taels per pound, not to mention that the malt sugar is sold as a snack, but it is much sweeter than other snacks that only add a small amount of sugar.

There is no need to go back to this life. Because sugar is expensive, people generally don’t have the opportunity to eat sweets. When buying snacks, they naturally think that the sweeter the better.

As for the extra process and selling it cheaper, Jiang Jinyu had already thought about it.

I don’t say who has the higher unit price, I just say that after selling these three kilograms of maltose, the drug store will not accept it for ten days and a half.

But the caramel is different. These four kilograms will only make a small splash in the pastry shop.

Sure enough, after a while Jiang Ming stopped by and said, "Let's make more malt. The shopkeeper of the pastry shop asked us to make five kilograms of it every day and send it over."

Bai was shocked: "He can sell so much? Is he trying to trick you?"

Jiang Mingshun waved his hand nonchalantly: "I took a special look today. There are a lot of customers in their shop. The people in the county are different from us farmers. Anyone who has some spare money is willing to prepare some candies and snacks at home. Used to greet the neighbors.”

Bai nodded in realization. They treat guests in the village. Except when there are particularly valuable guests, they will go to the city to buy snacks. Neighbors walk around like home. Most of them use fruits grown at home to entertain guests. Naturally, they don't know what the city knows. There are also these doorways.

"Also, when I went to the powder shop today to deliver soap, the shopkeeper said that their boss asked us to deliver it every five days for ten yuan at a time." Jiang Mingshun added.

Jiang Jinyu did the math and found that five kilograms of candy can earn 620 [-] cents, and ten bars of soap can earn [-] cents. In this way, even after deducting the cost, her family can earn [-] cents a day.

Next to them, Jiang Mingshun and Bai were also calculating. At this time, Bai was looking at Jiang Mingshun with a suspicious look on his face: "Master, are you correct in your calculation?"

Jiang Mingshun also hesitated: "I'll do the calculation again."

The final result was of course correct. The two of them were so shocked by the figure of six hundred wen that they could not recover for a long time.

Bai's voice trembled: "Then, then, there are six taels of silver in ten days, and 18 taels of silver in one month?"

Jiang Mingshun nodded as if sleepwalking.

Jiang Jinyu looked at his parents who seemed to be trapped in the environment and did not bother him. After his income suddenly rose several levels, it was understandable that he could not react for a while.

Although six hundred coins may not seem like a lot, but consider that a strong laborer like her father could earn fifteen to twenty coins by working as a coolie at the dock for a day.

For farmers, the income generated from their fields is the most important source of money.

However, according to the family of her great-grandfather Jiang Yongsheng, one acre of paddy fields can earn more than one tael of silver a year, and dry fields are even less.

And her family now has one or two taels of silver in their account in two days. It is not surprising that Jiang Mingshun and Bai Shi behaved like this.

"Paddy fields cost twelve ounces per mu, and dry fields cost nine ounces per acre." Jiang Mingshun suddenly murmured.

His dark face turned red from working under the scorching sun for many years, his eyes widened, and the corners of his mouth raised an exaggerated arc: "Can't our family be able to build an acre of paddy field in less than a month?"

(End of this chapter)