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"The hard ones are either undercooked, or they are not bamboo shoots but bamboo. Aunt Tan, go pack up the remaining winter bamboo shoots in the kitchen and bring them home to shopkeeper Qin to taste later."

After listening to Bai Taotao's words, shopkeeper Qin said anxiously: "No, no, no, Mrs. Chen misunderstood someone Qin's words. What I mean is, Mrs. Chen has some extra winter bamboo shoots, and we at Yuelai Restaurant want to buy them."

"This..." Bai Taotao looked embarrassed, "But this bamboo forest belongs to all the villagers..."

"Thirty cents per catty." Seeing Bai Taotao's embarrassed look, shopkeeper Qin hurriedly made a bid, thinking of impressing Chen Lizheng with the price, "Thirty cents per catty, and Li Zheng happens to be here, can it be done?"

Chen Lizheng looked at Bai Taotao and then at Shopkeeper Qin, and said, "I don't know much about this matter. Shopkeeper Qin should talk to Youyi's wife. If the negotiation can be successful, I will tell the villagers."

Although Chen Lizheng looked calm and composed on the surface, in fact he was already very excited inside.

Shopkeeper Qin looked at Bai Taotao again.

Bai Taotao said calmly: "There are winter bamboo shoots in the bamboo forest, but it requires manpower to dig them out. It will take a while..."

"Fifty cents per catty, I want five thousand catties first. Can you please give me a nice word?" Shopkeeper Qin was almost like an ant on a hot pot. Seeing Bai Taotao's unfazed look, he wished he could go to the bamboo forest by himself. Dig away.

Hearing this, Bai Taotao smiled flawlessly and said: "Shopkeeper Qin, please let me finish what I said. What I mean is that digging bamboo shoots takes some time. The bamboo shoots grow in the soil. We need to look for them first, and then we can dig them after we find them." , you want us to definitely not be able to do it now, at least we have to wait until the evening to take a look. Besides, I can't guarantee how much we can find."

Seeing that Bai Taotao agreed, shopkeeper Qin said, "Otherwise, I will take this horse back to Linjiang City first, and then immediately arrange a fleet to come over to pick up the winter bamboo shoots. The delivery will be tomorrow afternoon. How much will you dig up by then?" How much do I want, let’s not say five thousand catties or five thousand catties.”

Bai Taotao thought for a moment and said, "Okay, then I'll ask Uncle Li Zheng to arrange for someone to dig in the bamboo forest."

Before Bai Taotao could say anything, Chen Lizheng took the lead and said, "I'm going to make arrangements now." After saying that, Chen Lizheng happily made arrangements quickly.

Chen Defu followed closely behind, but he went back to the workshop to work.

After the two of them left, shopkeeper Qin and Bai Taotao signed a contract to purchase bamboo shoots, paid a deposit of one hundred taels, and left.

Of course, shopkeeper Qin did not forget to pay a high price for the bamboo shoots on the table.

In fact, stir-fried winter bamboo shoots with bacon and winter bamboo shoots and pork ribs soup are not bad. As long as you are willing to study and toss a few times, you can make something similar.

The most important thing was the braised winter bamboo shoots in oil, so shopkeeper Qin simply bought a hundred or two recipes for all three dishes.

Bai Taotao thought it was buy one, get two free, and she wouldn't suffer any loss for one hundred taels.

As for if I open a restaurant in the future, I'll tell you later.

Under Chen Lizheng's arrangement, a group of bamboo shoot diggers were quickly selected. Each bamboo shoot digger received a salary of forty cents. After all, there was half a day today and almost a full day tomorrow.

At that time, wages will be paid from the money earned from selling bamboo shoots, and the rest will be divided according to the account.

Bai Taotao explained to everyone how to find winter bamboo shoots and how to dig them up. When digging out winter bamboo shoots, the original large bamboos will not be damaged. At the same time, the dug out winter bamboo shoots will not be damaged. In this way, the dug out winter bamboo shoots can be preserved better. Long.

After all, Yuelai Restaurant still exists in Shangjing, and it will take several days to transport it to Shangjing. You can't just sell the damaged ones to others.

In addition, after digging out the bamboo shoots, fill them back with soil so that the bamboo shoots will continue to grow in the future.

After listening to Bai Taotao's explanation, the villagers were extremely careful when digging bamboo shoots. They would rather go a little slower than break the bamboo shoots. After all, it costs 50 yuan per catty, and a slightly larger bamboo shoot weighs one or two pounds. If the bamboo shoots are broken, It's only one hundred Wen, so why don't you be careful? The team digging bamboo shoots was in full swing. When it was almost evening on the second day, the motorcade arranged by shopkeeper Qin also arrived as scheduled.

The villagers achieved a lot in one and a half days. They selected unqualified and defective products and sold a total of 7,928 kilograms of winter bamboo shoots.

It was directly discounted to 7,900 kilograms, which was equivalent to 395 taels of silver.

After the money and goods are cleared, the remaining task of dividing the money is Li Zheng's task.

After selling out the winter bamboo shoots, Baitaotao doesn't plan to bother with it anymore this year. He will just wait until the 28th of the year when the workshop resumes work and the holidays will begin.

In the past few days, she concentrated on staying at home with her children and eating with Aunt Jin.

"There is Yi's wife, there is Yi's wife." Chen Weishi shouted out of breath as she ran in front of the house.

Bai Taotao, who was frying meatballs with Aunt Jin in the kitchen, thought something had happened and ran out before putting down the spatula, "What's wrong?"

"Go, go and collect the money under the old locust tree." Chen Wei said.

Bai Taotao didn't remember what the money was for a moment, and asked doubtfully: "What kind of money do you get?"

"The money from selling winter bamboo shoots. My father-in-law quickly calculated it after he exchanged the money in the past two days. Why don't we give it to everyone before the New Year. So that everyone can have a good New Year."

When Bai Taotao heard this, it turned out to be this, "That's it. I won't be able to get over it if there is work at home. I'll ask Aunt Luo to bring it back for me later."

"No, you have to go. My father-in-law has told the villagers that you must go this time."

What else could Bai Taotao not understand after hearing this, "Okay, then wait for me for a while."

After saying that, Bai Taotao returned to the kitchen, put down the spatula, took off her apron, and went to collect the money with Chen Wei.

As soon as he arrived, the villagers who were waiting there immediately greeted him with applause.

"Daughter-in-law Youyi, come up here." Li Zheng's wife Chen Zou waved to Bai Taotao and motioned for her to come over.

Bai Taotao didn't show any pretense, and followed the path vacated by the villagers to the altar under the old locust tree.

When Bai Taotao stood still, Chen Lizheng raised his hand to signal everyone to quiet down.

After the villagers calmed down, Chen Lizheng spoke slowly: "I called everyone here today to collect money. What kind of money are you receiving? One is the money from selling winter bamboo shoots a few days ago. The other is from a family member who is in the military camp. They My salary has come down, and I happened to go to the county to help you bring it back this morning."

As soon as he finished speaking, the villagers around the altar cheered happily.

Chen Lizheng then raised his hand to signal everyone to be quiet.

"In addition to receiving the money, there is one more thing that has been unanimously agreed by the villagers. This time I am selling winter bamboo shoots thanks to my wife Youyi. It was her suggestion to the villagers and the price she negotiated with shopkeeper Qin. If Otherwise, we wouldn’t know what winter bamboo shoots are, how to sell them, how to dig them up, or how to eat them. Even if we knew that without Yi’s wife, we wouldn’t be able to negotiate such a high price, or even sell them at such a high price. smoothly."

"So, after unanimous discussion with the villagers, we decided to give fifty taels as a thank you." With that, Chen Lizheng motioned to his wife to bring the tray over.