coobybook Chapter 527 Preparing to Sell Eggs
Chapter 527 Preparing to Sell Eggs
"Well, you go ahead!"
After Xu Han finished speaking, Lu Chuan left. The people who stayed at home began to pick and wash the wild fruits that the Taoist priest had picked today.
The Taoist priest had not yet processed the wild fruits he brought back when Han Qi came back with his men.
When Han Qi heard that they were all going to move the jars, he just stood up and was about to go over to help when Lu Chuan came back driving the ox cart.
Lu Chuan said, "The Taoist priest and Liu Erzhu are all over there. Han Qi, you can drive the ox cart to look for them later. I won't go there. I will stay and help them move the jars."
"Yes, master." Han Qi didn't say much after hearing that. He took the ox cart swiftly and drove out.
Before dark, the Taoist priest brought them back on time. As soon as they entered the house, Qi Yu handed them warm water. Everyone sat in the yard to drink water and rest.
"Mrs. Li, it's getting late. Everyone is exhausted after a long day. You should go back home and rest early today!
Dan Niang, you should go back too. You don’t have to cook dinner tonight. I stewed chicken soup in the afternoon and I’ll make some chicken soup noodles later.
You don’t have to come and clean up after dinner, you can do it tomorrow morning.”
When Mrs. Li heard this, she wanted to say something, but Mrs. Ma pulled her arm and she didn't say anything.
The servants walked towards the valley one after another. After they left, Xu Han locked the gate of the courtyard.
For dinner, Xu Han didn’t want to cook, so she just took some food from the space, and everyone had a delicious meal.
At the dinner table, the Taoist priest asked, "What are your plans for tomorrow? How about I take them to pick fruits? There are a lot of wild fruits in the mountains. I think we can still pick them for a while."
Xu Han nodded. "Okay, let's do it the same as today. Lu Chuan, do you want to go? Do you want to stay at home and help or go to the mountains?"
Hearing this, Lu Chuan quickly raised his hand and said, "I'm going to the mountains. If you can't handle it at home, you can leave a few more people at home."
Xu Han said, "It's not that we are too busy, it's just that it's too tiring to carry the wild fruits back and forth. We are not strong enough to carry them.
How about letting Zhu Chunfeng and Li Dasao stay home to help tomorrow? They are both strong and can help carry things. "
"Okay, you decide."
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This went on for half a month, and every day Xu Han brought people home to wash wild fruits, make fruit wine, and can food.
The Taoist priest and his men took people to the mountains to pick wild fruits. After picking all the fruits nearby, they went to places farther away.
Gradually, the amount of wild fruits picked became less and less, and the time spent became longer and longer. It was no longer cost-effective to continue picking them.
After Xu Han urgently called a halt, it was September 5th in the blink of an eye.
After a day of hard work, we finally finished dealing with all the accumulated wild fruits today, and the matter of fruit wine and canned goods will also come to an end after today.
During this period, Xu Han led the women and girls in the family to make a lot of fruit wine and canned food.
Now the cellars and warehouses in the house are all filled to the brim.
Now we are just waiting for winter, when we can exchange these canned fruits and fruit wine for some money, so that we can have a good year.
During dinner that night, Xu Han suggested, "We have picked all the wild fruits in the mountains, and it is time to start autumn planting.
The autumn planting will be handed over to Zhu Qiang and his team. It is agreed that the autumn planting can start tomorrow. Lu Chuan has already told Zhu Qiang about this. When the time comes, Taoist Priest, please take care of it and help keep an eye on it. "
After a pause, he explained, "Because tomorrow I plan to go to the county town with Lu Chuan to sell the eggs in the space."
Xu Han took a sip of water and continued, "There are really too many eggs piled up in the space. In addition to the salted duck eggs that were pickled before, there are also many fresh eggs. If we don't get rid of them, there will be no place to put the newly laid eggs."
The Taoist priest agreed and said, "Well, you can go without worry. I will help you keep an eye on the family."
Grandpa Zhao asked, "How do you plan to sell it? How much do you plan to sell? Do you want to sell it all?"
Lu Chuan said, "Xiao Han and I discussed this last night. There is a ready-made shop in the county town. We will sell the eggs directly in the shop. We won't open the shop for business or anything. We will just clean up the eggs in the space and sell as many as we can. As long as we can clear some space, it will be fine."
Xu Han continued, "Yes, I originally planned to save these eggs for use when I opened the shop, but I didn't expect there would be so many.
Excluding the eggs that were eaten during this period of time, there are probably about 50,000 eggs accumulated in the space.
Since the end of last year, we have been laying more than 100 eggs a day, and then we have raised many more hens.
I heard from Zhou that they can now collect more than 300 eggs a day.
In the fall, a large number of chickens were hatched, and by this time next year, there will still be 1000 eggs a day."
When everyone heard this number for the first time, they were quite surprised. They didn't expect that they had so many chickens at home without realizing it.
Grandpa Zhao said, "We need to clean it up. These eggs have been piled up for a long time, and it's hard to justify it. After all, no one can have so many eggs at once, and eggs will go bad if they are left for a long time. If we suddenly take out so many eggs, it will definitely be unacceptable.
All these eggs will have to be consumed slowly by the two of you."
The Taoist priest reminded him, "These eggs are not a small number, and if you take them to the county town to buy them alone, it will be difficult to sell them. The main reason is that there are too many and they are too conspicuous. When you open a store in the county town in the future, it is inevitable that someone will recognize you, and it will be difficult to cover up your lies when they ask you about it."
Xu Han nodded. She had thought about this question before, but had never discussed it in depth with Lu Chuan.
Today, since the Taoist priest brought it up, we all discussed it together and worked it out to avoid being caught with this topic in the future.
"We have the same doubts, but if we sell them somewhere else, they won't be sold in a short time."
Grandpa Zhao said, "How about this, you go to the county town first and ask the restaurants and the like to see if they will accept it. Then you go to the prefecture town and ask. If you can sell it directly in the restaurant, it will save a lot of trouble.
However, restaurants usually have fixed delivery companies, so it might not be easy to sell.
But it doesn’t matter if we can’t sell all of them. When the shop in the county town opens in the future, we will find ways to slowly use them up. The most important thing now is to clear out the eggs in the space to avoid too much backlog, which will make it more difficult to clear them out later.
It just so happens that you haven't been out for a long time, so let Xiaochuan take you around the city to relax."
Xu Han thought for a moment and said, "Okay, let's do as you say. Let's go to the big restaurant and ask. If we can sell it, that would be great. If we can't sell much, we can sell it in the shop for a few more days and we can sell a lot.