Not long after Li Mo got home, Yang Lanhua and Lu Xiaofeng came to the door.
Last time the two of them took a box of balm back home and sold both of them. They sold it for 5 cents, and each earned a penny. Although a penny is not much, it is a net profit. If you don't do it, just move your mouth and you will get it. Is there anything simpler than this
Now that both of them saw the feasibility of this business, they immediately decided to come to Li Mo to get a few more boxes and go to her natal family to promote it. The 5 cents is a big box, and there must be many people in her natal family who are willing to buy it. People in my natal village would also want to buy it.
Li Mo took out the two newly made balms, and the two of them saw that it still had the scent of chrysanthemums.
Taking advantage of nothing to do in the afternoon, Li Mo found the vegetable seeds she bought in the town last time.
The family has never had any vegetables to eat, and occasionally the Zhao family picked them from the vegetable garden and gave them to their family. Li Mo had long wanted to set up a vegetable garden for herself to grow and order vegetables, but since she bought them back, things have been going on, and there has been no food. Make time to plant.
Song Dashan took an ax and went to the bamboo forest to cut a lot of bamboo and came back. Then he inserted the bamboos one by one on the ground and formed a big circle behind the house. Then he wrapped the bamboos with hemp rope to form a I planted a garden, and surrounded it with the thorns I brought back on the outermost side, so that ordinary people or animals could not get in, so the vegetable garden would be fine.
Next, Song Dashan divided the land in the vegetable garden into several pieces, leaving paths for one person to walk between the pieces. It is fertile and can grow quickly after being planted with vegetable seeds.
Li Mo and Song Dashan spent a few days tidying up the vegetable field, and then planted all the vegetable seeds they bought, and then waited for the seeds to germinate.
Looking at the vegetable garden that she has tidied up, Li Mo has the feeling that this family is thriving.
At this moment, Li Mo overheard Song Dashan mentioning that in a few days it will be the biggest annual temple fair here.
People here hold a temple fair on April 4th every year. The venue of the temple fair is on Fahua Mountain. Many people will choose to go to Fahua Temple on Fahua Mountain to offer incense during the three days of the temple fair, praying for their wishes to come true. .
Li Mo also didn't want to miss this temple fair.
The reason why Li Mo didn't want to miss this temple fair was not because she wanted to offer incense and pray, but because she wanted to use this opportunity to make a good fortune. The temple fair was held for three days. During these three days, not only ordinary people would go to offer incense, but also those traders who did business had long been looking forward to it. For these three days, on the mountain road up the mountain, there were small stalls selling themselves along the road. These three days are often a good time for street vendors to make money. Not only are the prices much higher than usual, but they also sell very well. No one wants to miss this opportunity.
Li Mo has also made up her mind, this time she will make more balm to sell, and then many women will also go to offer incense, and it will definitely sell well, even if there are other powder sellers who also sell balm, but it is not as cheap as hers Affordable, she believes that her business will definitely not be bad.
Thinking that it will be only a few days, there are only a dozen boxes in stock at home, which is far from enough, so I have to make more balm as soon as possible before the temple fair.
First of all, we need to make more wooden boxes.
Talking to Song Dashan about setting up a stall at the temple fair, Song Dashan pursed his lips and was a little worried, "This temple fair is on Fahua Mountain, which is more than ten miles away from us. Most of the vendors drive to set up stalls. stall, but we don’t have a car, and we don’t know when we’ll be there, can you walk down?”
Li Mo didn't expect that Fahua Mountain was so far away from the village. If she walked only on her legs, she would close the stalls when she got there. Even if she made it in time, would she still be able to do business when she was tired
I only thought of selling balm before, but I didn't think of the problem of this distance. How can this be good
"Brother Dashan, how do people in our village go to the temple fair?" Li Mo asked.
Song Dashan replied: "In the past few days, Xia Laozhu's family would drive the donkey cart back and forth to pull the villagers there and then back, but it is okay to go to the temple fair in Shangxiang. If you want to do business, you must go to the village before people arrive Set up the stall, and the sooner you go, the better the stall, and it is absolutely too late to follow the donkey cart in the village."
Li Mo also knows this truth, the donkey cart in this village is not acceptable, so do you really have to walk across it by foot
Unable to solve this problem for the time being, Li Mo had no choice but to put it down, and said to Song Dashan: "Brother Dashan, let's think about the car slowly, you go to Uncle Zhang's house to order two hundred boxes first, and we have to rush to make the ointment Come out. There are a lot of boxes, please ask Uncle Zhang to hurry up, it would be best to get them in three days, we can give Uncle Zhang some more money."
Song Dashan nodded immediately, and immediately went out to Uncle Zhang's house.
The problem of the box is solved, and the next thing is the problem of the flowers. To make two hundred boxes of balm, the demand for these flowers is not one point or two. Packing, the time can't keep up at all, relying on her and Song Dashan is not enough, we must find someone to help.
Except for herself and Song Dashan, no one else knows her recipe for making it. If she wants help now, she will inevitably expose the ingredients and method of making it. Then her way of making money will also be exposed, and it will be difficult in the future. Earn the money.
After thinking about it, Li Mo didn't make up her mind to ask anyone for help.
It's not that I haven't thought about looking for the Zhao family, but they live in the same village, and the two daughters-in-law of the Zhao family are still buying and selling from her. Once their family knows how to make it, who will bear to not do it by themselves and spend four pennies? Buy from her? Even if they can't resist doing it themselves, what about their family members? What about the maiden family? Not everyone can do it. There are too many people talking, and it is difficult to keep it.
Li Mo feels that if this matter is not handled properly, the two families may have quarrels.
People's hearts are unpredictable, Li Mo can't afford to gamble on human nature, and she doesn't want to gamble with the friendship between the two families for so many years.
Knowing Li Mo's worry, Song Dashan thought for a while and said his candidate: "Li Mo, what do you think of my sister and brother-in-law? Meizi has been upright and kind since she was a child, and she never covets others' advantage, and she treats me like this My elder brother is sincere and will not do anything to harm us, and my brother-in-law is even more honest and sincere, and will not do what that villain does."
Song Dashan aside, Li Mo really didn't think of Meizi and Tiezi, now that she thinks about it, these two people are really suitable.
So Li Mo nodded immediately, "Okay, then I will invite Meizi and Tiezi to help me later, let their family come over tomorrow, and then stay here for a few days, the temple fair needs help, wait until the temple fair is over Let Meizi and Tiezi go back."
Song Dashan agreed, and said, "I'll go with you. You only walked there once last time, and you don't know the way to Meizi's house."
Li Mo thought about it and nodded.
The two retrieved Xiaobao who was playing outside, locked the door, and then rushed to Meizi's house with Xiaobao.
Rushing to Meizi's house, I told her that I wanted to ask her and Tiezi to help, but Meizi agreed without saying a word, and made an appointment to arrive at Daoyuan Village at Maoshi tomorrow.
Song Dashan's family of three rushed back again.
The next day was only bright, and Meizi and Tiezi came with an excited little tree. As soon as Xiaoshu got home, he immediately ran to Xiaobao. The two children were like joining forces on a long march, not to mention how excited they were .
Meizi looked at the two children and smiled: "Woke him up this morning, but he couldn't get up, and said that he would take him to my uncle's house to play with Xiaobao, and he opened his eyes immediately."
Li Mo also laughed when she heard that, children are so amusing sometimes.
Li Mo made some porridge, steamed some white flour steamed buns, and the whole family sat together for breakfast. After eating, they took their two children and headed for the place where there are large flowers growing behind the mountain with their baskets on their backs. go.
Let the two children play by themselves, while the four adults pick flowers in the baskets. Meizi and Tiezi are quick-witted people, and their work is no slower than Li Mo and Song Dashan. The efficiency of the four together is not only higher After a while, the four big baskets were filled to the brim. Song Dashan spread a layer of thatch on top of the flowers, and together with Tie Zi sent the flowers in the four baskets back home, where Li Mo and Meizi continued to pick them. , waiting for the two of them to come back.
In this way, the four of them worked from morning to night, ate some dry food and water at noon, and picked more than a dozen baskets of flowers. It was estimated that they could make two hundred boxes, and then Li Mo called everyone home.
When I got home, it was already dark. Li Mo took out two candles bought from the town and lit them. She made some noodles with flour in the kitchen. The four adults and two children sat around the table and had dinner.
On this day, everyone was so busy and tired that they simply washed up after eating and fell asleep.
The next day, the four adults together washed the flowers, lit the fire, stirred them, and worked non-stop for a whole day. Finally, all the flowers they picked were made into ointment, and there was no box for the time being. Just put it in a clean big pot, one pot with rose scent, one pot with chrysanthemum scent, just wait for the box to be packed tomorrow.
Several people worked busy for several days, and finally made two hundred boxes of balm before the temple fair. At this time, the car that had not been solved before also had a solution.
Song Dashan went to the house of a family in the next village who usually sold candied haws in the town. The family had an ox cart, and they usually drove the ox cart to do business. The candied gourds don’t take up much space, so they can take their family with them, so Song Dashan discussed with them, and gave the family ten fen a day, and they will also take their family with them for business in the past three days, and the family agreed without hesitation.
Knowing that the problem with the car has also been solved, Li Mo is completely relieved now, and then just wait for the sale.