Read Novel Full Chapter 46.1
Chapter 46 1/2
Sang Luo naturally didn’t insist, knowing Chen Youtian’s temperament. With the new broom she made, she swept the courtyard clean and then went to make dinner.
Now that all the cooking utensils were ready, cooking was much easier. They had been eating well lately, and with the upcoming event, Chen Youtian didn’t stay for dinner. Sang Luo simply steamed some rice, made an egg soup, and stir-fried some ferns.
In the evening, they would make sour jujubes. They moved the operation to the kitchen, and after locking the courtyard door from the inside, they felt a strong sense of security. With the brand-new house, Shen An and Shen Ning couldn’t help but touch the walls a few times.
“Sister-in-law, our home looks really beautiful now.”
Indeed, even though there was only an old grass hut that could be lived in, a new kitchen, and a bathroom, surrounded by a fence, life felt completely different, and the sense of happiness was indescribable.
Sang Luo smiled, “Then you all take good care of it. If there’s nothing to do at home tomorrow, you can pick some beautiful little pebbles. Let’s plan a route from the courtyard gate to the main house. That way, even on rainy days, our shoes won’t be all muddy.”
Shen An’s eyes lit up, “We can do that? Then I’ll go pick up some stones tomorrow, and when you, sister-in-law, say how to lay them out, we’ll do it.”
“Alright, pick the rounder ones. That way, when you step on them, it’s a bit like a massage, but not too painful.”
The siblings nodded eagerly.
The next day, Shen An’s group of little friends all had new tasks to do. Of course, that’s another story.
At the moment, Shen An and Shen Ning were helping Sang Luo wash fairy leaves and sour jujubes. As they worked, they were somewhat puzzled, “Sister-in-law, when will we take the sour jujube cakes to sell?”
Although there were quite a few people around the house these days, they hadn’t missed making sour jujube cakes every day. So now, the small jars in the house filled with sour jujube cakes were almost two jars full.
“Tomorrow, tomorrow I’ll take a jar to the county town to try to sell. It should be sold out in a day.”
It was time to buy a millstone, as well as water tanks and tubs. These three big items were not cheap, and the income from the fairy tofu alone couldn’t cover them.
There were still not enough winnowing baskets to dry things. The fruits she could pick in the mountains were also limited. After saving for so many days, she had only saved two jars. These jars were not big, so one jar probably only contained about two hundred pieces.
Tomorrow, she would take a jar to try selling.
Shen Ning had already tasted the finished sour jujube cakes. Hmm, she hadn’t eaten less. Every day, her sister-in-law would give her and her second brother two pieces each as snacks, saying that eating them in moderation was good for their health. Now, hearing that they could be sold in the county town, Shen Ning’s eyes brightened, “Sister-in-law, how are we going to sell these sour jujube cakes?”
Sang Luo was also thinking about this problem.
She didn’t have a scale, so selling them by weight wasn’t feasible. And she didn’t plan to sell this stuff too cheaply either. Selling them by weight would actually sound quite scary in terms of price.
Think about the snacks sold by roadside stalls in the past. The stall owner would determine the amount and sell them accordingly, making the price easily negotiable.
A product priced at thirty yuan per pound might seem expensive to many, but if you pack a little more, say three or two pounds, into a small bag and sell it for ten yuan, many people wouldn’t find it expensive at all.
So, a couple of days ago, Sang Luo had already bought some oil paper suitable for food packaging in the county town, thinking of selling them wrapped up herself.
She pondered the price of a sour jujube cake and compared it in her mind.
“How about three cents and five per piece?”
Although the sour jujube cakes she made couldn’t be exactly the same in size, they were relatively symmetrical. Selling them individually was still feasible.
As for the price, the sour jujube cakes Sang Luo made were quite genuine, without any extra ingredients added. It was just sour jujube paste and sugar. Malt sugar was not cheap, and the amount of jujube paste from a basket of sour jujubes wasn’t much, even less after drying.
Sang Luo made the individual sour jujube cakes into round cakes, which weren’t small, with a diameter almost the length of her thumb.
Three cents and five per piece, for this sweet and sour snack, wasn’t really expensive. Thinking about it, buying five pieces of sour jujube cake for the price of eating one pancake was quite a good deal. Considering this, Sang Luo felt it was quite worth it.
She couldn’t set prices based on the consumption habits of rural people. After all, people who would spend money to buy snacks wouldn’t be poor.
Alright, that’s clear.
Meanwhile, Shen An and Shen Ning were dumbfounded. Three cents and five per piece meant they could eat up four pieces in a day. Didn’t that mean they would spend nearly three cents a day just on snacks?
“Sister-in-law, I won’t eat sour jujube cakes tomorrow, or maybe just have one piece. I’ll share with Second Brother,” Shen An suggested.
Shen An also nodded, “I won’t eat them. Just give one to An Ning.”
Boys eating snacks…
Sang Luo: “…”
The kids in the house were too good at managing their lives.
“Eat it. This is our selling price, not the price we bought them for. We made them ourselves; why hesitate to eat them? These sour jujubes are actually a kind of traditional Chinese medicine ingredient. The sour jujube cakes we make have the effect of stimulating the appetite, invigorating the spleen, nourishing the heart, and calming the mind. So it’s good for you to eat some every day.”
Shen An and Shen Ning had only heard that eating this was good for the body, but didn’t know the specific benefits until now.
Shen An: “I think my body is actually fine, I don’t need much supplement.”
Shen Ning also nodded, “I’m okay too.”
Sang Luo looked at the two with their blonde hair and clicked her tongue, “Where is it okay? Look at your own hair. When your hair shines black and glossy one day, then you can say your body is fine.”
She hadn’t been able to tell if their hair had improved or not recently, as she hadn’t paid attention to whether their hair had gotten better after paying more attention to their diet every day since she arrived. But the complexion of these two children was much better than when she first crossed over.
Not only Shen An and Shen Ning, but she herself as well.
When she first arrived, she knew she couldn’t improve her appearance without looking in the mirror because not only did she feel the sunkenness in her cheeks, but others also looked at her with a refugee-like expression.
Some changes were made unconsciously. Now that she thought about it, she hadn’t encountered anyone looking at her like they were scrutinizing a refugee lately. It showed that the diet improvement these days had been effective.
In fact, from the changes in Shen An and Shen Ning, it wasn’t difficult for Sang Luo to guess her own changes.
Shen An looked at his sister’s dry and soft hair, stopped talking, and then glanced at Sang Luo. Hmm, perhaps Sang Luo had a better foundation than their siblings from the beginning, slightly better than An Ning.