Volume 1: Reborn in the 1980s, selling lunch boxes with my mother Chapter 138 Open a workshop and make a lot of money
"Can our family handle it?" Jiang Tian expressed his doubts.
Several women in the house rolled their eyes at her.
Even if they are too busy to make money, can't they ask someone for help?
The New Year is coming soon, and there are many families in the countryside who have no money to celebrate the New Year. With one dollar a day, they can hire someone to kill and pickle fish for them. Those in the village who are waiting to get the money to go home and buy New Year's goods are all scrambling to do the job, okay?
It means that they are kind-hearted. If they met a black-hearted boss, they would be able to find someone for fifty cents a day, let alone one dollar a day.
If you want to make money by smoking fish, you can't do it on a small scale.
Otherwise it would be like the last time when they made fried hairtail. They were just trying to sell it as a side dish, but they didn’t expect the business to be so good that other restaurants came and imitated them, and eventually they were squeezed out and couldn’t continue.
Thinking that she still had a lot of cooking recipes in her hands, Jiang Tian felt for the first time that perhaps their family should set up a special food processing workshop.
When they were making fried hairtail before, they were caught off guard and processed the hairtail directly in the backyard.
There is a dining hall in front of their house, but a bathroom in the back for washing hands and going to the toilet. People come and go in the backyard every day, and it is not difficult for anyone who is interested to remember the recipe for fried hairtail if they just watch for a while.
It was only after Jiang Tian suffered this loss that she realized that she thought frying hairtail was a skill that every local household knew, but she did not expect that the recipe for pickled hairtail that she came up with would not be available until more than ten years later.
Jiang Tian was also very upset that a money-making recipe had been leaked for nothing.
However, they cannot make the same mistake again this time.
There are also shops selling smoked fish noodles in the provincial capital, but the smoked fish that Jiang Tian makes is something she learned from a hotel chef in her previous life.
The chef was the apprentice of the head chef of their construction site canteen. In terms of seniority, he was her senior brother. The master's wife thought they were a good match and wanted to match them up.
Unexpectedly, the two talked about their cooking experiences and could chat all night long. But when it came to their relationship, they didn't have any attraction at all.
How does the saying go? I feel listless when I’m in love, but if you talk to me about money, I won’t feel sleepy at all.
It was like this in her previous life, and in this life, Jiang Tian still felt that she had no interest in boys at all.
For example, now, when Jiang Tian was talking to her family about opening a workshop, a figure suddenly appeared in her mind.
"Don't worry about the supply of fresh fish. Han Jisong's grandfather has been a fisherman all his life. He knows who raises fish and who fishes in our area."
"I'll ask him later. If he's willing, we can ask Han Jisong to help collect fish from the countryside in our workshop. We can hire a few trustworthy workers and keep the recipe for smoked fish in our own hands."
Hu Qiongfang lowered her head and thought about it, and also felt that this method was good.
"From now on, the smoked fish used in our store will be directly brought from the workshop. Even if others want to steal our skills, they can only buy our smoked fish. If they can taste our secret recipe of smoked fish, it will be considered their ability."
When someone saw the recipe for fried hairtail, Hu Qiongfang once again realized how fierce the competition was when doing business along the provincial road.
Moreover, my daughter is right, fried hairtail is a seasonal food. Except for the winter solstice and around the New Year, people rarely buy it to eat.
But their smoked fish is different.
This thing can be eaten all year round, and there are many ways to eat it. You can use it as a topping for three fresh noodles, or you can buy a piece of tofu and stew a few pieces of smoked fish in a pot. If you are too lazy to move, you can eat the cold smoked fish directly without processing.
Especially for those who are going on a long journey, if they are tired of the dry food they brought, they can buy a pack of smoked fish and eat two more meals with the dry food. They can also eat it as a snack when they are bored in the car.
Hu Qiongfang finally understood why Sanxian noodles were so difficult to make, but her daughter insisted on selling this kind of noodles in the store.
Selling noodles is secondary.
What my daughter really wants to sell is the family’s secret smoked fish, right?
However, if we want to open a workshop, we have to find another place. But now both families have to look after the store, so where will we get the manpower to take care of the affairs of the workshop?
Grandma Hu coughed and took the responsibility of the matter upon herself.
"Someone from the town came a few days ago and told Boss Tong that the higher-ups will come down for inspection at the end of the year and that there must not be open flames near the gas station. I'm afraid my rice ball stand will have to shut down for a while."
"Since our family is going to open a workshop, I think we should just move my rice ball stall to our own territory. I can sell rice balls in the front and go to the workshop in the back when I have nothing to do, and the old man can also lend a hand."
My aunt felt a little sorry: " The small house at the gas station was built with our own money, and we are just giving it to Boss Tong?"
How can it be given for free?
"I have already made an agreement with Boss Tong. It cost us more than 100 yuan to build our small house, plus the things inside. Boss Tong is willing to give me 300 yuan to buy back our rice ball shop."
"He wants to sell rice balls himself?" My aunt was a little unhappy.
After the fried hairtail incident, my aunt also felt that the new neighbors near the provincial road were not as simple and honest as the folks in her hometown.
It always feels like everyone is watching them, and when they see something of theirs that sells well, someone will quickly come and imitate it.
I originally thought that Boss Tong was a nice person, but I didn’t expect... Humph!
Grandma Hu looked at her eldest daughter-in-law with amusement.
Knowing that Jiang Xiuxiu had this kind of temper, she would say whatever , but this kind of temper was too easy to suffer, so Granny Hu couldn't help but give her eldest daughter-in-law a few words -
"Boss Tong is not that kind of person. He didn't take our small shop to sell rice balls."
"I have agreed with Boss Tong that his shop will only sell rice dumplings in the future. But he wanted me to help him make them, so I agreed."
Before Grandma Hu finished speaking, Jiang Tian's big eyes were already sparkling with a greedy look.
"Grandma! In addition to making smoked fish, our workshop can also make rice dumplings. Since even Boss Tong says our rice dumplings are delicious, maybe someone will be willing to buy our rice dumplings and take them back as gifts?"
Think about the Jiaxing rice dumplings that became popular in major highway service areas in later generations!
In her previous life, Jiang Tian had bought those cooked Jiaxing rice dumplings at a highway service area. They were cheap and delicious, and much more cost-effective than the extremely expensive boxed lunches at the service area.
In addition to the cooked ones, the store also has a lot of vacuum-packed gift boxes of rice dumplings, which are perfect for buying as gifts.
This is exactly what Jiang Tian was thinking.
She planned to ask where she could get a vacuum packaging machine. With this, their rice dumplings and smoked fish could be preserved for a longer time.
It also makes it convenient for them to package the smoked fish and rice dumplings into gift boxes.
By then, not only can they sell their products outside, but they can also supply other stores on this provincial road.
