Volume 1: Reborn in the 1980s, selling lunch boxes with my mother Chapter 162: Enclosure and Demolition
As soon as Grandma Hu’s rice dumpling workshop opened, she received more than fifty orders of various sizes.
Hu Qiongfang had to admit that her daughter seemed to be more suitable for business than studying.
Since the amount of glutinous rice used was large, Jiang Tian calculated the cost, discussed it with his two uncles, and decided to buy a rice mill for his family.
In this way, we can buy unhusked glutinous rice directly from farmers in the countryside, bring it back and pile it in the warehouse behind the workshop. We can process as much as we need. The glutinous rice processed in this way will be fresher and the rice dumplings made from it will taste better.
Most importantly, processing glutinous rice by themselves is more cost-effective than buying it from grain and oil stores. Moreover, the broken rice and bran left over from the rice mill can also be sold - many pig farms and chicken farms need these scraps.
Speaking of pig farming, Jiang Tian found another job for Yao Huifen.
Her backyard is all sand and gravel, and if it is leveled a little, it can be used to build a pigpen and raise a few pigs.
Hu Qiongfang's restaurant has endless leftovers every day, and Yao Huifen can take it back for free to feed the pigs.
There are also broken rice and bran left over from processing glutinous rice in rice dumpling workshops, and you can buy some at the internal price.
Although raising pigs is hard work, pork is still in short supply at this time. If you raise a few more pigs, you can have a stable income every year.
What else can Yao Huifen say?
Jiang Tian has considered everything for her so carefully. If she refuses again, she will be letting Jiang Tian down.
Unexpectedly, seeing that she, an outsider, had started raising pigs, other families along the provincial road also became tempted.
For a time, every household that had the means built a pigpen in their backyard and raised pigs.
Jiang Tian originally wanted to help Yao Huifen, but unexpectedly, she was the one who got the biggest benefit in the end - there were more families raising pigs, and their rice dumpling workshops no longer had to look at the slaughterhouse's face.
It’s really hard to get fresh pork these days!
In order to supply pork to the rice dumpling workshop, Uncle Hu used his connections to invite the director of the slaughterhouse to a meal and gave him a lot of things.
Otherwise, the meat purchased from butchers alone would not be enough for the daily pork consumption of the rice dumpling factory.
The Hu family expected that Grandma Hu’s rice dumplings would sell well, but they didn’t expect them to sell so well.
Jiang Tian not only handed out business cards along the provincial roads, she also waited at Boss Tong's gas station. When she saw a passenger bus coming from the provincial capital, she would approach anyone who looked like the boss and hand out business cards.
Plus, the gas station itself was also selling rice dumplings, which was like a live advertisement for the business card in Jiang Tian's hand!
Seeing that a small stall at a gas station can sell so many large rice dumplings every day, anyone with a bit of business sense can't sit still...
In this way, the rice dumpling workshop opened by Jiang Tian and Grandma Hu could only wholesale a few thousand rice dumplings every day at the beginning, but within just one month, the output reached tens of thousands!
Uncle Hu had to hire someone to help him look after the newly opened auto repair shop at home, while he drove the rented tractor to deliver goods to the factory.
Poor guy! Uncle Hu dreams of owning a tractor of his own. This is his biggest motivation to make money now!
While the two families were busy, Jiang Tian did not forget Grandpa He and Grandma He.
Ever since Yao Huifen built a house near the provincial road, Jiang Tian has always wanted Grandpa He and Grandma He to move their home to the provincial road as well.
The two elders are getting older, and if they continue to stay in the village, not only will it be inconvenient for them to see a doctor in the future, but she will also not have much time to go back and accompany them.
Jiang Tian thought that she would have to talk at least three times before she could convince the two elders to move to the provincial road. She even planned to write letters to her two aunts who lived in other places, hoping that they would also persuade them.
Moving to the provincial road is much closer to the county hospital, and the two families live close to each other, so she can go back to see her parents every day.
Unexpectedly, it seemed as if Grandpa He and Grandma He had been waiting for her to speak. As soon as she opened her mouth, the two elders agreed impatiently.
Jiang Tian had already found a place for the two elders to build a house. It was not far from his uncle's new house, and it only took two or three minutes to walk there. The vacant land was not small, but the only drawback was that there was no water source. Not to mention a small pond , there wasn't even a small ditch.
But it's not a big problem. My uncle knows someone who can dig wells. If Grandpa and Grandma He like this piece of land, they can ask my uncle to ask someone to take a look and see if a well can be dug in the yard. The local water resources are abundant, especially groundwater. There are also many families in their village who dig their own wells.
The old couple came to take a look in person. Grandma He was fine with it, but Grandpa He was particularly satisfied with the land.
"Your grandmother didn't take care of her health when she was young, and now she's old, she often suffers from rheumatism. I think this piece of land is very dry, and it's very suitable for your grandmother to live on." Grandpa He said with a smile.
Grandma He glared at the old man and felt sweet in her heart.
“Then it’s this piece of land!”
The old couple were of course very happy to be able to live closer to their new granddaughter.
The most important thing is that this provincial road is closer to the county martyrs cemetery.
They are old, but it’s okay now as their legs and feet are strong and they can run. But in the future, as they get older and their legs and feet become less convenient, even if they want to go to the Martyrs’ Cemetery to see their son during the holidays, they will have to ask others for help.
The two elders agreed, but the matter could not be settled immediately. Jiang Tian felt that she should write a letter to the two aunts to explain the situation.
When He Aiping and her sister received the letter, they saw that Jiang Tian said in the letter that she was worried that their parents were old and lived in the village. If they had a headache or fever , it would be troublesome for them to go to the hospital for treatment. They suddenly felt guilty.
Their parents raised them with great difficulty, but they dedicated their best years to the motherland and the people. They lived a life worthy of the country and the people, but they felt guilty towards their parents.
Fortunately, there is Tiantian...
The two sisters talked on the phone and decided that each family would take out one thousand yuan and send it back to their hometown for their parents to build a house.
They also wrote another letter to Jiang Tian, praising her for being more thoughtful than they thought, and told her not to work too hard, saying that the house could be built slowly. They had already sent her money for building the house, so she could spend it first and write to them again if it was not enough.
Jiang Tian finally breathed a sigh of relief after receiving the replies from her two aunts.
Originally, she had no intention of asking her two aunts for money. The rice dumpling workshop jointly opened by Jiang Tian and her grandmother had already started to make money. The two thousand yuan was earned back in just a few days.
Grandma Hu has already told the family that this workshop will not be included in the Hu family's public account, but will be considered a business jointly run by her and her granddaughter. Even my second uncle, who is responsible for transportation, only receives a driver's salary.
Of the workshop's profits, Grandma Hu took 60% and Jiang Tian took 40%.
Worried that her two daughters-in-law might have some ideas, Grandma Hu held a family meeting and made the 60% stake clear.
As long as she is alive, the 60% profit will be the retirement money for her and her old man.
If she passes away someday, the 60% will be divided equally into three parts, with 20% going to each of her three children.
After hearing Grandma Hu's distribution plan, Jiang Tian was stunned.
Isn't it obvious that grandma is biased towards her?
It's easy to tell that if her mother took the 20% stake, she would definitely give it to her.
Then when she grows up, she will still own the largest share of this zongzi workshop~
