The next day, Li You woke up early and found that his parents had already gone to the field!
After washing up, he simply ate something to fill his stomach, and Li You started to get busy!
Because Nianzi Village was 15 kilometers away from the county seat, it would take at least two hours by mule cart. In order to arrive in the county seat before noon, he had to make the Liangpi and cut the side dishes within two hours.
Fortunately, he was already familiar with all this, and it was all ready in a short while!
He loaded all the things onto the mule cart, and Li You drove the cart straight to the county seat.
Walking on the dirt road in the countryside, looking at the green crops on both sides of the road, and breathing the freshest air of nature, Li You was in a very good mood.
Although he was poor now, and even didn't have a single bill in his pocket, his spiritual world was rich at this time.
Thinking about his previous life, although he had created his own business empire, with assets of hundreds of billions at its peak, every night when it was quiet, the guilt towards Tang Ying and the child who hadn't had time to be born always eroded his heart. Even if he owned the whole world and was sought after by thousands of people, he still couldn't resist the loneliness in his heart and struggled with guilt and loneliness all his life.
But now Tang Ying was still alive, and if nothing unexpected happened, she already had his child in her belly, and everything still had a chance to be remedied.
At 11 o'clock in the morning, the mule cart arrived in the county seat, but Li You didn't go to the city center, but drove the cart to the gate of the sugar factory on the outskirts of the county.
Although there were many people in the county seat, the reform and opening up had just begun, and Qingshan County was a small inland county with a remote location. People's thinking was conservative, and they were not very accepting of the individual economy. If he openly sold Liangpi in the urban area, he might really be arrested.
On the contrary, it was different here at the sugar factory. Although it was on the outskirts of the county, there were seven or eight hundred workers in the factory, and these workers were all regular workers, with a monthly salary of thirty or forty yuan, and they had strong spending power.
More importantly, Li You knew that there was no staff canteen in the sugar factory, and the workers had to go home for dinner after work, or bring their own meals to work every day.
With a safe environment and a consumer market, this was definitely a feng shui treasure land for setting up a street stall!
He found a suitable location, placed the prepared Liangpi, various side dishes, and seasonings on the cart, and then waited for customers to come!
At 11:50, with the ringing of a crisp electric bell, the workers got off work!
Li You immediately cheered up, and his business empire was about to set sail from the mule cart at the gate of this small factory!
A few minutes later, workers came out of the sugar factory one after another!
Li You seized the opportunity and shouted loudly: "Authentic Shaanxi Liangpi, 20 cents a portion, first come, first served!"
"Don't miss it, authentic Shaanxi Liangpi, delicious and refreshing!"
"For 20 cents, you can't buy a loss or be fooled, but you can buy a cool and delicious big Liangpi..."
The novel shouts soon attracted many people to watch. When they saw the Liangpi and various side dishes and seasonings on the cart, they couldn't help swallowing their saliva!
Finally, someone couldn't resist. A middle-aged man said to Li You, "Young man, what kind of food is this? I haven't seen it before."
"Brother, this kind of food is called Liangpi. It is the most famous and classic summer heat-relieving artifact in Shaanxi Province. I guarantee that you will want to eat it again after eating it once!" Li You replied with a smile.
"How much is it?"
"With soup and ingredients, 20 cents a portion plus two taels of food stamps!"
"20 cents and two taels of food stamps, so expensive?"
"Brother, it takes one catty of white flour to make a portion of Liangpi. Now one catty of white flour at the supply and marketing cooperative is 16 cents, plus various seasonings. Is it expensive to sell it for 20 cents?" Li You explained.
"That's reasonable. Give me a portion to taste!"
"Okay! Wait a moment!"
At present, Li You skillfully took out a large Liangpi from the tea tray, cut it into strips on the chopping board, mixed it with various seasonings, and dug a small spoonful of chili oil on it.
After putting it into the bamboo tube, he handed it to the middle-aged man and handed him a pair of bamboo chopsticks.
The middle-aged man also skillfully took out two one-cent bills and a two-tael local food stamp, and then squatted next to the mule cart and started eating!
After just two bites, the middle-aged man couldn't help but praise: "Young man, you are amazing. This taste is really amazing!"
"Thank you, big brother, for your compliment. Eating Liangpi in summer is better than a pork knuckle!" Li You said with a smile.
"Is it really that delicious? Give me a portion too..."
"Give me a portion too..."
Under the demonstration of the middle-aged man, within ten minutes, all the 62 Liangpi that Li You brought were sold out, and the popularity was simply terrifying.
After making an appointment to continue selling Liangpi here tomorrow noon, Li You broke out of the enthusiastic "surrounding" of the workers!
On the mule cart, Li You counted the bills in his hand while picking out the food stamps.
After counting the spoils, Li You showed a satisfied smile.
12 yuan and 40 cents, plus 12 catties and 4 taels of flour stamps!
This income is simply against the sky!
You know, one catty of white flour is 16 cents, and it can make 5 Liangpi. Li You sells one Liangpi for 20 cents, and 5 cents is one yuan. The side dishes and chili peppers are all grown by his own family and don't cost money.
That is to say, he sold it for a sky-high price of 1 yuan with a cost of 16 cents, and the profit was 625%!
And this business doesn't need rent, utilities, or hiring people. It's simply like filling money into sacks!
In addition, according to the popularity of Liangpi today, dozens of portions a day obviously couldn't meet the needs of the workers, so Li You decided to make more tomorrow.
However, the seasonings such as oil, salt, soy sauce, and vinegar at home had been almost used up by him, so Li You decided to go to the supply and marketing cooperative first to purchase a batch of raw materials.
The supply and marketing cooperative was in the main urban area of the county seat, about five or six miles away from the sugar factory!
Along the way, looking at the low houses and dirty and muddy streets on both sides of the county street, Li You found it difficult to connect this place with the tall buildings, wide roads, and clean and tidy national top 100 county in later generations.
But thinking about the fact that the reform and opening up had just begun, the shackles of the planned economy were still playing a leading role. The most important thing was that the pillar industry of Qingshan County, coal, was still hidden underground, and it was normal for the economic development not to be able to develop.
When he arrived at the supply and marketing cooperative, there were really a lot of people here, and the entrance was full of mule carts and bicycles!
After squeezing in, Li You found a salesperson and asked about the prices of oil, salt, soy sauce, and vinegar. In terms of price, it was really not expensive in this era, but no matter what you bought, you needed a ticket, which was a bit annoying.
Obviously, he had money in his hand, but he couldn't buy many things.
Helplessly, Li You could only spend 2 yuan and 8 cents to buy 12 catties of flour and two big fried dough twists, and then left the supply and marketing cooperative.