flstandardbreds Chapter 116 Tea Egg
Chapter 116 Tea Egg
Lan Yi leaned on the bed and lowered her head to put on her hard rubber sandals. She said with a dry laugh.
"What's there to say about this?"
"Didn't you say you had a solution?" Lan Xin rolled her eyes at her and asked, "Can your egg hatch a chick?"
Lan Yi put on her shoes, stood up and shook her head. "No, these are eggs for eating, not for hatching chicks. Besides, we are losing money now, so how can we have the time to hatch chicks?"
You know, hatching chicks is not something that can be done easily. The couple doesn’t know how to do it and don’t have the skills.
In the end, you still have to hire someone to do it, and you have to buy all kinds of tools. The chicks can't eat the feed of the adult chickens, so you have to buy new feed. And the chicks are easy to get sick. If you don't take good care of them, they will get sick and infect other chickens in the chicken farm. What's more, the chicks may not be easy to sell after they hatch.
So Lan Yi and his wife are not planning to hatch chicks to sell now. If they want to hatch chicks, they have to sell the eggs and grown chickens first.
Lan Yi got a headache whenever she thought about these things, she sighed and said.
"We had originally agreed to supply several dry food stores, but that person interfered and the cooperation didn't happen. The hens lay eggs every day, and the eggs are accumulating more and more. We originally approached the vegetable company and wanted to cooperate with them to sell eggs, but only they can consume so many eggs at once."
Although the vegetable company is called a vegetable company, they sell not only vegetables, but also chicken, duck, fish, meat, eggs and duck eggs. They collect them from vegetable farmers, then sell them to supply and marketing cooperatives and then to city residents.
However, the reputation of this vegetable company is not very good. As an exclusive business, they suppress the price of vegetable farmers and breeders, and then turn around and raise the price many times when selling it to people in the city.
Lan Xin had heard of the existence of vegetable companies before. These industries in special times, if they fail to adapt, will sooner or later be abandoned by the tide of the times and go bankrupt like the supply and marketing cooperatives.
"The price they offered was too low. We couldn't even make back the money we spent on chicken feed."
Lan Yi said with a sad face.
In fact, the couple already had a plan in mind. After a couple of days, they would go back and try to raise the price. If they really couldn't raise it any higher, they would have no choice but to grit their teeth and sell it.
After all, in this hot summer, eggs cannot be kept for long periods of time. If they are not sold, they will all rot in the warehouse.
"Have you ever thought about taking them to the city to sell? Or selling them individually to workers or city dwellers?" Lan Xin asked.
There are several factories in the county town with quite a few workers. These people usually have to buy their vegetables from vegetable companies, and they complain that the vegetables from vegetable companies are not fresh and expensive, just like Zhao Qingfeng and his men in the flowered shirt.
Lan Yi and her friends couldn’t sell their eggs, and even if they did, they were only sold at a very low price.
The prices in the city are too high to buy good stuff, and Lan Yi and her colleagues have so many things piled up in stock due to the low prices. So, why don't they just bring them to the city and sell them at the factory gate?
Hua Shanzhi and his friends had said before that vegetable farmers in the provincial capital would bring their vegetables to the city streets to sell, and the city dwellers would rush to buy them for fear that they would not be able to afford them.
Since these vegetable farmers can do it, why can't Lan Yi do it?
"This, this is still possible?"
Lan Yi was surprised when she heard Lan Xin's suggestion. They had never thought about retail, and they would feel a little insecure when facing city people.
Lan Yi lowered her head and thought, it seems that taking the eggs to the city to sell is also an option. Although it is not as convenient as direct wholesale, the unit price will be slightly higher than wholesale. Running back and forth every day will increase the chance of eggs being damaged. The risks and profits on both sides seem to be similar.
They don't have any better choice now.
Liu Zhengxin went out to collect orders every day, but for some reason he encountered no orders after half a month.
Since you have to run like this every day, you might as well take the eggs to the city to sell.
Lan Yi was a very decisive person. After realizing this, she went home without any hesitation and planned to pack up everything and take the eggs to the city to sell the next day.
"Okay, sister. I'll go back right away and sell the eggs tomorrow."
As she spoke, Lan Yi opened the door and ran out.
"So impetuous..." Lan Xin shook her head.
Her eyes fell on the basket full of eggs on the table in the room. Lan Yi brought them to her specially.
Lan Xin couldn't sleep either, so she got up from the bed, closed the mosquito net, put on her shoes and walked to the table.
The big bamboo basket was filled with eggs. The bottom of the basket and the gaps between the eggs were covered with rice husks with the rice grains removed to prevent shock and prevent the eggs from breaking.
A quick look shows that there are about forty or fifty eggs in a bamboo basket.
"What should I do with so many eggs..." Lan Xin thought.
Eggs were a rare commodity in that era. Yuan Lanxin didn't remember eating many eggs since she was a child, but people nowadays are the same.
Every household raises a few chickens for laying eggs and selling them. There is even a joking name for it, the chicken butt bank. It is a guarantee for rural families.
Now that there were so many eggs, Lan Xin supported her chin with one hand and touched the eggs with the other hand, and immediately arranged how to eat them.
"Scrambled eggs, fried eggs, boiled eggs, poached eggs, tea eggs..."
"hiss!"
Speaking of tea eggs, Lan Xin's eyes suddenly lit up, and a sentence seemed to pop up in her mind - "Making missiles is not as good as selling tea eggs."
This seems to be a joke from the 1990s, which roughly means that business has high profits, but scientific research lacks money.
Lan Xin's focus was not here. She thought of tea eggs. With so many eggs, why didn't she make tea eggs and sell them!
Their predecessors had thought of making a fortune from tea eggs as early as the 1980s and 1990s, but she, who came from later generations, didn't even know how to sell this.
Lan Xin had thought before that before opening a hotel in Sanqing Mountain, she should do some business as a transition so as to continue to make money to buy a house.
I thought about what I could eat while hiking, something simple, convenient, delicious and profitable, but I didn't think of tea eggs.
Tea eggs are such a good thing. People always buy two for breakfast at the bun shop. How could I forget about it?
Lan Xin rummaged around the room and found a blank piece of Yueyue's homework paper. She took out a pencil, bent down, put the paper on the table, and began to write the things needed for making tea eggs while standing.
"Tea is definitely needed, and then soy sauce, and star anise and cinnamon..."
Lan Xin murmured as she wrote down everything. She had heard that the recipe for tea eggs seemed to be similar to that for braised pork, except that it contained tea leaves.
As for the braised pork, Lan Xin, being a greedy girl, of course knew it by heart. The recipe for the fragrant braised pork was something she bought from a traditional Chinese medicine hospital, and the braised pork she made was so delicious.
Looking at the recipe written in her hand, Lan Xin decided to buy some seasonings to experiment and see what proportions were appropriate for making tea eggs.
"Lan Yi's eggs really helped."
However, Lan Xin's tea eggs might be able to help Lan Yi solve the problem of unsaleable eggs in her family.
You know, after these tea eggs go on sale, she can not only sell them herself, but also wholesale them to others.
Not to mention those far away, the ones nearby are the two sisters-in-law, Li Xia and Xu Rufang. They also want to sell things to make money in Sanqing Mountain, but they don’t know what to sell.
Then I can sell her wholesale tea eggs!