Chapter 708: They Should Live A Better Life 2
Such a gra.s.s carp or bullhead could be sold for about 30 yuan, and crucian carp could also be sold for more than 10 yuan.
Male teachers had caught two gra.s.s carps, one bullhead and four crucian carps. The fish was sold for more than 150 yuan in total. Besides 20 yuan for renting fis.h.i.+ng rods and buying bait, all that cost a total of 170 yuan.
In addition to these, those teachers also bought some dried fish, vermicelli made from sweet potato starch, chopped radish with pepper, spicy fermented bean curd and so on, which villagers usually sold to merchants. These agricultural products added up to more than 150 yuan.
In the evening, the tourists were making fires, barbecuing, singing and playing games in the field, very happy and joyful.
He Xiyan rented them some of the tools they needed free of charge, such as barbecue grill, barbecue condiments, stoves, pots, knives, cutting boards and so on.
By receiving a group of tourists like this who came to travel and experience local life, they could earn several hundred yuan a day, with a profit of at least 300 yuan except the cost.
In these two months or so, they had saved nearly 15,000 yuan.
Chen Jiahang jumped up excitedly like a child in the hall, overjoyed beyond words.
He counted the money they had earned over the past two months on the table. Such a big stack of banknotes was what he needed to earn for two years in the past, and now it took them only two months.
He stuffed all the money into He Xiyan’s hands and wrote excitedly.
“Yanyan, we are rich now. We have more than 20,000 yuan.”
He Xiyan looked at what he had written, smiling all the time. The joy of making money through her own effort was beyond words.
She had no other idea, just hoping to make more money and lead a better life with Jiahang. They needed to have their own beautiful house and car and to live better and better instead of farming in the field all the time.
Even though their income was a little more now, it was indeed because of the climate and other reasons that more tourists came. If it came to the slack season or when it was cold in winter, fewer people would come.
Their house was still plainly and simply decorated, even without any basic household appliances like refrigerator, television, was.h.i.+ng machine, air conditioner, etc.
The house was also a dilapidated old adobe house. If there was a flood, it might even be washed down.
“Jiahang, let’s go to downtown county in a few days.” He Xiyan suggested while placing two plates of fermented bean curd on the wooden table. Then she mixed up the chili powder, salt and ginger powder which had been prepared before.
Chen Jiahang helped her aside. He soaked those small pieces of bean curd in the alcohol for a few seconds and then covered them with the condiment made by He Xiyan.
Two of them worked together and made spicy fermented bean curd of the original flavor.
The idea of making such kind of bean curd was started by He Xiyan, but she didn’t know why she knew how to make it. She thought that she could do it before she lost her memory, probably because she was born in the countryside. The bean curd tasted good and was very popular with agricultural merchants who would order 50 to 60 bottles every time they came.
But now she didn’t want to sell these things to merchants. The purchase price was too low. They worked so hard, usually making these local products until ten at night which were finally sold at such a low price. She felt it quite unworthy that the profits of their hard work should finally be earned by the middlemen.
It was nearly 10 o’clock at night. Seeing that there were so many tofu remaining to be mixed with condiments and then bottled, Chen Jiahang put down his chopsticks, took out his notebook and pen and wrote, “Yanyan, you go rest, I will finish the rest. Don’t worry, I will be very careful and definitely won’t make any mistakes.”