Traveling through 1942 with space

Chapter 191 Making money is not easy

Just when Wang Maimiao was tossing and turning and unable to sleep at night, Hou Xiaoge, who was practicing boxing in the space, suddenly felt a panic.

However, the panic disappeared in an instant. Hou Xiaoge thought he was too anxious in practicing boxing, so he quickly stopped and had a good rest.

Little did he know that this panic might be the induction of blood, because his adoptive father was gone.

"Heiwa, get up." Just as Hou Xiaoge was sleeping soundly in the space, the Ring Spirit Ling'er sensed someone calling him outside and quickly woke Hou Xiaoge up.

"It's still pitch black today. Has something happened?" Hou Xiaoge came out of the space and saw that it was still dark outside the cave. The pocket watch showed that it was only a little past four o'clock.

"Sister, why are you calling me so early in the morning?" Hou Xiaoge shouted outside.

"Our mother had a nightmare last night, then caught a cold. Now she has a fever. She can't cook meat in the morning, so she asked me to call you to cook." Hou Xiazhu said outside.

"Okay, I'll come out right away."

After leaving the cave, the early morning sky was really cold, and the northwest wind and the cold wind made people's faces hurt.

Hou Xiaoge quickly put on a mask and followed his mother to her cave.

"Mom, what's wrong with you? How about I go to Cuijiabao next door to call a doctor for you?" Hou Xiaoge asked when he saw his mother's pale face.

"It's okay, I just caught a cold at night, just drink some hot water and have a good sleep.

Go cook the meat! We still have to open the stall in the morning." Wang Maimiao said weakly.

"I'll pour you a bowl of sugar water. Drink it and have a good rest." Hou Xiaoge returned to his cave, took out some medicinal powder and honey from the space, mixed them in the diluted spiritual spring water, and took out a cup.

"Is this honey water? You also secretly hid the honey." Wang Maimiao drank the water in one gulp, pursed his lips and asked.

"Have a good rest! There's a jar in the cabinet in my room. I just brought it back yesterday. I'll share some with you later." Hou Xiaoge's head was buzzing with shock at his cheap mother's brain circuits.

When Hou Xiaoge came to the kitchen, her eldest sister Hou Xiazhu and two cousins from her uncle's family had already come over to make pancakes.

Now the Hou family has to make at least a thousand pancakes every day. In addition to the five hundred or so they use every day, the rest are wholesaled to the villagers.

The pancakes made by the Hou family are made with good ingredients and are tasty. Recently, they have developed spicy, scallion, and meat pancakes, which are very popular.

Even some merchants and wealthy families wanted to order from the Hou family, but they were all rejected by Hou Xiaoge, who instead chose to give the benefits to the villagers.

Now, four households in the village buy 800 pancakes wholesale from Hou Xiaoge's house and carry them out to sell every day. Each household can earn one or two cents a day, which is enough to support the family.

In addition to helping the family make pancakes, Hou Xiaoge and her mother agreed to give all the profits from the sales to the sisters as their own pocket money.

After all, several of my sisters are going to get married in the next few years, so it would be good to have some money to support themselves, especially my eldest cousin.

The profit of one pancake is only about 2 to 3 cents. Although it is not much, the profit is earned by quantity. With 800 pancakes, each person can get 60 to 70 cents a day.

Six or seven cents a day, that's nearly twenty dollars a month, and all the food, drink, and toilet expenses are provided by the family, this is pure profit! The calculation really shocked my cheap mother and uncle.

In the end, the sisters felt that they couldn't handle so much money with their small arms and legs, so they voluntarily handed over half of it.

But even with this, it still costs nearly ten dollars every month.

So after this month, the eldest sister and her friends became rich women in the eyes of their younger brothers and sisters.

However, Hou Xiaoge felt that the ten dollars they earned were well-earned. They got up at four o'clock every day and finished work at six or seven in the evening. They worked at least fifteen or sixteen hours a day, just like oxen and horses.

Several people enjoyed doing this, after all, with the money in their pockets, they could buy whatever they wanted and feel proud, which was more satisfying than anything else.

Now, several people get up at four o'clock to work with Wang Maimiao so that they can use the candles when braising the meat.

Hou Xiaoge estimated that if they were not reluctant to spend the money on candles, they would get up at two or three in the morning to work.

It’s just a little cold in winter!

Although Wang Maimiao had cleaned the water last night, Hou Xiaoge still had to wash it again, and he couldn't use hot water because it felt so cold.

After cleaning the meat, braising it is much easier. You only need to skim off the foam at the beginning, and the rest is just watching the fire.

I have to say, these pancakes are delicious right out of the oven.

While her sisters were making pancakes, Hou Xiaoge stole a beef pancake. The flavor of chopped green onions and beef burst directly in her mouth. In one word, delicious.

"You kid, you can't just eat it, help me knead the dough.

This head will be wasted if you don't knead the dough." The eldest cousin Hou Chunhua was kneading the dough diligently. Seeing Hou Xiaoge happily roasting the fire and eating cakes, she hurried to recruit a man.

"Good guy, you have to knead the dough to eat a pancake." Although Hou Xiaoge said this, he still stood up to help.

When making pasta, especially pancakes and steamed buns, it is well known that the most laborious part is kneading the dough.

There were no dough mixers back then. You could just pour flour and water into the dough and that was it. It all depended on manual labor to knead the dough.

What does it mean to make pancakes with 300 kilograms of flour every day? Just thinking about it makes my arms ache.

So every night, my mother and I were so tired that our backs ached and our hands cramped, and we had to find some laborers to help with the massage.

The noodles were distributed in the cave where Hou Xiaoge and his brother slept. There were seven or eight large basins of noodles every day, and the two brothers could only occupy half of the space when they slept.

Coming to a 1.5-meter-long chopping board, Hou Xiaoge poured a bowl of fermented dough onto the board and began to knead it, sprinkling a little alkali from time to time.

When old dough is fermented, the bacteria strains are relatively mixed, and the cakes and steamed buns made from it tend to become sour, so alkali is added to neutralize the sour taste.

But you must knead it evenly after adding alkali, otherwise~

Ha ha!

Just wait until the pancake is done, and it will be covered with yellow lumps!

The young guy is very energetic. He makes more than 30 kilograms of noodles seem like a toy in Hou Xiaoge's hands. Sometimes they become long strips and sometimes they become flat and round.

"Heiwa, you knead the dough very well! Why don't you knead the dough for us every day? We'll give you half of the money." Hou Chunhua said with a smile.

"Yes, Heiwa, kneading dough is too tiring, can you help us knead the dough?" Hou Xuemei also looked expectant.

Only Hou Xiazhu remained silent. She knew that her brother had a profitable business outside, otherwise he would not be away from home every day and often bring home good things.

"I won't do a job that only pays a few cents a day! How can a grown man hang around the stove every day? What's the point of that?" Hou Xiaoge said proudly with his neck raised.

"You don't even look down on 80 cents a day, are you dreaming of heaven?" Hou Chunhua said unhappily.

"Hehe! I have to go to school in the city after the New Year, so I don't have time." Hou Xiaoge explained with a smile.

"Study? Heiwa, you need to study." The two cousins opened their mouths wide.

"Yes! I have been studying with others outside recently. There are books in my room. Do you want to study?" Hou Xiaoge lied.

"It's enough for us to know our own names. Studying is for you boys, so we'd better not learn it." When the two cousins knew that Hou Xiaoge was going to school, they gave up the idea.

After all, this cousin is really smart, and it's a pity that he doesn't study.

Hou Xiaoge kneaded the dough in the kitchen for more than an hour, and only took a break after kneading all the dough that had been fermented in the morning.

"Kneading dough is such a tiring job. It seems like it's hard to make any money!" Hou Xiaoge sighed as he gasped and gulped down a bowl of warm water.

"Of course. During this period, mother gets up at four o'clock every morning to braise the meat and is busy until dark. She also has to take care of us, otherwise she would not have gotten sick." The eldest sister continued.

“Once you make money, you should enjoy it appropriately and make some adjustments later, otherwise it will be unbearable to live like this every day.” Hou Xiaoge shook his head.