A Time Travel Effort in the 70s

Chapter 187: No agreement on the price of pickles

Although Zhang Aihua was curious about what Shen Jiaren meant by the closeness of the relationship, she still nodded subconsciously and echoed Shen Jiaren's words.

After all, he was still counting on exchanging some money and tickets from Shen Jiaren so that he could have a prosperous year.

Shen Jiaren saw that Zhang Aihua began to agree with her and stopped finding fault with her, so she struck while the iron was hot and said, "Aunt, I have some cucumbers here, and I need your help to pickle some cucumber pickles. I know that cucumbers can be made into several kinds of pickles.

I have a lot of cucumbers. See how many varieties you can make, what the price is, or what you need. Let's see if we can eat this batch of cucumbers."

"Hmm? Cucumber?"

"Yeah, it's just cucumbers."

“If you want to make several kinds, do you have a lot of them?

If the quantity is large, you will need a lot of other things, such as salt, aniseed, peppercorns, etc. ”

“As for the quantity, I don’t know the exact number, but it’s quite a lot because I can’t estimate the number.

As for the salt, pepper, and aniseed you mentioned, they are all small matters. I can provide them for you."

"I see. It takes some time to pickle this stuff. I can't give it to you right away if you ask for it."

"Time is not a problem. It depends on whether you do it or not. If you do it, when can you finish it?"

"Well, Xiao Shen, I don't like what you said. I have been chatting with you for so long, so I must have something I want to do.

The reason why Auntie asks so many questions is because she can’t afford the supplementary materials.”

Shen Jiaren breathed a sigh of relief. It was okay. There was still room for discussion. This pickle business still had potential.

"Aunt, the auxiliary materials are not a problem. I can give you money first and you can use it to buy the auxiliary materials, or you can pack the auxiliary materials yourself."

Zhang Aihua thought about it and decided that buying these ingredients would not be a problem. After all, she wanted to be a chef, so buying these ingredients would not be a problem.

If I pack the auxiliary ingredients myself and buy so much, it will easily attract people's attention. Then how do I pack the auxiliary ingredients?

Otherwise, it would be safer to earn money to pickle pickles first, let Xiao Shen prepay the money for the auxiliary materials, and you can help buy them. Then, when you are familiar with him, or you have cooperated with him more and he is trustworthy, you can do the work and materials yourself like Xiao Er did before?

No matter how Zhang Aihua thought about it, she felt that it would be better to be cautious first, after all, this was just the beginning.

"Xiao Shen, I won't be so formal with you. I'll earn money for pickling the pickles first, and I'll buy the ingredients myself. You just need to pay for the ingredients first."

Shen Jiaren thought about this answer and wondered, what’s the difference between this and doing the labor and material package and paying in advance?

No, there is.

When it comes to contracting all the materials and labor, you have to do the work first. You provide the materials and the money, and leave everything to the other party. Then, after they agree, you can use the money to make money.

This is really too bad of an initiative. It is really disadvantageous to oneself.

Shen Jiaren thought again and realized that there was nothing she could do about it. After all, the core technology of pickling pickles was not in her hands, and it was like giving money to others and letting them start their own business.

Although we are indeed subject to the control of others because the core technology is not in our hands, there are not many ways to deal with it at present.

Shen Jiaren replied, "Aunt, you know that what you are talking about is actually not much different from the labor and materials package. In fact, compared to the labor and materials package, what you are talking about may be more risky.

But since I'm buying my aunt's craftsmanship, it doesn't matter.

But, Auntie, you have said so much, but you haven't made it clear how you plan to collect the money."

Zhang Aihua had originally planned to do it first and talk about it later.

Once it's done and you know the situation, you'll know how to collect the money.

Unexpectedly, this Xiao Shen is not as naive as his age looks, and he is not easy to fool.

"How much are you going to give? How are you going to pay?"

Seeing that Aunt Aihua was so cautious about the matter of money and was unwilling to reveal the price she had in mind, Shen Jiaren felt that this matter was a bit disgusting.

I asked her to name a price first, but she was still unwilling to give in, which made people wonder what she was thinking.

Do you want more money, or do you have any other ideas?

But they are not wrong. After all, no one wants to work for nothing.

This is more difficult, because I don’t know how to give a suitable price.

Since she was unwilling to speak, and I had to go to town tomorrow, I might as well ask Sister Hongmei what the situation was in the town and find out first.

Otherwise, if we do it blindly, both parties will easily get hurt.

But Shen Jiaren didn't want to let this budding path to wealth be ruined.

Shen Jiaren said to Zhang Aihua, "Aunt, since we don't know, I will come to you tomorrow or the day after tomorrow to discuss how many kilograms of cucumbers there are next door, and then help with pickling. What's the situation?

You can go back and ask around to see what the situation is. Then we can meet and see if we can negotiate and communicate.”

Zhang Aihua saw no choice but to pretend she didn't know. After all, in her village, when it came to helping with pickling vegetables, especially with relatives or neighbors who had a good relationship, people would help each other, like you help me and I help you.

There's no question of charging money. If the other party's family is better off, at most we'll provide them with meals or some pickled vegetables.

Zhang Aihua sighed in her heart, alas, people really shouldn't be too greedy.

"Okay, that's all, the main thing is that you learn more about the situation.

After all, you have a lot of pickled vegetables here, and there are many varieties. If I just help occasionally with a smaller amount, it won’t be so troublesome.”

Seeing Zhang Aihua also took a step back, Shen Jiaren continued, "Aunt, I know.

I just think that since we are in a cooperative relationship, we must be mutually beneficial. We should discuss the conditions at the beginning, so that the cooperation will be smoother later. "

Seeing that Shen Jiaren didn't think too much about it and was persuading her, Zhang Aihua nodded in agreement and changed the subject, "Okay, Auntie thinks there is nothing wrong with what you said.

Also, my aunt has been out for quite a while. I have brought you the cotton coat and trousers. Now I have to go home to do other things.

Auntie has to go back quickly."

"Since Auntie has something to do at home, then Auntie will go back first.

I'm not in a hurry. The earliest will be tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.

I will go to my aunt's house and tell her the details later."

Zhang Aihua nodded happily, stood up and walked towards the door.

Shen Jiaren also hurriedly stood up to see the guest off.

After Shen Jiaren sent Zhang Aihua away, she sat under the awning and began to look at the cotton coats and trousers that Aunt Aihua had sent her. She couldn't help but sigh again that Aunt Aihua's craftsmanship was really good, especially the stitching, which was really great.

Just as Shen Jiaren was looking at the stitches of her cotton coat and trousers, she remembered that she seemed to have asked Aunt Aihua if she had given any money, and she seemed to have said yes.

Forget it. I'll ask about it tomorrow or the day after we've discussed helping with pickling sauerkraut.

However, Shen Jiaren also remembered at this time that when she was browsing the books in the study at the town's efficacy center, she had seen a book on pickled vegetables. It talked about how to pickle various vegetables using different methods. She could go and look for it to see if there was something wrong with her memory.

After all, when doing business, it is not appropriate if the core technology is always in the hands of others, as it is easy to be strangled.

Look, when I was chatting with Aunt Aihua this time, she had to buy the auxiliary ingredients herself.

Even if you tell others to buy the auxiliary materials yourself, the specific proportions of the auxiliary materials will definitely be different.

It’s just like the restaurant I used to eat a lot. It lost most of its market share because the boss changed the source of chili powder for the so-called cost reduction and efficiency increase, which led to a drastic change in taste. Plus, the market was booming at that time.

In addition to illustrating the importance of the quality of raw and auxiliary materials, the more important point is that the bottleneck technology cannot be blocked by others.

If it could be like Mouli, which provides a one-stop service from raw materials to output, it would not miss out on the position of dominant position in the seasoning market.