She Only Cares About Cultivation
Chapter 273: 【272】Tasty and Pretty Fisherman 123 (6 more updates)

Chapter 273: 【272】Tasty and Pretty Fisherman 123 (6 more updates)

In other words, from ten jin of soybeans, Grandpa Wang’s family could make at least thirty jin of tofu.

With the prices at that time, one jin of soybeans was two copper coins, ten jin was twenty cents, and twenty cents divided by thirty jin meant that the cost for each jin of tofu was merely 0.6 copper coins. Adding brine and other miscellaneous items, the cost could be rounded up to just over one copper coin per jin.

However, making tofu also involved daily losses, labor, transportation costs, and so on, so one could not simply assume the cost was one copper coin. It would have to be calculated up to two copper coins.

According to the previous arrangement, a hundred jin of tofu could earn four hundred cents. Grandpa Wang would take a sixty percent share, which was two hundred forty cents, while the two children would split the forty percent share, making one hundred sixty cents each. That averaged out to each person earning eighty cents a day, which added up to nearly 2,400 copper coins a month, nearly 2.5 silver taels—quite a significant amount.

It was believed that as time went on, with Xiao Gangzi and Bengzi becoming more adept at their work and the daily output increasing, their business would only get better.

Therefore, on the afternoon of the next day, after eating their Noon meal, Xiao Yu and Yaya bid farewell to the elderly couple.

Considering their offering of money—which the couple had declined—Xiao Yu placed ten silver taels under the pillow directly.

The reason for giving so much silver was because they had spent two consecutive days learning how to make tofu, effectively buying the recipe for ten silver taels.

The elderly couple had not had it easy, and they could not let them give their efforts away for nothing.

Thus, after Xiao Yu and her sister left, Grandma Wang, while tidying up the room, couldn’t help but sigh upon discovering the ten silver taels.

"These two girls are just too polite; there’s no need to give so much silver," said Grandma Wang.

"Girls?" Grandpa Wang looked confused, and Grandma Wang gave him a glare, "You scatterbrain! Can’t you tell boys from girls? Both are girls and quite pretty too. I guess they disguised themselves as boys to travel, but they are good kids, sensible. Though we met by chance, if we could have such well-behaved granddaughters, that would be wonderful, alas!"

Xiao Yu naturally did not know that after they left, Grandpa Wang and Grandma Wang reminisced for half the day.

Since it was the rainy season, they encountered several torrential rains after continuing on the road, but after each downpour, the weather would cool down a bit.

"One rainstorm heralds the chill of fall!" After the Start of Autumn, the rains lessened, and the sisters’ pace quickened.

Because they had a clear goal and feared being late and missing opportunities, they had traveled non-stop every day, except for the two-day stop at Grandpa Wang’s home.

They stayed in inns when available, but would also camp out in the wild when there were none. Since she was strong, she had also practiced with the slingshot and caught plenty of game.

Passing through towns, county cities, and prefecture cities, they bought some dried food provisions. Thankfully, Yan Country had rations specifically for travelers, like stone cakes and earth bread—dry and hardly delicious, but filling enough, which was what mattered.

Of course, sometimes she would use the stove in the inns to boil some eggs, and with the preserved vegetables they had with them, they hadn’t suffered much on the journey.

After nearly three months of travel, they finally reached Beijing in early August (around September in the Solar Calendar), having endured many hardships.

Since her original plan was to develop in Beijing, upon arrival, she first sought a broker to help her find a farm. She did not intend to live in the city, but rather on a farm outside the city, where she could farm and think about business ventures.

After staying in the inn for about two days, the broker found her and they rode a horse carriage more than ten li beyond the city to a farm. They inspected a farm covering fifteen acres with its own built houses and enclosure walls, overall quite safe. It belonged to a wealthy city family short on money and willing to sell, but the price was not low...