Seventies Sweetheart: From Breakup to Billionaire-Chapter 174: Candidates

Chapter 174: Chapter 174: Candidates
Upon hearing this, several brigade leaders sat upright like newly enrolled primary school students, eagerly watching the teacher giving the lecture.
Teacher Lin cleared his throat, "I roughly calculated that two hundred bao buns need about four pounds of meat, considering the loss, let’s say four and a half pounds. The flour will need about one and a half pounds, plus sugar, yeast, salt, etc., all materials together cost about six dollars and fifty cents."
One bun costs nine cents, so for two hundred buns, you can earn eighteen dollars.
Without labor costs, the net profit is eleven dollars and fifty cents.
Even with labor costs, the net profit is still eight or nine dollars.
And this is just the profit for one day. As long as their bao buns are substantial and tasty, this profit can be steadily earned every day.
Once they further develop other plants in the future, the profits could double.
Just thinking about it, the brigade leader’s face already started to crease.
He tried hard to suppress his upturned mouth corners, but failed, so he simply let them stretch to his ears.
"Girl, tell us, how can we start this bao bun workshop?"
Lin Xiang: "I’ve already bought the pork, let Accountant Xu reimburse me later. What you need to do first is to choose a location for the bao bun workshop, and then decide who will come early tomorrow to wrap the buns. It’s necessary to have two hundred buns wrapped before 6:40."
There are indeed a few vacant houses in the village, but since they have been uninhabited for a long time, they have become dilapidated and unsuitable for making bao buns before they are tidied up, so the brigade leader could only set his eyes on the brigade headquarters.
The meeting room... is quite spacious.
None of the brigade leaders objected.
As for who will make the buns...
"Girl, do you have any recommendations?"
Lin Xiang knew that this was the brigade leader deliberately trying to please her, and for anyone she recommends, they would definitely get the job.
"They must be diligent and able to work hard, be clean and neat, quick-handed, speak little but work well, and most importantly, they must have good character, and absolutely must not steal food."
"These are the basic requirements. I’ll definitely screen them well," the brigade leader continued to ask, "And about their wages..."
Lin Xiang thought for a moment, "They have to come in the early morning to wrap the buns, sitting for hours without a break, which is quite tiring. How about just recording all full work points for them?"
It’s impossible to pay wages, after all, the bao bun workshop is just starting and still needs funds to circulate, but full work points are already very tempting to the village’s women.
During the busy farming season, even if they work the whole day in the field, they can’t earn full work points!
"Oh right, add two educated youths, if they do a good job, they also get full work points, if not, find an excuse to send them away."
It’s not good to not have any educated youths at all.
Making bao buns looks simple, but it’s actually all meticulous work.
To have fresh bao buns, the dough needs to be kneaded first. For the amount for two hundred buns, just kneading the dough requires two people.
Additionally, cutting dough pieces, rolling skins, preparing fillings, and wrapping all need several people to be working at the same time, in order to finish two hundred buns by the time Lin Xiang required.
Thus, the brigade leader decided on twelve people in total, with one person required for cutting dough pieces and three for wrapping bao buns.
Once the preliminary arrangements were made, the brigade leader asked again, "Girl, do you have any recommended candidates?"
"Yes."
Accountant Xu had already written down a Zhao Zhi in his notebook when he heard Lin Xiang say, "Have Granny Yang cut the dough pieces, the work isn’t tiring, and she can earn some work points."
"The old lady lives alone with Xiwang, and the two of them can’t earn many work points, their life is quite poor."
If Xiwang wasn’t too young, Lin Xiang would have wanted the brigade leader to add Xiwang’s name too.
But earning full work points every day, by the end of the year, they should have quite a bit of grain to divide, given the appetite of the two of them, maybe there would even be some extra money left.
"Okay, and as for the others..."
"You handle it as you see fit. I’ll come in the morning to prepare the filling, and by noon I’ll teach your chosen women how to make the filling. Once they learn, I’ll let go."
In a few days, school would start. She didn’t have much time to waste, so it would be better to step aside early and let others earn more work points.
The brigade leader had been waiting for Lin Xiang to mention Mrs. Lin or Fifth Aunt’s name, but he waited until Lin Xiang left, and still didn’t hear it.
"Lin Xiang’s family is on good terms with the fifth family, perhaps the spicy food business has been given to them, earning cash is much better than earning work points."
As for Mrs. Lin?
Her own children are so promising, Lin Xiang didn’t need to say much, just Lin An alone sends back allowances every month, how could she care for these ten work points?
Accountant Xu wrote Granny Yang’s name next to the dough-cutting, "Brigade Leader, the others need to be decided quickly, and make sure they are informed about the focus points, they have to come to wrap the buns by four in the morning."
"For the first day of delivery, we can’t afford to waste time!"
The village chief, on his way back from the restroom, passed by the kitchen and saw the meat on the chopping board, "Where did all this meat come from!"
"I bet the girl bought it in advance fearing we weren’t prepared," Accountant Xu skillfully started counting money, "She not only advanced the money but also the meat tickets, we need to compensate her promptly. Village chief, weigh the meat first."
"No need to weigh it, count it as a solid five pounds, no way we’ll let the girl suffer a loss!"
Accountant Xu, "Better weigh it."
Before weighing, the village chief specially washed his hands.
The girl said that maintaining cleanliness and hygiene is the first standard in making food.
He skillfully hung the meat onto the hook, and pulled the weight down, "...Five pounds and six ounces."
We agreed not to let the girl suffer a loss, right?
"So what should I record?"
"Record six pounds!"
All the brigade leaders said in unison.
Lin Xiang was not aware of this minor episode, nor was she worried about the brigade department cheating her, after all, she was the one delivering the buns tomorrow, and if the brigade department didn’t pay, she’d keep it herself.
When Lin Xiang returned home, she saw Mrs. Lin had already sorted the fabrics, but there were still a few yards left on the table, which she had cut herself.
"School starts on the sixteenth of the first lunar month, seeing that the weather is gradually warming, cotton-padded clothes won’t be wearable for long, I specifically chose some pretty fabric, and will let your Fifth Aunt make you some new clothes later."
One can’t dress too shabbily when going to school; she heard that kids at this age are quite competitive.
Anyway, there’s a lot of fabric at home, and it was obtained for free, what would they be kept for if not for the girl to wear?
Let the mice gnaw on it?
"Fine, I’ll go and ask Fifth Aunt to measure me then."
She felt she had been eating well recently, and had gained a bit of weight.
It’s more comfortable when clothes fit well.
Mother and daughter carried the fabric to Fifth Aunt’s house, only to see Chunya and Dong Sheng frying sunflower seeds with a look of despair.
"Sister, my arm is too tired to lift."
"Me too..." Chunya deflated like a balloon, "Last time when I saw the girl frying sunflower seeds it seemed so easy."