Villager of Daming

Chapter 735: Marshmallow is a rich man

"No more? No soup left at all? Oops! I'm so angry!" A person who came after me felt like he had lost [-] million.

"Old Huang, didn't you go to negotiate a deal? Did you make any money? Just short of a meal?" someone joked.

"If I don't go, it's my business. Others can't do it. If I had known I wouldn't go! Aren't you afraid of dying?" This man squatted there in frustration, not knowing who he hated!
"It's just a meal. You're so rich, why don't you go to Fuhua Building to eat!" someone shouted.

"You have eaten, is it a matter of money? Let's not laugh at anyone. I had no money to eat, so I lived on three cents of food. I only ate one meal a day.

Is the Danqing Box Rice Restaurant in Fuhua Building great?Are you new here?Nonsense, Guanglu Temple learned cooking from Xiaqiu Village, and the shopkeeper of Fuhua Building is Xu Da's cousin.

I'm so angry. Is the meal at Fuhua House Sanguan comparable to the three-cent meal made by my children at the Danqing Box Dinner Restaurant? "

The man surnamed Huang was almost in tears. He would never forget the taste of the food at the Danqing lunchbox restaurant during his most difficult time.

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"Marshmallows! You can buy a big wad of cotton-like candy for just one penny!"

At the entrance of a candy shop on a street in Xiaqiu Village, a little girl waved a ball of marshmallows in her hand and shouted.

The friends next to me stepped on four machines in total, added white sugar and a small spoonful, and a large ball of marshmallow was wrapped around the bamboo strips.

There is a shaft where you step on it, and there is a tin box on top. There are holes around the box, and half a brick with a piece ground out in the middle is placed underneath. The concave place is a piece of coke, which is as simple as you want.

But with this gadget, you can turn out big marshmallows.

On the second floor opposite, the four brothers Zhu Feng, Liu Lian, and Liu Bowen looked down, each holding a ball of marshmallows.

"You have to tear it up with your hands to eat it, put it on your face and stick it to your face. If it's rolled into a small ball, it's better to eat candy directly."

Zhu Xi pinched some marshmallow and ate it, and concluded.

"Eating marshmallows tastes better than eating granulated sugar. A little bit of granulated sugar sells for a penny, and the people who buy it don't think it's expensive."

Zhu Fan looked at the four lines lined up below and sighed at Xiaqiu Village's ability to make money.

Zhu Tong then said: "Because it looks like there are so many, so big."

"I want a few machines and sell them in the fiefdom." Zhu Di looked at the smiles on the children's faces holding big marshmallows and felt happy.

"A marshmallow can be eaten by a child for half a day, which is better than a piece of candy." Liu Bowen commented.

"Let's see how much the cost is. If it is lower, we can sell two for one penny in the fiefdom. The people in the fiefdom are not as wealthy as Nanjing, so we should make it twice as big."

Seeing the large number of people queuing up, Zhu Xi knew that a penny was nothing to the people of Nanjing.

His Jubiqihe department store product manufacturing factory has a dual-income family, and even children as young as thirteen or fourteen can work on a piece-rate basis.

If there are elderly people at home, they can help with weaving things, and the factory will also accept them, such as making mats for dried tofu.

Merchants would sell pickles, beer, soap, and soap elsewhere.

To put it bluntly, Nanjing was making money from people in other parts of the Ming Dynasty. Because it had good products, people elsewhere could not sell local specialties at high prices, so merchants would charge them at low prices and send them to other places.

For example, local specialties in some places in Nanjing are not expensive. Some businessmen want to raise prices, while businessmen elsewhere want to quickly sell goods to collect funds and reduce prices.

The local specialties from Chengdu, Sichuan, now called Yizhou, may be more expensive when sent to Quanzhou, Fujian, but there won't be many products and they won't be sold.

In Nanjing, you can only sell at low prices, and the competition is fierce.

The same clothing in first-tier cities is much cheaper than in fourth-tier cities, and the income is also higher than that in fourth-tier cities. "Look at the clothes the children are wearing. I remember in the past few years, when the twelfth lunar month entered the street, many people wore single clothes, but now they are all covered."

Liu Lian observed the changes in people's lives. The children's clothes were beautiful and they were bought from the children's clothing store in Xiaqiu Village.

In clothing stores, there are expensive ones, made of silk and satin, and there are also cheap ones, made of ramie and cotton, but they are beautifully made and look cute on children.

Various cartoon animals adorn the costumes, including hats with bunny ears.

The key is to wear ramie clothes for about [-] yuan, which is a day's wages for people with better jobs in Nanjing.

“The cotton cloth and other things produced in Luoshui can be sold in Yingtian Mansion, which is cheaper than what women in Yingtian Mansion can weave at home. We have to find a way to let Yingtian Mansion’s people carry out industrial production.

Otherwise, the merchants in Luoshui would impact people elsewhere so much that they would have no money to make. How much hand-weaving could be done in one day?

For the same day's work, the price difference that some people earn from cotton to cloth is dozens or hundreds of times that of others.Hehehehe..."

Zhu Xiang was talking about economic matters when he suddenly laughed. A baby fell down and the marshmallows he just bought fell to the ground. The baby was holding the marshmallows and crying loudly.

The little girl over there quickly came over and asked someone to make a bigger marshmallow to replace the dirty ones in the baby's hands, and wash the baby's hands by the way.

"Whose girl is the doll? Is she willing to spend money?" Liu Bowen looked at the clothes on the girl and shook his head.

That outfit was previously displayed in the display window on the second floor, costing 160 pieces. Most people would not be willing to buy it for a girl to wear.

For a dual-income family, it would take more than 100 months to save half a month.

"I can't tell. There is a servant taking care of him. He must be a wealthy businessman." Liu Lian took a look and didn't recognize him.

"Where did the mayor go?" Zhu Xi looked around and found that there was a few people there.

"I just said I wanted to go to the delicatessen," Zhu Ru recalled.

As soon as he finished speaking, there were footsteps on the stairs, and the chief came up with a food box.

He came to the table: "I just remembered that there is venison in the deli today. It is probably not easy to sell. It is too expensive. I just want to eat it. Spiced venison and drink rice wine."

Each person is given a plate and a pair of chopsticks, and no dipping is required.

"What is this?" Zhu Zhu saw the thin slices of meat and felt transparent.

"Dengying beef is not sold in delicatessens. People in the village cook it there. We have to have something good to eat ourselves." The chief took out the plate with Dengying beef.

There are boiled edamame, garlic cucumber strips, skin jelly and stuffed seeds at the back.

Everyone sat at small square tables, sharing plates with each other, in order to have a better view of the street outside the building.

"It's three-twenty? No dinner tonight? Eat these things slowly." Zhu Xi raised his wrist to look at his tourbillon watch.

"His Royal Highness, King Qin, is it exactly three-twenty?" Liu Bowen raised his wrist and prepared to adjust his watch.

Zhu Fang simply took off his watch, brought it to Liu Bowen and put it on the table, right?
"Thank you, Your Highness." Liu Bowen worked hard to adjust his watch and muttered as he adjusted it: "It's always inaccurate. Is there anyone who can buy it for a hundred thousand dollars?"

"Just calibrate it with the sun every ten days and a half. You don't need to adjust it for 2 minutes every day. When the new spring is ready, the difference will be more than ten seconds at most."

The chief reassured Liu Bowen that it was impossible for Liu Bowen to wear the same tourbillon watch.

(End of this chapter)