Beloved Concubine

Chapter 67 On Acquisitions

Two days later, Fang Yu and Chen Xiao rented a carriage and went to Nanzhong County.Leave Chunhong and Erlong to watch the shop.

Watching the carriage leave, Chunhong said:

"The day after tomorrow is market day, there are only two of us, what will we do then?"

"Didn't the boss say that we should find more people to help when the time comes." Erlong finished speaking and went back to work in the shop.

Chunhong looked at the intersection in the distance, the carriage disappeared from sight, and she was a little worried about the safety of Brother Fang.

Beating wolves is no joke, it's dangerous.In order to earn more money, Sister Chen actually asked Brother Fang to hunt wolves.She really didn't understand what Sister Chen was thinking, how she would let her man go to die.

Maybe she didn't regard Big Brother Fang as her man at all, but just used him to make money.Just like those girls in Yihongyuan, they are passionate about everyone, but in fact they just want to get money from others.Otherwise, why did Sister Chen refuse to marry Brother Fang?After getting to know Mr. Nie, he was still so familiar with him.She must have taken a fancy to the richer Mr. Nie.

In the afternoon, Gao Xiang came.

When eating in Yihong Garden that day, he heard Xiao Shitou talk about chili cooking, and knew that they were going to open a new restaurant.

This matter has nothing to do with Gao Xiang, because Ruyilou is not of the same level as the restaurant they want to open, just like the spicy chicken in Ruyilou does not conflict with the spicy chicken they have here.

What's more, Ruyilou mainly cooks Xiling dishes, and they are opened for Xiling people.The series of chili dishes made by Chen Xiao are completely new, so I can't tell where it is from.

This time, Gao Xianglai mainly wanted to talk to Chen Xiao about the peppers in Nangou Village.

He also wanted to buy some peppers, but Chen Xiaobao planted the peppers on the ten-acre land in Nangou Village. Without her consent, Zhang Ping would not sell them to Gao Xiang.

"I'm sorry, shopkeeper Xiang, our boss is out." Chunhong and Gao Xiang had dinner at the same table that day, so they knew each other.

"When will they come back?" Gao Xiang asked.

"I don't know, they went to Nanzhong County."

Nanzhong County is more than 100 kilometers away from An County. Not to mention anything else, the round trip alone will take several days.

"What are they going to do in Nanzhong County?" Gao Xiang wondered.

"Go and fight wolves."

Gao Xiangming understood.He remembered that day Min Hong encouraged Fang Yu to fight wolves in Nanzhong County. At that time, Fang Yu thought a few hundred taels of silver was too little.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that Min Hong has lust for Chen Xiao.Min Hong was different from pure businessmen like them. Min Hong himself didn't have much money. He was doing business for the palace. The shopkeepers of Ding Tai didn't get a share of the profit, and they had to hand over every penny.Normally, Min Hong likes to hang out with Li Mingyu, Gao Can and others, eating and drinking for free is also taking advantage of it for nothing.

Of course, Li Mingyu, Gao Can and others didn't care.These big shopkeepers have money in their hands, and they have a lot of power over them.

Gao Xiang smiled and said, "I wanted to talk to Ms. Chen about the chili purchase."

"Ask the shopkeeper to buy peppers?" Chunhong asked casually.

"Yes, I heard from Zhang Shun that she planted the peppers in Nangou Village. I wonder if she can share some of them with me."

Chunhong rolled her eyes and asked, "How much do you want to charge the shopkeeper?"

"It depends on how much she can share with me." Gao Xiang knew that Chunhong was Chen Xiao's confidant, so he told her more.

Chunhong said: "Sister Chen's chili, I don't know if she will divide it. But our family has also grown some, which can be sold to shopkeeper Xiang."

"Oh? Your family also grows peppers?" Gao Xiang was surprised.

"Yes."

"How much did your family grow?"

"Probably... maybe one or two thousand catties."

The peppers of Chunhong's family are planted on the hillside in a seamless manner, one piece in the east and one piece in the west, scattered, it is difficult to calculate how many acres are planted.

Gao Xiang thought for a while and asked, "Then how much money is your family going to sell for a catty?"

Chunhong said: "The price... is the same as Sister Chen's, three Wen per catty, land price. It does not include labor costs for picking."

The so-called "land price" means that things are in the field and you pick them yourself.If it is harvested by others, the labor cost of harvesting has to be added.People work for a day, but they can't do it for nothing.

Gao Xiang asked, "Where is your home? Is it far from the county seat?"

"In Kaoshan Village, more than 30 miles away from the county seat."

Gao Xiang thought for a while and said, "Let's do this! I'll give you five cents a catty. Your family has harvested it, packed it and shipped it to Ruyi Building. I'll collect all the peppers."

Chunhong made some calculations secretly, and felt that the price was okay, so she nodded and said, "Okay. But now the peppers are not yet fully ripe, and only a part can be picked. Should I pick this part first and send it to Ruyi Building?"

Gao Xiang just wanted dried chili.When he found out that Chen Xiao bought the fresh peppers from Nangou Village for three Wen a catty, he suddenly felt that the dried peppers that Chen Xiao had sold him for one hundred Wen a catty before were simply astronomical prices.Of course, he still doesn't know that a few catties of fresh peppers can be dried into a catty of dried chili peppers, but no matter how you calculate it, dried chili peppers are definitely expensive at [-] Wen per catty.

Fortunately, he thought Chen Xiao was a "real person" at the time.Thinking about it now, he felt that he had suffered a dark loss.

Of course, he didn't care about the matter of just a few taels of silver.It's just that this incident made him change his view of Chen Xiao.I originally thought that she was not good at doing business, but in fact, she was very shrewd.

Gao Xiang wanted to know that a few catties of fresh peppers could be sun-dried into a catty of dried chili peppers, and if Chunhong was given him sun-dried chili peppers, it would be hard for him to give him a reasonable price.

He said: "Okay. How many catties of peppers can your family pick now?"

Chunhong thought for a while and said, "Seventy to eighty catties, I should have it."

The peppers in her family were planted almost at the same time as those in Nangou Village.Xiao Shitou went to Nangou Village to pick peppers. He said that only four or five peppers on a pepper tree were mature enough to be picked, and the other peppers were still small and would need to be raised for a while.

The pepper flowering and fruiting period lasts for nearly a month, and within a month, the pepper trees bloom and bear fruit one after another, causing the peppers to mature one after another.

Gao Xiang said: "Then pick the ripe ones first and send them here." He would like to see, a few catties of fresh peppers can dry a catty of dried peppers.

"Hey, that's right." Gao Xiang said again: "The green pepper fish and green pepper chicken that Xiaoshi mentioned that day, what kind of taste? Can you make me a taste?"

Chunhong became alert for a moment, hesitated and said, "This...our store only sells rice noodles."

Gao Xiang smiled and said, "We can also be regarded as friends. If Xiao Shitou and Miss Chen were here, I said I would eat here. If I want to eat green pepper fish and green pepper chicken, I think they will cook for me too!"

Gao Xiang had a handsome face, as gentle as jade, and there was warmth in his eyes when he smiled.

Chunhong was dazzled by his handsomeness.

He said we are also friends!Chunhong felt a little joy in her heart.

She had been in the county for a few months, and most of her acquaintances were Xiao Shitou's friends, that is, those young guys.Because they are all men, they are similar in age and identity, Chunhong is always afraid that others will think of her, so she keeps a distance from them.

Although shopkeeper Xiang is also similar to her age, he is the young shopkeeper and his status is much higher than hers.How could people fall in love with her and make up her mind.

So when he said friends, maybe they were really just friends.

Chunhong thought for a while and said, "Okay, I'll make it for you. But green pepper fish and green pepper chicken, can you finish the two dishes?"

Gao Xiang smiled and said, "Then I'll call a few more people over."

As he said that, he took out ten taels of silver to Chunhong, and said, "This is money for grocery shopping. I can't let you spend it."

"It won't take so much." Chunhong refused.

"Take it! Thank you for your hard work." Gao Xiang smiled.

Chunhong saw how generous he was, and thought he didn't care about the little money, so she accepted it.

(End of this chapter)