Rebirth Farmhouse

Chapter 168

In the early morning of the second day, Xiuyao got up, took a basin and went to the front yard to fetch water to wash, and then waited for Langzhong Sun to come.Xiuyao has completely calmed down now. Anyway, the debt has already been owed, and every day is a day of frowning, and a day of being down-to-earth. She doesn't like complaining, and she doesn't like complaining and depression. Things have come to this point, it's useless to sigh, it's better to face all difficulties bravely and find a way to resolve them.

While waiting for Sun Langzhong, she was not idle. She saw a broom at the base of the wall, and picked it up to clean the yard.

In the middle of the small courtyard is a cross-flowered path, with some current flowers and plants planted in the four corners, which are in full bloom, and the fallen leaves and flowers are blown on the path by the wind, making it ugly to be trampled.Xiuyao swept them under the flowers to use as fertilizer, then went to fetch water and watered the flowers so that the dead leaves and flowers would not be blown away by the wind.

When Xia Wu brought breakfast, he let Qin Ye go over and let Xiuyao eat breakfast by himself. He saw that the small courtyard was clean, and Xiuyao didn't fidget. On the contrary, she was very calm. goodwill.He said: "Grandpa Sun said, it's useless for you to follow along, go play by yourself, remember to come back for lunch and eat. If you get lost, just tell people about the half-baked medical clinic." He took out another money bag , "Grandpa Sun gave you this."

Xiuyao was even more puzzled. What kind of medicine does Sun Langzhong sell in the gourd?

Xia Tian left without giving her the money, Xiuyao was holding the purse, there were dozens of coins in it, and there were also two small pieces of silver.She found it strange, and naturally she couldn't ask for it casually, so she put the money bag under the pillow in the house.She took the money from her mother and planned to go to the street to have a look. When she came, she found that there were shops on both sides.She wants to find out about the market, see what the city is like, and what else she can do to make money. After all, she owes so many debts, and farming alone is not enough to pay back the money. She has to work harder and do more.

The Banhangzi Medical Center is located in the busiest location. As soon as you step out, there are wide streets, intersections, and crowds of people. Xiuyao, who has lived in the countryside for a long time and has a small population density, is a little uncomfortable.

Xiuyao looked east and west, and saw a Linji cloth store, she walked in to have a look, and the young man who was attracting customers at the door immediately smiled at her and said: "This little girl, please look inside, if you want to buy calico or not?" Weaving cloth, you can choose whatever you want."

Seeing that he didn't despise her because she was a child, Xiuyao smiled at him and walked inside.This is a slightly larger silk and satin cloth shop, with a total of five fronts, and three sides are full of cloth cabinets.

Brocades in all kinds of bright colors, as well as plain or monochrome cotton, printed and floral.Xiuyao went over to have a look, and asked about the price. The price of the brocade was staggering, and a piece of silk that was only two feet long cost a few taels of silver.One tael of silver can buy about two shi of rice.Xiuyao went to look at those cotton fabrics again. Plain fabrics are basically printed, with single-color printing and three-color printing, with various patterns.In addition, there are those yarn-dyed fabrics. Most yarn-dyed fabrics are dyed first and then woven. These need to be jacquard to show patterns and attract customers.

Xiuyao went over to ask, and the price of yarn-dyed jacquard cloth is tens of cash higher than that of ordinary printed cloth. If you add 300 cash to buy a piece of plain fabric, then [-] to [-] cash to buy a piece of dyed fabric, It costs more than [-] pieces of jacquard.

That is to say, if it is a flower of woven jacquard fabric, one can earn more than 200 yuan.This is just a simple pattern. After all, the price also changes with the pattern. If it is a little more complicated, it will cost several hundred cash per piece. If the yarn count is finer, it will be woven with satin, and it will feel silky and smooth like satin. Well, rich people use it as pajamas and quilts, which are even more expensive than some silks and satins.Isn't the fine cotton cloth of Songjiang Prefecture famous all over the world, and it is very expensive.

Xiuyao secretly wrote down all this information, the shopkeeper stood behind the tall counter, and glanced at Xiuyao. This little girl looked very simple, not like a girl from a rich family, with bright and clear eyes Not frightened at all, unassuming and generous.

"Little girl, do you have this kind of cloth at home?" Shopkeeper Lin is used to doing business, and he will never let it go.

Xiuyao hesitated for a moment, and said: "Not now, but we will weave in a while, just want to ask which pattern, you want a lot, and you have a lot of money."

Shopkeeper Lin smiled and said: "There are several kinds of expensive ones, but it's not cost-effective for you to weave the ones that are too expensive. You can't weave one for a long time. It's not as good as these mid-priced ones. Weaving takes a little more time than plain weave. If you are proficient, it's almost the same." Yes." He pointed to a few pieces of cloth among them, and Xiuyao looked over, and saw that they were all smaller geometric patterns, although they were not fancy, they looked calm and atmospheric, and the patterns were not complicated, so they could be woven quickly.

Xiuyao nodded, "Thank you shopkeeper, I'll make a note, and tell my mother when I get home." She said goodbye and left.

After leaving the cloth village, Xiuyao thought about it, and then wanted to go to the oil workshop. After wandering around for a while, she saw a sesame oil shop, and she could smell the strong smell of oil from a long distance.The aroma of sesame oil is mixed with the light fishy smell of soybean oil and other oils, which is not very pleasant.

Xiuyao stood at the door and took a look, and saw a few guys there greeting customers, and some women and children came to get oil with oil bottles and cans.She stood by and watched. The guy who sells ordinary oil is estimated to be about half a catty, and if it is sesame oil, it may be about two or three taels.Xiuyao looked at it for a long time, and she silently calculated that cottonseed oil is the cheapest, at present, it costs about ten yuan a catty, soybean oil is estimated to be around fifteen or sixteen, and sesame oil may cost more than twenty or even thirty or forty yuan a catty.Sunflower oil is more expensive than soybean oil and cheaper than sesame oil, and costs about twenty copper coins a catty.

People who buy sesame oil usually buy by weight, and other oils are bought by catty. The sales volume of various oils is actually not low, after all, it is a necessity for people's livelihood.

Xiuyao recorded the price silently, and the guy saw her standing there for a long time, and asked, "Little girl, are you getting oil?"

Xiuyao shook her head, took a look, and said, "No, I'll take a look first."

People didn't care about her as a little girl, so Xiuyao walked forward again, and there was a roasted seeds and nuts shop, which sold peanuts, melon seeds, pumpkin seeds, chestnuts, and walnuts, etc. Xiuyao also listened to the prices when she went Write it down.

Unknowingly, she walked for a long time, feeling a little hungry, and paying attention to what people need, and immediately smelled the fragrant aroma of steamed buns, and heard someone shouting, "Thin skin, big stuffing, big white steamed buns It’s for sale! Five cents a piece, big buns!”

Xiuyao went over to have a look, the steamed stuffed bun was quite big, and five cents was neither cheap nor very expensive.At this time, those who are away from home come to buy two buns to satisfy their hunger. There are vegetables and meat inside, so there is no need to bother.In addition to selling steamed buns, his family also sells steamed buns, sesame seed cakes, etc. Steamed buns are much cheaper, and a penny is a lot for a steamed bun, unlike the modern steamed buns that look big and become small when squeezed.There is a noodle shop next to it. The noodle shop also sells dumplings and other food, and there are pancakes in the past. Several food shops are connected. It is clean and has a large number of customers.

But she also found out that they are all small businesses. After all, there are only these people in the county, and it is impossible for them to come out to buy food, but opening a noodle shop in the countryside is a dead end. Every household cooks and eats. Who has so much spare money to buy other people's homes.

But it's not without business opportunities, Xiuyao thought about going door to door, and finally she found the noodle shop with the most traffic and the largest shipment volume, where many people were eating noodles.

Xiuyao asked, and a bowl of ordinary noodles costs ten yuan, which is not very expensive, but it is not cheap for country people.There is a boss in the store, a handyman, and the boss rolls noodles at the door.

Xiuyao hesitated for a while and asked for a bowl of noodles. The boss had a square purple face and thick hands, so he glanced at Xiuyao, "Little girl, what kind of noodles do you want?"

Xiuyao asked what kind of noodles they had, and the boss said a series of words, which made Xiuyao dizzy, such as meat soup noodles, vegetable noodles, egg noodles, beef, chicken, duck, pork, and mutton... There are even fish soup noodles, fresh soup noodles, Clam noodles and more.

Xiuyao was surprised, it seemed that the ancient people were also very rich, not as simple and barren as she thought before, and she wondered if she could also make delicious noodles for sale, so let it go.

She likes to eat ribs, and ribs have no fat, so they will not be more expensive than fat.

But thinking of her brother's medical treatment and owed so much money, Xiuyao thought it was better to forget it. She swallowed, held back her growling stomach, and shook her head.

But she was really hungry, so she went to see the bun seller, thinking that meat buns were expensive, she hesitated back and forth for a while, not willing to spend money.I laughed at myself again, I have already carried a huge debt of 100 taels, so I am afraid of spending a few pennies for noodles?Besides, if you have a debt, you can't just stop eating and drinking all day, and the debt is not repaid by not eating or drinking, and she also wants to talk to the bosses who are in the pasta business here to see if they can get some business Make some money.

So she went back again, ruthlessly, and asked for a bowl of pork rib noodles. In all fairness, it was really cheap.

The boss took a look at her and thought that a little girl must eat cheap food, so he made ribs noodles for her and added a few extra ribs.Xiuyao asked for diced shallots and a bit of dogwood powder. At this time, there was no ordinary chili pepper, and pepper was a valuable thing, not something that small vendors could afford.

After eating two mouthfuls, Xiuyao waited for the number of customers to decrease, then she asked the boss, "Excuse me, uncle, isn't he from the county?"She knew that there were many craftsmen living in the city, and at the same time there were countrymen who came to rent shops to do business. These people basically did not farm the land and relied on doing business to make money for food.

The boss was called Boss Wang, and when he saw him asking, he smiled and said, "We are from Xujiadianzi, our surname is Wang, how do you know?"

Xiuyao also found it strange, she just heard that the boss's accent sounded familiar, even if a countryman is from one county, but the customs are different from place to place, the accent and word habits are still different.She smiled and said, "I've heard people say that your tone is a bit different from ours."

Boss Wang wiped his face slowly, and glanced at her, "I know, you are from Taoyuan."

Xiuyao's eyes widened in surprise, "Uncle has good ears."

Boss Wang laughed naively: "I've heard too much, little girl, are you not with your family?"

Xiuyao shook her head, her expression darkened, "My brother is in the hospital to see a doctor, I'm here to do something."

The two started chatting, and Xiuyao found out that Boss Wang's business was good or bad, and he needed from [-] to [-] catties to [-] to [-] catties of flour a day, and the same was true of the neighbors.They still bought flour from ordinary people at first, but gradually found that it was not cost-effective, and it took a lot of time to go back and forth, and they couldn't buy too much at once, because too much would easily spoil.So I basically buy noodles at the rice store in the city. The largest rice store is owned by Feng's family. Their family keeps grinding the flour every day. Naturally, there is enough flour, so everyone goes there to buy.But their house is also more expensive than others, after all, their shop is big, and there are hundreds of shops in the family, and they don't rely on this to make money.

From his words, Xiuyao also heard dissatisfaction, "Uncle Wang, why don't you go to the water mill in Yangliu Village to buy noodles? Their flour is still fine and white."

Boss Wang hummed, "I've heard people say that now all the restaurants and inns that manage meals go there to buy, and many people also go there to grind. Seeing that we don't have enough manpower, we can't leave the family."

Xiuyao then explained to him: "Their family also delivers goods to the door, and they will deliver goods along the Daqing River every day. Uncle Wang, you can partner with the bun shop and oil cake shop next to you. Every day, you will go to the house by yourself. Push it back, or once every two or three days, how can you save money.”

(End of this chapter)