Rebirth Farmhouse

Chapter 198

She said: "Shopkeeper, these beets in my house can be sold for more than four cents a catty, but I know you have rules in the industry, so I will give you a penny per catty. If you are optimistic about it, go buy the goods. I want cash, no It’s on credit.” This is the monopoly rule of some workshops. Within his business scope, beets can cost three to four yuan a catty, but he just wants a penny per catty. If you don’t sell it to him, you can keep it for yourself. I can only give it to him.This is still not much, if more people are sent, then he will make more money.He said that it costs four catties a penny, and you can't do anything about it. If you don't sell it, you can take it back.It may be more expensive somewhere farther away, and you can't go to the state for a carload of beets, and there may be other situations there.Therefore, when selling grain here, sometimes the price does not reflect the value nor the real demand.

The shopkeeper said with a smile: "Middle, my surname is Yang, and our boss's surname is also Yang. You can call me shopkeeper Yang."

Of course Xiuyao knew that his surname was Yang, and she had inquired about it long ago, but she deliberately didn't call him. The Yang family is actually a relative of the Feng family, and this sugar shop still belongs to the Feng family.Seeing him declare his family name, she also introduced herself, and introduced her father to him.Then they drove the mule cart to the backyard and unloaded the beets. Shopkeeper Yang asked someone to weigh them, and then paid Xiuyao, which was about two shillings in total.

Shopkeeper Yang also gave Xiuyao an extra two hundred cash, saying it was for her to buy candy. Of course, Xiuyao accepted it unceremoniously, as it should have been her money.

After taking the money, Xiuyao went to the front shop to look for some candy to go back.Ordinary sugar, especially the black and red sugar such as caramel commonly used at home, is very cheap.However, brown sugar and white sugar with a slightly better color are much more expensive, especially white sugar, the more delicate and white the sugar is, the more expensive it is. Meat is also expensive!The meat here is generally about [-] Wen.

It seemed to her that none of the people who came and went bought pure white sugar. It is estimated that ordinary people would not buy it casually for home use.Rich people don't come here with a sugar bowl for retail sales, they send them home in batches.

She said with emotion: "Treasurer Yang, you are making too much money. It is cheaper to collect a catty of beets for a penny than to grow them yourself. We have to spend money to hire someone to collect them."

Shopkeeper Yang smiled modestly and said, "Then we can't get out two taels of sugar per catty, and we still have to have a little extra. No one has delivered it to us in the past two days, otherwise I wouldn't dare to pay you four catties." Take it."

Xiuyao thanked him, bought two catties of sugar, and asked him about the price of melon seeds.

Shopkeeper Yang gave her an idea: "You might as well send it to the roasted seeds and nuts shop, they are all willing to ask for it. You usually buy it from the oil mill, and sometimes you go to the countryside to collect it, but you don't have so much time and manpower. Bought from the oil shop. If you send it to the oil shop, hehe, it will be much cheaper. If you buy it at the market, it will cost eight yuan more than one catty, and if you sell it, it will cost about three or four yuan."

Xiuyao smiled and said, "It's the same as a beet."

Shopkeeper Yang didn't feel embarrassed, "This is an industry rule."

Xiuyao nodded, "Thank you, Uncle Yang, we understand, let's go to the roasted seeds and nuts shop." She said goodbye and went out with her father. She was afraid that the mule cart would attract attention, so she asked her father to watch the cart, and she went to the roasted seeds and nuts shop ask.

Qin Dafu originally thought that he should go by himself, but seeing Xiuyao and shopkeeper Yang's business discussion, he felt that he should just watch the mule cart honestly.

Xiuyao first went to the roasted seeds and nuts shop, it was a big and fragrant roasted seeds and nuts shop, the boss was surnamed Zhang, he was a family member, and the boss was old Zhang.Xiuyao said hello to him, and said straight to the point: "Grandpa Zhang, I know that your melon seeds come from the oil mill. We have some melon seeds in my family. We have picked them and sold them with sincerity. If you don't want to send them to the oil mill and the price is lowered, why don't you buy them?" Come to discuss with you, I will make a concession, and you can earn some, which is much cheaper than buying from an oil mill. What do you think?"

Lao Zhangtou usually sends his son to the countryside to collect them, and others come to give them away, but they are all delivered in tens of catties, and he basically accepts them.Seeing Xiuyao's question, he said: "Yes, little girl, where is your family? How many catties?"

Xiuyao said with a smile: "Grandpa Zhang, let's talk about the price first. I will give you four coins to the oil shop, and you can sell it for ten coins, but you can buy it at the oil shop for eight coins. In this way, I will sell you six coins, what do you think?" ?”

The old Zhangtou asked: "Little girl, good account, how much is your family?"

Xiuyao replied: "About a thousand catties."

The old Zhangtou looked at her in surprise: "There are so many, we're afraid we won't be able to buy them all at once."

Xiuyao: "It doesn't matter, I can ask someone else's." There may be one of the largest oil mills in the county, but there are roasted seeds and nuts shops everywhere, and there are many in the countryside.

But Xiuyao wanted to buy the whole family, even if they did the second wholesale by themselves, she didn't want to collect thousands of catties each time and sell them batch by batch.

Old Zhang was a little hesitant, and Xiuyao laughed: "Grandpa Zhang, I found out that you are the biggest roasted seeds and nuts shop here. If those small shops buy melon seeds from the oil mill, they will definitely not be able to bear it. Why don't you sell them? I will You get six coins, if you give them seven coins, you still make money. They go to the oil shop for eight or nine coins.”

Lao Zhangtou shook his head: "Their business is small, and many people have collected them in the countryside." In fact, he is doing small wholesale business himself, and he is also competing with Feng's dim sum shop, but he naturally doesn't want to say more.

Xiuyao pointed him out with a smile: "There are some, but not many people grow this in the countryside. After all, it is troublesome to sell, unlike grain that is harvested everywhere. Even if people grow it, they mostly use it for their own households. If they want to It’s okay to sell it all year round.”

Old Zhangtou saw that she was speaking clearly and logically, as if she had seen through his small thoughts, so he couldn't help laughing, and he was not so serious: "Okay, then I'll take a look."

Xiuyao led him to look at the melon seeds on the mule cart. Old Zhang saw that the man driving the cart was an adult, but it was a child talking about business, so he couldn't help laughing and asked, "My brother, is your daughter?"

Qin Dafu nodded, "Look, our melon seeds are honest. We used a windmill to raise them."

Pulled it down to dry, Xiuyao borrowed a windmill to fan it, and fanned all the scumbags away. Most of them are sincere and honest.

Lao Zhangtou grabbed a few handfuls in a row, tasted a few, and found that they were full of granules. He nodded approvingly: "It is indeed a good product, we want it all." Fei County is a big county in Jinan Prefecture (required by the plot), The county is densely populated and the people are rich. The old Zhangtou roasted seeds and nuts shop has a good business.

Xiuyao said happily: "Okay, Dad, let's drive over to Grandpa Zhang."

Qin Dafu and Xiuyao transported the melon seeds to the backyard of the shop, unloaded them, weighed them, and found that it was a little more than one thousand catties, which was six taels of money in total, and they were given two taels of money, four taels of silver.The fried goods shop is a small business and likes small change, but he also knows that country people generally like to take copper coins, so they don't give all silver coins.

Xiuyao's family originally had [-] catties, but she bought [-] catties, because [-] catties was too much, and if they sold it all at once, they would take the opportunity to lower the price.

Still like beets, if you grow them for your own use, it is naturally good. If you grow too much, you have to sell them. If you sell them in retail, you can’t sell them, so you have to sell them to the oil workshop, but the oil workshop has its own contract. Tian, ​​if someone sells it to him, he will lower the price.If more people sell it, the price will be lower. This has been a practice for many years, so now no one will grow this economic crop on a large scale unless they use it for their own use.After all, although you can make money, your income is not guaranteed. If the court doesn’t want it, profiteers will try to lower the price.Xiuyao can be regarded as picking up a bargain. If people planted every year and others saw the money they made, they would follow suit. It would lead to a bad result, and the price would be lowered, making it cheaper for the recipients.

Because if it's too much, even if it's a penny and ten catties, they won't come to collect it.After all, there are too many melon seeds, and the speed of oil extraction is limited, and if there is too much oil, the price should be cheap, otherwise they cannot be sold.In this way, it is not as cost-effective to maintain oil prices or even let oil prices rise.A businessman always puts interests first, and will never help anyone, let alone save anyone.

After selling their own products, Xiuyao and Qin Dafu are the same as the villagers selling food at Boss Wang's place.At this time, there were many people selling food, and my grandfather's family also collected a lot, but it was a small business after all, and I couldn't eat so much.Therefore, most of the villagers still have to come to the city to sell to grain stores, wine shops, and vinegar shops.

After waiting for a while, they still didn't come, so Xiuyao asked Qin Dafu to look at the car—mainly money, and she went to the grain store to check.

The grain store in the city is owned by Feng's family, and it's just a bumper harvest. Many people are driving carts to sell grain. There is a long caravan lined up on the street outside the gate of the grain store's backyard.Xiuyao saw a group of people gathered there, discussing something, she listened to it, and it seemed that someone was saying, "Damn, the price has been reduced again. It was still six hundred and one stone at noon, but now it is five hundred."

"Yeah, I've been here a long time ago, and I was waiting in line there, but the price was lowered before it was my turn. Damn it, it's not for sale, it's not for sale."

His mother-in-law said: "I won't sell it anymore. Where can we exchange money? Where can we get the bride price for the big and small?" Besides food, the farmer only has two pigs and a pen of chickens at home. If they want to exchange money, they just sell food, pigs, and chickens. The pigs haven't fattened yet, and they've only weighed 100 to [-] catties after five months. No matter what, they can get more than [-] catties before selling at the end of the year.

The man let out annoyed, "Hey, it's really killing me!"

(End of this chapter)