Shuiqing revealed her idea of ​​acquiring water chestnuts.

Fan Jin stood there dumbfounded for a long time before he came to his senses.

Their village, Shanshui, has many hills and waterways, and so many aquatic plants that they need to be harvested and cleared every year, among which water chestnuts are the most common.

Although it is food that can fill one's stomach, it is too difficult to peel, so the villagers only do it when they have free time after the autumn harvest.

I just didn't expect, "Shuiqing, is it really 121 jin? That means one jin of fresh water chestnut can buy 50 or 60 jin of rice, right?"

Bamboo mushrooms and skirt mushrooms are expensive, and Shui Qing said they are highly nutritious. He didn't know if they were actually nutritious, but he did know that both kinds of mushrooms were indeed delicious.

But water caltrop is different.

It has no taste, not even a hint of taste. When it's fresh, it might have a faint fragrance of aquatic plants, but once dried, it's just hard and solid.

"Absolutely, definitely, and certainly! Actually, hand-peeled water chestnuts can fetch an even higher price, but that's the Suqian variety from the Jiangnan region;"

"Our Shanshui Village grows water chestnuts from the far south, and they're several tens of yuan cheaper per kilogram," Shui Qing explained casually.

Fresh water chestnuts are sweet and refreshing. Just boil them in water for one minute and quickly take them out. They are tender and chewy. Add a spoonful of homemade osmanthus honey and mix well. The lingering fragrance will leave you wanting more!

Harvesting water chestnuts requires going into the water, and peeling each small, hard-shelled water chestnut seed is no easy task; the labor cost alone is the biggest expense.

Delicious, small portions, pollution-free wild and handmade, is it expensive?

It's not expensive at all for food lovers!

A thousand pieces of gold cannot buy what one loves, and most importantly, Chinese people have always been willing to spend money on food!

It's okay if people don't like it, because the quantity is already small and the supply can't meet the demand.

Fan Jin was extremely satisfied with the current price. He smiled contentedly and said, "Perhaps the place has been carefully maintained, resulting in better quality, so it's normal for the price to be higher."

He was content. Shuiqing said that the mall also had delicious rice, but it cost five or six yuan per kilogram.

Once I earn money, I'll buy Shuiqing some delicious rice.

He felt that the rice Shuiqing bought yesterday for less than two yuan per kilogram was already among the most delicious.

Thinking of something, Fan Jin asked worriedly, "Shui Qing, you said that exchanging one pound of water chestnut for dozens of pounds of rice is such a loss. Will it go bankrupt because of the losses?"

When Shuiqing heard Fan Jin's question, she thought it was truly the thinking of a scholar.

She adopted a businesswoman's attitude and said, "You're worried about it losing money? What are you thinking? This is a mall that really knows how to do business!"

They buy all-natural, labor-intensive food, and also sell various goods produced in large quantities. All the buying and selling happens through them, and they make money from both.

The online store is like Taobao or Pinduoduo in her world; you can sell things as a merchant or buy things as a buyer.

The advantage is that they don't need to do it themselves; they can sell as long as they agree, which is more convenient.

Hearing that he wouldn't lose money and could even make some, Fan Jin felt relieved.

He smiled gently and said, "It's good that it can make money. Then let's collect more water chestnuts and buy more goods so that it can make more money."

The mall is so good, he hopes it will make a lot of money.

Shui Qing and Fan Jin share an unprecedentedly similar view on this point!

After all, the money the mall makes is her money.

In this backward and impoverished ancient era, the Shang City was her provider!

It was the foundation of her livelihood.

Thinking of this, she said to Fan Jin, "Before you came back, I roughly thought about it, and bartering is the most cost-effective option."

In the memories I received, money was only needed to buy things in the prefectural city. In the village and Niutou Town, there was a market every five days where you could exchange goods for what you needed.

Eggs, rice, and flour are considered hard currencies and can be used as equivalent to money.