Chapter 273 Will it get steamed?
"There are many styles of Polo bottles. Look, the big ones are this big, and the small ones are even smaller than a child's palm." Aisan took out the Polo bottles one by one from his cloth bag. There were big and small ones, of all kinds, and some with wooden corks.
"You said, this is the bottle sold by Polo merchants?" Xiao Jiuyue took out a Polo bottle that was the size of a can. The glass was well made and had transparency. It looked clear, not the kind of blurry shadow.
"Yes, Xijiang Country has had them for a long time, but we in Nanyue have fewer." Aisan said with saliva flying: "I really gained a lot from this trip to Xijiang Country. I looked at these Polo bottles and thought we would definitely like them."
"My benefactor, this Polo bottle contains beautiful things."
Aisan was trying hard to sell his products. Just as he was about to speak, the waiter had already put the dishes on the table. Aisan took out a cloth bag, opened it, and covered all his Polo bottles. After the waiter left, Aisan said, "My benefactor, if you still want Polo bottles, I won't charge you any money. I'll charge you twenty coins for each Polo bottle."
"Twenty cents, why don't you just rob it?" Luo Kui looked at the Polo bottles. Aishan was holding the smallest one, which was not even as big as a palm. It cost twenty cents. You should know that a more beautiful porcelain jar would only cost a dozen cents, and one of better quality would only cost twenty or thirty cents.
"If I sell it to someone, it's just a small thing like this, and I get at least twenty-five cents, but at twenty cents, I don't earn any money from my benefactor."
Aishan said excitedly, "These types are all priced the same. This larger Polo bottle is a bit more expensive, at least 25 wen. If I sell it to others, I have to sell it for at least 30 wen."
"I came to Lancang County yesterday to sell Polo bottles. You can ask others for the price." Aisan praised the bottle while holding it.
Luo Kui looked at the Polo bottle in his hand suspiciously and asked, "Well, you only earn five cents a person. You can't make much money from this trip?" Luo Kui's eyes were full of doubts, as if saying, you can't come here for nothing, right?
"Hehe." Aisan grinned, his eyes full of uncontrollable joy as he said, "These Polo bottles aren't big. I put them in wooden boxes, and put orange stalks and old cotton inside to prevent them from getting damaged. I can sell quite a few of them with a whole horse-drawn cart at a time!"
Besides, you can earn more than five cents from a Polo bottle!
"I want 10,000 of these bottles, and they cost twenty cents each." Xiao Jiuyue said as she held up a Polo bottle that sold for twenty-five cents. Five cents might not be much, but she didn't want to be taken advantage of.
She has to save her money to support her beautiful mother and silly brother!
"One, ten thousand?" Aisan was so shocked that he couldn't even speak clearly.
Xiao Jiuyue asked: "Yes, do you have it?"
"Yes, yes, but I only have 3,000 of these Polo bottles. I have to spend time to transport the remaining 7,000 from Xijiang. It will take at least until the end of the first month of next year." Aishan knew everything about the goods he imported!
"Ten thousand before the New Year." Xiao Jiuyue looked at him steadily.
Aishan hesitated for a moment before saying, "Then I have to go back to Beiyang to see. Benefactor, are these twenty coins a little short? How about adding another two coins?"
"As a Polo bottle owner, I should at least earn some hard work fee." Aishan looked at Xiao Jiuyue cautiously, his face full of a flattering smile. Ten thousand Polo bottles can earn at least one hundred taels of silver!
Xiao Jiuyue looked at Aishan with a half-smile: "This time it's 10,000 Polo bottles. If your bottles are good, I might order a few more. Are you sure you want to increase the price?"
"I might need this small, corked Polo bottle in the future." Xiao Jiuyue's eyes flickered. Before she could finish her words, Aishan slammed the table and said, "My benefactor, I will give it to you without earning a penny. I brought more than a hundred bottles with me when I came to the county this time. I will give them all to you later."
"Thank you, benefactor. You are not only my savior, but also the benefactor of my business!" Aishan praised Xiao Jiuyue while eating.
After lunch, Aishan was afraid that Xiao Jiuyue would not place an order, so he took out the remaining more than 100 Polo bottles and gave them all to Xiao Jiuyue, saying, "My benefactor has been so kind to me. These Polo bottles of various sizes are my thanks to you."
"Then I won't be polite." Xiao Jiuyue accepted it directly, wrote an agreement with Aishan, paid half of the deposit, and handed him one hundred taels of silver.
Aishan put the silver in his arms, and he smiled even more brightly. He said directly: "My benefactor, I will send the Polo bottle to you in three days, at most five days."
After saying that, Aishan turned and ran away, driving the carriage away at full speed, raising a cloud of dust. Luo Kui quickly stood in front of Xiao Jiuyue and said, "Miss, he doesn't make any money, but he gave you so many Polo bottles. Isn't that a loss?"
There are more than twenty of these Polo vases of various sizes and styles.
"Do you think the way he left just now looked like a loss?" Xiao Jiuyue asked with a chuckle.
Luo Kui looked back. The dust slowly cleared, and there was no trace of Aishan's carriage. She shook her head and said, "Just now, he was so happy, as if he had found a treasure, not a loss."
After saying this, Luo Kui pointed in shock at the direction Aishan left and said, "So, the twenty cents they paid for the goods is just a lie, right?"
"Just listen to what he says." Xiao Jiuyue patted Luo Kui's shoulder and said. She only bargained for five cents because the world is not good now. It is really hard to transport the bottle and people are risking their lives to make money. Otherwise, she estimated that this bottle, no matter how big or small, would only cost a few cents in Polo.
"This..." Luo Kui blinked in shock and shook his hands vigorously, saying, "I thought he really didn't make any money."
God knows that just now when Aisan was crying poor and saying that he didn't make any money, he was thanking the lady for her help. She was thinking in her heart that this person was pretty good.
"Silly." Xiao Jiuyue chuckled, looking at the large and small Polo bottles, and was in a particularly good mood. The bottles with wooden corks were just right for storing the fresh powder made from dried and ground sea sausages, which was convenient for storage and sale.
When they returned home in the evening, Xiao Jiuyue kept one of each size and distributed the rest to everyone.
The adults were fine, but the two girls, Xiao Tingwu and Xiao Yurong, particularly liked these transparent bottles and were very happy to get them.
Xiao Jiuyue took dozens of Polo bottles, cleaned them, and prepared to have people try to can food in them. In the canning workshop, it was Mother Geng who was on duty. She listened to Xiao Jiuyue and asked worriedly, "Miss, if we put these Polo bottles in water to steam them, won't they get spoiled?"
Mother Geng looked at the Polo bottle. Such a beautiful bottle, if it broke into pieces, it would be a waste of such good canned oranges!
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