After paying the bill, the family left without staying long.
Li Yu planned to go shopping today. She had been here for about half a year and had not had a proper shopping trip.
Li Yu first took them to Yunjin Textile where Fourth Uncle Lin worked.
Li Yu waved his hand and bought a piece of cloth for each of the three families: Aunt Lin Dasao, Aunt Lin Sanshang and Aunt Lin Sishang.
Lin Hai's grandparents were also given a set of cotton-padded clothes and a pair of cotton-padded shoes to wear during the New Year.
She bought ready-made clothes for her family. Now Yang Liu is busy with her business, and Lin Mei struggles with sweaters every day, as she doesn't know how to make them herself.
We can only buy ready-made clothes for our family members.
After buying clothes, I went to the grocery store to buy a lot of snacks, including peanuts, sunflower seeds, preserved fruits, and plum fish.
These children have never had any snacks since they were young. Now that they have money, Li Yu is not the kind of person who would let himself be wronged.
After buying, everyone planned to go to the street where the Hu merchants set up stalls to see if there were any good things they could find.
Unexpectedly, just as he reached the street corner and before entering the alley, the Hu man who had sold wool to Li Yu before saw Li Yu.
He came trotting over, still calling out, "Madam, this way, this way, Madam."
Li Yu heard the sound and looked over, only to see a dirty and unkempt Hu man running towards her.
She looked confused and asked, "Who are you?"
Lin Mei, however, had a good eye and whispered to Li Yu in her ear: "Mom, this is the Hu people trader who sold us wool."
Only then did she remember this person, mainly because Li Yu had asked him to deliver wool to the breakfast stall if he had any. It had been several months, and she hadn't seen Lin Hai bring any wool back.
Li Yu thought he would not come, but he didn't expect to meet him today.
"Madam, it's really you. I just shipped the wool here yesterday and planned to deliver it to you today. Unexpectedly, after asking around, everyone said that your family is not in town and you will not be setting up a stall today." The man said to her.
"The weather has been getting cold lately, so I haven't been setting up shop. What's wrong with you? Did something happen to you?"
Seeing that it was still early, Li Yu invited him to sit in the restaurant and chat while eating: "Well, we still don't know each other well, let's go to the restaurant next door and talk slowly."
Lin Hai quickly led the way: "This way."
The restaurant they went to was De Fu Lou, the largest restaurant in town that Lin Jiang had always longed for.
When the dishes were served, this man started eating without even saying hello.
Li Yu was not angry. He could tell from the man's appearance that he had suffered on the road.
Several people hardly ate anything. Hu Shang ate all the dishes. He stopped and spoke only when he had almost finished eating.
"Madam, my name is Gerd. You must be aware that our Chagan Kingdom has always had good diplomatic relations with the Tianqi Dynasty and we trade with each other.
Don't laugh at me, but we have a lot of cattle and sheep over there, and we don't have anything to sell. We are in great need of tea, salt, iron, and the like.
The last time I came here, I brought some blankets to sell. Business was pretty good and I could barely make a living. I thought of bringing some wool to see if anyone from the Central Plains wanted it, but after a long time, no one even glanced at it.
To be honest, I was planning to throw it away and take it back home, but I didn't expect you, Madam, to buy it and even said you would take as many as you could.
I hurried back to my hometown to collect quite a bit, but it was winter and snowy in many places. Transporting the food was difficult, and it took me over a month to get here.”
Li Yu could hear their sadness and imagine how difficult it was to transport things over a thousand kilometers in that era of underdeveloped transportation.
I admire him very much.
"I understand the hardships you've gone through. As I said before, I'll take whatever you have. Now that it's winter, I won't be too harsh on you.
I'll take them all, five cents a pound," she said.
Li Yu also knew that their transportation was difficult. Although it was only one cent last time, if someone specialized in this business this time, it would definitely not be possible to get even one cent.
Although wool is not valuable in Chagan, it is bulky and transportation alone is a problem. If it is priced at one cent, it goes without saying that people will not be willing to buy it, as the transportation fee alone is not enough.
If you want to be in the wool business for a long time, you must let others make a profit.
Gerd was not very surprised when he heard Li Yu say one catty cost five cents.
Li Yu also understood that there were only a few fools who could travel from one country to another to do business.
"Madam, to be honest with you, I came here this time with the intention of raising the price. I didn't expect you to have thought of it. On behalf of my caravan, I thank you for your understanding.
This thing is very cheap in my hometown and no one wants it. It is the same in the Central Plains. Madam, you have a good eye for it, but my brothers and I have suffered a lot on the road for this thing.
Madam, could you please add a little more for me? Don’t worry, if you can make better things with wool in the future, I won’t raise the price.”
This guarantee is very important.
Although Gerd said this, he was actually quite nervous. He had brought about 5,000 kilograms of goods this time and was prepared to lose money.
If the lady didn't agree to the price increase, he would burn the house, go home and herd sheep, and never bother again.
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