Geng Feng came, just like yesterday, pushing a cart with two clay pots on it.
Inside was wild boar meat cut into strips, covered with a large bamboo cover and covered with hay.
It can block dust and sunlight, and also block the sight of the villagers. Next to the basin, there are two hook scales, and it is obvious that one rod was brought for Qin Nian.
Qin Nian carried the clay basin out, and Geng Feng hurried over to help. He put the basin on the cart, picked up another bamboo cover and covered it with hay.
Qin Nian smiled and said, "Let's go."
The beautiful doctor in her previous life has now become a little country girl, and she goes out to sell wild boar meat in high spirits.
"Walk."
Geng Feng started pushing the cart. He was very strong, so pushing these things was not difficult at all for him.
Dawa Village is eighteen miles away from the county town. The two men talked without feeling tired and arrived at the south gate of the county town.
A soldier at the city gate raised his neck and shouted: "Those entering the city should line up and prepare their money, three coins per person.
Those who don’t have money should not come forward, it’s useless even if they do.”
Qin Nian was stunned. She had no money and could not enter the county town.
Geng Feng hurriedly said: "Xiao Nian, I have money."
After saying this, he took out six coins from his pocket.
Geng Feng's family only had a dozen coins, which he saved from selling pheasants last time. Geng Feng had been to the county town several times and knew that he had to pay to enter the city.
He brought out the money in the morning and also brought three cents for Qin Nian.
Qin Nian was a little embarrassed: "Geng Feng, I will return it to you after I sell the wild boar meat."
Geng Feng shook his head slightly: "Don't be so polite. It's important to get into the city. After we sell the meat and buy things, we can go back early."
Geng Feng pushed the cart and Qin Nian followed behind him.
After Geng Feng paid six cents, the two of them entered the county town and headed for the largest market in the city.
When they were about to reach the market, Qin Nian stopped Geng Feng and asked, "How much do you plan to sell our wild boar meat for?"
Geng Feng thought for a moment and said, "Before, pork was 20 cents per pound. Now it is a famine year, so the price will probably be higher.
I haven't bought pork in a long time, let's go in and ask."
Qin Nian asked again: "In the past, was wild boar meat more expensive or cheaper than normal pork?"
"It should be cheaper. After all, wild boar meat is tough and not easy to rot. It doesn't taste as good as pork."
Qin Nian nodded: "Geng Feng, I'll watch the cart here, you go to the market and ask about the price of pork first.
After we get the information, we can decide how much it will cost per pound."
"OK."
Geng Feng agreed, and walked into the market as fast as the wind with his long legs. After a while, he came out like the wind again. He told Qin Nian:
"The price of pork has gone up. It's now 30 wen a pound. How about we sell it at 25 wen a pound?"
Qin Nian said: "Okay. But let's not stand together for a while. I'll choose a position first, and you and I will be a little distance apart.
If someone asks me how much a pound of wild boar meat costs, I will say thirty cents. If they ask you, you should say twenty-five cents. Do you understand?"
Geng Feng instantly understood what Qin Nian meant. He looked at the little girl in front of him with his bright dark eyes and said with a smile:
"Xiao Nian, you are so smart."
Qin Nian also smiled: "This way, your wild boar meat can be sold out quickly, and others won't have to bargain.
When yours are sold out, take mine and sell them. They will all be sold out quickly."
Qin Nian gave Geng Feng a few more instructions, and the two of them entered the market.
After Qin Nian chose a good spot, he took down the large clay pot filled with wild boar meat, took the hook scale in his hand, and started shouting to sell wild boar meat.
Geng Feng walked a short distance down and stopped. He put his wild boar meat on the cart and started shouting.
The shouting of the two people attracted other people's attention.
Qin Nian is a little girl who looks fragile and easy to bully.
Soon, a man in his fifties, dressed in bright clothes, walked over, glanced at Qin Nian and asked:
"Girl, how much is a pound of wild boar meat?"
Qin Nian answered loudly: "Thirty cents a pound."
“Hey, normal pork is only thirty cents, and wild boar meat tastes worse, why are you selling it so expensive?
Can it be cheaper? If it is, I will buy half a pound to try it. "
"It's hard to hunt a wild boar, and it can't be cheap."
The man looked Qin Nian up and down and said, "You can hunt wild boars? You are lying with your eyes open."
The man shook his head slightly, walked down a few steps, and heard Geng Feng also shouting to sell wild boar meat, and asked casually:
"Young man, how much is this wild boar meat?"
“Twenty-five cents. I just hunted a wild boar yesterday. It’s spring now, so this will be a great tonic.
If it weren’t for the consecutive years of famine and the financial difficulties at home, I wouldn’t sell a single pound of it and would keep it for myself.”
The latter sentence was what Qin Nian taught Geng Feng just now.
"Great tonic?"
The man blinked a few times, his interest piqued. He stopped and looked into the clay basin.
"Well, wild boar in spring gives men energy."
This was said by Geng Feng himself, not taught by Qin Nian.
The man showed a lewd smile on his face: "Young man, you said men will be energetic after eating? What will make you energetic?
Have you tried it? "
Geng Feng blushed slightly, and fearing that Qin Nian, who was not far away, would hear him, he lowered his voice and said, "I'm energetic in everything I do.
I haven’t tried it, but some people in our village have tried it.”
"Okay, okay."
The man was happy: "I'll buy two pounds to try. If it really makes me feel good, I'll buy wild boar meat every day in the future.
I have a wife and two concubines at home, I have everything I need except strength. Come on, help me pick out two good ones."
"Okay."
Geng Feng helped the man pick out two pieces of wild boar meat, tied them up with a straw rope, and the man happily took them home.
I sold two kilograms and got fifty cents.
Geng Feng glanced at Qin Nian who was not far away and laughed happily.
He had sold things before, but never as fast as this time.
After he opened the scale, people came to ask about the meat and buy it. After more than an hour, Geng Feng's wild boar meat was sold out.
He hurried over, took some of Qin Nian's wild boar meat, and shouted loudly.
At the same time, Qin Nian began to shout loudly: "The price is reduced, the price of wild boar meat is reduced.
Twenty-five cents a pound. Hurry up if you want to buy, or they’ll be sold out.”
Hearing that the price was reduced, some people came to buy it at a bargain price. Soon, all of Qin Nian’s wild boar meat was sold out.
After leaving the market, the two men hid in an empty alley and counted their money.
Geng Feng's wild boar meat weighed about 150 jin, and at 25 wen per jin, he sold it for a total of 3,750 wen, which was a little more than three and a half taels of silver.
Qin Nian's wild boar meat was a few pounds more than Geng Feng's, and it was sold for almost two taels of silver.
She returned the three cents to Geng Feng, but Geng Feng refused. However, Qin Nian insisted and finally took it and put it in her arms.
The two men were so happy that they went to the pharmacy first to buy some anti-inflammatory, analgesic and wound-healing ointment for Geng Zhenhai. They bought two bottles and spent two taels of silver.
Then, the two went to the rice shop.
Cornmeal costs twenty cents per pound, which is too expensive, almost as expensive as pork.
There’s nothing we can do, that’s how famine years are.
Geng Feng and Qin Nian each bought fifty kilograms of cornmeal, spending one or two taels of silver.
After buying some more salt, Geng Feng had spent all his money.
Qin Nian still had more than two taels of silver left, which he kept close to his body, and the two of them walked back happily.
Mrs. Li had already prepared the meal.
She used some wild vegetables and mushrooms left over from yesterday and boiled two bowls of soup with wild boar meat.
There was no food at home, and there was nothing else we could do except drink soup.
Seeing that Qin Nian bought fifty kilograms of cornmeal, Mrs. Li was so happy that her eyes curved into small boats with a smile.
"It will be ready tomorrow morning, and we'll have cornmeal to drink."
Having corn paste to drink is actually a good life. Qin Nian was deeply moved when he heard this.
After finishing her meal, Mrs. Li picked up the bucket and went to the well to fetch water.
Qin Nian stood up and said, "Grandma, you can't carry it. Let's go carry water together like we did in the past."
Mrs. Li straightened her back and said, "I've eaten several meals of meat, and my strength has been restored. Carrying two buckets of water is like a piece of cake."
Qin Nian smiled. She knew that her grandmother couldn't carry the water, but she didn't argue with her. She just insisted on carrying the water.
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