Chapter 019: City Trip
Adding the more than 1,000 taels earned from Baisong Town, it was just over 6,000 taels, which was about 6 million star coins. Earning 6 million in one day, getting rich overnight! Really getting rich overnight!
An audience member asked him why he didn't sell ginseng with an older age as well, thinking maybe, no, it would definitely fetch a higher price.
Seeing that the owner of Baiyaotang didn't feel any pain when paying, it was obvious that he was from a wealthy family.
As Lu Xuan followed the shopkeeper out, he said, "Five hundred year old ginseng is quite rare in the deep mountains. Let's keep it for collection."
If you don’t have enough money when you go back to purchase, then consider whether to sell them all for money.
When he returned to the front hall, a young man from an aristocratic family dressed in splendid clothes hurried in and asked the shopkeeper loudly, "Shopkeeper, do you have any aged ginseng? My grandfather has been in poor health recently and needs it. If you have any, I'll buy it at a high price!"
The shopkeeper, who had been preparing to use the 300-year-old ginseng as his treasure, perked up instantly upon seeing the newcomer. He blurted out, "I just got a good one! Mr. Bai, you're just in time!"
After saying that, she thought of Lu Xuan not leaving yet, and subconsciously glanced at him, with a hint of worry in her eyes.
Lu Xuan raised his eyebrows and easily guessed the shopkeeper's thoughts.
If he hadn't received the banknotes yet, he might really consider changing the buyer to make more money, but now that the money and goods have been paid, there is naturally no reason to regret it.
He waved to the shopkeeper, nodded to Bai Xuefeng who was looking at him curiously, and left Baiyaotang.
The shopkeeper breathed a sigh of relief and soon greeted Bai Xuefeng warmly.
After leaving Baiyaotang, Lu Xuan first went to the carriage and horse shop to rent a cart, then found an empty alley, took out a large amount of simply processed meat from the space, piled it on the cart, and pushed the full cart of meat to the restaurant.
The big restaurant in the capital was as wealthy as Baiyaotang. When they found out that he had tiger and bear meat, meat of wild animals that few hunters could provide, they generously bought the entire cart of meat.
The cart was not big, so it was impossible to hold all the meat. There was a lot of wild boar meat and wolf meat left over. Lu Xuan went to several other restaurants and sold them in batches. Finally, he sold all the meat that was ready to be sold.
Lu Xuan didn't sell venison.
As a herbivore, venison tastes much better than other carnivores and is equally nutritious, so naturally it should be kept for the family to eat.
The rest of the meat brought him a total profit of one hundred taels.
Afterwards, he would find a deserted place as usual, load a car with various leathers, and go to the leather shop to sell them.
Among all the skins, tiger skin is undoubtedly the most valuable, followed by bear skin and wolf skin. Among them, there are only eight complete wolf skins, and the rest were torn to pieces by vampire vines, greatly reducing their value. However, due to the large number, dozens of skins combined still sold for a high price of one hundred and twenty taels.
After a round of tossing and turning, it was getting dark, and Lu Xuan just found an inn to stay in.
Because we booked a room in the upper room, the service at the inn was quite good, including not only a sumptuous dinner but also free hot water.
After dinner, Lu Xuan took a comfortable hot bath and felt completely relaxed.
There wasn't much to watch in today's live broadcast, except that the audience reacted enthusiastically when selling things, but overall the total income from gifts didn't increase much, and after exchanging them for points it was just over 5,000.
Lu Xuan took a look at the daily discounted items.
It was similar to yesterday. The only things I could afford were nutritional supplements, energy stones, and a furniture package, none of which were necessities.
This time, Lu Xuan didn't spend any points to refresh the screen. He turned off the screen after reading it.
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The next morning, Lu Xuan ordered a large table of dishes directly at the inn. After making the audience salivate again, he asked the innkeeper about the location of the pawnshop, went to the pawnshop, and then started today's shopping.
The first and most important place to go is the grain store.
In order to ensure that the grain shop had sufficient inventory, Lu Xuan went directly to the largest grain shop in the city.
When they arrived at the place, there were many customers coming in and out of the shop as expected. Lu Xuan didn't pay attention to the other customers, but looked carefully at the types of food displayed in the shop.
Although Yunlu Village, including the provincial capital, is located in the north, the grain shop naturally needs to prepare as many goods as possible to do business, so the store has basically all the staple foods that can be named.
Brown rice, millet, yellow rice, polished rice, flour, peanuts, various beans such as soybeans, black beans, red beans, mung beans, etc.
After walking around the shop, Lu Xuan found the shopkeeper.
"I want to buy a large quantity of various grains. How much discount can your shop give me?"
The shopkeeper looked at Lu Xuan in surprise and asked, "How much do you want to buy?"
Lu Xuan said: "A few tens of thousands of pounds."
Shopkeeper: “!!!”
Tens of thousands of pounds! This is a big deal!
Lu Xuan asked again: "So, is there a discount?"
The shopkeeper immediately said, "Yes! I guarantee you the biggest discount!"
Lu Xuan: "I need ready-made goods. Can you provide them for me, today or tomorrow at the latest?"
The shopkeeper said confidently, "Don't worry, our store has sufficient stock. Even if the main store is short on stock, we can temporarily transfer goods from the other two branches in the city."
Lu Xuan nodded with satisfaction, "That would be great."
Next, the shopkeeper took out the account book and carefully asked Lu Xuan what specific food he needed and how much of each type he needed.
Lu Xuan had already calculated this when he first made the purchasing plan.
There are four people in the Lu family, but he has a big appetite and can eat as much as three or five people, so we just prepare ten servings.
If one person eats one pound of rice a day, ten people would eat ten pounds, which means three thousand six hundred and fifty pounds a year.
The weather companion shows a maximum of five years, which is a total of more than 18,000 kilograms in five years, which makes a total of 20,000 kilograms.
The prices in the capital city are higher than those in Baisong Town. A pound of rice in Baisong Town costs thirty cents, but here it costs thirty-five cents. However, the shopkeeper gave the lowest discount, and a pound costs only twenty-eight cents.
The price of fine noodles is more expensive than rice, and it still costs 32 cents even after the discount. Lu Xuan bought 20,000 catties and 10,000 catties respectively.
Brown rice and coarse noodles have relatively different tastes, but the prices of these two grains are cheap enough, so he can stock up on them. He ordered 1,000 kilograms of each.
In addition, there were 1,800 kilograms each of various beans, glutinous rice, sorghum, and oats, and 100 kilograms of various high-quality varieties.
In the end, a total of 36,000 kilograms of rice were purchased.
The grain shops in the city also sell oil, and Lu Xuan bought another 4,000 kilograms of four kinds of vegetable oil.
The total cost of grain and cooking oil was one thousand and ninety taels.
After the shopkeeper finished calculating the bill, his eyes were almost shining. He looked at Lu Xuan as if he was looking at a walking gold ingot, and his attitude was extremely enthusiastic.
Lu Xuan paid two hundred taels as a deposit and asked the shopkeeper to deliver all the food to a small courtyard not far from the inn by tomorrow at the latest.
He had just rented the yard from the pawnshop for 500 wen for three days, which was just right for receiving the large amount of goods he had purchased in the past few days.
The shopkeeper patted his chest and assured, "Don't worry! I promise to deliver all the goods to you before noon tomorrow at the latest. I will definitely not give you any less weight."
Lu Xuan nodded, took the receipt, and left the grain shop, continuing to the next purchasing location, the seed shop.
The seed shop doesn’t have a big facade, but it sells a wide variety of seeds.
The variety of vegetables is also very diverse due to the development of overseas trade, including onions, ginger, garlic, leeks, spinach, rapeseed, Chinese cabbage, celery, cabbage, lettuce, cucumber, radish, pepper, winter melon, pumpkin, squash, eggplant...
It doesn't have everything, but it is much more complete than Lu Xuan expected.
There are some things that are missing, such as sweet potatoes and corn, which are not available in the store.
It's not that these two crops don't exist in this dynasty, but the former consumes soil fertility, tastes ordinary, and will cause heartburn and flatulence if eaten too much, which is very unsightly. It also has a short shelf life and cannot be eaten once it sprouts.
Therefore, apart from some poor families who would grow some in their own vegetable gardens, or occasionally go up the mountain to pick wild vegetables and dig some to take home as relief food, basically no one would grow it on a large scale. Naturally, seed stores did not specially stock it.
For similar reasons, potatoes, which were also introduced early, did not receive enough attention.
As for corn, it was introduced into our dynasty only recently, and its quantity is still very rare. Only a small amount is collected by wealthy families as an ornamental object, and it is not widely planted.
Potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn are all essential life-saving foods in years of disaster. The key is that they are all delicious and can be eaten in many ways. But in the end, none of them were available. Lu Xuan was very disappointed.
But no matter how unhappy he was about not being able to buy things, he had no other choice. In the end, he bought five kilograms of each of the twenty or so kinds of vegetable seeds and half a kilogram of each of several common fruit seeds.
There happened to be an ordinary-sized pharmacy not far from the seed store. Lu Xuan only remembered that he had forgotten to buy Chinese medicine seeds after leaving Baiyaotang yesterday, so he went in and bought a batch of common Chinese medicine seeds.
After leaving the pharmacy, Lu Xuan was about to continue purchasing the next item. Not long after he walked away, he realized that someone seemed to be following him.
He looked calm, as if he hadn't noticed anything. He just turned around and turned from the busy street to the alley not far away.
Someone in the live broadcast room was sharp enough to notice something was wrong immediately.
[Aren't you going to the workshop you just asked the store owner about? The workshop isn't in this direction, right?]
[Did the host just laugh? There's something wrong!]
[Look at those people in the corner behind the camera. Are they following the host?]
[Really! I have a feeling it's going to be exciting!]
When the audience realized something was wrong and waited eagerly, the people behind them really followed Lu Xuan into the alley, blocked his way at an extremely fast speed and surrounded him.
The burly man in the lead said with a malicious look on his face, "Kid! Did you sell ginseng at Baiyaotang yesterday? You must have made a lot of money, right? How about giving some to the guys?"
Audience in the live broadcast room: Oh no! It turned out to be a robbery!
[…I feel as if I have already seen the end of these people.]
[Hey, why did you have to target the anchor? Does the anchor have the words "easy to bully" written all over their face?]
【Waiting for the anchor to slap him in the face. 】
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