When they arrived, there were already many stalls set up on North Street. Lin Xue was quick-witted and found a spot under the shade of a big tree to set up her stall.
Such a good place shouldn't have survived to this day, but Lin Xue didn't need to ask around; she learned the reason from conversations among the surrounding vendors.
Originally, this was a fixed stall, the kind where people would rent it out on a monthly basis.
Every fixed stall has a special mark, which is removed when the previous stall owner leaves.
Any vendor who regularly sets up a stall here knows that they won't easily take over someone else's fixed stall.
In other words, before Lin Xue and the others arrived, the owner of this stall seemed to have no intention of selling anything anymore, so he came specifically to remove the markings.
The surrounding vendors had already set up their stalls and weren't planning to move, which is why this spot ended up being a good opportunity for Lin Xue and her group.
"Second brother and sister-in-law, this location is good. When the constables come to collect the stall fee later, let's just pay to rent this place."
Setting up a stall requires paying a stall fee, with fixed stalls charged in three tiers: seven days, fifteen days, and one month.
Other individual stalls don't have this requirement; as long as you pay a few coins depending on the size of your stall, you can set up a stall and sell things here.
"Third sister-in-law, do you know how much it would cost to rent this stall?"
When she left home in the morning, Old Mrs. Huang secretly gave Zhang twenty coins.
Now that the topic of renting a stall long-term has come up, Zhang touched the place where the copper coins were kept with some unease, wondering if twenty coins would be enough.
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