They followed the caravan from Yueyang Town to Yueyang City. Because of Thermos and Pei Shaorong, they became closer to the people in the caravan and became familiar with them.
Pei Shaorong had not traveled all over the world, but as a modern man he knew a lot. He was used to hanging out with bad friends and was a very talkative person. But in just a few days, even Zheng San, who had traveled all over the country, had begun to admire him.
Of course, he also admired Zheng San very much. All of his knowledge and experience came from personal experience, which was no less than what he knew from the computer.
After talking with Zheng San these few days, he has a better understanding of the world he lives in and his horizons have broadened a lot. After all, there is too little information he can learn from the villagers who have traveled far away.
Although they had to hurry along the way, Pei Shaorong and Mo Xiaobao felt very comfortable and did not feel the hardship of the journey at all.
Although Mo Xiaobao is a young man with the same status as a woman, compared with a woman, a young man is still more likely to appear in public. Pei Shaorong is not a native man here, and he has no intention of not allowing the young man to show up in public.
He has a lively personality and is more popular with the caravan members than Pei Shaorong because he is a good cook. The caravan is full of grown men, so naturally their cooking skills are not as good as Mo Xiaobao, who has been in the kitchen since he was a child.
After a few days' journey, before mealtime, the caravan members would dawdle in front of Pei Shaorong and Mo Xiaobao's rice pots, begging for food and drink like big dogs.
However, these people are still very conscious. After eating, they will give back some of the other things they sent over as an exchange of thanks.
When they were sleeping at night, Pei Shaorong and Mo Xiaobao's modern tent attracted the attention of Zheng San and the caravan members again.
It's not that they haven't seen tents before, as most ethnic groups on the grassland live in tents. But they have never seen such light and easy to carry modern tents, and they feel novel about them.
Zheng San and the people in the caravan were naturally tempted by such good things when traveling in the wild, and they quickly pulled Pei Shaorong to ask and express their desire to buy them.
Pei Shaorong had already planned the caravan members' reactions before leaving the village. He was just waiting for them to say "buy things".
He had prepared a lot of various equipment necessary for outdoor walking in the apocalypse. Now that he has settled down, he basically doesn't need them anymore, so he naturally has to find a way to deal with them and not let them go to waste.
Each tent was sold at eight taels, and a total of ten tents were sold to Zheng San's caravan, and eighty taels went into his pocket again.
Zheng San and others were extremely excited when they got the tents. Pei Shaorong and Mo Xiaobao were also very happy in their hearts. Even if they sold these ten tents, there would still be more than ten tents left in the space that they could use in the future. The eighty taels were really earned in vain.
Pei Shaorong naturally did not miss out on sleeping bags, a must-have item for the wild. He briefly mentioned it to Zheng San and others, and everyone's eyes immediately lit up.
Oh my god, the things in Brother Pei's hand are all the necessities they need. After seeing the thermos tent, everyone is even more looking forward to the convenient and warm sleeping bag that Pei Shaorong mentioned.
When they saw Pei Shaorong take out the sleeping bags that he and Mo Xiaobao had prepared for themselves and show them to everyone, they instantly became excited and wanted to buy them immediately.
However, this time Pei Shaorong did not sell it directly to everyone. His donkey cart was only so big, and everyone could see how much stuff it could hold. Zheng San and others were not fools, so they might be able to see something fishy.
"Brother Zheng, I don't have this sleeping bag now. If you want it, you can only wait until we finish the business in Yueyang City and send two people to go back to the village with me to get it. By the way, I also sold a few pairs of shoes to my overseas brother. Those shoes are amazing, especially suitable for mountaineering..."
There are too many things in his own space that he doesn't need now, so Pei Shaorong began to actively promote them to Zheng San and others. In addition to sleeping bags, these magical shoes are of course hiking shoes.
There are more shoes than those outdoor supplies. It is no problem to sell more than a dozen pairs of hiking shoes to Zheng San and others. Anyway, I basically wear cloth shoes in the village, and I can never wear all these hiking shoes.
Selling these things to Zheng San and others can not only make more money, but also there is no need to worry about risks. These traveling merchants will not stay in one place for too long, and it is difficult to say whether they will meet again in the future.
"Okay, it's settled!" Zheng San and the others were excited. "Overseas is really a good place. Unfortunately, the sea is too far away from here. I'm afraid we will never see the overseas businessmen you mentioned, Brother Pei. It's really a great fortune for Brother Pei to meet overseas businessmen while traveling..."
Hearing everyone's sighs, Pei Shaorong smiled silently in his heart. He was not afraid that Zheng San and others would suspect him of greed or expose his lies.
Let’s not talk about whether these people can meet overseas businessmen. Even if they do, it will be difficult to expose them. The world is so big, who can say that they know everything and know everything?
Although these things are magical, they are only valuable to traveling merchants like Zheng San. In the eyes of ordinary people, these things are as useless as chicken ribs and will not arouse people's greed.
After selling thermoses, tents, sleeping bags and sneakers to Zheng San and others, Pei Shaorong did not continue to sell other things.
The reason why they dared to sell these things to Zheng San and others was, first, because these caravan members were knowledgeable and more likely to accept new things than ignorant villagers.
Secondly, although these things look magical, they are actually not that extraordinary. At most, people can just praise their rare materials and exquisite workmanship, which won’t make people too suspicious.
Sleeping in the tent at night, the two counted the silver they had earned and were very excited. They had earned 105 taels of silver before even reaching Yueyang City. When they strolled around Yueyang City and sold their sleeping bags and shoes, they would make a fortune!
"Brother Pei, your hometown is so magical. There is also the sea. What kind of place is that? Tell me more about it. I want to hear you talk about the fish that is bigger than a house and can spray water. How can there be such a big and magical fish in the world?..."
Mo Xiaobao lay on Pei Shaorong and happily asked for a bedtime story. What Brother Pei said was more interesting than the stories told by the village chief who only wandered around Yueyang Town.
"The sea is a very magical and dangerous place. The fish that can spray water is called a whale..."
Mo Xiaobao wanted to listen, so Pei Shaorong was naturally happy to tell him what he had seen and heard. He felt a little regretful that he had prepared a solar generator in the shelter but not one in the space, otherwise he could have played TV for Mo Xiaobao.
Thinking of the shelter that he had carefully prepared and renovated to cope with the end of the world, Pei Shaorong smiled guiltily.
Since the end of the world hasn't come yet, I wonder if the landlord who rented the house to me will have the urge to kill me when he comes back from vacation and sees the house turned into that. But at least I gave them a house full of supplies...
The five-day journey passed quickly, and by noon on the fifth day, Pei Shaorong and his companions followed the caravan to the legendary Yueyang City.
"Yueyang City! This is Yueyang City, look, Brother Pei, it's so beautiful!"
Compared with Yueyang Town, Yueyang City is indeed much larger and its buildings are much more majestic, similar to the ancient cities that Pei Shaorong had seen in costume TV dramas.
Not only Mo Xiaobao, Pei Shaorong was also very excited. The feeling of seeing the prosperous ancient city with his own eyes was definitely not comparable to what he saw on TV.
The tall city walls, the armored soldiers guarding the city, the various shops with a wide range of goods, and the passers-by walking back and forth, Yueyang City is more magnificent and prosperous than he had imagined.
Zheng San and others had been to Yueyang City before, so Pei Shaorong followed them to find an inn to stay in, so that they could take care of each other since they knew each other.
Zheng San and others were familiar with the situation in Yueyang City. Knowing that Pei Shaorong was here to sell persimmon cakes and preserved fruits, they gave him a general idea of the prices of goods in the city.
As for their caravans, they usually sell border specialties, and then bring back silk, ceramics, salt and tea.
After getting a rough idea of the prices in Yueyang City, Pei Shaorong took Mo Xiaobao directly to the largest snack shop in the city, intending to sell all the persimmon cakes and preserved fruits at once.
This might earn less, but the main purpose of coming to Yueyang City this time is to have a honeymoon, and we can't waste all the money on making money, so the less trouble we have, the better.
But even if the profit is less, it is still much more than selling directly to Yueyang Town. Moreover, the snack shops in Yueyang City are large and can easily consume thousands of kilograms of persimmon cakes and preserved fruits.
According to the purchasing prices in Yueyang City, Pei Shaorong's persimmon cakes of good quality cost three cents each, the same as the selling price in the town, and those of poor quality also cost two cents each, and hawthorn preserves cost fifteen cents per pound.
This is the benefit of a developed and prosperous economy. If these things were sold directly in the town, they would definitely not be sold at this price.
Excluding the loss in the production process, there were more than 800 persimmon cakes of good quality, more than 300 of poor quality, and more than 1,500 kilograms of preserved fruits in total. They were all sold to the snack shop and the couple made a total profit of more than 18 taels of silver.
After selling the persimmon cakes and preserved fruits, Pei Shaorong and Mo Xiaobao changed into better clothes and then ran to the largest restaurant in the city to dispose of the wine.
The wine-making technology here is not as good as it is today, and the various tools are not as developed as they are today. The wine produced is actually a bit turbid.
Pei Shaorong's wine should actually be called red wine to be more precise. It tastes much better than the wine in Yueyang City, and it looks clear, which is many levels higher than the turbid wine here.
The moment the restaurant owner saw the wine, his eyes lit up, and he immediately decided to buy it from Pei Shaorong at the price of two taels of silver per bottle.
This bottle is not the most common 750ml bottle sold in modern stores, but is repackaged by Pei Shaorong in small ceramic bottles. Each bottle contains only about 200ml, less than a can of Coke.
However, the restaurant owner already felt that it was a good deal. He had never seen such high-quality wine. Two taels of silver for a bottle was totally worth it to him!
In addition to wine, Pei Shaorong prepared some white wine, which he had originally intended to use to bribe the upper echelons of the Doomsday Base for asylum.
He himself actually didn't like drinking and smoking that much. There were so many things in the space that he didn't mind keeping the better ones and exchanging the lower-quality ones for silver.
There were also some smoked meat and other products, and Pei Shaorong also sold some of them to restaurants. He could make the smoked meat and sausages himself if he wanted to eat them later, so he didn't feel bad about it.
After selling the things to the restaurant, the final price was 200 taels of silver for 100 small ceramic bottles of wine and 100 small jars of white wine, the weight being the common one-jin package here. Also because of their good quality, the restaurant owner bought them for one tael of silver, for a total of one hundred taels.
Pei Shaorong sold more than 500 kilograms of smoked meat products to the restaurant at 20 wen per kilogram, which was more than 6 taels. The restaurant made a total profit of 306 taels.
After getting the silver and leaving the restaurant, Pei Shaorong felt very satisfied. He thought that he had only earned a few dozen taels by secretly selling some things in the town, but now that he arrived in the big city, his money had increased several times.
Weighing the money he had on him, Pei Shaorong decided to resell some things in a few days to make a quick buck so as not to go to Yueyang City with so much effort. The excitement of making money was simply indescribable!
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