Chapter 58 Your eldest brother can read
Konjac tofu became the new favorite for dinner. The two children forgot about the warning that one should not eat too much for dinner and ate too much without realizing it.
Shen Ning: "Sister-in-law, can we sell this konjac tofu too?"
Sang Luo nodded: "Yes, but we won't sell konjac tofu. We'll just sell vegetarian tripe."
How can selling vegetables make as much money as selling snacks? How can selling lettuce make as much money as selling cooked food?
Selling konjac tofu alone would not fetch a high price, so Sang Luo decided to process the finished product and directly sell it as vegetarian tripe. The price would be higher, and with a new image and name, no one would be able to guess what it was made of.
Shen An's eyes lit up: "It's better to sell this directly, we can make more money, right?"
"Of course." Sang Luo tilted her head and thought, her eyes fell on the small jars of soy sauce and vinegar at home, and said, "Let's buy some small jars and sell them by the jar. We can sell the tofu and fairy tofu to the families who help us, and we can sell the vegetarian tripe and crystal preserved meat ourselves. Let's go directly to the county to find a shop to discuss cooperation."
Expensive items are naturally best sold in a place that sells expensive goods.
The brother and sister's eyes lit up. They thought that the padlocks and trousers would be available soon.
Indeed, it came very quickly. The next morning, Qin Fangniang, Gan and Feng Liuniang came together with the money for the order.
Ever since Sang Luo agreed with several companies that day to get the goods from her, Old Man Chen and Mrs. Chen had already made it clear, and they did the same thing afterwards, paying and picking up the goods, instead of helping Sang Luo sell the goods as before.
It is very different here. You pay for the goods, and if you can't sell them, it's just a waste of money. But in the past, if you couldn't sell them, they would still belong to Sangluo.
In the past, it was Sang Luo who took care of them. Now, Sang Luo told the other two families that they had to pay and pick up the goods. Although she did not mention them, the Chen family must have their own rules in mind and must take the initiative to change this plan.
When Sang Luo saw Qin Fangniang also coming with money to place an order, she smiled and said nothing.
Qin Fangniang sells established goods in the East Market. In the past, Sang Luo sold them in the West Market, but now there is just one more seller picking them up in the streets. Although she will lose some customers to a certain extent, she thought that during the busy farming season, she and Sang Luo did not go to the county, and people in the county have not been able to buy Shenxian tofu and tofu for many days, so she is not worried that her business will be affected.
Qin Fangniang had never sold tofu before, but having seen Sang Luo sell it before, she had a rough idea in her mind. She thought that since she had only sold divine tofu in the past, and now that she had added tofu, there would be some competition between the two products. In the end, after weighing the pros and cons, she decided to sell the two products for 40 yuan each.
The one hundred and twenty coins had been counted out at home long ago, one string of one hundred coins and one string of twenty coins. He gave two strings of money to Sang Luo.
Sang Luo accepted it with a smile, and looked at Gan and Feng Liuniang. She didn't ask about the order first, but asked where they were setting up their stall.
Gan smiled and said, "We have discussed it. We will take turns to set up a stall in the West Market and sell goods on the streets. We will switch every five days. It will be good to rest for a few days after being tired from carrying goods on the streets."
It was not bad as Sang Luo expected. She smiled and said, "This is good. It won't be too tiring."
There will be no discord or rifts.
"What quantity do you two ladies want?"
Gan smiled and said, "This is our first time selling, so we are unsure. Let's compare it with Fangniang's and each sell for ten yuan less."
That's thirty yuan of magical tofu. Thirty yuan of tofu, sixty yuan for a family, ninety cents per person.
The three families had obviously discussed this before coming. Gan and Feng Liuniang each took out a string of money: "Here are ninety coins. Wife Alie, please count them."
Sang Luo accepted the money and said to Gan and Feng Liuniang, "There are so many things to make, and I don't have enough containers at the moment. I'm afraid you need to leave a bucket with me these days. I will fill it for you when the goods are ready at night, so you can pick it up the next morning."
Both of them nodded.
Sang Luo said to Qin Fangniang, "I'm afraid I'll have to ask Uncle Youtian to come over and make another set of tofu poles for me after he finishes his work today, otherwise it will be difficult to provide them tomorrow."
The existing pair of tofu carrying poles can be used by two people, because each family carries the delicious tofu in wooden barrels on the other side. Now there are three stalls, so it is naturally not enough.
Qin Fangniang smiled and said, "Okay, today we just need to finish the work. I'll take his place in a while and let him focus on your work."
Sang Luo hurriedly thanked her. Qin Fangniang waved her hand. Seeing that Gan and Feng Liuniang were about to go back, she hurriedly said to Sang Luo, "My mother asked me to ask you if you were going to sell the thing you made yesterday in the county?"
As soon as Sang Luo heard this, she knew what the old lady meant by asking Qin Fangniang this question, and she smiled and said, "For sale, but that thing takes a lot of time and effort, and it is very difficult to make, so the price will be higher. I plan to go back to the big shop in the county town and ask if they will take it and sell it in the shop."
Qin Fangniang felt a little regretful. That thing was really delicious. If she sold it to them, it would definitely sell well. However, Sang Luo was right. If it was sold at a higher price, it would have to be put in the shop.
"Okay, I'll go back and tell my mother."
When the three were about to leave, Sang Luo smiled and said, "Aunts, if you come to get the goods next time, you can give some grain and soybeans according to the market price. My family is short of these things now. After I get the money, I will go to the market or the county to buy them."
When the three heard this, their eyes lit up.
"Is it a lot?" asked Gan.
Sang Luo nodded: "If you need to stock up some food, let's do it in proportion. Half of it can be given in money and half in food. Cloth is also OK, but you won't need too much of it. It should be enough to buy a few sets of clothes and make two quilts at home. I'll tell you if one of them is enough, and you can give me the money then."
Those days were different from modern times. The price control by the authorities was still pretty good, and supplies were sufficient and shopping was convenient. If you ran out of rice at home, you could buy some at any time.
This is ancient times. No matter in the original body's memory or in Sang Luo's own cognition, this is a place full of countless unknown risks, natural disasters, wars, banditry, you never know which one will fall, either on your head or near you.
If that time really comes, you may not be able to buy food even if you have money. Even if you can buy it, the price will be extremely high. Therefore, stockpiling food is very necessary, and it is also the basic understanding of most people in this time and space.
When Sang Luo said she wanted to stock up on some, Gan nodded and said, "Okay, each of our families has these things."
She wanted to say something here, hesitated for a moment, and then said, "Then we will go back today and send the bucket to you later."
After walking a distance from the Shen family's courtyard, he said to Qin Fangniang and Feng Liuniang, "Sister Youtian, Madam Liu, I have something to discuss with you."
Qin Fangniang glanced at her and asked, "Are you talking about the price of grain?"
Gan was speechless, then laughed: "Sister-in-law, you have thought of this too. I didn't discuss this with you just now, so I can't say it myself."
Qin Fangniang also laughed: "I also feel that it is not good to say it directly without asking you."
Only Feng Liuniang, who used to only weave cloth and rarely took care of household affairs, was a little confused: "What grain price are you talking about?"
Gan smiled at her and said, "Don't you know? Every year after the autumn harvest, grain merchants come to the countryside to collect grain. After paying the land rent and autumn taxes, they keep enough food for the family for the year, and the rest is sold to grain merchants for some money."
“I know this.”
Feng Liuniang nodded, but she still looked confused and had no idea what Gan and Qin Fangniang were talking about.
Qin Fangniang smiled and said, "It's obvious that you only knew how to weave cloth in the past. The price that grain merchants pay for grain is lower than the market price, but Alie's wife pays us the market price. Your sister-in-law Shi and I mean that we must not calculate it according to the market price. It's cheaper to sell it to grain merchants than to Alie's wife."
Feng Liuniang suddenly realized: "That's right, although I'm not the head of the family, my mother definitely has the same idea as my two sisters-in-law."
Gan said, "I think the grain merchants will come to visit us in the next two days. Before that, why don't we use soybeans or cloth to pay for the goods first? When the price of grain merchants' grain is determined, we can use grain to pay for the goods. How do you think?"
Qin Fangniang and Feng Liuniang both nodded: "That's it."
Qin Fangniang reminded the two of them again: "Send the buckets up. If you have a spare pottery basin at home, it's best to send another one. There are many things to make, and if there are not enough containers, it will be too much trouble. My family currently has two wooden barrels and a pottery basin at Alie's wife's house for use first."
She had been selling the magic tofu for a long time, and Sang Luo would always give her some side dishes as a sample or as a starter. Qin Fangniang could guess from the shape of the side dishes that the food was solidified in a ceramic basin.
She didn't know whether the solidification process would take time, but she could see that Sang Luo often did not get enough sleep at night. With too few containers, she would have to do it several times, which would take too long and waste her energy, so she suggested that the two of them send another ceramic basin.
Gan and Feng Liuniang said nothing and nodded in agreement.
When Feng Liuniang returned home and told her about this, Mrs. Lu nodded and said, "That's right. We'll know the price when the grain merchants come. You can use the cloth for the next two days. We have a lot of cloth. I think Alie's wife can use it too. You can pick the better ones."
Feng Liuniang nodded, then found a wooden barrel, took out a ceramic basin, and carried them to the mountain.
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Shen family.
Shen An and Shen Ning were counting money.
Sang Luo did not touch the strings of money and gave them to the little brother and sister to count.
To Sang Luo's surprise, although the brother and sister stuttered a little, they were able to count to one hundred without any mistakes.
I am confused when it comes to numbers above one hundred. I don’t know how to do it.
Sang Luo was surprised: "Have you ever learned to count?"
Both brother and sister nodded.
Shen An: "My eldest brother used to teach us. He taught us slowly since we were four years old. He would fold wooden sticks for us to count."
Shen Ning added: "Even after we picked the wild fruits, we were asked to count them and then divide them among ourselves."
Quite a method.
"Has your eldest brother ever been educated?"
This time, the brother and sister shook their heads in unison: "No."
"You've learned to read from someone?"
Shen Ning shook his head: “No.”
Shen An said, "You can write your name, right? And do math, I learned that from Uncle Muramasa."
Some long-lost memories seemed to be opened, and Chen An said: "Brother used to be able to catch fish from the stream, and catch pheasants and rabbits in the mountains, and he could go to the market or the county to exchange them for some money, but if he didn't know how to count, he would be at a disadvantage, so he specially went to Uncle Muramasa to learn."
Sang Luo raised her eyebrows. Has he suffered losses before?
For some reason I felt like laughing.
She looked at the two children and suddenly asked, "Do you two want to learn to read?"
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