Song Yuehua came to the market to set up a stall as usual. She asked Liu Xue to guard the stall and ran to the bun shop opposite to buy four meat buns. She also asked the stall owner about the situation in the city.
The stall owner was from the county town. When someone asked about it, he just whispered, "There were snowstorms everywhere this year. I heard that the bandits in the Great Desert Kingdom were restless, so the court sent a major general to the border, and he happened to pass by here."
After that, he sighed again, "If the young general can get rid of the bandits in Centipede Mountain on the way, I won't have to worry so much when I return to my father-in-law's house."
"Bandits?" Song Yuehua was shocked. "There are still bandits here?"
The stall owner waved his hand and said, "It's not here, it's in the neighboring county. Because of this, vendors don't dare to go south, and those in the south don't dare to come here."
It’s good that there are no bandits. Nothing is more important than personal safety.
After asking clearly, Song Yuehua sat back at the stall and handed Liu Xue two meat buns.
Liu Xue only took one and said, "One is enough for me."
Song Yuehua quickly finished one and stuffed one of the remaining two to Liu Xue, saying, "Eat it. I know you can finish it."
Liu Xue blushed and asked, "Master, have you found out what happened?"
"Nothing." Song Yuehua swallowed the bun and said, "The general is going to war and has to pass by here."
Isn't this a big deal? Liu Xue was about to speak, but when she saw someone coming to the stall, she quickly shut up.
"Hello!"
A handsome man dressed in black, holding a red-sheathed sword, stood in front of the stall and asked, "How many potatoes do you have left?"
Big deal?
Song Yuehua said, "About 40,000."
The man asked again, "Where are you now?"
It’s really a big deal!
Song Yuehua asked enthusiastically, "How much do you need?"
"Take as many as you can," the man said.
Song Yuehua became even more enthusiastic and asked, "Do you have a bicycle rack? If it's convenient for you, you can just take it away from my house."
After the man asked Song Yuehua about her address, he paused for a moment and said, "How many more do you have here?"
The two had just arrived and the 10 bags had not been sold yet. Song Yuehua pointed to the 10 bags in front of her and said, "They are all here, a total of 1,000 kilograms."
The man threw one tael of silver to Song Yuehua and asked her to stay here for the time being.
After everyone left, Liu Xue collected the potatoes that were on display, tied up the sack, and said happily, "Master, this business is really good."
Song Yuehua said, "That's because we encountered a snowstorm this year. There are not many fresh vegetables, and the price of food has increased, so naturally more people eat potatoes."
He also talked about his experience of selling vegetables last year.
After listening to this, Liu Xue couldn't help but ask, "If there hadn't been a snowstorm this year, wouldn't the potatoes have been unsellable?"
"That won't happen," Song Yuehua said, "As long as the potatoes are well preserved, they will be fine for a year."
"Compared to vegetables, fruits and melons, potatoes can fill your stomach, so there will always be people who buy them. Even if no one buys them, they can be stored and used as food."
While the two were talking, the man who had gone before came back with a bullock cart. After taking away 10 bags of potatoes, the man said to the two men, "Let's go. The cart is at the city gate. Let's go to your house to get potatoes."
In this way, Song Yuehua, Liu Xue, and the man sat together on Ma Ye's ox cart. After they left the city gate, they saw three double-headed carriages.
What a big scene!
The two of them sighed in their hearts, and the man suggested changing the carriage. Song Yuehua gritted her teeth and let Liu Xue ride in Ma Ye's ox cart, while she and the man rode in the carriage.
Liu Xue was about to speak when Song Yuehua gently shook her head at her.
Song Yuehua sat outside to lead the way. The man sat inside holding a sword and didn't move. He was bored on the way, so he started a conversation with Song Yuehua, "How old are you?"
Song Yuehua said, "12 years old."
"You went out to do business at the age of 12. Where are your parents?" the man asked curiously.
Song Yuehua replied, "They are all dead."
man,"……"
After the two arrived home, as soon as Song Yuehua opened the door, she saw that the women from the Wang, Zhou, and Zhang families were all busy packing potatoes.
When they saw her, they looked up and greeted her without stopping their work.
Song Yuehua counted them and found that there were more than 380 bags in total, excluding last night and this afternoon.
There was a lot left, and they needed to be packed into sacks. When the man found out, he didn't say much and asked people to help pack it. It would be much faster with someone's help. Song Yuehua took the sacks and went directly to the fields to pack them.
Song Yuehua came in a carriage, and everyone was shocked at first. Zhou Dafu originally wanted to find Song Yuehua for something, but he tactfully kept his mouth shut.
The potato diggers worked hard to dig potatoes, and Song Yuehua helped them pack them into bags. In the end, they pulled dozens of sacks of potatoes back.
In total, 420 bags of potatoes were packed.
When Liu Xue came back, she was relieved to see that Song Yuehua was fine.
Song Yuehua suddenly thought of something and asked the man, "Did you collect dried vegetables?"
"What dried vegetables?" the man asked.
Song Yuehua took Liu Xue directly into the cellar, picked out a bunch of dried vegetables, and introduced them. This is dried radish, which can be steamed with bacon. This is pickled mustard greens, which can be steamed with braised pork. This is dried beans, dried eggplant, and dried cabbage...
"How much?" the man interrupted her and asked directly.
Song Yuehua said, "20 wen per jin"
The man frowned and asked, "Isn't cabbage 1 cent per pound?"
"This is dried vegetable," Song Yuehua explained. "This vegetable must be washed first, then pickled and fermented with salt, and then dried in the sun for 49 days. It is very rare. You may not be able to get one kilogram of dried vegetable from 20 kilograms of vegetables. In addition, salt is used, and there is also labor..."
The man waved his hand and asked impatiently, "How many do you have here?"
Song Yuehua said, "About 500 kilograms or more."
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