The next morning, Liu Yulian went to the county town with her father. Her father was worried about her mother going with Liu Yulian. Even though her father was a little depressed, he hadn't completely abandoned his children. He was still okay with just a short walk.
Liu Yulian had some money, so she asked Zhang Erye, the village elder, to drive the ox cart. She made twelve stuffed animal backpacks, each designed to match the Chinese zodiac animal. These plush backpacks were adorable, and Liu Yulian hoped that people of her generation, who had never seen such a backpack before, would buy one.
The technical content of this backpack is not very high, and the amount of embroidery contained in it is not high.
Liu Yulian wasn't afraid of others copying her. If they could copy her, then they would copy her. She couldn't keep making these stuffed animal backpacks and selling them. She was just short of money, so she started by making these things.
"Father." Liu Yulian looked at Father Liu.
"Call me dad." Father Liu sighed. Ordinary people call their children dad and mom, or other names, but rarely call them father or mother.
They are no longer members of the Marquis' Mansion, but ordinary people.
Father Liu didn't have much money and had to rely on his daughter to make these things and sell them, which made him feel bad.
When they got to the county town, Liu Yulian asked Zhang Erye to wait for them. When they needed to buy something to take back, they would also take Zhang Erye's car. This was like hiring a car for a round trip. Since they had so much stuff, they couldn't carry it all back on their own.
There were also people who bought embroidery work in the town, but Liu Yulian thought that there were more things in the county town, so it was a good opportunity to buy some things while she was here to sell them.
Jixianglou sells pearl hairpins and jewelry for women, as well as handkerchiefs, purses and other items.
The shopkeeper was surprised to see the twelve zodiac dolls Liu Yulian brought. He had never seen such a stuffed doll backpack before. It had a layer inside, not just cloth, so the high price was reasonable.
"One hundred wen each." The shopkeeper thought that if they sold these dolls in their store, even if they sold them for one hundred and twenty wen, or even half a tael of silver, there would still be people willing to buy them.
The shopkeeper knew at a glance how much material and price were required to make this zodiac doll. The cost of this backpack was definitely no more than fifty coins, primarily due to the production process. A merchant would naturally consider the cost of the item when purchasing to maximize their profit.
Even if this backpack could be sold for five or six hundred coins, it would be sold to a wealthy family.
For ordinary people, five cents is the price of a pound of pork. Who would be willing to spend money that could buy twenty pounds of pork to buy a stuffed animal backpack?
"There are other shops." Liu Yulian didn't leave immediately, but just looked at the shopkeeper.
"Are you being stingy again?" At this moment, a middle-aged woman came out. This woman was the wife of Shopkeeper Xu. Xu looked at Liu Yulian, then at the plush backpacks. "Yours is also a set. How about this, I give you five taels of silver?"
Xu glared at her husband sideways, "Look at you, with your vision and your stinginess, no wonder you haven't been able to expand your store. Business is just like this."
"Ahem." Shopkeeper Xu coughed lightly, "Open for business..."
"Then, no one wanted to sell embroidery to me and went to other houses." Xu thought that she had not kept an eye on her husband for a moment, so her husband became stingy. There are some things that you can be stingy with, but there are others that you cannot be stingy with.
Don’t think that their profits will be high just because they purchase goods at low prices. If the prices are too low, no one will sell things to them.
"Don't mind it." Mrs. Xu smiled and looked at Liu Yulian. "You look unfamiliar, are you new here?"
"Yes." Liu Yulian nodded. "I just got here. Five taels of silver is fine."
Liu Yulian calculated that making these plush dolls hadn't cost her a single tael of silver, so five taels would be good. She recalled that her monthly allowance at the Marquis's residence wasn't just one tael of silver, and if she'd bought jewelry like pearls and hairpins, it would have been even more expensive. Now, she had to budget carefully.
"Okay, okay, okay. If you need embroidery like this again, you can come to our shop. Don't bother with my husband, just come to me directly." Xu said, "Tell the shop assistant, and I will also tell him that I will never let you suffer any loss."
In fact, these puppets are mainly novel, and they look quite vivid from a distance.
Xu picked up the puppet and examined it. While some parts were simple, the simpler things often looked more complex. If someone else had made it, they might not have been able to make it so vivid. And since this was a complete set of zodiac puppets, they would sell them easily. Those wealthy families wouldn't be short of money.
"We have some leftover fabrics here, let us give them to you." Xu rolled her eyes. The leftover fabrics in the shop were actually not valuable. Some people would buy them and put them together, which would be cheaper.
After receiving the silver, Liu Yulian thought that making these puppets was a decent way to make money, but it wasn't a long-term solution. She thought about her maxed-out life skills, and she couldn't just watch people around her go hungry while she focused on making money.
The game features four seasons, including spring, summer, autumn, and winter, as well as a variety of unique vegetation. For example, cotton isn't typically grown in this season, but some of the game's plants are very cold-resistant, allowing you to plant autumn cotton this season.
Autumn cotton is an annual plant, more like eggplant, while kapok is a perennial plant that blooms, bears fruit and produces cotton every year.
Liu Yulian decided to plant autumn cotton. The seeds of this type of vegetation are found within the cotton plants, so as long as they are picked promptly, the seeds won't fly around. As for whether this autumn cotton will become an invasive species and take over the habitat of other plants, that shouldn't be a problem. People will definitely pick the cotton as soon as possible, as it provides much more warmth.
After leaving Jixianglou, Liu Yulian went with her father to buy winter wheat seeds and other plant seeds. Liu Yulian needed to prepare a culture medium suitable for winter wheat, and she also needed some plants, so she couldn't just grind up some ore.
It is not a good time to plant now, you can wait until spring.
If others asked, Liu Yulian would say that she bought hay from those plants, or went to the mountains to find ready-made ones.
Sugar, salt, rice, flour, meat... Liu Yulian bought a lot of things, and her father didn't stop her. He knew the family didn't have that much money, but the money was earned by his daughter, so if she wanted to buy those things, then so be it, after all, they were the ones eating them.
Zhang Erye was surprised to see Liu Yulian and the others buy so many things. "Don't live like this anymore. Why buy so much? You guys just arrived and you don't know how to save money."
"We'll talk about the future later." said Father Liu.
"You still have to be careful." Master Zhang said, "Fortunately, everyone here is used to it. When you guys come here, you just like to spend more money at first. At first, you give us all kinds of delicious food, but later on... Don't worry, everyone in the village is used to it, there aren't so many thieves."
The main reason was that some people tried to steal things, but they didn't steal anything and were beaten. Some people stole things, but they only stole a few coins, so we simply stopped paying attention to them.
Mr. Zhang has been in the village for many years. There are also other exiled people in the village. The people in their village are actually a bit mixed, with many people from other families.
The village is called Shiyuan, and the most common surname is Zhang. There's little fertile land around here, mostly barren fields. The fields aren't particularly suitable for growing crops like rice, so they're primarily suited to drought-tolerant crops.
After they returned to the village, Master Zhang helped move things into the Liu family.
Liu Yanbo's concubine, Aunt Qing, saw that Liu's father and others bought so many things, but she didn't think of fighting over them for them, as they had already completely separated the family business.
Aunt Qing hurried back home. Seeing her son Liu Yanbo, she said, "Your father and his family bought a lot of things. They probably spent all the money we have. If they ask you for money, be clear-headed and don't give it to them."
Aunt Qing thought about how she had to be very careful when she was a concubine in the Marquis's Mansion.
Now that she was living with her son, there was no need for her to give face to the former Marquis' wife. Since the family had split up, those people couldn't expect to get money from her.
"They're not good people. They never thought of you becoming the Crown Prince before, but now that something's happened, they're just trying to use you." This is what Aunt Qing thought. "They didn't even try to get you an official position, but instead wanted you to take the imperial examinations, saying it's for your own good. It's obvious they just don't want to spend the extra money to smooth things over for you."
"Okay, Mom, don't worry." Liu Yanbo said quickly, "I remember everything."
Liu Yanbo thought to himself, "I'm not stupid. How could I just give money to the first wife? It's a bottomless pit." If he gave money, what would he gain? Would he gain a good reputation? Others would just think he was stupid!
When Liu Yulian returned home, she gave the remaining silver to her mother. As the manager of the household's silver, she had to have some money to look after.
"I got some medicine and added the herbs I found before to make some ointment for my brother." Liu Yulian didn't want her brother Liu Yanjing to be disabled like in the original book. If Liu Yanjing was disabled and his working ability was not so strong, he would inevitably need to rely on others. For the sake of his two children, Liu Yanjing would definitely choose to bow his head.
Liu Yulian has a way, of course she can use good ointment on her brother to make his legs and feet completely healed.
"Speaking of you, your elder brother said this morning not to buy herbs because he didn't want to waste money." Mother Liu felt uncomfortable when she thought about it. Her son used to be so high-spirited, but now he has become like this.
"After buying it, he didn't dare to pour it out." Liu Yulian said, "What he poured out was not medicine, but money."
Liu Yanjing walked out with a stick and happened to overhear the conversation between his sister and mother. He really didn't dare to throw away the medicine. He also wanted to recover quickly and wanted his legs and feet to be healed. The medicine was bought by his sister and mother with money. There was only so much money at home, so he couldn't throw it away.
Elsewhere, Su Qiuya and Liu Yanbo were counting the money from their pancakes. They'd already sold all the forty or fifty they'd made. Su Qiuya was also planning to look for pickled mustard greens to put in the pancakes, along with some chopped pork. They could sell them to people in town or to workers at construction sites.
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