As Meng Tianze emerged from the alley behind Zuixianju, he was so excited he almost danced with joy.
"Sister-in-law, we really have money this time!"
We've only sold a portion of it, and with the tiger bones we sold last night, we've made over three hundred taels of silver!
Jiang Qinyu smiled faintly, "Brother Meng, this amount of silver is actually not much. Think about what we want to buy this time? I'm worried that we won't have enough silver."
Fortunately, we just received some important news: the people of Yukang Prefecture like to eat mutton, so they won't have to worry about selling their remaining thirty-odd sheep.
“Sigh,” Meng Tianze thought of it too after she said that, “It’s really hard to earn money, but easy to spend it!”
Jiang Qinyu was still worried about what to do with her thousand bolts of cloth; it seemed she would have to find an opportunity to act alone.
When she was on the street, Jiang Qinyu would turn on the map to see which streets had cloth and also to see if the system would suggest where there was enough cloth to complete the task in one go.
Unfortunately, she hasn't seen it yet, at least not so far.
"Brother Meng, let's go to the next place. If we can sell everything in our car, we can meet up with Uncle Erleng and the others sooner," Jiang Qinyu urged.
The places Jiang Qinyu and her group visited next didn't sell as well, but for every restaurant that bought more than one sheep, Jiang Qinyu would leave them a menu, and the menu she left for each restaurant was different.
Zuixianju was given stewed mutton, mutton with scallions, and roasted mutton skewers, while the other restaurants were each given one different cooking method.
With the help of the recipe, the remaining five sheep and other meats were sold out by the afternoon.
Jiang Qinyu and Meng Tianze returned to Kangyue Inn in the evening, but the rest of the people had not yet returned.
After driving the carriage to the backyard, Meng Tianze stood at the front gate and looked around.
"Why haven't Ashao and Erleng come back yet? Did they not sell them all?"
Jiang Qinyu really wanted to go back and rest, but since the others hadn't returned, she was worried and had no choice but to wait with Meng Tianze.
Hearing this, she shook her head and said, "It can definitely be sold, but I don't know how much it will fetch."
Since the people of Yukang Prefecture love to eat mutton, even if the restaurants don't want it, it can be sold at the market, and it won't go unsold.
Just as the sun was sinking below the horizon and Meng Tianze was about to go look for someone, a carriage finally appeared at the intersection.
Meng Tianze looked closely and saw it was Liu Erleng and his group. He immediately waved and stepped forward, "Erleng, how are you guys?"
"Sold, sold! Two left!" Liu Erleng proudly puffed out his chest.
Meng Tianze was delighted. "It's good that it's sold. Quickly park the car and let's wait for Ashao and the others to come back before we talk about it."
As they were talking, several more carriages arrived at the intersection; it was Chen Shao and his group.
Once everyone returned, Meng Tianze took it upon himself to order two tables of food in the lobby of Kangyue Inn.
Of course, they ordered the cheapest dishes, and only four were ordered at the table; the rest were all white steamed buns.
Even this caused Meng Tianze considerable heartache, and he only felt slightly better after touching the silver notes on his chest.
"Everyone has worked hard today. Let's eat first, and then we can talk," Meng Tianze said to everyone.
Jiang Qinyu tasted each dish once and then stopped eating, focusing only on gnawing on her steamed bun.
I must say, the steamed buns at this inn are quite delicious; they're chewy and have a sweet flavor.
Although the dishes were very ordinary home-style cooking, these men ate every last bite of each dish, even using the leftover broth to dip their steamed buns.
After eating and drinking their fill, everyone gathered again in Jiang Qinyu's room.
“Let’s tell each other how the mutton went today, and I’ll see how much we have left,” Meng Tianze said.
Liu Erleng, Chen Shao, and the others immediately started talking.
Chen Shao shouted, "Only one of us, Liu Yazi and I, is left!"
“We took more than you, and we have two left over,” Liu Erleng continued.
Jiang Dacheng said embarrassedly, "We have more left, five more."
"Me too, I still have five left." Zheng San scratched his head sheepishly.
This result was much better than Jiang Qinyu had expected. She smiled and said to everyone, "Everyone did a great job. Brother Meng and I have sold all the meat we had. Tomorrow we will split into four groups, and each group will set up a stall in a market in the city. I believe we will sell out very quickly."
There are only thirteen sheep left. Yukang Prefecture has four markets in the east, west, south, and north, and each market can still absorb three sheep.
"Sister-in-law Lu, we sold so much today, are we sure we can sell it all tomorrow?" Chen Shao asked uncertainly.
Jiang Qinyu nodded affirmatively, "Yes! Today we're wholesaling to various restaurants and eateries, and tomorrow we'll be selling to ordinary people."
Ordinary families wouldn't frequently dine at restaurants, let alone order mutton. Jiang Qinyu thought that selling it in small portions might be more popular.
"Hey, aren't you the one who trusts Sister-in-law Lu the most? If she said it's possible, then it definitely is. I'm exhausted. Hurry up, let's go to sleep..." Liu Yazi kept urging.
After handing over all the money they had earned that day to Meng Tianze, the others all went to rest in the backyard.
"Sister-in-law, please keep this money for now, and also please keep track of it, as I don't know many characters." Meng Tianze handed the silver notes back to Jiang Qinyu, sounding a little embarrassed as he said this.
In fact, there are very few literate people in Dingshui Village. Apart from Lu Yanzheng, Jiang Qinyu is the only one who is not illiterate.
“Okay, I’ll give them to everyone when we need them,” Jiang Qinyu readily agreed.
She was also ashamed. If she didn't have the original owner's memories, she would be half illiterate, since she only knew simplified Chinese characters and could only recognize traditional Chinese characters but not write them.
Meng Tianze also went to the large dormitory at the back, and finally Jiang Qinyu was the only one left in the room.
Too lazy to go into her spatial dimension, she directly opened the system with her consciousness, sorted out the resources currently available in the system, and formed a preliminary plan in her mind on how to earn her first pot of gold tomorrow.
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As Jiang Qinyu expected, their sales campaign was a great success the next day. They sold out all the remaining mutton in just half a day, and the prices for selling it in small quantities varied, making it more profitable than selling the whole mutton.
When everyone met up, Liu Erleng sighed, "If we had known we would have sold like this yesterday, we might have made even more money!"
“No, that won’t happen,” Jiang Qinyu shook her head. “There are only so many people in the entire prefecture. Didn’t you notice that we weren’t selling much later on?”
Meng Tianze chimed in, "That's right. We only feel secure with money in our own hands. Besides, if we sell it in smaller quantities, wouldn't we have to stay in the prefectural city for a few more days? We'd have to spend money on food and lodging, wouldn't we?"
These words resonated with Zheng San and the others, and they immediately stopped thinking that whole heads wouldn't sell well.
"Sister-in-law Lu, how much silver do we have now?" Chen Shao didn't care about anything else; what he wanted to know most was how much stuff they could buy with this silver.
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