When Li Yan returned to the snack shop, it was already full of people. Fortunately, the few of them had already experienced such a lively scene, so they were able to handle it with ease.
"Shopkeeper, the portion of your noodles with soybean paste is not enough? Can you give me another portion or add more noodles?" asked a middle-aged man.
They were small merchants from a nearby town. They heard that a very cheap soy sauce had appeared in Rongcheng, so they traveled for the whole morning and arrived at Li Ji Soy Sauce Shop near noon.
Unfortunately, when they arrived, the soy sauce in the soy sauce shop had already been sold out. Just when they were considering whether to find an inn to stay in first, Lin Qing hurriedly spoke up and directed them to go to Lijia Village to buy some.
The three of them got the news and traveled for the whole morning. When they smelled the fragrance coming from the snack shop, they felt even hungrier and decided not to continue their journey. Now that they had received the news, they might as well go into the shop and have a good meal first!
These people were middle-aged men who had been hungry for a long time. A bowl of noodles with soybean paste could not satisfy their hunger, so they asked the question that Li Yan heard as soon as she entered the door.
"You can add noodles, but it will cost an extra two cents!"
This is understandable. It's not nice to ask people to add more ingredients for no reason. The middle-aged man readily ordered three more servings of noodles with soybean paste.
The three brothers, engaged in reselling, had to endure the hardship of long journeys, so they could not deprive themselves of food. After buying goods, they would have to trek until late at night to get home, so they could not deprive themselves of food even more.
Their actions reminded Li Yan of her uncle. Last year, when she went south with her uncle, except for sleeping in the wild, once they arrived in the town, her uncle would take care of them and provide them with good food and shelter, so as not to let them suffer any physical harm.
"Give them more fried sauce!" Li Yan whispered to her cousin.
Li Jianmin's hands stopped shaking as he scooped out the sauce. He added a large spoonful full of it, and the sauce was enough to wrap around the chewy noodles. The three men ate with such ease that they felt very happy.
Before leaving, the man packed ten tea eggs, ready to eat when he was hungry on the way back!
It's hard to travel, not to mention that they have to carry those precious goods. If they knock or spill them accidentally, they will lose money. These people also understand that if they want to make money, they have to take care of their health!
Li Yan looked at the backs of the three people leaving excitedly, and also hoped that these people could make some money by selling soy sauce so that their trip would not be in vain.
At this time, the shopkeeper Qin from the Yuelai Inn next door came over with a smile on his face.
"Girl, our boss told me to come and get something!"
Seeing that everyone was in an orderly manner, Li Yan led Manager Qin to the backyard.
Li Yan pointed to the basket of fermented bean curd unloaded in the corner and said to Shopkeeper Qin, "It's all there. Shopkeeper, do you need any help?"
Shopkeeper Qin looked over and saw a bamboo basket filled with neatly stacked small pottery jars, which looked quite heavy.
"Thank you for your kindness, young lady. These are nothing." After saying that, he stepped forward and picked it up easily with one hand!
Anyone from the Qin family, even if he is just a shopkeeper, has some martial arts skills, so carrying a basket of things is not a big deal.
Seeing that he didn't seem to be reluctant and took it very easily, Li Yan didn't say anything more and opened the back door to send Manager Qin out.
Li Yan returned to the front hall and waited until there were fewer guests. She made two servings of noodles with soybean paste by herself, and then went to the market to look for her uncle with the food.
Because he was busy preparing for the wedding, he couldn't take care of this place for a while. After returning home three days later, Lin Feng finally had some free time and started to busy himself with the things in the shop.
Tiezhu and the Guo brothers had gone out to collect furs and had not returned yet. Currently, only the uncle and the monkey were looking after the shop. When Li Yan brought over the food, the two were busy hanging animal skins on the wooden shelves.
This wooden shelf was also just made today. Lin Feng hung the tiger skin he bought last time in the most conspicuous place. As long as he passed by the shop, he could see it at a glance.
"Uncle, Uncle Monkey, stop busying yourself and eat first!"
Seeing that it was his niece who brought food, Lin Feng casually threw the rabbit skin in his hand on the table and said, "Why are you free today? I was planning to come look for you after I finished my work here!"
Li Yan put down the food and asked doubtfully, "But is there something wrong with the shop?"
Lin Feng sat down at the table. "That's not the case. Two groups of merchants passed by these past two days and took a fancy to my tiger skin. They offered 150 taels for it. I wanted to give it to you. You run two shops now and you need money."
Lin Feng didn't finish the rest of his words, but his meaning was obvious. He was worried that he had taken up too much of his niece's funds and that she would not be able to make ends meet.
"But this tiger skin can be sold for at least two hundred taels, at least one hundred and eighty taels. It would be a huge loss to sell it like this!" the monkey murmured.
"If my uncle is not in a hurry to use the money, and this tiger skin can't find a suitable buyer, it might be a good idea to put it in the shop as a calming treasure!" Wouldn't such a beautiful tiger skin be more attractive to customers if it was placed in the shop?
Lin Feng naturally didn't want to sell it either. Good things are hard to come by, and even if you have money, you may not be able to find them: "But I have to give you the capital first."
Last year, they had made only three hundred taels of silver from selling medicinal herbs south, plus a little over a hundred taels from selling cloth. Now, they had spent a hundred taels on buying this shop, and about two hundred taels on the furs they had purchased, along with travel expenses and other miscellaneous expenses. They had also given Tiezhu and the others a little over fifty taels to send the three of them to the nearby town to collect furs.
By this calculation, the niece only had one hundred taels left. At the beginning of the year, she bought land and medicinal herbs and seedlings. Lin Feng was worried that the child would not have enough money to open a shop, so he thought of selling the most expensive tiger skin to get some money back.
"Uncle, don't worry. I don't need to put in any capital to run my shop. The money I earn every day is enough for me to run it.
If it's for my sake, don't rush to sell the tiger skin. The same goes for my uncle. If you need money, I still have fifty taels to give to him first."
Lin Feng waved his hands repeatedly: "The furs in my shop haven't been sold yet, but the money will come as soon as they are sold. However, rabbit fur is not very rare, so those merchants like to be picky. When buying, they like to compare prices from three different stores, so they are not very quick to sell!"
Li Yan then looked at the rabbit skins her uncle mentioned, and saw that a whole shelf was piled high with rabbit skins, some white, some black, some gray, and of course a mixture of the three colors.
If her uncle hadn't mentioned it, Li Yan wouldn't have noticed it. It was indeed an inconspicuous item.
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