in2ebook Chapter 245 Buying Grain
Chapter 245 Buying Grain
There is so much honey piled up at home that I gave some of the honey I brought down the mountain yesterday to the Li family and the Fang family. Even if all the honey at the stall is sold today, there are still twenty cans of honey left at home.
She sat down to rest for a while, while Han Zhibai continued to sell his wares and greet people who came to buy honey.
"Qingyue."
Chen Yuzhen and the other two returned happily.
Xia Qingyue hurriedly got up and asked them to sit down and rest.
After scanning the stalls, Chen Yuzhen said, "We just took the honey to those people's homes and saw that several families wanted it, and they all wanted big jars. People should be coming soon."
As soon as he finished speaking, a middle-aged man came out, claiming to be from Xiju, and that his boss had assigned him to buy honey.
Xijulai is a restaurant that is about to be built on the main street. It is one of the main suppliers of adobe bricks for Li Benfu and his team.
"Our honey is the best. It's better to taste it yourself than to say a thousand words. Come, try it."
Chen Yuzhen received the customer warmly. She picked up the bamboo strips used to scrape honey for customers to taste. The jar of honey heated on the stove was completely melted. She brought it to the side, which was hot and sweet. She scraped some honey for the man to taste.
An expert can tell the secret from the color of the honey. The man took the bamboo piece and saw the amber-colored honey hanging on it. Surprise flashed in his eyes. After looking at the appearance, he tasted it.
After tasting it, his eyes lit up and he asked how it was sold.
Chen Yuzhen spoke quickly and concisely.
"If all the other honey is of this quality, I'll need five large jars. It's good to have jars so I don't have to run back to get buckets."
After the man finished speaking, Han Zhibai, Xia Qingyue, Chen Yuzhen, Fang Xiaoyu, and Fang's mother each brought a large jar of honey.
After confirming that there was no problem with the quality, the man paid happily.
When Xia Qingyue was collecting the money, several people came one after another and said they wanted to buy honey. Han Zhibai and the others received them one by one.
She bought five large jars at once and earned more than two taels, six hundred coins. She put the money away with a smile.
Just as she finished collecting the money, Chen Yuzhen called out to her, "Qingyue, come over here to collect the money and make up the difference. We are all here to buy honey!"
There were seven or eight people standing there, and they seemed to be sent by the owners to buy honey.
Xia Qingyue went over quickly. She was responsible for collecting money, Chen Yuzhen was responsible for reception, and Han Zhibai and the Fang family mother and daughter were responsible for serving honey to customers.
For a while, they were very busy.
It's just so strange. There were not many people coming to the stall just now, but now there are a few more people and it looks a little better. People come in waves.
At 9:00 p.m., Li Weisheng and three others rushed to the town. They knew that Xia Qingyue and the others were going to sell honey at the East Market today, so they headed straight there.
Arriving at the market, Li Weisheng noticed that one of the stalls was crowded with people. He looked around for a few more times and said, "There are so many people there. I wonder what they are selling."
"Hurry up and find where my sister and the others are?" Li Weikang looked at the stall on the left.
Chen Youmao looked at the stall on the right.
I looked around but didn't see anyone.
"Are they in the innermost street?"
As soon as Chen Yuyoumao finished speaking, Li Weisheng caught a glimpse of the busiest stall, where people occasionally walked out with jars in their arms. He recognized them as jars of honey, "No need to look for them, they're over there!"
The three of them came at the right time, as Xia Qingyue and the others were too busy. Since Chen Yuzhen brought honey to various owners to introduce and sell it, and the honey was affordable and of good quality, they passed the word around from one house to another and attracted many people to buy it.
As the stall became crowded, passers-by would inevitably become curious and stop to watch. As they watched, some people thought the products were good value for money and those with less money bought them in loose pieces, as they had to beat the honey one by one, which was a bit troublesome, so they lined up.
When Li Weisheng and his friends arrived, they helped to beat the honey. After more than a quarter of an hour, there were fewer people gathering in front of the stall, and the road was no longer blocked.
After a quarter of an hour, all the honey was sold out.
"Sold out!" Xia Qingyue said excitedly to Han Zhibai. The place where the honey jars were placed was empty, with only the messy shoe prints left on the ground from their busy steps.
Han Zhibai also didn't expect that it would be sold out. He looked at Chen Yuzhen gratefully and said, "Thanks to Auntie for showing the honey to those owners, they bought it jar by jar."
Chen Yuzhen smiled and said, "The honey is of good quality, otherwise it would be useless for me to show it to them. Besides, the Chinese New Year is coming soon, and every household needs to buy New Year goods. Just now, many people asked if there was any honey left. They didn't buy it, so they want to buy it next time."
Xia Qingyue and Han Zhibai looked at each other, and the latter looked at her with a questioning look.
She said: "We still have some honey at home, but it may snow again later, and we don't know how long it will snow. We bought some things and went up the mountain this time. We have to wait until the snow melts after the New Year before coming down again."
Chen Yuzhen thought about it and realized that this made sense. "Then I'll tell those people later. If anyone still wants it after the New Year, I'll write it down."
Everything should have a beginning and an end.
After the honey was sold out, they packed up their stall and rushed to the grocery store to buy food.
Prices have generally gone up, and some things are still out of stock.
There was rice, flour, grain and oil. Xia Qingyue discussed with Han Zhibai and decided to buy three stone of rice and flour each, and two stone of soybeans. There was not much soy sauce, white wine and yellow wine at home, so they got some of each. The rest of the things were already available at home, so there was no need to buy.
They spent more than 19 taels of silver to buy these things, and made 13 taels and 600 coins from selling the honey, which means they spent the money they earned before they could even warm it up.
A few stones of grain weigh more than several hundred pounds. Xiao Hei carried a little, and they each carried a little.
It was already past noon when they finished shopping. It was a long way to get back to the village and they were all hungry, so they simply went back to the market and ordered noodles or wontons according to their preferences at a stall selling noodles and wontons. While they were ordering, Han Zhibai paid the bill first.
After a simple meal, the group returned to the village, chatting and laughing along the way, and they didn’t realize they had walked very far before they reached their home.
After arriving home, Han Zhibai took Xiao Hei back to the poultry room and settled it down.
Xia Qingyue and the others sat in the main room, warming themselves by the fire, drinking hot water and chatting.
Li Weisheng ran back to the room and soon came out again with a small bamboo basket. He put the basket on the table. As he moved, the items inside collided with each other, making pleasant crisp sounds.
"Sister, I carved these some time ago. What do you think of them?"
The basket is filled with bamboo tubes of lip balm he made. Each tube has a different pattern carved on it, including flowers, trees, animals, mountain scenery, and words with good meanings. Some patterns are outlined with colored lines, like a finishing touch, making the overall look more lively and exquisite, and with a stronger sense of picture.
"Very nice, small and unique. We brought some beeswax this time, but unfortunately there are not so many dried flowers in winter. But we can make lipstick and sell it. Second brother, do you want to try it?"
"I think so!" Li Weisheng said resolutely. He said in a deep voice:
"Here's what I was thinking. Instead of selling them at the market or on the street, I'd like to see if I can sell them to the ladies of the host families. I won't do so much at the beginning, and I'll make adjustments later depending on the situation."
She glanced sideways at Li Weisheng, a flash of surprise in her eyes, and then a bit more approval.