Songlin Town is not particularly large, with a resident population of about 2,000 people. Being in the north, it's not as well developed as the south, which is warm all year round, but the town's life isn't the worst in the north.
Like other towns, there is a morning market here every year from the beginning of May to the end of September. Because of the warm weather at the moment, the market was crowded with people. The ancients used to go to bed early and get up early. Although the people in the town did not wake up before dawn like the farmers, some traders who did business had already set up their stalls. When Luo Fei and Xi Yanqing arrived, it was already quite lively.
When Luo Fei came out, he brought a rag. He spread the cloth on the ground, and then placed the sachets one by one, and tried to sell them. As for Xi Yanqing, the pharmacy he wanted to go to has not yet opened, and it is estimated that it will be another half an hour.
Luo Fei, who had never done business before, was a little apprehensive on the way, and he was even more nervous now that he had things on display. He didn't worry about anything else, he just worried that if he couldn't sell any of them, wouldn't he be busy? ! Who knew that before this thing was finished, someone came over.
"Yeah! Mother, look! What a beautiful sachet!" A little girl who looked about eleven or twelve years old pointed to Luo Fei's stall and came over with her mother who was about to buy Jiangmi, "Little brother, How do you sell this sachet?"
"Which one? This one?" Luo Fei followed the direction the little girl pointed to a pink sachet embroidered with lotus flowers. This sachet is not big, it is barely a medium size, and its diameter is only five or six centimeters, but it is very fine. Luo Fei thinks that the most outstanding thing about this sachet is that the embroidery art is different from most embroidery art here. He used a more three-dimensional embroidery method. This embroidery method takes time and labor, but the embroidered pattern is incomparable with ordinary embroidery, and has a very three-dimensional effect. Luo Fei only embroidered three of these in total, but he was caught by the little girl at a glance.
"That's right, that's it." The little girl's eyes were already glued to the sachet.
"Little sister, this sachet costs six cents." The cost of this thing is only about two cents, but the embroidery is complicated, so the price of Luo Feiding is relatively high. This time, he made a total of fifty sachets and ten purses, large and small. There was still a lot of thread left in the one hundred wen he bought, but all the cloth ends he bought were used up. Before he came here, he had already calculated it, as long as he could earn one to four cents each.
"Mother, six cents, can I buy it? Can I?" The little girl seemed to want it, and looked at her mother expectantly, "I have never seen such a beautiful sachet."
"Liuwen money is too expensive. We won't buy it." The woman also seemed to think that the sachet was well done, but the Liuwen line was a bit too much.
"Can you sell it to me for a cheaper price, little brother?" The little girl held onto her mother's hand and refused to let go, "Let's be cheaper."
"The minimum five cents, it can't be cheap anymore. I only embroider one piece of embroidery like this a day. Have you ever seen a few sachets embroidered like this?" Luo Fei pointed to the other three. In fact, he can embroider two to three times a day, but you can't say that!
"Five cents is also expensive." Seeing that the woman could negotiate the price, she was no longer in a hurry to leave, but she still felt that the five cents was also expensive.
"Eldest sister, you can't buy this sachet anywhere else. And you have seen it, there are only four of them." Xi Yanqing said, "The festival is coming soon. Bringing a sachet can ward off insects and disasters. Buy one for your child."
"For four cents? I'll buy one for four cents." The woman said, "Little brother, I bought it sincerely, so why don't you sell me at a cheaper price."
"Four cents won't do." This is what Xi Yanqing said, "The minimum five cents, if you can take it, eldest sister, we will sell it sincerely." I don't even think about how much his daughter-in-law would cost to make one. energy? How can it be sold so cheaply? In fact, he felt that the five cents were less!
"Forget it, don't buy it anymore." The woman dragged her daughter away.
Luo Fei was almost shaken just now. He felt that although he didn't earn a lot of money from four cents, he could earn a little bit.
But no matter how you look at it, Xi Yanqing has his thoughts.
Xi Yanqing looked left and right, and put the embroidery up again. He said to Luo Fei, "It can't be arranged like just now, we have to arrange it according to size and selling price. Do you remember those stalls we have seen before? , are all like that? It seems to be more eye-catching."
Previously, their way of arranging the colors was scrambled and interspersed, and they felt so good-looking. But looking at it now, nothing seems to be quite right.
Luo Fei didn't have much experience in business either, but at this time it seemed reasonable to hear what Xi Yanqing said, so he was busy putting it together again. Press size from top to bottom and price from left to right. Such a pendulum is also good-looking, and the focus is on those that are especially refined.
"Do you think the price I set is too expensive?" Luo Fei thought that Xi Yanqing had told him that a long-term worker would only be paid one hundred and fifty cents a month regardless of food or housing, and he would sell a sachet for five or six cents. Isn't that catching up with a day's wages for a long-term worker? !
"It's not expensive at all. You have to know that your sachets are special and can't be bought outside." Luo Fei told him on the way here that there is no such thing for sale here.
"Okay! The sachet I made is Chanel in the sachet!" Luo Fei suddenly shouted after speaking: "Selling sachet purses, unique sachet purses! It's your best choice to drive away insects and ward off evil spirits for the Dragon Boat Festival! Selling sachets and purses…”
"Selling sachets and purses, unique sachets and purses!" Xi Yanqing laughed and shouted for help, and many people came to see it for a while.
"Little brother, how do you sell this sachet?" A big brother with a little sister came! The clothes are nice!
"This four characters." There is no three-dimensional embroidery, but plum blossoms are embroidered on it. Luo Fei asked, "Is it yours?"
"No. It's for my sister." The guest was very happy, and took out four cents as he spoke, "Give me this."
"Okay, okay." Luo Fei thought to himself: ah ah ah! It's finally open! Oooh, I'm going to control my facial expressions! Ding! Luo Xiaoyingdi is online!
"Thank you big brother." The little girl is four or five years old, very sweet and cute, with two dimples when she smiles. She took the sachet and smiled very sweetly, which made Luo Fei feel better.
"You're welcome, you little living ancestor." The big brother tapped the tip of the little girl's nose, picked her up and left.
Seeing the guests leave, Luo Fei couldn't help looking at Xi Yanqing with joy: "Brother Qing! It's sold! Ouch, it's finally open!"
Xi Yanqing smiled and said, "I'll tell you if I'm not worried about selling. Your craftsmanship is so good, everyone has long eyes. Besides, who doesn't want to be happy during the festival?"
Luo Fei thought to himself, yes!
Can't help but be happy!
Selling for four cents is equivalent to earning two cents! And he can make several of the ones he just sold in a day!
Luo Fei felt that he could no longer control his power, and the next second, he shouted even louder: "Selling sachets and purses! Unique sachets and purses! Repel insects and ward off evil spirits for the Dragon Boat Festival! Selling sachets and purses! …”
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It seems that it was too early to be happy.
Luo Fei shouted until his voice was hoarse, and he didn't come to the second person to buy it. Some people came to ask, but they left after asking the price.
Finally got another one, and bought the cheapest and smallest one. Two cents of money, Luo Fei can't have a cent left, but it was taken away by the tax collector. A total of two sachets were sold, and they also charged a penny in tax! what the hell? !
Xi Yanqing shouted for Luo Fei from time to time, and at the same time did not forget to observe the people coming and going. Most of the people in this morning market come to buy vegetables and breakfast. The business of selling fish, meat and steamed buns and buns is good, but the others are not so good. Maybe it's not the right place to choose.
Luo Fei was a little discouraged, looking at the sachets and purses spread out on the floor, vaguely anxious.
Xi Yanqing brought water to Luo Fei: "Don't worry, it takes time and patience to do anything. Why don't we change the words?" Take a look, they sell sachets and purses, as small as a penny, to send relatives and friends to ward off insects and evil spirits for a good festival, and sell sachets and purses..."
"Big brother, how much is this sachet?" This is a big brother with a younger brother! Wearing a moon-white robe, this man is very handsome, and even his voice is like a spring breeze.
"This sachet is five cents." Luo Fei said, pointing to the azure sachet that showed his wish.
"Where's this purse?"
"This is a little more expensive, ten wen." The main reason is that the purse uses a lot of materials, and the area is large, and the embroidery picture is also large, which requires more working hours.
"Can it be cheaper? I want to buy a sachet and then a purse." The visitor said while stroking his brother's hair.
"I'll accept your thirteen articles." Luo Fei felt that this person was more eye-catching, inexplicable.
"Okay, then I want these two." The man handed over the money.
"Daddy, I want to eat sugar cake..." The boy shook the man's hand and said, "Daddy buy it."
"Okay, Daddy will buy it for you." The man smiled dotingly.
"Siyuan?! Siyuan!" A voice full of anxiety came from a distance, "Siyuan? Changle?"
"Father, here we are!" The child looked at the source of the voice with the sachet. Luo Fei and Xi Yanqing saw a tall man walking towards them quickly. When the man saw one big and one small, he let out a long sigh of relief: "You guys really scared me to death. The effort to buy a roast chicken is gone."
"I told you just now." The man who should be called Siyuan smiled helplessly, "I'm afraid you didn't hear it because you thought about it."
"Ah, I was thinking of buying you five-spice or the original." The man smiled, "What did you buy?"
"I bought a sachet and a purse. The Dragon Boat Festival is almost over, so it should be a solar term. I just sigh that my right hand is inconvenient, otherwise I would like to make it for you and Chang Ledai."
"If you have that time, you might as well spend more time with me and Changle. As for the sachet, you can buy it." good-looking!"
"Then why don't we just have the same one?" The child's father just picked one with white embroidered green bamboo. It's the one that Luo Fei thought literati would like. There are three in total, the style is simple but it looks really good.
The man agreed and gave Luo Fei another five cents. Luo Fei returned a text and listened to the man named Siyuan thank him.
After selling two more sachets and one purse, Luo Fei took the money and said as if to himself, "It's actually a father and son, I thought they were brothers."
Otherwise, he wouldn't think so, mainly because he didn't see plum blossoms in the hands of the guest at first glance, so he didn't think that the person would be a little brother like him. But later he found that the man had a scar on his right hand, but he couldn't see anything where the flower should have been.
"Do you think we will be like them in the future?" Xi Yanqing asked eagerly.
"Should... maybe..." Luo Fei wanted to say no? Because he couldn't imagine what it would be like to have a child. But when he saw Xi Yanqing's envious gaze, he suddenly thought that Xi Yanqing had been abandoned by his parents since he was a child, and vaguely felt that Xi Yanqing might want to have this kind of kinship more than others. So he abruptly swallowed the following words.
He thought, maybe in the future they will be just like the three.
If nothing else, in this world, they will end up like that.
Of course, it's hard to say if anyone is so rich...
Luo Fei thought about it and continued to sell it. At this time, he didn't know that he and Xi Yanqing would meet the family of three again in the future.
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The morning market was about to close when the hour passed. Luo Fei ordered it. This morning, he sold six sachets and one purse. After removing the cheap money for others, he received a total of twenty-five coins. The cost can be left about half. If you can earn so much every day, you can earn more than 300 yuan a month. Even if you share half of what should be given to Han Xu, there will still be more than 100 yuan in that month!
Isn't that more than a laborer earns? !
Luo Fei counted the first pot of gold in his life several times, put the cloth bag on his back and hugged Xi Yanqing: "Brother Qing, go! I invite you to eat bean curd!"
Xi Yanqing originally wanted to buy something to eat for Luo Fei, so he could refuse, so he went directly to the small shop selling bean curd. The young couple ate a bowl of bean curd and went to the herbal medicine shop next door. Xi Yanqing talked with the old shopkeeper in the shop for a while, and the shopkeeper finally left the aconite and gentian grass, and gave Xi Yanqing fifteen cents. It was also at this time that Xi Yanqing knew that gentian grass was actually quite valuable. Listening to the shopkeeper's meaning, this thing is rare in the local area. If it weren't for his eyesight, I'm afraid that he would have more than 15 wen.
Aconite is nothing rare, so Xi Yanqing left it directly to the shopkeeper of the medicine shop, just as a familiar face. Anyway, no matter what, fifteen words are not a lot for him now. It can be seen from this that it is not uncommon for them to empty their family property after being ill this year, because there is no insurance in this era, and all medical treatment must be paid out of one's own pocket. Just pay for it yourself, the medicinal materials are still expensive. Because there are very few medicinal materials planted here, the types that can be planted are even more limited, and most of the medicinal materials are still wild. In the drugstore, in addition to buying from the medicinal material dealer on weekdays, the rest is basically collected from the outside.
Luo Fei originally thought that he could earn more than ten pennies a day, and finally he could go to the bright road to support Xi Yanqing, but unexpectedly, after turning around for a while, Kung Fu Xi Yanqing was sold for fifteen pennies! Earn more than him!
Humans are called white wolves with empty gloves, and a circle up the mountain is only fifteen cents!
Luo Xiaoying is very sad!
"If I had known this, it would be better for you to teach me to identify medicinal herbs." Luo Fei said dully. He felt beaten.
"I don't know all the medicinal materials, but I only know some of the ones I've come into contact with before." Xi Yanqing said, "Besides, yours is guaranteed to be harvested during droughts and floods, and mine depends on whether God will take care of it." Who knows if the next time you go up the mountain Can I still meet gentian
"That's right. I have to work hard! I want to open an embroidery workshop in the future!" People still have to have ideals. What if they come true? !
"According to my opinion, why don't we show the purse and sachet you made to the owner of the fabric shop." Xi Yanqing thought about it and said, "Who do you think will be the people who buy vegetables in the morning market? Not ordinary people. They are servants who work for rich families. And those with really good living conditions are unlikely to go out to the morning market. When they buy vegetables, they either send the vegetables to the farmers and send them to their homes, or they send servants to buy them. Of course, like The family of three just now was an exception, but that kind of thing is still a minority after all."
"Then why don't you go to the fabric shop?!" Luo Fei thought that there were so many left. It would be better if the owner of the fabric shop could accept it.
The owner of the fabric shop is an old tailor himself. He knew Luo Fei, because Luo Fei chatted for a long time when he was buying cloth heads. Besides, Luo Fei was also born beautiful, and it is not easy to forget when people see it. Although Luo Fei's face is a little dirty every time he comes, but who has never seen the fabric shop? At a glance, it was obvious that Luo Fei was handsome.
"Little brother, are you here to buy a small cloth head again?" the shop owner asked. It's almost noon, it's hot, and there's not much people in the store.
"Boss, I'm not buying a cloth head this time, I just want to ask you if you can accept this." Luo Fei took out all his sachets and purses, "Look, do you keep these things for consignment here? Or Or you'll take it."
"Yo, this craftsmanship is really good, what did you do?" The boss's eyes lit up, he picked up a purse embroidered with orchids and looked at it, "This color matches really well."
"I made it myself, and I also embroidered the pattern I drew myself. Do you think you can accept it?"
"How much are you going to sell it for?"
"The big sachet is five cents, the small one is three cents, and the purse is ten cents." Luo Fei didn't say much, and planned to implement the price in the morning market to the end.
"It's not cheap." The boss put down the things he picked up again, "It's okay to sell it here, but you can't ask for it at this price."
"Then how much can you pay?" Xi Yanqing asked. The bosses and shopkeepers in these shops are very personal. Showing what they like first makes people think they want to accept it too. But when it comes to negotiating the price, I keep saying that the price is high, and I want to get the lowest price and take the goods.
"Little brother, you got this cloth head from my shop, and it's not a lot of money in total. You said that you sell it so expensively, isn't it appropriate?"
"We sell crafts, not cloth. Boss, you are embarrassing for us." Xi Yanqing smiled, "Besides, you are a big business, and we only make money for crafts from morning to night, don't you think?"
"Hey, what's the big deal? Have you ever seen any big deal shopkeeper being the shopkeeper?"
"Boss, can I take this dress for twenty taels of silver?" At this time, a girl about sixteen or seventeen years old came over from the clothing store opposite. She carried the most popular pink water-sleeved long group in her hand, "The shopkeeper said it, you have to ask whether you agree or not."
"Look, it's not a big deal to open two shops." Xi Yanqing laughed.
"Oops! This purse and sachet are so beautiful. Boss Li, are you new? How do you sell them?"
"This?" Boss Li said without frowning, "The purse is thirty cents. The small sachet is ten cents, and the big one is fifteen cents."
"Sure, take me this one, and this one. Forget about this plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum, I'll have it all, it's just right to share it with my sisters." The girl has several hands, and her character is quite forthright. Well, yes, it is also generous when taking money.
Luo Fei looked at it dumbfounded, thinking that this is too...
He sells a purse for ten cents in the morning, and some people negotiate the price, so if they want thirty cents, they will sell it!
Luo Fei used the strength to suckle to hold back his words. Mainly to do long-term business, he does not have the resources of Boss Li, so he can only hold on for now!
Later, the girl not only spent twenty taels of silver on the dress, but also bought four purses and four sachets! This Boss Li received two taels of silver and one hundred and eighty copper coins at once! And these one hundred and eighty copper coins, isn't it just that Luo Fei thought that he could earn it in a month with a little effort? !
Damn, people are more popular than dead people!
"Oh, young man, do you think I can really meet such a guest every day? It was the eldest lady of Luo Dafu's family just now, and she is rich."
"Then you give me more points. It's so expensive that I can't even get half of it." Luo Feixiao was depressed.
"Then..." The boss gave Luo Fei all the 180 copper plates he just got, and wanted to take back all the five purses and more than 40 sachets left in Luo Fei's hand. Luo Fei didn't do it, and after bargaining with him, he finally asked for an extra cloth head worth about fifty copper coins. After such a calculation, Luo Fei is not busy, and this batch of goods can earn about one hundred and fifty cents. Mainly because the cloth head is also worth a part of the money, so it has to be counted in.
"Okay, you can take care of me now, tell me, how do you want to take care of me?" Xi Yanqing looked at Luo Fei and was still puffed up, and teased him, "Do you want a full-body massage service? Or do you want dual repair services? Or... give you a back slap?"
"I'm just angry. You said how did they make so much money? It was me who worked so hard, and he made so much money just by changing hands." Luo Fei felt unbalanced when he thought about it.
"Who let people have a storefront and resources? But don't be angry, we can also work hard, there will always be in the future." Xi Yanqing hugged Luo Fei and decided to use the money from selling medicinal materials to bring Luo Fei to buy some meat, and then Just go home.
When the two went to buy meat, they were almost across the street from Zhang Yangfan, but they each had something to pay attention to, so no one noticed it.
The Dragon Boat Festival is approaching, Zhang Yangfan came to the town to meet some friends and drink wine as rivals. However, his new clothes always felt that the design was too simple and looked too monotonous. Look at the jade pendants and purses of the classmates, and think about his decision to get a purse or a sachet to wear. This thing is not so expensive, and it can add some sense of design when used.
Coincidentally, Zhang Yangfan entered the clothing store opposite the fabric store that Luo Fei and Xi Yanqing went to. There are also some small decorations here, and Luo Fei's batch just happened to be sent to the house by Boss Li. Zhang Yangfan took a look and immediately fell in love with the sachet with white embroidered green bamboo!