While everyone was talking and laughing, a village woman came over with two bowls of vegetables. It seems that the village women are just ordinary village women, but they are very clean. It won’t make people feel off-putting!
Moreover, the two plates of green vegetables and one plate are cold wild vegetables, which look bright green in color and very attractive! There are also a few drops of sesame oil on top, which makes it even more appetizing! As for another plate of fried vegetables, you can actually see oil flickering in the vegetable soup, which really surprised a few people!
Before they could say anything, another young girl also brought two more bowls of vegetables. Then the village woman brought six bowls of rice, also in large bowls.
Shopkeeper Hu poked the rice with chopsticks and said in surprise: "This is really Jiangnan rice, and it's new rice!"
But at this time, the others felt that they had no time to pay attention to him, so they had already picked up their chopsticks and started chewing! Shopkeeper Hu smiled when he saw this and took a chopstick of green vegetables and put it into his mouth. Although the taste is just ordinary and not as delicious as the delicious ones in restaurants, it still has a unique flavor! So after nodding, I picked up my rice bowl and started eating slowly.
Shopkeeper Hu didn't move much during the car ride, and he had snacks in the car, so he wasn't very hungry. He put down his chopsticks after eating less than half a bowl of rice. Seeing that the others felt that the food was delicious, he got up a little bored and went to the empty table next door, reaching out to greet the villager just now.
When the villagers saw someone greeting him, they hurriedly dropped the rag and walked over quickly, rubbing their hands on their clothes vigorously. Shopkeeper Hu asked directly: "What do you call this shopkeeper? Is this your own shop?"
Although this man is a villager, since he can open a tea stall on the roadside, he must be a flexible person. When he saw Shopkeeper Hu's imposing manner, he knew that this was someone he couldn't afford to offend, so he nodded and bowed and said, "My surname is Zhang. As for the nickname, don't mention it, so as not to taint your ears! As for the shopkeeper, Not to mention, when we were hoeing here, we set up a tea shed in exchange for two salt coins!"
Shopkeeper Hu shook his head and said, "You are so dishonest! The ingredients in your small shed are exquisite and the food is good. You can't make a lot of money, but it is easy to feed a family of several people!"
While he was talking, Shopkeeper Hu had already seen a sturdy young man and a little boy who was smaller than the girl just now, each carrying a bundle of firewood and running straight to the back room, so he pointed directly at the two people and said: "Look, Your whole family is working around this small shop to make money, and you still say that you are making less money!"
After hearing this, the villagers hurriedly explained: "That's not the case! It turns out that a little man built a thatched house here for the convenience of looking at the vegetable field. He saw that there were often people passing by begging for water, so he erected four poles. I built a thatched hut and sold some tea, but I couldn’t earn more than a few cents a day!”
Shopkeeper Hu said: "Then why do you want to expand the store? Do you still have land?"
The villagers also looked confused and said: "I don't know why, but there are so many caravans coming and going from here this year. Some people complained that there were too many people at the inn in front and they couldn't eat! Only then did the little guy have the courage to do something I was selling my own food to takeaways, but I couldn’t stop it! So I invested some money to hire someone to build three new sheds, and renovated the house to specialize in this business! As for the land, the land has been withdrawn from the leasehold!”
When shopkeeper Hu heard this, he immediately became convinced. This showed that the opening of Tianjin to the sea was successful. A large number of merchants had already poured into Tianjin. This made the post stations on this road unbearable and allowed such small villagers to take advantage in vain!
This made him feel a little annoyed! He has stayed in Shanxi for too long, and the old guys in Shanxi didn't tell him any news! Thinking of this, he reached out and pinched a small piece of broken silver in his purse and put it on the table and said: "Shopkeeper, tell me the truth, how much can you charge in a day? As long as you tell the truth, this piece of silver The silver is yours!"
Asking other people about their income has always been rude, especially to timid villagers! However, he looked at the small piece of silver glittering on the table and hesitated for a long time, then whispered: "At most, I can earn more than two hundred cash a day, and sometimes I can earn fifty or sixty cash!"
Shopkeeper Hu's eyes almost bulged out when he heard this! What does this mean? This represents a month for this villager
It is very likely that the income will be around three taels of silver! This was already a huge sum of money at the time!
However, he quickly pointed to his table and whispered: "How much does our table cost?"
The villager whispered: "The meal is only 30 cents, plus five cents for fodder, and tea is provided!"
Shopkeeper Hu was silent for a long time. He knew that he probably underestimated the situation in Tianjin! You must know that this villager's tea shed is not too far from the inn, so the bulk of the business will definitely fall there. Moreover, large caravans would not choose such a small place to stay. Only people like him and small caravans would stay here! Even so, his income can be so high, which shows that the flow of people in Tianjin is really impressive!
Thinking of this, he whispered to the villagers: "From today on, no matter who asks you how much money you earn, you have to say that you only earn hard money, and don't say how much you earn specifically! If you can't hide it, you have to cut it in half and pay it forward. Say it! And you must find a way to rent another piece of land to show that your tea shed is not making money, do you understand?"
I thought of setting up a tea tent on the roadside, and knew that the person who upgraded it would definitely not be a fool. I immediately understood what shopkeeper Hu meant! Then his expression immediately became panicked and his face turned pale! However, he was still grateful to Shopkeeper Hu for reminding him and bowed to him again and again! He didn't even dare to ask for the scraps of silver that shopkeeper Hu gave him!
But shopkeeper Hu was very wealthy, so why did he care about this small amount of money, so he still forced it into his hands. Shopkeeper Hu’s reminder was not aimless, but a genuine reminder to the villagers out of kindness!
A place like this is easy to be targeted by ruffians. If someone estimates how much money he earns, at least he will be deprived of his livelihood. In serious cases, he will be tortured about where the money he earned before is hidden, and even lose his life. cannot!
After finishing the meal and starting on the road again, Shopkeeper Hu was no longer in the mood to talk and laugh, but instead tried his best to hurry up and leave as soon as possible. He must see with his own eyes what is going on here in Tianjin.
He arrived at Tianjin City in the evening, but he didn't inquire about anything like others. He felt that there were some things that he could only truly understand if he saw them himself. Rumors should not be believed!
