After only one day in Quanzhou, Xu Ling sold all the porcelain.
Next, he will return to Lingbao Town and transport another batch.
But Lou Qiaosheng told him that those barbarian merchants would leave in a few days, and when they came back, it would probably be somewhere next year.
Lou Qiaosheng was willing to give Xu Ling a three percent profit on the next shipment of goods, but Xu Ling understood that he would only charge a three percent agency fee.
At this time, Yaren's charging ratio was quite high. In addition to getting it from Xu Ling, he could also get a sum of money from those barbarian merchants.
Lou Qiaosheng himself told Xu Ling that he told the Yi merchants how to protect porcelain, and they were very happy, so they gave him more reward money, and also promised to bring a small amount of pepper seeds when he comes back next year. It depends on their ability.
"Brother Xu, since you are going back to Lingbao Town, why don't you bring something back from Quanzhou?" Lou Qiaosheng intended to make friends with Xu Ling, and after the incident, he invited Xu Ling to a restaurant for a drink in his own name.
Off the coast of Quanzhou, you can eat seafood here, and oyster omelette is one of the delicacies.
The stall owner used a clay stove to cook rice wine. The two of them ordered half a catty of donkey meat and a plate of oyster omelette, and sat at the table to eat and chat.
Of course Xu Ling wanted to buy something to take back. In fact, he had already thought about it.
Quanzhou double-sided brocade handkerchief. That day when he went to sell Qiuli ointment, the annoying little girl from the Lin family wanted to buy a double-sided brocade handkerchief.
Quanzhou is rich in silk. There are at least 100,000 mulberry trees here. I don’t know how many people raise silkworms and weave cloth at home.
There are countless types of fabrics including brocade, gauze, and silk. Not to mention there are many mountains and forests here, and the fur business is also very large.
Of course, no matter how much silk brocade Quanzhou produced, it would not be able to meet the needs of the entire Yong Dynasty people like modern craftsmanship. Therefore, the fabrics here can only be consumed by people from middle-class families. As for ordinary farmers, they rarely wear silk and satin. Coarse cloth woven from ramie is what ordinary people often wear.
Somewhere between the two, for example, the green cloth clothes worn by Xu Ling are actually a mixture of silk and linen.
Xu Ling couldn't buy cloth here as cheaply as he could buy porcelain in Lingbao Town, but he could buy finished double-sided brocade handkerchiefs and sell them to Lingbao Town at a slightly higher price.
Don’t ask for a doubling of profits, just don’t run empty-handed.
As expected, Lou Qiaosheng also suggested that he buy some silk and return to Lingbao Town.
The two drank and talked until the moonlight gradually deepened, and Quanzhou revealed another kind of beauty.
Countless lanterns are placed on the wooden lamp stands on both sides of the road, with drawings or inscriptions on them, reflecting the streets on both sides as bright as day.
As soon as night came, the drunken businessmen and the scholars after school came out of the house and walked together in twos and threes, either drinking and having fun, or listening to people playing and singing in the teahouse.
Not to mention the rows of flower boats that line up like a long dragon on one side of the river. The most eye-catching thing is the colorful building made of colored glaze outside the West Tower. Under the illumination of candlelight and moonlight, it shines with colorful colors. Attracting people to go.
Seeing that Xu Ling was looking at it seriously, Lou Qiaosheng pointed at the colorful building and said, "This is the most famous brothel in Quanzhou. The girls inside are stunning. If you have the chance, would you like to go and take a look?"
Xu Ling raised his glass and drank the rice wine in one gulp, and said with a smile, "What man doesn't want to?"
Lou Qiaosheng laughed loudly, patted the table and said: "Then I wish our brothers the sesame seeds to bloom steadily!"
Xu Ling poured wine and clinked glasses with him. The two looked at each other and laughed.
Xu Ling got up early the next day to sell cabbage. He planned to sell all the mature cabbage in the space. It would take at least four or five days to take the boat back to Lingbao Town, which would be enough for him to plant another round.
After selling the vegetables, Lou Qiaosheng came to see him again at noon. This time he found a seller for him.
Qiao Niang Cloth Shop in Shitou Alley is willing to take over Xu Ling's small business.
Qiao Niang Cloth Shop is run by three generations. The shopkeeper is a man, but the ones who make the embroidery are his mother, his wife and daughter.
Xu Ling spent sixty taels of silver to buy three hundred brocade handkerchiefs, each costing two hundred cents.
Two hundred coins can buy six chickens.
Xu Ling was secretly excited, but when he took the sample, he knew as soon as he bought it that two hundred coins for a handkerchief was definitely not expensive.
Each handkerchief is embroidered with different patterns, some are lantern fruits, some are morning glories, and there are also various patterns with beautiful meanings such as bamboo, lotus, and plum blossoms.
Not to mention it’s double-sided! Double sided!
"The workmanship of this veil is really exquisite." Xu Ling couldn't help but sigh.
The shopkeeper of Buzhuang smiled and said: "These are all my daughter's skills training work, it is difficult to reach the level of elegance."
Listen, you really know Versailles.
Although he knew it was a trick, Xu Ling still praised it with disapproval: "The patterns on it are so lifelike, like real flowers blooming before your eyes. Your love is so ingenious."
The shopkeeper stroked his beard happily and said to Xu Ling: "Qiao'er started studying embroidery with her mother and grandma when she was three years old, but I didn't let her start needlework until she was twelve years old. My daughter's hands are soft, and her bones need to be hardened. How can we achieve great things by damaging its roots, unlike some people who kill the goose and take the eggs?"
Xu Ling exchanged a few words with him, then handed over the money and received the goods.
After leaving the cloth shop, Lou Qiaosheng pointed to an embroidery shop not far across the street and explained to Xu Ling: "These two families are sworn enemies. It's a pity that the daughters of the two families were raped by their fathers, and now they are all dragged down to seventeen or eighteen." You are a 20-year-old girl, and you haven’t even found a family yet!”
At this time, women with haircut hair could meet each other when they were fifteen years old. If they still couldn't get married by the age of eighteen, the court would start to collect additional poll taxes.
Taxation is still a small matter, but the ridicule of neighbors is a big deal.
These two cloth shops kept their daughters from getting married and used their skills to support the cloth shops. Although it was an unintentional move, it saved the two girls from getting married early.
But Xu Ling didn't know that it was better to be locked up in the embroidery building all day long and embroider with the same patterns. Or is it better to get married early and see through the twists and turns of the world?
Neither is good for him. But for many women in this era, they have no choice.
Returned to the inn and checked out of the room. Xu Ling and Lou Qiaosheng agreed to come back next time, and the two cooperated again.
Then we rushed to the pier.
It was against the wind when they arrived and against the current when they returned. By the time Xu Ling rushed back to Lingbao Town, another seven days had passed.
It's late October and the weather is getting colder.
Many people had already put on thin winter clothes, and Xu Ling also put on thick clothes to prevent himself from getting sick.
However, I don’t know if it was because he ate well, worked more, and his physical fitness improved, but he never got sick again.
It was late at night when Xu Ling returned to Lingbao Town. He didn't waste a moment. He went outside the city, put cabbages and pushed the cart, and waited for dawn to enter the city and find Wang Shuanbao of Yuelou to fulfill the contract.
