This time, Song Yushan, like his senior sister, bought a standing ticket for the first deck and spent ten coppers.
Qin Yuan held the flag cloth in one hand and dragged his junior sister with the other. He was familiar with the way and occupied a corner on the edge of the deck: "The view here is wide, the wind is not very strong, it is convenient to get off the boat after docking, and the place is not big. It’s not too big or too small, it’s just right for two people to stand in, and it can’t squeeze in a third person, so it’s quiet.”
This is the experience she has gained from countless boat rides, and she is now committed to sharing this great place with her dear junior sister so that she will not waste money on buying tickets for the second deck again.
The difference between one tael of silver and ten copper plates was a hundred times. It was not worth spending so much money just for a seat after crossing the river for such a short time.
Half an hour later, the ferry across the river docked.
After getting off the boat and entering the North City Gate, Qin Yuan took Song Yushan into an alley, turned into another street, and then stopped at a stall at the corner:
"Junior sister, didn't you say you wanted to eat wontons the day before yesterday? There is an old shop here with fair prices and excellent taste. Senior sister, treat you to some!"
Song Yushan could already smell the delicious aroma of the soup and nodded repeatedly.
"Boss, please have two bowls of wontons! The biggest kind!" Qin Yuan said.
"Okay!" The owner of the wonton shop greeted with a smile: "Master Qin, I haven't seen you for a few days. Who is this?"
"This is my junior sister. I have been busy on the mountain these days. I just came down from the mountain today and I came to eat your wontons!" Qin Yuan and Song Yushan were sitting on a small table next to the stall.
"What's your name is this immortal master?" asked the owner of the wonton shop.
"No need for your surname to be Song." Song Yushan said.
"Master Song Xian and Master Qin are from the same family, they are both young talents!" the owner of the wonton shop boasted.
Song Yushan was embarrassed by the praise.
"Boss, you are so good at talking. No wonder I haven't been here for a while, so I wanted to come to your place for breakfast." Qin Yuan said with a smile.
The owner of the wonton shop also laughed heartily. After laughing, he lowered his voice and said mysteriously: "Master Qin Xian, do you know Liu Da over there in Xiaojing Hutong?"
"Why don't you know? I heard that he drinks a jar of good wine every day. I met him when I went to drink." Qin Yuan replied: "What's wrong? What happened to his family?"
"Exactly!" The owner of the wonton shop lowered his voice even more. He was afraid that they wouldn't be able to hear him. He leaned closer and said, "A few days ago, an eminent monk from out of town passed by and saw Liu Da. He said he had something on his body. A strange disease.
Liu Da thought he was in good health and not sick at all, so he said he was not sick.
The eminent monk said no more and left.
But after the eminent monk left, Liu Da became more and more afraid, worrying whether he was really sick.
So I went to the medical clinic to have a look, but the medical clinic didn't see anything.
Later, I asked Immortal Bai Ban to check his qi, but he didn't see it either.
I guess he might want to see Lan Ban's Immortal Master, but Qin Immortal Master can give it a try. "
Qin Yuan's eyes lit up, business was coming!
"Thank you, boss! I will take the fortune-telling qualification test in the morning and then go to Liu's house to have a look!"
"Oh? Master Qin is going to add another skill?"
"Exactly!"
"Oh, I'll have to figure it out some other time!"
"Okay, I'll give you a discount!"
…
Song Yushan watched the senior sister and the boss go back and forth, chatting in a lively manner, and soon he got a business for himself, which was simply amazing.
Song Yushan also claimed to have business talent and ability, but he was not as talkative as his senior sister.
The owner of the wonton shop's gossip did not affect his work. After a while, two large bowls of wontons were served.
The sea bowl, which was bigger than my face, was filled with a big bowl.
The soup base is kelp soup. The thin-skinned wontons are soaked in the soup and sprinkled with green onions. They look very appetizing.
Song Yushan took a sip of the soup first and couldn't help but sigh with satisfaction.
"How is it?" Qin Yuan scooped up a wonton and blew on it.
"As soon as I drink this soup, I know that the wonton taste is unmistakable!" Song Yushan said.
"Hahaha, Master Song knows how to eat. The essence of these wontons is in this soup." The boss smiled.
The quantity of wontons was very substantial. Song Yushan and Qin Yuan arrived with a straight face, and when they left, each of them had a round belly.
The legs tied with sandbags could no longer hold up.
We returned to the main street and walked slowly.
"Sister, is the eminent monk mentioned by the wonton shop owner also a monk?"
"Yes, the county calls monks who practice in temples and dress like monks eminent monks."
"Then let's go to Liu's house together in the afternoon. I also want to see if the eminent monk has deceived people and whether Liu Da is sick."
"Okay!"
…
The two walked for a while together, made an appointment to meet at Xiankelai at noon, and then separated. Song Yushan wanted to take another road to buy things, while Qin Yuan wanted to take an exam at the Xianshi Academy in the center of the city.
Song Yushan took the map of the county city and looked at it while walking. He first went to the street where Chinese literati often visited in the county city. There were many places for literati to have fun there.
There are several bookstores, and there are also many selling pens, inks, paper and inkstones.
There was still plenty of time, so Song Yushan went shopping with his family and picked out a lot of books to enrich the books at his home bookstore.
The books sold in the county were half as expensive as those in her bookstore.
Song Yushan had long heard from scholars in the county that books in the county were expensive, but she did not expect them to be so expensive.
She observed that a small number of books had the same fonts, so they should have been printed, and most of them were hand-copied.
She used her status as an immortal master to inquire about it, and it turned out that it was the same as their family's bookshop more than ten years ago, relying on engraving, printing and hand-copying.
Only books with high sales volume and stable sales all year round have special engravings. Other books are copied by poor scholars.
This is a business opportunity.
However, Song Yushan is not inclined to open bookstores in counties and cities and seize the market with low-priced books to make profits.
Unlike Fushui County, the county town has only one bookstore.
If she dared to do this in the county town, she would probably offend all the bookstores in the city.
Even if she is a monk, she would not dare to show off like this before she has a thorough understanding of the situation of the bosses behind the Juncheng Bookstore industry.
This might bring trouble to Fushui County and her bookstore.
Moreover, such a price war will offend many people, and there will definitely be a lot of trouble when the time comes. It will probably take a lot of energy to successfully occupy the market.
Song Yushan wanted to make money, but he was unwilling to focus solely on making money. Cultivation was the foundation.
So she is not inclined to make money in such a way that will cause huge conflicts.
But even if she can't open a bookstore and compete on price, the technology she has mastered that can significantly reduce costs can still benefit her.
With careful planning, the profit will not be much smaller than opening a bookstore to sell low-priced books yourself.
Song Yushan visited all the shops on this street, bought a bunch of books, and came up with a few money-making ideas, but bought every piece of paper she really wanted to buy.
The paper sold here is so good that it is too wasteful to use it to make paper bindings.
