Such white salt can be sold for 110 or 120 cash per catty outside.
Liu Laozhu knows the goods.
After all, his old wife went to the county last time and bought home a hundred cents a pound of salt mixed with impurities. The refined salt in front of me is obviously more delicate than the salt stored at home.
"That noble man gave you eighty-five cents, and you just returned the price to me?"
Mrs. Xu looked at Liu Laozhu:
"There are few rich people in the village, but there are always people with a similar net worth to you in several neighboring villages. If you sell it for one hundred and one, anyone who knows the goods can buy a few kilograms, like the Bai family can buy it.
Although the weight is not much, you can't earn much, but it is enough to pay for a day's stay. If I want you to earn a little, how can I increase the price? "
Liu Laozhu was so moved that he co-operated with the Xu family's sister, who didn't pay a penny, just to lighten his burden, and found ways to help him share the expenses along the way. The price difference of fifteen pounds of salt is indeed not much, but she is sincerely trying her best to help him without hiding anything.
"Don't you keep some for yourself? We need to save more salt when we open the shop."
Liu Laozhu was worried before whether to buy more salt and take it back. But buying more will cost you money. There is no such thing as wholesale salt price. At most, the city is big and the salt can be cheaper by three to five cents, which is not profitable. But he didn't just buy some salt. He knew that cooking with coarse salt would have a bitter taste, which was a necessity.
Liu Laozhu originally wanted to advise Mrs. Xu not to lose big for small things, and not to follow the behavior of the women in the village and only look at the little they can save in front of them. That is a frog in the well. You must know that you can only earn money if you eat well and pay first. Especially when the Xu family sells expensive things, you still have to save some good salt.
However, Liu Laozhu opened his mouth and closed it again.
Because he glanced at the table, on which were the oil, flour, sesame seeds and other things left over from the cakes that Mrs. Xu made for Girl Tian Xin last night, and then smacked his lips in memory of the oranges that cost twenty-five yuan a pound last night.
Rather than daring to spend money, the Xu family's girls seemed to understand these principles better than he did.
Especially when he has been in contact with her recently, many of the behaviors of Xu family girls confuse him. She looks like a wife who used to be a wealthy family, but is now in decline. Anyway, she is more like a city girl than him. She really dares to spend money and is loose-handed.
"Okay, I accept this love. I don't intend to sell such white fine salt to anyone."
Liu Laozhu babbled a few more words. He thought that some of his inner thoughts could only be told to Mrs. Xu, and only the girls of the Xu family would understand him:
"You and I both know the Bai family. I think our village has given him a lot of stone pots and large jars on credit. This is a favor.
Favors must always be repaid. Although the money owed will be paid after the year, no family in the village will default on their debts.
But when I came to the door, I was so cheeky that I mentioned it. In fact, I was not familiar with the person before, so the Bai family believed me and agreed, and even gave me a step to get off. Whoever has tasted it knows the taste.
It’s the Chinese New Year and I don’t know how to thank you. I want to give someone two pounds of salt. What do you think?
But don't worry, sister, where did this salt come from? Just tell me, and stop here. I won't mention you at all, and I will never delay your business.
He just said that it is not easy to go to the city. The best salt in the official salt shop is not sold in the county. The nobles in the city often buy and eat and give him some. "
Liu Laozhu guessed that the high-ranking member of the Xu family should be the chief steward in charge of the kitchen. The housekeeper might be using a small amount of fifteen kilograms of salt to test whether the Xu family's sister was tight-lipped. If the good deed of the man who often hides salt is not ruined, he will cooperate with Xu Jiachang in the future.
With such a noble person helping him in the Gaomen Courtyard, he will be able to introduce him to any delicious food in the future.
The girls of the Xu family have always been sympathetic and considerate of him, and Liu Laozhu felt that he also had to put himself in the Xu family's shoes.
And some words don't need to be mentioned. This is called tacit understanding.
Otherwise, why would a girl from the Xu family not even leave a pound of fine salt when she opened a restaurant?
He guessed that he was waiting for the noble steward to continue to use the salt stored in his pocket to pay off the account next time. Maybe it would arrive during the next delivery to the Xu family, which would be around winter.
Mrs. Xu squinted at Liu Laozhu: Hey, you are decent, Liu is decent, you know how to give gifts to others, and you pretend to have low emotional intelligence in front of your brothers and sisters.
When Mrs. Xu heard that there was no mention of her, her eyes flashed, guessing that the old guy Liu Laozhu had a lot of ideas.
She only brought out fifteen kilograms of salt this time, just to test it out. My granddaughter accidentally made it too white, so I didn't dare to sell more. I wanted to wait until the next time I go home and make money, it won't be so eye-catching.
Early the next morning, Mrs. Xu started spending money and finally took action.
She first bought a lot of wooden bowls and water cups with Xu Tianxin, and also bought six cheaply made clay teapots from a stall, which she planned to use in the shop.
There is no need to buy chopsticks, the second son of the family should be prepared to spend a lot of them.
The grandfather and grandson carried two large bundles, put the bundles filled with cups and rice bowls on the kang in the inn room, locked the door, and then went to Buzhuang to meet Liu Laozhu at the appointed time.
At that time, Liu Laozhu had already led the boys in the village to purchase two trucks of wine.
In order to bargain for a few pennies, the boys carried the wine themselves and the store didn't care.
A total of fifty jars were purchased, including ten jars that Mrs. Xu asked to take along.
Mrs. Xu asked Liu Laozhu to help buy the cheapest sorghum wine, which weighed thirty kilograms per jar.
She bought these first and went back to try the high-strength distilled wine. She didn't insist on buying more if the wine sold in Fucheng was cheap. The wine can't escape, so I can ask the three boys to buy it back next time they deliver it. So today I specially asked Xu Youcang to follow Liu Laozhu around.
I heard that Liu Laozhu also took Lao San seriously, and even introduced Lao San to the owner of the store when he was wholesalers of pepper and aniseed and other items. Tell others to ask Xu Youcang to help replenish the goods next time.
The store owner asked, where do you open your shop? Liu Laozhu made up the name of his shop and lied that it was the largest grocery store in town.
At this time we arrived at Buzhuang.
Hu Yicheng's girl found that the country boys were dazzled when they entered the store. She didn't laugh at it. On the contrary, because of her brother's face and the fact that the businessman always smiled and was very enthusiastic.
I thought: I heard that these people are from the town below. There must be no two-story cloth shop in the town, let alone the county. Although her place is still a little worse than a real big store, it's no wonder that everything you see is fresh.
Hu Yicheng's girl asked the waiter to pour water for everyone.
Liu Laozhu took off the hat on his head, revealing his sparse hair. He waved his hand to stop him and said, "My boss, there is no need to be polite. We are not thirsty. I was afraid that you would be too busy, so I brought the boys here. I want to I loaded the car myself.”
After a while, let the boys follow the waiter to load three hundred kilograms of cotton into the car, and then guard it outside.
He also specially introduced Mrs. Xu to the hostess: "This is my old sister, the man's surname is Xu. She wants to buy cotton alone, so you can pay her the price. We also have to buy a lot of cloth alone. I'm bothering you and She told me, so that I don’t have to understand what kind of cloth is used for making shoes and what kind of cloth is used for sewing clothes. You are all women who know these things, so I’d like you to introduce them.”
The hostess almost thought they were a couple, so sister-in-law Xuan was embarrassed and she was wondering why more than a dozen boys didn't look alike. Did they form a family together?
(End of chapter)
