Han Jin was very helpless, although the merchant business made him make some money, but it was only a small business. The money he earned and the money he borrowed from his cousin was only enough for him and the master and servant of Noble to go home. If you want to sell on the local road or in Jizhou, the money must not be enough.

There are also merchants in the nearby villagers of Tunzi, who are considered to be local snakes, and are also familiar with the living habits of the locals. In recent days, my cousin has asked him to have more contact with the herdsmen.

Li Yao nodded at her cousin's words, and then asked, "Let's not talk about these things first, I asked Noble to inquire about it in the past few days, but can you inquire carefully?" ”

Lai Bao immediately responded: "Miss Biao asked the little one to inquire, and the little one has already inquired." The herders were all slaves of the tribal chiefs, and the local villagers had a lukewarm relationship with them, and the herders generally did not have much contact with the local villagers. Occasionally, bartering is done in exchange for necessary salt, sugar, etc., but this is not often the case. Other times, it is well water, not river water. If Miss Biao wanted to exchange some wool from the herdsmen, she should be able to do it, but not in large quantities. This is not the time to cut the wool. ”

"What the hell is my cousin going to do business?" My cousin said that he would collect some wool for trading, but he didn't understand what kind of wool could be used to buy and sell? So he then asked, "Could my cousin also make those felt blankets and other things from the herdsmen?" Where did my cousin learn it? ”

Seeing that his cousin was puzzled, and his cousin had asked a question a few days ago, Li Yao smiled and said, "Hehe, I don't know how to do herdsmen's things." I don't think they will either. I don't know if I can make it, so let's give it a try. I'll talk to my cousin about it later. It just so happens that the farm is over, and when I build a house these days, I can also free up my hands to try this transaction. "She's going to pull out the yarn. As long as there was wool, she remembered how to make wool.

When her mother first started trading, she was willing to try anything and did the wool business, but then she stopped doing it for some reason. She didn't care at the time, and she couldn't remember why her mother didn't do it anymore, but she thought that she stopped the business because she didn't make money. Now that I have borrowed the convenience of the location, I am sorry that I am being assigned here if I don't do this business!

Li Yao thought very easily, but everything was difficult at the beginning. Things after that weren't as simple as she thought.

Han Jin came to the county this time because he followed Li Yao, and the matter of purchasing goods was put behind. Anyway, they can't go back today, and there is no rush to buy goods, and they can do it tomorrow. Besides, he walked around with his cousin, and he could easily get into cheap goods when he encountered them.

So the two of them took Noble and went around the local grocery store and other places. Li Yao, who turned around, was very disappointed. Reading the novel first, those women who crossed the grocery store or grain store could find sweet potatoes, corn and other seeds, and she went around, but she didn't touch any seeds.

For this reason, she had to go to the bookstore first and buy two agricultural books. Probably because there are not many local readers, the books in this bookstore are cheaper because they are not sellable. The two books cost her a total of seven hundred and fifty copper coins. Later, she grinded the bookstore owner to build her two scripts and spent one or two silver. In these books, Li Yao felt that she probably knew how to talk to the book, but she paid more attention to it.

The night is long, and I can only pass the time by reading books. She may not be able to understand those agricultural books. I bought it for my grandfather and brother.

In the bookstore, paper was more expensive, and it cost one or two silver to buy two knives. Coupled with the pen, ink, paper, inkstone and other things bought for the men in the family, these accounted for a large part of the things purchased by Li Yao this time, so he went to nearly ten taels of silver. This made Li Yao sigh again and again, the money is easy to spend but not easy to earn.

After buying these things, seeing that it was not completely dark, Han Jin took Li Yao and ran to the livestock market. Bantam horses are okay to run mountain roads, but pulling carts and farming is still not as good as cattle. Therefore, Han Jin wanted to add some money to the bantam horse in exchange for the ox.

"Why don't you buy a goat and go back? I heard that it is cold in winter here, and there is a cat in winter, at that time, he drank goat's milk for his family to nourish his body. In fact, Li Yao wanted to say that she and Han Jin's aunt and nephew would raise their bodies, but the goats couldn't just be bought for them. If she said that she was a member of the family, her cousin would not object to her buying sheep.

"My cousin has to build two rooms in his hand, and the silver will have to go to twelve or three taels, and if he builds three rooms, then he will have to seventeen or eighteen taels, and today you bought ten taels of books and paper and pens, how much silver is left in your hand? If you buy more sheep, you won't have much money left in your house. ”

"Uh...... I went for more than half of it, not counting the ten taels of silver prepared for the purchase of sheep, and twelve taels of silver plus this horn of silver. This dimes have three coins. I thought that the rest of the silver would be enough for the rest of the day. In winter, it is good to feed everyone, nourish the body and bones, and save more money when you get sick. I don't know why the medicine here is more expensive than other places. Also, doesn't that Fu Gongzi still owe me silver? Cousin, you can't compare our flowers with the present. The five members of Aunt Zhao's family next door eat and drink three or five taels of silver a year, and they say that it is enough. ”

Han Jin thought about it and felt that what his cousin said was not unreasonable. But he said, "Okay, let's buy another goat." It's just that if the house is not built, won't I be able to save six or seven taels of silver? ”

"Leave this cousin alone, my grandfather and I have already discussed it. To build a house, you have to build a room for your cousin to do business, and if your cousin doesn't need it in the future, you can use it at home. Three rooms with a pankang, I prepared eighteen taels of silver, which should be enough. ”

The two entered the cattle market, and soon a tooth man came forward financially, saying that he was familiar with these things and wanted to help them buy livestock. Collect a small 30% of the economic cost of all the money. For example, if they buy cattle for ten taels, then the tooth man will receive three percent of the ten taels of silver, which is three hundred denarii.

The two were not familiar with cattle and sheep, and they also knew that they really needed the help of these tooth people to buy livestock in the livestock market, so after asking a few tooth people, they chose a tooth man to choose cattle and sheep for them.

Li Yao wanted to pay for more than two taels of silver in exchange for Niu Tian, but was stopped by Han Jin. Li Yao was not polite to her cousin. She'll just have to pay it back later. At this time, because of the two taels of silver and the cousin pushing back and forth, it is not good-looking.

Li Yao prepared ten taels of silver to buy sheep, who knew that there may be many herdsmen here, and the sheep raised are not expensive, but the sheep seller wants to sell both sheep, and the sheep is a pair of male and female sheep. The ewe has just given birth.

In the end, through the tooth man who helped them buy the sheep to bargain, the sheep spent eight taels and seven pieces of silver. plus the two hundred and sixty copper coins given to the tooth man, Li Yao bought sheep flowers in the livestock market for nearly nine taels of silver. It cost a silver or two less than she had envisioned. (To be continued.) )