Chapter 139: Model Youth
"Third girl, is it true that your family is going to move to the county seat? So what can we do with the mountain goods in our hands in the future? ”
"I heard that Zhao's shop will still be open as usual in the future, let's think about it, there should still be a place in the shop where we can get our local products. Third girl, do you want the shop to continue to accept our goods? ”
As soon as they saw Zhao Siniang coming, the villagers in the tea stall couldn't wait to come forward and asked nonsense.
Zhao Siniang's family set up this tea stall, the original intention was to let the villagers who passed by but couldn't afford to eat tea come in to rest.
After operating for a while, Zhao Siniang found that as she expected, most of the people who came in were North Shore villagers. And few of them come to visit relatives and friends, and basically take the mountain goods that have been gathered at home for a long time to Changle Town to exchange money.
It turned out that although there was a small town on the north bank under the rule of Changzhi County, the mountain goods could not be sold at all in that town or even in Changzhi County, which was farther away. Therefore, even if they have to walk dozens of miles more, they still have to trek through mountains and rivers along the way, and the villagers on the north bank are more willing to take things to Changle Town to sell.
However, although Changle Town is the most prosperous town market in the area, the prices in the market there are only slightly higher than other places, and it is impossible to completely solve the problem of food and clothing by selling mountain goods.
Zhao Siniang thought that her family was in the food business, and she had carefully observed those mountain goods, and most of them could be used. In this case, it is better to do good deeds, set up a receiving point at the tea stall, buy all the mountain goods you need directly, and the villagers in the province will run more than ten miles to the town.
So every market day, Zhao Siniang asked Yang to go to the tea stall to help receive the goods, and the purchase price was mostly calculated according to the price in the market in Changle Town.
Zhao Siniang's family provides such convenience and gives a fair price, of course the villagers are willing to sell the goods to his family.
At the same time, they were pleased to find that Zhao Siniang's family would never lower the price because of the large amount of purchases, even if the end of the payment was a penny, they would not ask for zero, and they should give a lot of money.
Don't look at this as a small detail, but it moved the villagers.
Let's not talk about whether they can sell everything in the bazaar, just to say that it is difficult for them to meet a big customer like Zhao Siniang's family, and they all sell slowly little by little. When it is sold. The guest is either asking for a zero, or just asking for a match.
In this way, don't look at a single business is not worth anything, a few orders are a lot of losses. And that money is especially precious to the impoverished North Shore villagers.
What surprises the villagers is still to come.
Zhao Siniang would come to this "bazaar" from time to time, and she found that the endless mountains on the north bank were an endless treasure trove, but people didn't realize it.
The mountain goods on the north shore mainly include wild vegetables, wild fruits, wild bamboo shoots, wild mountain mushrooms and wild honey, and sometimes some pheasants and hares. Then there are the few villagers who raise chickens who will bring the eggs they have collected for a long time. Among them, the nutritional value of wild mushrooms and wild honey is particularly high. It is completely possible to sell at a high price.
However, these precious ingredients can be used in either wealthy families or high-end restaurants, and these places have their own ways of purchasing, and it is impossible to buy them at the market. Therefore, such a good thing can only be sold at a low price to the townspeople who do not know the goods.
This is a coincidence, Zhao Siniang.
When collecting these things, Zhao Siniang was embarrassed to come according to the price in the town. Although prices vary according to the quality of the goods, the prices she gives are, on average, four or five times higher than the market price.
In addition to these two things, Zhao Siniang also found a lot of treasures in the inconspicuous wild vegetables. Fairy grass is one of them.
The people in the surrounding area are generally not wealthy, and they think that many wild plants in the fields are edible, so there are many varieties of wild vegetables.
Among these wild vegetables, shepherd's cabbage, cattails, plantain, purslane and dandelion were barely recognized by Zhao Siniang, who often went to her grandmother's house in the countryside when she was a child. But there are many things that Zhao Siniang had never heard of in her previous life, such as the kinds of wild vegetables that Zhao Sanniang asked her to dig when she first arrived, and she still can't distinguish them. However, the variety of wild vegetables does not contain fairy grass, which is a nameless weed here.
The reason why Zhao Siniang saw fairy grass in the wild vegetables she bought was just that a villager accidentally put a few into it by mistake, and people never thought of selling it. I didn't even think anyone would be willing to spend money to buy it.
In the previous life, fairy grass was widely used to make all kinds of herbal teas and desserts. I remember that every summer, my grandmother would make a big pot of tea every day. The simple recipes include Huoxiang tea, psyllium tea and corn whisker tea, etc., and the more complex and most popular is herbal tea, and fairy grass is one of its indispensable raw materials.
When I think of the value of fairy grass. Zhao Siniang decided to buy a large number of cabbage prices.
In the past, the price of cabbage meant that it was cheap, and the fact that the unknown weeds here were suddenly able to sell vegetables at a price is definitely exciting news.
The villagers who got the news immediately added the fairy grass to the picking list, although they didn't understand what Zhao Siniang's family wanted for this untasty weed.
Only three days later, Zhao Siniang received dozens of catties of fairy grass.
Zhao Siniang's acquisition behavior of not following common sense is not only to let the villagers realize the value of fairy grass. It also made them realize that since Zhao Siniang is willing to accept this weed, does it mean that if other weeds get into her eyes, she will also be willing to spend money to buy them?
Therefore, when many villagers come to the tea stall, they often bring some strange flowers and plants.
Although most of them were not useful, the attentive Zhao Siniang found many useful plants from them, including various common Chinese herbs such as honeysuckle, houttuynia cordata and banlan root.
Here, the medicinal properties of these Chinese herbs have long been known to doctors, and they are widely used in various prescriptions, making them a must-have in every pharmacy.
However, there is only one pharmacy nearby, Jishengtang, and the medicinal materials in it, like those high-end restaurants, are provided by regular suppliers. Therefore, not to mention that the villagers did not know these medicinal materials before, even if they know now, they will not be able to sell them.
It can be seen that these medicinal materials are of good quality, and after processing, they will never be worse than those sold in pharmacies. It's a pity that the things are good things, but Zhao Siniang's family runs a food shop, so they don't need it at all. And her own Tongji Shengtang is just a general friend, no matter how good the quality is and the price is favorable, Zhao Siniang is not confident that Dr. Shen can put aside the pharmacist she has been cooperating with and buy herbs from her. It is true that when Dr. Shen bought Zhao Siniang's wild honeycomb, it was just out of pity, and it was purely an exception.
Just when Zhao Siniang was about to give up. Zhao Yuanniang persuaded her and told her to just buy it, and as many as she wanted, it would naturally be useful in the future.
Thereupon. Zhao Siniang began to work as a drug dealer, and at the same time, many villagers on the north bank had an extra way to make a living.
Since Zhao Siniang's family began to buy a wide variety of mountain goods, in the early morning of every market day, you can see many villagers carrying mountain goods in the tea stall. When their goods met the needs of Zhao Siniang's family and were accepted, they got the payment on the spot. The joy on his face can't be hidden.
Through that heartfelt smile, Zhao Siniang can naturally understand how significant those meager incomes are to them. Considering that the recovered mountain goods are about to bring or have brought huge benefits to her family, Zhao Siniang will certainly not give up this financial road because of her family's move.
"Fellow villagers, rest assured, although our family is leaving, my grandfather's house is still there, and Zhao's shop is still there. Here I can assure the villagers that whenever there is a day of Zhao's shop, the mountain goods will be received! Zhao Siniang's voice just fell. There was a cheer all around.
When the noisy crowd quieted down a little, Zhao Siniang added: "After receiving the goods for so long, I also probably know which villages are rich in which mountain goods, and it can be said that almost every village has its own unique local products." Folks, okay? In the future, our Zhaojiapu bulk goods will be received, but if you can, you will discuss with the village to see if you can estimate how many local products the village can produce in a month, and then push a representative out and sign a contract with our Zhaojiapu. In the future, you can send people to deliver the goods together, or once every three days. Or five days a delivery, as long as the amount on the contract is full every month. ”
This time, after Zhao Siniang finished speaking, there was silence all around.
To tell the truth, the folks on the North Shore suffer from perennial poverty. A lot of people aren't very well developed. By "development" we mean not only physically, but also intellectually. It's not that they're stupid, but many of them are a little bit woodened compared to the folks on the South Shore. Therefore, many people have not been able to understand what Zhao Siniang said just now, and they are still slowly digesting and thinking.
But there are so many North Shore people here today. There are also many responsive and flexible villagers in it, and after listening to Zhao Siniang's proposal, they can't help but light up: if you do what Zhao Siniang said, not only can you let many villagers walk dozens of miles of mountain roads, but more importantly, you can have an extra layer of security. Although the Zhao family is famous for their benevolence and righteousness, after all, there is no basis for words, right? After making the contract, I was not afraid that Zhao Jiapu would regret not accepting their goods. ”
"Miss Zhao, I think this idea is in place! It's just that there are four or five people in our village today, but it doesn't represent the whole village...... You see such a big matter, can you give us some time to go back and discuss it? In the crowd, a young man in his twenties was the first to ask.
Zhao Siniang glanced at the young man slightly, and saw that although the clothes he was wearing were old, and there were a few patches in the inconspicuous places, they were many times better than other ragged villagers. And although he has a dark face, he has excellent spirits.
Zhao Siniang thought that such a tough and upright young man was rare even in the town, and even more rare on the north bank, presumably he had a certain prestige in the village, and most of them could speak.
So Zhao Siniang nodded and said solemnly: "Of course you can!" But our family is going to move out in a few days, so we can't wait too long, can you give me an answer next day? ”
"Medium!" The young man agreed.
Later, Zhao Siniang learned that the young man's name was Ye Linxiang and he was from Qilipo on the north bank.
Today he brought with him, in addition to the usual mountain goods such as fungus and shiitake mushrooms, three pheasants, two roe deer, and five hares, which he supposedly hunted with his own hands, and his shrewdness and skill are evident here.
Not only that, but he is also extremely filial to his parents, and his filial piety is even very well-known throughout the North Shore.
Therefore, as Zhao Siniang guessed, Ye Linxiang has a great say in the village, and even has a certain influence on the entire north bank.
When the villagers on the north shore saw this model young man asking to go back to discuss, whether they wanted to figure it out or not, they all said that they would give an answer on the next market day.
Seeing that the Yang family finally collected all the mountain goods after a busy morning, and the crowd gradually dispersed, Zhao Siniang, who had been thinking for a long time, also made a decision - if this thing can be done, it is estimated that the amount of goods received will increase significantly. At that time, there will be no more trouble with the elderly grandmother, and someone must be arranged to receive the goods, and Huang Sanshui's two brothers are good candidates.
"Zhao, Miss Zhao, I can pick these wild vegetables, but, we are foreigners, can you collect them?"
After receiving the goods, Zhao Siniang was helping Yang load some of them. At this time, a girl with yellow face and thin muscles timidly walked up to Zhao Siniang, rubbed her hands together, and asked with a worried face.
Zhao Siniang was stunned and wondered: Hey, who is this girl? How do you feel like I've seen it somewhere, it's a little familiar. (To be continued.) )