Su Chen went out with only twenty-five dollars, which was his start-up capital, which was a drop in the bucket.

If you stay at home and can't think of any good ideas for a while, why don't you go out for a walk, listen to the six directions, and see all directions, in case you can find a way to make money?

In the previous life, Su Yixuan was also born in a medical family, but his parents were both Western doctors and chief surgeons, but his grandfather was an old Chinese medicine doctor, so Su Yixuan also grew up with a "soup song" on his back, and he must practice writing medicine prescriptions with a brush and words.

He was tired of the medical profession and liked traditional culture and ancient literature, so after graduating from the undergraduate degree and choosing the Chinese department, it was also the reason why he fell out with his parents, left home to relax, and came here after an accident.

"I don't know what happened to my parents and grandfather, but after learning that I had an accident, I must have been heartbroken!" Su Chen sighed lightly and shook his head, the untimely death of the previous life is over, and this life has to be made up for and live hard so that it will not be a loss.

Su Chen went east along Dasuo Street, crossed the willow stone alley, and arrived at the edge of this mile square, which was full of green trees, there were few houses, and there were no big shops, but there was a tea shop and a few vegetable vendors at the corner of the road, pushing unicycles to stop, and operating a small business.

The water system in Runzhou City is developed, and it is close to the canal, so you can see the landform of small bridges and flowing water everywhere.

Some wooden houses built along the river will stick out of the water at one end, and the feet will stand in the water, locally called stilted houses, and women will wash clothes and get water by the river, talking and laughing, chatting about daily life.

The characteristics of the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River are like a picture scroll of ink painting.

Su Chen stood by the stone bridge, enjoyed the scenery for a moment, and then went south along the Dingmao River to Su'er Lane.

There are more groceries and agricultural and sideline products sold here, Su Chen stopped and stopped, saw melons, fruits and beans, and kept thinking about which one was suitable for him to invest.

"Taste it, take a look at the sweet and delicious Gantang pear!"

"Good black plum, come and buy it!"

There was a burst of shouting, one after another.

Su Chen saw no less than ten kinds of fruits appear here, black plum, plantain, rain pear, pomegranate, sugar cane, etc., in the Tang and Song dynasties, these fruits have appeared.

"Hey, isn't this a trumpet hawthorn?" Su Chen walked up to a small vendor and saw that he had a sack filled with a lot of hawthorn.

"This son, do you need to be red in the mountains?" The peddler looked like he was thirty-five or sixteen years old, and he saw Su Chen wearing a scholar's shirt, dressed appropriately, and behaving like a scholar, so he was honored as a son.

"How do you sell this?" Su Chen asked casually.

"Three pennies and one pound!"

Su Chen asked thoughtfully, "I don't know where this was picked from?" ”

The hawker said: "There are this kind of fruit trees in the back mountain, they grow there, they can be picked if they are diligent, but before the winter, the woodcutter and the farmer of the field house have gone to pick it again, and the places that are good to pick on the periphery have been picked by them. ”

When Su Chen heard this, he felt that this vendor had some brains and understood the truth that strange goods could be lived, so he would not sell them in season.

"What do you call Brother Tai?"

"My big name is Zhao Shusheng, the fourth in the family, and the neighbors call me Zhao Laosi."

Su Chen asked more: "Listening to the accent, it doesn't look like a local." ”

Zhao Laosi said: "Twenty years ago, when the war in the north was in turmoil, I followed my family and fled from Ludi, Jiangbei, and stayed in Runzhou for 20 years, and the northern voice has not changed. ”

Su Chen nodded, through historical knowledge, I understand that twenty years ago, the north was in the reign of the Later Jin Dynasty, the third regime of the Five Dynasties, and the Later Jin Dynasty Gaozu Shi Jingjiao was originally the Hedong Jiedu envoy of the Later Tang Dynasty, in order to be able to live the addiction of the founding emperor, he actually called the son of the minister and ceded the sixteen states of Youyun at the cost of the support of the Khitan lord Yelu Deguang, and finally was able to defeat the late Tang Emperor Li Congke and establish the Later Jin Empire. It is precisely because Shi Jingjiao was not in the right position, betrayed the country to seek glory, and left a great hidden danger for hundreds of years in the Central Plains, so later generations hated this "child emperor".

Shi Jingjiao died after serving as the emperor for six years, and before his death, he entrusted his young son Shi Chongrui to the prime minister Feng Dao, hoping that the latter could do his best to assist the young master. However, as soon as Shi Jingjiao died, Feng Dao and Jing Yanguang, the commander of the forbidden army, took action, and on the grounds that the country was in danger and needed Changjun, they took the initiative to establish Shi Jingjiao's nephew Shi Chonggui as the emperor, and it was for the emperor to be promoted.

Shi Chonggui had an arrogant personality, and after ascending the throne, he was quite tough, and listened to the advice of the minister, and decided to only call Sun Sun to the Khitan and not a minister. The sharp change in the national policy of the Later Jin Dynasty made Yelu Deguang very angry, and from the first month of the first year of Kaiyun (944), the Khitan officially sent troops to invade the south. Later Jin began to be powerless to resist, but fortunately the people of the Central Plains rose up to resist and blocked the invasion of the Khitan army, but after a temporary victory, Shi Chonggui not only lost the awe that the enemy should have, but also began to become arrogant and degenerate, living a life of drunken dreams and deaths all day long.

At this time in the Southern Tang Dynasty, it was the martyr ancestor Li Sheng who was in power, reformed the system, cultivated politics and religion, abolished torture, persuaded agriculture and mulberry, built water conservancy, and allowed the people to recuperate, continuing the national policy of not fighting foreign wars during the Yang and Wu periods, so that the land south of the Yangtze River was free from war for decades, so many people in the north went south and voted for the Tang Kingdom in the south of the Yangtze River.

Looking at a bag of mountain red, Su Chen's mind flashed the picture of sugar gourd and canned hawthorn, picked up one and tasted it, the taste was okay, but it was a little sour, maybe because it was a wild variety, it was small, and if you ate too much, it would definitely be sour, which was a little different from the hawthorn varieties in later generations.

"How many are there in your house?"

"Do you want a large amount?"

Su Chen nodded: "Well, it may be a lot!" ”

Zhao Laosi replied: "There are a few sacks, about a few hundred catties, I dug a cellar at home, stored in it, and it was not rotten, besides, the nearby mountain has been picked, but over one more mountain, there should be some that have not been lighted, as long as you are willing to work hard, and get some, you can do it." ”

Su Chen bargained: "In this way, I want to buy a lot in the later stage, I need to give me a discount price, five cents and two catties, I will buy six catties first and take it home for everyone to try, if they all think the taste is good, I will come back and buy more, it is possible to buy a sack at a time." ”

Zhao Laosi hesitated, and he was also thinking about whether it was cost-effective.

Su Chen helped him analyze: "There is an old saying that if you sell me in large quantities in the future, although there is a discount for a single catty, you can sell dozens of catties at a time, which is more cost-effective than selling a single piece of money here every day, and if you are exposed for a long time, there will definitely be rotten losses every day, and in the end, the money you make will definitely be less than this kind of batch sale." ”

"That's right!" Zhao Laosi also understood and readily agreed.

Su Chen spent fifteen wen and bought more than six catties of mountain red.

Subsequently, he went to the sugar shop and spent ten cents to buy some cane sugar, and once again there was nothing left on him.

But Su Chen was full of expectations and returned to the mansion with his things.

"Ling'er, come here to help."

"Brother Su Chen, what did you get back?" Yang Ling'er ran out of the inner hall, her voice chirping like a lark.

"Mountain red, also called mountain fruit, can be eaten as a fruit, and can be used as medicine after drying."

After Yang Ling'er saw the red mountains in the cloth bag, she said: "It's it, I've eaten it before, but it's old and sour, and it's easy to have sore teeth and flatulence if you eat too much." ”

Su Chen smiled: "Sour is a little sour, but my brother has a secret recipe that can make it sweet and sour!" ”

"Oh, what's the solution?"

"Help with the work, soak these mountain reds in water, remove the acidity, and then wash and dry!"

"Okay!" Yang Linger was very obedient and did her work.

After Su Chen put down the sucrose, he went to the wing where the sundries were stored, found two half-cut bamboos, and then chopped them with a knife and began to make bamboo sticks.

The brother and sister got busy in their spare afternoon.