Chapter 13: The Chestnut Business
The sun is good these days, and it is dried into chestnuts in less than half a day, but this chestnut looks like a lot before it is dried, and there is not much after it is dried.
These are not enough to sell in the market, Shen Qingqing picked the cool afternoon, and prepared to take Xiaodouding to the mountains to pick some more.
They went to the chestnut tree before, and sure enough, no one moved these things except Shen Qingqing.
With his previous experience, Shen Qingqing stopped climbing the tree, and found an extremely long and thick branch to stand on the ground, and the chestnut was the king who was in a hurry and fell to the ground.
Xiao Douding was so unhappy, he hurriedly went to see him, this time Shen Qingqing was smart, took two bamboo baskets, and filled them all before going home.
When I got home, I peeled the chestnuts and dried them again, and the chestnuts were dried again after half a day's work.
Shen Qingqing counted the days, and on the day of the market, she shouted through the fence to Aunt Wang: "Aunt Wang, go to the market today, are you going?" ”
Aunt Wang was chopping vegetables, and without raising her head, she said: "My daughter-in-law wants to go back to her parents' house, I will send her, so I won't go." ”
Shen Qingqing pondered in her heart, she must have an oxcart for these chestnuts, Aunt Wang is not going, where is she going to find this oxcart.
Forget it, Shen Qingqing said directly: "That...... Aunt Wang, I went to the town to catch the market today to bring something, do you know who has an ox cart? ”
"Yo." Aunt Wang put the knife down. "You still have things with you, the ox carts in this village are estimated to not be able to get out today, you have to go to the next village to have a look."
It was still early in the day, and as soon as she heard Aunt Wang say this, Shen Qingqing immediately went to the next village to find an oxcart in order not to delay things.
This village is close to each other, and it takes less than half an hour to arrive from the small road, Shen Qingqing got up early, and when he arrived at the house of the ox cart in the next village, he was having breakfast.
"Big brother, I have something to go to the market, can you pull me over?" Shen Qingqing spoke carefully, and her words and actions were extremely regular.
"This ......" The honest man who pulls the oxcart seems to be a little embarrassed. I'm afraid it won't work. ”
Fortunately, Shen Qingqing had already prepared, took out a few copper plates from his sleeve and handed them to the eldest brother: "Big brother, you can make it convenient." ”
The people in the next village didn't know Shen Qingqing, but they didn't misunderstand her, and they saw that she spoke softly and softly, and she was not a difficult person to get along with, and besides, if you don't make money, you are a fool.
The eldest brother put down the chopsticks and wiped his mouth: "Okay, I'll pull you around." ”
Shen Qingqing heard the great joy, hurried home to prepare, took out two extra back baskets from the utility room, put chestnuts in them, and held the scales, this business is indispensable, kraft paper she has prepared for a long time.
There was chaos in the market, and besides, it was a business, so Xiao Douding was not allowed to go.
After preparing these things, Shen Qingqing got on an ox cart and went to the market for the second time.
No matter how many times I saw Jiudaoguan, I still felt that it was majestic and magnificent, Shen Qingqing didn't come early, and some good stalls had already been occupied by others, so I could only think of one.
Adjacent to her was a young eldest sister who sold Sijiqing, the young eldest sister was very enthusiastic, and when she saw Shen Qingqing open her mouth and said, "Sister, I haven't seen you when I set up a stall before, are you setting up a stall for the first time?" ”
Shen Qingqing sat at the back of the stall like her, and smiled: "Yes, I got some chestnuts to sell." ”
"Chestnut?" The young eldest sister looked at what Shen Qingqing was putting on the table and frowned. "How come I haven't heard of it? What is this chestnut? ”
"This ......" When Shen Qingqing was about to explain, he saw that the young eldest sister's vendor had already come to the customer. How do you sell this greens? ”
The chatter can only stop there.
It's almost noon, there are more and more people, and the other stalls are all lively, but Shen Qingqing's stall is full of people.
Finally, someone stopped, looked at it, shook his head and left again, and just like that, not a single chestnut was sold at noon.
Shen Qingqing touched the chestnut dry, a little distressed, could it be that his hard work was in vain?
The young eldest sister next to her was counting the copper plates, and couldn't help but feel distressed when she saw Shen Qingqing's business being so cold: "Sister, I said why are these things so difficult to sell, are they not delicious or what's the matter?" ”
Shen Qingqing shook her head, took a few dried chestnuts and handed them to the young eldest sister: "This thing is delicious, do you taste it?" ”
The young eldest sister was also enthusiastic and cheerful, seeing that Shen Qingqing handed it over and didn't see anything outside, she took it back, chewed twice in her mouth and nodded repeatedly: "This thing is sweet and sweet, very delicious." ”
"It's a pity." Shen Qingqing sighed. "It's just that no one buys it."
The young eldest sister was happy to see her, because she had more business and more knowledge, and came up with an idea: "No one buys it because everyone doesn't know that this thing can be eaten, don't you let everyone know that this thing is delicious?" ”
This is an idea, Shen Qingqing patted his head and thought of a way.
She stood up, coughed and shouted: "Sweet chestnuts, taste them first and then buy them, everyone come and take a look, take a look." ”
At first she was restrained, and her voice was quiet, but it didn't matter, there were more people coming and going on the street, and she didn't shout a few times, and someone stopped at her stall: "What is this?" ”
"Big brother, this is a chestnut." Shen Qingqing took a chestnut and handed it to him. "You can taste the delicious first, and then you can buy it."
It's not poison, it's not tight to eat something, the guest took the chestnut and just put it in his mouth carefully, but after a while, he nodded: "I've never seen anything like this, it's quite delicious, how much is a pound?" ”
This Shen Qingqing really didn't have a good plan, but he had also visited the bazaar and knew the price, so after thinking about it, he said: "Five wen and one catty." ”
These five texts are expensive and expensive, and they are not expensive or expensive.
The eldest brother also wanted to bargain: "I've never seen this thing, it's just a snack to eat, and the five cents are too expensive." ”
Shen Qingqing laughed, and shook his head when he spoke: "Big brother, you don't know this, this thing is called chestnut, it is a rare thing, you can nourish your stomach if you eat it, if someone in your family has a bad stomach, eating more of this is good for your body." ”
The eldest brother ate a lot, and he really thought it was delicious, so he waved his hand: "Come on, bring me half a catty." ”
"Done." Shen Qingqing put the chestnut on the scale, wrapped it in kraft paper as half a catty, and handed it to the eldest brother. "I'll charge you two pennies for this half catty.
This is difficult at the beginning, with the first guest, and all the subsequent guests came one after another.
"This chestnut is a rarity, I haven't heard of it."
"You can taste it first, and then you can buy it."
In this way, the business on Shen Qingqing's stall turned out to be better, this thing is fresh and sweet, and she is the only one in the market, and it was all sold out in the evening.
The young eldest sister's Sijiqing is almost sold, and when she is not busy, she also helps Shen Qingqing take care of the guests, and Shen Qingqing finally gives all the remaining two catties to the young eldest sister.
On this day, there were a total of twenty catties, and one hundred copper plates were sold.
Shen Qingqing weighed the purse, listening to the rattling of the copper plate, not to mention how happy she was.
It will take a while for the young eldest sister's things to be sold, so Shen Qingqing first let her look at the bamboo basket and scales, thinking about buying something to go home.
This vegetable and meat are not indispensable, Shen Qingqing went to cut some meat and bought some green vegetables.
When I walked to the sugar shop, I stopped.
The perfect match for this chestnut is sugar, and fried chestnuts with sugar are really a rare thing, even if you can't do it, it's good to make fried chestnuts with sugar for small beans to eat.
"Boss, how is this sugar sold?" Shen Qingqing walked into the store and asked.
The boss was a man dressed in black, who was a shrewd person at first glance, he glanced at Shen Qingqing and said, "Ten cents and one catty." ”
Ten wen, not much, besides, the sugar is quite edible, and I can't finish it for a long time.
Thinking about it, Shen Qingqing put the green vegetables behind: "Then the boss will give me half a catty." ”
"Come on!"
The boss said, and walked to the back of the cabinet, Shen Qingqing was puzzled, there was white sugar in the middle of the store, why did he go to the back of the cabinet?
With the experience of buying meat last time, Shen Qingqing also kept an eye on it and quietly followed behind the boss.
I don't know if I don't know this, but I found out that this boss actually put a spoonful of white sugar and a spoonful of brown sugar in a kraft bag, and when he waited for a mouthful, he couldn't tell whether it was white sugar or brown sugar, if Shen Qingqing didn't pay attention to it a little, he would definitely be deceived.
In ancient times, the price of white sugar and brown sugar was much different!
"Boss." Shen Qingqing's eyes were not good, and he spoke slowly. "What are you doing?"
The boss was startled, and quickly took out the brown sugar, all of which were filled with white sugar: "I read it wrong, I read it wrong." ”
Shen Qingqing didn't want to worry so much about him, as long as she changed it to white sugar, she paid the money, and she thought about buying other things.
The clothes on Xiao Douding's body were all rotten, and none of them could be taken care of, so Shen Qingqing went to the cloth shop again, pulled a piece of blue cloth, and prepared to make clothes for Xiao Douding.
I don't know if I don't buy it, but I was shocked when I bought it, and this small piece of cloth cost 20 yuan.
But there is no way, what should be bought still has to be bought.
Shen Qingqing paid the money, walked to the street, looked at the meat, vegetables, sugar, cloth and other things on his body, not to mention how happy he was.
The left and right are harvesting slowly, and Xiao Douding is estimated to be happy to death when he sees it.
"It seems that if you want to live a good life, you still need to work on your own!" Shen Qingqing sighed sincerely.