Chapter 55: Selling Turnips

In Fangzhou in mid-October, it was getting colder, and only the last crop of autumn vegetables was confiscated in the farm work in the mountain pass.

This thing is cold-resistant, even if it is frosty, it will not be tightened, while there are still a few days to spare, the ancestor personally organized the villagers to go up the mountain to pick up branches, and the col suddenly became deserted.

Except for Wu Ning, Wu Li, the sixth aunt and the fifth aunt who had to stay at home to watch the inn, they couldn't see half a figure during the day.

At this time, let Li Wenbo stare at the inn in the front yard, while Wu Ning and Wu Li came to the vegetable cellar in the backyard and moved the radishes inside.

The cabbage is about to be harvested, but these radishes in the kiln are about to make room.

"Is that person really Chen Boyu?" Wu Li still can't forget Wu Ning's ugliness that day.

"The! Let you copy blindly and bump into the main owner, right? ”

Wu Ning climbed up from the cellar with a radish in his arms, staring at him with a hard mouth: "If you bump into it, you will bump into it, what can you do?" ”

"Huh." Wu Li pouted, "People are officials, they are Jinshi, you still don't move to clean up the matter?" ”

"Okay, okay!" Wu Ning didn't have time to talk nonsense with him, "Hurry up and do your work, your mother is still watching at home with a big belly." ”

The fifth aunt's pregnancy is about to expire, and she is about to give birth, but Wu Laoba's goods are not taken seriously at all.

"It's still more than a month!" Wu Li replied, "What's the hurry?" My mother is not in a hurry. ”

Wu Ning didn't have a trick to take him, and this product was so stunned, and said speechlessly: "Hurry up and move!" ”

"No, where are you going to put it after you move it?"

The seven or eight acres of vegetable fields of the four uncles' families, plus the winter vegetables of each family, are piled up in this cellar, which is thousands of catties.

Listening to Wu Ning's meaning, Qiu Xiangcai was taken back, and he still had to go to the cellar.

Wu Laoba didn't understand, so many dishes were enough for him to eat for ten or eight years, right?

I heard Wu Ning say: "Let's load a car in the afternoon and push it to the city to see if it sells it." ”

"Hey, hey." Wu Li was happy, threw down a hug of radish, picked up another one, rubbed it on the placket, and took a bite.

"Not to mention, maybe it will really sell well."

This autumn radish has been in the vegetable cellar for more than two months, but it is as watery as if it had just been pulled out of the ground.

Moreover, after being in the cellar for so long, there is less dryness and no spiciness, only sweetness.

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Approaching noon, Wu Li went to set up a car.

The brothers didn't know what the market was when they went out to sell radishes the day before, so they only loaded a small half car, but they entered the city for about 200 catties.

Caiji and Niuma Market are both at the entrance of the West Market, because the market only opened after noon, Wu Ning was not in a hurry, and drove the old ox cart and Wu Li to wander around the city slowly.

I have to say that the pace of life in Datang is still very slow.

Because the town implements the fang market system, the people and merchants are enclosed in the fang. In addition, there is almost no commercial activity in the private square except for soup and noodle stalls.

Commodity trading is concentrated in the east and west markets, and unlike the aftermarket, it opens early in the morning and can only operate after noon.

To put it bluntly, if you want to buy a piece of meat and weigh a pound of rice in the morning, I'm sorry, you can't even find the shop that is open.

Therefore, these businesses in Datang are all "half-day shifts", opening at noon and closing at dusk. At best, those restaurants, brothels and Qinglou teahouses have an extra night shift.

You say that the pace of life is not slow?

The brothers drove the ox cart to the entrance of the West Market, and the vegetable market was about to open.

Wu Ning was not in a hurry, let Wu Li look at the car, and took a turn in the vegetable market first.

It's early winter now, and there aren't many dishes in the market.

In addition to the freshly cooked cabbage, which is so cheap that it is about to rot on the street, summer vegetables such as okra, spinach, and calamus are not only scarce, but also ridiculously expensive.

Fresh woad vegetables cost three pounds a penny, and the smaller ones are eager to pay five pounds a penny.

The okra has been sold for five wen a catty, and the spinach is more expensive for eight wen a catty, which is more expensive than the price of pork.

There are a lot of radishes, and the price is not expensive, only two pennies a catty.

However, Wu Ning didn't even need to get started, just by looking at it, he knew that they were all wilted radishes that had been left for several months and even wrinkled skin, far less good than his radishes.

went back to meet Wu Li, and the two found a conspicuous position to untie the cow trap, and used the car as a stall, even if it was opened.

As Wu Ning expected, a radish as fresh as his is the only one in the entire West Market, and it will definitely be sold.

It's just that there have been several waves of customers who have come to buy food, and they all look quite good, but when they ask the price......

"Four pennies a pound?"

They all shook their heads and reluctantly left.

"I said Lao Jiu, is it expensive?"

Wu Li was a little bottomless in his heart.

To put it bluntly, radishes, like weeds, are not rare. When I put it down two months ago, it was the same as the cabbage now, and I could buy a bunch of them for a penny.

According to Wu Li, like others, the price of selling two pennies is not low. Coupled with the water head and feet, it looks good, and it must be better than theirs.

However, if you look at it now, Wu Ningfei sells four yuan a catty, but the result is not as fast as those wilted radishes.

"What are you anxious about?" Wu Ning soothed, "Listen to me, sell and sell first!" ”

He didn't plan to make a business as a turnip, and to put it bluntly, he didn't plan to sell them as ordinary vegetables.

Who makes the goods good? Ordinary people are reluctant to spend this high price.

However, there are always wealthy families, restaurants and restaurants that pick good dishes to buy, if not, who will sell those high-priced dishes in the vegetable market?

Use a knife to cut a large radish and place it in the most conspicuous place.

"Don't worry, wait slowly."

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This is the same as just now, asking for more prices, but really buying less.

Occasionally, a servant from a large family came to ask, but he only bought two or three catties.

However, they were all asking Wu Ning if they would come tomorrow, saying that they had to go back and ask the master's house before they dared to buy more.

Wu Ning knew clearly, after all, it was just a radish, and if there was no answer from the master, ordinary people would really not dare to be the master.

Just sold with Lala, and when the market was about to close, it was sold for more than 100 catties.

Wu Ning was pondering, afraid that he would pull the remaining half back.

I don't want to, but there is an old man with a familiar face in front of the stall.

"Yo!" Wu Ning's eyes lit up, "Isn't this the Qin Butler of the Qin Mansion?" ”

"How? Do you always buy it yourself? ”

Qin Fu was also stunned, and only recognized it after a closer look, "You are ...... The Wu Jiulang who is looking for Cuiju? ”

Last time, he helped his master send money.

"Exactly the boy." Wu Ningxin said, how can I forget this stubble.

These big restaurants in the city haven't bought tomorrow's meat and vegetables yet.

immediately sold: "This radish is good, Steward Qin take a look?" ”

Qin Fu frowned slightly, last time he let this guy knock on the master's house for five hundred yuan, why did he sell radishes again today?

Because of those five hundred guan, he didn't have a good impression of Wu Ning, so how could he buy his radish?

"No, don't buy it."

As he spoke, he didn't want to entangle with Wu Ning, so he raised his legs and was about to leave.

However, when he turned around, he swept away, and saw Wu Ning cutting the radish shining in the sunset.

Steward Qin paused again, slowly turned around, picked up the half of the radish and took a good look.

"That's good."

"That's nature!" Wu Ning hurriedly took a knife and cut a slice, "Steward Qin tastes it, it's the same as the one just pulled out of the ground." ”

"Hmm." Qin Fu took a small bite, it was really good, it was not chaff or wilting, and it was very crisp.

The heart said, one yard is one yard, this Wu Jiulang is not very good, but his radish is still good.

Raising his finger and pointing at the small half cart of turnips, "If I want them all, what price?" ”

"It's easy to say, it's easy to say." Wu Ning smiled.

"Since it's a dish for Qinfu, it's naturally cheaper."

Stretching out four fingers, "Four pennies a pound." ”

Wu Li rolled his eyes there, and the four cents were so cheap. Shameless this!

And when Qin Fu heard this price, he also glared, "Four pennies? ”

"The old man has bought vegetables for so many years, but he has never bought a radish for four cents and a pound!"

Wu Ning smiled lightly, "Then you have been buying vegetables for so many years, have you ever bought such fresh radishes in early winter?" ”

"You!"

Qin Fu was angry for a while, and scolded secretly, I can't say that you can't do it yet? I don't buy the head office, do I!?

I turned around and wanted to leave, but I didn't take a single step, so I heard someone next to me talk, "This little brother, how do you sell turnips?" ”

Qin Fu can't walk anymore, to be honest, if he changes someone else, whoever likes to buy will buy it, and it has nothing to do with him.

But the one in front of him is not so easy, he is the sworn enemy of the Qin family restaurant, the king of Cuixin Building!

Without waiting for Wu Ning to quote the shopkeeper Wang, Qin Fu had already spoken first: "I want this carload of radish." ”

After speaking, he didn't forget to glare at the shopkeeper Wang, and said in a strange manner: "I robbed other people's cooks and came to snatch radishes, this person is shameless." ”

Wu Ning raised his eyebrows, what's wrong? These two people have a story!

Shopkeeper Wang also saw Qin Fu at this time, and only then did he react, it turned out that the road was narrow.

It's a pity that the background of the shopkeeper Wang really disdains to compete with a house slave for a while, and sneered: "Why should Steward Qin be like this? In business, the price I bid is high, and the person will naturally be willing to come to my Cuixin Building to pay a commission. ”

Wu Ning listened on the side and nodded secretly, oh, it turned out to be someone from Cuixin Building, I know it well!

I heard that the shopkeeper Wang continued: "It seems that someone is taller than my Cuixin Building, so didn't he also poach my cook?" ”

"Poof!!" Wu Ning spurted out a mouthful of old blood, and watched the two quarrel in a daze.

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Qin Fu said: "Business also has a way, what kind of ability is the means behind it!?" ”

Shopkeeper Wang: "This is surprising, it's only because you can't keep people in Qin's restaurant, what does it have to do with me?" ”

"Shame on you!"

"Steward Qin is very talking!" The shopkeeper said in his heart, I love to take care of you, why do you still have a face?

"Wait a minute!!"

Wu Ning shouted, attracting the eyes of both of them.

"No, I, I didn't understand too much, what the hell is going on?"

Pointing at Qin Fu, "Your cook was poached by him?" ”

"Yes!"

He looked at the shopkeeper again, "You dug up his cook?" ”

"Yes!" Shopkeeper Wang nodded, "So what?" My chef was also poached by someone else! ”

"Not good." Wu Ning shook his head.

"You go on, it's okay with me."

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