"By the way, I bought beef today, let's stew beef and potatoes at night, which can be regarded as a celebration of the official start of my career as a merchant~" Sun Chen took out the beef and handed it to Erniu.

"Yo, that's a rarity." Yang Shuping's eyes lit up.

Cattle were the main tools for cultivating land at this time, and the successive ruling classes of the Apocalypse Dynasty have promulgated laws prohibiting the slaughter of cultivated cattle without authorization, unless the cultivated cattle die naturally, otherwise whether they are slaughtered or sold without authorization, they will be imprisoned.

It was also Sun Chen's luck, on the way back, he happened to hear that a farming cow died of old age, and he was taking the permission to sell it on the street, so he didn't rush back, and rushed over to buy a few catties.

Beef is eighteen copper plates a catty, which is twice as expensive as pork, but because it is very scarce, everyone is scrambling to buy it, and there are a few people who look like families, and everyone buys at least more than twenty catties.

Speaking of which, this is the first time Sun Chen has eaten beef since he came here! It's a little drooling just to think about.

Erniu's cooking skills have already been practiced, a pot full of beef and stewed potatoes, and the three of them ate with bulging bellies and were satisfied.

……

With the experience of going to Yaozhuang, coupled with Yang Shuping's guidance, Sun Chen's career as a merchant continued smoothly.

According to Yang Shuping's schedule, every day or two, he would go to one or two villages that were connected together to go around, collect processed handkerchiefs, and sell something.

The fine salt he purified was also sold one after another, and it was all bought by people who were better dressed. After they bought it back and ate it, they felt a little unaccustomed to eating dishes made of coarse salt, and they went back to Sun Chen to buy fine salt to eat.

Sun Chen got along with these people, and gradually lost the corners at the beginning, some women who were as messy as Liu Chunhua reappeared, and he did not sarcastically mock them as much as he did before, as long as it was not too excessive, he would suppress his temper and talk to them as gently as possible.

The bear children in these villages also gradually accepted Sun Chen's 'buying', every time Sun Chen came over, not only would they not make trouble for him, but became his 'little helper', whenever he came, they would help him spread the word around the village, calling people to buy his things.

The days fly by, and in the blink of an eye, Sun Chen's career as a merchant has been going on for almost two months, and it is almost time for the New Year.

Every time Sun Chen goes out, he will bring a lot of things to meet people's growing purchase needs, and the original going out every other day has also become going out every day.

On this day, as soon as he walked to the entrance of Liuji Village, he heard a noisy sound from under the big locust tree where he often stopped.

Sun Chen listened carefully, not a quarrel, but like a ...... In a bargain!?

I haven't opened it today, is this another person here to do business?

He did not shake the rattle to make a sound, as usual, but walked silently under the locust tree.

A lot of people gathered around it, scrambling to rush forward, as if they were going to suffer a big loss if they were one step too late. Most of them have dried fish in their hands, which is one of the most popular items when the Chinese New Year is approaching.

Sun Chen came over this time and brought a lot of them.

Surrounded by is a short and fat man about thirty-four or five years old, Sun Chen knows, some time ago when he was selling gloves, that person came to buy goods twice, it was Yang Shuping who led him here, and the relationship between the two people seems to be very good.

However, since Yang Shuping moved to Linjia Village to live with Sun Chen, he has not come to see him, and I don't know if it is because he is too busy, or if he was just pretending before.

Sun Chen didn't step forward either, silently put down the merchant's flat burden, and just stood there, looking at the busy man not far away.

When the man straightened up and moved in the middle of the busyness, he suddenly found Sun Chen standing not far away, and he couldn't help but show a panicked look on his face.

After a while, as if he had finally done enough psychological construction for himself, he raised his head and smiled at Sun Chen, the panic in his eyes was replaced by provocation.

Only then did Sun Chen step forward unhurriedly and greeted the man with a smile, "Uncle Han, are you busy?" ”

"Hehe, it's okay." The man was already ready to greet Sun Chen's fury, but he didn't expect it to be such a gentle greeting. For a moment, he didn't know how to respond, and he froze there. Then, he said a stupid thing that wanted to go back and bite off his tongue, "Ah Chen, why are you here?" ”

"Hehe," Sun Chen didn't laugh angrily, "This sentence seems to be something I should ask Uncle Han, why are you here?" If I'm not mistaken, Uncle Han, the few villages you often run to don't seem to include this Liu Ji, right? ”

"Hehe, didn't a few old guys say, let me bring them some dried fish for the New Year, I took the time to send them today~" Han Xinchang replied in a wry tone.

"Oh? Uncle Han is really righteous enough, the old man gave an order, you not only put the original business and don't do it to give them things, but also took the initiative to reduce the price, if I heard it right just now, it is cheaper than the price agreed by a few of us at the beginning, but it is three cents cheaper per catty, right? ”

They often communicate with each other, and they will inform each other of what is good to sell, although they don't often get together, but when they meet on the road, they will still communicate.

Yang Shuping's injury improved during this time, and it was really uncomfortable to stay at home all day, so he would sit at the entrance of Linjia Village, and there would be a guy who worked as a merchant passing by, and he would always sit down and chat with him.

As for the pricing of dried fish, they have also negotiated and basically will not change. This should also be regarded as an unwritten rule in their merchant industry, and it is an agreement that every merchant needs to abide by.

Unless they are going to go against all the merchants, even if the business is bleak, they will not sell at a lower price without consulting their peers.

Han Xinchang in front of him obviously lowered the price privately, if other merchants knew, everyone would have an opinion on him.

And the most important point, Liu Ji, so far, belongs to Sun Chen's territory, and his behavior of selling goods privately is a provocation to Sun Chen.

"I, I just want to help the old guys save some money, they have a hard time, it's not easy, Ah Chen, you must be considerate!"

"Since Uncle Han said so, I can't help but give you face." The corners of Sun Chen's mouth hooked, "But we all have to take care of each other, my business is bad, and life is also not good, if you force me to be anxious and do something bad for everyone, it will be bad~"

"That's, that's," Han Xinchang felt that he was about to lose the smile on his face, and he communicated with him in a good voice, but he didn't expect Sun Chen to be so unrelieving of himself, he was really angry with him!