Chapter 13: The Black Market
Mo Linlin and Shen He arrived in the county seat, Mo Linlin showed Shen He the way and brought things to the black market, there are not many people coming and going today, and it can even be said that people are a little scarce.
Just as Mo Linlin put out the hawthorn cake, someone came over curiously and asked, "What are you selling?" "No one has ever sold hawthorn cake in this area.
After all, sugar is not so easy to buy this year, so the reason. There are even fewer people who use sugar to make snacks, and they are almost invisible.
"I sell hawthorn cakes, if you want to buy them, I can let Nian taste them." For the first guest, Mo Linlin will not give up.
That person really hadn't tasted the taste of hawthorn cake, but he knew the taste of hawthorn, so he immediately shook his head and refused: "Forget it, the hawthorn fruit is so sour, and I'm not a pregnant woman, so I don't eat hawthorn cake." After saying these words, he turned around and left, not wanting to stay in the slightest.
Mo Linlin watched the person leave very calmly, and when she was thinking about making snacks, she thought that such a situation would happen, and everyone had a similar life these days.
There are not many people who are willing to spend money to buy snacks to eat, otherwise Mo Linlin would not have chosen to make hawthorn cake first.
"You let the guests go, how do you sell these hawthorn cakes?" Shen He looked at Mo Linlin a little puzzled and asked.
"These hawthorn cakes and other people who encounter real goods will naturally sell them." Mo Linlin looked at the pedestrians who were hurrying not far away.
Just as Mo Linlin finished saying these words, suddenly an aunt stood in front of Mo Linlin's stall and directly said, "Give me a taste of what you made." ”
Mo Linlin glanced at the person standing opposite, bought a lot of things in her hand, and knew that the guest in front of her was very likely to buy hawthorn cake, and unceremoniously cut a large piece for the other party to taste.
"Your hawthorn cake is very good, it just so happens that my daughter-in-law has not had a good appetite recently, and eating this hawthorn cake you made can be appetizing." The aunt said something like this, meaning that she wanted to buy it.
"How do you sell this hawthorn cake?" The aunt asked, looking into Mo Linlin's eyes.
"Because the cost of my hawthorn cake is relatively high, there is sugar in it, I have a pound of tickets for a piece of five, if there is no ticket, it will be two dollars a pound." Mo Linlin replied quickly, in fact, this price is quite fair, after all, you need a ticket to buy candy now, and it is not easy to take it out to make snacks.
The aunt began to hear the price, and was a little hesitant, a piece of five-one-pound dim sum still needs a ticket, which is a little expensive, but it is rare to see this thing in the county.
Mo Linlin saw that the other party was a little hesitant, and then said: "You have also tasted my hawthorn cake aunt, and it is not very sour and sour, but sweet and sour, which means that I put a lot of sugar in it." ”
"The weather has been so hot recently, eating a little hawthorn cake before eating will help appetize, Auntie, you can choose to buy some and go back to taste it." Mo Linlin didn't expect the other party to be able to buy a lot, only after people bought things first, more people would come around to buy them.
The aunt gritted her teeth and said directly to Mo Linlin: "You give me two catties without a ticket, if my daughter-in-law likes it very much, next time you come to sell it, I will buy it." "The aunt who tasted it before, for buying so many hawthorns back, she believes that her daughter-in-law will definitely eat it, who let her daughter-in-law during pregnancy, nothing can be eaten, this aunt will never let her future grandson starve.
"Okay, I'll pack it for Auntie." Mo Linlin quickly took out two portions of hawthorn cake, which she had already packed at home, and each small bag was a catty.
The aunt started, and then more people came to buy the hawthorn cake sold by Mo Linlin, just because the pedestrians passing by here saw the aunt in front of her so readily bought two catties and left, and also wanted to taste what this hawthorn cake tasted like.
It didn't take long for Mo Linlin's hawthorn cake to be sold out, and the little bit left, just because of the leftover bit of tasting, some people said that they wanted to buy it, but Mo Linlin didn't sell it, but chose to share it with a few stall owners next to her.
Shen He didn't say anything when he saw this scene, just because he quietly watched everything Mo Linlin did, in Shen He's opinion, Mo Linlin didn't sell things, but shared them, which was actually a very smart approach.
Mo Linlin had just come to sell things, and she had a good relationship with a few stall owners nearby, and some news could be learned from those mouths.
On the way back, Mo Linlin suddenly asked: "Shen Zhiqing, you worked hard today to help send me to sell things, and now you are still bothering you to send me back, do you think if I give you five cents, how about you help me pay for my hard work today?" ”
Mo Linlin didn't consider that if she did this for another man, she might just be thrown on the side of the road.
Shen He took a deep breath and said in his heart: This Mo girl didn't mean to stimulate me, don't be angry, don't be angry.
"No, this time I ate so many hawthorn cakes from you, she should do it, if you go to the county seat next time you go to sell something, you can still ask me to help." Shen He looked at Mo Linlin with a smile and replied, Shen He also wanted to know what Mo Linlin would do in the future.
"No, no, Shen Zhiqing, I'm so troublesome to you this time, and this matter of doing business, will it seem a little ...... for you, a scholar" Mo Linlin quickly shook her head and refused, she didn't want to let an outsider know all her hole cards.
This is inconvenient for her to sell some other snacks in the future, Mo Linlin would rather go out and sell things in the future to work harder than let others know her secret.
"Poof...... What kind of world is there now, Miss Mo, why do you think that scholars should not be in the business of buying and selling, and we educated youths have not all been sent down. Shen He wanted to laugh a little when he heard what Mo Linlin said, and he had already laughed unceremoniously in front of Mo Linlin.
"If Miss Mo thinks that I help will make you very embarrassed, you can pay me for your labor, so that you can let me send you there with peace of mind." Shen He didn't know why, so he really wanted to go with him, he really wanted to know what kind of woman Mo Linlin was.
When Mo Linlin heard such an answer, she didn't know what to say for a while, although it was a good thing for Shen He to help, but the two of them were single young people, and if they were seen by the people in the village, they didn't know how many rumors there would be.
"No, Shen Zhiqing, if the two of us travel together and are seen by the aunts in the village, it will be very serious, and it will affect Shen Zhiqing's reputation at that time, and it will not be good for you." Mo Linlin's words were true, and her tone was very serious, not the kind of joke.