Chapter 21: New Clothes
"We can sell braised fat sausages and braised pig's trotters first. Because of the fat intestines, the purchase cost of these pigs and pig trotters is relatively low. After opening up the market, we can slowly add new varieties, such as braised pig ears, braised chicken feet, braised duck neck, these are all good appetizers. Lin Yunxuan patiently explained to everyone.
"Uncle, you buy two more pig's trotters with Zhu Butcher tomorrow morning, and after I marinate them at noon, we can go to the market to sell lo-mei the day after tomorrow."
The task of buying ingredients was handed over to Zhao Dalin by Lin Yunxuan. But when it came to selling lo-mei, Lin Yunxuan decided that it would be better to go by herself.
"Okay." Zhao Dalin responded in one bite.
The next morning, Zhao Dalin brought back two fat intestines and two pig's trotters, and some other pigs went into the water. Lin Yunxuan separated the pig's water and pig's trotters and marinated them.
On the morning of the third day, Zhao Dalin delivered the goods to Zuixianlou, and Lin Yunxuan and Zhao An also took the lo-mei and set off to the town together.
When they arrived in the town, Lin Yunxuan and Zhao An first went to the market to set up a stall to sell lo-mei, and Zhao Dalin delivered the goods to Zuixianlou, and after delivering the goods, he went to the market to meet Lin Yunxuan.
Lin Yunxuan and the others went to the market relatively late, and there were only some relatively remote locations left. Lin Yunxuan had to choose a relatively better position, and then took out the wooden basin containing lo-mei from the basket.
The wooden basin was covered with a layer of white cotton cloth, but it was not tightly covered, and one corner was lifted up, revealing some braised fat sausages and braised pig's trotters, so that it looked relatively clean. After all, when it comes to food trading, cleanliness and hygiene are the first priority.
As soon as the wooden basin was placed, someone came to collect the stall fee.
Lin Yunxuan paid the stall fee, and the lo-mei was officially sold.
"Take a look, take a look, delicious braised fat sausages, braised pig's trotters, an excellent companion for eating and drinking. Don't miss it! Lin Yunxuan saw that there were not many people passing by their stall, and no one cared about lo-mei for a long time, so she was a little anxious, so she put down her reserve and opened her throat to shout loudly.
Zhao An was stunned when he heard Lin Yunxuan's shouting, he didn't expect that he could still shout like this when doing business, and he didn't expect that his sister would use this way to solicit business. After being stunned, he also let go, joined the ranks of shouting, and learned what Lin Yunxuan said.
The shouts of the two were loud, and the advertising words were rather peculiar, which slowly attracted some passers-by to come and take a look.
A middle-aged man with a slightly chubby body and a white appearance stopped in front of their stall when he saw the two children's bright eyes and shouting so vigorously.
"Is this a fat sausage? Cleaned up? The man asked, pointing to the braised sausages in the basin.
"Uncle, don't worry, my family's fat intestines are cleaned up. This braised fat sausage is made from our family's exclusive secret recipe, and it tastes excellent, and you want to eat it again after eating it. Lin Yunxuan replied with a smile, and then motioned for Zhao An to take out a bowl from the basket, and there were several small pieces of braised fat sausage in the bowl. It turned out that this was a tasting that she had prepared in advance.
"Uncle, you can taste it first." Lin Yunxuan poked a piece of braised fat intestine with a small bamboo skewer and handed it to the man.
The man didn't take the fat sausage right away, hesitated for a while, and finally couldn't stop the meaty aroma of the braised fat sausage, and took the braised fat sausage.
After putting the fat intestine in his mouth and chewing it twice, the man's face changed from hesitation to surprise.
"Little girl, how do you sell this fat sausage?" The man asked after swallowing the fat intestine in one gulp.
"Five dollars for a penny, buy ten dollars and get one free." Lin Yunxuan replied.
Before coming to the market, considering that they didn't weigh and would not use the scale here, Lin Yunxuan cut the braised fat intestine into pieces, a piece of four or five centimeters long, which can be swallowed in one bite or eaten in two bites. In this way, they can easily buy and sell by the number of fat intestines.
"Give me two pennies." The man took out two copper coins from his waist, and Lin Yunxuan was about to take the copper coins when she saw this, but saw the man's hand stop in mid-air and asked, "I didn't bring a bowl, what do I take to put fat intestines?" β
"We use lotus leaves for you, and the lotus leaves have been washed." After Lin Yunxuan finished speaking, she took out a cut lotus leaf from the bamboo basket, quickly pinched eleven pieces of fat intestines with chopsticks and put them on the lotus leaf, and then handed it to the man.
Seeing this, the man reassuredly handed the copper coin to Zhao An, who was standing next to Lin Yunxuan, and then took the fat intestine, smelling the smell of meat, the foot that was about to walk couldn't take a step, and couldn't help but stand in place and directly grabbed a piece of fat intestine with his hand and put it in his mouth. I couldn't stop eating it, and the lotus leaves with fat intestines soon bottomed out.
"Lao Li, what are you eating?" An acquaintance asked curiously when he saw the man standing there eating with his mouth full of oil.
"Fat intestines!" The man swallowed the fat sausage in his mouth and smashed it before replying.
"Doesn't this fat intestine stink?" The acquaintance continued to ask.
"This fat sausage has no peculiar smell, it is fragrant and delicious!" The man was full of praise, turned around and used practical actions to explain how delicious this fat sausage was. "Give me four more copper coins."
Lin Yunxuan happily took the copper coin, and then filled the man with twenty-two fat intestines.
When acquaintances saw that the man had bought so many braised fat sausages, they couldn't help but buy two pennies as well. When the people next to him saw it, they all gathered around.
Lin Yunxuan saw that so many people were watching, and shouted even harder: "Take a look, take a look, the freshly baked braised fat sausages taste the best, buy ten yuan and get one free." β
"How's it taste?"
"Cleaned up?"
"It's not easy to make fat sausages delicious."
Some of the onlookers were ready to move, but with the last trace of hesitation.
Lin Yunxuan took out the tasting product again and tasted a piece for each of the people standing at the front.
"I want two pennies."
"Give me four cents."
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People who have tasted braised fat sausages are not calm, and they have placed orders to buy them.
Lin Yunxuan and Zhao An worked together, one was responsible for collecting money, and the other was responsible for using lotus leaves to fill fat intestines with customers.
In less than a quarter of an hour, all the fat sausages brought were sold, and half of the braised pig's trotters were also sold.
At this moment, Zhao Dalin came over after delivering the goods.
Lin Yunxuan saw that there were still braised pig's trotters that had not been sold, and thought that the bamboo shoots would be dried at home, so she asked Zhao Dalin to go home first, and she and Zhao An would go back after they were sold out.
Zhao Dalin thought that the two of them had been to the market several times and knew the way, so he was relieved to go home alone.
After another stick of incense, the braised pig's trotters were sold out.
Lin Yunxuan took Zhao An to pack her things and prepare to go home.
"Is there still fat sausage for sale?"
Suddenly, a seven or eight-year-old chubby boy came panting and asked.
"Sold out." Zhao An lifted the basket and prepared to leave.
"Is there still tomorrow?" When Xiao Fat Dun heard that the fat sausages were sold out, his face suddenly stepped down, and when he saw that they were leaving, he pulled Zhao An's basket and asked hurriedly.
"Tomorrow, it's still sold here, you have to come early." Lin Yunxuan said to the little chubby dun with a smile.
"Okay, okay, okay, I'll be here early tomorrow!" Xiao Chubby Dun said yes excitedly, and only then did he let go of his hand holding the basket at Zhao An's signal.
Lin Yunxuan and Zhao An said goodbye to Little Fat Dun, left the market, and walked towards the cloth shop on the main street.
Before coming to the market today, Lin Yunxuan had thought about it, and after selling the lo-mei, she would buy some fabrics and go back, and buy two sets of clothes for everyone.
Since she crossed here, she hadn't seen any clothes in Zhao Dalin's family without patches. Even her two sets of clothes were remade from He Cuifang's old clothes.
Lin Yunxuan specially went to ask Zhao An, only to know that they hadn't worn new clothes for three years, and the clothes he and Zhao Yun'er usually wore were all sewn by He Cuifang after dismantling and changing the old clothes of himself and Zhao Dalin.
Thinking about it, Lin Yunxuan secretly made up her mind at that time to buy two sets of clothes for each person when she had money.
The two came to the street selling clothes and fabrics, and walked into a shop called "Splendid Cloth Village" with a very big faΓ§ade, there were no customers in the store, only a young man was bored fiddling with the abacus on the counter, and when he saw Lin Yunxuan and the two coming in, his eyelids raised and drooped, ignoring them.
Lin Yunxuan stood outside the counter, looking up at the colorful floral cloth on the counter, some of them were big, and they didn't know which one to buy.
In her previous life, she had never bought cloth, and she had always bought ready-to-wear clothes directly from the store or online. Moreover, in her cognition, she only knows the categories of cotton, linen, chiffon, and silk, and she doesn't know much about subdivisions, let alone the price.
"Hello, how do you sell this fabric?" Lin Yunxuan asked, pointing to a navy blue linen.
"Nine hundred dollars a horse, ten dollars a foot." The young man glanced up and replied lazily.
"Sister..."Zhao An was startled when he heard the price, pulled Lin Yunxuan's sleeve, lowered his voice and said: "Otherwise, let's not buy cloth, we can still wear our current clothes, we don't need to make new clothes, it's too expensive." β
Lin Yunxuan waved her hand, signaling Zhao An not to worry, lowered her head and silently calculated the account in her heart.
"If you can't afford it, leave quickly, don't waste my time." Just when Lin Yunxuan lowered her head and calculated, the voice of the young man sneering came from her ears. It turned out that the young man saw that the two of them were wearing clothes full of patches, and when he heard Zhao An's words, he thought that they would definitely not be able to afford fabrics, and they didn't want to receive them.
Lin Yunxuan glanced up at the young man with disdain on his face, and pulled Zhao An out of the shop without saying a word. This kind of peddler who looks down on people doesn't need to worry about him. You can buy it anywhere you have money, so why spend money to be angry, it's a big deal to buy it from another house. Spend money comfortably.
The two walked straight into a small cloth shop called "Liji" opposite. There was only one woman in her thirties who looked to be picking fabrics, and the proprietress in her forties received her with a smile.
Seeing Lin Yunxuan and the two entering the door, the proprietress nodded to them.
Lin Yunxuan looked up and looked around, then stood not far from the proprietress and listened to the conversation between the proprietress and the woman while looking at the fabric on the counter.
After a while, the proprietress sent away the woman who was buying the cloth, came over, and said kindly, "Little girl, what do you want to buy?" β
"Boss, how do you sell this fabric?" Lin Yunxuan asked, pointing to a dark blue fabric that was the same as the one in the store just now.
"This is muslin cloth, 850 yuan a horse, and the blue one next to it is a coarser cotton cloth, 750 yuan a horse." The proprietress didn't say the fabric with a higher price, because she was afraid that the girl wouldn't be able to afford it and feel embarrassed, so she said the cheaper fabric in the store.
Lin Yunxuan understood and was a little moved. is so good at reading people's faces, and he is indeed a good hand at doing business.
"Then I want both pieces of cloth." Lin Yunxuan said with a smile.
The boss was a little surprised by the little girl's generosity, but he quickly came back to his senses and said happily: "The two pieces of cloth are a total of 1,600 yuan." Little girl, you have bought so much cloth from me, and I will give you two handkerchiefs. β
Lin Yunxuan shook her head: "Boss, thank you for your kindness." β
If Sister-in-law didn't say it, Lin Yunxuan almost forgot that in ancient times, everyone usually carried handkerchiefs and the like. She is a modern person who does not have the habit of using a handkerchief, so naturally she can't remember this stubble. However, Lin Yunxuan would never ask for a handkerchief given by her sister-in-law for free. The so-called world has no free lunch, and the people are short-handed.
The two of them shirked for a while, looking at Lin Yunxuan's resolute look, Sister-in-law Li had no choice but to give up, but she looked at this little girl a few times in her heart.
Although people are poor, their ambitions are not short, and they will be productive in the future. Sister-in-law Li's good impression of Lin Yunxuan is a little more.
After paying for the cloth, Lin Yunxuan and Zhao An walked out of the gate of the cloth workshop with a piece of cloth in their arms, and bumped into the young man from the Splendid Cloth Village.
When the young man saw the cloth in the arms of the two of them, his intestines were all remorseful, who told him to look down on people with dog eyes.
Lin Yunxuan and Zhao An seemed to be relieved, their waists were straight, and they walked proudly in front of the young man. The two of them seemed to have a heart, and when they walked to a place where there were few people, the two suddenly relaxed and smiled at each other.
Today, they sold lo-mei quickly, and it was not yet noon after buying the cloth at this time, so they didn't plan to wait for Uncle Shuigen's ox cart and walked back directly.
The two of them walked out of the town talking and laughing all the way and walked back in the direction of Gangtou Village.