At the end of November, the little couple finally made a sufficient amount of paper, planning to take advantage of the last wave of the peak season of the year in the wax moon to warm up their new products.

On the day when the three kinds of paper bundles were neatly placed at the funeral door of the Chu family, even if it was a cold winter, it really attracted many people to stop and look, the weather was too cold, Chu Yi didn't want his wife to be frozen, so he stood in front of the shop to answer questions for the big guy.

"This is my family's newly made grainpot, big guy to see how it is done?"

"Grain?" An uncle who joined in the fun, hearing this, hurriedly took two steps forward and took a closer look: "Your grain basin is not the same as what we usually use, is this a color?" ”

Chu Yi nodded, picked up a grain basin of his own and put it in the middle of the crowd: "It's colored, after all, it's taken out to be sold, and it has to be made more finely, this looks more like real grains, and it doesn't waste food." ”

The uncle looked at it for a while, nodded and agreed: "Don't say that it is very similar, I feel that I can still see grain by grain on it, but it is much more fine and beautiful than the kind of white paper paste we make ourselves." ”

The lady on the other side said: "This thing is good-looking, but it's not cheap, everyone uses that white paper, and it's been here for so many years, so it's going to be burned in a while, and it's not worth it to buy it's too expensive." ”

Other people think about it and there is some truth, if the price is too high, it is better to use real grains directly, it is a waste.

"How are you going to sell this grain basin?"

Chu Yi was just about to speak, when he saw Shen Luzhu behind him push open the door and walk out, handed him a bowl of hot tea, and then said, "Our family plans to sell this grain basin for sixty wen each." ”

Fang Cai felt that the eldest lady was not worth it, and frowned when she heard the price: "Sixty Wen? Look, look, what am I talking about, it's obvious that a few pieces of white paper at home have become something that has become a paste, and it is so expensive to make it look good. ”

"Since the eldest lady said that it was good-looking, it didn't mean that it was different from our own white paper. Although this grain basin is made of paper, it is rare to have craftsmanship and care. ”

The eldest lady was only a fool of the little two, and said with disdain: "What kind of craftsmanship is mindful, in the end, it is not all burned, the white paper is still colored, and it is all ash after burning, what difference can there be." ”

Shen Luzhu was not annoyed, and said with a smile: "What the eldest mother said is true, but our family runs a funeral shop, what kind of thing is not to be burned in the end, otherwise it is taboo to buy it back and stay at home, right?" ”

As soon as these words came out, the people who were still a little serious in their expressions were instantly amused, but isn't it, who buys paper money and these things are not used to burn, and if you don't burn them, you won't buy it.

Seeing that everyone was finally no longer entangled, it was all ashes that had been burned, and it was worth it to buy it, Shen Luzhu continued to say: "If you want me to say, let's buy these paper money sacrifices, and invite a band and hold a banquet at the funeral, to put it bluntly, it's not all the filial piety of the children of the younger generations." Whether it's true or not, I hope that the departed people can live a better life over there. The four festivals every year, the big and small festivals and anniversaries, are nothing more than trying to do their filial piety, telling the family over there that life is good, and they are also remembered. ”

Everyone pondered and nodded, isn't that what happened?

"Who doesn't know that the coffin will rot after being buried in the soil, and only a handful of ashes will be left after the paper money is burned, and the sacrifices placed on the grave will fall into ashes, but the descendants of which family are not as good as possible, buy a good coffin, invite the best band, and the paper money and sacrifices for the death day are prepared early, isn't it that heart and thought.

In fact, this grain basin is the same, that is, I want to have a good omen of food and clothing, who doesn't want to use it, but most of the funerals come suddenly, and there is no place to buy this thing, and it's too late to be sad. ”

The uncle who asked at the beginning nodded and said: "It's such a reason, you always have to keep a thought when you are alive, or how can you go to worship every year." ”

"It's true that we rely on these paper money sacrifices to make money, but I think about making this grain basin is indeed to be convenient for big guys, it is more delicate and good-looking, and it is more like that, not to mention, some of this thing will be sold in the future, so you don't have to use white paper to deal with it because you are in a hurry."

Seeing that his wife finished speaking, Chu Yi quietly shook the other party's hand behind his back, and his palm was still warm, so he let her continue to stand outside.

"That's right, you don't have to do it yourself, it's indeed more like that than a blank slate, and it looks more like that, and we, ordinary people, can't really hold a pot of grains to burn."

"It's mainly a pot full of cereals, it's a pity to burn it like that, but you two can do business, so many shops in the county that sell paper money, just you have figured out so many tricks, that copper coin burnt paper and paper ingots are indeed much better than yellow burnt paper."

"No, no wonder you can buy and sell all the way from the village to the county seat, this ability is really not small. By the way, there are two other kinds of you have together, which are also grain basins? It doesn't look like it. ”

Chu Yi motioned for Shen Luzhu to go back to the shop to stay, and he continued to introduce to everyone: "Those two are similar to the grain basin, and some changes have been made in the appearance, but except for the funeral, the usual sacrifice can also be used, just like paper money, one is a cornucopia, and the other is a fortune tree, all of which are good meanings. ”

"Paper? Is it all made of paper? ”

Chu Yi was stunned for a moment and nodded: "That's pretty much what it means." ”

"You are a cornucopia and a fortune tree, this is much richer than our original grain pot, it is simply a direct replacement of the copper plate at home with gold ingots!"

"No, from the rich man in the village, he has directly become the richest man in the county!"

Chu Yi is a little funny, when the little couple made these paper ties, Shen Luzhu once talked to him, saying that these are called "upgraded versions", he was not very able to understand it at the time, but now he calls the neighbors to explain, but it is a lot more vivid.

Then he said: "Today is to take it out to the big guy to see my newly made paper, if the neighbors think it is okay, in case there is a need in the future, they will come to the shop to buy it." ”

After seeing the excitement, most of the people left the front of the Chu family's shop, but an aunt stopped Chu Yi, who was about to go back to the house, and asked: "The paper tie in your house can be burned when it is really sacrificed to the grave, just like paper money?" ”

The small couple has long discussed this issue, the local people will only use the grain basin when they go out for funerals, and they will not usually use it for grave sacrifices, but in this way, the source of customers will become relatively single, so they are thinking about making paper into sacrificial supplies, and because of this, they must put three kinds of paper together in front of the shop.

"Aunt Yes, do you want to buy it?"

"Then get me a cornucopia."

Shen Luzhu really didn't expect that on the first day when the paper was put out, when she went back to the house to warm her body, Chu Yi actually sold one: "Chu Yi, you are too powerful!" ”

Chu Yi was also surprised: "It's just a coincidence." ”

Shen Luzhu was very optimistic: "It will take a while for the big guys to accept it, and even if this kind of thing is completely accepted in the future, it should not be as popular as paper money, so it is already a good sign that I can sell one today!" ”

In this way, the paper tie in front of the funeral shop of Chu Ji seems to have become a fixed attraction on Changqing Street, the first thing the little couple does when they open the door every day is to put the paper tie in front of their shop, and then move back to the shop until the evening stall, pedestrians passing by, who have never seen it will stop and take a look, Chu Yi will stand in front of the shop from time to time to explain for the big guy.

Although the sales volume has been maintained on the first day of the exhibition, but in less than half a month, no one in the entire county does not know Chu Ji's grain basin and paper tie, which is a good thing for the small couple, after all, in the face of new things, we must always know and understand first, and then we can talk about acceptance.

The little couple estimated that in the peak season before the Spring Festival, their own wholesale trading should be able to earn another wave, so they specially instructed Jiang Quan to rush to the county before the new year, with Lin Ji's convoy, sent two paper ingots to the county, the warehouse behind the shop was full, and opened a house in the west courtyard to store, even if it was not sold out before the year, it was not afraid, anyway, there was a place to store it, and it was a big deal to sell it in the future.

As expected, two days before the child, the owners of paper money shops began to come to buy goods one after another, saying that the paper ingots they had bought before were almost sold, and they wanted to buy more before the year.

On weekdays, the large market in the county town is held once every ten years, stretching from East Street to West Street, and there are many stalls on both sides of the street. If you catch up with the festival before the opening will be added, such as the end of the year before the Spring Festival such an important day, the market will be open from the beginning of the year to the twenty-ninth of the lunar month, when the surrounding villages and towns will also enter the city to catch the market, than the big market in Changshui Town I don't know how many times more lively.

The people of the county seat, coupled with the people who came into the city to catch the market, this made the Spring Festival this wave of paper money trading particularly prosperous, the small couple originally planned to open the shop until the twenty-eighth of the lunar month, and the twenty-ninth to clean up and buy some New Year's goods and return to the village, but not only the prepared paper money, in the morning of the twenty-seventh or sold or wholesale, all emptied, but also sold two paper cornucopias.

Cleared the inventory more than one day earlier than planned, and the small couple did not plan to ask the family to send some paper money over, but closed the shop directly, after the noon break, the family went to the market, from the East Street to the West Street, the New Year's painting blessing characters, couplet stickers, eating and drinking with the New Year's gifts for each family, seven seven eight eight carried a full hand before returning to the East Courtyard.