Chapter 26: Buying and Selling
When it was dark, everyone came back one after another, and they saw a lot of things at home, and there was everything.
"Cuiying, you're going home to buy New Year's goods."
This is Daddy Wang's ridicule, how can a married daughter go back to her parents' house to move, let Fang's family look at them.
may be thinking about what kind of life his daughter is living in the Wang family.
The old couple went to pay the booth fee today and found a better location, where they could see the cargo ships coming and going on the dock.
"Daddy, have you sold the wheat?"
Father Wang nodded and took out the money bag in his arms, which contained a total of three hundred Wen.
"The person who sells it to the trafficker, he specializes in collecting all kinds of grain, and he said that our goods are good, and he wants to ask our family if there is anything else. I said I was doing things for someone, and asked him to exchange twice as much wheat for us. ”
"Then why isn't he surprised that we have good wheat and need his bad wheat?" Zhang Guihua couldn't figure it out.
He naturally understands that 1,000 catties of ordinary wheat and good wheat are all wheat, of course, he handed in ordinary wheat, and the boss didn't say what quality he wanted. When we have all together, we will go to the county to remove the name, so as not to have other problems in the future. ”
"Since he is a grain harvester, let us take the wheat and exchange it with him twice as much ordinary wheat."
Father Wang shook his head: "No, if we have more, we will be suspicious, let's find a few more people, five hundred catties for exchange, five hundred catties with money to buy, although the more money to spend, the more safety." ”
"Tomorrow we will all help set up the stall first, and we will go to sell wheat every few days. The flour sells very well, I went to Jianan Town, and as soon as the pocket was opened, someone looked at our flour, saying that it was the first time to see such a beautiful flour, and bought it together.
Their family is in the pasta business, and they have a good eye for flour, and they fall in love with our things at once. ”
Wang Yonglin was very excited when he talked about his experience of selling fans today, he rarely sells things, and he is not very good at selling.
"Okay, then let's try to set up a stall tomorrow, old family, you can take a few boys to prepare New Year's goods, and our family will have a good New Year this year."
Some of this money will be saved up, and next year when the situation is good, the inscription will be sent to study, just know a few words, do not seek official careers, and can read letters and numbers.
The two children have not really been to the school at such an age, and our family will get better and better in the future, and we need people with cultural knowledge. ”
What? Study? Several of the women's ears were sharpened.
Liu Chunlan and Zhang Guihua were the most surprised and wanted to send their eldest baby to study.
You must know that they only have two places to study here, one is Songbai Academy, a private school for a child to be enlightened.
Songbai Academy was built by the local squires with money, and sometimes the imperial court would have financial subsidies, and the masters invited were all well-known scholars, who had a more or less official and a half-position, but it was a powerless position, and there were not too many positions.
The deans of the academy are different, most of them are court officials who have returned to their hometowns, and they are invited to manage local culture and cultivate talents.
A person who can enter such an academy is equivalent to half a foot in the official career, and it will not be too bad after coming out for the last time.
Daddy Wang's family doesn't have the ability and relationship to send the child to Songbai Academy, where a year's restraint costs ten taels of silver.
It is an astronomical amount for ordinary people, and he plans to send his two children to a private school, where there are only more than three taels a year, and two children are six taels a year.
"Dad, you haven't served the water well, how can the old family and the second family go, Wen Qing and Wen Hua are also so old, it just happens to be a good time for enlightenment."
Fang Cuiying was dissatisfied that her child did not have a place, she had long wanted her child to study, but she couldn't afford to study, and she knew what was going on at home.
But now that it has been mentioned, it must be treated fairly, what about three taels of silver per person? Take it wherever you say, and what about the rest.
Daddy Wang asked everyone to calm down for a while, what he meant was to let the two big ones go first, Wen Ming is twelve this year, Wen Yuan is also eleven, and the other children can wait for the two elder brothers to come back to teach everyone after learning.
In this way, after a year or two, other children will be sent in, so that everyone's children will study at this age, and no one will be disadvantaged.
Under everyone's persuasion, Fang Cuiying compromised and asked that her two children must be sent to study the year after tomorrow.
Regardless of whether your child reads well or not, give your child a chance to read, and how to settle accounts in business in the future.
In case their family becomes bigger and stronger, and they can't even count the amount of money, it will make people laugh off their big teeth.
Father Wang promised the second and fourth families that he would send Wen Zhuo and Wen Qing to study the year after tomorrow.
They have too many children, and it costs a lot to study, so they can't provide too much.
Although each family has their own thoughts, they all keep it in their hearts first and prepare for tomorrow's business.
At night, the boys on the Chase bunk couldn't sleep, and they heard their grandfather say that they were going to send the eldest and second brothers to study.
After studying, you can be like the students outside the academy, wearing clean robes, and everyone praises you for your bookwork.
They had seen those students, who walked in the wind, who always carried a few books in their bags, and who shook their heads and said words they didn't understand.
Wen Ming and Wen Yuanxin were happy, they never thought of studying, the kind of rich family only sent their children to study.
In the middle of the night, the door of Daddy Wang's room opened, sleepy-eyed, and he finished the things that were going to be set up this morning.
Several of the women also hastily cleaned themselves up, and they had to knead the dough first and cut the noodles out.
Zhang Guihua selected a few good-looking Chinese cabbages, washed them and cut them into shreds and put them in pots.
After packing up the things that need it, it is almost dawn outside, and it takes more than an hour to walk from the village to the town.
By the time they reached the pier, many of the stall owners had started shouting.
The coolie man was already at the bow of the ship to help resist the cargo.
"Brother Yong'an, you're all here! It's about setting up a stall! Are you ready to do business? ”
It was a young man who spoke, who was very familiar with the brothers of the Wang family, and Wang Yongye was even better to wear a pair of pants.
"Fengping, come here so early, eat a bowl of noodles, and see if your sister-in-law's skills are good."
Father Wang looked at this young man very happy, he was a good doll, able to bear hardships and stand hard work, and filial piety.
"Uncle Wang, then I'm welcome, this is three money, I was the first guest on the first day you set up a stall, this money has to be collected, it's not much, just be happy."
This was said by several women very well, especially Fang Cuiying, the first to open the business must be retained, how much to earn two children, this is what her father told her, otherwise the business will not be good for a day.
Even if this guy has eyesight, Fang Cuiying also put two more when he is below.
There is a charcoal fire burning in the stove, which is the charcoal they specialize in burning, saving themselves a few dollars.
The boiling water in the cauldron was boiling, and the noodles were fished up after a while, Liu Chunlan scooped up a small piece of lard with a spoon in the crockpot, and suddenly the noodle soup was full of fragrance.
"Thank you, sister-in-law, it's so fragrant! The craftsmanship is so good! ”
Lu Fengping praised while eating, the taste of this noodle is really good, and he praised it from the heart.
"Really? How do you compare to the other homes here? ”
Fang Cuiying was not willing to spend money to find out the enemy's situation, and she was distressed to spend money to eat other people's noodles.
"I don't know about this, but my sister-in-law's noodles are the best I've ever tasted."
Lu Fengping was a little embarrassed, although he had worked here for a long time, he had never been to those stalls to eat anything, and his mother would prepare dry food cakes for him, so that he could save more money.
His mother said that she would ask for a daughter-in-law for him in two years, but she couldn't let her daughter-in-law suffer with her.