Placing the bucket and basket on the ground, he began to shout.

"Sell fish! Live fish costs six dollars a pound, dead fish five dollars a pound! ”

As soon as this shout came out, it immediately attracted a lot of attention.

According to the market price, grass carp is eight cents a catty, and even if it is a dead fish, it is also fifteen cents and two catties.

But now someone sells five or six dollars a pound?

Regardless of whether it was the aunt and aunt who came out to buy vegetables in the morning market, or the purchase of large families and merchants, they all surrounded at once.

"Is this live fish really six cents a pound?" A chubby, satin-clad middle-aged man asked, pointing to a bucket full of live fish.

"Yes, Tong Su is not bullied, and all the live fish are six dollars a catty." Li Qiao replied with a smile.

He recognized who it was.

This is the king's shopkeeper of the county seat Wangyue Tower, and he went to Wangyuelou to drink several times, so he recognized this king's shopkeeper.

"Then I want this bucket, you weigh it."

Shopkeeper Wang said, pointing to one of the large buckets.

The guy behind him had a bucket of water, which was specially used to hold fish.

"Okay." Li Qiao's hands and feet were extremely fast: "A total of fifty-eight and a half catties, erase half a catty of fraction, according to one catty and six cents, a total of three hundred and forty-eight cents." ”

Shopkeeper Wang nodded, had no objection to this number, and quickly counted out three hundred and forty-eight copper plates from the money bag he carried.

Li Qiao took the copper plate and said with a smile: "Let's go, welcome to come back tomorrow." ”

"You're coming back tomorrow?" Shopkeeper Wang asked.

It's so cheap, and it's a live fish, it's hard for him not to be impressed.

"Will be coming in the next few days." Li Qiao grabbed the copper plates and replied very firmly.

This business has no capital, and the money is okay.

"Done. If tomorrow is also a live fish, then I want it. The shopkeeper said this, and left with his men.

As soon as the shopkeeper Wang left, the other aunts and aunts who were waiting to buy the fish and the gossip opened their mouths and asked Li Qiao to sell them first.

This young man not only set the price low, but also erased it! The fish didn't have to worry about selling at all, and they were afraid that they wouldn't be able to buy it if they moved slowly.

"All of them, one by one, don't worry. Even if you can't buy it today, there will be tomorrow. I'll come back tomorrow. ”

Li Qiao's delicate face hung a gentle smile, holding a scale in one hand and catching a fish in the other.

He is handsome and good-looking, with a smile, and there is a bookish air on his body, although he is selling fish at this time, but this does not affect his outstanding temperament.

Everyone looked at him and couldn't help but lower their voices.

So, the next thing went smoothly.

The live fish in the bucket and the dead fish in the basket were sold so quickly that in less than half an hour, the bucket and the basket were empty.

but his purse was full.

A total of 330 catties of fish, 280 catties of live fish, 50 catties of dead fish, plus erasure, finally a total of 1,905 copper plates.

Carrying a heavy money bag, Li Qiao pushed the cart into the county seat.

He went to the county seat to buy things, and he didn't have to pay a penny in tax, so he just went in.

After a busy morning, he was already hungry, so he first spent twenty cents to buy ten meat buns the size of his fist and had no meat, and then went to the blacksmith shop while eating.

He was ready to hit a couple of scythes.

The owner of the blacksmith shop was a fifty-year-old man surnamed Chen, and after listening to Li Qiao's request, he directly stretched out five fingers: "Your sickle is worth two ordinary sickles, and the minimum is five hundred yuan." ”

"No problem, I'll hit three first. I want to be in a hurry, I want to get it the next morning, I can pay for it. ”

"If you expedite it, one is more than 20 yuan, and three is 60 yuan, a total of 1,560 yuan. You pay half of the deposit first, which is 780 yuan. ”

Chen Laohan quickly gave the amount of money that Li Qiao needed to pay at this time.

Li Qiao counted out seven hundred and eighty yuan from the money bag, took the slip of Chen Laohan's handprint, and then pushed the cart away.

After deducting the money for the scythe, Li Qiao still had three hundred and twenty-five copper plates left in his hand.

He began to buy the necessities of life.

For example, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, and soapcorn.

There was also the candy promised to Li Xiaolan, which he also bought.

However, the price of sugar shocked him.

Maltose turned out to be 200 yuan a catty.

And sucrose is more expensive, because there is no local sucrose production, and the sucrose sold is transported from other places, so it costs 350 wen a catty.

The price is so expensive, but Li Qiao still spent 100 yuan to buy half a catty of maltose.

Before leaving, he went to the steamed bun shop to buy thirty meat buns and spent sixty yuan.

Putting all the items he bought on the cart, he pushed the cart and swayed towards Sanliu Village.

When I arrived at Sanliu Village, it was already evening.

He went to Li Liang's house first.

Only Li Xiaolan is at home, and Li Liang, Wang Guihua, and Li Xiaolan's three elder brothers are all busy working in the wheat field.

Li Qiao left half a pound of maltose and ten meat buns—the other twenty for his lunch and dinner—and then went home.

When I got home, I was really sore all over.

If he wasn't an anomaly, he wouldn't be able to sustain this kind of work.

After cooking porridge and eating five more buns, he quickly fell asleep.

After sleeping for two hours, he got up at half past eleven in the middle of the night, ate the remaining five steamed buns, and then went to the river to catch fish, and then went to the county seat to sell them.

Today's business is still going well, and the shopkeeper Wang is here again, and after the fish is sold, he has 1,900 copper plates in his money bag.

He pushed the cart into the county seat, bought steamed buns and maltose and rushed back.

When I arrived at Sanliu Village, it was just five o'clock.

He did not rest, but carried his basket along the foot of the mountain, bypassed the village path, avoided the villagers and went to the wasteland in the northwest corner.

As he thought, Tao Zhu was wielding a sickle to cut wheat.

However, instead of bending down to cut, Tao Zhu sat on the ground and waved a sickle.

Sitting and cutting wheat is not as fast as bending down, but Tao Zhu no longer bends down, there is only one possibility: he is tired and can no longer bend down.

Li Qiao frowned and walked over quickly.

There were still more than 20 meters away from Tao Zhu, so he shouted: "Brother Zhu! ”

Tao Zhu didn't hesitate to hear this, paused, and looked at the source of the sound.

Seeing Li Qiao's slightly thin but slender figure, his hand holding the sickle couldn't help but tighten, the day before yesterday, this person only said that he would not come again yesterday, and did not say how it was today.

It was getting dark, and he thought that this man would not be coming today or even in the future......

Li Qiao quickly ran to Tao Zhu, put down the back basket, and took out the five meat buns and two pieces of maltose wrapped in oiled paper.

"Eat fast. I'll cut the rest for you. ”

Tao Zhu didn't pick it up, but looked at him with a pair of moist eyes.

"Eat, although it's cold, this bun still tastes good." Li Qiao urged: "It's getting dark, I'll help you cut some." ”

“…… No, you rest. ”

There was a lot of redness in this person's eyes, which showed that he had not rested well.

Tao Zhu said: "You sit down and tell me about the process of selling fish, I have grown so big and I haven't been to the county seat yet." ”

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The author has something to say:

Explain the price of maltose. To make maltose, wheat and glutinous rice need to be used, but about the ratio of wheat and glutinous rice, some say that it is one to three, and some say that it is one to ten, I have not done it myself, so I took a middle number, calculated according to one to eight, and set a price of 200 wen a pound according to the cost.

Treasures have a good time, don't take it seriously~

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"I can tell you how to sell fish while I cut the wheat."

Li Qiao didn't notice Tao Zhu's thoughts, and wanted to get the sickle.

"But I'm tired, I just want to sit." Tao Zhu simply put the sickle in his arms.

“…… Good. Li Qiao could only respond.

Tao Zhu took the buns and maltose.

"I'm pretty good at catching fish, even if it's dark, but I can catch a lot of it by moonlight...... I have a low price, and the live fish costs six cents a pound...... On the first day he got a thousand nine hundred and five copper plates. ”

Hearing this number, Tao Zhu, who was silently gnawing on the bun, had round eyes in an instant, how could he tell him how much silver he earned?

Li Qiao's words continued: "After I closed the stall, I entered the county seat and bought steamed buns, maltose ......"

He also detailed his expenses.

While speaking, he observed Tao Zhu's expression.

He was a little apprehensive.

He has always spent money lavishly and is generous to the people around him, but Tao Zhu is used to living a tight life, and he is afraid that he will have differences with Tao Zhu in terms of consumption concept.

After hearing his words, Tao Zhu nodded lightly: "You are busy from early morning to morning, you should eat more." Your eldest brother treats you more than your own son, and you should buy some buns and sugar. ”

"What do you buy a scythe, though?"