The next day, Xu Ling came to the kiln outside the city with sixteen taels of capital.

This is a village, but there are many livestock, horse-drawn carts and merchants outside the village, so the two brothers set up a kiln to burn porcelain in the village, and the mud brought from Qinghe Town is processed here, sent to the kiln, and fired at high temperatures, and it is said that the furnace fire here has not been cut off for several years.

Even on both sides of the road outside the village, broken porcelain shards were thrown everywhere.

Xu Ling pulled the cart into Dingping Village, the village has white walls and green tiles, green trees on both sides of the road, and the road is paved with bluestone slabs, which is extremely wide, and the cars and horses come and go, unimpeded.

It is a large village, and there is a private school in the village, and the faint sound of children reading aloud can be heard.

Compared with other villages, Dingping Village is simply eye-catching.

He observed for a long time, and followed some merchants who had also come to buy porcelain to a courtyard, where there was a full supply of porcelain, all of which were at a fair price.

Cups, bowls, plates, pots, pots, different types and different types of utensils, it is dazzling to look at.

Of course, different types of porcelain, the price is not the same, monochrome and multi-colored, glazed and uncolored, the price is also different.

Xu Ling only had sixteen taels of silver in his hand, so he chose to buy three hundred white porcelain cups and spent one or two taels of silver; Three hundred porcelain bowls, spent one or two halves of silver, filled the cart, and Xu Ling ended his first purchase.

The next day he made another trip, and with the rest of the money, he bought a plain porcelain vase and a glazed plate, as well as seventy jars of various sizes.

The only money he earned from selling vegetables was the money for the boat, and Xu Lingcai was satisfied with the money.

On the third day, he only carried his baggage and got on a big ship bound for Quanzhou.

Starting from Lingbao Town to Quanzhou, nearly a thousand miles along the way, if you take the land route, it will take half a month, not to mention that the mountains and forests of Quanzhou are vertical and horizontal, there are many mountain bandits and beasts, which is difficult to pass.

However, if you take the boat by water, you can reach it in two or three days at the earliest when it is downwind, and six or seven days if it is against the wind.

However, taking a boat is not without its risks.

The river is wide, sometimes there are storms, sometimes there are water bandits on the river, and there are malicious business wars from peers, all in all, the risks encountered by merchants who want to go out to do business at this time are not what Xu Ling, a modern person, can imagine.

The name of the Wei family was hung on the big ship, and the lower cabin was loaded with goods destined for Quanzhou, and on top lived many small merchants or travelers like Xu Ling.

Merchants are divided into two kinds, one is the merchant, that is, Xu Ling went south and north, bringing goods from one place to another place to sell, taking the road of buying low and selling high, although it was difficult and dangerous along the way, but it made a lot of profits.

The other type is to sit Jia, like the shopkeeper of the king of the Yuelou, there is no need to go south and north, guarding a fixed stall to operate and trade, although the profit margin is not as large as the business, but it is better to be safe and low-risk.

Whether it is a merchant or a sitter, there are also big and small, some businessmen are like the Wei family, the children and grandchildren of the family still study, and hand over the family business to the shopkeeper to do, they sit firmly in the Diaoyutai, and they can make money without violating the court regulations of politics and business.

These things were all learned by Xu Ling chatting with the businessmen next to him on the ship.

Xu Ling originally thought that this ship was full of merchants near Lingbao Town, but he never thought that there would be merchants from the north who came here to do business.

Xu Ling had to admire these people.

When they saw that he was not loaded with goods and only carried a burden, they asked him what he was doing.

Xu Ling didn't have half the truth in his mouth, and lied that he was a scholar and came to Lingbao Town to join his relatives.

But he was dressed in cloth clothes, and although his hands were not as good as those of a peasant doing rough work, they did not look like a hand holding a pen.

When you go out, you are most taboo to make simple and deep words, and these small businessmen who have become refined know that Xu Ling is lying, but they don't ask in detail.

After four or five days like this, Xu Ling would hang around on the deck of the big ship in his spare time, watch the boatmen collect the sails and release the ropes, listen to the gossip of his peers about life, and occasionally meet someone who accosted him, and would get together with others to brag and fart.

There is still half a day to go to Quanzhou, Xu is the name of the Wei family, there is no risk on the way, and there are more large and small ships nearby.

"Look! I see the docks! ”

A small businessman named Niu Decai, who had a good chat with Xu Ling, happily pointed to the pier as thin as a black dot in the distance, and shouted at Xu Ling and several others.

Everyone hurriedly surrounded them, seeing that the black dots had turned into black ants and black beetles, and they were indeed about to arrive in Quanzhou.

Niu Debao said happily: "When I sell this batch of goods, I must go to Qicailou to see the demeanor of the little lady inside!" ”

Qicailou, this name sounds a little unserious.

Sure enough, the other men also laughed and said: "Just your little money, you still want to go to the colorful building, I think, it's better to go to which dark alley to try your luck, see if there is a little lady who has just come out of the pavilion, it's a clean one!" ”

"In a big city like Quanzhou, are there dark alleys?" Xu Ling asked curiously when he heard the familiar words.

Men have nothing to do except brag about their experiences, which is to talk about women.

In the past few days, they chatted with Xu Ling, Xu Ling always did not participate, and now seeing that he was interested in the dark alley, Niu Decai grabbed Xu Ling's shoulder and said: "Brother Xu, don't go to that kind of place alone, otherwise you will meet the Beauty Bureau, or find you a few days after doing something, and say that her daughter has a body, and you will regret it!" ”

In this kind of skin and meat business in the dark alley, most of them are husbands selling their wives, and fathers and mothers selling their daughters.

Since it is a secret prostitute, there are naturally many demons and monsters.

These businessmen who have gone south and north, I don't know how many times they have been routined, some remember to eat or not, and some have a long memory, but there is no way, the famous green building has a high price, the dark alley is cheap, and occasionally with good luck, you can also meet the little lady who has just come out of the cabinet.

Xu Ling shook his head and shook Niu Decai's hand, "I'm not interested in this kind of place. ”

The others looked at each other and thought he was too serious.

As we talked, the dock became more and more visible, and everyone scattered to gather their goods.

Xu Ling had nothing to clean up, standing on the deck and watching. I saw the long dragon like the wharf along the shore, the smoke willow painted bridge, behind is 100,000 people's homes, the pavilions and pavilions, jagged and scattered, the elm poplar is draped, and then look into the distance, the mountain image is the ink that melts the water, faintly sufficient, as if a beautiful landscape painting in general.

Get closer, the sound of selling, soliciting customers, endlessly.

The big ship gradually slowed down, docked at the dock, lowered the deck and cables. The shipwrights were busy carrying goods from the hold, and there were already porters waiting on the dock to work, carrying the mouths of the family on their shoulders.

Xu Ling's eyes swept over these all kinds of people, and they merged into the flow of people along with the merchants and passengers who disembarked from the ship.