6. Transactions
These shouting words, in normal times, Xiang Beifeng would never say it, these are the lines that the three of them discussed in advance. At the critical moment, the northerly wind broke the deadlock and finally brought in the first guest. Cheng Sifang smiled and said to Xiang Beifeng: "Old Xiang, thank you." Then he smiled and said to the man, "That's right, we have all the best furs!" The nervous feeling was dissipated by the shouting of the northerly wind.
The man was overjoyed and said, "Then I'm not welcome." He bent down and picked up a piece of fur, and turned to leave, but saw a woman stop in front of him, it was Xiao Zhihan.
The man was stunned: "What? Didn't you say to send it?" Cheng Sifang smiled: "That's right, it's a gift, but it's not for free." The man asked, "How do you send it?"
"It's simple. Cheng Si beckoned to Xiao Zhihan, took out the brush in his arms, and said, "Guest officer, you just need to stand outside the line, I will throw the brush into the sky, you hit the brush with a stone, and I will send you." "The northerly wind drew a line on the ground with a spear, seven paces away in all directions.
The man said, "How can you hit it so far?" Cheng Sifang said: "Why can't you?" So he threw the brush into the air, Xiao Zhihan stood outside the line, holding the stone, "whoosh", only to hear the sound of "pop", the brush was in the middle of the brush, and the brush was smashed by the stone.
Cheng Sifang was stunned for a moment, took out another brush from his arms, and smiled at the man: "Look, it's as simple as that, as long as you hit, I will give you a fur, and the guest officer won't even be as good as a woman in my family, right?"
Cheng Quartet relied on his own good fur, and used some agitation methods a little, and the man faced this tempting prize, and really hit the trick, and said: "Throw it away." Bending down and picking up a small pebble, standing outside the line, Xiao Zhihan came to him again and said, "Guest officer, throw away a penny once." ”
(Note: Because the coins of the Three Kingdoms period are more special, the common is five baht money, and the complex unit name is not conducive to writing texts, so it is changed to the unit of "Wen" here, one penny is equal to a five-baht coin at that time, and twenty-four five-baht coins are equal to the weight of one tael. The man was stunned for such a unit, but after thinking about it, a penny is not a big penny, if it hits, don't say a penny, a hundred times will be earned, so he took out a penny and handed it to Xiao Zhihan, saying: "A penny is a penny." Xiao Zhihan accepted the penny and handed it to Cheng Sifang, but heard Cheng Sifang say softly: "If you break this brush again, we really can't make money." Xiao Zhihan was stunned for a moment and said, "I know, I know." ”
One person came to see, everyone watched, and now three or five people gathered over, and Cheng Quartet deliberately said loudly: "Come and see, now as long as this guest officer can stand outside the line and hit the brush with a small stone, you can get a good weasel skin, I want to throw it!
The man urged, "Hurry up and throw it!" How do you know that this is deliberately done in order to attract the attention of passers-by. With this one intention, the crowd gathered, and the surroundings were blocked. Cheng Sifang smiled, the time has come, and he can't even do the first business if he drags it off, so he shouted: "Throw it away!" Throwing the brush high into the air, the man aimed at the brush and threw the stone out, but the stone was a little off target.
Seeing the north wind, he knew that the stone would not hit, so he quietly sent the palm wind out of the palm and approached the stone when the brush fell.
"Smack!"
The stone was in the middle of the brush, and both the stone and the brush fell to the ground. The man shouted, "Hit! I hit!" Cheng Sifang immediately picked up a fur and sent it to the man: "Guest officer, you hit, this fur is given to you, alas, I have lost a lot." "I'm a big loser" deliberately raised his voice so that everyone could hear it. The man took the fur and said happily: "Haha! You really gave it to me! I got this fine fur for just a penny, and I am so lucky today!"
This time, it was out of control, and the onlookers threw stones for a penny, all wanting to earn a good fur and go home.
But these seven steps away from the object, but it is a martial arts person who practices the hidden weapon must practice the skill, the person who practices the hidden weapon, Want Want to use the bronze mirror as a target, place the bronze mirror, stand seven steps away to shoot the hidden weapon, without a few years of effort, it is not so easy to hit. What's more, the bronze mirror will not move, and the brush is thrown in the air in all directions, and it is even more difficult to hit, and the man just now, if he didn't intend to the north wind, how could he be hit?
A copper coin, no matter how poor people can take it, for a time stood outside the line and threw stones in a long line, at most there were four people throwing stones at the same time, and they complained to each other if they didn't hit, blaming each other for throwing stones to block their sight.
At this time, the market price of the best weasel skin is about 120 yuan, and the northerly wind sometimes hits people when there is the thirtieth stone, and sometimes it hits people when the third hundredth stone, and the person who does not hit can only blame himself for his poor skills, and the person who wins is happy, but forgets that he has paid a higher price than the usual purchase of the weasel skin.
When the fifth longest fur was sent, Cheng Quartet already had a thousand copper coins. Xiao Zhihan and Xiang Beifeng stood aside and watched, Xiao Zhihan said: "The boss is the boss, and he really has the ability, which is more profitable than selling weasel skins alone." Xiang Beifeng said admiringly: "I didn't expect him to have such a way." ”
When the tenth fur was given away, there was already an income of 1,600 yuan, Xiao Zhihan said softly: "Boss, it's okay, keep some and come back tomorrow." Cheng Sifang shook his head and continued his "giving" gift.
After all the dozen or so weasel skins were delivered, Cheng Quartet said loudly: "Today's furs have been delivered, we will send them again tomorrow, let's disperse, disperse!" The crowd was still unsatisfied, but the furs had indeed been sent away and had dispersed.
Xiao Zhihan asked, "Why don't you keep a few furs and come back tomorrow?" Now that they are all delivered, what will we send tomorrow?" Cheng Sifang smiled and said: "If we give them a night's time, they go back and think about it, and find that the person who gets the fur pays more than the price of buying, then will someone come to throw stones tomorrow?"
Xiao Zhihan was stunned for a moment and said, "That's right, but what will we use as a prize tomorrow?" Cheng Sifang said with a smile: "Go around Yecheng tomorrow and see if there is anything that can be used as a prize, which is more attractive than a weasel skin." ”
The three of them were about to leave, but they heard an unceremonious voice behind them: "Boy, you set up a stall in front of my house to make furs, have you asked me?" The three of them looked back and saw an elegant man standing in front of the door, with a smile on his face, but there was unhappiness hidden under the smile.
"Thanks to you, I've been disturbed all day. ”
Cheng Sifang laughed: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I was negligent on my part, please have a lot of it, don't worry about us." ”
The man suddenly said angrily: "Don't care, what have you done to smash the doors and windows of my house after you lost stones here for a day? The three of them were stunned, and looked at the doors and windows of this person's house, and sure enough, they were all potholes, all of which were smashed out by small stones.
"This ......" Cheng Quartet was indeed negligent, and then Cheng Quartet began to calculate in his heart how much money he would have to spend to compensate this person.
Xiao Zhihan took a step forward, his eyes were cold, and said, "What do you want?" The northerly wind also stood beside Xiao Zhihan, and the momentum was violent.
"Yo he!" When the man saw the appearance of the two of them, he was even more displeased, and said, "What? Do you still want to use force?"
Cheng Sifang hurriedly said: "You two don't be impulsive!" The two of them glanced at each other, turned their heads to the side, and were thinking in their hearts that if this person did not forgive, they would simply kill him. Cheng Sifang knows very well that if something happens, there will be no way to do business here, and he can't do business, which is more sad than taking Cheng Sifang's life.
Cheng Si bowed deeply to the man: "I'm really sorry, it's our fault, this gentleman will see how to compensate, we will compensate according to the price." ”
Seeing Cheng Quartet's sincere attitude, the man nodded, and his attitude eased: "The boss is the boss, and it is much better than some people." Xiao Zhihan and Xiang Beifeng knew that they were talking about themselves, and they were very angry in their hearts, and they were about to have a seizure, Cheng Sifang had already expected it, and they were busy giving the two of them a look, and the two of them suppressed their emotions.
The man shouted into the room, "Boy, take my pen, and I'll do the math." Cheng Sifang hurriedly said: "I have a pen here, don't bother your nobles." So he held the pen up with both hands and respectfully handed it to the man. Cheng Sifang's heart is to try to please as much as possible, if he is merciful, he will receive a little less.
The man glanced at the brush, and there were many marks on the body of the pen, which was very ugly, and frowned: "This ...... It's just the same for settling accounts. He took the pen, opened the ink bottle he had with him, and dipped it in ink, but there was nothing to write. Cheng Sifang heard him say this, his heart was overjoyed, and he hurriedly pulled his sleeves away: "Let's count it here." The man smiled: "You're quite clever." "I counted the accounts on the sleeves of Cheng Quartet, but I had already made up my mind to collect less compensation.
Xiao Zhihan and Xiang Beifeng were very angry when they saw it, these two people have been in the rivers and lakes for a long time, how could they have been insulted like this? Although they are not writing on their own clothes, they are now employed by Cheng Sifang, Cheng Sifang is the boss, and the humiliation of the boss is equivalent to being humiliated by himself, Xiao Zhihan's hands clenched the sword tightly, trembling with anger, and Xiang Beifeng's palm held the gun hard, almost breaking the gun shaft.
The man looked at the doors and windows, wrote a few strokes, repeated many times, and several times was just a simple calculation, but the more he wrote, the more surprised the expression on his face: "This ......" At this time, the boy took the pen and ink out of the house, the man picked up his pen, wrote a few words, frowned, threw the brush to the ground, and picked up the square pen to write, with a surprised smile on his face, and asked: "How to sell this money?"
Xiao Zhihan and Xiang Beifeng were stunned when they heard this, Cheng Sifang had expected this question, and said with a smile: "This gentleman, my pen is not for sale." ”