allonlinenovel Chapter 308 Forced Buying and Selling
Chapter 308 Forced Buying and Selling
Shen Youyou really discovered that the longer the brothers and sisters set up the stall, the more they dared to speak. Now that they set up the stall and come into contact with more people, they seem to be at ease talking to anyone.
In addition, the baogao and jelly were very popular, and word spread, and the stalls had more and more goods.
Now even the sisters push a small cart with two of them, and most of the carts don’t have ice on them, but are filled with jelly and steamed cakes.
Only Shen Youyou's ox cart had ice on it. Those sold wholesale were not chilled. After all, if they were chilled, we couldn't give them the ice when they bought them. Besides, the pancakes and jelly tasted good even without being chilled.
Those who set up stalls would first take out the chilled items from the ox cart to sell, and then move the unchilled steamed cakes and jelly from other carts to the ox cart, doing this in rounds, forming a cycle.
Apart from being a little troublesome, it saves costs and manpower.
In addition, they were familiar with Zhou Qian, so they placed tables, chairs and other things directly in a small house in Zhou Qian's market.
This small house is similar to the roadside stalls in later generations, which are just two small wooden houses. It costs two taels of silver to rent such a small house per month.
At first, Shen Youyou thought about renting one by themselves. After all, they had limited manpower. If they wanted to transport more pao gao and jelly, they would have to reduce the carrying of other things.
It was Zhou Qian who heard her asking about the cabin, asked her the reason, and offered to give it to them for storage without charging any money.
Shen Youyou felt embarrassed, after all, she was the one who paid to rent the house, so she made an agreement with Zhou Qian that they would have enough jelly and steamed cake in the future.
Their stall has been doing particularly good business these days, often attracting envious glances from nearby vendors.
Of course, there are also people who come here to cause trouble. For example, there are always some small hooligans in the market. To put it in a nice way, they are here to collect protection fees, but to put it bluntly, they come here to set up stalls because they see that your business is good. They don’t have any connections and are usually people from the surrounding villages.
A group of half-grown kids like Shen Youyou attracted a group of hooligans on the third day.
But Erhu and Erzhuang would not tolerate them. Before the others took any action, they let Erhu and Erzhuang be defeated by that group of people. From that day on, even though their business was booming, no one dared to come to them anymore.
The vendors around them also understood what was going on. They were obviously just a bunch of young boys. How could their families let them set up stalls on their own, let alone do such good business?
After working for the afternoon, they have not yet closed their stalls. In order to make more money, they have stocked up on more goods.
Usually around three o'clock in the afternoon, many people come to buy jelly and steamed cake, take them back and chill them in the deep well, which is perfect for eating in the evening.
At this moment, Shen Youyou and the others started to eat. In fact, during these days of setting up the stall, except for the first day when they bought some steamed buns, they ate their own jelly or steamed cake on the other days.
After all, there are so many mouths to feed at home.
They were all chatting while eating, feeling extremely happy about earning money. Moreover, after returning home, they saw the progress of their new home day by day, which made everyone more motivated.
There weren't too many people in the market at this moment, because most of the city people needed to take a break after dinner.
At this time, two carriages stopped at the market entrance. Although Fang County had good economic conditions and had seen many carriages, this carriage today...
The exterior looks quite luxurious, as there are all kinds of tassels hanging on the carport and the roof is made of silk, just like what you see in TV dramas.
Therefore, it attracted the attention of many vendors at once, and many people even started to shout hard, hoping that this big customer would patronize their business.
A middle-aged man in silk clothes got off the car. He had a short goatee, similar to Tang Guangzheng's.
However, he does not have the elegant scholarly air of Tang Guangzheng. Instead, one can tell at first glance that he exudes the shrewdness of a businessman.
Four servants followed behind him and went straight to Shen Youyou's stall: "Hey guys, these are the jelly and pancakes you sell."
Shen Youyou seemed to be a bad person and was a little cautious: "Excuse me, would you like to eat pao gao or jelly?"
"I am the shopkeeper of Guangyuan Tower in Fucheng. I came here to discuss business with you."
Although the shopkeeper saluted with his fists, his condescending attitude showed that he did not take Shen Youyou and her group seriously.
Before Shen Youyou could say anything, Wang Taohua, Guo Daya, and even Dabao and Erbao were all slightly agitated. It's true that they had seen little of the world, but they were not fools. Who couldn't see that the other party had bad intentions?
The man saw the reactions of the others and said with a smile, "I am willing to pay ten taels of silver in exchange for the recipe in your hand."
He smiled quite confidently, and acted as if you were getting a great deal.
As the largest Guangyuan Tower in the city, can the city be just an ordinary city?
That’s Kyoto. If they can afford to open the biggest restaurant, how can they do it without a backer?
Before coming, they had already found out all the details of Shen Youyou and his group.
They were just a group of refugees fleeing famine, and they had no relationship. The closest to them was Tangjia Village. Although Tangjia Village had a scholar and a son-in-law from a marquis's family, the son-in-law married a concubine's daughter.
Besides, they had just arrived to escape famine, and although they seemed to have a good relationship, if something serious really happened, the marquis' son-in-law might not necessarily take care of it.
Even if the marquis's son-in-law really cares, it doesn't matter. After all, he is only a sixth-rank official. In Kyoto, what is a sixth-rank official? There are a lot of them.
Anyone you meet on the street might be of higher rank than him.
As long as the Marquis doesn't show up, everything will be fine. As for the Marquis showing up? Isn't that a joke?
Do you think the Marquis has so much free time, just because he has a son-in-law born out of wedlock?
Not to mention whether you can see the Marquis on weekdays. Even if you can see him, the Marquis can actually stand up for his illegitimate son-in-law and the new refugees in the village. Do you think the Marquis is so worthless?
In the eyes of this shopkeeper, a group of young refugees who had come up with two new recipes could be sold for ten taels of silver at best.
These ten taels of silver were enough for them to buy several acres of wasteland. Not to mention that the gang had already bought a lot of wasteland before.
To be honest, he was so fearless because he knew that group of people had bought these wastelands. What does it mean that they have money to buy land?
This means that the family had been wealthy before, and it was definitely not arranged by some backstage. It was probably because they paid money and were assigned to the capital. In addition, the fact that they set up a stall and did business as soon as they arrived made him even more certain of this.
It can also be proved that paying money to buy places and wasteland has emptied their pockets.
In fact, the shopkeeper was still laughing at these refugees in his heart, thinking: "Most likely they lived well in their hometowns, and their families have a foundation passed down from their ancestors.
Look at what we are doing now. Let’s not talk about whether we can grow crops well, but we can’t cultivate wasteland. When can we eat the food we grow ourselves?
It would be better to use the money in hand to do business first, and then slowly build a house and buy land when you have recovered. "
He believed from the bottom of his heart that these people were not clear-headed and would never be able to get up. After all, you were doing well in your hometown, and that was the foundation of your ancestors.
When I arrived at a new place, I was unfamiliar with the place and had to start all over again. Plus, I was not in a clear mind, so I had to luckily hope to make a comeback.
So, in the real world, there aren't so many people who are so stupid as to offend others and then get slapped in the face.
It's not a desolate mountain area, it's a well-known place, such a big restaurant serves the nobles in Beijing, they know best what it means to be afraid of people's words.