CH 64.1

The next day, Zhang Fangyuan drove his carriage to Zaojiao Village to slaughter pigs before dawn. He ge’er was in good health and wanted to go to the tea shed. It was still a long way from the village to the tea shed, so he took the him along with him.

Then he went to the Zaojiao village with Chen Si.

In fact, there was not much technical content in pig slaughtering. He learned the craft from the old widower after he followed him to slaughter pig twice.

The two used to be together before they got married. Chen Si often saw him butchering pigs, and he knew how to use a knife.

With an extra helper today, Zhang Fangyuan could do the work quickly. It usually took nearly an hour to clean the pig, but today someone helped to scald and shave the pig hair, and it took more than half an hour to load the pork on the carriage and take it to the city.

When they went there, it was just in time for the morning market. Zhang Fangyuan hawked for a while, and then asked Chen Si to learn how to hawk. Anyway, sooner or later he had to learn. 

The first time he was doing business, he was a little cramped and not used to it. Everything needed a word of courage. For example, if the family was under pressure and was eager to make money, it was even faster to get started, and they could do things that were usually embarrassing.

After the morning market, half of the pork was sold.

Chen Si was pleasantly surprised: "Is it so easy to sell?"

Zhang Fangyuan wiped off his sweat and drank a big mouthful of tea from the gourd: "It depends on the day. The business today is better than usual, and besides, it's not busy farming. Well, there will be more people buying meat.”

"After the morning market, there are not many people. If someone comes to buy meat again, you can put the meat on the scale. After you can estimate the meat weight, you won’t need to use the scale in the future, and you can probably know how much you need to cut, which will save you from trouble when you are busy."

Chen Si nodded: “Okay.”

Zhang Fangyuan simply tidied himself up: “The stall will be left to you to guard, I'm going out for a while."

Chen Si responded: "Don't worry, go." After saying that, he called Master with a playful smile.

Zhang Fangyuan had nothing to worry about, his fulang was a little ge’er. He could take care of everything properly, he came out to sell and do business before him, and he was still a young at that time. This Chen Si was tall and like a cow, but he might not be able to keep watch over a stall.

After leaving the meat market, he went straight to the biggest rouge shop in the city.

"What do you want, brother?"

Zhang Fangyuan entered the door and a waiter greeted him enthusiastically.

"Do you have "rose water" here? A fragrance dew?"

The waiter shook his head: "We don't have it here."

"Sir, you are the fifth person who came to ask about this fragrance dew today." The owner of Fengchunlou walked down the stairs with a smile on his face, and just happened to listen to the conversation between the two of them, so he came forward and spoke.

"Don't say it's you, even the servants of the county magistrate's mansion came to ask if we have this fragrance dew  in the shop."

Zhang Fangyuan thought to himself that these nobles didn’t dislike the origin of this fragrance dew, and it was used by the first lady from flower house, so it was not surprising that they wanted to use it.

"Boss, can you take a step to talk?"

The store owner's eyebrows moved slightly, he glanced at Zhang Fangyuan and handed the abacus to the waiter: "Sir, please."

The two entered the elegant room, and Zhang Fangyuan said bluntly: "I have a few bottles of fragrance dew here, I wonder if the boss wants to buy them?"

The shop owner had the biggest rouge shop in the city. There was such a popular fragrance dew in the city. He must have inquired about the situation early in the morning, so he knew that the goods were from Yunliang Pavilion. He had already gone to find someone to negotiate with, but it was a pity that there was no result yet.

Now someone came to the door to say that there was a stock, and it was still a man, so it was unavoidable to be a little suspicious.

Zhang Fangyuan knew what was in his hearts, so he didn't say much, he just took a bottle of fragrance dew and exposed it for him to check.

The shop owner sniffed from a distance, and the people who were circling in the spices business were smart, and he immediately knew that it was not a fake: "It’s really that thing!"

"I thought about going to the rouge shops in the city recently, I don’t know about how to sell my goods. I just want to make a fortune, I'm short of money recently. I won't hide anything from the boss, if the price is right, I won't go looking for another shop. Who doesn't know that Fengchunlou is the largest Rouge Shop in the city. "

The shop owner also smiled: "Sir is a straightforward person. Since he can get this product, he also knows that the price from Yunliang Pavilion is twelve taels a bottle. There are many buyers and there are few goods. If Sir wants to sell it, I also sincerely want the goods, but I can only pay the same price like the Yunliang Pavilion. "

Zhang Fangyuan raised the corner of his mouth: "It's easy to say."

This time Zhang Fangyuan sent all the things in his hand to Fengchunlou, and there were still Eight bottles, he originally wanted to save one for He ge’er, but he thought that  he didn't need it for now, thinking that there would be more of them in the market in the future, the price was cheap at that time, and the taste was the same, if you liked it, you could buy it at that time.

The fragrance dew was exchanged for ninety-six taels, which seemed to be more profitable than when he sold it to Yunliang Pavilion, but he already knew this result clearly from the start.

First he sold part of it to Jiu Niang at a low price, and when she sold the goods with the price up, the market scrambled to buy it, and when the supply was not enough, he would release some. By then Jiu Niang had already made money, and he could make another fortune.

Furthermore, when he sold it to Jiu Niang at the beginning, he didn't say that she could buy it out. Together, both of them made a lot of money, and the only one who was unlucky was the young man who brought the goods to him.

But when he knew that this fragrance dew was sold everywhere, the price was already cheap at that time, he was afraid that the price of a bottle of fragrance dew in the rouge shop was only more than one hundred copper coins. In today's chaotic market, a bottle of fragrance dew may change hands to several people, and the price was different for different people, and each of them made money.