CH 71.2

"Boss, I want a bowl of wontons, add more hot soup, and send it to the Linglong Toothbrush shop in the front."

It was already late when Zhang Fangyuan set off to the city, and there were a lot of shops and stalls on Tianjie Street. They were already open, but he was not in a hurry, their business was no longer in the morning market, so it didn't matter if they open later.

He rode a horse to the shop, and when he passed by the side of the road where Xu He used to set up a stall, he ordered some wontons for breakfast.

"Okay."

He was already a regular customer, even if he didn't pay the money first, the stall owner would bring his wontons to the shop.

When he was free at noon today, he went to buy a carriage. When he came here, he didn’t even bring the carriage, so he rode a horse all the way here, the winter morning wind blew all the way, and all the drowsiness was blown away, but he didn't feel cold, he just felt that it was interesting to ride a tall horse to open a shop in the city.

The shop opened, and the steaming wontons just happened to be delivered to the shop. Zhang Fangyuan took out ten copper coins from his pocket and gave it to the stall owner, and swallowed his breakfast in one gulp.

After breakfast, he imitated Xu He's way of opening the shop in the past, he brushed his teeth in the shop orderly, wiped the cabinets until untainted by even a speck of dust, and took the broom to clean the front of the door. It was a great way to kill time, and it was almost sishi.

[一尘不染 yī chén bù rǎn: untainted by even a speck of dust (idiom); selfless and incorruptible; spotless]

[巳时 sì shí: 9-11 am]

"If you want to buy something, you can look for it yourself. If you have any questions, just call me."

"Are you the owner of Linglong Shop?"

Zhang Fangyuan raised his head when he heard the words, and glanced at the visitor, a man with a felt fabric hat and beard, he didn't seem like a local.

"Exactly." Zhang Fangyuan asked again: "Are you a merchant?"

Since he was a merchant who wanted to take the goods, he must go to inquire about the shop before, so Zhang Fangyuan knew that he wanted to negotiate business without even mentioning the goods.

This kind of merchant Zhang Fangyuan was very eager to meet. In the autumn, when he was not in the shop before, a merchant who came to their county town to sell some precious stones came to the shop to buy some goods and resell them. But the order was not big and he remembered it, it seemed like more than four taels.

"To tell the truth, this small merchant came here to order some goods in the autumn, and the goods were very easy to sell. This morning, I returned to Siyang to send some precious stones to the distinguished guests in the city, and then I came again to order some goods from the owner. "

Zhang Fangyuan didn't know which order it was before, after all, there were many merchants from other places who came to the shop, big and small, and he didn't pay much attention to it, so he asked, "I wonder how many goods you want to take?"

"After finishing this order I won't be going out this year, and I want to order as much as possible, but I don't have much money, so it depends on whether the owner can give me suitable price." 

"This is easy to say, if you order a lot, I can make the price as affordable as possible." Zhang Fangyuan smiled and poured tea for the man: "The most important thing is to have a good talk, make friends, and come here often in the future."

The merchant also laughed when he heard the words: "This can’t be better.”

The merchant had ordered the goods before, and he was considered a regular customer, but there were no customers in the shop at the moment, so Zhang Fangyuan took him around and introduced the goods in the shop to the merchant.

To be on the safe side, the merchant bought the cheapest pig’s hair toothbrushes and saponin tooth powders before, and he didn’t buy much the more expensive toothbrushes and tooth powders, but when he took the goods to other counties, they were surprisingly easy to sell, so now he became bolder.

He ordered fifty toothbrushes of various styles at one go, and selected each type of tooth powder. For convenience, he didn’t buy the tooth powder that had been divided into porcelain bottles, but directly buy it by the catty, he could take it and repack it by himself.

The merchant wanted a lot of goods, so Zhang Fangyuan reduced the price of the toothbrushes by fifteen copper coins and the price of the ooth powders by twenty copper coins. The price could be said to be quite affordable.

Even so, Zhang Fangyuan could still earn forty taels of silver from this batch of goods at one time, which was the advantage of selling a lot of goods.

"After two days, the goods will be packed and ready, and then you can come and take the goods away."