Traveling through ancient times, I led my family to prosperity

"How about we set the price at thirty-five cents for each lotus pod?" Xiao Lan thought for a moment and then suggested. In her previous life, she remembered that the vendors held baskets and sold fresh lotus pods by the pods.

Lotus pods were not valuable in the southern water towns, but in the north, especially in the far north, this rare thing was very rare. In modern times, Xiao Lan lived in the north. Whenever she saw someone selling fresh lotus roots, she would buy one to try. Each one cost ten yuan. Even at this price, many people came to buy it. Everyone just wanted to taste something new.

This year, Xiaolan's fish pond is a rare sight in this area. It is also sought after by literati and poets, and even students from the neighboring prefecture city come here to admire its reputation. Because of the poems they wrote, Xiaolan's fish pond has long been famous.

Sheng Xuan was busy fishing, and she was dissatisfied with the small size of her own wooden tub, so she went directly to the carpenter and bought a custom-made bathtub. This time, Sheng Xuan was very generous, and she bought a lot and had it delivered to her home.

Now the whole family put down their work and brought the farmhands to pull the nets to catch fish. Families close to Xiaolan's family also came to help.

After catching the fish, the strong men would lift the fish onto a horse-drawn or ox-drawn cart and have the buyers take them away.

Many restaurants and wealthy families nearby have placed orders for fish.

"Third brother, the fish in your family are so fat." The person who came to help catch the fish said enviously.

This year, the weather was dry and there was not much water in the fish pond. Some fish were startled and jumped out of the water with their tails swung. The white scales were faintly visible in the dim muddy water. The buyers waiting on the shore stared at the people fishing in the water and pointed out, "Hurry up and catch that big fish. Yes, yes, yes, the one behind you. Don't let it run away."

"Look at that water, it's bubbling and rolling up. It must be hiding there... Oh, what a big yellow croaker..."

The buyers on the shore were even more excited than the fishermen. Some of them could not wait any longer and simply took off their shoes, rolled up their trouser legs, and followed the fish into the pond.

When Xiaolan came to call her father for dinner, she searched for Shengxuan in the water for a long time before she found him. The men in the water were all covered in mud, even their hair and faces were covered in mud. They were happily fishing in the water, as if they were tireless.

"Take this fish back and ask your mother to stew it in the fish pond tonight. Yellow croaker stew is the most delicious..." Sheng Xuan said as he handed the yellow croaker to Xiao Lan, "Hold it steady, this fish is slippery."

Xiao Lan saw her father rising from the water, with mud and water dripping down his clothes and trouser legs. She said with some distress, "Then I'll go back and ask my mother to make fish soup. Dad, hurry up."

The buyers saw that Xiaolan was a little girl who spoke in a confident and confident manner, without any shyness or timidity, and did not have the petty airs of a country girl.

Rumor has it that most of the Sheng family's wealth is due to this little girl's efforts. It seems to be true.

Fish is cheaper than meat now. People from the surrounding villages all know that Xiaolan's family is fishing today. At noon, they come with buckets to buy fish. People from this village even pick the fish before they leave the water. One bucket of fish and one bucket of water, and then go back to pour them into the water tank to raise them. If they are well raised, they can last for one or two months.

In the evening, Sheng Xuan gave two big fish to each of the people who came to help his house. After sending the helpers and buyers away, Sheng Xuan and his group went back.

After the meal, it was already late. According to Sheng Xuan, he had to get up early the next morning as he was going to the town to sell fish, so he had to go to bed early at night.

When the sky turned from dark to slightly bright, Sheng Xuan set off with the fish cart. The ox pulling the cart kicked its hooves, and the cart just happened to hit a rock, causing the body of the cart to shake, and the fish in the tub jumped out.

The road was not smooth, and we bumped and swayed all the way to the town. A lot of water had spilled out of the tub, and the car floor was soaked and smelled fishy.

When they got to the town, Sheng Xuan carried two buckets of river water and poured them into the fish bath. Xiao Lan's fish were full of vitality. None of the fish they caught yesterday had died after a night.

Sheng Xuan was still very eye-catching when selling fish. He was tall and had a straight back. He brought Xiao He with him this time.

"Fish seller, how do you sell fish?"

"Ten cents a pound, little sister-in-law, this is the fish I just caught yesterday, it's very fresh." Xiao He was very considerate and took out a grass carp from the tub. "It's rare to see such a big grass carp. Little sister-in-law, it would be great if you could buy one to take home to nourish your family."

Xiao He was smiling as he promoted the product, talking one thing after another, and had already made the little sister-in-law dizzy. "Then I'll buy two, and one for my parents, so that my parents can have good health."

She was stunned, but other customers were not. When choosing fish, they asked Sheng Xuan to give them a penny cheaper, saying that his fish were more expensive than others and insisted that he lower the price.

"You can't buy such a big fish at this price," Sheng Xuan smiled and shook his head, refusing to lower the price no matter what.

Some people left because the fish was too expensive, but many people stayed. Because the fish was fresh, more and more people came around, picking fish, weighing, collecting money, and answering questions, which made Shengxuan and Xiaohe very busy.

After finally getting through the busiest time, Sheng Xuan hurriedly took out the mung bean soup that Zhang had prepared for him in the morning. It was a hot day and the soup had been heated by the sun.

"There are still three buckets." Sheng Xuan let out a long sigh. He felt that selling fish was more tiring than doing farm work.

"Boss, if we had reduced the price by one penny, the fish would have been sold out by now." Xiao Hedao.

"Our fish is much better than other fishmongers'. If I offer nine cents per pound, I will block their fish from being sold." Sheng Xuan drank a mouthful of mung bean soup and continued, "It's so hot, it's not easy for everyone to make money. If the fish can't be sold, most of them will die. If they die in the sun in the afternoon, they will be even harder to sell."

After hearing what Sheng Xuan said, Xiao He couldn't help but respect him even more. This man is such a kind person. It seems that the family that can raise such an outstanding girl must be very generous.

"How do you sell fish? Are they all the same price?"

Some people ask, some people leave, this is business. As the sun gets higher, the fish in the tub become fewer and fewer.

"Selling fish? Oh, there's still a lot left."

Sheng Xuan heard a business call that was not unfamiliar to him. He looked up and saw that it was indeed his old acquaintance, Shopkeeper Xu.

"Okay, Mr. Sheng, take the remaining fish to Tianxianglou and sell them all to me. Our restaurant can eat them all." Shopkeeper Xu said with a smile