Song Sanniang's Journey to Wealth

Le'anfang seems to be an enlarged version of West Market. The roads are wider than those in West Market and there are more high-rise buildings. At first glance, it looks like a group of buildings that are taller than the residential buildings nearby.

The wide streets are bustling with people, with shops lining both sides of the street and small stalls in front of the shops.

The stalls were filled with a dazzling array of goods, and the sounds of hawking were endless.

There are all kinds of food, entertainment, daily necessities, and goods traveling from north to south.

There were people delivering goods in ox carts, pulling goods on donkeys, and riding in horse-drawn carriages.

Led by Huang Shi Tu, they came to an area where goods were transported and sold by donkey carts, ox carts, and horse carts.

Some people put the goods directly on the car and only put out a few samples for everyone to see.

Some rented tables and placed them on them.

Some are placed directly on the ground and stacked together, selling all kinds of things.

Baskets of fresh fruits and vegetables, a variety of furniture and utensils, pots and pans, books and writing instruments,

The cargo owners also used their own unique skills to attract business.

The guests who came and went were either wealthy families who were shopping, or wholesalers with their assistants.

There were all kinds of people, including smart women who gathered together to buy more to save money, and passers-by who came to stroll around out of curiosity.

You have to pay to enter Le'anfang to sell things. For a donkey cart like theirs, you have to pay ten coins.

Qin Haodong was used to setting up stalls in the West Market. He rented two tables, moved some mooncakes out and set them out, then took out a box and a few extra ones for tasting.

They are the only one selling mooncakes. As soon as the mooncakes were put on display, someone came to ask curiously,

Niu Lao San stood aside in a daze, while Song Lao Da was scratching his head, not knowing how to sell it.

Huang Shi Tu, on the other hand, was experienced. Even though he had never eaten pork, he had seen pigs run. When he saw Qin Haodong tinkering with the food tasting, he helped to greet the guests.

"Come and take a look at our mooncakes. They are freshly baked this morning. Come and have a look."

Seeing that Boss Song and the other two didn't know how to greet the guests, Qin Haodong had no choice but to put down the things in his hands and let Boss Song and the other two do it while he and Huang Shi Tu greeted the guests.

"Everyone, come and see, our lava mooncakes are our first creation, delicious and not greasy, a great gift for others.

Four flavors, three price points, it’s up to you to choose. ”

He imitated what Song Sanniang said from memory, and then showed the packaging of various prices to the people who gathered around him.

When I see people dressed like target customers, I will talk to them more and ask them to try the food.

He brought up the name of the He Mansion again. The name of the He Mansion was enough to be used in the city. After all, the highest official in the city was only the prefect, and the He Mansion had produced the Prime Minister.

Although everyone was skeptical, the packaging looked elegant, the taste was novel, and the price was affordable, so anyone with money would buy one or two boxes.

More and more people started to come, and Boss Song and his friends came forward to help. Lao San Niu was not good at counting, so he was responsible for helping Boss Song to serve mooncakes to the customers, and Boss Song was responsible for collecting the money. Gradually, the two of them got the hang of it.

Seeing that Boss Song and the other three were busy, Huang Shi Tu decided to look for an inn to stay for the night. He asked Qin Haodong for some money, and then came to the inn he used to frequent, where he always slept in a large bunk bed.

But Song Sanniang said that as for accommodation, four people should stay in a normal double room, and not crowd together to save money.

So we booked two private rooms, which cost 68 cents a night, and included dinner and hot water for bathing, which was pretty good.

You definitely can't travel at night, because there are no street lights and it's pitch black.

Secondly, the road conditions are not good. Even on official roads, there are often potholes on the road. You can avoid them during the day, but not at night.

Thirdly, you don’t know if there are bandits waiting there to rob you at night, so there is no need to take risks for two or three hundred coins.

After checking in, he went to buy some steamed buns. Although someone from the Song family had brought everyone some food to eat on the way in the morning, they were already feeling hungry after such a long time.

He took the food back. The mooncakes on the table had almost been sold out, so Niu Laosan and Song Lao Da started to move out new ones. When they had finished moving most of them, they took the opportunity to eat. People kept coming, and everyone hurriedly finished their meals and started to get busy again.

Dajiang Town,

Song Dazhi received a notice from Song Zuling, so he came to Song Laoer's house at the approximate time, packed the mooncakes, and put the herbs that Song Sanniang was helping to sell in the car, and then they set off.

When they arrived at the West Market, Song Sanniang was selling mooncakes by herself and asked Song Laoer to help sell the medicinal herbs.

Song Lao Er came to Doctor Shen's clinic. There were two new medicine boys, a boy and a girl, in Doctor Shen's clinic. He was teaching them to identify herbs.

He still had some impression of Song Laoer coming. He saw the basket in Song Laoer's hand and asked, "What medicinal herbs are you selling this time?"

Song Lao Er poured out the two portions of herbs separately. "Striga, and some ordinary herbs. Doctor Shen, the money for these two portions of herbs should be calculated separately."

Doctor Shen nodded, then carefully checked and looked through the herbs before classifying them into two different groups.

"The price of the herb is still 15 wen per liang. The other herbs, such as the herb of red stalk, plantain and centella asiatica, are all very common medicinal herbs.

But since few people come to sell, I will still buy them, but the price is cheap, I will buy them at two cents per pound."

Song Laoer felt that these herbs were everywhere and were worthless, so it was fine to buy them at two cents per pound.

"Okay, Doctor Shen, you can calculate the money."

Song Zuling and her friends didn't pick much, just half a pound of Striga, three pounds of Plantain, one pound of Red Root, and one pound of Centella Asiatica. The total cost was 130 coins.

Song Ming and his friends knew that the herb was the most valuable, so they picked a lot of herb. It must have taken them a long time.

After being pulled out and dried, there are still 8.3 jins, 5 jins of plantain, 3.5 jins of radix eryngii, and 3 jins of centella asiatica, a total of 1.9 qian and 8 wen.

After thanking Doctor Shen, Song Lao Er took the money back to the mooncake stand and asked how much it sold for. Song Sanniang was also happy for Song Ming and the others.

For little kids, this is a huge sum of money.

Their grandmother has been bedridden, and the family's money is flowing like water, spending whatever they earn.

My mother has no income, so she has to rely on Uncle Dazhuang to find work for her to make money.

Now Sister Cuihua can earn enough money to support the family expenses for most of the year, and they can also make some money on their own. It's always good.

Since Song Lao Er was back, Song San Niang went to deliver mooncakes to Manager Yan.

He ordered six boxes of mooncakes yesterday. Song Sanniang held the mooncakes in both hands and piled the six boxes together like others were carrying bricks. Fortunately, the boxes were not high, otherwise they would have blocked her face when piled up.

They were very careful along the way and finally arrived at the gift shop. Seeing Song Sanniang coming in, Manager Yan helped put the mooncakes down and said with a smile, "Don't you have a bullock cart? Why didn't you use it to deliver it?"

Song Sanniang waved her hand and said, "I didn't think about it when I first came here. If I had known, I would have come to your place to deliver the mooncakes and then go back to open a stall."

Manager Yan shook his head and said, "It's hard for you, a half-grown child." He gave the money to Song Sanniang.

Song Sanniang ordered another batch of mooncake boxes from Manager Yan. This time, the mooncake boxes had to be delivered urgently because there were only a few left at home. Fortunately, she didn't have to prepare for the city tomorrow. After ordering this last batch, the mooncake sales came to an end.

Song Sanniang told Manager Yan that she wanted to order custom mahjong, so Manager Yan called the old master from last time.

The two of us started by explaining and revising the design. It took us half a day to come up with a rough outline.

Mahjong is now made by machines and in an assembly line.

But now it is a troublesome and tedious task to cut the wood into uniform sizes and then carve patterns on them one by one.

The master took 65 cents for a set of mahjong tiles, polished them all, painted them, and even packed them in a wooden box.

Song Sanniang ordered three pairs and paid a deposit of two taels.

Next, after selling the mooncakes and counting the money on hand, Song Sanniang planned to move on to the next stage of her goal: building a house and renting a shop.

Fucheng,

Before the evening, all the mooncakes from Boss Song were sold out. People who heard the news and came here couldn't buy any, so they could only make reservations for the next batch.

At night, both Song Lao Da and Niu Lao San were a little sleepless. They sold more than 500 taels of silver today. This huge sum of money shocked them both.

Qin Haodong suggested that it would be safer to change the money into silver bills, so everyone went to change the money into silver bills, leaving a little change for travel.

Boss Song tossed and turned, but Huang Shi Tu next to him was sleeping soundly.

Qin Haodong had long been accustomed to it, so he fell asleep immediately.

However, Niu Laosan did not dare to close his eyes. He paid attention to the movements in Song Laoda's room next door. The money was with him, and he was afraid that a thief would crawl in in the middle of the night to steal the money.

So one night, some people sleep soundly, while others stay awake until dawn.