Song Sanniang's Journey to Wealth

Donkey carts drove along the road, raising clouds of dust from time to time. Even the repaired official road was just a yellow mud road.

There are grasslands on both sides of the road, and next to the grasslands are dense woods.

Occasionally, we would pass through one or two villages, where there were scattered villagers getting up early to work, carrying hoes or buckets.

When they see the two donkey carts passing by, they will cast curious or envious glances.

Song Sanniang's buttocks were sore from the bumpy ride. No one told her that in ancient times, riding in a car would also cause buttocks to hurt. But Song Ersao looked like nothing had happened and fell asleep leaning against a mooncake.

Song Sanniang looked out the window from time to time. There were only trees, grass, and yellow mud roads, which made her look forward to seeing beautiful scenery disappear.

Finally, she fell asleep unknowingly as the donkey cart shook from time to time.

She woke up only when Qin Haodong and Niu Laosan changed cars. Qin Haodong went to Song Lao Da's car to rest.

Song Sanniang felt very bored. She wondered how the ancients passed the time during long journeys. Did they read books?

But it was so bumpy and my butt hurt. Even if I took a horse-drawn carriage, it wouldn't be very comfortable. As I was thinking about this, Niu Laosan's voice came from outside.

"We will arrive at the capital in a little while. You two should get ready. We will check your household registration documents. Don't be afraid. Just show them to the soldiers."

"Okay, got it. Thank you, Uncle San." Song Sanniang replied quickly.

About half an hour later, the donkey cart began to slow down and they arrived at the city.

Song Sanniang lifted the curtain and looked at the tower curiously. It was as if history was repeating itself before her. A tall and majestic ancient city gate appeared before her.

Although it is not as good as the modern reconstructions, one can imagine the heavy price the working people paid to build such a city gate in ancient times when productivity was low.

In fact, what she saw was not just the city gate, but thousands of ordinary people who built this solid city with their blood and sweat.

After the inspection, the group paid the money and entered the big market in Le'anfang as they did last time.

Qin Haodong and Boss Song rented a table, and together they took out the mooncakes and arranged them, then started selling them. Soon, customers spontaneously gathered around.

Qin Haodong and Song Lao Da were in charge of one side, while Song Sanniang, Song Ersao, Niu Lao San and others were in charge of the other side. Everyone started to get busy, and before they knew it, time had passed quickly.

Huang Shi Tu took the initiative to book a room. He booked the upper room for Song Ersao and her daughter, which was much better than the room they lived in. Then he bought some steamed buns and took them back.

"Come on, let's eat something first." Huang Shi Tu shouted.

Boss Song took a bun from his hand and ate it in big mouthfuls. Qin Haodong didn't eat it because he had guests.

Song Ersao came and took two and ate them first. Song Sanniang was still busy.

After several people finished their meals in turn, they began to replenish the empty tables with new moon cakes from the donkey cart.

Song Sanniang looked at the people coming and going here and felt that her decision to open a store in the capital city was the right one. The flow of people and spending power here were at least three times that of the West Market.

When selling mooncakes in Xishi, most customers buy one or two boxes. Only some big customers or merchants at the dock will buy more.

But any customer here can buy a few boxes, not to mention if they meet a rich person buying from him.

There were even a few colleagues from the same business, people from bakery shops who came to ask if she wanted to sell the secret recipe, but they were all rejected by Song Sanniang.

By the afternoon, the mooncakes were almost sold out, and Song Sanniang planned to take a walk around the city.

She called Huang Shi Tu, and then Song Ersao, and the three of them left the mooncake stall and walked towards the market center.

Surrounded by the hustle and bustle, the three of them walked and stopped. Under the guidance of Huang Shi Tu, Song Sanniang took a general tour of Le'anfang.

The key is to go to those restaurants and check out the prices here, as well as the big and small dessert shops.

Nowadays, dessert shops are called drink shops. Larger shops sell a variety of iced drinks, such as iced snow, crispy mountain, cold syrup, cooked water, coconut ice wine, kumquat snow bubble, etc.

Ordinary small shops sell green bean paste, red bean paste, tofu pudding, jelly, sour plum soup, etc.

Each store has its own characteristics, and the prices range from a few coins to hundreds of coins.

But each store has good business. You can see all kinds of customers coming into the store to have a bowl of sweet soup to quench their thirst when they are tired of walking.

If you open a shop in a county town, the monthly rent is relatively low, and it is convenient to go home, and even renting a house is not expensive.

But there are only so many people in the county town. Before, I set up stalls in the markets on both sides, which has already intercepted most of the customers, but the monthly income is about the same.

If you rent a store, the initial expenses, plus rent, labor, etc., may be greater than setting up a stall, which is really not cost-effective.

Song Sanniang felt that if her family opened a store here, it would be unique and the business would be better than in the county town.

There are a lot of people here, and the prices are higher than in the county town. We can buy our own raw materials at a low price in the county town.

Although the expenses may be a little higher in the capital city, the costs are lower, the prices are higher, and the quantity sold every day is also higher, which can completely offset the extra expenses.

She had already made up her mind and planned to go look at the berths here with Song Ersao the next day.

After seeing the grand scene in the city, Song Ersao also agreed with Song Sanniang's idea.

The city was so busy that she could get lost if she wasn't careful.

She could see customers drinking drinks everywhere on the street, both men and women, young and old.

It seems that the people in this market have no shortage of money. They all have bags in their hands, showing their rich harvests.

Huang Shi Tu also said that the prefectural capital not only has Le'anfang, but also has a wharf, which is several times larger than that of the county town.

Therefore, the city also has a large dock market, two small residential markets, and several main streets are also full of shops from beginning to end.

Many merchants in Le'anfang bring goods from the dock to sell. Some of them sell at the dock, some go to various markets, and others sell everywhere like peddlers.

After hearing this, Song Sanniang felt that she had been like this before, and this coincided with her own experience.

Therefore, she was not worried about the business in the provincial capital at all. She could already make a name for herself in the county town, let alone such a big market.

Her only worry was that if her business was doing too well, it would attract the jealousy of her peers.

This is the provincial capital, and she doesn't have any backing. If someone wants to mess with her, it would be really difficult to deal with.

She had already started planning to open the store even before it opened.