Porridge and side dishes [farming]

The shopkeeper seldom greets the guests in person, and if the guy can let the shopkeeper come out, it means that the distinguished guest has arrived.

The shopkeeper came over with a smile on his face: "I heard the magpies chirping on the tree at the door early this morning, and I was still thinking about what kind of happy event I would have if I didn't open the business for half a year. What? If someone in the store doesn't like it, let me know, and we can transfer the goods here."

Li Ji straight to the point and took out the skin.

"You are in the fur business, show me this thing."

The white fox fur inside was exposed when the package was opened. The other parts of the white fox fur were okay, but there was a bit of hair on the back, and the position of the hind legs was bitten. It was not perfect, but white foxes were still rare. The shopkeeper I was taken aback for a moment, and hurriedly reached out to pick it up and take a closer look.

Li Ji blocked it with his hand and said with a smile: "The shopkeeper is a person who knows the goods, my leather is half-tanned, and it is not a finished product, but the tanned leather is just a few copper coins, and the boss probably won't care about it with me. This is the fox fur that my eldest nephew just brought down from the mountain yesterday, although it is incomplete and has a bit of fuzz, but the value of the white fox fur should not need me to say more. "

The shopkeeper withdrew his hand, pressed his hands together, pursed his lips, and said with a smile, "It's a baby. You can see that you understand people, and I won't beat around the bush with you. To be honest, there are few white fox skins in the past two years. There are people in the capital." Money can’t buy it. But for us, everything has a value, and things with high prices are hot in our hands.”

Li Ji ran his fingers back and forth on the leather: "Then please ask the shopkeeper to estimate the price."

The shopkeeper rubbed his lips: "Then I won't play around with you anymore, 18 taels! How about it? This price is fair enough."

If there was no high Orion's estimate, Li Ji would probably have agreed in a happy manner. As the saying goes, rare things are more expensive. Since there are few white fox furs, doubling the price is not too much. Li Ji is greedy for money but I won't be greedy too much, say 20 taels and 20 taels.

Li Ji moved the skin to his side: "20 taels."

The shopkeeper's eyes moved, this is really an expert.White fox fur is rare, and it has been even rarer in the past two years, but it is still fashionable among the ladies in the capital.The fox skin in Li Ji's hand is not to mention 20 taels, 25 taels is not a loss if you buy it, and you can make it into ready-made clothes and send it up. You don't need to spend too much. You can divide it into several pieces and use it to decorate the collar. It's less expensive to send a piece of clothing to the capital. More than ten taels to hundreds of taels.

The shopkeeper is also working for the owner, so he will get a lot of benefits if he really does a big business.

But the shopkeeper is a bit selfish in it, he wants to make a difference from it, the price is lowered, 18 taels of leather is collected, and then reported to the owner for 25 taels of silver, this transfer of seven taels of silver is in hand.The monthly salary for being a shopkeeper is not much, but the difference in the price in the middle is really big enough to eat for a few years.

The shopkeeper leaned back, raised his face, and still had a smile on his face, but this smile could not be refused.

"Then you should go to another place and ask. We are also a poor place, and no one can get more money. Knowing that this white fox fur is a treasure, it is really difficult to sell it at a high price."

Li Ji immediately wrapped up the leather, stood up and left without the slightest hesitation.The guy was startled and was about to stay, but the shopkeeper stopped him and kindly reminded him: "There is a pawn shop in the inner part of this street, and the whole county except my house only accepts leather from him. You go to their house." Just ask."

Li Ji glanced back at him, turned around and left.

When the person left, the clerk didn't know everything and asked, "Master, didn't you have a problem with that shopkeeper? Why did you send the distinguished guest away?"

The shopkeeper sipped the tea that the waiter had just served, and said with a sneer, "Without him, how can we set off our generosity, that grandson is much darker than us, and it is too much to say for fifteen."

The guy nodded when he heard that: "You are still smart, if I will definitely keep him."

"If you can think of this level, you will be the shopkeeper." The shopkeeper was quite proud, "Go and prepare some melon and fruit snacks, and wait for someone to come back and wait on them. If you know the price of leather, you are a person who often touches leather. , take good care of it, and the business will grow."

Li Ji went out and walked with Er Gouzi for a while, then stopped and sighed.Turning around and no one chased him out quietly, which means that 20 taels of silver is impossible.

"Damn it, if you avoid that Gao, you'll get hacked here."

Sensing Li Ji's displeasure, Er Gouzi hurriedly said, "Didn't you say there is a shop?"

Li Jisong slumped his shoulders: "Who knows that the God of Wealth gave it to others, dare to show us the way, then it's useless if we go, the price given is not 18 taels As for the silver, our small place is terribly poor, and he is sure of this, if we want to sell our leather, we have to go to his house."

In fact, 18 taels of silver is not a lot. The key is that the shopkeeper is obviously cheating people. We know that we have to cheat people to make people feel bad.

Li Ji stood there smoothly, and there were 18 taels of silver on the left and right. With these 18 taels of silver, it was enough to build a big house for Er Gouzi. Isn't it just two taels less?Rich people don't care about this.

Li Jigang persuaded himself, but he was stopped before he could move.

Li Ji turned around and found that the person who called them was a middle-aged man in his 50s or [-]s. He was well dressed, his hair was neatly combed, and he walked with a straight back. At least he seemed to be in charge.

"What's the matter?" Li Ji saw that the man came from a tailor shop, so he didn't dare to offend him.

The man looked straight at Er Gouzi, then looked at the somewhat rough jade pendant on Er Gouzi's neck, and said with a smile: "I'm being rude, but it's important to ask the two young masters?"

Li Ji looked at Er Gouzi, don't think that Er Gouzi is going to be a Liba (worker who does heavy work), and immediately opened the bag in his hand to show him the leather: "We are here to sell leather. I made a good leather and came to find someone to sell it for a good price and go home to build a house."

Li Ji's original intention was to tell him that his family was not short of money, and he didn't need Ergouzi to do coolies, but he was not afraid that he would be motivated by money. Ergouzi was not given for nothing, and his strength is better than that of Ergouzi.

The man rolled his eyes and said with a smile: "The two young masters are hunting?"

Li Ji nodded: "That's right, my eldest nephew is capable, and can make a lot of good leather."

The man nodded again and again: "To tell you the truth, I'm the official in charge of purchasing in the county magistrate's mansion. Our master just came last year and suffered a lot from the cold winter. This year, he is looking for good leather to make two warm clothes. How did you sell it?"

Li Ji didn't expect such a coincidence, so he tried to speak: "22 taels of silver."

Li Ji said it was high on purpose, and if the other party really bought it with sincerity, he would sell it at a bargain price of [-] yuan.

Unexpectedly, the other party nodded without thinking about it: "It's not expensive, it's not expensive, this white fox fur is worth the price, if you send all the furs here from now on, I'll add one or two more for you, or you can go with me Identify the door and send it directly next time."

Suspicion arose in Li Ji's heart, how could he really go with someone, he shook his head again and again and said: "That's unnecessary, the county magistrate's mansion will know if you just inquire, we are in a hurry, if you trust us, let's take it now Pay the money and deliver it with one hand, and we will have time to inquire about it and send it over when we have skins later.”

The man knew at a glance that Li Ji was defensive, and looked at Er Gouzi to ask what Er Gouzi meant, but Er Gouzi didn't even look at him.

Sighing, he opened his pocket and looked through the purse. There were only bank notes and some scattered coins, and he counted a few from the bank notes: "Come and order."

Li Ji didn't know how to read, and he never used bank notes, because no one in the village was rich, and he wanted to find a place to bury some money.

Li Ji pushed the banknotes away, and said with a smile, "Don't be surprised, we country people don't know banknotes, why don't you bother us to go to the bank to exchange them?"

The man didn't refuse, and followed the two to the bank.

Along the way, Li Ji was very wary of asking here and there, because he didn't find anything useful.

After entering the bank and changing the silver, there were quite a lot of heavy 22 taels of silver, but Li Ji was quite embarrassed, because the leather was so expensive that Orion said it was worth 20 taels of silver, so it sold for two taels more.To blame is to blame this person for not knowing how to bargain, otherwise it would be impossible for Li Jibai to earn the two taels of silver.

These two taels of silver are enough to buy ten rabbit skins, and they are worth a lot of money.

Li Ji got the money and didn't bother with that person, he said hello and left with Er Gouzi.

The man looked at the backs of the two until they disappeared, and muttered something in his mouth.

Li Ji looked back and saw that no one followed, he was relieved, he dragged Er Gouzi straight to the grain and oil store, this time he ordered more than three taels of food, bought almost all the things in the store, and ate Fresh is also good.In addition to giving away a bunch of oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar, the store gave away more tea than bought.

There is not much food in the house, not only for myself and Er Gouzi, but also for the open-mouthed beasts that I raise when they are in a good mood. Although it is a luxury, the chickens and rabbits are very good, you know Meat is worth more than rice.

Of course, this time it was still delivery. With the surprise of last time, the guys all waited for Li Ji to go shopping in a nearby place, and then sent them back to Li Ji Village together.

This time, Li Ji didn't save money at all. He looked at what to eat, and bought whatever Er Gouzi wanted, and even went to the clothing store to buy some decent clothes for each of them.

I didn’t find a blacksmith shop last time, but this time I went a little farther and found one. After several discussions, I bought two long guns. I wanted hundred-smelted steel and a thick leather armor because I needed good materials. Add up nearly three taels of silver.

Good things are more or less expensive, and Li Ji spent a lot of money without saying anything. The spear needs to be specially made, and the leather armor can be worn directly.

The author has something to say: [ps: In fact, there were not many dynasties with bank notes in ancient times, and very few had a face value of more than one tael of silver]