The county magistrate changed his career to selling private vegetables and sold them out

Chapter 95

"It's only [-] catties today, and it will be gone when it's sold out. If you want it, please line up first!" Shitou and Sanlang cooperated seamlessly.

The customers who hadn't tasted the mouth saw that there were already many people queuing up to buy it, so they didn't care too much, and squeezed into the queuing crowd.

After a moment of hesitation, the team will grow long.

"Come, come, don't miss it when you pass by, the seafood is cheap and cheap, the quantity is limited, first come, first served!"

Shi Shi was still yelling, and an old man in the back waved his hand vigorously, "Stop yelling, the ones in the back can't be bought!"

Saburo smiled and took over the conversation, "Grandpa, we can accept reservations, and you can place an order with us in advance as much as you want."

A customer in front heard this, leaned his head over and said to Saburo, "Children, can you really make an order? I want ten catties of seafood, and it may be delivered here tomorrow?"

Saburo nodded, and said crisply: "Yes! But we need to collect a deposit first, a deposit of five cents per catty, and the remaining money will be charged when the delivery is made."

A woman passing by saw that the amount of seafood in the fish sauce was limited, and it was probably not her turn, so she discussed with Shitou: "Little brother, can you bring it over earlier tomorrow? My brother has to go to Beijing to study early tomorrow, and he is a little motion sick." Seasickness, he must not be able to eat anything along the way, I want to bring him some delicious food, lest he starve."

Shi Shi turned to look at Saburo, and the two communicated silently with their eyes.

Saburo thought for a while, and said: "Auntie, if it's convenient for you, you can wait for us in the alley of Mao'er Hutong tomorrow. My brother and I are inconvenient to go out too early, and the elders in the family are worried!"

The woman nodded happily, "Then it's a deal, I'll be there on time! You don't have to prepare too much, they can't eat that much. Here's a tael of silver, and I'll give it all to you, thank you for your hard work!"

Saburo was silent for a moment, and accepted the first huge sum of money.

After selling the seafood, the two walked home with empty baskets.

Shitou's voice trembled a little, "Sanlang, we sold a full two taels of silver today! After shaving off three hundred text gold, we made a net profit of more than one tael! Right? I remember correctly, right? Is it true?"

Saburo nodded, and said: "Brother Shitou, that aunt gave me a tael of silver. We can't just make seafood for her. You can make some steamed cakes for her in the evening!"

Shitou was shocked, "Steam cake? That's too expensive, we can't even afford it!"

"They gave me a tael of silver! The seafood in sauce is not worth that much money, and the steamed cake is sweet and soft. Even people who have no appetite will want to eat it after smelling it. It is suitable for taking on the road."

"But there is only a little milk left at home, and the eggs are also reserved for you to nourish your body!"

"We will buy milk and eggs after we have made money. Right now, we must not break our promise, let alone let others underestimate us! Besides, we are not just doing one-shot business, reputation is the most important thing!"

"All right, all right, you have the final say!"

Mr. Xunmei's dinner today was rough, Shitou hasn't been so casual for a long time!
Seeing that the two children seemed to be a little absent-minded, they didn't talk as much as usual, and they didn't think deeply.

After dinner, Mr. Xunmei deliberately didn't give Sanlang any homework, and only told him to go to bed early.

It was night, and the lights in the kitchen were turned on early.

As soon as Maoshi arrived, Saburo and Shitou wrapped the fish sauce seafood prepared early in the morning with oil paper layer by layer, put them in a ceramic jar, spread another layer of oil paper on top, and placed four neatly steamed seafood. cake.

The two sneaked out of the bamboo house and went straight to Mao'er Alley.

The woman was already waiting there with a maid, and when she saw Sanlang and Shitou, she happily greeted them.

"You guys really delivered! Thank you!"

Saburo pursed his lips and smiled, and said: "Auntie, I put a layer of ice in the fish sauce seafood inside, and it won't go bad after another day, but I can't eat it after a long time, and it's easy to spoil my stomach."

"Hey, thank you so much!"

The woman took the maid into the carriage in the alley, and carefully opened the lid of the pottery vat, but unexpectedly smelled an extremely sweet smell.

"What's this?" She picked up the oiled paper bag on the top and smelled it. After confirming that the scent came from inside, she opened it and took a look.

The steamed cake was still hot, square and neatly arranged four pieces, it was fragrant and soft, yellow and moist with milky white, one could tell it was not ordinary.

"These two children...!" The woman murmured, with mixed feelings.

In the bamboo house, Mr. Xunmei sniffed the sweet scent in the air and went to the kitchen, where he saw the steamed cake in the bowl.

But, why are there only some corners left in the steamed cake?
Mr. Xunmei searched all over the bamboo house, but he didn't find any hardworking little stones, nor did he find any well-behaved apprentices.

He didn't cook early in the morning, and only left him a bowl of leftover steamed cakes and a bowl of seafood. The two children didn't know where they went.

Mr. Xunmei licked his lips after finishing the steamed cake and seafood in sauce, and left the bamboo house with his hands behind his back.

In a certain corner of the street, Shitou and Saburo were counting the copper coins in their purse one by one, head to head.

After counting for a long time, Saburo let out a deep breath and stretched out three fingers, "Three taels, another three hundred and two copper coins!"

"Really!" The stone jumped three feet high, his eyes glowing with excitement.

Saburo said with some melancholy: "Even if you can earn one tael a day, when will you earn 2000 taels?"

Shi Shi widened his eyes and asked in disbelief, "2000 taels? You want to earn enough 2000 taels of silver? Are you out of your mind?"

"My sister needs 2000 taels of silver a year to rent a shop. Our family doesn't have that much money. I want to help my sister."

"However, 2000 taels is too much, and you won't be able to earn that much money when you grow up!" Shitou scratched his head with a perplexed expression on his face.

"That's right! But my sister will come here soon to open a branch!"

After all, Shitou is a few years older than Saburo, so looking at the problem from the perspective of a bystander, it seems much more transparent.

"Sanlang, have you ever thought that since your sister is going to do business in Yuzhou City, she must have already made preparations, and she probably didn't expect you to raise money to rent a shop for her!"

Saburo also thought about this problem, but no matter how hard he tried, he never thought that his sister would have enough money to rent a shop.

He rested his chin on a sad face and thought hard, but still found nothing.

"Let's go back first, the teacher must be waiting!"

Mr. Xunmei was not in the bamboo house. The two younger brothers cleaned themselves up as quickly as possible, and returned to their previous appearance. One was diligently washing and choosing vegetables for dinner, and the other was holding a book and studying hard.

Fortunately, Shitou was used to the work, so no matter what he did, it would not hinder him from working.

But Saburo was different, he was still young after all, and after staying up for so long, his energy had already been exhausted, and he fell asleep on the table without reading a few words.

(End of this chapter)