Reborn peasant girl: I became rich overnight by traveling to sea

Chapter 14 Sea urchin prices rise
It is strange that the town's restaurant, Cyclamen, is eager to collect sea urchins from villagers like Chang Pingning and Ye Xiuying who deliver scattered seafood.Moreover, the errand boys in the restaurant didn't seem to want to explain anything to country women like them.

Chang Pingning stopped Ye Xiuying, who wanted to ask more questions, and gestured with her mouth: "Wet market."

After experiencing a period when sea urchin fried rice was popular among the public in the previous life, Chang Pingning guessed that the chef of Cyclamen probably figured out how to make sea urchin fried rice, and the sea urchin in the kitchen was in short supply.Once a restaurant has any special dishes, the chefs of some noble families will also start to study these special dishes.

Chang Pingning guessed that the sea urchins in the town would not only be sent to cyclamen, but also to the chefs of some noble people.

The two came to the vegetable market in the town and found that the goods in the vegetable market were sold faster than before.Chang Pingning followed Ye Xiuying and watched Ye Xiuying walk to a seafood stall to ask about the price, and soon asked about sea urchins.

"Sister, besides clams and razor clams, do you have any sea urchins?" Ye Xiuying said while making gestures like taking a money bag.

"I just sold the last sea urchin half a day ago." The aunt shook her head and looked at the two people in front of her strangely, "What's going on with the people in your town? What's so delicious about sea urchins? Come buy sea urchins today. There are so many people, and some even have to pay a premium to buy them from others.”

Chang Pingning guessed that they were servants of wealthy families in the town. He thought about the girls in the Dong's Mansion in the previous life and imitated their smiles: "Master's request. I wonder if we can buy it from the aunt if we come early tomorrow? "

The aunt behind the stall sighed thoughtfully: "It doesn't matter if you come earlier. If you come early tomorrow, others will come early too. Maybe the sea urchins will be sold at a different price tomorrow, so you have to bring enough money. Today The sea urchins sold for five cents each.”

"Five cents?" Ye Xiuying took a breath when she heard the price.

"Sister, don't think this price is expensive." The aunt behind the stall waved her hand, "There are many people in the market today who are willing to pay higher prices but can't buy it."

Ye Xiuying quickly agreed, chatted a few more words with the aunt who set up the stall, and left the stall in front of her.

Chang Pingning had experience in his previous life and quickly accepted the increase in sea urchin prices.However, her mother-in-law didn't seem to believe it. Chang Pingning followed Ye Xiuying's example and went to several other seafood stalls to ask about the price of sea urchins.

All sea urchin prices have increased.

Just when Chang Pingning was about to take her mother-in-law to find a place near the vegetable market to have some lunch before going back, she was grabbed.

"Girl Ning, let's go back quickly."

After Chang Pingning heard Ye Xiuying's words, before she could react, she was dragged by Ye Xiuying towards the city gate.

It was almost lunch time, and the man driving the bullock cart in Guojia Village didn’t know where to go to eat.

Chang Pingning noticed that her mother-in-law was still in an excited state after discovering the sea urchin business opportunity, and reminded her in a low voice that it was difficult to pick up sea urchins even if she went to the beach at noon. Why not pick up sea urchins with her family in the evening?
After hearing what Chang Pingning said, Ye Xiuying patted her head and said that she was too impulsive.

As soon as she returned to Guo's house, Ye Xiuying called the third child in the family and asked him to run errands and tell his father and second brother to come back early in the afternoon to pick up seafood.

Chang Pingning, who was washing clothes next to her, also reminded her that it would be best for her mother-in-law to take a break at noon and go to the beach in the evening to regain her energy.

The sun was approaching the sea level. Chang Pingning, Ye Xiuying and several Guo family members picked up bucket after bucket of sea urchins at the beach, and placed them all neatly on Guo Dayong's cart.

Several people looked at the buckets of sea urchins on the cart, and all they saw were copper coins.Other people in Guojia Village noticed that Guo Dayong's family brought a cart to load seafood today. Some people came forward to inquire, but they were blocked by Guo Dayong, saying that they were preparing things for him to sell at the port. If you only sell fish, you will no longer make money.

Seeing that they couldn't get any information, the people from Guojia Village took their buckets and left. Before leaving, they glanced at the wood on the cart and saw only a layer of sea urchins.

"Mom, don't you mind if they see the sea urchin?" Chang Pingning noticed the others looking at the cart.

"It doesn't matter now." Ye Xiuying stood up straight and looked at other people's barrels for a while, "Now the village doesn't know that sea urchins are sold at high prices. Look at their barrels. The top layer is covered with a layer of sea urchins. They just don't want to let them go." Others know what they picked up.”

After listening to Ye Xiuying's words, Chang Pingning also observed the wooden barrels of several villagers. The situation was indeed as Ye Xiuying said.

After a while, Chang Pingning heard Ye Xiuying calling the Guo family to go back. Seeing this, Chang Pingning followed Ye Xiuying's line of sight and looked at the sea for a while, feeling that nothing had changed.I thought to myself that I would wait for the right opportunity to ask my mother-in-law how to judge the rise and fall of the tide.

Early the next morning, the Guo family transferred a cart of sea urchins to a donkey cart, and Guo Zhongzhou drove his mother and sister-in-law to the town.Guo Dayong borrowed the donkey cart from the village chief's house the night before.

When they arrived in the town, Ye Xiuying asked her second son to drive to the wet market first and bring two buckets of sea urchins to sell at the wet market. The price should be similar to the price in the wet market, not too high or too low.

After Guo Zhongzhou got off the car and left, Chang Pingning drove to the restaurant.

When the errand boy at the restaurant saw them driving over with sea urchins, he laughed so hard that he couldn't even see his eyes.

"Thank you, auntie, for the specially sent sea urchin. Nowadays, sea urchins are a good thing and they are sold individually. Do you think if we collect them by the bucket, how about [-] yuan per bucket?" asked the errand boy.

Chang Pingning calculated in his mind that the Guo family's wooden barrel could hold about thirty to forty sea urchins, and the price at the restaurant was not half the price at the wet market yesterday.She looked at Ye Xiuying and shook her head gently.

"I have almost forty sea urchins in this bucket, and two cents a piece is a bit of an increase." Ye Xiuying used her eyes to signal Chang Pingning to calm down, "It's my fault, we didn't negotiate the price yesterday. There are six buckets here, little brother. Leave us three barrels and sell them yourself.

"If we can't sell it all, we'll take it back and eat it ourselves. The children at home really like to eat the 'sea urchin fried rice' made by my wife. Yesterday, in order to bring these to the town to sell for money, the children all..."

"You said Mrs. Guo can make sea urchin fried rice?" The errand boy was originally thinking of mentioning a price so that Mrs. Guo could sell all six barrels of sea urchin to their restaurant.Unexpectedly, there was an unexpected surprise.

The errand boy asked the two of them to wait in the restaurant's back kitchen while he went to call the chef.

"Are you what Dongdong said... It was you mother-in-law and daughter-in-law last time?" Chef Wang ran over from the chopping board and saw two people he had met before, and he became much more humble than last time.

Chang Pingning heard Chef Wang say that after they sent a batch of sea urchin last time, he spent a lot of sea urchin and finally figured out how to make sea urchin fried rice. It was very popular in the restaurant two days ago, and basically everyone Guests will order one to try.

However, the fried rice he made occasionally had some problems, and when he was wondering how to improve it, he saw the two of them again.He still remembered that last time Aunt Guo wanted him to see how his daughter-in-law's sea urchin fried rice was made.

"I don't know if the recipe is convenient." Chef Wang rubbed his hands in embarrassment. After all, they were some of their own recipes.

(End of this chapter)