Chapter 36: Buying a Horse

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He Zifeng's business has been good these days. Not only is their braised food selling well, but Qiu Yu's soybean stewed pig's trotters also has repeat customers. Many people get up early just to have this bite.

Pig's trotters are cheap, but no one except them would put so much thought into matching them. Ten pig's trotters are sold every day, and the soybeans are given away. As long as everyone eats them, there is no bad thing.

This stall can save seven taels of silver in one day, twenty-one taels in three days, plus the previous eight taels of silver, there are twenty-nine taels of silver.

After asking around, a small two-story shop with a backyard in the county costs two hundred taels of silver. If you buy this, you will have one or two silver dollars per month in rent, which can be left to your children in the future.

As soon as I closed the stall today, I saw the waiter from the shop who always buys their sauce-flavored pancakes bringing a man in his forties over.

"Brother He, this belongs to our shopkeeper." The waiter comes to buy every day and is familiar with them.

He Zifeng said: "Nice to meet you."

Seeing that he was neither humble nor arrogant, the shopkeeper was very satisfied and said, "I have eaten your sauce-flavored pancakes, and they are very good. The sauced pig's trotters also taste good. Can you make sauced big bones?" He said, "Really. To be honest, my family is all about meat. I like to eat hand-made meat, but braised meat is not enough to satisfy my taste. I once heard from a Hu man that there is a kind of big bone in sauce in the north, which is very enjoyable to eat."

Qiu Yu said: "I can make it." His father used to like to eat big bones with soy sauce, and big bones are cheap.

It's okay if the shopkeeper doesn't mention it, but Qiu Yu is a bit greedy when he mentions it.

The shopkeeper said: "I want to order thirty kilograms from you. If I can sell it, I'll sell it in the store. If it can't be sold out, I'll take it home to eat." Most of the shopkeepers in their inn come from the north and south to do business. Recently, the waiters have given Many customers talked about buying Jiangxiang Pancakes, and some even introduced new customers to him.

The shopkeeper tasted the sweetness and wanted to make another special dish. The inn will definitely become more popular. He had a cook who had been working in the store for many years and it was not appropriate to fire him, so he remembered He Zifeng's braised food. I heard that He Zifeng couldn't sell enough. There is no point in having less in the store. I remembered the soy sauce bone that Hu Shang mentioned before, so I came over to ask.

The shopkeeper said: "Look how much it costs per pound. I'm going to sell it now and make a small profit. If it's suitable, I'll keep it all year round."

Qiu Yu calculated that the big bones cost about three cents per catty, plus the cost of materials and firewood, and said: "Fifty cents per catty will do." The things they set up in the stalls couldn't sell at high prices, and the same things were sold in the store. You can make about twice as much money by changing your identity.

The shopkeeper said: "It's done." In order to show sincerity for the first cooperation, he also gave half of the money in advance. Full payment was given directly.

The two of them were finally able to close the stall after the shopkeeper left. Qiu Yu said, "Let's order a big iron pot." The previous pot was obviously not enough.

He Zifeng hurriedly went to the blacksmith to order an iron pot as big as his. It would have to be made with sixty kilograms of pig iron. The labor cost plus the pig iron would be two taels of silver, and it would take at least half a month to make it.

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