Started as a thatched house and ended up as a female figure

The warm atmosphere in the room suddenly stiffened. Aunt Sun carefully looked at Cheng Wan's face and said tentatively: "If you think it's expensive, you can make it cheaper.

But it really can only be a little cheaper.

Girl, these wild beasts all grow on trees in the mountains. It’s not easy to get them down. People fall from the trees every year.

My youngest son fell off a tree this year because he climbed up a tree to knock pine nuts. He is still unable to walk normally.

Girl, we have been selling mountain products at this price for the past two years, so we don’t ask for more from you.

And, I... we mainly live on this little money so that we can sell mountain goods next time. "

Cheng Wan quickly shook his head and explained: "No, I think the price is too, quite cheap."

This is Cheng Wan's true thoughts.

Even though she is the buyer at this point.

The day Cheng Wan decided to come to Yingqiu, he walked around Shuoyang City to get a rough idea of ​​the market prices of various mountain products.

Like pine nuts, raw pine nuts cost at least sixty cents per catty, and if they are cooked, they cost nearly eighty cents per catty.

As for the fungus, which is known as the "vegetable meat", the price of fresh fungus has reached nearly 120 yuan per catty, which is slightly cheaper than fine salt.

It takes eighty or nine kilograms of fresh fungus to make one kilogram of dried fungus. In other words, the market price of one kilogram of dried fungus is about one tael of silver.

The market price is because Shuoyang is not particularly far from Yingqiu.

In places further away from the areas where mountain products are produced, the market price of mountain products will only be more expensive.

But now?

Pine nuts, hazelnuts, and walnuts cost four cents per pound. The market price in Shuoyang City is at least fifteen times that price!

Dried fungus costs eighty cents per pound, and the market price in Shuoyang City is about twelve times that price!

Cheng Wan quickly calculated in his mind.

If we only count three hundred kilograms of pine nuts, hazelnuts and walnuts, it would cost one or two taels of silver to buy them. If we transport them back to Shuoyang and successfully sell them, we can earn at least eighteen taels of silver.

Excluding the cost and loss of transportation, these three hundred kilograms of mountain goods can still earn fourteen and fifty taels of silver.

Cheng Wan thought in a daze: "It turns out that the second brother said that mountain products are now cheap this way.

As long as everything goes smoothly during transportation and there are no accidents, this is a huge profit among huge profits! "

A wry smile brought Cheng Wan back from his racing thoughts.

“Girl, actually in the past few years, the price of mountain goods was not that low.

Isn’t it because mountain products have been hard to sell in recent years?

The mountain goods dealers said that they have to spend a lot of effort to sell our mountain goods, and the price is not high.

There is no other way, we can only agree with the merchants to lower the purchase price.

Just like this, the local goods dealers come later every year. We are always worried that they will stop coming if they don’t make money. Then we”

"and many more."

Cheng Wan raised her hand to interrupt Aunt Sun's story with a wry smile, and there was great confusion in her beautiful brows.

"Girl, what's wrong?

Did I...did I talk too much? "

A look of nervousness appeared on Aunt Sun's face.

"The mountain goods dealer told you that mountain goods are not easy to sell now?"

Aunt Sun was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said: "Yes... yes, it is said that the dignitaries are tired of eating. These mountain products are not suitable for eating or drinking, so they are not easy to sell."

Cheng Wan frowned slightly, "You used to sell mountain products, at what price?"

"Pine nuts, hazelnuts, and walnuts cost fifteen cents per catty, and dried fungus costs three hundred cents per catty."

Cheng Wan frowned and thought to himself: "Although the profit in this purchase price is still very large, it is not as ridiculously low as the current purchase price."

Village Chief Gao looked at Cheng Wan, "Girl, is something wrong?"

Cheng Wan looked at Village Chief Gao and said in her heart, "That's so wrong."

"You just believe what the mountain goods dealer says? Don't you think of any way to find out?"

Village Chief Gao's heart sank suddenly, and he realized that there might be a big problem here.

“We mainly rely on this for food, so of course we have asked about it.

I took the villagers and asked people in the surrounding villages, and they encountered the same situation as us.

After that, several of us village chiefs went to the county seat together and met with the county magistrate and the He family who used to open a mountain goods shop in the city.

What they told us is the same as what the local merchants told us. "

Village Chief Gao smiled bitterly, "Girl, I'm not afraid of your jokes.

Although we village chiefs can recognize a few words, most of them have only read books for one or two years, have never met any big shots, and the farthest place they have ever been is Yingqiu County.

The county magistrate and the He family master have a very good attitude towards us, and they are the most powerful and wealthy people in Yingqiu County.

So, so we always felt that what they said was true. "

Cheng Wan pursed her lips, looked around the four-walled house, and said solemnly: "I can tell you that mountain goods are not as difficult to sell as the mountain goods dealers told you.

Unless the enemy troops are about to invade the city and the wealthy families are busy running for their lives, the sales of mountain goods will not be greatly affected.

Because mountain food is not something for ordinary people to eat outside. "

Cheng Wan looked at the dull-faced Village Chief Gao, Aunt Sun, and Chief Gao's father, and sighed silently.

"Your county magistrate, the He family, and the mountain goods dealer all worked together to deceive you."

There was a suffocating silence in the room.

Aunt Sun sat down on the edge of the kang with her mouth open, her eyes unable to focus at all.

"Lie to us?

What do we have to lie to?

We are all honest people, and almost every family lives on the little money we earn from selling mountain goods.

Which family has never thrown someone over while trying to pick wild products? Some people even broke their legs and died because of it!

They, how could they lie to us? !

what? !

It’s not like we didn’t take care of the mountain goods!

They said that mountain products are not easy to sell and the price is cheap, so we believed them!

We are afraid that the mountain goods merchants will not make money and will not come any year, so we not only prepare the mountain goods well in advance, but also serve the mountain goods merchants who come to collect the mountain goods like we serve our ancestors. "

The more Aunt Sun spoke, the louder her voice became and her eyes became redder.

She slammed the kang table and cried loudly: "Aren't they, aren't they losing their conscience?!"

Village Chief Gao's father knocked on the ground hard with his cane, and he was so angry that he couldn't breathe.

"father!"

Village Chief Gao quickly stepped over to support his father and help him carry him.

"Boss, you...your third brother!

Your third brother fell from the tree back then because... he just didn't have enough money!

There was no money to buy him better medicine, so he couldn't hold on, it was gone!

If we charge according to the previous price, let's... let's work together, maybe your third brother will still be... still there!

They, they treat us like fools! Be a fool! "

"father……"

Village Chief Gao's eyes were red, and the tall man was hunched over, as if he had suddenly lost his energy.

"What's wrong? Mother? Master?"

Tiedan's father ran in in a panic, followed by Village Chief Gao and Aunt Sun's second and third sons.

Aunt Sun hugged Tiedan's father's waist and burst into tears, "Boss, boss, boss..."

Tiedan Daddy was so worried that it was so cold that he was covered in sweat, "What's wrong? What's going on? Mom? Are these three people bullying you?!"