The fertile water of farming does not flow to outsiders' fields

The little prince carefully looked at a few bamboo slips, stood up with a hoot, and even changed his tone: "This is the Nine Dragon Panbi mentioned in "Zhong Taigong's Art of War", my fellow! I thought this formation had been lost, but I didn't expect it It still exists."

Xue Yinsong was of course at a loss, seeing the other party quickly flipping through the bamboo slips at the back, and after a while he said with some disappointment: "It really is a remnant formation, it is so missing."

Xue Yinsong hurriedly said: "If the bamboo slips are missing, I will go back and search the tomb again."

The little prince said: "No, no, this formation is incomplete. It is a blessing to see the real one now. How dare you expect it to be complete!" As he spoke, he stood up excitedly and walked around the room. After a while, he took a deep breath and said, "Brother, your contribution is not small. Just talk about money, jewelry, officials and titles, or if you like shops, I can buy dozens of shops and give them to you."

Xue Yinsong laughed: "Why do you need so many shops? Besides, I did it for the sake of gaining favor, not for the sake of revenge."

The little prince turned his head and was about to speak, Xue Yinsong continued: "I still say the same thing, I hope you can get away and come to Chenjiacun to gather as soon as possible."

The little prince smiled wryly, and looked out of the window melancholy for a long time: "This book is not enough to buy back my freedom, but I am still grateful for your efforts, and I also promise you, maybe in one year or two years, I will give you my freedom." Will definitely come to you."

Xue Yinsong stood up happily: "I think what Zhajin wants to hear most is this sentence. My little prince, since I have finished my business, I will take my leave first."

The little prince asked him to stay and said, "Why don't you leave after eating."

Xue Yinsong shook his head: "There are still a few young and old at home, all waiting for me to go back and cook." The little prince smiled and said: "You are better than me in this, so Mr. Pei is really lucky."

Xue Yinsong shook his head: "My craftsmanship can only be cooked. He doesn't know how hard every meal is. In fact, I should thank him."

A small road came out of the inn and turned towards the central part of the city. Xue Yinsong walked along the road and felt that it became wider and wider as he walked, and gradually there was a bustling traffic scene.

Fuchun County is the largest county in the vicinity, with a population of about tens of thousands. It is said that there are only a few rice shops here, and the business is not so depressed. This person can live without clothes but cannot live without food... In such a big city, As long as you can catch [-]% of the customers, you won't have to worry about selling food.

Now that the summer grain has just been planted, we must work hard to sell the spring wheat in our hands. Xue Yinsong is walking fast and his breathing is gradually becoming short of breath. Success or failure is this blow, and it must be successful.

Reducing the price can attract customers, but excuses like birthdays can’t be used much. Xue Yinsong’s mind was spinning rapidly, and suddenly he came up with an idea. He didn’t even bother to take a sip of water when he got home. Write some notes for me, like jingles or something."

The little scholar spread his hands together: "I can write, but making up rhetoric is really not my strong point."

Xue Yinsong immediately read: "The shopkeeper fell ill and needs money to buy medicine. The price of wheat is 9 Wen, there is no limit to how much."

"Tell me about being sick," Xiao Xiucai was dissatisfied: "Change it to another one."

"The owner has a cat, and he is in a good mood. The price of wheat is 9 Wen, and each person has a bag."

The little scholar couldn't laugh or cry: "Speaking of it, the price of wheat is 9 renminbi, so just write that the price of wheat in our store is 9 renminbi. Why are there so many excuses?"

Xue Yinsong said: "This is definitely different. After all, it is an occasional behavior to find an excuse to lower the price, but if you deliberately lower the price, you will be resisted by your peers. But if you don't implement low prices now, it will be difficult for us to develop in a short time. .”

"Then you change your lines every day, isn't it really the same?"

"There is always a difference." Xue Yinsong spread his hands helplessly: "I also want to have a quick one, but this is not enough."

The little scholar picked up a pen and tossed it to him: "Take it quickly! I don't know how valuable this ink is, it's a waste."

Xue Yinsong replied with a smile: "I will buy it for you later when I make money."

There were two and a half children standing in front of the shop, and the clerk was loading the mic. Xue Yinsong walked over and greeted with a smile: "Where do you live?"

The two children looked at each other, and the older one replied: "Xiangyang Lane." Xue Yinsong searched the map in his mind: "It's a bit far, can you carry it back by yourself?"

The older child replied, "Yes, the two of us can do it."

Xue Yinsong said with a smile: "Well, it will be settled later, and I will ask the boy to carry it for you." The boy was about to protest, but Xue Yinsong grabbed his arm heavily, so he had to swallow the words of refusal, and agreed with a gloomy face: "Yes Ah, shall I carry it for you? Just show me the way later.”

Seeing that the two children were in doubt, Xue Yinsong smiled and said, "He can't run away even with the wheat on his back, besides, can't you two look down on him?"

The two children thought for a while and then muttered a few words. The older child boldly said: "Let's say first, if he runs away, I will come back to find you - I run very fast, and I will definitely catch up to him."

Xue Yinsong smiled and said: "In this way, you don't have to pay, and you can give him the money after he delivers the wheat to your house, how about it?"

The two children discussed for a while, and then took the boy one by one and left. Xue Yinsong thought that this would be a good idea. If he was willing to start the door-to-door delivery service, it would at least increase sales by [-]%. Thinking of this Immediately make up my mind to go back and make a small wooden board, and post the daily promotional information on the wooden board. If you want to send rice and wheat, each family will make an appointment to deliver it to your door when the time comes, and you will get the money and the goods... Hey!What a great idea!

The more Xue Yinsong thought about it, the more exciting it became, and he couldn't help but slap on the counter, scaring a kid who had just come over to watch the excitement with a bang: "Shopkeeper, your wheat is 9 cents?"

Xue Yinsong hurriedly changed his smiling face to say hello: "Yes, do you want some?"

The kid paused, with a shy expression on his face: "Do you have Chen Mai at home? Or almost, I'm not afraid of moldy ones, I... want to buy some."

Xue Yinsong looked at him carefully, and saw that apart from two square plain patches on his shoulders, his hem was covered with calico patches. Presumably, his family was too poor to afford even the patches of the same color: "Moldy How to eat, how about this, what will you do? If I like it, I can sell you some good wheat at a low price."

The boy looked about seventeen or eighteen, and he said eagerly after hearing the words: "I have the strength to resist and pick. Does your family want to pick a job? You can give me some wheat if you don't pay wages. If you can't do it, you can just eat." .”

Xue Yinsong laughed: "How many can you pick at one time?"

The boy was honest, and after a little thought, he replied calmly: "I can pick 200 catties at a time. Although I don't pick much, I move quickly, and I can keep as much as they pick in a day."

Xue Yinsong said with a smile: "Only when you enter the warehouse do you need to pick a lot. Are your legs fast?"

"It must be fast, don't worry shopkeeper, even if I carry fifty catties, I can run faster than a rabbit."

"Hey, boy, what's your name?"

The boy smiled and replied: "My surname is Gong, and I am the second child in my family. The shopkeeper just calls me Gong Er."

Xue Yinsong nodded: "Okay, here is three pennies, does Xinghuazhai know? Go and buy me half a catty of lard cake."

Gong Er took the money and ran away immediately, Xue Yinsong saw him go away, and already had an idea in his heart.

It took a while for the boy to come back. He seemed to be out of breath as soon as he entered the shop, and even drank two large bowls of water: "Shopkeeper, don't mention it, those two boys don't live close together. My waist is almost broken."

Xue Yinsong said with a smile: "Okay, from now on you will still stand in the shop, and I will ask someone else to deliver it." The boy was a little vigilant: "Who?"

Xue Yinsong said: "His name is Gong Er, and he went to Xinghuazhai to buy lard cake." As soon as the words fell, Gong Er rushed in with a sharp sound, holding a small package tied with hemp paper string in his hand: "The shopkeeper, The lard cake is here!"

Xue Yinsong touched the pastry and it was still hot, and seeing that the boy was out of breath, he smiled slightly and told the boy, "Go get him a corner of new wheat." The boy took the order and went.

Gong Er hurriedly thanked: "The treasurer is so kind, I will never forget it."

Xue Yinsong said: "I still have something to say, come to my store from tomorrow to do some rough work, and I will give you a discount at the end of the month according to your wages. If you think it is not easy to use, then don't blame the shopkeeper for being rude."

Gong Er hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, yes, the shopkeeper must be satisfied." He grabbed the corner of the new wheat with one hand and walked away with a smile on his face.

The little guy put his hands together and said with a dry smile: "Shopkeeper, you're hiring another guy? Then I..." Xue Yinsong shook his head: "He's just running errands outside, not counting as a guy in the store. You have to go by yourself to weigh the wheat at the counter."

The boy nodded blankly, not quite understanding.

Xue Yinsong reminded again: "Don't tell him about the things in the store, and don't let him into the store when he has nothing to do, especially don't go to the backyard or the granary."

The little guy finally understood, and said with a smile, "Does the shopkeeper want to test him?"

Xue Yinsong replied absent-mindedly: "Let's see what you're talking about, maybe."

The delivery service business has not yet started, but the consequences of the unauthorized price reduction have already come. Looking at the red invitation card in his hand, Xue Yinsong only felt that the words "go to the banquet on time" were burning like fire.

I swear to Grandpa Mao, this is really the first time he knows that there is a rice and grain guild in Fuchun County. Besides, there are only a few shops in a street. Is it necessary to set up a guild with great fanfare? ?

Although the man who sent the letter was courteous on the surface, he showed some disdain in his bones. He sent the invitation and got an affirmative answer before turning away, but Xue Yinsong caught a sneer at the corner of his mouth the moment he turned around.

Xue Yinsong suddenly found it very funny, the ancients were really weak, can you stop being too proud and arrogant?

The date was set at noon the next day, and the location was Zui Tianxian. Xue Yinsong flipped through the invitation twice with a deep expression and threw it into the corner. Thinking about it, it was not easy to have a piece of cardboard in ancient times, and you could fan the wind when lighting a fire. , hurriedly grabbed it again and stuffed it to the boy: "Throw it in the kitchen for a while."

The little guy hurriedly tugged at his sleeve and asked, "Shopkeeper, are you going? Our old club has also participated in this guild, you have to be careful, they are all cheating."

Xue Yinsong became interested, and sat on the stool, only to hear the young man say: "I heard that this guild has existed for a long time. It used to open warehouses for disaster relief, donate money and support, and did a lot of good things. It's just that the guild has been taken over by the He family in recent years. Controlling. Then the shopkeeper He not only made the rules to pay the guild fee, but also had to import rice and grain from the guild, and if the minimum limit was not met, he had to buy it with money."

Xue Yinsong laughed: "Why do you have to join that guild?"

The young man hurriedly said: "Don't underestimate this guild. I heard that the county lord has also joined the guild. If you don't join the guild, they will use different methods to punish you. It's useless if you sue the guild."

"What kind of fix?"