"How much money did you buy it for?" the shopkeeper asked.
"The store sells them for one to two or four cents. I bought more, so I got a bargain, one to two cents of silver." Yan Laoer said.
The shopkeeper nodded, the price is quite reasonable.
"If you sell it at the same price as me, I will charge you a few yuan." The shopkeeper said after careful consideration.
He could see that this man came into the store for no other reason than to sell spicy noodles.
Otherwise, how could it be such a coincidence that I would come in with a baggage on my back.
Whether he really bought too much in Yongning because he was afraid that his wife would not like it when he returned home, or whether he wanted to take advantage of the business trip and picked up the goods from Yongning City and came to Longxing to make a profit, he didn't care much.
It was also because I saw that the fragrant rice noodles seemed a bit novel, and maybe I could get a few more coins from them, that I decided to buy it.
Even the reasons for selling at high prices are readily available.
Didn't the officer from Huju City say that this spicy sauce is very popular in Fucheng...
Yan Laoer was overjoyed: "Thank you so much, shopkeeper, for solving my trouble."
He sold it for ten yuan and happily walked out of the shop with twelve taels in his pocket.
He did not forget to remember the name of this shop when he came back. If he had the chance to come to Longxing again in the future, he would come again.
With these twelve taels of silver, Yan Laoer went to a drug store that he had inquired about before, and worked hard to bring the price down to the level before the price increase. Don't think about profit. Buying at the original price is already a big profit.
He didn't put down a deposit this time, so he waited for the medicine to be packaged in the store. He didn't even eat lunch and stared at the drug store until he took all the medicine away.
After meeting Qi Si at the inn, Yan Laoer asked the waiter to fill him with water, and gave him money to help him run the track and buy large meat-filled buns.
The two men tossed out all the medicine, tied it tightly, and covered it with the dried tung oil cloth.
"Qi Si, you watch the car, I'll go and come back." Yan Laoer explained.
Qi Si nodded, stood next to the bullock cart, and stared at it with a good look.
Yan Laoer went to inquire about things with the shopkeeper.
"Shopkeeper, I see there is a boat under the bridge outside the city. I don't know where it leads?"
The shopkeeper babbled to the outside: "If you load goods like you, you can't walk on the bridge, but you have to take a boat.
I think you have to make two trips here, and the goods, cars and cattle need to be separated."
Yan Laoer also has this worry.
When we came here, the truck was empty and the bridge was creaking. Now it is full of goods. It is safer to take a boat.
"Aren't there any bigger ships?" he asked.
The shopkeeper said: "Yes, the official ship is big, and it travels between Longxing and Fengming. You can even carry your car and goods on it. By the way, where are you going?"
"I'm going to Huju..."
"On the river in the outer city, you can cross Longxing when Fengming rises, and go all the way downstream to Gufeng and Changping. However, big boats can't pass it. You can only go through the two cities of Long and Feng. If you use small boats... the river is shallow this year, I'm afraid it won't be able to pass.
Can't leave.
Although the speed of going down the river is very fast, I’m afraid you won’t be able to go without a boat, so you’d better go back the way you came after crossing the river.”
Yan Laoer thanked the shopkeeper, waited until the waiter came back with a large bag of meat buns, and rewarded him with some copper coins.
It really gained my knowledge.
He wasn't sure before, but now after listening to the innkeeper's words, he finally figured out the origin of the river next to their village.
It flows out from Fengming, passes through Longxing, Gufeng, and finally reaches Changping and enters the sea.
If you sail down the river, your speed should be extremely fast.
The reason why these cities are not closely connected is probably because it is easier to travel with the current, but more difficult to travel against it.
Boats can only go back and forth every year when the current is not strong.
The river next to their village is so shallow and narrow that large boats cannot navigate it.
They were all going back and forth on the small boats, but they were tired and couldn't carry much.
Without enough benefits, no one would go to such great lengths to walk across the water.
It is far better to take the official road within the territory, which is smooth all the way.
Yan Laoer and Qi Si hurried out of the city.
At the gate of the city, a man who was bleeding profusely gave someone a penny.
As expected, the officers and soldiers guarding the city handled it with care and did not inspect it as much as before.
Yan Laoer was speechless. It seemed that he was really disappointed when he entered the city.
When he entered Yongning City, he only received ten copper coins. When he arrived at Longxing, he wanted to be more generous and gave twenty copper coins, not wanting to be looked down upon at all...
The gap between this city and the city is too big!
…
"Boatman, I'll rent you two boats. Wouldn't it be better for us to cross the river together and reach the other side at the same time? If you are the only one sailing, you will have to go back and forth one more time." Yan Laoer tried to persuade the stubborn old man in charge of the boat.
But the old man didn't buy his account at all.
"We have our own rules for boating. You can only rent a boat from one company. What's the point of making an extra trip? This is how we cross the river."
Yan Laoer said all his good words, but his persuasion was fruitless, and he became dark-faced.
He drove away and turned around to leave.
The old man was still shouting from behind: "Young man, it's getting late. If you don't cross the river, the old man will go home and rest."
Yan Laoer doesn’t do that.
There is a misunderstanding in thinking here.
I don’t know how many people have been fooled by them.
If it's difficult to walk across the bridge, take a boat across the river, and a truckload of goods must be crossed in two steps.
The boatman insists on making two trips with one boat just because he wants to make more money.
But in fact, if he couldn't cross the river in one go, why did he take the waterway?
It's not the same as crossing the bridge directly twice.
If twice doesn't work, I'll walk three or four times.
There is an intelligent cow who is so willful.
Yan Laoer and Qi Si were unloading goods under the bridge.
"Qi Si, you wait here, I will let Sanbao come back with an empty cart later, and you can put this pile on top."
Yan Laoer divided the goods into three piles.
Prepare to go in three separate steps.
Qi Si scratched his head and asked, "Brother Yan, can you let the cow go on its own?"
Yan Laoer chuckled and said: "Why not? I'm afraid you haven't heard of it. Old cows, horses, mules and donkeys all know it. My three treasures have been raised well and can understand words. Besides, this bridge is only a straight road.
It won’t go sideways.”
Qi Si listened to him and said it was okay, then that was okay.
Yan Laoer drove the ox cart across the bridge, moved the goods down, and turned the cart around...
The old man sailing the boat and the captain of another boat were dumbfounded.
"This...this bullock cart..."
The old man said angrily: "He was lucky this time, and the cow was pulled by him smoothly. If he was unlucky, he would not have seen the cart and its cargo overturned."
Until the bullock cart was no longer visible, he kept mumbling: "Why are you in such a hurry to reincarnate in a hurry..."
Yan Laoer, who walked away, was also summing up his experience.
Next time we can't have just two people come out, it's too few, we need three people.
If it's like this time and you're hauling so many things, it's best to get two cars.
But in that case, the tossing fees along the way will also increase.
Not to mention other things, just the expenses at the inn along the way and the official inspections cost a lot of money.
After doing the math, it’s no wonder that Longxing’s fragrant rice noodles are so expensive.
All are added to the transportation cost.
"Qi Si, we have to rush back as soon as possible. We can stop as long as we can on the way. For the two of us, just this big meat bun, save some food and see if we can get home."
Qi Si once again had a rare blessing: "Brother Yan, have you spent all the money you have? I brought it. Mom brought me five taels of silver."