Chapter 20 Dad Buys a House, Son Pays Back the Money
Another day passed, and Aguang's salt shop was almost ready. Shops in this era were very simple and only sold a single type of salt, so the things that needed to be prepared were not complicated. Just make the counter front.
Before opening the store, Huo Guang sorted out all the salt. Yesterday, he practiced hard all day and all night, and finally came up with two and a half stones of pearl salt.
Two of the stones were delivered to the Sang family. Counting the deposit given before, the Sang family gave a total of 6,000 yuan. There was no debit and the money was given directly.
In the salt shop, I asked the salt gang to buy ten stones of salt, which cost 3,500 yuan. Including decoration, the only thing on the account now is Ahao's gold horseshoe. I said I have some money, but I don't have any change.
Pour out a basin of pearl salt and ordinary salt on the product cabinet and let people look at it and even touch it to make a more intuitive comparison.
Once the business is open, we invite people to knock on it and make it lively, so that people around us will know that a salt shop is here.
The housekeeper of the Sang family came forward when the business was opening: "Mr. Huo, this is the abacus that our daughter-in-law ordered me to send. I wish Mr. Huo a lot of money and a lot of profits."
"Thank you young lady for me."
The opening was as simple as possible, just to inform people around that a salt shop had opened here.
All the people who were joining in the fun came over, and as soon as they entered the door, they saw two piles of salt placed in the most conspicuous position.
There was a pile of ordinary salt that they had seen, and a pile of pure white and delicate pearl salt. This strong contrast immediately attracted all the people who came to join in the fun.
"Is this salt? What kind of salt is this?"
At this time, Ah Hao walked to the edge of the salt. As the only clerk in the store, he had been trained in how to introduce the salt.
But Ahao got stage fright when he saw so many people, and the honest man hesitated and couldn't say anything for a while.
Seeing this, Huo Guang had to do it himself and asked Ah Hao to greet the others and walked to the two piles of salt.
"Shopkeeper, is this also salt? Why does it look different from ordinary salt?"
"This is called pearl salt. It is pure white, crystal clear and delicate. It does not have the bitter taste of ordinary salt. It tastes great when used for cooking and soup."
"How much does this salt cost?"
"One tael of salt and five cents." Huo Guang set the price to be the same as Sang Yu's.
The price made the onlookers widen their eyes. The price was too high. Ordinary salt cost five yuan per catty. The difference was not that big. However, ordinary salt was not sold in one or two or two. It was all based on the price.
Sold by the pound.
The excessively high price has dissuaded most people, but many people are still looking at pearl salt.
After much hesitation, someone said, "Shopkeeper, give me a tael of pearl salt."
There was still the first person to eat crabs. With a smile on his face, Huo Guang handed a small bag of salt to the other person's hand. This was a jar of salt that had been packaged. The jar also had the word "Huo" written on it. The brand had to be carefully designed in detail.
publicity.
Following the first person to try it, many people started to want to try this salt. Although it is so expensive, the difference in appearance is too big. Compared with those yellowish and lumpy salts, pearl salt
Just like a cute little sweetie.
There is no harm without comparison.
People always follow the trend, and they can't stand it after they start. Especially when someone bought salt, dipped their fingers in it, licked it and expressed their opinion: "It's not bitter, not bitter at all, it doesn't have the bitter taste of any other salt. This
Is it the tribute salt that the emperor eats?"
Facing his body temperature, Huo Guang neither admitted nor denied it, which also made pearl salt and tribute salt be compared together.
There was a big family who bought five kilograms of it outright, and after doing other things here and there, the remaining half of the rock salt at home was actually digested in one day.
In the evening, Ah Guang checked the account with great interest.
"Half a stone of pearl salt, I earned 4,800 yuan. I also sold 40 kilograms of ordinary salt today, and I earned a total of 5,000 yuan. Wow, I still make money selling salt. If I do this every day, I will make a lot of money."
Ah Hao, who was holding a bowl of rice next to him and eating with his head buried in his head, didn't care about it. Huo Guang asked, "Why do you seem to have nothing to do with so much money?"
Ah Hao still had food in his mouth, so he said, "We'll talk about it when we're full."
Huo Guang smiled heartily: "Well, pearl salt is unique to our family. I have to continue refining it. You can get me ten stone salt tomorrow."
"Okay." Ah Hao never asked why, he just did what he was told.
This is the first day. Pearl salt has just come on the market. There are early adopters, so it is sold out. Ahao predicts that there will not be so many in the future. After all, the price is indeed very high.
While Huo Guang was thinking about the next sales method, Huo Zhongru came.
It's opening today, so I came here just now to avoid suspicion that Huo Zhongru didn't come.
"Ah Guang, how is business today?"
"Today's sales are five thousand yuan."
"So many?" Huo Zhongru was shocked.
"Father, there will be more in the future."
"My son is indeed a business wizard."
"My father raised me well."
The father and son started complimenting each other, and Huo Zhongru almost forgot about the business.
"Let's go, son, to see our new home."
"New home?"
"Yes, I ran around all day today and bought a courtyard in the best part of the city. From now on, we don't have to squeeze into the same bed." Huo Zhongru raised his eyebrows proudly.
"Father, didn't eldest brother buy a shop and farmland with all his money? How can you still have any money left?"
"Silly son, I went to borrow it from the county magistrate. The magistrate was very happy to lend me the money without any interest. I just need to pay it back slowly."
He has to be his own father.
Huo Guang took A Hao and Huo Zhongru to the door of his new home.
This courtyard is not very big, but it has nine rooms, five large rooms, and four rooms prepared for servants, which are much smaller. This is a special way for houses of this era to make a difference in form.
"Ah Guang, you choose first. You can live wherever you like."
Huo Guang chose a spot with good lighting and went to the big bed, only to feel drowsy.
"How about it, son, this place is nice."
"Father, this is not cheap."
"It's not expensive, just a hundred thousand dollars."
"One hundred thousand dollars!?" Huo Guang was so shocked that he couldn't even open his mouth from ear to ear. Even if he made as much money every day as he did today, it would only be more than 3,000 dollars, and it would take him a year without eating or drinking, and this is still a situation where business is so good every day.
Down.
Huo Zhongru patted Huo Guang's shoulder and said, "It's okay. Just pay it back slowly. The county guard won't rush us."
"Father, do you mean that I will pay you back?"
"Is it possible that I can still pay it back? I don't have any money."
Huo Guangren was dumbfounded. Huo Zhongru not only had advanced consumption concepts, but his idea of cheating his son transcended race and color.
"Go to bed early. I will take you to choose two maids tomorrow. It is said that there are also Huns and other foreigners."
