sbdcsierra Chapter 459 Selling to Other Places
Chapter 459 Selling to Other Places
I earned a total of twenty-two taels and one hundred and thirty-one coins on this trip!
The whole family was shocked!
Zhou Xing couldn't close her mouth. "Hey, hey, hey, can you make so much money just by selling wild mushrooms?"
Zhou Mi sincerely sighed, "The people in the capital city are really rich! They are willing to buy such expensive pine mushrooms! How many pounds of meat can one pound of mushrooms buy?!"
Zhou Mai smiled and said, "After all, it's a prefectural city, which is different from our small county town."
Li slammed the table and said, "We will go into the mountains early tomorrow morning. Today, we went into the mountains and picked up two backpacks and a sack, estimated to be 70 to 80 kilograms. Didn't everyone sell anything in the county town yesterday? There are fewer people going into the mountains today, so we will probably be able to pick up more later, probably 10 baskets."
Zhou Xing and the others nodded. Since this thing was so profitable, they would also go into the mountains. Picking mushrooms was not as profitable as staying at home to herd cattle and chop firewood.
Zhou Guo said, "No, mother, pine mushrooms are so popular in the city. I decided to collect them in the village and give them fifty or sixty coins per pound. Let them make some money and we can make half of it. Although it's not as good as what we can find by ourselves, it takes us three or four days to find them in the mountains. It's faster to collect them directly. We can make a round trip in two days. I calculated that if we collect them in the village, we can go there at least seven or eight times before the season is over. But if we find them by ourselves, we can only make three or four times at most. We can make much more money than finding them in the mountains. What do you think?"
When they heard that the collection would be done in the village, everyone looked at each other in surprise.
Li thought for a moment and said, "It's OK, but if there are too many of them, they will lose their value. There are so many people in the village going up the mountain every day. Each family can pick up at least 10 or 20 kilograms. If there are 50 or 60 families, they can pick up more than 1,000 kilograms. Can we sell so much? If we can't sell it, won't we have to lower the price? If we collect it at 50 or 60 cents a kilogram, can we still make money?"
Zhou Gu frowned so hard that a mosquito could be killed. "Yeah, what if we can't sell it?"
Zhou Su had slept for a long time in the carriage when he came back, so he was not sleepy at all. Hearing this, he said, "Then we can sell it somewhere else. There are so many cities in the world and there are many rich people. We will not have to worry about no one buying it."
Ok?
Everyone looked at it and thought that this was so true!
Zhou Mi slapped the table and laughed, "That's right. We are trapped, but we didn't expect this to happen."
Zhou Mai looked at Zhou Su and smiled, "Xiao Su's brain is getting smarter and smarter."
The whole family was very excited about this idea. There was no need to worry about sales. In the next half month, as many pine mushrooms picked in the village as possible could be sold. Both the villagers and themselves could make a lot of money.
Zhou Guo pondered and said, "That's fine, but the nearest city to us is Yunzhou, which takes four or five hours by carriage, and then there's Chengding in the east..."
After saying this, he looked at the old man uncertainly.
The old man nodded.
She continued, "It takes more than ten hours for the Chengding carriage to travel, and it takes two days to go there and back, not to mention Kang'an in the west and Ningping in the south, which will take even longer. Our family does not have enough manpower and vehicles, so we can at most split into two groups and go to only two places. Well... this way, there is still about half a month left, so we can make several trips. By then, we can explore several places and maybe pave the way for next year."
Once she can grow her sheep mushrooms, she won’t have to worry about selling them.
When the old man heard this, his eyebrows jumped and he looked at her. He saw that when the little girl said this, even her eyebrows flew up and her eyelids drooped for a long time.
Zhou Mai and the others listened to her and agreed with her wholeheartedly. If they didn't sell the products in one place, they could make more money.
The family discussed the manpower needed to sell the mushrooms and unanimously decided to let Zhou Gu go with the old man, while she would take Zhou Sulu to Chengding. She would have to explore this sales route herself.
Zhou Gu rubbed his head and said, "Chengding is so far away, and it's a new place, so let the master and Guoguo go. I'll take Xiao Su to Yunzhou. Anyway, I've been there before, and I know the way."
The Li family members looked at Zhou Guo and said, "What your eldest brother said makes sense. How about you switch?"
Zhou Guo said, "Mom, I asked Master to follow Big Brother, not because I was worried that he wouldn't know the way, but because I was afraid that he wouldn't be able to protect the money. After selling all the goods, we can get thirty or forty taels of silver, mostly copper coins and small silver. It's hard not to attract attention. In this world, people don't have enough food every day, even scholars don't have enough food to eat. People who don't have enough food can't do anything. Who wouldn't be tempted by so much money? Let Big Brother and Xiao Su go. They don't know how to fight at all. Maybe they will be robbed and have nothing left. This is still good. It would be worse if they were beaten and disabled."
After hearing what she said, everyone stopped talking.
Li stood up and said, "Okay, now that we've settled it, let's go to bed. It's already midnight and everyone is sleepy. We can talk about the rest tomorrow."
Zhou Guo lay on her bed and fell asleep after a while. Zhou Xing no longer slept in the same bed with her, but slept on the kang. This made the bed bigger and she could sleep and lie however she wanted.
Often I am here before going to bed, but I don’t know where I am when I wake up.
Early in the morning of the next day, before he finished breakfast, the villagers came to his door. They came to ask Zhou Guo whether he had sold the mushrooms he brought to the city yesterday. Everyone was thinking about this matter all day yesterday. If they could sell them, they would find ways to take the things to the city to sell them.
"Zhou Guo, ah, you guys are eating, we're not eating, we've already eaten, so I just came to ask you, does anyone in the city know these fungi?"
When they heard that they knew each other, they sold all the pine mushrooms they brought yesterday. Everyone was so excited that they almost jumped up.
"The prefecture is still better. There are many people who know the goods. I said that, such delicious food, how could those people with such wide experience not know about it? It is indeed much better than the county town."
Zhou Xing was about to speak when Zhou Guo tugged at her clothes and shook his head.
"The city is not too far from here. We can get there in a day or a night. How about we go together?"
Many people thought this way, and they discussed the specific itinerary for the trip.
But many people hesitated. The farthest place they had been to in their lives was the county town. Some had never even been to a county town, so how could they dare to go to the provincial capital? They shook their heads and showed fear on their faces. "The provincial capital is so far away, and we don't know the way. What if we end up somewhere else and get lost? What should we do then?"
"It's a chaotic place outside. If we run into bandits, barbarians, or starving refugees, will we be able to come back? I won't go. I'd better stay in the village. Don't risk your life for a few dollars."