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- "Brother Tie Heng, are people really buying this?" Xiaodouzi raised his hands, each holding a small rattan basket filled with mushrooms. This rattan basket is woven in a decent way. Although it is not exquisite, it is not crude either. However, there are still many branches and leaves on the thin rattan, which looks quite original. Moreover, the mushrooms in the small basket remain as they were picked, and have not been washed, with some soil remaining at the roots. Xiaodouzi and Chen Shuifa couldn't understand all this, and thought that if it were them, they would definitely wash them before selling them, so that they would look more attractive.
"Haha, we'll see." Tie Heng guessed what the two of them were thinking, but he didn't explain immediately, just said with a smile. Chen Shuifa shrugged helplessly at Xiaodouzi, indicating that there was nothing he could do.
¡°Follow me quickly, we¡¯re at the city gate.¡± Tie Heng greeted from the front.
This morning, just like the day before, Tie Heng took the group of orphans to practice in the woods early in the morning. Afterwards, he asked the captains to manage their respective teams and continue to collect food after resting. Immediately, he took Chen Shuifa and Xiaodouzi and headed towards Tianfeng City with the mushrooms packed the night before. At this time, there was still more than an hour before noon, which was the busiest time in the market.
Tianfeng City is a thoroughfare with a large population. Except for merchants with bulk goods who need to pay some symbolic city entry taxes, ordinary people can come and go freely. Tie Heng thought that the officials here were relatively honest and smart. They did not arouse the resentment of the people by excessively levying small taxes and miscellaneous taxes. They could also effectively attract businessmen and outsiders from all over the place, making Tianfeng City more prosperous and bright. This normal tax can be increased by several percent!
As a steady stream of people entered the city, Chen Shuifa, who was originally worried that he would be challenged by the city defense soldiers, finally breathed a sigh of relief. He has been to Tianfeng City several times with his master and is quite familiar with this metropolis. So with him leading the way, the three and a half-year-old children quickly walked through the streets and alleys to the largest market in the east of the city.
People coming and going in the market, the shouts of vendors, the bargaining of buyers, and the sounds of quarrels from time to time, make it very noisy and lively. In addition to those well-established shops, the roadside is filled with various street stalls. Most of them are villagers from the surrounding areas of Tianfeng City selling their own fruits and vegetables. There are few such small vendors or merchants in the government. to collect their taxes.
Tie Heng and the other three walked around for a while and finally found an open space, but it was in an inconspicuous corner.
"No wonder there's no one here." Xiaodouzi muttered in disappointment when he saw that no passers-by would notice this corner.
"Let's set up a stall here!" Tie Heng didn't care too much. He said with a smile, put aside a few small rattan baskets in his hands, walked to the corner, and tilted up a loose paving bluestone. Then he grabbed both sides with both hands and lifted it to his chest easily. After a few steps back to the roadside, he placed the bluestone slab weighing more than a hundred kilograms on the ground, and then placed the small rattan basket on the stone slab, making it unique among the surrounding stalls.
"Brother Heng, what a trick!" Chen Shuifa glanced at the small vendors around him. Tie Heng's hand suppressed them all. Those who saw that they were young and could be bullied and wanted to drive them away did not dare to act rashly.
The three and a half young men sat in a decent manner behind the bluestone slab. They first observed the shouts of the vendors around them for a while, and then learned to shout twice. Unexpectedly, customers came to the door immediately, but they were stopped by the stone slab. A row of small rattan baskets and the three children were attracted to them.
"Hey! You three boys are here to do business too!" The aunt looked like she was a housewife from a well-off family. She said with a smile, picked up a rattan basket, opened the lid and took a look at the mushrooms inside, and Because there are large holes in the rattan baskets, the mushrooms underneath can also be seen clearly. Finally, she brought the rattan basket to her nose and smelled it. "It's novel and nice to use this small basket to hold wild mushrooms. Boy, are you selling these in one basket?"
"Yes." Xiaodouzi quickly stood up and nodded obediently.
"Then how do you plan to sell it?"
"One silver coin." Tie Heng calmly stretched out a finger. He estimated this price after listening to the quotes given to customers by the vegetable vendors on both sides.
"One silver coin!? It's so expensive!" The aunt weighed the small rattan basket in her hand, with an unhappy look on her face. "Excluding this small basket, it only weighs three or four kilograms. The other stalls sell it for only seventeen or eight copper coins per kilogram, and the most expensive ones only cost twenty. You guys are selling it for a lot of money!"
"Auntie, our brothers went to the woods early in the morning to pick these mountain mushrooms. You see, they are all covered with mud, they are absolutely fresh." Tie Heng explained with a smile. "There is also this rattan basket. If you buy it back, you can decorate it with other things."
"Yes, yes! To be honest, auntie, we are all orphans who fled from the north and live in the east gate."In that refugee camp. All in all, thanks to the kind people in the city who gave us porridge, we finally didn¡¯t starve to death. But if you want to eat enough, you have to find another way. No, we discussed with a group of brothers and made these rattan baskets with the wild mushrooms we collected. We came to the city to exchange some money or buy some food to fill our stomachs. "Chen Shuifa put away the cleverness on his face at this time and pretended to be honest, but he was eloquent, which did not match his expression.
"Auntie, look, in order to pick these mountain mushrooms, my little brother was cut by weeds." In order to arouse more sympathy from the other party, Chen Shuifa lifted up Xiaodouzi's trousers, revealing several slender scratches. It was accidentally bruised by Xiaodouzi while collecting wild vegetables yesterday. And the thin and short Xiaodouzi, who pretends to be in pain with his clothes, is indeed better at winning the woman's motherhood than Chen Shuifa.
The aunt stopped talking, frowned, and looked at Xiaodouzi with pity. "Ohpoor baby." But she still hesitated, wondering whether she should pay for it.
But just when Chen Shuifa was about to strike while the iron was hot, a vegetable vendor with a mustache rushed over and gently pulled the vegetable basket hanging on the aunt's elbow. "Oh, auntie, don't let these guys fool you. They'll charge you so much money if you put it in a broken basket. You must not be fooled. Besides, none of us have mushrooms. Just picked from the mountains, it¡¯s just as fresh.¡±
As Mustache said, he glanced at Tie Heng worriedly, and quickly pulled the aunt to run towards his stall.
"You" Chen Shui was furious and was about to rush over to argue, but was pulled back by Tie Heng.
"Don't be impatient." Tie Heng smiled and shook his head.
"But what he did was too unkind. He was blatantly robbing business!" Chen Shuifa couldn't swallow this breath. He was about to earn a silver coin, but he let it run away. You must know that one silver coin is enough to buy more than half a stone of white rice, which is seventy or eighty kilograms, enough for their more than forty children to eat several meals.
"It's okay, it's okay. Let's make a bet that the aunt will come back soon." Tie Heng looked confident, and Chen Shuifa couldn't help but calm down.
"Brother Tie Heng, is it true?" Xiaodouzi looked at Mustache's stall a few steps away. The auntie was picking through a sack, which was also full of wild mushrooms.
"Brother Heng, the price you just asked for is too high." Chen Shuifa was also shocked just now and thought to himself that there are eight small rattan baskets here. If you sell them all, it will cost you eight silver coins, which is enough to go to the city. We had a nice banquet at a famous restaurant.
"It's not expensive, not expensive at all. Isn't it easier to bargain?" Tie Heng said and shouted twice more.
Xiaodouzi kept staring at the aunt, and found that she had been picking at Xiaohu's stall for a long time, but in the end she threw back all the mountain mushrooms she picked, bought nothing, and walked away with a somewhat dissatisfied look on her face. .
"Auntie didn't buy anything from that guy." Xiaodouzi said excitedly. But soon he became frustrated again. Because the aunt didn't come back, but went to other vegetable vendors' stalls. After a while, she crossed the street and went to the other side of the street. The flow of people passing by blocked his view, and even when Xiaodouzi stood on tiptoes, he could only see pedestrians rubbing shoulders and heels.
"You deserve it! You're a bastard who is hurting others and not benefiting himself by letting you steal our business." Chen Shuifa was cursing at his mustache. Because of Tie Heng's presence, Mustache did not dare to retaliate openly and moved the stall further away.
"Brother Tie Heng, my aunt is gone." Xiaodouzi sat down weakly.
"She will come back." Tie Heng replied.
"Brother Heng, how can you be so sure?" Chen Shuifa glared at Mustache with hatred, and then asked curiously.
"Okay, seeing how you look like this, let me first explain to you the source of my confidence." Tie Heng said and gave a thumbs up. "The first thing is that most people are greedy for petty gains. A small bamboo basket made by a skilled bamboo craftsman can be sold for at least twenty or thirty copper coins. If our rattan basket is sold, it won't be too much. So customers will instinctively think that the mountain mushrooms they bought are too expensive, but they get a rattan basket for free, so they don¡¯t feel that they are at a loss, and they may even feel that they have made a profit.¡±
"Oh" Chen Shuifa and Xiaodouzi's mouths both became O-shaped.
Tie Heng spread his index finger again. "Secondly, it is different, which is what I call packaging. Look, other vegetable vendors use big sacks, which are also dirty. Look at ours, don't they look delicate and clean? ? This is the role of packaging. There is actually no difference in the quality of the items inside, but because of the difference and uniqueness in appearance, customers will naturally feel that the items are better and higher-grade, and they will also think that they are good after paying more money. Worth the money.¡±
"Ohoh" The two boys' mouths opened wider.
"The third point is also because of those hemp bags. This is something I just discovered that is beneficial to us. These vegetable vendors use hemp bags to store mountain mushrooms. One bag weighs at least twenty or thirty kilograms. This weight is enough The mushrooms below were squeezed and deformed, and they were inevitably bumped during transportation. It was obvious that they looked good, and how could they be fresh when they were so stuffy. Those customers had no comparison before, but now they take a look at ours. , Naturally, I am dissatisfied with their goods and think they are shoddy." Tie Heng finally spread his middle finger and started talking.
"Ohohohit turns out there are so many ways!" Chen Shuifa and Xiaodouzi glanced at each other, and both found that the other's eyes seemed to be shining.
"Okay, goodbye, customers are coming." Tie Heng patted the two of them on their foreheads, stood up and greeted the aunt who came back with a smile.
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