novelaction Chapter 621 No Worries About Selling
Chapter 621 No Worries About Selling
But the Zhou family was already very happy. Pens, ink and other things were used for a long time. They had collected even more in the past two years, and there were several large boxes. But paper was different. It was consumed quickly, so no amount was considered a lot.
In addition to the holiday gifts, several shopkeepers also brought her letters.
Shopkeeper Qin went straight to the point and asked her if she still had the strange eggs from last time and if she could make them in large quantities.
Zhou Guo laughed when she saw this. She sent preserved eggs to all four shopkeepers, but in the end only Shopkeeper Qin wrote to her asking for eggs. Well, Shopkeeper Yang had no shortage of signboards and a lot of good things on hand, so he was not short of vegetables at all. It was understandable that he looked down on preserved eggs.
The other two shopkeepers were not so easy to accept new things. They wanted the pine mushrooms because they had opened up the market with Cheng Ding in Yunzhou first. They had never seen preserved eggs before and probably didn't like them, so it was understandable that they didn't want them.
She thought about it and realized that there were actually a lot of people raising ducks in the north, and there were even professional duck farmers.
In autumn, when the crops are harvested, duck farmers drive a large group of ducks to the fields to eat the fallen crops and insects. They stay in the village for several days. There are too many ducks and they lay a lot of eggs. The duck farmers cannot harvest them all, so some eggs are inevitably dropped. They pick up some duck eggs from the harvested fields every year.
But duck eggs have a fishy taste. As conditions in the village have improved in the past two years, few families are willing to eat them. Instead, the children in the village roast or fry them when they have picnics outside.
It is also difficult to sell. People without money can’t afford it, and people who are a little better don’t want to eat it.
If you can’t sell the duck eggs, you can only make them into salted duck eggs. But there are too many salted duck eggs and they are difficult to sell.
She thought about it and wrote back to Shopkeeper Qin, saying that she would personally deliver the goods to him in about ten days.
By the time the flower mushrooms and sheep mushrooms are all dried, she will definitely have to visit several prefectures in person to ask them to take care of the business.
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On the other side, the first person to receive Zhou Guojie's gift was Shopkeeper Yang.
He thought he had misheard, "What did you say? Who's here to give you a holiday gift?"
"Shopkeeper, it's the Zhou family. Young Master Zhou sent someone to deliver a festival gift. He also brought you a letter, asking you to receive it in person."
Shopkeeper Yang was very surprised and looked at the sky outside. "The sun is rising from the west today. That girl actually gave me a festival gift? I don't know what it is, but I hope it's a good thing!"
Then he walked towards the backyard.
I opened the box first. The first thing I found was dried vegetables, followed by a piece of hard meat and duck eggs. I also found a wine bottle in the corner. As expected, it contained wine, which looked more like medicinal wine.
Shopkeeper Yang was very happy. Although a box of things was not valuable, the fact that he could give it as a holiday gift showed that Zhou Guo still remembered him.
Da Pang took out the letter from his arms and handed it over, "Boss, this is a letter from our master."
"Okay, okay, you've worked hard, come in and eat, I'll have someone prepare food for you."
Da Pang said, "Don't worry, I'll wait here. If you have any questions, you can ask me."
Shopkeeper Yang didn't care. He opened the letter Zhou Guo gave him and read it quickly. His brows furrowed deeper and deeper. Then he read it again from beginning to end. After reading it, he rummaged through the things in the box without even looking at the tiger bone wine. He took out the sheep mushrooms and flower mushrooms, looked at them, and smelled them.
After a while, he asked Da Pang, "Your master said in the letter that you grew this thing yourself. Is that true? Didn't you pick it up from the mountain?"
Big Fatty's face was full of pride. "No, this is what our master planted himself. He planted two hills and has started to harvest them one after another."
Shopkeeper Yang was stunned. He looked at the mushroom in his hand and asked again, "Can this be grown? What kind of seeds are used?"
Big Fatty shook his head honestly, "I don't know."
If he knew, would he still be standing here?
Shopkeeper Yang waved his hand and said, "You guys go downstairs and have dinner."
Looking at the mushroom in his hand like in a dream, he muttered to himself, "Oh my God, there are people who can grow mushrooms?!"
Even though he was knowledgeable and experienced, he was still stunned by Zhou Guo's move. He had never heard of anyone who could grow fungi.
In particular, Shopkeeper Qin was very impressed with Zhou Guo. "Mrs. Zhou is amazing, very amazing. I have never heard of anyone being able to grow mushrooms by themselves. Maybe she can even grow pine mushrooms in the future. If so, the Zhou family will have endless wealth."
He slapped his thigh and said, "No, I have to write to her and ask her to give me more."
He hurriedly wrote a letter, handed it to Xiaopang, and asked him to take it back.
Several shopkeepers are connoisseurs of the goods. Since this thing can be supplied continuously, they will definitely buy it.
Especially sheep mushrooms, which can be sold for forty or fifty cents per pound in spring!
Not much worse than pine mushroom.
Zhou Guo looked at the replies from several shopkeepers, her mouth widened more and more, and she said, "She is the first one in the world, so why would she have trouble selling this thing?"
Now, she really doesn't have to worry about pine mushrooms popping up somewhere else, because she has her own unique stuff.
The first batch of flower mushrooms have been picked, and the sheep mushrooms can only be picked in another six or seven days.
Taking advantage of this gap, Zhou Guo picked up the gong and planned to collect duck eggs from house to house in the village.
Now chicken eggs are two cents each, and duck eggs have a fishy smell, so they are sold at one cent each.
Salted duck eggs are sold at two cents each, and preserved eggs are also sold at two cents each, making a profit of one cent for each.
If you think about it carefully, you only earn 100 cents for 100 eggs. It is time-consuming and laborious, so it is really not cost-effective.
But the people around me raise ducks, and we can't just let all the duck eggs stay in our hands. Salted duck eggs are salty after all, and half an egg per meal is enough. But it's different with preserved eggs, two per meal is enough.
This time it was Zhou Su who was on leave who went with them. Zhou Gu had to work in the fields. There was nothing much to do on the farm right now, so she asked her to transfer half of the staff to work. The Zhou family had only more than 20 acres of land in total, so they could get busy quickly.
So many people went to the fields at the same time, which made the villagers very envious.
Some people even said to Li in private: "Mother Guoguo, when will you let your servants do some work for us? We don't have much land, so many people can finish it in half a day, okay?"
Li resolutely replied, "That won't work. They are human beings, not animals. I can borrow them from time to time. Besides, there is a lot of work to do in the mountains. I can't handle it all. You don't have much land. Your family can finish it in a few days. You don't need to rush them. Just take your time."
If we give this job to their family, there will be no peace. This one will want help, that one will want help too. Wouldn't that make the whole village work harder?
Seeing that Li refused so straightforwardly, the man was still a little unhappy, "If you don't want to do it, then don't do it. When you need help from others in the future, we won't come either. Just wait."
Li didn't take it seriously and just laughed it off. She didn't think she could ask them for help in anything.