The happy little days of the Ye family

When Ye Qingqing and Tang Xiaojing went out, the sky was still gray.

But when we arrived at the county, the sun was already high.

At the city gate at this time, not many people entered, and most people came out of the county in large and small packages.

But this was good, the two of them didn't have to queue, they just paid the entrance fee and went in directly.

The two arrived at the pier, which was already very lively.

The various stalls are filled with goods from all over the country, and the variety is dazzling.

And those merchants dressed in rich clothes stopped in front of various stalls and looked at the products carefully.

The breakfast stall was as lively as a market, with many merchants sitting around like stars holding the moon.

While chatting enthusiastically about what is selling well recently, they ate a steaming breakfast.

The pier was crowded with people, extremely noisy, and various hawking sounds could be heard one after another.

The two of them arrived too late, and the good stalls had already been taken up by others.

Fortunately, Ye Qingqing also had an old acquaintance, his second cousin, at the dock.

She had already told her second cousin the day before yesterday and asked him to help rent a temporary stall in a better location yesterday.

The second cousin was very reliable. The location he rented for them happened to be not far from the tea stall and was very conspicuous.

This was not the first time that the two of them had come to sell things on the dock. They skillfully took out all kinds of dry goods and arranged them neatly.

The one on the left is filled with dried mushrooms.

There are four sacks of ordinary dried mushrooms, half a sack each of morels and gallinobacilli.

Yesterday, Tang Xiaojing weighed all the dried mushrooms. Common dried mushrooms weighed 230 kilograms, morels weighed 28 kilograms, and gallinopsis mushrooms weighed 27 kilograms.

Mushrooms are very light. Looking at a big bag, they feel light and airy in the hand.

All kinds of bacon are placed on the right side.

There are 37 wax rabbits, each weighing about three pounds, totaling 112 pounds.

1000 kilograms of fresh pork was made into bacon and sausage, and only 600 kilograms were left.

Among them, there are 200 kilograms of sausages and 400 kilograms of bacon.

There are also dozens of kilograms of cured pork ribs and several large cured pig heads.

Furry rabbit fur coats and wool coats were hung on a small wooden rack. Merchants coming and going can be seen by just passing by.

After placing the things, Ye Qingqing started shouting vigorously:

"Bosses, please come and take a look. The best dried mushrooms are 180 Wen per catty for morels, 150 Wen for gallbladder mushrooms and 25 Wen for ordinary dried mushrooms."

"Bacon, sausage and rabbit~, bacon and sausage are 38 yuan per catty, bacon ribs are 28 yuan per catty, rabbit is 32 yuan per catty, and a bacon head is 200 yuan."

"Don't miss it if you're passing by. Come and take a look. Rabbit fur coats and sheepskin coats are on sale at a cheap price."

Ye Qingqing's voice was very clear and pleasant, and there were several complete large pig heads placed on the outside of the stall.

Their stall attracted so much attention that people passing by couldn't help but take a few more glances.

These waxed pig heads have become the stall’s signature, making people stop in for them.

Ye Qingqing felt that at least half of the people who came to the stall came for these big pig heads.

The stall has just been set up, and there are many people watching. Most of them come to check out the quality and price, and compare shopping.

However, Ye Qingqing can completely understand that no one's money comes from the strong wind. You have to visit all the stalls on the pier and make a decision after careful consideration.

Seeing that there were not many customers at the stall, Ye Qingqing went to a breakfast stall not far away and bought a dozen steaming buns.

She gave a few to her second cousin, and took the rest back to her stall to eat with Tang Xiaojing.

After a while, the second cousin brought mung bean soup and sour plum soup.

My second cousin has been selling tea at a stall on the pier for several years, and the taste of the tea is getting better and better.

Just eat it with the big meat buns, it's delicious, no wonder the business is so good.

Unlike my own deserted stall, my second cousin's tea stall was almost full.

Unlike the south, which is warm all year round, winter starts early in the north and lasts for several months.

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, people in the north have begun to stock up on food and ingredients for the long winter.

At this time, there were many northern merchants on the dock buying things.

However, mushrooms and bacon are also available in the north, and few merchants are willing to transport them all the way back.

They prefer to bring back some rare goods that are not available locally and resell them.

Make money when things are rare and valuable.

Half an hour later, half of the leather clothes were sold.

However, other items did not sell well. Only dozens of kilograms of bacon and half a sack of dried mushrooms were sold.

Business was not going well, so the two of them could only shout loudly.

"Bosses, please come and take a look. There are good dried mushrooms, various kinds of bacon and sausages, as well as good rabbit skin coats and sheepskin coats."

"Come and take a look. All kinds of dried mushrooms and bacon are on sale for cheap! A rabbit fur coat only costs 5 taels of silver each."

Tang Xiaojing was in charge of shouting, while Ye Qingqing held a rabbit fur coat in one hand and a sheepskin coat in the other, showing them to the merchants.

Sure enough, after such shouting, three merchants came to the stall.

A young merchant only glanced at the goods on the stall and walked away in a hurry.

The other one is a middle-aged woman who wants sausages, bacon, pork ribs, rabbits, morels and chickweed mushrooms.

There are quite a lot of varieties, but each only costs a few kilograms.

Ye Qingqing didn't mind that people bought less, and happily weighed the things for her.

"The total is 2 taels and 1 money. You have got your things."

The middle-aged man Tang Xiaojing received was much more generous. He ordered 80 pounds of ordinary dried mushrooms, 50 pounds of sausages, 150 pounds of cured pork, and 18 bacon rabbits.

He looked at the waxed pig heads on the stall and said, "These pig heads look very wild. I want two of them."

"Okay, dried mushrooms are 23 Wen per catty, a total of 1840 Wen, and bacon and sausage are both 36 Wen per catty, a total of 7 taels and 2 cents."

"The wax rabbit costs 32 cents per catty, a total of 1728 cents, the wax pig head costs 200 cents each, and 2 pieces costs 400 cents."

"The total amount is 11 taels and 168 Wen."

After the two merchants left, half of the items on the stall had been sold, and Ye Qingqing and Tang Xiaojing were in a much better mood.

The Tang family would set up stalls on the dock several times every year, specializing in selling various local products and bacon. Over the past few years, they had accumulated some familiar merchants.

Shopkeeper Bai who runs a grocery store in Fucheng is one of them.

Shopkeeper Bai came to the pier the day before yesterday and sent a message to his second cousin, asking Tang Xiaojing to bring things from home, so the young couple chose to set up a stall today.

However, shopkeeper Bai was busy with things, so he didn't arrive until almost noon.