CH 66.2

Unknowingly they bought toothbrushes with different styles and tooth powders without knowing it. When they checked out, they found out that they had spent several hundred copper coins. However, the scholars didn’t complain about the high price, instead one of them said, "I will bring people to visit some other day."

Zhang Fangyuan politely sent the scholars out, and when he returned, he saw Xu He who was counting the money. Xu He raised his eyes and looked at Zhang Fangyuan: "One of the scholar who spent the least more than 300 copper coins, and these four people spent a total of 1.500 copper coins. Are scholars so generous?"

It was no wonder that Xu He was surprised, the couple were considered small businessmen, and they used to do small business, and it took many days for them to earn the income of more than a thousand copper coins. Today, they earned so much in just one stick of incense. This big difference was a bit difficult to handle.

"Look at those scholars who are well-dressed, with jade hanging around their waists. They talk very well, they are all high-spirited, and they are not in a hurry to go home when it rains so heavily outside. Scholars like them are mostly young masters from wealthy families in the city, they have some scholarly honor, the lowest one is a tongsheng, and the family must cherish them even more. How can they care about such a small amount of money. In the future, just look at the one who wears this kind of clothes to slaughter. "

[童生 tóng shēng: candidate who has not yet passed the county level imperial exam]

Xu He laughed: "We are serious businessmen, the price is clearly marked, and we never slaughter people."

He held the money with a smile on his face: "Sure enough, the investment is ten times higher, and the return money is also ten times higher." When all the money that was spent for the shop was earned back, he could relax a bit.

Zhang Fangyuan sat in front of the counter and took a sip of water. Selling things was really a waste of time and effort, he had to introduce the goods one by one in the early stage, but it wouldn't be so hard when it was publicized later. But if the visitors were as generous as this wave of people, then the business would be easy, and when he saw Xu He happy, he also became happy unconsciously in his heart, and it was nothing to waste more words.

"Today I also saw your ability to sell things. From now on, I will be in charge of explaining to the women and ge’ers, and you will be in charge of the men."

Zhang Fangyuan said with a smile: "It sounds like I take advantage."

The two brought their meals as usual, and found a restaurant to heat up the meals and eat it together in the shop.

Xu He was satisfied, he used to eat lunch outside the meat market when they still set up a stall in the meat market, but now the two of them could stay and eat in the shop. When he still sold stewed meat and vegetable at the stall before, on the way back from work, he always looked at those shopkeepers eating in their shops. He was envious, but now it was finally his turn, so he couldn't help but feel happy.

The two of them intentionally kept the matter of setting up a shop in the city a secret. Only few people knew about it, either their own family or those with business contacts, and anyone who knew didn't talk about it outside. Those who had business with them were also afraid that if there were too many people who knew about it, someone would snatch the business.

Besides, the villagers were busy paying the rent for the land now, and the two of them still had a clean life of going out early and returning late, just like when they sold meat at the stall in the city before.

After Xu He went to the city to guard the shop, the tea shed became a bit too busy. When it was the end of the busy farming season, Zhang Fangyuan called his fourth uncle and aunt over to help, and paid them five hundred copper coins a month.

Considering that his second aunt had been helping them without wages all the time, people still needed some money on hand that they could spend on their own. Many times, the couple thought about it, but they were too busy to care about it. After the two discussed about this matter, they made decision to give Zhang Shiyue 300 copper coins a month, not too much, but at least she could spend it on her own.

In this way, the main business of the couple was the toothbrush shop. For the tea shed, when they finished the work in the city and went to the tea shed to eat, they would occasionally help out when it was too busy. Although the money they spent for the wages was more than before, the two didn't have to worry about this. It could be said that they still earned the money from the tea shed by sitting only.

Although they could get money from the two shops every month before, but now they could get money without any effort.

Xu He calculated that in this way they could offset part of the rent of the shop in the city, and the pressure on his shoulders wouldn’t be so heavy.

There were not many customers coming to Linglong shop in the past few days since it opened, not only their shop, but also the bustling Tianjie in the past were not crowded with many people.

The restaurant, the cloth and rouge shop next to them were not doing well. The bosses in this street were very experienced. The autumn rain was lingering and there were few people who was willing to go out to have fun. When the weather cleared up, the golden osmanthus would be fragrant and the autumn air would be refreshing. At that time, many people would go out and the business would become normal again.

Occasionally, one or two customers came to their shop. It took a long time to introduce their goods to these few customers. Although the visitors were scarce, they were all high-quality. After listening to them, they would happily pay.

Almost everyone who entered the shop empty-handed would go out with things in their hands. Even though they could only sell the most inferior toothbrush a day, they still could get fifty copper coins, not to mention that almost all of the buyers of toothbrush would buy a bottle of tooth powder, and the price of the cheapest chinese honey locust tooth powder was 60 copper coins.

These customers would pay hundreds of copper coins, and they always said that they would introduce the their goods to other when they were parting.

Perhaps the shop had been open for a short time, so they had never seen returning customers came to the door again. Xu He felt that the customers in this area were very polite and courteous, and he was embarrassed to make such a fuss.

This made him look like a black merchant. The chinese honey locust was usually bought for a few copper coins in a big bag, but they only made it into powder and added other materials, and the price was ten times higher. How could people from poor families not click their tongues.

At this time, Zhang Fangyuan would say that he was stupid. Although it was not expensive to buy chinese honey locust, was the labor to dry and grind the chinese honey locust free?? Didn’t they still need to rent the shop?

Xu He was speechless, and when the people from the county government came to urge them to pay the commercial tax, with the huge amount of commercial tax, he no longer felt uneasy.