CH 69.1

Although the weather in late autumn was much colder, the weather was still clear and the city was bustling with people. On the contrary, there were many more people than in the summer. 

The young masters and daughters of the rich families in the city went out to enjoy the autumn, they could be outside all day, they didn't feel that the sun and weather were too hot, and the autumn was the best since it was neither cold nor hot.

If it was delayed by one and a half months, the weather would be cold after entering winter. Even if you went out wrapped in a thick cloak with fur, you would still feel uncomfortable. Not to mention when the cold wind blew, it made the face prone to dry and the skin peeled off easily, it was also inconvenient to move around with bloated clothes. 

Autumn was the best season. The clothes was just right and the autumn air was refreshing, which was the most suitable for going out for fun.

Business in this area of ​​the city was also easy to do. The new winter clothes were available in the cloth shop in advance, and merchants from big cities in other counties also came to sell excellent materials. 

The place like restaurants were also lively, the wealthy and noble people who had finished their poetry gathering in the boat would come out together for a walk, ate something and strolled around the market.

The bustle of Tianjie had come back, and the business of Zhang Fangyuan and Xu He's Linglong Toothbrush Shop was also booming.

When the shop was just opened, it was the time when the rain fell in the early autumn, and occasionally some customers would say that later they would bring people here. And now when the weather was good, what they said turned out to be true. The flow of customers rushed into the shop like flowers blooming one after another in the spring, and their small shop was always full of customers.

Zhang Fangyuan and Xu He were very busy, their mouths were dry everyday, but fortunately, after so many days, there was no need for them to introduce their goods and the customers had already come to buy.

There were many customers, and the consumption of the goods was also fast. Zhang Fangyuan prepared two hundred new toothbrushes in two months and also added a lot of tooth powders. The business was so prosperous, it must be the group of culture lover scholars who boasted about their small shop everywhere and made many people fascinate.

"I have already bought two pieces of pear blossom wood and sent them to carpenter He, I asked him to carve the six toothbrushes carefully, and they have already been delivered."

Zhang Fangyuan divided several exquisite toothbrushes in the shop into three brocade boxes with red silk, and he also put the best tooth powder in the shop into the brocade boxes, with herbal medicine as the raw material of the tooth powder, and added the precious spice borneol.

He closed the three boxes one by one: "One is for Master An in the east of the city, the second one is for Master Yong in the north of the city, and the last box is to show filial respect for the master county."

Xu He knew these two orders, the deposit given by the servants when they came to order was 300 copper coins, and the whole set would cost 1,200 copper coins. 

Recently, Xu He also met many wealthy families, and they bought their goods very generously. They not only bought them for himself, but even bought them for the children and elders in the family. For elders, children and grandchildren in a family, there should be more than 20 people and a single order could costed them more than thousand of copper coins.

After two months of entering the account, he almost lost his mind and became stupid.

After the reputation of the shop was established, Zhang Fangyuan didn't stay in the shop very much. He had to go out to collect the raw materials for making tooth powder and toothbrush. They couldn’t just rely on the tea shed to collect the raw materials, since many of them were completely in short supply. In order to keep stocking the goods, Zhang Fangyuan had to pay a little more cost.

A few days ago, he went to the horse shop where he bought Xiao Hei and found the young man who sold the horse to him before, he said to the young man that he wanted to collect the horse hair. The young man went to talk to the owner of the horse shop, he heard that the owner offered a price of 180 copper coins and he was also willing to provide the horse hair for him.

The young man sent over ten catties of horse hair, he smiled and said to him that it was difficult to get the hair from the older horses. These were all picked and cut from the young horses and poor-looking horses in the horse shop.

Zhang Fangyuan knew that it was not easy to collect the horse hair, so he paid the money for the horse hair and gave the young man a sling of copper coins for his help to run errands. When he collected the horse hair in the village, he originally offered a price of 120 copper coins, but now it increased by 60 copper coins, which was also unacceptable for him.

So when this batch of horse hair toothbrushes was finished, he was going to raise the price.

"I'll deliver these orders in person. It may take some time to run from the east to the north of the city, so you don't have to worry about me."

Xu He responded, he watched Zhang Fangyuan go out with the boxes in his arms