CH 74.3

Xue De wondered if Zhang Fangyuan had long expected that one day there would be people in the city who would open their doors to snatch his business, and for this reason he stocked up enough goods early, prepared new products as a bait to attract people, and even bought out the raw materials to cut the way of the merchants who wanted to share profits later.

With enough time, he had already made a lot of money.

It was too late when Xue De thought about it.

No matter how hard he tossed from side to side and moved, it was impossible to catch the wind gap and earn money. Before he thought that this business would bring him a huge profit, but now it turned into a waste of money.

In the end, he had no choice but to sell out the stock he had in a bitter way, found some peddlers to sell it, and returned to his old business in a down-to-earth manner. But, before he made an agreement with Tangzi Carpenter and other suppliers that he got a low price for a long-term business, but now he suddenly quit, not to mention the loss of reputation, and he also lost some money to compensate them.

For a while, he became the joke of the merchants in Tianjie after dinner, he really lost all his old face, and even the business of his cloth shop was not as good as before.

He regretted it so much that his intestines were turning green, but he could only watch Linglong shop while sitting at the counter.

After this incident, The merchants in the city who watched the excitement looked at Zhang Fangyuan with admiration. He was a small merchant and they had never paid attention to him, but they never thought that his business would be quite profitable, for this reason, many merchants also threw out olive branches to him.

Drinking tea today and drinking wine tomorrow, Zhang Fangyuan didn't slap anyone face, he was invited by one person to another, not to discuss business, but some merchants gathered together to talk, talk about what they saw and heard, like in which city or county something new came out, and where to go if you wanted to buy colored glaze or jade.

Although they were just chatting, they could learn a lot of the latest news. Zhang Fangyuan never had such close contact with other businessmen before, and he didn't know much about many places. This time was also considered a surprise, and it would be more convenient for him to do business in the future if he could break into their group and get acquainted with them.

After drinking for three rounds, the merchants’ cheeks turned red.

"I heard that Xue De sold his toothbrushes to Fucheng."

"It's almost Chinese New Year and the commercial tax is so high. He really doesn't want to make money, he only wants to throw the hot potato out."

"He sold his toothbrushes in Fucheng and then bought some new cloths from Fucheng, but unfortunately when the new cloths were transported back to Siyang, they met some bastards on the way back to the county, and all his cloths were ruined."

One of the merchant at the same table laughed: "He never checked the almanac when he went out. How could he be so unlucky that he met some bastards. Didn't he invite some good people to accompany him when he went to transport the goods?"

"First, he invited a bunch of people to stay idle in the shop and then he lost money because of his previous business. Maybe he thought that there were many people on the official road since it was almost Chinese New Year, so he didn't go to the escort agency to hire people. How could he know that he would be unlucky."

"Hiring people from the escort agency is to give you insurance. It doesn't mean that you will be unlucky every time, but if you don't hire them, you will definitely suffer. You still have to be more cautious when transporting the goods in the future, don't save that little money or you will lose a lot. "

The merchant raised his wine cup to Zhang Fangyuan, who had never spoken and only listened to the people talking and laughing: "Boss Zhang, do you think so?"

"What Boss Wu said is true. "

"Xue De is reaping the consequences of his own actions. He wanted to bully the newcomer, but he never thought that he pinched a shrewd person like Boss Zhang. I'm afraid he's going to get angry."

Zhang Fangyuan squeezed the wine cup and drank it slowly, the corners of his eyes were full of light, but he pretended not to be sober: " I only knew that Boss Xue was traveling far away, I thought it was to ship the goods to other places, I never thought that his luck would be so bad. "

"Hahahahaha, the heaven wants to restrain him."

Zhang Fangyuan smiled but didn't answer. He glanced at the sky outside the window. It was the gray sky in the winter, and today, for the first time, the sun showed some sunlight, which was particularly bright when it fell in front of the window.

At the beginning, it was hard for Zhang Fangyuan to mess with him because he was still struggling, but now it was quiet, if before he didn't clean him up, he wouldn't have a deep memory.

If Xue De knew, he, Zhang Fangyuan, was not only a businessman, but also a hooligan in his bones, he wouldn’t allow himself to be bullied and swallow his anger.

After entering the twelfth lunar month, the city was getting more and more lively. One day before the Chinese New Year, and the weather was at its coldest time.

There were even a few flakes of snow that day, and all the people in the city curled up, walked back and forth quickly. The warm sheep’s pluck soup in the small restaurant was very popular, and it was only fifteen copper coins a bowl, which would keep you warm for half a day.

Zhang Fangyuan also went to buy one bowl, the taste was a little bit worse than Xu He's, but after spending the money, he still ate it clean.