Chapter 133 Fruit
As he said that, seeing Qin Yao was about to speak, he hurriedly said, "Don't tell me next spring, no one can say whether we can still have such good business next year."
"You have a big order on hold." Shopkeeper Wu glanced at Qin Yao unhappily. Once this batch of orders came out, water mills would be everywhere!
Qin Yao was not angry. She drank the rest of the fermented rice wine in one breath and waved at him mysteriously.
"What are you doing?" Shopkeeper Wu looked at Qin Yao suspiciously, "Men and women should not touch each other, how can you do that in broad daylight?"
Qin Yao couldn't stand his nagging, so she pulled his head in front of her and whispered in his ear:
"That batch of orders was sent to the south, and has nothing to do with our Kaiyang County. I can tell you responsibly that at present, yours is the only private water mill in Kaiyang County!"
Shopkeeper Wu was originally furious, but when he heard this, his eyes sparkled. He shook off the hand on his neck and asked in a suppressed excitement, "Are you serious? Don't lie to me!"
Qin Yao nodded seriously and began to help him settle the bill.
"Look, your place has a great geographical location, with convenient transportation and close to the official road. It's not well-known now, but in less than two months the whole county will know that the wealthy families in the city have plenty of food and horse-drawn carriages."
"Well, listen to me. Let's order another seventeen sets to make it a whole. I promise to install them for you before December. Then wait until the next spring wave. Wow, you'll make a killing!"
Shopkeeper Wu admitted that he was moved.
After all, he just wanted to seize the opportunity and make the first profit.
Qin Yao curled her lips slightly, adding fuel to the fire, "If you want to do something big, do it early. This water mill is now exclusive to my Liujia Village. You can place your order first. Others will have to wait until after the twelfth lunar month to place their orders. For a water mill of this size, you can calculate the time difference from site selection to completion and commissioning."
"I have to go to the other side of our county anyway, but I just want to give you a heads up because of our previous friendship."
Qin Yao shrugged, as if to say, "I won't have any trouble selling it now."
Seeing that Shopkeeper Wu was lost in thought and hesitant, Qin Yao waved her hand and said, "I'm leaving first. You can think about it slowly."
You have to return the bowl to the owner.
"Madam Qin, where are you going?" Shopkeeper Wu asked nervously.
Qin Yao pointed to the south casually and said, "Just take a look around and see if there is anyone who wants to make a water mill."
Shopkeeper Wu immediately sneered at her and called her back.
Looking up at the baskets lined up in a circle, he gritted his teeth and said, "I'll order it!"
Qin Yao smiled and motioned for him to wait a moment and return the bowl before running back.
She directly took out her homemade notebook and the small brush and inkstone she bought specially, added a drop of water, rubbed it, dipped the brush in ink, and quickly wrote down the order for seventeen sets of small water mills on the paper, indicating the total price and deposit, as well as the names and addresses of both parties A and B.
"Okay, if you think there's no problem, put your hand print on it." Qin Yao took out the ink from the cloth bag and pressed it herself first.
There are seventeen sets, with a total price of 51. Qin Yao waived the change, so the total price is 50 taels of silver, and the deposit is 30%, 15 taels.
Shopkeeper Wu took one look and gasped in pain.
Qin Yao kept smiling, she knew that this man was very rich.
His water mill charges four cents an hour. In the past two months, he has earned more than five taels of silver.
Now it is the autumn harvest time and the water mill is running almost day and night. In two months, the capital invested previously will be recovered.
Where can you find a business that can recover its investment in four months?
Qin Yao talked about how much money it was making, and Shopkeeper Wu was tempted to try it, but he didn't dare to be so casual about the order of fifty taels.
Seeing that he was still frozen, Qin Yao reluctantly reminded him, "Kaiyang County doesn't just have this one river. There are so many nearby. You have five or six sons and sons-in-law in total. If you open a chain store, I wonder how much money you can make."
The delay was quite long and Qin Yao became a little impatient.
Wouldn't it be better for her to use this time to develop new customers?
She had already laid out the ways to make money in front of him, so why should he hesitate?
Seeing Qin Yao's impatience, coupled with the new concept of chain stores he had just heard about, Shopkeeper Wu took a deep breath and pressed his handprint.
"Wait a minute, I'll get you the deposit." He stood up and walked a few steps, then suddenly turned back, "Come with me, it's very troublesome to run back and forth."
"Okay!" Qin Yao packed up the pens, ink, paper, inkstone, and ink pad, and went to Manager Wu's house with him.
Fifteen taels of silver were solemnly handed over to Qin Yao, and Shopkeeper Wu immediately understood what a gambler felt at the gambling table: unknown, curious, worried, and excited!
Qin Yao signaled to him not to worry, and that the goods would be delivered to him before the twelfth lunar month.
At this point, Shopkeeper Wu had no choice but to believe her, but when he looked at the good business of the water mill by the river, he felt a lot more at ease.
Qin Yao didn't expect that she would be able to bring back the order as soon as she came out today. She was in a good mood and bought ten pounds of good meat and two big bones from the butcher's stall, intending to reward herself.
After buying the meat, I passed by a pear stall that sold small pears with green and yellow skin.
Qin Yao had eaten one at the clan leader's house before. The meat was crunchy and very sweet.
She immediately paid for a few pounds of fruit and brought them home. She hadn't eaten real fruit for a long time.
The main reason is that the taste of these native fruit varieties is very different from the excellent varieties artificially cultivated in later generations.
The peach flesh is very hard and tastes very light. The dates are not sweet either, probably due to the region, and the flesh is very foamy, like chewing wood chips.
Even the bayberries are mostly sour, so don't even think about eating the big black ones. The bayberries here are as big as a thumb nail, which is of excellent quality.
But I heard from the villagers that the peaches eaten by the nobles in Kyoto were picked from the Yaochi in heaven, and they were big and sweet.
Qin Yao suddenly remembered her gourd of bitter melon seeds. The seeds were exactly the same as watermelon seeds, but she didn't know whether they would be sweet and red when grown.
I vaguely remember that my teacher once said in biology class that the red, big and sweet watermelons we eat now are the result of improvements.
The original watermelon was not red nor so sandy and sweet.
Never mind, Qin Yao's current mentality is that it's good to have something to eat!
Qin Yao rode back on horseback with a full load, and the order was placed in front of Carpenter Liu, which startled him.
Qin Yao smiled at him, "Seventeen small sets, delivered before December."
He also recorded the fifteen taels of deposit in the account and left two large bone sticks for He, who was making lunch, so that she could use them to supplement the meal for everyone. Then Qin Yao went home with the meat and fruit she had brought for her family.
Being your own boss is so capricious!
Carpenter Liu looked at the order, then at the back of the man riding away, and cried with envy.
Carpentry is complicated and not as simple and rough as polishing. The team leaders he leads have not yet completed their studies. It is unknown how long it will take for them to be as skilled as Qin Yao.
Qin Yao was unaware of Carpenter Liu's envy. She bit a pear, sat at the doorstep, looked at the scenery, and waited for her meal.
By the way, what day is today?
It's August 1st. Isn't it time for that loser Liu Ji to come back?