Fisherman

Chapter 39

At night, Zhao Qian counted the copper coins earned today, and sold a total of 320 copper coins, which means that more than 50 oysters were sold. The first day is already a very good result.

Taking advantage of Brother Zhou's time taking a bath, he did some calculations, and counted out two hundred copper coins, and prepared to keep them for him. The remaining one hundred coins were returned to the owner of the blacksmith shop, and the rest was just a round trip. Travel expenses and lunch money.

Brother Zhou came into the room after taking a shower, feeling wet all over his body, his hair stuck to his face, he threw a handkerchief to cover his head: "Come here, I'll wipe your hair."

"I can do it myself."

"Come here, I won't eat you." He raised his voice.

Zhou Ge'er hesitated for a while, opened the veil and walked over.

Zhao Qian stroked his naked hair and patted it: "Why wash your hair at night, be careful of headaches later."

"There is a lot of sea water on your head, if you don't wash it, you will be fumigated."

He couldn't help laughing, and leaned down: "Then I smell it and wash it clean."

Brother Zhou pushed him, said he wanted to smell it, and after smelling it, he leaned towards his face.

"I wipe it myself."

Zhao Qian saw the young man jumping up from beside him, he quickly stopped him: "Okay, okay, let's stop making trouble."

"Don't go fishing when I'm not at home, it's too dangerous for me to worry about."

Brother Zhou lowered his head and let him rub his hair, but he didn't answer. Now he sells oysters in the market, but he needs someone to hunt oysters to sell them all the time. If he doesn't go, he will go.

"This is the money for selling oysters today, you keep it." Zhao Qian pulled out a hand and moved a pile of copper coins in front of the young man.

Seeing so many copper coins, Brother Zhou opened his eyes wide. He did not expect to earn so much in one day. Although he earned a tael of silver last time selling shrimps and crabs, it was because of good luck that he got out of the shipwreck and picked up so much for nothing. Seafood, if it is fished at sea in normal times, I don't know how long it will take to save so much, ten days and a half months is still a little.

Everyone dare not go out to sea to fish like Zhao Qian did before, because they can’t catch so many fish in a day like him, it’s really not easy to earn some money, but now selling roasted oysters can earn so much copper coins in a day, a month’s worth Not less.

He looked at Zhao Qian suspiciously: "Keep it for me?"

"If you don't give it to you, who else can you give it to?"

Brother Zhou quickly picked up the copper plate after getting the affirmation. Zhao Qian watched his slender fingers fiddle with the small copper plate while reading the number, looking very cute, and he raised the corners of his mouth behind his back.

"I bought vegetable seedlings and came back. When I go out tomorrow, you can plant the vegetables." He arranged for his buddy, and he didn't want him to go to sea again.

After counting the money, Zhou Geer agreed to what he asked to do, but he still didn't give up in his heart: "But no one goes fishing, so who will catch oysters?"

"Don't worry, Brother Zhao has a solution, you just stay at home." Looking at the somewhat silent young man, he knew that he would not be able to stay at home alone, so he coaxed: "Wait to make more money, when Rent a shop in the bazaar sometime, and I will take you to the bazaar."

Hearing what he said, Brother Zhou's eyes really brightened, and he finally nodded.

The next day, he set off with his things on his back as usual, and he told the ox cart master to wait for him in front of Xiayu Village yesterday, so he can finally walk less today.

When we arrived at the market, the blacksmith's shop had just opened. Seeing him coming early in the morning, the man from yesterday brought out the grill he wanted.

"Look, are you satisfied?"

Looking at the grill, Zhao Qian suddenly had a feeling of reunion after a long absence. He thought that he could look at this thing every day and deal with it like a relative. Unexpectedly, it had been several months since he parted. He touched the grill, Nodded: "It's what I want."

"I've never seen anyone hit something like this before, so what are you using it for?"

"For business, thank you." Zhao Qian took out a hundred Wenqian and handed it to the blacksmith: "I will get the shelf back later."

With the rack, he didn't delay, carried it to the place where the oysters were sold yesterday, now that there is a barbecue grill, the stall is set up like that, quickly set up the charcoal fire, fanned it with a fan, He put the wire mesh on, and he roasted a few oysters before the guests arrived.

The surrounding stalls had already been set up, and they were also waiting for the guests. After roasting the oysters, he gave one to each of the stall owners next to him.He has to be here for a short period of time, and he doesn't ask them to take care of him, as long as he doesn't act like a monster, everyone will be more enthusiastic when he gives something away. After all, they are all poor people who come out to make a living, so they are relatively talkative.

After taking care of his surroundings, he started to do business. Today, he has a barbecue grill, which can roast many oysters at one time, so that customers don't have to wait for a long time.

After yesterday’s business, there were quite a few customers who came to hear the news. Many talkative little girls came out to buy with their own money. They were embarrassed to eat on the street. They bought them in twos and threes and hurriedly hid in the alleys. Those who spend a lot of money buy five or six at a time, and carry food boxes to pack them.

Zhao Qian couldn't stop her busy hands, but fortunately, she has more than ten years of experience in the barbecue business, no matter how busy she is, she won't lose her footing and roast in an orderly manner.

While roasting, he still thought that selling this kind of thing seemed too monotonous. He thought that when he sold barbecue before, there were everything, vegetables, meat and seafood, and he had to go and see it when work was over. Do you have pepper and cumin for sale? When the time comes, we will enrich the variety, get some kebabs, and grill squid.

If it really works, then he will earn more than this little money in that day. He has calculated that Shao Yu's birthday is in the middle of summer, and there is still more than a month left. He wants to delay the two of them for a long time on his birthday. The banquet was arranged. This was a major event that he could not let go of. If it were in modern times, the current situation of the two of them would be called illegal cohabitation. Of course, it is a very serious cohabitation!

"How many oysters do you have here?"

He was really absorbed in thinking about the matter with Brother Zhou, when suddenly a man dressed like a mistress ran over with a food box and asked, pointing at the oysters.

"There are more than [-] more." He glanced at the bag and guessed it. These are the oysters that Brother Zhou brought back yesterday. He didn't bother to take out the space head, so he just used them.

Xiaoer said: "Then I want them all, so hurry up and roast them."

Zhao Qian raised her eyebrows, no one wanted so much after selling for so long: "Are you sure?"

"There is a table of guests in our restaurant upstairs looking at your rare oysters, so let me buy some."

He looked up and saw that there was indeed a restaurant in the distance, but he didn't know which one it was, but whoever it was, it was his business anyway: "Alright, wait for a while."

After grilling the oysters on the rack one by one for the waiting guests, he pried off all the remaining oysters and placed them on the grill, and put garlic next to them.

More than [-] oysters were roasting together, and the smell was extraordinary. Xiao Er hugged the food box and swallowed unconsciously. Zhao Qian had a full view of his expression.

After the oysters were roasted, he put them into the food box one by one, and finally left one wrapped in a leaf and handed it to Xiao Er: "This is what I give my brother to eat."

Xiao Er glanced at him hesitantly, and said pleasantly, "Give it to me? For free?"

Zhao Qian smiled: "It's free. In the future, I have to ask my brother to recommend more guests. When the time comes, you can try one or two for free."

"Okay, okay." Xiaoer looked at the oyster in his hand, and the corners of his eyes were wrinkled: "I really know how to do business, and recommending customers is on my shoulders."

"Then thank you little brother."

After sending Xiao Er off, he clapped his hands. Thanks to Xiao Er, the oysters were sold out earlier than yesterday.

He still didn’t count the coppers, he packed his things and let the shelf cool down, and then sent him back to the blacksmith’s shop. In fact, he was a little thoughtful when he proposed such a method before. It is too troublesome to bring a big iron piece home every day.

"Boss, do you have cumin here?" After buying a few catties of garlic, he asked the owner of the spice shop.

The shop owner saw that although he was dressed simply, he bought a few catties of garlic, which is not what ordinary people like to buy, so he said patiently, "Cumin? What is cumin?"

Zhao Qian:......

Brother Zhao's education is not high. After thinking about it for a long time, he tentatively changed his name and asked, "Wild fennel?"

The boss smiled: "Wild fennel, yes! I said what cumin is. You said it was wild fennel. I didn't know it had such a nickname."

"It's called that in our village, don't be surprised." He smiled with relief, and he could do whatever he wanted, and couldn't suppress the joy in his heart: "Show me quickly."

The boss led him to the corner, and there were many seeds the size of a small fingernail in the spice cabinet: "This is, usually there are very few customers who buy it, so I put it here, and see if it is yours. need."

Zhao Qian grabbed a handful and smelled it. The smell of unground cumin is not very prominent. At this time, everyone is only using it to make soup, so it is normal to buy less.

"Can you powder it here?"

The boss nodded: "Yes, yes, but you have to pay extra."

"No problem, give me a tael of wild fennel, two taels of Chinese prickly ash, and a catty of chili noodles."

Seeing that he spoke clearly and logically, the boss happily agreed: "Okay!"

Zhao Qian didn't wait for the boss to grind the material into powder. He paid the money first and promised to pick it up tomorrow morning. If he brought it back today, he would have to bring it back tomorrow.

He thought about it, not only will he sell oysters tomorrow, but since he has cumin, he will go to the meat market to try his luck and see if he can buy mutton. If he can buy meat, he can add a new barbecue tomorrow.

But when he arrived at the meat market, he couldn't help feeling very disappointed. Not only was there no mutton, but the meat market had already closed, and the meat market closed earlier than the vegetable market.

Just as he was about to walk back, a butcher suddenly spotted him with sharp eyes: "Brother, do you want to buy meat?"

Zhao Qian heard the sound and walked over slowly: "Do you have meat for sale?"

"There are leftovers from the sale, and there is still half a catty of lean meat, do you want it?"

He looked at the small piece of meat that the butcher was carrying. It was indeed very thin, with only a layer of fat thick as his little finger, but he came to buy mutton: "Is there any mutton?"

The butcher laughed: "Where is mutton at this time, if you want to buy it, you should come early in the morning."

Hearing what he said, Zhao Qian remembered it.

"Take this half catty of pork home, I'll make it cheaper for you."

Zhao Qian took a closer look at the meat. It was indeed good. There were no villagers raising pigs by the sea. Most of the time they ate sea fish and rarely had pork. For the villagers, they only ate it during the New Year and holidays. He wanted to buy it back for him. Brother Zhou nourishes his body.

"how much is it?"

When the butcher heard something interesting, he said happily, "I used to sell such good meat for eighty yuan a catty in the morning, but now it's cheap, and you can take half a catty for thirty yuan."

"Success." Zhao Qian was also straightforward, and gave the money for five oysters, in exchange for a piece of meat wrapped in paper.