Chapter 8 The Little Girl Selling Firewood 2
Meng Xiaofang's eyes flashed with regret. She was very poor now. Every piece of straw paper she used was one less piece, and she had to spend money to buy it. Unfortunately, the quality of these straw papers was not very good, and the talisman made was only placed once.
The talisman array won't work.
But she didn't dare to delay any longer at this moment, so she collected the storage talisman, pressed a reinforcement talisman on it for reinforcement, and headed straight for the village.
As she approached the outside of the village, she took out a hen and a rooster from the storage talisman and held them in both hands.
Occasionally she met a neighbor who wanted to talk to her on the road, but she just said hello and left quickly. When she met a talkative person who asked about the whereabouts of the pheasant, she would say that he picked it up in the mountains and forests. If he continued to ask, she would
He said it was too cold and he had to go home, so we could talk another day.
When the neighbors saw that Meng Xiaofang's winter clothes were all pieced together from old clothes, and they also knew something about her family, they couldn't ask her any more questions.
Once she returned home, she really felt what it meant to live in a home with four walls, but before that, she had already been mentally prepared and no longer paid attention to this.
Meng Xiaofang threw the chickens into the storage talisman, then cleaned the old chicken coop in the yard, and then took out the two chickens again, cut their wings short and put them in. This chicken coop was built by her predecessor, but she even built it herself.
They cannot afford to feed them, so there is no chance of raising these birds.
After finishing it, she used the talismans to set up a lost formation in the courtyard.
This formation is used to confuse people, so it is naturally not a problem to confuse two chickens.
The purpose of setting up this formation is also to prevent the two pheasants at home from escaping, and at the same time to make them mistakenly think that the yard is huge and that they are moving freely in the vast wilderness, but in fact it is just two chickens flapping around in the small yard.
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Sure enough, as soon as her talisman formation was set up, two pheasants jumped out of the chicken coop impatiently.
After discovering the benefits of the Lost Formation, Meng Xiaofang cast several reinforcement talismans in succession to reinforce the talismans arranged in the Lost Formation in the courtyard.
Early the next morning, she ate some whole grain porridge with dried wild vegetables, then disguised herself and left the village.
Meng Xiaofang had done similar tasks in her previous life, so she was good at disguises. For example, in her current appearance, she had a vivid scar on her face, like a centipede. At first glance, even though she didn't say anything, outsiders could see that
It also makes people think that she is very fierce.
When she approached the town, she took out the large cage that she had prepared in the storage talisman last night. Then she put the rest of the pheasants, wild ducks, etc. that she had caught yesterday into the cage. Then she found a shop in the town that bought mountain products.
, exchanged these beasts for silver coins and a small bag of copper plates.
One tael of silver here is worth a hundred copper plates. The wild birds she caught were exchanged for a total of twenty taels of silver and two hundred copper plates. This was the result of a good deal of bargaining.
The shopkeeper's price reduction was really harsh. After some negotiation, Meng Xiaofang originally wanted to discuss the price with the other party. When the shopkeeper heard this, his face turned red, but he refused to give her any more.
A son.
"Well, then, you can give me the twenty taels of silver and exchange them for small pieces of silver. We are from poor country people and have no place to spend such a big sum of money. But you have to give me enough.
, don’t imitate the store in the neighboring town that is short on goods, otherwise when I have good products next time, I won’t come to your place to exchange them. As you know, we don’t encounter this kind of thing many times a year in the mountains.
Great product, not to mention it’s still winter!”
The shopkeeper was originally worried about Meng Xiaofang, but after hearing her words, he dispelled his previous doubts. After repeatedly assuring her that he would give her enough money, after a while, he gave her the broken pieces of money.
The coins and coins were ordered one by one in front of her eyes and handed to her.
After she left, the shopkeeper sighed to the shop assistants: "Look at the price bargaining, they are so ruthless and leave no room for anyone. If you go back and learn this skill, even in my position, you can't do it."
Well deserved."
Hearing this, a shrewd clerk quickly echoed: "That's the kindness of our shopkeeper. I don't care about him. But you see that he has cut half the sky-high price. Isn't it true that he can't defeat you, the shopkeeper? So you still have to be better.
Na!"
The shopkeeper felt proud in his heart, but showed an incomprehensible smile on his face, and then sent the guys to continue working.
Meng Xiaofang left the shop and went to the shop that sold straw paper again yesterday. She asked about the prices of various papers one by one, and found that the straw paper she bought yesterday was more affordable, with ten copper coins in a bundle.
One hundred pieces, while another relatively cheap one actually costs fifty copper plates per bundle, and the rest are even more expensive.
She simply spent two taels of silver to buy twenty bundles of yesterday's straw paper, asked the shopkeeper for an old frame, and left with it. Then she went to the market to check the prices of chickens and eggs, and finally found out that the price of both
There is not much difference, but among them, the price of wild eggs is a little higher than that of ordinary eggs.
Meng Xiaofang felt confident. On her way back, she once again caught a few wild birds in the mountain forest using a bird trap. However, this time, she only picked out a few hens and let the rest go.
After arriving home, she immediately took out the rooster that was placed in the chicken coop yesterday, and then put all the hens together, and she threw the rooster into the storage charm and prepared it.
Sell it the next day.
This winter, she plans to raise chickens and sell eggs to make ends meet.
Moreover, she is now growing taller, so she can eat an egg every day to replenish her body.
Soon, one winter passed, and everyone in the village knew that Meng Xiaofang had made some money by selling wild eggs. Although they didn’t know how much she earned, she had put on new cotton-padded clothes this past winter, and her whole appearance had also changed.
A lot of changes have taken place. He is no longer as skinny as before. He has even grown taller, but this is a fact before our eyes.
The people in the village were so jealous that several families secretly went to the town to buy chickens and planned to make money by selling eggs like her.
This thing is like wild grass growing wildly in spring.
It didn’t take long for the story to spread, and many people in the entire town heard about how profitable it would be to raise chickens and sell eggs. Later, it even spread to several neighboring towns.
For a time, there was a craze for raising chickens and selling eggs in several surrounding towns.
At this time, Meng Xiaofang sold a few pheasants in the yard to the villagers, and left the small village with the money earned during the winter.
Before leaving, she used storage charms to pack away all the "relics" of her predecessor, which were actually some pots, pans and old clothes.
When passing through the town, she generously purchased hundreds of bundles of ten-coin straw paper and emptied the stock in the straw paper shop. The shopkeeper was so happy that he opened his mouth from ear to ear and welcomed her with kind words.
See you next time. Meng Xiaofang waved goodbye to the shopkeeper with a smile.
The shopkeeper was stunned by her way of saying goodbye, but he didn't expect that she would never visit again after she left.
Chapter completed!