Farmer’s Little Girl

  Chapter 2984 Stay

  Ning Yushi looked at his expression, only thinking that he was stupid and blessed, but during this time he and Zhou Liwei ate and lived next door, knowing how hard he was doing this salt farm stewardship, it seems that it should be done before.

  But this opportunity is not available to everyone. He stretched out his hand and patted his shoulder, "You have a good aunt and a good uncle."

   After that, he turned around and left with a big laugh.

  Zhou Liwei scratched his head, thinking that these scholars like to leave half of their words, he shook his head, and after watching the carriage go far, he turned around and went back to keep his account book.

  Ning Yushi returned to Beihai county government office with salt first. Bai Shan met him in the county government office and invited him to a work meal by the way: "The prince went to Dengzhou."

  It's a long way, Laizhou has to go further east, it is the most east place in Dajin.

  Ning Yushi thought for a while, and didn’t rush to leave, “Then I’ll stay here and wait for your Royal Highness.”

Bai Shan: …Although he is not afraid of Yushi, Ning Yushi is still somewhat uncomfortable here. For example, if he finishes handling official duties in advance every day, will he leave early to return home or continue to spend time in the county office? ?

  However, he didn't show up on his face, he still responded with a smile, and said, "I will send Master Ning to the post."

  The post in Beihai County is not very far from the county government, but it is not on the main street, but beside a relatively small street into the main street.

   is also very small, with two floors on the upper and lower floors, two yards at the front and back, and the post house and his family live in the back.

  The cooks and guys at the station are all part-time by his family.

  It is free for officials to stay in the post on official business, but Beihai County is too poor. Except for occasional officials from Qingzhou City to pass on official documents for one night, the post can’t receive officials most of the time.

  So they will welcome foreign guests, and in order to grab business with those inns with better conditions on the main street, they keep the price very low.

  Attracts people who come to Beihai County to visit relatives or less wealthy businessmen.

When Bai Shan sent Ning Yushi to the post, a group of people were walking out cursingly. The expression seemed to be very angry. "It's cheating people. When we came last year, it was still five cents per catty, but this year we only got six cents. Yes? Our purchase price is six cents, then we sell at least 12 cents. If people are willing to take 12 cents, why not buy fresh fish, they have to buy this smelly salted fish?"

  "That’s right, twelve articles. You can even buy pork and chicken, so why eat fish?

   "Let's dry it again. There are not many other things here, but there are many marine fish. If they can't sell their fish in another two months, they will know that the price will be reduced."

  Bai Shan frowned, his eyes swept across the faces of those people, Ning Yushi also raised his head and glanced at them, passing by these people when he entered the door.

  Yicheng is holding a pen and carefully keeping accounts on the counter. He dare not make a mistake, otherwise the paper will be very expensive.

  A servant took the lead and knocked on the table. The postmaster said without raising his head: "Our shop only accepts guests staying in the shop. If you don’t stay in the shop, you have to go out to eat and turn left and go to the street.”

  Yaye: "...post, it's an adult who is here."

  Yi Cheng raised his eyelids to look, and saw Bai Shan in casual clothes, and immediately put down his pen, "It turned out to be the magistrate, please come in quickly, please come in quickly."

  Bai Shan asked Ning Yushi to go first. He looked up at his building and said, "This is Ning Yushi, an official from the capital. Arrange for Ning Yushi a quiet, spacious and airy room."

  "Yes, Ning Yushi, please go upstairs."

  Although the station accepts foreign visitors, he will reserve two good rooms to avoid encountering officials who come to complain about the lack of good rooms.

  He took people to the second floor, walked to the innermost room, opened the door, and invited a few people in to see the room.

The room is very large. A bed and a round table occupies more than half of the room. There is also a wooden couch by the window. On the other side is a bathroom separated by a screen. There are wooden barrels and shelves in it, and wooden shelves are placed on the shelves. Basin, the space is not small.

  The window opened, facing an alley, it seems that few people walked, but from a distance, the main street is through the alley, which is indeed quiet.

   Still keep quiet.

  Bai Shan turned to look at Ning Yushi, and asked with a smile: "How do you think, your lord?"

  Ning Yushi was very satisfied, so he booked this room. The leader of Ning Yushi carried his luggage in, and the guards turned around to choose their own room. The small inn immediately filled the empty room.

  Yicheng quickly hung up the sign that was full.

  Ning Yushi looked at him busy and turned to ask Bai Shan, "Salted fish is so cheap?"

  He was in the salt farm during this period, and occasionally chatted with the long-term workers in the salt farm. Knowing that they were fishing, he would often send the good fish to Beihai County and Qingzhou City to buy at variable prices.

  Some marine fish are cheap, you can buy a catty in ten words, and some are very expensive, requiring hundreds of dollars a catty.

What the long-term workers said the most was that when they went out to sea, they caught a very rare fish, soaked in sea water overnight, and sent it to the outside of Qingzhou city. It was sent to the city at dawn the next day, and it could sell for 200 per pound. Wen, that fish is not too big, just over two catties, it can sell for nearly five hundred wen, which is worth a hundred catties of salted fish.

  He thought it was just an exaggerated statement, used to set off the preciousness of the fish, but it turned out that it was not that the fish was too precious, but that the salted fish was too cheap?

  Now is the season for fishing, and Bai Shan is also having a headache. Even if Qingzhou City is counted, the consumption of fish is actually limited. Therefore, more fishermen still sell dried fish to merchants who come to buy it.

  But they kept the price too low.

  The fishermen not only have to fish, but also air-dried after they are caught...

  It’s so hard, and a catty of fish only costs a few cents.

"The roads are difficult now, and the transportation cost is very high. When the merchants receive the goods, they must at least double the price to make money." Bai Shan is not a person who knows the fireworks in the world, and naturally knows that merchants also have difficulties with merchants. Therefore, I said: "So I just want to wait for the Longchi Ferry to be repaired. Then the official road leading to the outside of Beihai County will also be repaired. The price of salted fish should be raised."

  Ning Yushi sat at the table and asked, "What else?"

Bai Shan smiled and sat across from him, "As expected of Ning Yushi, the next official does have other plans. I have always wondered, why can't salted fish be more valuable than other fish? It's not just meat, it's body. With salt."

   "There is a salted fish in a dish. It doesn't even use salt, so it's not a matter of course that it is more expensive?"

  Ning Yushi: "There is no chance to eat salted fish in the poor house. I can't think of this method for the time being. People who will venture to buy salted fish and want to taste the fish in the sea are not people who are short of money. They don't lack that salt."

   "So who you sell salted fish to and where to sell it is also very particular," Bai Shan said, "Xiaguan is looking for such merchants now."

   Ning Yushi smiled and said, “Don’t you have an uncle who often visits the grasslands of the Western Regions? Maybe he can help you.”

  　See you at seven in the afternoon

  (End of this chapter)