The happy little days of the Ye family

Early the next morning, Father Ye brought 800 kilograms of rapeseed to the Lijia Oil Mill in Yueya Town.

As soon as I entered the yard, I saw five carts of rapeseed that had just been collected in the yard. Boss Li and a few guys were busy moving the rapeseed down.

Boss Li was carrying rapeseed. He heard the sound and looked up just in time to see Father Ye driving the donkey cart in.

Boss Li quickly stepped forward to greet him, "Boss Ye, I haven't seen you for a long time. Are you here today to buy oil or squeeze oil?"

"Boss Li, here are 800 kilograms of rapeseed. Logically speaking, we can produce 160 kilograms of rapeseed oil. I am in a hurry here. Can I give you the processing fee and directly take the pressed rapeseed oil? Are you leaving?"

"160 pounds of rapeseed oil is okay, but I don't know if it's enough."

"Boss Ye, please wait a moment. I'm going to see if there is enough rapeseed oil in the warehouse." With that, Boss Li turned and entered the backyard.

Boss Li came back soon. "Boss Ye, there are only 100 kilograms of pressed rapeseed oil. Can you use soybean oil for the remaining 60 kilograms? It's just that soybean oil is a penny more expensive than rapeseed oil, so you have to make up the difference."

Father Ye didn't want to make up for the penny difference, so he said, "100 kilograms is enough. I'll take 100 kilograms of rapeseed oil with me first, and I'll come back to pick up the remaining 60 kilograms in a few days."

"Okay, I'll ask the guy to carry the rapeseed oil to the donkey cart. Boss Ye, please wait a moment."

The man carrying the rapeseed oil heard what Boss Li said and hurried to the backyard to bring the rapeseed oil.

Father Ye gave the processing fee to Boss Li, and then said: "I will come over to pick up the remaining 60 kilograms of rapeseed oil and bean dregs next time."

"No problem, the rapeseed oil will be ready in three days." Boss Li enthusiastically sent Father Ye out of the door.

Now that everyone has arrived in Crescent Town, Father Ye stopped by Uncle Li's house and Li Erzhu's house and bought some rice wine and ceramic gadgets.

Seeing that it was still early, Father Ye went to the mountain village again.

There are many hunters in the mountain village, so Father Ye collected more than 30 rabbit skins, but unfortunately he did not receive any wolf skins. The profit of one wolf fur coat is as much as that of several rabbit fur coats.

In addition to leather, Father Ye also collected some home-made things from the villagers. I also took 10 pieces of paper for the oil-paper umbrella paper, half with paintings and half with plain oil-paper umbrellas.

Originally, Ye's father planned to go to the pier to set up a stall by himself, but today he bought so many things, Ye's father planned to bring Ye Donglin with him, so that he could set up two stalls.

The next morning, when the sky was still gray, Father Ye took Ye Donglin and set off for the county.

Father Ye drove the donkey cart to find the steward who managed the stall, paid two stall fees, and then got two small bamboo signs. The father and son chose two adjacent stalls.

After unloading the things from the donkey cart, Ye's father asked Ye Donglin to pack them first while he went to inquire about the latest prices of mountain goods.

At this time, there were two stalls selling dry goods on the pier. One sold bacon, dried mushrooms and dried vegetables, and the other sold similar things to Ye's father and others, including dried bamboo fungus, dried bamboo shoots and dried mushrooms.

Father Ye first came to the stall selling dried mushrooms and vegetables. There happened to be merchants at the stall, and Father Ye stood aside and eavesdropped.

"How much do these dried mushrooms and vegetables cost per kilogram?"

The stall owner is an energetic old man, "Boss, dried mushrooms are 25 cents per catty, and dried vegetables are 8 cents per catty. They are all freshly dried and very fresh."

Father Ye looked at the dried mushrooms and bamboo shoots on the stall. The quality was indeed good.

"Our family runs a grocery store. If you want all these dried mushrooms and vegetables, can you get them cheaper?"

"There are 80 kilograms of dried mushrooms and 20 kilograms of dried vegetables on the stall. If you want them all, the dried mushrooms are 23 Wen per kilogram and the dried vegetables are 7 Wen per kilogram."

"I don't want dried vegetables, but I want dried mushrooms."

"Yes, dried mushrooms are priced at 23 cents per pound."

Then Father Ye went to another stall selling mountain products to inquire.

Father Ye walked around and returned to the stalls. Ye Donglin had already packed up the two stalls.

One stall sells dried bamboo shoots, dried mushrooms, dried bamboo fungus and other dried goods as well as rapeseed oil, while the other stall sells various groceries.

"I have just made inquiries. Dried bamboo fungus is 190 Wen per catty, dried bamboo shoots are 13 Wen per catty, and dried mushrooms are 25 Wen per catty. If you want a large quantity, you can get a discount. The wholesale price of dried bamboo fungus is 180 Wen. 12 jin of dried bamboo shoots and 23 jin of dried mushrooms.”

Ye Donglin: "Even at the wholesale price, the price is still [-]% higher than the dry goods in the town."

This was the first time Ye Donglin came to the dock to sell dry goods. He did not expect that the profits of this dry goods would be so high.