CH 71.3

The happiest thing for a merchant was to meet such an outspoken and straightforward shop owner like Zhang Fangyuan. After he traveled a lot and met many cunning merchants, he cherished such acquaintance merchant even more. He cupped one's hands for greeting politely: "I'm Song Yong, I'm lucky to be able to get to know with the boss."

Zhang Fangyuan also told him his name. The merchant proudly paid half of the deposit, drank a cup of tea in the shop, and left when he saw a visitor came to the shop.

Zhang Fangyuan carefully put away the bank note for fifty taels of money. The goods ordered this time was quite a lot, and it was impossible to carry them out for two days, but Zhang Fangyuan had already made up his mind to do business with the merchant when the merchant entered the shop. These days, he always ran around without guarding the shop just to stock up more goods so that he could take the big order.

In fact, his price was low. If he sold the goods slowly in the shop, he could at least get double the money, but things changed later, and the most important thing was to earn more money quickly. Who knew when these merchants with ulterior motives would learn from each other, so he lowered the price in one breath, and the merchants didn't negotiate with him anymore.

He thought that the price he offered to the merchant this time should be much lower than the price last time.

"Boss Zhang, good business, is it going to have another big business?"

Zhang Fangyuan sent Song Yong out, he didn't turn back until he was far away. When he heard the voice, he raised his head and saw that it was the owner of the spice shop on the street. He smiled politely, "It's only a little profit, and you can’t call it big business. It's nothing compared to Boss Xue's big business."

"What's the matter? Song Yong is a well-known merchant. He will send the silk and satin from Suzhou every year. Many big houses in the city rely on him to get good fabrics from him, and many cloth shops look at his fabrics to do business. With such a character, the merchants in the city are eager to do business with him, but Boss Song always has vicious eyes. Since he came to the door, how can it be a small business."

Zhang Fangyuan raised his thick eyebrows slightly, and said the truth: "I am a small businessman

, it's really disrespectful not to know that Boss Song is such a character. If Boss Xue reminded me something earlier, I would keep him to eat in the restaurant next door before letting him go."

As he spoke, he heaved a long sigh, and his appearance didn’t seem to be fake. 

The boss surnamed Xue smiled when he heard the words, and didn't say much, thinking that Zhang Fangyuan, a big and tall man, really didn't look like a veteran in the business field. Now that he missed the opportunity to curry favor with Boss Song, he turned around and went back to the shop with peace of mind.

"The smell of this sauerkraut chicken can really be smelled across the street. Boss Zhang, do you smell it?"

Zhang Fangyuan tilted his head, looking at the proprietress of the cloth shop next door.

He couldn't help laughing: "Lao Tanqi's stewed chicken with sauerkraut is naturally delicious."