CH 73.2

Zhang Fangyuan said, "He released the news to me, and let me look at his shop on purpose."

"This surname Xue is really deceiving people too much, even if he rents the opposite shop, it’s still easy to talk about it, but he still cuts the price to grab business."

An San'er scolded the surname Xue severely, then he greeted the eighth generation of his ancestors and said, "Should I find some people to mess with him?"

Zhang Fangyuan looked down at An San'er: " What's the difference between finding someone to mess with him now and giving him a meal in person? Everyone will know that it’s my work. The door is open for business, it’s better to be careful in everything, you only need to do the things I entrusted to you well. "

An San'er put on a smiley face: "Can the little one also find ways to sell the goods? I will definitely not interfere with Brother Zhang's business."

Zhang Fangyuan raised the corner of his mouth: "Naturally."

"Okay, this matter will be left to the little one.”

An San'er asked for a favor and acted quickly, he quickly went to do what Zhang Fangyuan requested, and before the next day, someone came to Zhang Fangyuan in the afternoon.

"Thirty copper coins for toothbrush with pig hair and fifty copper coins for horse hair. The market price of tooth powder is thirty copper coins lower. You can decide how much you can sell them for. Everyone is a businessman, and each sells according to the market."

"Boss Zhang, since we do business with sincerity, the price should be more reasonable.”

Zhang Fangyuan couldn't help laughing: "It's already the lowest price. If you don't think the price is suitable, you can do whatever you want."

"Since you think the purchase price is so high, then you can find someone to supply it yourself."

"Naturally, it's just that your next step is to go around to hire carpenters, look for thatched cottages, or looking for retail merchants...... After the price is negotiated next to each other, not to mention if the calculated cost can be a few copper coins lower than here, it also takes energy and time. When the goods can go to the store, I'm afraid it will be next spring at the earliest. By then, those who buy the goods from me early have already made money, and how much money can you earn when you are late?"

Zhang Fangyuan said: "Everyone knows that this is piece of sweet pastry. Before I opened the business, I made a lot of preparations, and it took almost five months to settle down. There has been a stable supply of goods since its opening. I don't force you, whether it can be successful or not depends on each person's situation. If the business is not successful, we will still be friends when we meet in Siyang."

The merchants who came to discuss business only wanted to lower the price so that there would be more room for making money, and they were willing to buy the goods in their hearts.

If they had really found a way to supply the goods themselves as he said, there was no need for them to rush over when they got the news that Linglong Shop could provide them with the goods to sell outside the city.

Seeing that this boss was also tough and difficult to handle, he immediately softened his attitude.

"Boss Zhang's words are perfect, so...then we cooperated with Boss Zhang."

In three days, Zhang Fangyuan negotiated a good deal of business. Even if the shopkeepers from other shops went to the shop, many people came in and went out for a few days, the outsiders didn't know that they were here to discuss business, they just regardeded them as ordinary people coming to buy things.

"He is so calm, and he didn't come to pick quarrels. I heard that he used to be a bastard in the west city, this doesn't look like a bastard's temper."

"Maybe he has changed his mind after doing business. Master, are we going to let go the thugs hired from the martial arts hall? It’s a waste of money to keep them to guard the shop all day long.”

"It's really a waste of money to hire them." Xue De shook his head, squinted his eyes slightly with his hands behind his back, and stared at the shop downstairs across the street: " But I always feel that something is wrong, this kid looks like someone who has no brain but actually smart, maybe he is thinking about some big trick to punish me."

"Master, don't worry too much, maybe that kid has no foundation, Knowing that there is no good fruit to eat from fighting with the master, so he can only curl up and be a human being. Look at his shop, isn’t there still business, and it’s not like it’s running out of ammunition and no food left.”

[弹尽粮绝 dàn jìn liáng jué: out of ammunition and no food left (idiom); in desperate straits]

In the past few days, he sold toothbrushes and tooth powders, and the price was cheaper than the one opposite, which had been widely praised.

It was only after Xue De went into the water that he realized that selling the small piece of wood with some hairs turned out to be so profitable. He only regretted that he hadn't done it earlier. Now the business of his shop was booming, not only the toothbrushes were easy to sell, and because there were many visitors came to the shop, even the sale of the cloth became better.

"But these days I always see that the people who go in and out of the opposite shop look familiar, so don't be careless, go out and inquire for me."

"Yes."