Around the Qingming Festival, the weather gets warmer day by day.
In the past, during this time, it was popular to eat cherries in Chang'an City.
After all, there were no other fruits except cherries at this time.
One of the most popular ways to eat it is butter cherries, which is to pour some cane syrup cheese on top of the cherries.
The price is quite expensive, and most non-rich people cannot afford it.
In recent years, canned fruits have become popular in Chang'an City, especially loquat, bayberry, lychee and longan.
Many people have never even heard of them in the past.
The canned loquats and bayberry cans transported thousands of miles from the Jiangnan area are very expensive.
The canned lychees and longan cans from Lingnan are sold at even higher prices.
On the other hand, the canned oranges from Huainan are very expensive.
Relatively low.
There are also many people in Chang'an who use some local fruits to make cans.
In summer and autumn, when some seasonal fruits come down, they buy some with the farmers who go to the city with carts to sell fruits.
It doesn’t have to be the best-looking ones.
It doesn’t matter if they are ugly.
Peel and remove the cores, then pack them carefully one by one.
According to the canning methods spread among the people, make a jar of cans and put them in.
In the corner.
In winter, when the heated kang was burning in the house, both adults and children felt thirsty, so they opened a jar of canned food and took it out to eat.
The weather has been getting hotter recently, which is a good time for canned food business.
Many vendors have taken up the burden and walked through the streets and alleys to sell canned goods, including canned peaches, canned apricots, canned pears and canned plums.
Some people cook their cans sweeter, while others are stingy and don't bother to add syrup when cooking the cans, resulting in a very bland taste.
There are also those who are generous and can buy you a big bowl for a penny, and there are those who are stingy.
Yes, I would only give half a bowl for a penny.
Whether it's a big bowl or a small bowl, sweet or not, the people of Chang'an can buy a bowl of canned fruit for just a penny in this season when there is basically no fruit to eat.
Around Qingming Festival, the sun was quite bright during the day.
After walking outside for half a day, I felt thirsty.
I ate a bowl of canned fruit.
It was cool, sweet and indescribably refreshing.
In this day and age, those who have the best and most convenient lives in the world are probably the people of Chang'an.
Far away in Changle County, at the western end of the Hexi Corridor, canned fruit is still a distant thing for local people.
There are not many fruits in this place all year round.
To the east of the Hexi Corridor, there are still some fruits such as persimmons and dates, but there are very few fruits west of Zhangye.
Grapes can be grown in Gaochang, but the distance from Gaochang City to Changle County is basically the same as the distance from Changle County to Liangzhou City, and there are still large tracts of Gobi Desert along the way.
On the streets of Changle County, you can also see some cold melons and melons in summer, but there are not many local people who know how to grow melons, and even fewer are willing to grow them.
Most of them are families with a better life, who plant a small melon patch to satisfy their children and grandchildren.
If the harvest is good, they pick a few loads and sell them in the city.
Sometimes they can sell them at a good price.
The time doesn’t matter, it depends on the year.
At the beginning of the third lunar month of this year, just two days after Luo Erniang and her cashmere workshop sent the goods to Liangzhou City, a group of melon vendors came from Yizhou.
These people hired more than 20 wooden carriages and came all the way from Yiwu City.
One batch of goods was unloaded in Jinchang, another batch was unloaded in Changle, and the rest were transported to Dunhuang.
When the magistrate of Luo County heard that Yiwu people were coming to sell melons in their city, he also ran out to watch the excitement.
When Luo Yong passed by, he saw the Yiwu people spreading a few straw mats under the wall and placing the melons on the straw mats one by one.
Some people also used razors to cut several melons into pieces.
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Shaochang Leren stood there and swallowed his saliva.
Magistrate Luo squeezed in and took a look, and also swallowed his saliva.
The last time someone gave him a melon was more than half a year ago.
As soon as he smelled the sweet melon, his mouth watered.
It should be said that if this era has not developed to a certain extent, no matter how capable you are, you still can't eat what you should not be able to eat.
"How do you sell this melon?"
Luo Yong pointed to the melon on the straw mat and asked the Yiwu people.
"Forty cents a piece, ten cents a piece."
One of the men answered in Chinese with an Yiwu accent.
The Changle people who were watching, whether they knew the price earlier or not, heard him say this and suddenly let out a sigh.
“Too expensive too expensive” "Ten cents, that's all I can earn in two or three days."
"Gulu."
“Can’t afford it” "Tsk, tsk." "" The Changle people who were watching swallowed their saliva and complained that the melons were too expensive.
The Yiwu people pretended not to hear them and continued to move the melons, cut the melons, and stood still.
Infinitely good literature, all in Jinjiang Literature City Even in Yiwu City, only a few rich people in the city can afford the melons after spring.
When shipped to Changle County, the price will naturally be more expensive after shipping.
Take a look at these Changle people in front of you.
None of them are dressed neatly, and they still have the temperament of the working people at the bottom.
They are also telling them that it takes two or three days to earn a piece of melon, and two or three days can earn a piece of melon.
Not bad either.
"Three, one hundred coins."
Magistrate Luo has already started bargaining.
"Not for sale."
The Yiwu guy opposite waved his hand and turned around to go back to his work.
"One hundred and ten coins."
Magistrate Luo said again.
The man stopped and thought for a moment, then nodded, pointed to the melons on the straw mat on the ground, and said, "You pick your own."
So Luo Yong picked three big melons from the melons on the ground, and then took out a bunch of copper coins from his arms.
"The county magistrate only buys three melons," someone next to him asked when he was paying.
"Just eat it fresh."
Luo Yong said with a smile.
When the man heard that the melon buyer in front of him who had just bargained with him was actually the magistrate of Changle County, he immediately retracted his hand that was about to collect the money.
Infinitely good literature, all in Jinjiang Literature City "At the next step is Lishi Luo Sanlang," he asked Luo Yong.
Several Yiwu people nearby also looked over at this time.
"Our county magistrate is Lishi Luo Sanlang."
The Changle people on the side helped Luo Yong answer.
"Get the coffin board."
Someone from behind added with a smile.
When I heard this, the expression on my face immediately changed.
For such a big and thick man, he looked quite scary.
I saw him quickly picking up a few good melons from the straw mat and stuffing them into Luo Yong's arms.
Although Luo Yong had grown up in the past two years, he was still no match for the Yiwu man opposite him. , being stuffed full of these melons, and not being able to hold on to two others, Gululu fell to the ground and rolled several times.
Fortunately, the melon had a thick skin and was not broken.
"Take it and eat it for free."
Nayiwu said in a loud voice.
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"What should I do?"
Although Luo Yong paid back the price, he didn't mean to take advantage of others.
Looking at the clothes of these people, they didn't look like a wealthy caravan.
These people wouldn't think that he was a caravan.
Come and enjoy the autumn breeze
"My brother is a straightforward man.
Don't blame the county magistrate."
At this time, the young man who was squatting on the ground cutting melons also stood up, put away his beard and bowed to Luo Yong.
The other Yiwu people looked at me and I looked at you, as if they didn't know what to say.
From the looks of these people, they didn't look like they came out to do business often.
"I just came here to buy a few melons, you don't need so many gifts."
Luo Yong smiled and put the few melons in his arms back on the straw mat, and asked someone to pass the two melons that rolled to the ground and put them over.
He took off the dagger hanging from his waist, cut the two melons, and distributed them to the people present.
"I will accept these two melons, and I'll keep the rest and sell them for money."
Two melons cost eighty cents, which was obviously not a small sum for the Yiwu people in front of them.
Everyone divided the two melons and ate them, talking while eating the melons.
The atmosphere in the melon stall suddenly became much more lively than before.
Some people in Changle asked what these Yiwu people did at home.
They didn't look like merchants, so how could they come to sell melons so far away in Changle County.
Those Yiwu people said that it turned out that they were from farmers, and some of them raised sheep at home.
Most of them were engaged in farming.
Their village was not far from Yiwu City, so some of them knew how to plant crops.
Some melons supplement life.
Last year there were rumors that the Turks were going to attack Yiwu, which made everyone in their Yiwu area feel in danger, and there were fewer businessmen from other places.
From last winter to the beginning of this spring, the melons have never been worth much.
People like them That is to say, with the attitude of giving it a try, I made an appointment with some acquaintances from nearby villages, and together we chartered more than 20 wooden rail carriages to transport the melons to the Jinchang Changle area of Dunhuang for sale.
When doing business in the area from Yiwu to Jinchang and Dunhuang, merchants used to carry mostly gold, silver, jewelry, and precious utensils.
Selling melons was probably something no one had ever thought about before.
After all, the journey is so long, the transportation is so difficult, and the melons are so heavy.
It has been transported thousands of miles.
How much does it cost to sell a melon to make a profit?
And considering how difficult this business is, it is impossible to earn thirty or fifty cents from a melon.
It’s not called making money.
Infinitely good literature, all in Jinjiang Literature City That is to say, after this wooden track was opened, transportation suddenly became very convenient.
Many merchants passed by Changle.
Some of these people were doing business in Yiwu, and some were selling tea.
There are liquor sellers, needlework sellers and even sauce sellers.
It is precisely because of this that these Yiwu people who are worried about selling melons came up with the idea of selling melons in their area of Changle County through wooden tracks.
For the local people in Changle County, this is the first time such a thing has happened.
Changle County is not a big town, so the news spread quickly.
Before long, people who got the news came to buy melons, including the local wealthy households and later tea merchants.
But in terms of who bought the most, it was It's Luo Erniang's cashmere workshop.
These carts of melons were all shared within half a day.
The Yiwu people were also very happy.
They found a restaurant in the county town for a good meal and left Changle County early the next morning on a wooden carriage. .
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More than ten days later, Luo Yong saw these people again.
These Yiwu men chose a better location under the wall on the right side of the entrance to Changle County and set up a long-term stable melon stall.
As time went by, the melons sold later were not as easy to sell as the first time.
These people were not in a hurry.
They left two or three people to guard the stall in Changle County, rented a house, and cooked on time every day.
When I was out of business, I would sit under the wall and sharpen my needles.
One look at that posture, and I knew I was going to take root in Changle County.
At first, these people did a rough business.
A piece of melon was as big as a quarter and sold for ten cents.
Later, the business became more and more sophisticated, and the melons were cut into smaller pieces.
The small one costs two cents, the larger one costs two cents, and the smallest one costs one cent.
Generally speaking, if a child can eat a penny worth of melon every few days, he is considered to be in good health.
These days, an adult only earns a few pennies a day and has to support his family.
How can he provide for his children every day?
Buy these snacks.
Magistrate Luo was rich.
Every time he went there, he would buy two cents of melon, and the stall owner would cut a big piece for him.
These children would always be envious of it.
The author has something to say: Yiwu is the current Hami area, and melon is Hami melon.
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