Proud Farm Girl With A Space

Chapter 21

By noon Su Nuo's wild peaches had attracted a handful of buyers. This time of year there were peaches being picked in large quantities by fruit farmers, so one copper coin could buy a jin of peaches on the market.

Because of that, their wild peaches could not be sold at a very high price. In the end, they priced their peaches at one copper coin for four peaches and they sold almost all of them. After all, they were cheaper than the peaches raised by fruit farmers and on a hot day like this, when people were tired from studying all morning, who wouldn't want to eat a peach or two as they took a rest?

When lunch time ended and the students all disappeared back to class, Jiang He gave his wife a look. Madam Qian nodded and walked over toward Su Tang, she pretended to clear a table while she quietly asked Su Tang to go talk to Jiang He alone.

Su Tang agreed and pulled Su Nuo over to the alley where she had met Jiang He just now. Jiang He was waiting for them there and he couldn't hide the joy on his face. As soon as he saw Su Tang coming, he quickly thanked her. "Thank you for your advice. I'm Jiang He and you saw my wife, Madam Qian. I wonder what your name is?"

"My name is Su Tang." Su Tang said.

"Here is the money for the thirty fish balls you gave me today, a total of twenty copper coins. Miss Su, see if it's right." The first thing Jiang He did was give her the money for the fish balls.

Su Tang counted quickly and found that the number was correct. She put the money away, then smiled and said, "It seems Brother Jiang has made up his mind."

"Yes, because of your fish balls the business in our stall today was much better than before. According to Miss Su's words before, can you continue to provide us with more fish balls?"

Earlier Jiang He had been frowning unhappily when Su Tang had pulled him aside but now that he had made some money he was all smiles. He even brought up the words Su Tang had said before about cooperation.

Su Tang nodded. "It's settled then. How many fish balls do you want for tomorrow? I'll bring them to you."

When he heard Su Tang's words, Jiang He remembered something, "I don't know if Miss Su can make your delivery earlier in the day? Our stall also sells breakfast, so..."

"I'm afraid that wouldn't be easy. If I wanted to bring them earlier I would have to stay up late to make the fish balls, but I don't have a lamp. And if I rush to try to make them during the day and the bones don't all get cleaned out that would be no good either, right?"

The fish balls were actually made in the processing plant in her space so bringing some for breakfast was not actually impossible. But Su Tang refused anyway because it was an unreasonable request when you considered various factors. After all, this was not the modern times where there were electric lights to use at night, so it would be strange if she could make fish balls at night.

Jiang He also felt lost when he heard her reason, he wished there was a way to get more fish balls, but there was nothing he could do about it.

Su Tang decided then and there she would never provide too many fish balls for them on any one day. Scarcity would just cause more discussion and attention, and the business of the other products in the stall would get better as well. That way Jiang He and his wife would be able to see the benefits of doing limited sales.

"Well, bring them to me before lunch time then." Jiang He agreed. Then he discussed some specific terms of cooperation with Su Tang, after which they found someone nearby who could write out the contract for them, and then signed the contract.

Like this, Jiang He asked Su Tang to bring 60 more fish balls the next day and gave her half of the deposit up front. But, even though their cooperation had been formally established, he didn't dare to ask for more than 60 at once because of their conversation.