[Liu Banxian (6)] Ni Bodhisattva took advantage of the situation and followed the mules and horses. Sister Chun quickly arrived at the treasure land book to pick up the previous chapter and then continue the new chapter. It is said that the reason why Liu Sanbao proposed to open

[Liu Banxian (6)] Bodhisattva Ni followed the trend, and Sister Chun arrived at the treasure land first.

The book continues the previous chapter and continues with a new chapter.

It is said that the reason why Liu Sanbao proposed to open a mule and horse business in Yanyan Bay was entirely based on the three major factors of the right time, location and people.

days ago, the main trend was the reclamation of abandoned stoves along the coast. Reclaiming wasteland to grow grain and cotton was different from the original traditional fishing and burning salt. There was definitely a demand for animal power.

The geographical location is favorable, not to mention that Yanyan Bay connects the east and west and is located at the crossroads between traditional agricultural areas and emerging reclamation areas. The topography of Yanyan Bay is a place where gold and wealth can be gathered from the geographical and feng shui point of view.

Renhe, Bodhisattva Ni is also called Bodhisattva. According to Yi theory, character is Feng Shui. In addition to being a shrewd and understanding person, Bodhisattva Ni is kind-hearted and willing to do good deeds. He is also famous in the local area.

As far as Sanbao knows, the Ni family's house is very beautiful and has a tall pillar, but it has no door. Sanbao had just returned from the provincial capital. When he arrived at Ni's house, he felt strange. Why was such a nice house blocked by a fence?

It turned out that a neighbor not far away died and his family had no money to bury him. When Ni Bodhisattva learned about it, he did not hesitate and immediately asked someone to go home and take down the door of his house. He also asked someone to make a thin-skinned coffin before burying his neighbor. . However, the door of my house is still empty because I have never bought suitable wood.

Therefore, the Three Jewels have always respected Bodhisattva Ni, and I believe that such a person will definitely be able to accomplish great things.

Now the mule and horse shop is about to open, but there are still a few things that must be arranged before the opening.

So Liu Sanbao and Ni Bodhisattva divided their labors. What Ni Bodhisattva had to do was to invite friends. He ran for two days to distribute invitations to the surrounding villages. With Ni Bodhisattva's face, he invited Wanyuanhu, Tan Delong and Su Jinguang and dozens of friends from big farming families will come to visit and support.

But Liu Sanbao's matters were more important, and others could not replace him. He had to make a special trip to Yancheng .

There are larger mule and horse shops at the east gate and south gate of Yancheng. Sanbao came to Yancheng in advance and invited several livestock dealers through the shop owner, including Xia Mawei who specialized in selling horses, and Yu Er who sold donkeys Cakes, cattle sellers are very tough, including pig sellers, sheep sellers and sheep skin collectors.

Liu Sanbao found a small restaurant, ordered a few dishes, and treated them to a special meal. He introduced to them the geographical location of Yanyan Bay, especially the large-scale reclamation of abandoned stoves in the sea, and invited everyone to go together. Do business and make a fortune.

Those vendors were originally doing business. I heard that there is such a good place called Yanyan Bay next to the East China Sea. It is a Feng Shui treasure land to make a fortune. Of course, I was very happy. They all readily accepted the invitation and promised to do it. Bring the best animals to trade.

After he secured his trust in the cattle dealer, Liu Sanbao started talking to the small restaurant owner and talked about the small market town of Yanyan Bay that was about to develop greatly. The young boss's name is Jingang Qi, and his mother-in-law's surname is Yang Chunnu. His brother-in-law is next door, and his surname is Bao. Both families make cooked food and snacks. When I heard Sanbao say something like this, I felt like I was in a trance after taking a big cigarette.

Especially Bao Er and Yang Chun are more motivated. It turns out that Bao Er's family was originally a well-off family, but Bao Er got into the bad habit of smoking. Within a few years, he emptied the family fortune shared by his ancestors, leaving him naked and impoverished. Sister Yang Chun was originally born into a poor family on the street. Her parents did not earn a living, and there were many brothers and sisters in the family. As the eldest sister in the family, Sister Yang Chun had to go out to pick up customers and do business very early, and she was miserable.

Later, he met the down-and-out Bao Er, and then he started a family. Fortunately, Chong Mei had already married Jingang Qi, who owned a small restaurant, and the two learned to open a snack shop and began to live an ordinary life.

Unfortunately, there are too many people who know them in the city, and I feel very low self-esteem and feel like I can’t hold my head high. In addition, business is really slow and life is not easy. It can be said that it is difficult to get going.Now when I hear Sanbao talking about Yanyan Bay, I am eager to try it out and hope to start a new life in a new place.

At that time, in the early years of the Republic of China, with years of war and floods and droughts, the lives of ordinary people were very difficult, and it was simply impossible to make a living. The world is not peaceful either. The bandits have gone away, and the gangsters have come to exploit us. Taxes are heavy and rents are high, making it difficult for these small restaurants to maintain.

Bao Er and his wife immediately decided to follow Liu Sanbao to Yanyan Bay. They believe that as long as the place is small and popular, as Sanbao said, it will be fine. Craftsmen rely on their craftsmanship to make a living. Anyway, it is better to become an artist in a famine year than to squat in the city half-dead. Jingang Qi and Yang Chunmei saw that their sister and brother-in-law were both attracted to each other, so they said they were willing to accompany them. First, they had a lot of business, and second, the sisters could take care of each other.

Liu Sanbao saw that they were all running a small business, so he suggested that they not be too busy setting up the charter, but go over first to take a look and weigh it, and then prepare some sesame cakes, fried dough sticks, sesame dumplings, cakes, and Beijing on the opening day of the mule and horse shop. Gangqizi went to sell it and try it. If you think the market is OK, then plan the next step.

Bao Er and Jingang Qi both think it's okay. I'll take a look at it in a few days. If it's really good, it won't be too late to decide.

With everything planned, Sanbao happily returned to Yanyan Bay.

Besides, after many days of preparation, Sanbao still chose an auspicious day for the mule and horse shop to finally officially open. On the opening day of

, three to four hundred people gathered on the short street. There were farmers from the surrounding villages who came at invitation, vendors from out of town, and local people who came around to watch the excitement. It was a huge crowd.

The venue of the Mule and Horse Walk was even more crowded, and the sounds of bargaining could be heard endlessly. The busiest ones were Ni Bodhisattva and Liu Sanbao.

Ni Bodhisattva kept greeting the guests and helped them negotiate prices; Sanbao helped keep accounts and collected commissions. Even Aunt Ni and Xiaofeng came. They were so busy that they couldn't stop acting, and it was a busy scene of a successful opening.

Local farmers have never seen so many and so cheap livestock of all kinds, and they all want to buy them to reduce labor intensity. Because the seaside is vast and sparsely populated, larger farmers have a hundred or eighty acres of land. In the past, we mostly planted extensively and harvested little. If we had enough animal power, we could consider intensive farming.

First of all, the few cattle brought by Niu Dehen were quickly robbed. Xia Mawei's three horses, which originally came to visit first, were also taken away at once. The donkeys and mules brought by Yu Erbing were also sold.

Wanyuanhu and Delong both happily led a big animal. Su Jinguang not only bought a big mule, but also led a few sheep. After buying it, he rode the mule and ran around in the small street several times, looking very proud. , causing pedestrians on both sides to watch and cheer.

The two pig and sheep dealers are also very popular. Many small and medium-sized households cannot afford large livestock, so they catch one or two small pigs and raise them. Anyway, they don’t need to feed much food. They can just pick the small pigs and vegetables. During the Chinese New Year, not only do people eat meat, but they also eat pig butts. There are also people who buy sheep and raise them freely. There are no good things on the seaside, but there is plenty of green grass.

Because they didn’t know what the market was going to be like, neither the pig dealer nor the sheep dealer dared to bring more supplies, saying that they must bring more piglets and lambs in the next episode.

Of course, the busier ones are Jingang Qi and Bao Er. Those country people on the seaside are used to eating stick rice and barley grits porridge. They rarely eat cooked food that is only available in the city. They are happier than during the Chinese New Year. "Sesame balls, deep-fried ghosts, so delicious that you'll bite your tongue" is probably passed down from that time.

What's more important is that the villagers have never seen a city woman dressed in a flashy dress, with eyebrows and lipstick painted on, which made many people stop and watch, and those who were shopping or not had to stop and linger. a while. In particular, Sister Yang Chun flirted with the men who had nothing to say to talk to each other from time to time, adding a bit of human fireworks to the originally silent Xiaotou. All the cooked food they shipped from Yancheng was sold out.

The original shop selling cooked food on the street couldn't even greet them. Others had never seen so many people on the small street. It was so hot and noisy. They all cooked porridge and some pickles and set up a small table. There were also many people visiting the door. For example, Lai Haima and Chang Meili, a couple who own a tofu shop, not only have sold out all the tofu sheets, unlike before, they had to pick them out and entrust them to others. I cooked two pots of porridge and was busy from morning to afternoon.

The sea is wide enough for fish to leap, and the sky is wide enough for birds to fly. Sister Yang Chun had had enough of the depressing life in the city. Looking at the empty land in the surrounding areas, the clear water in Yanyan Bay, the flow of people coming and going in the small streets, and the simple and kind-hearted local people, she and Bao Er immediately decided not to leave. In Hexi, a straw shed was set up next to Lai Haima and Chang Meili, who came first, and "Chun Jie Snacks" was opened.

Jingang Qi and Yang Chunmei also made up their mind and went back to deal with the original leased storefront, purchased some appliances, bought a thatched house of a local farmer on the east end of the street, and opened Chunmei Delicatessen.

The mules and horses are held every five days, attracting villagers from all over the surrounding areas. They will take to the streets when there is nothing to do, and there will be more people during the market. This also attracted more foreign craftsmen and businessmen. For example, there are more and more people who shave heads, work as tailors, blacksmiths, open pharmacies, and sell groceries. There are more and more houses in the small streets. Although they are all simple with mud walls and thatched roofs, they all have couch doors and have large or small facades.

The arrival of Sister Yang Chunmei and Sister Yang Chunmei, together with Chang Meili and others who turned out to be natives of this hometown, suddenly made the small street very lively. The three women were already a drama, but with a few more tricks added, Yanyan Bay not only gained popularity but also gained vitality, becoming a decent small market town.

However, when it comes to Chang Meili, not only is she really beautiful, she is also very smart, but she is also busy with new things later on, which makes his dwarf general Lai Haima very troubled and helpless. It was all thanks to Liu Sanbao's help and advice that the crisis was resolved and it even turned into a classic and dramatic story, otherwise it would probably have gotten out of hand.

Of course this is something to talk about later.

If you want to know what kind of classic story they interpret, please listen to the next chapter.

[Postscript] Liu Sanbao is indeed a real person. When the author was about ten years old (in the early 1960s), I often saw an old man named Liu Sanbao. This man wears a sloppy hat with a white paper bone inserted in front of the hat; there are no buttons on the cotton-padded jacket, tied with three straw ropes. His name is euphemistically said: "With three 'purple gold hoops' on his body, he can travel all over the world without being hungry."

Some people say that Liu Sanbao is a bookish person who has lost his brain after reading too many books; others say that Liu Sanbao has great wisdom and was a capable person in the past, but later he pretended to be crazy and acted like a fool.

Thinking about it, the latter possibility is also possible. In that special era at that time, if you continued to help people tell fortunes and read fortunes, you would be killed sooner or later. But after he became a bookish person, no one cared about him. It was really wisdom.

Later, by chance, I met Mr. Gao Siye (the author of the long mythological novel "Huaguoshan"), who knew a lot about Liu Sanbao; and he also met Mr. Hongdao (the president of Jiangsu Yi College), Liu Sanbao's close disciple. They told many anecdotes about Liu Banxian. De Xian sorted it out in order to pursue the passing years and the gradually disappeared customs and customs together.

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