Reborn as an Ugly Wife in the Countryside
Chapter 109: The Competitor Appears

Chapter 109: Chapter 109: The Competitor Appears

Actually, Yang Ming wasn’t really after the wages; his relationship with his wife hadn’t improved, so he was just picking a quarrel for the sake of it!

"You didn’t do much work either!"

This stingy husband was really too much; he hadn’t done much and still expected to be paid?

"Didn’t I go up the mountain to chop firewood? Isn’t that used for the workshop?"

"..."

She had indeed forgotten about this, so she counted out 150 wen and gave it to Yang Ming, "Here you go!"

"..." That hadn’t been his intention; he just wanted to talk to his wife, how could he be so clumsy!

The next day, Yang Ming and Xiaoxiao went to the town; it had been two months and it was time to return the books! Upon returning home, they discovered everyone looking glum. "What happened?"

Big brother Yang Chun said, "Younger sister-in-law, what do we do? Someone else is buying up cabbages too, four wen per jin, we didn’t get any cabbages today!"

"..." So, a competitor had appeared. She hadn’t expected it to happen so quickly, and the first batch of pickled vegetables hadn’t even hit the market yet. Was someone competing with them in making spicy cabbage?

"How much inventory do we have left?"

"About 200,000 jin!"

That was a relief. She had decided to switch to pickling vegetables as the process wasn’t as complicated as making spicy cabbage, and since it had to be pickled for over a month before selling, she had asked Da Jin Tui for capital, increasing the production of pickled vegetables, and consequently, they had more in stock!

She thought the cabbage nearby must’ve been almost completely bought up, so she said, "Let’s buy from other towns!"

"And the price?"

"If we really have to, we’ll also go to four wen!"

But the second day, her elder and second brother came back with furrowed brows and troubled faces, "They’re buying cabbages in the outer towns too, and the price has gone up to five wen a jin!"

"..."

Now they were really challenging her! She had to think hard about what to do next! Who was the opponent exactly? Should she discuss with Da Jin Tui?

Seeing his wife’s distressed appearance, Yang Ming asked, "How many cabbages are we short of?"

"Fifty thousand!" At most a hundred thousand, but she was afraid Yang Ming wouldn’t be able to handle it, so she said fifty thousand. Besides, there weren’t many days left to make pickled vegetables! After the New Year, it would be too late!

"Leave it to me!"

"What can you do?"

"Just wait for my news! Take all the silver we have!"

Xiaoxiao inexplicably felt that Yang Ming could handle it and handed over the remaining five hundred taels of capital to him.

Yang Ming, together with three other men from the family, set out.

But five days went by with no word from the four brothers, and the price of cabbages in the entire county had been driven up to thirty wen per jin, more expensive than rice!

Xiaoxiao was getting restless, and everyone at home was as anxious as a pot of boiling porridge, fearing something had happened to the four brothers.

Da Jin Tui must have already been aware of the situation, but he hadn’t contacted her, which she found very strange.

"Who would’ve thought cabbages could become so expensive. We might have been better off not selling at the start!"

"How much did your family sell for?"

"We sold ours at fifteen wen, should’ve waited some more!"

"My family got twenty wen!"

People in the streets and alleys of the county were having these conversations, asking how much each had sold for, with those who sold for less regretting it, stirring up a cabbage craze!

At home, they continued making pickled cabbage as usual. Another five days passed, and the price of cabbages in the entire county had been inflated to an astronomical sixty wen, with the New Year almost upon them and still no word from the four brothers, Xiaoxiao was filled with regret! She shouldn’t have let them go!

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