Chapter 330: Defend the Eight Front Teeth (4)_1
Pei Qian looked at her, not understanding. Such a big bundle, only ten copper coins for a hundred plants, where could they sell them without losing money!?
Pei Qin posted the price list, ten copper coins per bundle, one hundred plants per bundle, and anyone who wanted to plant them could come to the workshop to buy them.
Many people were eager to try, wanting to first plant a few in their vegetable gardens to see how it went. Some families pooled together to buy a bundle, divided them up at home, learned how to plant them, and got them into the ground.
Currently, the fields were all planted with wheat. Nobody had spare land to plant Chun Hong sweet potatoes, except for Pei Qin who had kept some land after planting spring soybeans. Most were just experimental plantings: a few plants were put into vegetable gardens to see how they would fare and whether they could be cultivated on a large scale in the fields.
Pei Qin also planted sweet potatoes on the slopes beneath Taiping Mountain, with sunflowers on top. This way, when it was time to harvest the sweet potatoes, they could get more by clipping shoots and dividing the plants, enough to sell as summer sweet potatoes.
Shen Songming, clutching Pei Qin’s clock and musical box, spent three days in the county town and collected more than a thousand taels of silver. Almost every wealthy aristocratic family in the county ordered a clock. Those who wanted to order a musical box had to wait their turn, unable to get one within the next three to five months.
When he returned, he handed a thousand taels of silver to Pei Qin, "Here is some silver for you to have on hand for now. When I sell more and make some money, I’ll come back next time and bring the rest of the silver to you."