New Goal

The Eldest Uncle did not answer Tian Caihua directly after hearing her. "It's still the New Year season these days, and we can sell two or three hundred jin of fish and shrimp a day. I think four hundred jin could sell too, but when I first started, I didn't dare take too much. I took only ten or twenty jin of each kind, thirty at most, and brought a wider variety."

"Look at my tiny stall. How many kinds of fish do I have here? Ten or eight kinds already! I even have some displayed on the ground! Since the front-row stalls have a little more space than the others, I made use of it."

"Besides, I tried to avoid overlapping the kinds of fish your Eldest Uncle and I brought as much as possible. Our two stalls are side by side, so we thought this way we could retain more customers."

The Eldest Uncle added, "On the first day, we took only around a hundred jin of goods, and sold out in no time. The second day, we only dared to take another hundred jin, and that sold out quickly too. We saw the stall next to us taking three or four hundred jin of fish every day, so today we finally brought more—over three hundred jin."

Neither the Eldest Uncle nor the Second Uncle had ever done this kind of work. They were both feeling their way across the river by stepping on stones, so they were being more cautious.

But many people in the market had experience.

Tian Caihua asked again, "They can sell three or four hundred jin too? Then they must earn quite a bit a day! Can you make fifty cents per jin of fish?"

The Second Uncle said, "That works for expensive