Chapter 694 - Agricultural Merchants Came To Purchase (1/2)

It was the first time for He Xiyan to see such a scene. Before, Chen Jiahang came alone. She had been confined at home for more than two months and could not go out. Then she refused to eat anything for two days, which frightened Chen Jiahang to tears, then he could only set her free.

She looked at a board brought by the merchant, which showed the purchase price of various agricultural products:

Local chicken: 8 yuan/jin

Local duck: 6.5 yuan/jin

Bacon: 7 yuan/jin

Local eggs: 0.3 yuan each

Local duck eggs: 0.4 yuan each

Dried chili pepper: 4.5 yuan/jin

Dried fish pieces (bullhead or grass carp): 6 yuan/jin

Fire-dried fish: 7 yuan/jin

…

What a low price! So cheap?

Looking at the price list, He Xiyan could not help sighing deeply, indeed feeling sympathy for the villagers living here. These agricultural products must be sold in the city market at least four times the purchase price, and some even more than five or six times the purchase price.

The profit was earned by the middlemen. The peasants here worked hard and ended up with a little income. Nevertheless, they had no other way. With no knowledge and a little literacy, they didn’t know how to sell their products. What was worse, the traffic here was inconvenient. Living far from the city, they had been in the mountains all year round, having no way to get to know the outside world.