He has a spatial ability and saves three children on his escape route.

Chapter 117 Busy (2)

Upon arriving in Fancheng, Wen Yuxia went to a real estate agency and purchased a relatively secluded courtyard as their base in Fancheng. She then learned from the agency's clerk that there were a total of fifteen wineries in Fancheng.

After searching through all the wineries, Wen Yuxia chose three that weren't doing well, placing three orders totaling 10,000 jin. Bei Si asked in confusion, "Young master, these wineries aren't doing well, why did you choose to buy their wine?"

Wen Yuxia smiled and said, "The fifteen distilleries all produce liquor of similar quality at the same price point. The poor business of these distilleries has nothing to do with the liquor itself, but rather with their management methods. Choosing them will give you a more favorable price..."

She managed to reduce the price of top-quality liquor, which was five taels of silver per pound, to four taels per pound. After processing it further, she could sell it for ten taels of silver per pound.

A medium-to-low-grade white liquor, costing one tael of silver per jin, would be sold by distilleries for a minimum of seven hundred copper coins per jin. After purification, it could be used to make pomegranate wine, and then sold for three taels of silver per jin, yielding a considerable profit.

Bei Si playfully cupped his hands and said, "I've learned a lot."

Ten thousand catties of liquor completely emptied the inventories of three distilleries. The distillery managers, overjoyed, offered to deliver the liquor to Wen Yuxia free of charge. Wen Yuxia was delighted, as it saved her another sum of money.

After leaving the delivery address, Wen Yuxia turned and left gracefully: "North Three and North Four, go back and collect your goods. North One and North Two, come with me to the dock for a stroll."

At the dock, cargo ships and small boats mingled, the sounds of unloading, hawking, and various other noises highlighting the dock's bustling activity. The mountains of goods piled up on the shore made Wen Yuxia's eyes light up.

She looked around and discovered spices such as pepper, ambergris, frankincense, agarwood, tortoiseshell, and areca nut; and a wide variety of daily necessities, including porcelain bowls, jars, bottles, glass cups, glass bottles, and rosewood dressing boxes.

She also saw many fishermen selling seafood on their small boats: mackerel, ribbonfish, pomfret, yellow croaker, crabs, shrimp, abalone, oysters, and seaweed.

Wen Yuxia's heart skipped a beat. If she could transport these seafood goods back to the capital alive, she would surely make a fortune. Just as she was thinking this, she suddenly heard a commotion. It turned out that several fishermen and a merchant were arguing.

The merchant offered 20 taels of silver to buy all the seafood on the boat, but the fishermen refused to sell, demanding that all the seafood be sorted, weighed, and priced according to market value.

“Sorting is too much trouble. I also need to hurry to get the seafood back to the city and sell it all by the ship. I'll give you an extra two taels of silver.”

Merchants didn't want to waste time sorting and weighing the fish. Sea fish don't survive long out of the sea, and live sea fish can fetch a good price when transported back to the city.

Even after being packaged and sold as a whole, the goods still lingered here, being sorted, weighed, and sold individually. The sorted and weighed cargo on board was worth 25 taels, but the merchants only offered 22 taels for the packaged goods.

It was a difficult choice. The group exchanged glances, and the leading fisherman hesitated, about to agree to sell the entire batch, when Wen Yuxia stepped forward.

She flaunted her folding fan, indicating her willingness to charter the entire ship's cargo for 23 taels of silver. The leading fisherman asked, "We have five ships of cargo in total. Do you want them all, young master?"

The merchant bought the cargo from five ships at a price of 22 taels of silver per ship. Even if Wen Yuxia offered a higher price, he wouldn't agree to buy all the cargo from the five ships unless she agreed to do so.

Wen Yuxia said generously, "I'll take all the seafood from all five boats." The fisherman nodded in agreement and then quickly went to the car dealership to rent a car for Wen Yuxia.

Wen Yuxia bought several hundred fish baskets lined with oiled paper from a roadside general store. She had Bei Yi and Bei Er scoop a lot of seawater into the baskets, and then had the fishermen carefully place the fish into the baskets and load them onto the horse-drawn cart.

The coachman led her to the grove she specified, while she was responsible for storing the baskets of seafood the coachmen had left behind in the grove into her spatial storage.

After doing all this, Wen Yuxia returned to the dock and bought some seashell handicrafts, intending to give them as gifts when she returned to Xinchuan County in the future.

Before coming to Fancheng, Wen Yuxia had already told Nan Yi and the others that she had special methods for storing goods. At this moment, Bei Yi and Bei Er were not at all surprised that the seafood on the five fishing boats had disappeared.

The two sat steadily on the carriage shaft, calmly driving the carriage towards the city.

Early the next morning, five carriages filed out. The first carriage carried Wen Yuxia and four maids, while the following four carriages were filled with baijiu (Chinese liquor).

The remaining liquor in the carriage was all stored into Wen Yuxia's spatial storage. Sitting in the carriage, Wen Yuxia's lips curled into a wide smile. She was very glad that she had left some of the supplies in her spatial storage at the mansion before leaving, making room for the liquor and seafood.

This trip was incredibly fruitful. The liquor will last the distillery for a long time, and the fresh seafood in the space, besides being sold to Ruyi Tower and other restaurants, can also be sent to the palace for the Emperor to enjoy.

The Emperor loves to eat seafood, but most of the seafood sent from Fancheng to the capital is half-dead. If she brings back live, wriggling seafood for the Emperor, he will surely be very happy.

In the capital, at Princess Mu Hua's residence, Zhang Jinxuan personally led a convoy to pick up seafood early in the morning. Last night, Wen Yuxia had sent someone to inform him that fresh seafood was available for sale.

"Sister Yuxia, how did you do that?" Zhang Jinxuan asked in surprise, looking at the fish and shrimp breathing happily in the fish basket.

Wen Yuxia said modestly, "I just transported it the same way everyone else did. I guess I was lucky."

"I'll take them all," Zhang Jinxuan said arrogantly, waving his hand. Besides Yunyi Tower, Xia Yichen owned other restaurants, and both the Zhang and Li families had their own restaurants in the capital. These fresh ingredients had to be taken entirely.

"Brother Jinxuan, after you take the seafood back, have someone gently tap the water surface with a wooden stick every fifteen minutes. This will help the fish and shrimp live a few more days. Oh, and I also brought back about ten baskets of seawater. You can take them with you!"

Zhang Jinxuan generously gave her three hundred taels of silver, and Wen Yuxia was not stingy either, teaching Zhang Jinxuan a method for manually generating oxygen.

Zhang Jinxuan led the convoy away with a smile. The bubbles produced by tapping the water with wooden sticks could increase the survival time of fish and shrimp, which was a great thing for the restaurant!

After seeing Zhang Jinxuan off, Wen Yuxia sent people to deliver seafood to the Emperor, Empress Dowager, Empress, Crown Prince, and Crown Prince's grandson. She then instructed the kitchen to prepare a seafood feast.

That evening, everyone in the princess's mansion enjoyed steamed sea fish, spicy crab, boiled shrimp, braised abalone, garlic oysters, and more...

The next day, Nan Er led five horse-drawn carts carrying pomegranate trees to a farm on the outskirts of Beijing. Wen Yuxia had brought five hundred pomegranate trees from Xinchuan County, and it took Nan Yi and his team several days to deliver all the trees to the farm.

In addition to transporting fruit trees, Nan Er and his group also had to instruct Gu Zhuangtou and his men on how to plant fruit trees and explain the techniques of grafting them.

Wen Yuxia personally demonstrated the process of purifying baijiu to the workers at the distillery on the farm. Half a month passed in the blink of an eye amidst the busy work.

Upon receiving the message from Zhang Jinxuan, Wen Yuxia rushed back to the capital and put the pomegranate wine and purified liquor she had brought from Xinchuan County into the tavern.

Looking at the large wine jars neatly arranged in the tavern's cellar, Wen Yuxia smiled with satisfaction.