Jiang Qinyu piled all the silver notes, silver coins, and copper coins she had received on the table and said to everyone with a smile, "They're all here."

"so much!"

"Quick, count how many there are!"

"Don't push, don't push! Can you even count them? Let Ah Zheng's wife count them!"

"..."

Finally, in front of everyone, Jiang Qinyu counted all the silver notes and coins on the table.

"The total is one thousand and fifty-three taels and six mace, plus eighty-six copper coins," Jiang Qinyu announced the final amount.

The room fell silent. Everyone stared wide-eyed at the neatly arranged banknotes, silver coins, and copper coins on the table.

"This...is too much, isn't it?" Chen Shao murmured.

The others also snapped out of their daze, staring at the silver and swallowing hard.

They only knew that they had enough prey from the mountains, and at first, everyone just wanted to eat meat, so they didn't think much about it.

But now all that meat has been converted into money, and the visual and auditory impact is simply too shocking.

And this is after the village kept four sheep!

Jiang Qinyu explained, "It's because we made the right choice to come to the prefectural city. We didn't know they liked to eat mutton before. If it were in Yongshan County, it would probably only sell for half the price here."

It's not that Yongshan County is offering low prices, but rather that no one is buying. If no one is buying, then they have to lower the prices. If the prices are low, they will receive less.

Yukang Prefecture is different. Mutton is very popular. Even Zuixianju, which the owner of Kangyue Inn said was the most difficult to talk to, bought ten sheep. It is normal for ordinary people to buy two or three catties at a time.

In addition, tiger bones are sold separately, and when combined with tiger meat, the price is even higher than selling a whole tiger, which is extremely rare.

"Don't forget, we still have quite a few hides that we haven't sold yet," Meng Tianze said excitedly.

Liu Erleng slapped his forehead, "Right, we still have hides to sell!"

“The hides probably won’t fetch much money,” Jiang Qinyu had to pour cold water on their hopes. “Many of our hides aren’t intact, especially tiger skins, which won’t sell for a good price.”

Meng Tianze nodded and said, "That's right, why don't we just find a merchant and sell all these hides together?"

With over a thousand taels of silver in front of them, the price of a single piece of leather—a few taels, or even less than a tael—no longer excited them.

"Then Brother Meng will come with me this afternoon. The rest of you can go into town first and ask about the prices of the things we want to buy. We'll go shopping tomorrow morning and head home in the afternoon," Jiang Qinyu arranged.

Liu Erleng was the most frugal person in the village. Hearing this, he quickly asked, "Why don't we buy the things this afternoon? We can leave the city tonight and save money on a hotel room!"

“Uncle Erleng, we probably can’t save this money,” Jiang Qinyu said helplessly. “We have too many things to buy, and the shop may need to transfer some goods.”

They can place their order while they're inquiring about prices this afternoon, and pick it up tomorrow morning. This way, they can buy everything as quickly as possible and get back home tomorrow.

“Sister-in-law is right. Then let’s go around asking around this afternoon and finalize everything that can be settled,” Meng Tianze said.

Jiang Qinyu thought for a moment and said, "How about I make a shopping list for everyone to avoid buying duplicates?"

“That’s a good idea,” Jiang Dacheng nodded repeatedly. “I was just wondering what to do if I bought too much!”

Liu Yazi scratched his head awkwardly and looked at Jiang Qinyu, saying, "But Sister-in-law Lu, we can't read!"

"It's alright, I can draw it out on the list for you, and everyone will understand at a glance," Jiang Qinyu said with a helpless smile.

Few people in Dingshui Village are literate; even the village chief only knows a few simple characters, let alone the others.

Because they were illiterate and couldn't do math, most farmers in that era rarely traveled far. They sold whatever they had right at their doorstep, and they didn't even realize how ridiculously low the prices were.

No, we'll have to find a way to set up a literacy class later. At least they need to recognize common characters and be able to do basic arithmetic.

Having made up her mind, Jiang Qinyu told them to go eat first, and she would make a list and bring it to them later.

After they left, Jiang Qinyu went straight into the space.

Currently, she has only unlocked the grain and oil area and the aquatic product area. There is nothing in these two areas that she can quickly monetize. The price of cloth in Yukang Prefecture is between 300 and 450 wen per bolt.

In other words, if she wanted to buy a thousand bolts of cloth, she would need to prepare at least three hundred taels of silver.

Jiang Qinyu's gaze fell on the condiment section of the grain and oil area. No, selling condiments would be too slow; she didn't have time.

That leaves only one option...

In the afternoon, Jiang Qinyu and Meng Tianze took the hides to a trading company in the city and sold all the hides, good and bad, in one go, earning a total of over sixty taels of silver.

After leaving the trading company, Meng Tianze didn't rush to catch the carriage, but instead strolled around the area with Jiang Qinyu.

Just a few dozen meters away, Jiang Qinyu heard a system notification in her mind.

[Ding! Sufficient items have been detected to complete the mission. Please proceed to collect them as soon as possible!]

Jiang Qinyu looked up and scanned the area, and sure enough, she saw a fabric shop about two hundred meters ahead.

We finally found it!

"Brother Meng, I'd like to go check out the cloth shop," Jiang Qinyu said, pointing ahead.

Knowing they wanted to buy cloth, Meng Tianze nodded and said, "The cloth shop is full of women, so I won't go in. Sister-in-law, you can go in and talk to them. I'll take care of carrying the things."

"Okay, I'll go in first then." Jiang Qinyu said and walked towards the cloth shop.

She went inside and took a look around. The fabrics here were very complete, covering all groups in a comprehensive way.

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