Chapter 200 Why did you buy it?
"I know." Xiao Jiuyue stared at Aishanli and asked, "Your name is Aishan, right?"
"What do you want to do?" Aisan stepped back. Now he felt pain all over his body as if his bones were falling apart.
Those people from the Xue family are really going too far.
"Grapes, are there any more?" Xiao Jiuyue asked.
Aishan looked at her warily and said, "No, I tell you, my grapes are big and sweet, and they're not expensive at all for fifty cents!"
Xiao Jiuyue heard his accent change and couldn't help but jokingly said, "Hey, you're not pretending to be from Xijiang anymore?"
Aisan speaks the Xijiang dialect which is quite similar to the national dialect.
"All the grapes were smashed by others. I have nothing now, and I didn't cheat anyone." Aisan sat down on the ground with a broken jar in his heart. He worked furtively and with great effort just to make a few more cents. It was not easy.
Aishan thought about the grapes that were broken today, and felt more and more upset. Then he looked at Xiao Jiuyue, who looked noble and could not be provoked. Aishan lowered his head, as if he would let you do whatever you want.
"They're calling themselves Xijiang grapes, but they're actually Beiyang grapes. Are you sure you're not lying?"
Xiao Jiuyue raised an eyebrow and before Aishan could speak, she continued, "You can say your grapes are bigger and sweeter and sell for more than others, but if you insist on saying Xijiang Country's grapes are more expensive than Beiyang's grapes, the buyers will naturally think you're a liar!"
Xiao Jiuyue's voice was clear and crisp, like a heavy hammer, hitting Aishan's heart. Aishan retorted, "How did I lie? Except that the grapes are not from Xijiang, aren't the size and sweetness of these grapes the same as Xijiang grapes?"
"Why didn't you say anything when you were robbed just now?" Xiao Jiuyue raised his eyebrows.
Aishan: "..." Suddenly, he wilted like an eggplant hit by frost. He muttered, "Didn't I just lie to everyone and say that these grapes are from Xijiang? But, the grape branches we planted came from Xijiang, so how can these not be considered Xijiang grapes?"
"Then let me ask you, you are from Nanyue, and I threw you into Xijiang when you were young. Are you from Xijiang or Nanyue?" Xiao Jiuyue asked.
Aishan was speechless. He looked at Xiao Jiuyue in confusion: "What do you do?"
"How many grapes do you have left to sell?" Xiao Jiuyue was too lazy to argue with Aishan anymore. She could roughly guess that Aishan could imitate the people of Xijiang so well because he was probably quite familiar with Xijiang. In addition, he was very courageous, so he had been selling grapes for a long time, and people thought he was really from Xijiang.
"You, why are you asking this?" Aisan looked at her with a wary look. He held the few remaining grapes in his basket and protected them in his arms like treasures, fearing that the few remaining grapes would be smashed by her.
"Yes or no?" Xiao Jiuyue asked again.
"Let me first tell you why I'm asking this." As soon as Aishan finished speaking, Hua Qing raised his fist and shook it in front of him: "I have a bad temper. You should answer whatever the young lady asks. Otherwise, I don't know where my fist will land."
Hua Qing moved his fist and saw a tree planted in the yard. With one punch, the tree, which was as thick as his arm, broke into two pieces in an instant.
Aisan swallowed and said, "Yes, there are grapes."
"These are all for you." Aisan handed over the grapes in the basket. No matter how important the grapes were, they were not as important as his life.
The Xue family beat him just to vent their anger, but the woman in front of them was deadly!
"Are you sending away beggars?" Hua Qing glanced at him, grabbed the thing next to him and asked, "Tell me, are there any grapes left in Beiyang?"
Dongdong pursed his lips into a straight line, closed his eyes, and looked like he didn't want to say anything.
Hua Qing raised his eyes, and Aishan immediately said, "Yes, yes."
"I want to buy a batch of grapes. How many do you have?" Xiao Jiuyue asked.
"Do you really want to buy grapes?" Aishan's eyes lit up when he heard that she wanted to buy grapes. He said, "I won't cheat you. Forty-five cents a pound."
"Forty-five cents for one catty, is it the same price for one hundred catties?" Xiao Jiuyue raised his eyebrows.
"One hundred kilograms?" Ai Shan heard the number and crawled to Xiao Jiuyue's front. "I still have five hundred kilograms of grapes at home. Do you want to buy some?"
He was almost worried to death. If he didn't sell the grapes at home, they would go bad bit by bit!
He is now regarded as a liar by others and can no longer continue selling grapes on Wan'an Street.
"Five hundred kilograms has another price." Xiao Jiuyue looked at him.
Aishan pondered for a while before saying, "My grapes are shipped from Beiyang by boat and they must be sold for at least thirty coins. To be honest, young lady, I only make one coin for every pound of grapes."
Aishan looked sincere and raised his hand to swear, "Girl, I really didn't lie to you this time. Grapes are easy to spoil. I bought them from a fellow villager for 20 wen a pound. They were shipped here by cargo ship, and they cost 8 or 9 wen a pound."
"After all this effort, you only earn a penny?" Xiao Jiuyue looked at Aishan with a smile.
Aishan cleared his throat and said, "Miss, when I was selling grapes at 50 wen per jin on Wan'an Street, I was definitely making some money, but a lot of them went bad, so I only made less than 10 wen."
There was obvious guilt in Aisan's eyes.
Xiao Jiuyue didn't answer but asked, "So, are your grapes in Beiyang now, or in Hongdu Prefecture?"
"I have hidden them all in Hongdu Mansion. If you want them all, I won't earn a penny at worst. Twenty-nine cents, do you think it's okay?" Aishan looked at Xiao Jiuyue with a flattering smile.
"You don't earn a penny anymore, so I'll take them all." Xiao Jiuyue's words fell, and Aishan's eyes were full of joy. Xiao Jiuyue reminded him: "The grapes must be big and sweet like the ones we bought before, otherwise..."
Xiao Jiuyue's gaze fell on the broken tree beside her. Aishan felt a chill on her neck and kept saying, "Don't worry, young lady. These are all good grapes from the branches. I guarantee there won't be any bad ones!"
"Then, when do you want it? How can I give it to you?" Aisan asked weakly.
"Hua Qing, take your men to buy that batch of grapes." Xiao Jiuyue ordered.
Hua Qing responded immediately.
After Xiao Jiuyue left in the carriage, Luo Kui said, "Miss, twenty-eight cents, he probably really didn't make any money, right? Then wouldn't his work be in vain?"
"Silly." Xiao Jiuyue looked at her puzzled expression and couldn't help laughing. "The shipping fee is eight or nine wen per jin, and half of that must be water. It definitely won't cost more than twenty wen to buy grapes from my fellow villagers."
"Ah..." Luo Kui looked up blankly: "But he swore a poisonous oath!"
"Did you really hear his oath?" Xiao Jiuyue let Luo Kui figure it out on his own. Dong Gui, the driver, asked, "Miss, if you knew he quoted a high price, why did you still buy it?"
"It's not easy for him to transport some grapes. The price of twenty-nine cents is already much lower than buying them in retail. Why bother about it?" Xiao Jiuyue leaned against the carriage, and his mind was already thinking about how to distribute the five hundred kilograms of grapes.
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