Chunxiao walked up to them and said, "I wonder what brings you to my manor."
When they saw someone coming, they all came over and said, "Miss Yan, nice to meet you."
"Do you recognize me?" Chun Xiao was shocked. She didn't know the person.
"I recognize you, please wait a moment." The middle-aged man who spoke walked a little further away and shouted at the person in front to come back quickly.
The roar was so powerful that Chunxiao noticed that there were other people in the distance, and the others were looking at her with smiles on their faces.
Then I saw the person in the distance walking back quickly.
Chunxiao finally understood and smiled at the visitor, "Mr. Sun, why are you here now? I haven't harvested the cotton yet." It turned out to be Sun Fugui from Yunzhou.
"Oh, Miss Yan, you are really amazing. I just went to see such a large cotton field. It is no problem to produce 300 kilograms per mu. I actually thought you might have been bragging, but now I am completely impressed by you." Sun Fugui's eyes were glowing red as he looked at the cotton bolls in the field.
"You all have come from far away. It's sunny outside. Come with me into the house and have a cup of cold tea. I didn't expect you to come now."
She told Xingfu to quickly boil some well water to make herbal tea, while she took her people and the carriage back to the main courtyard.
The carriage was pulled to a shady resting place by servants, and seven or eight people followed her into the yard. Chunxiao asked Meiman to bring stools for them to sit on.
"Master Sun, I thought you would come in August, but I didn't expect you to come at the end of July. Is it just for the cotton or is there something else that you came to see?"
"Miss Yan, let me introduce these two to you. These two are my business partners. This one is Wang Maoquan from Xiang'ang County, Yunzhou, and the one next to him is Zhou Sukang from Jingzhou. We are both in the cloth business, and we came to Tongzhou specifically for cotton."
Chunxiao greeted them one by one, "Hello, Master Wang, Hello, Master Zhou."
"We were joking on the way, wondering if Brother Zhou had been scammed. I've been buying cotton for so many years, and I've never seen anyone produce 300 kilograms per mu. Today, after seeing the girl's fields, I realized that I was ignorant. I'm also curious why such a skill has only been revealed now. We've come all the way here, and I haven't heard anyone say there are large piles of cotton to buy and sell here. It seems that the girl is a true person who hides her true face."
"Fortunately, no one knows about it, otherwise we wouldn't have a chance to share it."
"I told you I'm lucky this year and God is helping me, but you still don't believe me."
Chun Xiao wasn't one to be dazzled by such flattery. "I've only recently figured out some planting techniques, but compared to what you gentlemen have learned, they're nothing."
"Hey, young lady, you are too modest. Your ability is truly amazing. I admire you very much."
Xingfu quickly prepared the cold tea and brought it over. "Gentlemen, the tea is a little hot. Please let it cool down before drinking. This tea can relieve summer heat." After saying that, he retreated.
Several people nodded, looking at each other, and then at Chunxiao. "Miss Yan, since we are here for this cotton, why don't we talk about the price of this cotton?"
"You three masters are too impatient. I'm afraid it will take until the 10th to harvest the cotton, and it will be September before we're done. I don't even know how much I can harvest. Why don't we talk about it after the harvest?"
"That won't do. You have so much cotton here, the news has probably spread. If we wait until you've harvested it, we might not be able to grab it. Miss Yan, please consider how hard it has taken us over ten days to come all this way. Why don't we negotiate the price first?"
Chun Xiao was a little amused. She couldn't resist someone so old as to act coquettishly. "So how much do you want?"
"Let's talk about the price first. I wonder what price you are planning to sell it for."
Chunxiao had gotten a rough idea of the market prices during her last trip to the county town. Last winter, the typical purchase price for new cotton was 120 wen per jin (approximately 100 wen). Later, when cotton was in short supply, the price skyrocketed, sometimes fetching as little as two qian. Since Qingzhou and Yuzhou weren't growing cotton this year, she feared the price would rise even further. She had no intention of driving up prices; she simply wanted to grow and sell the cotton smoothly, earning a profit.
"Please name a price, and I'll sell it if it's suitable."
"This cotton is grown by the girl, so the price is naturally set by her. Just tell me, we can discuss it." The three of them looked at her.
"Well, I'm sure you all know the prices here. 130 wen per jin is fine. Do you think that's appropriate?"
"I want 50,000 kilograms." Sun Fugui immediately slammed the table and stood up.
"I want 50,000 kilograms too." The master surnamed Wang also stood up.
"Then I want 70,000 kilograms."
Chunxiao was stunned. They'd agreed to negotiate, so why did they just set the quantity? 130 wen was cheap, right? Any higher wouldn't be right. Why were they asking for cotton like it was cabbage? It wasn't like they were selling cotton in the first place. The price was inflated. "Has everyone agreed already?"
"It's settled, it's settled." The three of them looked at him with smiles, "This is the price we just agreed on."
Chunxiao nodded. "As long as you can take it away, this number is fine."
"Now that we've decided, Miss Yan, how about we sign a sales contract and write down the price and quantity we just mentioned?"
The businessman was a businessman, cautious in his dealings. He was probably afraid she would change her mind at the last minute. Since the price had already been announced, she was embarrassed to raise it even if it changed. "Okay, then I'll sign a sales contract with the three of you. How about you come to pick up the goods at the end of August?"
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