Soon the old man came, "Girl, you really delivered it." The old man was delighted and signaled them to put down the charcoal.
"Uncle, I told you yesterday that if the rain stops, I'll send it to you. You can weigh it and see how much it weighs. We don't have a scale at home, but this should be enough."
"Okay, okay, wait a minute, I'll get the scale."
The boy went to get the scales without waiting for instructions. The final weight came to 213 jin (approximately 213 kilograms). The old man took out his money and gave her 12 liang (approximately 100 grams) and 7 qian (approximately 80 copper coins).
Chunxiao happily took the money and thanked him. Although the two Yan brothers behind him did not show any expression, they were ecstatic in their hearts. Just for three baskets of charcoal, they really got more than 12 taels of silver. It was the first time for them to see so much silver.
"Uncle, we probably won't need charcoal for a while."
"It's hard to say. I'm afraid the owner might want to prepare more, but it probably won't be needed in the next four or five days." He looked at Chunxiao and said, "Miss, go to the second house across the alley. They were asking about charcoal yesterday."
"Thank you, uncle." Chunxiao took back the backpack he had used before and carried Dashan and Dahe out of the yard.
"We haven't got our backpack back yet."
"Leave it there. Come back and get it next time you have a chance. I'm going to buy a backpack later. We need to carry cotton."
"So what do we do next?"
"Brother, didn't you hear what that old man just said? He was just trying to get us some business out of kindness. So, of course, we should go to the family he mentioned and ask about their situation first." Chun Xiao looked up at the sky. "This endless rain is really annoying."
They followed the old man's instructions, crossed an alley, found the second house, and knocked on the door in the backyard.
After a long time, someone came to open the door and saw them. "What are you doing? Why are you knocking on our door?" The person who opened the door was a young girl. She looked at the three of them with a wary expression.
"Don't get me wrong, girl. We are charcoal sellers. We just finished selling charcoal over there, and the uncle said you guys need charcoal so I came over to ask."
When the woman heard the visitor was selling charcoal, her expression instantly changed to joy. "Are you really selling charcoal? You're delivering charcoal even on a rainy day?"
"As long as it doesn't rain too much, we'll give it to you."
When the woman heard this, she hurriedly invited them into the yard and said, "Wait here for a while, I'll go call someone." Then she ran away.
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