Chunxiao smiled and said, "Sister-in-law, don't listen to what the cloth shop owner said. If we hadn't asked him, he definitely wouldn't have taken these cloths out to dispose of them. Think about it, if he sold these cloths cheaply, he would have sold less new cloth, and if he sold less, how would he make money? That's why he would rather scrap them than sell them."
Tian was puzzled, "Then why did he sell it today?"
"We are just one household, so the impact is not significant. Didn't you notice? He said at the beginning that if there is less, there will be no more, and if there is more, then we will sell it."
Tian suddenly realized, "So that's how it is."
"There are so many things to do in business, and none of us have thought it through as thoroughly as Chunxiao." Dashan drove the cart. "What do you want to buy at the grocery store?"
"I'm going to look at the cotton."
"You have over 200 kilograms of cotton at home, so why are you still looking at cotton?"
"I'm showing this to the people in the farm. I want to buy some old cotton." She is not stupid. New cotton is so expensive. How much will it take for so many people? Even if she is kind-hearted, she has no money now.
The car stopped at the grocery store.
"Boss, business is good."
The shopkeeper came up to us with a smile and said, "TOEFL TOEFL, what would you like to order?"
"How much do you sell old cotton for?"
"Oh, cotton is in high demand these days, especially this year. Do you want last year's cotton or the year before?"
"What's the price?" Tian asked.
"76 wen last year, 58 wen the year before."
Chunxiao and Tian looked at each other helplessly, "What about this year's new cotton?" Chunxiao walked into the store and looked around casually.
"I'm sorry, but there's no new cotton this year. We can't harvest it at all. We finally managed to get some a while ago, but it was sold out in just two days. The price of new cotton this year is incredible. Those who grow cotton this year are really lucky."
"I have quite a bit of new cotton, boss. If I were to trade it for your old cotton, you could do so."
The shopkeeper came up hurriedly and said, "Change, of course, I don't know how the girl would like to change it."
"Boss, you should tell us. We don't understand the market situation. If we say something wrong, it would be a joke."
"Miss, your cotton is really new. I want to exchange it for old cotton. How about exchanging last year's cotton for 1.5 catties, and last year's cotton for 2 catties?"
"Can I see your old cotton? Even though it's a little old, it's still good cotton. If yours is all rotten, I won't exchange it for another one."
The shopkeeper immediately made an invitation gesture, "I'll take you to see it. My shop has been open for so many years, and we have always been honest. Not to mention rotten cotton, even if it gets damp, we will dry it well. Don't worry, I will also take a good look at the girl's new cotton."
"I'll bring it to you tomorrow. I just collected it in September this year."
Chunxiao followed the shopkeeper to look at the cotton. Though worn, it was clear it wasn't heavily threshed, so it was quite good. She calculated in her mind that each person in the village would need 81 kilograms of cotton for their coats and trousers, weighing three kilograms. A room would have two 4-kilogram mattresses for tops and a 5-kilogram mattress pad. In winter, the two mattresses could be used together to keep warm, but in spring and autumn, they could be used separately. This was the most reasonable method. The mattresses would need 156 kilograms, or 237 kilograms in total.
She now still had about 240 kilograms of new cotton. She bargained with the shopkeeper again, and finally the two agreed that she would exchange 110 kilograms of new cotton for 240 kilograms of old cotton from the previous year.
After the two sides reached an agreement, she asked Dashan to drive the car back.
"Based on the shopkeeper's behavior, this new cotton will probably cost over a hundred coins."
"The price has increased so much in our town. I don't know what it's like outside. If it weren't unsafe, I could do some reselling business."
"Brother, have you thought about reselling it before?" Chunxiao was a little surprised. It showed that he had some business acumen to think of this.
"Dongsheng mentioned it last time we came back, but then you said it wasn't safe outside, so he didn't mention it anymore."
"Now it seems that we really bought this cotton cloth cheaply. I should pick out a few pieces for my sister-in-law. She's expecting soon, so she needs this fine cotton cloth. It won't hurt to wash it a few times and dry it in the sun." The more she thought about it, the more this made sense. She quickly asked Yan Bingfa to turn around and said, "I have to go to the cloth shop again."
"Sister-in-law, why don't you just forget about it? We've already picked out most of the good ones."
"We haven't checked the bottom and the sides yet. Let's look for it. If we miss this opportunity, we won't be able to find this store anymore."
A few people drove the ox cart back to the cloth shop. When the shopkeeper saw them coming back and saying they wanted to pick some more, he shook his head helplessly and said, "I'll lose money on every piece I sell to you." Having said that, he still took them to the warehouse.
The two of them started picking again, and they actually found a few decent ones. Chunxiao bought three more rolls of fine cotton and two rolls of coarse cotton, and Tian bought three more rolls of fine cotton and one roll of coarse cotton.
Dashan smiled and helped them load their things into the car. There were many people watching them, not knowing what was going on.
The three of them left satisfied after selling all the cloth.
When Zhou got home, she saw a cart full of cloth and opened her mouth wide. "Did you rob the cloth shop and want to open your own cloth shop or something? Why did you buy so much cloth?" She went forward to take a look. "Why is this cloth this color? This cloth is not good. It has been stored for a long time. How did you pick it out?"
"Our mother is really good at joking." Chunxiao got out of the car and asked Yan Dashan to lead the cow into the yard.
Shufeng also ran over and looked at the car in surprise, "Mom, why are there so many cloths?"
Chunxiao first took the two pieces of new cloth back to the house and put them back in the box.
When they came out, they heard Tian talking to the two of them about buying cloth today. To sum up, the cloth they bought today was very cost-effective.
"You don't need to buy so much if it's a good deal. There must be dozens of them."
"Mom, you all went to the farm today. Those people's quilts are completely unusable. We need to make new ones. It's so cold now, and they're wearing so little. If they get sick, I'll have to treat them, so I have to make cotton clothes as well. These two things combined will cost a lot of cloth. I also bought a lot of fine cotton cloth today. Some of it looks good, so I can use it myself."
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