14 Jin Bu Yao
◎Have you read the storybook?◎
Bu Qin took the backpack full of mothballs and smiled happily, "Ms. Tian, all the mothballs you gave me last time are sold out. I will pay you when I'm done." She said as she greeted the customers who stopped in front of the stall.
"Let's do more when we get home today." Tian Nongxi responded and stepped aside.
I have been busy these past two days digging a road from the river to the fields. I fall asleep every day and forget about everything else.
After finally getting the water truck running, they hurriedly made some mothballs and sent them over.
Although Bu Qin's stall is not on the busiest street in Ruiyang, it has the advantage of having many residents. Every household is happy to grow some vegetables in their own yard. In addition, farmers in nearby towns who make a living from the land need seeds, so the business is pretty good. People often stay in front of the stall and have to rest for a moment.
Tian Nongxi watched and was not idle either, helping to pass things from time to time. More often, she stood aside quietly, learning how to become a qualified vendor.
——Praise the children for being smart, the elderly for being young, the couple for being loving, and the women for being blessed.
Another important point is to build good relationships with nearby vendors.
Bu Qin took a break from her busy schedule and went to the cloth seller next door to give a bag of flower seeds. She said something else, then stood up and pulled Tian Nongxi into the house opposite.
It was a small house with one entrance, not very small, with one room and a small courtyard. Land in Ruiyang County, adjacent to the county center, was very expensive, so having such a residence was already very outstanding.
But all Tian Nongxi saw were birds like chickens and ducks, flapping their wings and staring at her, the uninvited guest.
Bu Qin noticed her gaze and handed her the water without stopping, smiling with satisfaction, "One of the business, one of the business." As she spoke, she drove the livestock away with her hands.
The driven livestock scattered in all directions, and feathers filled the air. As Tian Nongxi reached out to brush off the fur on their bodies, Bu Qin suddenly said, "You seem to like doing business. Have you ever thought about setting up a stall like me?"
Tian Nongxi forced a smile. She didn't like doing business at all. Her favorite exercise in life was turning over in bed.
"I have to make money to make a living." She lowered her eyes and sighed.
Only then did Bu Qin notice that the girl in front of her was wearing patched clothes, and one cuff was unusually wide, obviously deformed from being washed too many times.
Her beautiful face was so deceptive that her attire was completely ignored during these meetings.
So Bu Qin stopped talking and racked her brains for a way to cheer herself up, until she unconsciously kicked a stone on the ground to the stone bench where Tian Nongxi was sitting.
After a crisp "pa--" sound, Tian Nongxi hesitated and said, "Did you call me here?" People were coming and going in front of the stall, but the stall owner ran away. It couldn't be that he was just trying to give her a glass of water, right?
"Oh, here's the money." Bu Qin finally remembered the important matter and disappeared without a trace in an instant. About half a minute later, she appeared in front of Tian Nongxi again, holding an extremely exquisite purse in her hand.
She poured out the copper coins from her purse, counted them carefully again, and then handed them to Tian Nongxi.
The moment Tian Nongxi took the money, a cold and mechanical female voice suddenly rang in his mind: "Eighty-four coins have been deposited."
She was stunned for a second and asked tentatively in her mind: Cai Cai?
The sound disappeared and everything seemed like an illusion.
It was not until she set out on her journey back home that Cai Cai's ethereal and distant voice came, "Host~ Don't call Cai Cai if there's nothing wrong, and don't call her if there's something wrong. Cai Cai has to take a shift~"
Tian Nongxi asked hurriedly, "What about me?"
No one responded, as if everything was a precursor to her schizophrenia.
Well, it’s not just about traveling through a book or a system, but she also encountered an internship system.
Looking back on the stupid things she had done over the years, how could she not know the value of the word "internship"?
Tian Nongxi sighed and picked up the empty backpack with resigned expression.
The sun was setting not far away, illuminating the flowers and plants in sight with a dazzling orange-yellow hue. Like every other evening, she casually glanced at the people around her and suddenly said, "Have you read the storybook?"
The two of them met by chance at the village entrance and walked together in silence for a while. This conversation came suddenly and inexplicably.
Hearing this, Lin Luan lowered his eyes and thought for a while, then shook his head honestly.
His father, the emperor, and his mother, the empress, had a deep affection for each other, and he was reluctant to let his mother suffer the pain of childbirth, giving birth to only him. As a child, he was busy studying the Four Books, Five Classics, and Six Arts, and now, when he had some free time, he had little interest in folk stories.
Tian Nongxi looked at him with a hint of pity in his eyes and consoled him, "I'll buy it for you next time."
“…Thank you.”
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When he got home, Tian Nongxi hurried into the house, locked the door, opened the cabinet, and put all the eighty-four coins into the small purse at the back.
I have spent a lot of money these days, and now there is only one or two taels of silver left in my purse. Adding these eighty-four copper coins today, I am still a long way from the 20 million gold.
It’s better to lie down in this world.
This thought flashed through Tian Nongxi's mind briefly, and then he quickly shook his head to try to get it out of his mind.
This world without group meetings and experiments is indeed comfortable, but she needs a mobile phone.
That square little cube once occupied all her entertainment time, but now it did not come into this world with her. Tian Nongxi was in tears.
Thinking of this, she was forced to muster up her energy and stuffed her whole body into the cabinet again. She finally found the Twin Golden Lotus Hairpin that Zhuang Xueling had given her. She looked at it again and again, touched it again and again, and made up her mind.
Bu Qin was right, she really wanted to do business.
Simply growing and selling vegetables not only takes a long time, but also has no added value.
A pound of cabbage costs eight cents, and a vegetable-stuffed bun costs three cents, or a pearl jade soup made like Linqing Pavilion costs thirty cents.
After working hard to grow cabbage on one acre of land, the yield is only about 5,000 kilograms, which is only worth 40 taels of silver.
One pound of cabbage can make at least twenty buns and ten pearl soups. Even if other costs are ignored, the profit is much more than simply selling vegetables.
But to do business, you need to rent a store, or at least set up a small stall. You have to be busy from morning to midnight.
She thought about it and realized that she had neither capital nor a house in the county. Even if she pawned the golden hairpin, it could only cover the rent, so she had to put the matter aside for the time being.
But if you just focus on growing vegetables, you don’t know when it will take.
With this in mind, Tian Nongxi wrapped the golden hairpin carefully in several layers and placed it under the bed, preparing to get up early tomorrow to pawn it at the pawnshop, and then go to Linqing Pavilion to sit and see what is popular now.
The sky in early spring always gets dark very quickly. Tian Nongxi stayed in the room for half an incense stick of time. It was already dark outside, and the sparse starlight seeped in through the missing roof. She put her thoughts aside, got up and prepared to go to the kitchen to cook.
When she stood up, she realized that there was someone outside the house. The paper-pasted windows could not cover anything, and the person's figure had nowhere to hide.
It was a slightly hunched figure that looked very familiar.
Tian Nongxi opened the door with confidence, and sure enough, his grandmother, whom he hadn't seen for many days, was standing outside the door.
She was carrying a cloth bag and was about to knock on the door.
For a moment, Tian Nongxi felt a little lost.
It doesn't matter if these two people come back, but they will inevitably say something bad about her, and then she will be restricted in everything she does.
Grandma didn't seem to notice Tian Nongxi's expression, and her voice was quite energetic when she spoke, "I was worried about you being alone, so I rushed back." She came back in a hurry, and her daughter-in-law didn't allow it, so she had some unpleasantness with her son, and came back with only some clothes to change.
Tian Nongxi heard the hidden meaning in her words and asked tentatively, "Where's Grandpa?"
Grandma looked a little uneasy. After a while, she waved her hand and said, "He can't bear to leave Grandpa, so he wants to stay a few more days."
The food, clothing and other necessities in the Zhuang Mansion were all the best, and someone served tea and water every day. After enjoying such a good life for a few days, the old man refused to come back no matter what.
Tian Nongxi secretly breathed a sigh of relief, then noticed his grandmother's rosy face and asked, "Is it hot?"
Tian Nai didn't want to say that she had come back without saying hello, so she just said, "Where is it hot? It's because your aunt gave you ginseng and deer antlers every day, and you got a sore throat."
"You haven't eaten yet?"
"I'm in a hurry to get back, but I haven't yet."
Tian Nongxi nodded, went to the kitchen, made three bowls of vegetarian noodles and brought them out.
When Tian Nai saw Lin Luan, her expression remained unchanged. After they finished eating, she pulled Tian Nongxi to the stove and asked quietly, "Why is Lord Jing still living here?"
Tian Nongxi tried to get away with it by saying she was staying here for the night. But when she looked down, she saw her grandmother's expression was stern, with dissatisfaction written on every wrinkle. She thought for a moment and said, "Don't worry, it won't affect Xiao Zu."
"A-Zu is just a boy, how could that affect him? I'm afraid, I'm afraid that you're still angry about that incident... and don't consider your own reputation."
Tian Nongxi smiled and took the bowl from Grandma Tian.
Grandma Tian sighed, feeling that her granddaughter had become more and more lawless since her engagement was broken off.
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The next day, Tian Nongxi got up early and went to the county town carrying the mothballs he had made last night.
It was only daybreak when she left the house, and it was only 12 o'clock when she finished the transaction with Bu Qin. The cold, mechanical female voice in her mind sounded again, reminding her that 112 coins had been deposited into her account.
She covered her purse tightly and went into a pawnshop with her hairpin.
There was a middle-aged man with a long beard behind the counter. When he heard the noise, he just looked up and glanced at her, then lowered his head and went back to using the abacus.
Tian Nongxi walked in and asked, "Boss, do you still accept jewelry here?"
The middle-aged man snorted coldly, stroked his beard, looked Tian Nongxi up and down, and said unhappily: "Take it out and let me see it."
This impatience, which was exactly the same as that of the sales assistants in some modern luxury stores, suddenly made Tian Nongxi feel a little funny. She had never experienced such a service attitude before, but she actually experienced it after she traveled through the book.
She took out the tightly wrapped hairpin from the inner pocket of her coat and slowly pulled away the linen cloth in the shopkeeper's increasingly low pressure.
Just as the shopkeeper was about to kick people out, Buyao finally appeared.
He looked at the quality of the hairpin, licked his dry lips, and then looked at the girl in front of him. Hiding the red light in his eyes, he asked tentatively: "Where is it from?"
Stolen? Robbed? Or... someone's mistress?
The shopkeeper's eyes swept over Tian Nongxi's pretty face, then fell on her ill-fitting clothes, and he said bluntly, "We don't accept things that come from shady sources."
Of course, this does not apply to those of such good quality.
"Someone gave it to me."
The shopkeeper nodded with satisfaction. He guessed that the little girl didn't understand, so he pushed her hairpin aside and said with embarrassment, "I'll take the ten taels of silver."
Tian Nongxi came prepared and naturally refused. He sighed and was about to walk out the door.
Within two seconds, the shopkeeper came out in a hurry, panting and bargaining, "Twenty taels, the price is the same if you go to other shops."
"Fifty taels."
"Hey, girl." The shopkeeper snorted heavily, and was about to go back to the store. Seeing that Tian Nongxi didn't even give him a look, he walked closer dejectedly and said, "Fifty taels is fifty taels. I give you this price because I feel sorry for you." This hairpin is of extraordinary quality. It would not be a loss if it was sold for a hundred taels in the capital.
Tian Nongxi knew when to stop, nodded lightly, turned around and went into the store with the shopkeeper to get the money.
This was the first time in both worlds that she clearly felt the weight of money, and she couldn't help but smile when counting the money.
After leaving the house, he rushed straight to Linqing Pavilion with great wealth and power.
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