Fang Lian's face flushed red: "I'm sorry, pretty sister..."
The little girl's eyes were filled with tears, but Mo Qingcheng shook his head, indicating that he had no love for her.
"Shopkeeper, how much are the lean and fatty meats?"
Fang Yidao was taken aback: "Young lady, you want to buy them in parts?"
"Yes, I'll bring some to the elderly in the village. Their teeth aren't good, and the children like to eat lean food..." Mo Qingcheng blurted out, lying without thinking.
Shangguan Yichen noticed a note under his eyelids: his stepmother was up to no good.
Fang Yidao awkwardly touched his nose: "Lean meat is twelve coins a pound, and fatty meat is only five coins."
"Oh, then let's weigh them separately." Mo Qingcheng calculated in her mind, twenty coins a pound, how many copper coins could she earn by buying them separately?
Shangguan Yichen's lips twitched violently. With such abilities, it's a real loss that his stepmother doesn't go into business.
"Young lady, ten catties of lean meat and eleven catties of fat, give me one hundred and seventy copper coins." Fang Yidao smiled憨憨地.
Shangguan Yichen handed over the counted copper coins and thanked him, saying, "Thank you."
Mo Qingcheng caught a glimpse of the waste under the chopping board out of the corner of her eye and blinked: "Shopkeeper, do you sell waste?"
"Sell! I'll give you five coins." Fang Yidao pulled the offal out of the water and was about to pack it up when Shangguan Yichen refused.
"Mother, this stuff stinks, we can't eat it." The little boy ignored the glint in Mo Qingcheng's eyes.
Mo Qingcheng was caught in a dilemma: "Boss, we have a lot of family members, what if we go..." Fang Yidao looked ashamed: "Little lady, just give us two copper coins if you want."
Mo Qingcheng's eyes flickered slightly: "Thank you, shopkeeper."
Without waiting for a reply, he quickly took two copper coins from the young boy's hand and handed them over.
The little girl's eyes were fixed on the scene. After Mo Qingcheng and her son drove the oxcart away, she exclaimed, "Big brother, we lost out!"
"What loss? Today wasn't..."
"Oh, big brother, calculate it again..." Fang Lian pouted, "Pretty sister is so shrewd."
A strange feeling flashed through Fang Yidao's heart. He had indeed lost money... The young lady was truly a genius at doing business; he was ashamed of himself.
An hour later, the three parties met, and Liu Cuihua's mouth never stopped.
"Lady Mo, do you think they look down on us? Because we're refugees returning from war, they overcharge us. It's a total rip-off."
"Hmm? Sister-in-law, how exactly did you trick me?" Mo Qingcheng paused slightly, utterly puzzled.
"Oh dear, Mo Niangzi, my dear sister, we have to pay two copper coins more for grain than the locals," Liu Cuihua said, her voice tinged with heartache.
Liu Wenhui chimed in, "That's right, they're taking advantage of us because we're not locals. Everything's expensive. Sigh, if this keeps up, we'll be starving..."
"The seeds my mother bought... weren't expensive at all..." Shangguan Yichen's hurtful words stabbed the hearts of Liu Cuihua and Liu Wenhui's families.
"What? Brother Chen, are you serious? Your mother wasn't bullied?" Liu Cuihua grabbed Mo Qingcheng's hand and asked excitedly.
Shangguan Yichen silently turned his head away. Would I lie to someone?
Mo Qingcheng patted Liu Cuihua's hand: "Sister-in-law, don't get excited. This matter needs to be discussed carefully. Since we are going to settle down here, we must... truly integrate into this community."
Truly integrated? What does that mean?
Liu Cuihua felt that a brain was a good thing, but unfortunately, she didn't have enough of it: "Honey, what do you say?"
"Oh dear, Aunt Mo wants us to learn from the local people." Li Yuanlin scratched his head, his eyes blinking as he stared intently at Mo Qingcheng, like a mischievous child begging for candy.
Mo Qingcheng nodded: "Sister-in-law, that's exactly what I mean..."
"Wait, why weren't you guys scammed?"
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