Shen Jinshan's face suddenly turned red.
Seeing the visitor making up gossip about his elder brother, Chen Xinli frowned and sighed:
"Hello, ladies and gentlemen, we are going to sell bamboo fans today.
This bamboo fan is extremely difficult to make, especially the color. We had to cooperate with a dyeing workshop in the county, and our family had to pay half of the money to the dyeing workshop.
Bamboo fans are sold at twelve cents each, but we couldn't sell very many today. My second uncle, eldest brother and I sold them until dark, and it was already this time when we came back.
Look, there are still a lot left in the bamboo basket.
"Auntie, could you please have some pity on my family? We can't even afford brown rice. Please buy some bamboo fans. We'll sell them cheaply, only eight coins a piece. Otherwise, we'll be broke."
Several nosy women looked at each other in bewilderment. This...
Seeing that several people were still hesitating, Chen Xinli leaned closer to them, grabbed the clothes of one of the women and burst into tears:
"Aunt Wang... I'm so hungry and my head hurts. Please have pity on me! I... I haven't eaten all day. Please buy me a bamboo fan quickly..."
Although Chen Xinli's superb acting skills made the woman skeptical.
But it is a fact that several people from the Shen family look ashamed.
Under the faint moonlight, I saw that although the bamboo basket was covered with a piece of rag, it was piled so high with fans that it was obvious that they were all unsold fans.
"Bah! I don't even want it for free, I want eight cents!"
Aunt Wang cursed and swore as she stepped back a few steps, fearing that Chen Xinli would really force herself to sell the fan to her.
Although the others were curious about how many bamboo fans were under the basket, they were also afraid that they would be forced to buy bamboo fans.
They all thought that Sun Yu was talking nonsense and gradually dispersed.
When they got home, their second aunt and her family were waiting for them. Both women looked worried, thinking that they had met with an accident.
Chen Xinli asked her second brother to close the door first and light the only small oil lamp.
When they saw Shen Fuyou pouring out a table full of copper coins, the two women and the children all opened their mouths in shock, unable to believe their eyes!
"...Boss, this... is this what we earned today?"
Zhang Fangju was the first to react and asked stutteringly.
"Of course, all this is earned by Ali."
Then he told the story of how Chen Xinli sold eggs in Shitou Town and how she sold bamboo fans in the county today.
Of course, he didn't tell anyone about being bullied. Shen Fugui was also very happy to see his brother's beaming face.
But he also guessed that it would not be so smooth, otherwise why would the three of them return home at this hour.
Hearing how amazing my daughter was, I felt a surge of pride in my heart.
"Good! Good! Good!"
The family seemed to be trying their best to suppress their inner joy, and then heard Chen Xinli say:
"Father, Mother, Second Aunt, this is the rice, flour, and cloth I bought with the money from selling eggs today."
"This is the pork my second uncle bought with the money he earned from selling bamboo fans."
"Today I earned about one ounce of silver, a little over a hundred coins. Those copper coins are the rest, leaving me with about four hundred and fifty coins."
Listening to my daughter's report in an orderly manner.
The family then discovered that there was extra rice, flour, cloth, meat and other things on the side of the table.
The main thing is that they thought that the table full of copper coins was their earnings for the day.
Wu Yuehua counted it over and over again, and finally confirmed that there were still 454 coins left. She wanted to laugh for a moment, but she wanted to cry even more.
"Oh my God, it's Chinese New Year! Why are you buying so much meat, so much grain, so much cloth..."
Zhang Fangju kept repeating it over and over again, and words could no longer express the joy in her heart.
He held Chen Xinli for a long time without letting go, and his eyes were filled with tears without knowing when.
Four-year-old Shen Jinlin was puzzled by the sight of his mother and second aunt crying and laughing.
"We have money now, why are they crying?"
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