Chapter 106: If I rob it, how much can I earn by selling it?
No matter how carefully you pack the candies, some of them will be accidentally broken into pieces when they are packed in the bag. Those broken pieces should be sold as normal commodities, and the correct practice is to round off the remaining pieces.
The rain was so heavy that Chen Kang could hardly open his eyes. He didn't want to waste time with Sang Yu, so he agreed readily.
"Okay, then I'd like to thank the Second Miss for the reward first."
He took out four large and one small pieces of silver from the purse he carried with him, used the small scissors in the purse to cut off about one-fifth of the silver from the smaller piece, and then handed the rest to Sang Yu.
After a brief contact, he already knew clearly who was the current head of the fourth house.
"It's hard to weigh the silver because the rain is so heavy, but the small change of one or two ounces has been weighed in advance and is correct. The small ones should be about the same. If Miss Er returns and finds that there is something missing, I will make up for it later."
The silver in ancient times was very different from the silver in TV dramas. What was actually circulating in the market were small pieces of silver.
If ordinary people want to use silver, they have to cut and weigh it on the spot. There is no such thing as spending dozens or hundreds of taels of silver at once. When such a large amount is needed, silver notes are more often used.
"That's enough."
Sang Yu took the silver and weighed it gently. Four taels and four qian of silver, converted into modern units, is about two hundred grams, which is roughly equal to the weight of a box of milk.
But when held in the hand, it was just a small ball, not at all like a pile of copper coins of the same amount, which was even more shocking.
"The rain is getting heavier. Would you two like to go with me to take shelter from the rain?" Chen Kang made an invitation. The rain was so heavy that he planned to find a place to take shelter first, buy a straw raincoat, and then go back to the restaurant.
"No, we have to rush back home." Sang Yu rejected his kindness, but she did not ignore the burning gaze not far away.
Their danger has not been eliminated yet. If they really leave with him, they might implicate him.
Chen Kang just asked politely, and after being rejected, he had a brief conversation and then led his men away pushing the cart.
Sang Yu and Sang Yongjing packed up their things in the rain. Actually, there was nothing to pack. They even gave the bag to Chen Kang to pack the sugar. All that was left were the leaves on the low table.
Sang Yongjing pretended to pack up, squinting his eyes and yelling at Sang Yu, "Why aren't we leaving yet?"
"Let Chen Kang and the others leave first. We are already wet, so it doesn't matter if we leave later." Sang Yu shouted back.
The rain was so heavy that it sounded like someone was pouring buckets down on our heads. Even if we spoke softly, the sound of the rain could not be covered by it.
Sang Yu lowered her head and tidied the leaves on the low table, gathering together the leaves that were washed everywhere by the rain, and secretly glanced in the direction of Zhang Xiu Lan.
Although Zhang Xiu Lan also brought an oilcloth, she was not as smart as the servant to unfold the oilcloth in advance and cover the things with just one pull.
She folded the oilcloth neatly and placed it at the bottom of the bamboo basket that carried the sugar, with some sugar cubes on top that had not been placed on the low table.
These are unblended candies, meant for buyers who want to pass taste tests.
The rain was falling so fast that she had to pull the oilcloth out from the bottom of the basket. By the time the oilcloth was spread out to cover the candies, the outermost layer of candies had been soaked by the warm rain water.
The sugar dissolved very quickly, and the brown sugar water dripped from the low table to the ground along with the rain, merging with the accumulated water on the ground, making people's feet feel sticky when they stepped on it.
Zhang Xiulan felt distressed by this scene. The candy she had bought at a high price and spent so much effort to make was wasted like this.
Even if we cover it with oilcloth now, it cannot guarantee that the sugar inside will be safe. Most of it has been melted by the rain and will have to be re-melted later.
She hated the father and daughter who sold candy more and more. It was all their fault, otherwise she wouldn't be in such a miserable state.
When I looked over again, the transaction between the two gangs had already ended.
The young man who had bought candy from her stall earlier used his hands as an umbrella to shade his head and walked quickly past her stall, followed by two guys pushing carts.
The cart was covered with oilcloth, and there was a bulge underneath the oilcloth, which showed that it was loaded with a lot of things.
If you steal this and sell it, how much money can you make?
This thought suddenly flashed through Zhang Xiulan's mind, and she couldn't help but be moved.
The couple worked so hard to sell candy that they had to wait until they could sell enough candy to pay back the borrowed money and make a fortune.
If we took advantage of the heavy rain to rob the cart, killed those people and threw them into the mountains, who would know it was them who did it?
Once evil thoughts arise in a person, they will grow rapidly and devour rationality. At this time, Zhang Xiu Lan was overwhelmed by anger and even had the idea of killing people and robbing them of their money.
A man came running from afar, holding an oil-paper umbrella in his hand. Seeing Zhang Xiulan sitting foolishly beside the oil-paper umbrella and getting wet in the rain, he hurriedly quickened his pace.
Wang Chengping held the umbrella over Zhang Xiulan's head and looked at the brown sugar water that kept flowing out of the low table with a distressed look on his face: "My dear, why didn't you cover it earlier? The rain has ruined the sugar."
"It's okay if the candy goes bad, but boss, I have something to ask you." Zhang Xiulan stared at him intently and asked, "Did the Li brothers come this time?"
The Li brothers she was talking about were not good people. They had been hanging around with hooligans since they were little, and when they grew up, they were even more reckless, angering the elders in their family to death.
They said they had killed someone before, so Zhang Xiulan was scared every time she met them. But this time, she was particularly looking forward to their coming as well.
Wang Chengping was puzzled. "Didn't you tell me to stay out of their company before? Why are you bringing them up all of a sudden?"
Zhang Xiulan was a little disappointed when she heard this: "It's a pity that they didn't come."
Soon she raised her head again and asked, "How many people came in total?"
They took advantage of their power to bully others, making other candy sellers afraid to continue in this business. This was not the first time they had done this, and they were very experienced.
"Time is tight, and this place is far from West City. I only had time to find three people." Wang Chengping's time there was not short, because he went straight to West City to find people he knew.
"Three? That's okay." There were a few people, but Zhang Xiu Lan thought about it and realized that there were four people in her family. Four grown men would be more than enough to deal with one big and one small one.
The moment she saw Wang Chengping, Sang Yu stopped what she was doing, slung her small basket over her shoulder, and walked out with Sang Yongjing in her hand.
Unexpectedly, she wanted to avoid implicating Chen Kang and others, but waited for Zhang Xiu Lan's man to come back. His arrival meant that their helper had arrived.
When passing by Zhang Xiu Lan and her friends' stall, their eyes met, but no one spoke.
As soon as they left, Wang Chengping followed them, and Zhang Xiu Lan was busy packing her goods.
There was a little tail following behind him, which of course could not escape Sang Yu's eyes.
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