Niu Da caught fifty-eight catties of silverfish and sold them in town for two thousand nine hundred coins, which is five strings of cash and four hundred coins.
The fact that they caught so many fish and made so much money in just three days inevitably made the Zhao family envious.
He immediately spent three hundred taels of silver to lease Guhu Lake for a year. The way Zhao, the village chief, looked so pained made everyone laugh.
The contract was for three years.
The four clans together have more than a thousand people. Five hundred coins equal one tael, so three hundred taels is about 150,000 coins. Dividing that by a thousand people, each person, regardless of gender, can earn about one hundred and fifty coins a year.
Some families with seven or eight members could receive two or three taels of silver a year, and everyone was overjoyed.
The entire Niu family bought half a pound of meat, as if it were New Year's Day.
Niu Da couldn't catch any fish, but he wasn't disappointed, since he was just driving the carriage anyway.
Each hen lays ten eggs a day. Eggs are expensive in winter. Chen Yu is used to hard work and weaves cloth every day.
To everyone's surprise, the cloth she wove came out in endless streams, as if it were free, and she could weave fifteen bolts a day.
In the past, it took four days to weave a single bolt of cloth.
Coarse cloth is very cheap in winter, but eggs are very expensive. In spring, an egg costs only two coins, but in winter, an egg costs three coins.
These past few days, Niu Cuihua has been going out with Niu Da. Niu Da sells fish, and she sells cloth. They've already become quite well-known in the East Market.
Although Niu Cuihua's cloth was priced the same as the market price, she would always buy an extra foot of cloth to give to the customers. No one else in the market was as generous as the father and daughter.
That's why everyone loves buying fabric from her.
It wasn't that other merchants were unwilling to give away cloth; it was simply that their own cloth production was low, and they couldn't afford to give it away. But the Niu family produced more than a dozen bolts of coarse cloth every day.
That's really strange.
"Hey Niu Da-ya, where did you buy your looms? How many did you buy? How come you have so much new cloth coming out every day?"
Niu Cuihua smiled and said:
"We only had one old loom, which was part of my mother's dowry. My mother wove more than ten bolts of cloth a day without fail." "Ever since my fifth sister was born, our family has been incredibly lucky."
Niu Cuihua didn't forget to praise Xiao Fubao:
"Let me tell you, my fifth little sister is beautiful, cute, and a little lucky charm! She's not even two months old, but her smile is so sweet and cheerful that everyone who sees her is delighted!"
"When will you bring your sister over so we can see her?" an older woman asked.
"My mom said we can only bring my little sister out when it gets warmer in the spring. She's too small and can't stand the cold." "Big sister, how much cloth do you need?"
Niu Cuihua has a particularly sweet tongue.
The woman instantly felt ten years younger and laughed, "If I buy ten feet of cloth, can you make clothes for me?"
“Yes, wait a moment while I take your and your granddaughter’s measurements,” Niu Cuihua said as she took the measurements.
"Big sister, the eggs at my dad's stall are two coins each, buy five and get one free!"
"Your eggs are so cheap, and you're even giving them away for free?" the auntie asked, somewhat surprised.
“Yes,” Niu Cuihua said.
After buying the cloth, those who had bought it went to buy eggs. The stall was already crowded with people, and it became even more crowded when the cloth buyers came over.
"Big Brother Niu, I want five eggs."
"I want five too!"
The eggs sold out immediately.
"Brother Niu, aren't you losing money selling your eggs so cheaply? It's the dead of winter, and the chickens haven't laid an egg in days," asked the vegetable vendor at the next stall.
Niu Da smiled but didn't say anything.
His chickens lay 170 eggs a day. Even if he sells them for two coins each and gives one away for every five he owns, he can still earn more than 200 coins a day.
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