It turned out that this short foreign merchant often went to Jingzhou to do business and had stayed there for a long time, so he was quite familiar with Jingzhou and could speak the Anguo language. However, his boss, Mr. Aolige, had only been in Anguo for a short time and could not speak the Anguo language, so he had to ask this short foreigner to act as a translator.
Because their hometown was too cold, they passed through Ruzhou and heard that cotton-padded clothes were cheap there, so they went to Zhou's Cloth Shop and ordered all their cotton-padded clothes.
However, Zhou's cloth shop had too few cotton-padded clothes, so Aoli Gei was not satisfied and came to Qu's cloth shop.
Upon hearing what had happened, and with the shop assistant whispering in Master Qu's ear, he learned that the news that Aoli Ge and others complained about the lack of cotton-padded clothes at Zhou's cloth shop had already spread throughout the city. The shop assistant then told Master Qu what he had heard and asked him to make a judgment.
Upon hearing this, Master Qu's brows relaxed, and he quickly invited the foreign merchants from the counter into the back room of the cloth shop, ordering that they be served good tea.
After they sat down, Master Qu asked with a smile, "I wonder how many cotton-padded coats Mr. Aoli Gei plans to buy?"
The short foreign merchant rattled off a few words to Mr. Ollig, and then Mr. Ollig rattled off a few words in his own language. Only then did the short foreigner turn to him and say, "Master Qu, we... Mr. Ollig said, the more the merrier!"
"..."
For some reason, Mr. Oli kept talking to him, and although he couldn't understand what he was saying, he could always hear the words "fuck you" in his words. He wondered what "fuck you" meant in this foreign language.
"Mr. Ollie, to be honest, our Qu Family Cloth Shop is the largest cloth shop in Ruzhou City. We have as many cotton-padded clothes as you want. Can you take them all, Mr. Ollie?"
The two chattered on for a while longer. In this conversation, Master Qu heard "fuck you" three times and "who's the one" four times. Moreover, when Mr. Oli Gei said this to him with a smile, he always felt uncomfortable, but he didn't know why.
The short, foreign translator spoke first: "Master Qu, I heard that the largest cloth shop in Ruzhou City is Zhou Family Cloth Shop. So we went to Zhou Family Cloth Shop first, but they didn't have enough cotton-padded clothes, so we came here! Zhou Family Cloth Shop didn't have enough cotton-padded clothes, but you have enough?"
Master Qu was displeased upon hearing this: "Zhou Family Cloth Shop was the largest cloth shop in Ruzhou before! Now, the largest cloth shop in Ruzhou is our Qu Family Cloth Shop! Moreover, our cotton-padded clothes are much better than Zhou Family Cloth Shop's, and the quantity is much larger!"
The foreign translator translated for Mr. Aolige, who then glanced at Master Qu and mumbled something in his own language.
"Master Qu, our Mr. Aoli said that it doesn't matter which of you is the largest cloth shop, because we only care about buying cotton-padded clothes. If you have enough cotton-padded clothes, we will buy them all!"
After listening, Master Qu did not immediately agree, but instead asked with a smile, "Mr. Aoli, what is the price of the cotton-padded clothes you inquired about at Zhou's Cloth Shop?"
The short translator replied directly, "We inquired and the shopkeeper there said that the cotton-padded coats from Zhou's Cloth Shop used to cost 500 coins each, but for Mr. Aoli's sake, he's prepared to sell them to us for half price, 250 coins!"
Upon hearing this, Master Qu burst into laughter: "What a Zhou Ziqiong! What a Zhou family cloth shop!"
"What's wrong, Master Qu?"
"I'm laughing because the Zhou family's cloth shop thinks they can cheat you because you're foreigners! Their cotton-padded coats don't sell for 250 coins; they're clearly treating you like fools!"
"..."
Upon hearing this, Mr. Aoli was alright, but the short translator, who understood Angolan, immediately turned pale.
"Master Qu, how dare you insult our Mr. Aoli Gei? Our Mr. Aoli Gei is a distinguished guest of His Majesty Anguo..."
"No, no!"
Master Qu quickly waved his hand and said, "Mr. Aolige, it's not me who's insulting you, it's Zhou Family Cloth Shop! Because in our Anguo dialect, 'two hundred and fifty' means half-baked. Zhou Family Cloth Shop sold you two hundred and fifty coins, they clearly think you're stupid!"
Before the short foreigner could translate for Olige, Master Qu continued, "It's true that Zhou Family Cloth Shop used to sell cotton-padded coats for 500 coins each! Now, Zhou Family Cloth Shop's cotton-padded coats have dropped to 60 coins each, but they're asking you for 250 coins each. Isn't that just ripping you off?"
At this point, Master Qu was overjoyed.
He finally understood. Zhou Ziqiong saw foreign merchants buying cotton-padded clothes from them and felt that her opportunity had come. However, she did not dare to sell them at the original price, so she sold them for 250 coins. Although she still lost a little money, it was much less of a loss than selling them for 60 coins each!
It would have been better if Master Qu hadn't known, but now that he does, he certainly won't let them succeed!
"What? Is that true?!"
“It’s true! If you don’t believe me, you can go to the Zhou family’s cloth shop and confront them! Or just bring any ordinary person here, and you’ll get the same answer!”
"..."
The short foreigner was stunned for a moment, then started chattering away to Mr. Ollie. After listening, Ollie flew into a rage.
"Fuck squid! Fuck squid! Fuck squid!"
"..."
This time, Master Qu was truly stunned.
What exactly is going on with this "Fuck Squid"?
Why do people say "Oli Gei" more loudly when they're happy, and even more so when they're unhappy?
The most crucial point is that he was looking at him while speaking, which made Master Qu feel uncomfortable.
After he finished speaking, the short foreign translator said, "Our Mr. Ollie is very angry and is preparing to go to Jingzhou to file a complaint against them in front of His Majesty of Anguo, so that their cloth workshop will go bankrupt!"
"Okay, okay, okay!"
Master Qu clapped his hands and laughed, but in his heart he was thinking, as long as you don't buy their cotton clothes, even if you don't go to Jingzhou to file a complaint, Zhou's cloth shop won't be able to cause trouble for more than two days!
The short foreigner then asked, "Master Qu, the cotton-padded coats at the Zhou family's cloth shop cost sixty coins each. What about your Qu family's cloth shop?"
Master Qu laughed and said, "Our cloth is ten coins cheaper than Zhou's cloth shop, fifty coins a piece!"
Since the price was going to be lowered anyway, Master Qu decided to lower it again at this time. Mr. Aoli was so excited when he heard this that he gave Master Qu another piece of his mind.
However, the foreign merchants were clearly seasoned businessmen. Upon hearing the price, they shook their heads and said, "Master Qu, you sell them to ordinary people for fifty coins each, and they can do business with us. Moreover, we would buy them all. How can you sell them for another fifty coins each? As long as we have a pleasant cooperation this time, we can have a longer and more pleasant cooperation in the future!"
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