The water is clear and gives a certain feeling.
Bai Ziqian seemed to be buying something valuable, not just charcoal that cost two coins a pound.
In one type of luxury Chinese store, a rich young master points to bags and shoes and says: "I don't want this, that, or that, but I'll buy the rest."
However, the sole heir of the Bai family, the richest family in Nandu, is no longer just a shopkeeper; he is the owner of the shops, and all of them are his own businesses.
Zhang Jinniu stared in disbelief at the young Bai Ziqian.
He knew he was from a wealthy family, but in his mind, one or two taels of silver was a lot of money. Could a child really afford that?
Not just this one or two taels of silver today, but also what comes later!
A batch of charcoal can be delivered in about five days, and it will be more than today's, not less. At least four more deliveries will be made before the New Year. If each delivery is worth one tael, then including today's, it will be five taels of silver.
Can Bai Ziqian come up with so much silver?
Bai Ziqian ran back to his room, took out a silver ingot, ran to Zhang Jinniu, and threw it straight at him.
Zhang Jinniu instinctively reached out and caught it, the icy touch making him look over.
Then, he stood there, stunned.
"This...this is silver? Is it real silver?"
Bai Ziqian said irritably, "Try biting it and see if you can leave a tooth mark."
Whom does this mean they look down on?
He was really, really poor before!
But he is not the same as before—his parents left him over a hundred taels of silver before they went back, and this was only for pocket money.
Buying charcoal for Aunt Shuiqing's family to get through the winter is the right thing to do; what's wrong with spending a little money?
Zhang Jinniu had only ever seen silver in other people's hands; his family didn't even have any loose silver.
They always earned a few coins at a time, and when they had earned enough, they would string the coins together to make a total of one qian.
Now that he held the real silver in his hand, a large ingot at that, he swallowed hard and took a bite without hesitation.
Seeing the teeth marks, he grinned sheepishly and said, "It really is silver! I've finally touched real silver!"
Bai Ziqian originally thought Zhang Jinniu was questioning him, but he didn't expect that Zhang Jinniu had simply never seen silver before.
I suddenly felt a little uneasy.
The accessories he wore from childhood to adulthood were mostly jade, with very little silver or even gold.
Moreover, it is jade of extremely high quality.
Looking at Zhang Jinniu, I realized that there are many children who, even as they grow up, have never touched silver.
Zhang Jinniu's dark face was filled with excitement and joy.
Holding the silver ingot as if afraid it would melt away, it took her a while to realize what was happening. She hurriedly handed it back to Bai Ziqian, saying awkwardly, "I...I...silver is too expensive. This silver ingot of yours is still intact, it must weigh several taels, right?"
"Ten taels of silver per ingot," Bai Ziqian explained gently.
Upon hearing that it was ten taels, Zhang Jinniu immediately felt the icy silver burning his hand!
He hurriedly said, "There's too much, I can't give you any more. How about I just give you copper coins?"
One tael of silver could be exchanged for a thousand copper coins, which felt heavy in his hands, and someone like him would feel at ease using it.
Bai Ziqian said generously, "It's alright, no need to look anymore. Just send the charcoal over according to this amount of silver."
Five hundred catties of charcoal were packed into bamboo baskets, each containing several dozen catties, so there were only about ten baskets.
Aunt Shuiqing's woodshed was large, and when stacked up, it took up even less space; it could easily hold ten taels of silver worth of charcoal.
Holding the ten taels of silver, Zhang Jinniu was so excited he didn't know what to do.
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