Fan Xiaoliu's mouth dropped open; he never expected to run into someone here!
Weren't they selling their daughters because they had nothing else to eat? But my cousin gave them grain, not money. He could understand if they had some money to save for coarse salt, but he absolutely couldn't understand why they had money to buy silk flowers!
Not only Fan Xiaoliu couldn't understand it, but the other men couldn't understand it either.
It's not that I think women shouldn't wear them, it's just that they've already sold their daughters to get food, yet they have money to buy silk flowers? Besides, their daughters are gone, so how can the mother and grandmother still be in the mood to wear them?
The scene fell into a deathly silence.
A hint of embarrassment appeared on Fan Erzhu's face, and he turned his head away from everyone's gaze.
Fan Qian forced a smile, but wasn't prepared to explain.
Once the second or third pillar firmly captures Ding Jiajia's heart, these people will understand how far-sighted he is!
It wouldn't do for a large group of men to stand in the general store, so Li Wen called out, "Let's go, let's go meet up with Brother Ding and the others first, and see how the weighing of the medicinal herbs is going. We still have important business to attend to, so let's not waste time."
Looking at the notices and going to the general store to buy hair ties and hair accessories were just side things; selling the rabbit and buying fabric to make winter clothes were the real business.
Originally, after selling the rabbits, they should have gone to the cloth shop to buy fabric. However, since they also needed the income from selling kudzu roots, most of them wanted to wait until they had more money in hand before making the purchase.
The other men pursed their lips, and as they walked past Fan Qian and his two companions, they spat out a sound, whether intentionally or unintentionally, before striding away.
In the backyard of the pharmacy, the medicinal herbs had been weighed one by one. The apprentice opened the bags and carefully checked their appearance and dryness before calling the shopkeeper and Ding Heli to reconcile the accounts.
Shopkeeper Qin first calculated the price of kudzu, which had the largest quantity but the lowest total price. He clicked the beads on his abacus for a while, then looked up and said, "Twelve sacks of kudzu, eight hundred and thirty catties, eighteen coins per catty, totaling fourteen taels and nine hundred and forty coins. I'll round it up for you."
Ding Heli quickly interrupted, "No, no! No need to round it up. These are people from my village. I'm helping them sell them. I've already calculated the weight. How am I supposed to pay extra if you round it up? If it's hard to divide, then I'll be in a difficult position."
When helping others, one should not be like Hu Wenhua, who clearly and explicitly calculates the accounts and gets what one is entitled to.
Either don't earn a penny, but gain a favor. Remember, never help halfway and take half, otherwise you won't earn much money and won't get any gratitude.
Selling rabbits is a long-term business, but selling kudzu is only a few times. Helping him these few times won't tire him out. Besides, helping the villagers sell medicinal herbs along the way is equivalent to escorting them, so it's a mutually beneficial arrangement.
Manager Qin immediately understood and said with a smile, "Alright, then give them fourteen taels in loose silver as well, so it will be easier for them to split the profits."
Then he started calculating: "Your dried tangerine peel is good, but it's too young. It's only 120 coins per tael. Is that alright?"
Dried tangerine peel is rare; such a large fruit only yields a small amount of peel, and after drying, there's hardly anything left.
However, this batch of goods was only a short-lived product. If it had been a longer-lived product, it could have been worth a fortune!
While Ding Heli was at home, he had already set a rough price for this batch of goods. As long as the price was not too far off from that amount, he would sell them.
One hundred and twenty coins per tael, one jin is one tael and two hundred coins, he nodded.
"Alright, sixty catties, seventy-two taels of silver."
"The yams are priced by weight. The price I'll give you is the same as last time: 450 wen per jin, 560 jin, which is 252 taels of silver in total."
"He Shou Wu is expensive. It costs 500 wen per tael when processed from black beans. One jin is 5 taels of silver, and 30 jin is 150 taels."
Ginger costs 600 coins per tael, so one jin (500 kg) is 6 taels of silver, and 50 jin is 300 taels.
The wine is worth 700 coins per tael, and 20 catties is 140 taels.
The dried tangerine peel, yam, and he shou wu total 914 taels, but I'll round it up to 915 taels for you!
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