Chapter 49 Buy Buy Buy
Shen Yu clapped his hands and said, "You're right, why didn't I think of that?"
"That's because you don't need to buy pens, ink and books, and you don't lack money, so you naturally can't understand what the poor people are thinking."
Shen Yu nodded: "Okay, I'll ask someone to do it right away. Just for this, I'll accept her ink again if she gives it to me."
After saying that, she stared at him meaningfully: "Brother, you are not attracted to her, are you?"
Xie Yan gave him a glare: "Mind your own business."
"Look at you, you left those beautiful ladies behind and came to this remote place. If you really fall in love with a peasant girl, those girls will be so angry that they will die."
Xie Yan stabbed him mercilessly: "You should worry about your marriage first. Also, at least I came here on my own initiative, and you... were 'exiled' by your uncle. You wanted to go back, but unfortunately you can't."
Shen Yu choked and rolled his eyes at him: "As long as I behave well, my father will let me go back. But you, are you not going to go back in the future?"
Xie Yan's face was indifferent. He put down his pen, stood up and walked out: "I have something else to do, so I'll leave first."
"Hey, grandparents asked you to come home for dinner tonight."
"knew."
Xie Yan responded and went straight downstairs.
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On the other side, Li Wanyue and her brother went to the grain store to buy rice. Twenty kilograms of rice cost two hundred and forty coins, and twenty kilograms of flour cost five hundred coins.
She wanted to buy more, but too much would attract attention. She would just go to town to buy more after she finished eating.
I passed by a stall selling hand-woven products and bought six more comfortable straw hats. The stall owner gave me a discount of fifty cents.
The hat at home is old, and there was no sunscreen in those days. Although she has fair skin, she is afraid that she will get sun spots and age faster if she is exposed to the sun for a long time, so sun protection is very important.
I went to the grocery store and bought the ingredients needed to make ink sticks, spending two taels of money.
I bought five pounds of brown sugar at the grocery store for five hundred wen, which I divided into ten packages. I also bought three pounds of rapeseed oil for one hundred wen per pound.
Three colorful hairbands, for tying Xiaolan and the others’ hair.
I bought twelve toothbrushes and a large box of tooth powder for seven hundred wen, one for each person in the family.
Salt was sixty cents a pound, and I bought two pounds.
Ten pounds of chili peppers.
Seeing a sack of broad beans in the corner, she asked, "Boss, how much are these broad beans?"
"Oh, girl, these broad beans got damp and moldy a few days ago, and I forgot to check them. I only discovered them today. I was just about to throw them away. Why don't you buy some fresh ones?"
"It's okay. I want it to be moldy. How do I sell it?"
"What are you buying? You're taking care of our business. If you want, just take it all. It's only five or six pounds. It's not worth much. You'll be throwing it away anyway. You've bought a lot of things in my store. Just be careful with what you eat and don't get sick."
"Thank you, shopkeeper. I will pay attention to it. Please pack it up for me." Li Wanyue pointed at the jar and said, "Please help me pack up those three jars as well."
The boss immediately smiled and asked his men to pack the items and help them deliver them to the designated ox cart.
I went to the butcher's stall and bought five pounds of pork belly and all the pork fat. The boss gave me a zero and I paid five hundred coins. Then I went to the wine shop and bought a jar of wine.
After buying everything, plus the money she brought with her when she came out, she only had a little over one or two taels of silver left.
Li Sandong said, "Sister, my stepmother will definitely beat me when I go back, blaming me for not stopping you. You bought too much."
"There are so many people in our family. If we eat pure white rice and white flour, we won't be able to survive for a few days. Don't we still have money now? We can just earn more."
"But sister, what do you want the broad beans for?"
“Make bean paste.”
"What is bean paste?" Curious baby Li Sandong came online again.
“A condiment.”
"oh."
Because he bought a lot of things, Li Wanyue directly rented an ox cart and paid twenty cents.
Hearing the voices of a bun seller not far away, Li Wanyue said, "Sandong, go buy some buns. I think Xiaolan and the others haven't eaten meat buns for a long time."
“How many should I buy?”
"Twenty, let's have the rest for breakfast tomorrow morning. You go buy some buns, and I'll go buy some dim sum at the dim sum shop."
The two of them acted separately. Li Wanyue went to the dim sum shop and asked the shopkeeper to pack four ordinary dim sum and a bag of candies, which cost her three hundred and fifty coins.
A meat bun cost three cents each, two for five cents, and twenty buns cost fifty cents. The shopkeeper even gave me one for free.
When they returned to the ox cart, everyone was there. The two of them sat on the ox cart and swayed towards home.
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Under the old locust tree, a group of children gathered around Li An and Li Xiaohe to play games. They couldn't help but ask curiously, "Xiao An, what game is this?"
Li An raised his head and said proudly, "This is called an official catching a thief. My aunt taught us."
"Then can you teach us?"
"No problem." Li An responded and started explaining the rules of the game. After a while, the children under the big locust tree started playing in groups of two.
The kid who usually likes to run around the mountain doesn't run anymore.
Li An, who was having fun, heard a cow mooing and immediately stood up and shouted happily, "Second sister, third sister, aunt and third uncle are back."
When the old yellow ox arrived under the tree, the three of them quickly surrounded him: "Aunt, Third Uncle, we will help you get your things."
"No need, just let the bullock cart deliver it to your door. I brought you some delicious food, go home."
"That's great, thank you auntie." The children smiled brightly and ran home.
Li Wanyue and her brother said goodbye to the people under the big locust tree and left.
The aunties and sisters under the big locust tree were all curious when they saw this.
"It seems like the Li siblings bought a lot of things. They must have spent a lot of money, right? Doesn't their family still owe debts?"
"Hey, how long have you not been out? The news is so bad. They have already paid back the money they owed. Haven't you seen them always carrying a few wooden barrels out of the house in the morning these days? I guess they are out delivering goods."
"What are you pulling?"
“Bamboo shoots.”
"That thing is so unpalatable, how can it be sold for money?"
"That's right. Many people in our village went to the mountain to pick some bamboo shoots. Some ate them themselves, and some took them to sell. But it was all in vain. I don't know how Dashan's family sold them. They are obviously bamboo shoots from the same mountain, but how can they taste two different things?"
"A few days ago, I saw the Li siblings digging a kiln at the foot of the mountain. They put a few jars at the entrance of the cave to burn. I don't know what they are doing. I heard that they want to make something to sell. Adding these two things together, it seems that they really made some money."
Yang Zhou, who was not far away, heard this and felt disdainful. Those who borrowed money were all relatives of the Li family. They were close to them. Who knows if they haven't paid it back yet? Even if they haven't paid it back, they can still come to ask for it.
No matter how much money you make, you can only make money in this country. How can you make money by opening a shop in town? They are really a bunch of short-sighted people.
She turned around and went home.
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Li's Courtyard
The whole family looked at the pile of things on the ground, rice, noodles, oil and meat, and were shocked. How much money did their Mo Tiao earn? How could he buy so many things?
Sun Xiuqin looked at the things with her eyes shining. She secretly calculated how much money these things cost. To be able to buy so many things, she must have earned a lot.
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