Chapter 24 Purchase 2
He didn't hesitate: "Okay, Manager Mi, please calculate the price."
"A total of 2 taels, 985 wen."
Xie Shuangbai directly took out 3 taels and handed it over.
"No need to change the 15 cents. Please give me another pound of food."
The shopkeeper Mi was also straightforward: "I'll give you an extra pound of white flour. If you eat well, come again next time!"
The grain was loaded onto a cart by the grain shop clerk, and after saying goodbye to the rice shop owner, they went to the oil shop.
Sesame oil is the best-selling product in the oil shop.
But Xie Shuangbai was not used to cooking with sesame oil, so he bought a large jar of soybean oil and a small can of sesame oil.
It costs one tael and five cents.
Oil is really expensive, no wonder stir-frying is not popular.
Zhao Dunzi took them to the grocery store again.
The price of salt is indeed not cheap, 49 cents per pound.
I bought two kilograms first. Salt is a necessity and I have to buy it.
It costs 98 wen.
He also bought a dozen jars of pickled vegetables of different sizes, and some snacks such as malt sugar, peanuts and dates, spending 500 wen.
Xie Qiushi felt a little uncomfortable watching the money go out like water, but he still said in a low voice: "Brother, we still need to buy some cloth."
It was cold, and they didn't have any thick clothes.
Several people rushed to the cloth shop again.
The guy was wiping the shelves out of boredom, and when he saw a customer coming, he hurried to greet him.
The young man was shocked by Xie Shuangbai's appearance and looked at him for a long time before he recovered.
"Sir, what kind of cloth do you want to buy?"
"What kind of fabrics are suitable for girls to wear?"
Seeing that they were dressed in ordinary clothes with patches on them, the waiter didn't recommend any expensive clothes. "These are our best-selling fabrics."
Xie Xiachan touched it and said:
"Brother, we don't need to buy cotton cloth, coarse cloth will do, it's durable."
Xie Chunmiao looked at the dazzling array of beautiful fabrics. Although she liked them very much, she still agreed with her second sister: "Yes, brother, we can just wear coarse ones!"
Xie Shuangbai couldn't bear to let his sister suffer, "Hey, how much is this thing you're talking about?"
"This patterned one is 300 wen per piece, and the plain one is 150 wen."
Xie Shuangbai suddenly remembered that he had accompanied his senior sister to buy fabrics for drama costumes. The store had that kind of defective fabric, which was cheap and good. It should have existed in ancient times.
"Excuse me, do we have any fabrics with uneven dyeing or defects in our store?"
The guy looked at him strangely and muttered in his heart: He looks so polite, but he comes up and asks about the defective cloth. Isn't he ashamed?
"I'll have to ask the shopkeeper about this."
Xie Shuangbai said generously, "Please ask, little brother. I would like to buy a few more if the price is right."
The guy glanced at him and walked to the backyard. Soon a middle-aged man came out.
He looked at Xie Shuangbai and the others and asked, "The guys said you want defective cloth?"
Xie Shuangbai nodded: "Yes, I wonder if the shopkeeper has it."
The shopkeeper sent the waiter out from the backyard with a few more bolts of cloth. "Yes, yes, we have three bolts of crimson and half a bolt of indigo left. The new workers aren't very experienced with dyeing, so the colors are mixed, but it won't affect the wear."
The shopkeeper brought up the cloth and showed it to them.
The indigo fabric is similar to navy blue, but bluer than navy blue, and has some dark cherry-colored patterns on it. The dark red piece is the cherry color on the indigo. The combination of these two colors is not ugly.
"I wonder how much this cloth costs?"
The shopkeeper touched the cloth and said with pain:
"If you want all of it, I'll charge you 230 wen. This is all top-quality cotton. If it weren't for the dyeing error, this price would be impossible!"
"Please, boss, pack it up and provide some needles and thread of the same color."
The shopkeeper took the needle and thread and said, "260 coins in total. I'll give you an extra strand of crimson thread."
"Thank you, shopkeeper."
Xie Qiushi and the other two happily walked out of the shop, each holding a piece of cloth. Zhao Dunzi was surprised to see them.
"Little brother, what's wrong with you? You got such a great bargain. I just touched it, and the cotton cloth is really thick."
It's a real steal to buy high-quality cotton cloth at this price.
Xie Shuangbai also asked him with a smile:
"Is there a pawn shop in town?"
Zhao Dunzi was puzzled: "There is a family, you want to pawn things?"
Xie Shuangbai just smiled and said nothing.
The cloth shop is not far from the pawnshop.
The pawnshop was not big. The clerk sat high up in the counter and could see who was coming at a glance. He saw that they were dressed simply and asked with a squinting look:
"What do you want to be?"
“We don’t treat things as things.”
Chao Feng: “…”
The waiter coming out of the inner hall was about to get angry when he heard Xie Shuangbai ask:
"Does your shop have any pawned quilts?"
The ticket counter was the first to react, "Yes, yes, yes."
The waiter took over and said, "You came at the right time. The other day a servant from a wealthy family came to pawn a lot of quilts. They are all new. Take a look."
The guy enthusiastically took out all the quilts.
He was so happy. These quilts took up too much space at the back. If he could sell a few today, he could pick one of the remaining quilts to take home.
Xie Shuangbai looked at the red, orange, yellow, green, pink, and colorful, gaudy quilt and didn't know what to say.
Xie Shuangbai disagreed with this aesthetic and said with an awkward smile, "This color is quite... festive."
The waiter said, "It's because the new daughter-in-law didn't like the pattern, so she pawned the new quilt right after her mother-in-law left. Otherwise, how could she get such a bargain?"
Xie Shuangbai flipped through them and saw that they were all brand new. The quilt cover was satin and the cotton was new.
Considering that Rongcheng is cold in winter and girls cannot be cold, he is also afraid of the cold and needs to make cotton-padded clothes and shoes. He just takes these apart and uses cotton to wrap them up.
After some bargaining, 10 quilts cost 1 tael of silver.
Zhao Dunzi next to him was completely dumbfounded.
When he left the pawnshop, he was laughing so hard that his eyes were invisible. "Did you see the guy's face?"
Xie Chunmiao smiled like a little fox: "How can you not see? Your face is green."
Xie Shuangbai also laughed, "I guess the guy wanted to pick up a bargain, but he didn't expect that I would get it all."
"Going shopping with you today has opened my eyes again. Who would have thought that a pawnshop could sell quilts? This big quilt alone would cost eight hundred coins at a cloth shop."
Xie Shuangbai smiled but said nothing. It wasn't that he was superstitious, it was just that he had seen a lot of things in modern times.
Ultimately, it’s a little bit of a peculiarity caused by information asymmetry.
Ten quilts were piled up, and the mule cart was already full. People passing by looked at them sideways.
Now Xie Shuangbai had no place to sit.
Zhao Dunzi teased him: "Who would have thought you could spend so much? Why don't you find another car?"
Just when they were worried.
"Frost boy, why are you in town?"
He looked back and saw that it was Village Chief Wang.
"Uncle, why are you in town too?"
"Go to the government office to do some business."
Xie Shuangbai saw that there was a man standing next to him who was about the same age as Village Chief Wang.
Village Chief Wang asked, "What are you doing?"
Xie Shuangbai smiled helplessly and said, "I bought too much stuff, and the car can't fit me anymore."
Village Chief Wang looked at the car and exclaimed, "Why did you buy so many quilts?"
"It's cold in winter, and my sister and I are afraid of the cold."
Village Chief Wang looked distressed: "How much does this cost? You young people just don't know how to spend money!"
"The price is right, don't worry, uncle."
Village chief Wang shook his head, not knowing what to say.
"Why don't you take our donkey cart back and let Dunzi and the others take the things back first."
Xie Shuangbai thought about it and decided it was a good idea. His sisters still had to pack up when he got home. It was almost noon now, so it would be afternoon by the time he got home.
"Brother Zhao, you guys go back first. Uncle Wang and I will go together."
Zhao Dunzi looked at the sky, then saw that he and the village chief were together and had nothing to worry about.
"Okay, let's go back first. You and Uncle Wang should be careful on the road."
"Got it. Slow down, the three of you. Go back and close the door."
"I know, bro!"
After saying goodbye, the three Xie sisters, Zhao Dunzi and the village chief returned to the village under the scorching sun.
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