When the shop owner saw that they were two little girls, he did not neglect them and stood up to greet them.
Song Yuehua first asked about the prices of pens, ink, paper and inkstones. Ordinary pens were not expensive, 10 cents each. The best inkstones cost over a hundred taels of silver, and the worst ones cost at least 5 taels of silver.
There are more types of ink. Song Yuehua chose a medium-low quality one. A stick of ink costs 500 coins.
There are several types of paper. The good ones include Xuan paper, which costs 1 tael of silver per piece, and the bad ones include woolen paper, which costs 330 wen per piece.
Song Yuehua asked for 3 pens, 2 bottles of ink, an inkstone, 2 rolls of rice paper and 3 rolls of wool paper.
When preparing to check out, Xiaoyu pulled at the corner of Song Yuehua's clothes, bit her lip and shook her head gently.
Song Yuehua smiled at her and took the items to the counter to pay.
The shopkeeper rounded off the amount and the total was 9 taels of silver.
Song Yuehua originally wanted to buy a few enlightenment books, but she gave up. Some things are better to save on.
No wonder it is difficult to support a scholar in this era. The household expenses for a year can be gone.
As soon as she left the store, Xiaoyu asked anxiously, "Sister, is it because I said I wanted to learn to read?"
"It's not just you." Song Yuehua said, "It's also me, Dabao, and Xiaobao. We all need to learn to read. Isn't Xiaoyu willing?"
Xiaoyu quickly shook her head, looking as if she wanted to say something but hesitated.
"Don't worry, there's still plenty of money." Song Yuehua comforted.
In fact, she wanted to say that she would go and earn money if she lost it, but considering that it had been a short time since the last incident, she decided to keep her mouth shut.
Song Yuehua took a deep breath and took Xiaoyu to the cloth shop again. She bought 50 kilograms of cotton and picked out three colors of cotton cloth, asking for half a piece of each.
I chose two pairs of cloth shoes for each of them and bought a set of embroidery tools for Xiaoyu.
A total of 8 taels of silver.
From then on, the two no longer had the desire to shop.
It was already afternoon when we got home from the grocery store's ox cart.
Xiaoyu went to Grandma Wang's house to pick up Dabao and Xiaobao, while Song Yuehua moved the newly bought things into the house.
Rice, flour, grains, large jars of salt, sauce and vinegar were all moved into the cellar, and the rest were sorted and put away.
Looking at the slowly filling house, he counted the remaining 23 taels of silver.
Song Yuehua sighed with contentment, life was finally getting better.
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