The woman saw a scholar-looking man approaching her, examining her wild mushrooms.
"Scholar, these are wild mushrooms freshly picked from the mountain. They're five coins a pound, and I'll sell them all to you."
It's so cheap, the price difference must be huge. I'm going to make a lot of money this time.
“My mother has been sick these past few days and doesn’t have much time left. She wants to drink some porridge, so I have to sell some rice at a low price to buy a few ounces of rice to cook porridge.”
Many people want to buy it, but are afraid it might be poisonous. Actually, this wild mushroom tastes quite good and isn't poisonous at all. If it weren't for exchanging it for some rice to make porridge for my mother, my family wouldn't have let me sell it.
Tears streamed down the woman's face as she looked at Zhao Xian pleadingly, hoping she could buy the wild mushrooms.
It seems this woman doesn't recognize this as a bull's stomach mushroom. Such a good thing, yet no one dares to take it. She should make a small fortune.
"How heavy are these wild mushrooms?"
"Four catties and two ounces, let's call it four catties, that'll be twenty coins in total," the woman said eagerly.
Zhao Xian nodded; this woman was very honest.
“You just said you wanted to buy some rice, but now rice costs thirty coins a pound. The money you get from selling it won't even buy a pound of rice, only enough to make two bowls of porridge. That's not worth it at all.”
"There was no other way. My family just wanted my mother to have a bowl of porridge before she died." The woman said, tears welling up in her eyes again.
“How about this? I just bought some rice. I’ll give you three pounds of rice in exchange for these beef tripe mushrooms. That way, your mother can have a few more bowls of porridge. What do you think?”
Upon hearing this, the woman's face immediately lit up with a smile, for three catties of rice would cost ninety coins.
"That's wonderful, thank you, sir."
"Then it's settled. I'll go get the rice. Wait for me a moment."
Zhao Xian came to a corner and used the thirty coins he had to buy three catties of rice in the market trading system.
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