Chapter 226 Grandma and aunt are plotting against you!
The young man responded loudly and ran to get clothes nimbly.
Seeing this, Feng and Mr. Gu hurried forward to warn the shopkeeper: "My son gave us five taels of silver! You can't fool us with inferior goods, and you can't raise the price at will. The extra silver must be returned!"
The shopkeeper couldn't laugh this time. "Oh! That's true. You can just go and ask around. The price of fur coats has gone up a lot in recent days.
"Your five taels of silver would have been enough to buy three fur coats made of scraps of leather in previous years. This year, you can only buy the lowest quality, white fur without fur."
Whiteboard without hair?
"How can a fur coat be called a fur coat if it has no fur? Boss, are you deliberately bullying us because we are old, weak and sick?!" Feng's voice was shrill, with a look of disbelief on her face.
Gu Liansheng didn't believe it either. He pulled at his clothes and said, "My fur coat is made of a whole piece of rabbit skin. Other cloth shops only offer one or two taels of silver for it. How come I can only buy the worst quality one with five taels of silver?"
At the end, he threatened: "There is a police chief from the government office outside! You are maliciously raising prices. If I report you to the government office, they will not tolerate you!"
The shopkeeper became angry when he heard this, and took out the five taels of silver he had put away earlier and stuffed it into Gu Liansheng's pocket.
"This transaction requires mutual consent. Since you think my price is too high, then take your money and buy from another store!
If you can use this five taels of silver to buy three fur coats made of whole leather, you can pick any three fur coats in my shop, and I won’t charge you a single copper!”
"You!" Gu Liansheng is just a bluff to outsiders. Once others get angry, he becomes dispirited.
Holding the silver in his hand, he glared at the shopkeeper with a red face and dared not speak any more nonsense.
Seeing her son being bullied, Feng also became angry. She hung her head and immediately went to quarrel with the shopkeeper, shouting and yelling around, saying that the shopkeeper was bullying their elderly, weak and sick family and maliciously offering a high price!
"...Five taels of silver! My son gave her five taels of silver! He asked her to take out three fur coats, but she said she couldn't buy them! She could only buy the white ones without fur!"
The customers and shop assistants in the shop were all silent, but the shopkeeper had a look of contempt on his face and was not afraid of Feng's shouting at all.
Seeing that no one spoke up for her, Feng's face turned dark. She wanted to continue yelling, but was stopped by Patriarch Gu's stern rebuke.
"What are you shouting for!"
Hearing the clan leader's voice, Feng froze and could no longer utter the curse words that were about to come out of her mouth.
Old Master Gu was a little angry and felt that the clan leader was helping outsiders bully his own clansmen.
He said: "It's clearly the cloth shop's fault..."
"Didn't you ask about the prices before coming here?" Patriarch Gu interrupted him impatiently.
"It hasn't snowed this year, and people in and outside the city are saying there might be a snowstorm. In recent days, the prices of cold-weather items have skyrocketed. Your five taels of silver can't even buy you one fur coat, let alone three!"
Mr. Gu’s face turned pale, obviously he had not expected this.
In previous years, these trivial matters were taken care of by the second son's family. This year, the second son's family was adopted, and he and his wife were both sick, so they really didn't pay attention to these things.
He glanced at his wife, only to see that she looked frightened and even more helpless than himself.
After scolding the family, Patriarch Gu ignored them and continued to discuss with his fellow tribesmen about buying warm clothing.
Feng snatched the silver from Gu Liansheng's hand, and pretended to be calm with a pale face: "Let's go ask other families!"
Gu Liansheng was immersed in the word "snow disaster" at this moment, as if he had lost his soul, and had no reaction at all.
Gu Zhier, still looking flustered, pulled him and followed Feng out.
Gu Qing and her two siblings also wanted to follow, but were stopped by Old Man Gu: "You three stay here, don't wander around, I'll come back to pick you up later."
Gu Qing and the other two didn't care. As long as they didn't have to go out and squeeze in with the crowd, they were happy and relaxed.
There are many people from the same village in this shop. They are all familiar with each other, so they don't need to be afraid.
After leaving the cloth shop, Feng did not look for other cloth shops, but took her family to a street teahouse.
"Mom, what are you doing here?!" Gu Liansheng came back to his senses with an anxious look on his face.
The clan leader said there might be a snowstorm, didn't we agree to go buy fur coats? Why are we in the teahouse?
"Li is waiting for us in the teahouse!" Feng's eyes flashed with viciousness, "Let's send a message to Li first, ask her to get ready, and by the way, get the remaining ten taels of silver."
If five taels of silver can't buy a decent fur coat, then add another five taels!
If there is a snowstorm and she doesn't have fur clothes, her sick body might not be able to bear it.
Lee...
Are you planning to take action?
Gu Liansheng felt excited.
After that damn girl Gu Tang was kidnapped, he stared at the second brother and cried!
The family walked into the teahouse and found Li in the corner of the lobby.
Li came alone today. Her husband was at home helping her to fool her family so that they wouldn't know that she was meeting with the Gu family.
Kidnapping a relative's child and selling him away is neither easy to talk about nor pleasant to hear. The fewer people who know about it, the better.
Besides, Gu Laoer's daughter must be bought at a high price. If her family knew about this, I'm afraid everyone would want to share the money in her hands!
"Sister-in-law."
Gu Zhier walked quickly forward and patted Li's shoulder lightly.
Li was startled, turned her head to look, felt relieved, and then some anger appeared on her face.
"Second sister-in-law! Why did you come so late? I've been waiting for an hour!"
"Sister-in-law, I'm really sorry, my second brother's family are all lazy! They just showed up!"
Gu Zhier apologized while helping her mother sit down.
Li changed her expression, greeted the old couple Feng and Gu Liansheng with a smile, and called the waiter to bring four cups of hot tea.
"It's cold outside, have a cup of hot tea to warm yourself up. This teahouse has good tea-making skills, and it tastes delicious!"
The waiter brought four cups of hot tea and quickly left.
Feng picked up the teacup and took a sip. She knew whether it was good or bad. She was just an ordinary person and didn't know how to appreciate tea at all. She could only secretly glance at her son to hear what he had to say.
Her son was an educated man, so he must understand these things. If her son said yes, she would follow suit and say yes too.
Feng really overestimated Gu Liansheng.
Gu Liansheng also didn't know much about tea and had never tasted any good tea, but he was very proud, so he took a small sip and savored it carefully in his mouth.
Facing Li's gaze, he nodded calmly and said, "It's really good."
Feng heaved a sigh of relief and said to Li with a smile, "It tastes good to me too. You are so smart in finding a teahouse that knows how to make tea."
Li smiled and nodded while inviting them to have tea, and told the waiter to add more if it was not enough.
But in fact, she rolled her eyes in her heart and cursed the mother and son for being so eye-opening!
Although this teahouse seems to be doing good business, in fact, its tea-brewing skills are notoriously poor!
The tea leaves used are all broken tea. One copper coin can buy a bag, and one bag can be used to make ten pots of hot tea.
Anyone who often comes to Bei'an City for tea and shopping knows that this teahouse is not up to par.
The reason why the business is so good is that it is sold cheaply. For two copper coins, you can eat it until you vomit!
If I hadn't made an appointment with the Gu family today, I would never have come to a teahouse like this.
The mother and son of the Gu family had no idea that Li was criticizing them in her heart. When they heard that they could have more tea, the mother and son, together with Old Man Gu and Gu Zhier, the four of them drank up all the tea in the teacup in one breath, and arrogantly called the waiter, saying that they wanted more tea.
Li looked at them patiently. After refilling her cup of tea, she drank it all in one go, then turned around and asked the waiter to continue filling her cup.
After drinking three cups in a row, the Gu family was finally full and stopped asking the waiter to add more tea.
Li's patience was about to run out, so she asked, "Did that girl show up?"
Feng nodded and said, "He's in Xu's Cloth Shop. Go over there quickly and have someone keep a close eye on him. Don't lose him! If you miss this good opportunity, it will be hard to find another one in the future."
Li smiled sincerely this time: "I'll be right there!"
"Wait!" Feng grabbed her arm and stared at her, "You have led the man out. You should pay the remaining five taels of silver.
After we leave this teahouse, if you don’t look for me and I don’t look for you, no one will think of you.”
Li was a little hesitant, but then she thought, now that the person had appeared, she would definitely kidnap him, and the remaining silver would have to be paid sooner or later.
In that case, I might as well give it to them now and consider it a good deal.
Li sat back in her seat, took out a silver coin from the secret pocket inside her sleeve, and secretly pushed it to Feng.
"Ma'am, please take it. We will be even from now on."
As the rough big hand stroked the silver in the palm of his hand, the frustration that Feng had been holding in his heart instantly dissipated.
"That's right, we're even!"
Li stood up and walked out again, and this time no one stopped her.
There were also tables outside the teahouse, and six tall and strong men were sitting around one of the tables.
Li passed by them, winked at them, and then walked towards Xu's Cloth Shop.
The six men calmly called the waiter to pay the bill, stood up and followed without making a sound.
Not long after, Li squeezed his way into Xu's Cloth Shop.
The men behind her stopped at the door and did not go in, as if they were waiting for Li's instructions.
When Li entered the cloth shop, he saw Gu Tang at first sight.
It was really that Gu Tang was too eye-catching in the crowd, making it hard for people not to notice him.
In order to prevent Gu Tang from recognizing her, Li hid behind a few burly women and pretended to buy cloth, but in fact she kept glancing at Gu Tang.
After glancing for a while, she walked out of the cloth shop as if nothing had happened.
The men guarding the door saw her come out, and the leading man came forward and whispered, "How is it?"
"She was wearing a lotus-colored long coat and a blue long skirt. No one else in the entire shop was wearing the same color clothes as her. You could see it at a glance once you walked in."
The leading man nodded, whispered to the other men for a while, and then took turns to go into the cloth shop.
As Li said, the person was found.
When they retreated, they found Li and asked, "When will we start?"
"You guys just stand there and watch at the door first, and then take action when someone comes out!" Li said in a cold tone.
"become!"
The leading man called his brothers and stood guard at the door of the cloth shop. They would look up at every person who came out to prevent them from letting anyone go.
Gu Tang was unaware of all this. She followed the clan leader's wife and picked out thirty kilograms of kapok cotton wool, saying that she wanted to learn how to make cotton-padded clothes and quilts.
Third Uncle and Gu Lianshan all listened to her. The money was in her hands anyway, so she could buy whatever she wanted.
After buying cotton wool, the women in the village discussed buying cloth.
Gu Tang had no shortage of cloth, as he had bought a lot before and had not used any, so he asked them if they wanted to buy bedding and fur coats, and also charcoal, which he also wanted to buy.
The women looked at Gu Tang with a spendthrift look on their faces: "You've already bought cotton wool, why do you need to buy quilts and fur coats? You can buy some cloth and go home to sew your own quilts and fur coats... What? You can't do it? It's okay! When you get back to the village, just come to my house and ask, and I'll teach you step by step!"
Gu Tang: ...Okay, compared to the aunts and other sisters-in-law, she is indeed not thrifty enough.
If he doesn't buy bedding or fur clothes, he certainly won't buy charcoal either.
Gu Tang tentatively asked again if anyone wanted to buy charcoal, and sure enough, he was reprimanded by the aunts and sisters again.
"Charcoal is so expensive! It's not worth it! We all burn firewood. Tell your father to go into the mountains and chop firewood before it snows. There aren't many people in your house, so just chop some and it will be enough to burn!"
Gu Tang: ...It’s her fault. She shouldn’t have asked. Ask her father to go to East Street to buy it.
There are also quilts and fur coats, all bought at East Street.
Although things were not going well for Gu Tang, Gu Lianshan had some good results.
He discussed with the villagers and decided to go buy some food and pork and mutton.
If there is really a snowstorm, in addition to clothes to keep warm, this food can also keep warm.
He told Gu Tang about this, and Gu Tang stuffed a purse into his hand with more than ten taels of silver in it, and reminded him to buy less pork and more mutton.
In winter, eating more mutton can keep you warm.
After taking the silver, Gu Lianshan separated from Gu Tang and the other two.
The women stayed here to buy cloth, cotton wool, and thread, while the men went to buy grain, meat, oil, salt and other things, enough to eat for the entire winter.
Gu Lianshan followed the men in the village out of the cloth shop alone, while Gu Tang, his third uncle and Gu Ping'an stayed in the shop. After calculating the money for the cotton wool, they found a laborer to carry the things, and the three generations of grandparents and grandchildren planned to go home first.
At this moment, Gu Qing and her two siblings, who had been keeping their heads down and silent since they came in, actually separated.
Sisters Gu Qing and Gu Lian went to the counter, apparently wanting to buy cloth, while Gu Tianbao moved step by step behind Gu Tang!
Gu Tang: What are you trying to do?
Do you want to fight or sneak attack her?
Just as she was about to turn around, she heard Gu Tianbao behind her suddenly tell her not to look back.
Gu Tianbao spoke in a very low voice, and if Gu Tang didn't have sharp ears, he might not have been able to hear it.
Gu Tang didn't sense any malice from him. He paused, looked straight ahead as if nothing had happened, listened to his words, and didn't look back.
Gu Tianbao continued to whisper: "Be careful. When I was at home, I overheard grandma and aunt discussing something. It seemed that they were planning to plot against you and Second Uncle..."
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