Chapter 81 So, she is the stupidest one?
Gu Tang picked out two sets of fine cloth bedding, one set was placed in the new yard, and the other set was placed at Gu's house for her own use.
As for her father and Gu Ping'an, Gu Tang picked out coarse cloth ones for them, two sets for each person, one set was placed in the new yard, and the other was placed at Gu's side.
After choosing the bedding, Gu Tang bought two rolls of fine cloth and two rolls of coarse cloth.
Ask the shopkeeper to find a rope to tie it up and wait for her father to come and settle the bill.
Not long after, Gu Lianshan came back with a wooden face, holding the clothes he had just taken away.
Gu Tang looked puzzled: "Why did you take it back? Does it not fit?"
"...It fits me very well, but I haven't paid for it yet, so it's hard to put it on right away."
Gu Lianshan pulled the corner of his mouth towards his daughter, wanting to laugh, but when his eyes glanced at the pile of bedding tied up next to his daughter, he didn't laugh.
"This, this is..." Gu Lianshan's voice was shaking.
"I picked out the bedding and four pieces of cloth, and now I'm waiting for you to settle the bill." Gu Tang winked at her father secretly.
The meaning is very clear, we are just waiting for you to come and bargain!
The shopkeeper was very skillful, tapping away at the abacus: "Brother, I am an honest man, I won't play tricks on you. For four fur coats, the big ones will cost you one and a half taels of silver each, and the small ones will cost you one tael of silver each. For the beddings..."
Gu Lianshan's head was buzzing, and as the shopkeeper's prices were quoted one by one, he was going crazy!
How much money does this cost?!
Soon, the shopkeeper calculated the total price: "Nine taels, eight hundred coins in total!"
Gu Lianshan:……!!!
Nine taels and eight hundred coins!!!
He was so angry that his whole body was boiling. This was too expensive!
Looking at his daughter, Gu Lianshan swallowed and said, "A little less?"
Gu Tang shook his head: "I have picked them all."
She still thinks this is not enough, and she doesn't even have a replacement.
Seeing that his daughter remained unmoved by the nine taels, eight hundred coins, Gu Lianshan was left with no choice but to roll up his sleeves and bargain with the shopkeeper!
He picked up a fur coat and started to find fault with it: "Is this fur coat worth one and a half taels of silver? Look at the sparse fur, and some places are almost bare! You can tell from one look that it has been eaten by insects and rats!"
"And the leather in the sleeves of these two small pieces is not a whole piece! It's all made of broken pieces! How can it be worth one or two taels? Even five hundred coins is a high price!"
The shopkeeper was unhappy when he heard this: "Brother, this is a fur coat! It's sold so cheaply because it's made of pieces. If it were a whole piece of leather, the price would be at least doubled!"
"You said it was useless! You put together a fur coat from broken pieces and you asked for a price that was neither too high nor too low. Those who could afford it looked down on it, and those who couldn't afford it thought it was too expensive. Now it's just a waste of money.
Look at how many fur coats you have piled up on your counter. If you can’t sell them this year, you’ll have nowhere to sell them next year. Leather, after a while, will either turn yellow or shed, and most importantly, it will be eaten by insects and rats, so the price is getting lower every year!”
These words left the shopkeeper speechless.
Indeed, when she made this batch of fur coats, she wanted to save money and was reluctant to use a whole piece of leather. Almost all of them were pieced together from broken pieces.
It is also because of this that this year's batch of fur coats is so difficult to sell.
After pointing out the faults of the fur coat, Gu Lianshan untied the bundled bedding and cloth.
I took a look at the cloth and there was nothing much to say. The price was reasonable. But I had to talk about the bedding in detail.
"The kapok here must have something else added to it! It doesn't feel soft to the touch, and it feels hard when pressed! How dare you charge hundreds of coins for this? Touch it yourself and see if it's worth the price!"
The shopkeeper rolled his eyes. Whose kapok doesn’t have anything adulterated?!
Every family is involved!
Gu Lianshan placed all the bedding on the counter and touched them one by one.
After touching the items, they said they were not genuine and that something had been added to them.
I touched six sets in a row and it was all like this.
Gu Tang was dumbfounded. Was he being cheated?
But the shopkeeper's expression didn't look like he was exposed.
As for her father, he only said that something else was added to the kapok, but he didn't insist on it. He just said it was not worth the price and asked the shopkeeper to give him a new and honest price.
The shopkeeper was also annoyed and was willing to give in: "Nine taels, seven hundred and fifty copper coins! I'll give you fifty copper coins off!"
"No way! You'd better give me the decimals! One price, nine taels of silver!" Gu Lianshan bargained very ruthlessly and got to the point in one go.
Gu Tang, who was watching from the side, was stunned.
Cut off 800 coins in one go? Would the shopkeeper agree to this?
As expected, he saw the shopkeeper exploded: "Brother! I am a small business, and I can't make 800 coins in three days! How can you bargain? You are trying to kill me!"
"My family is also in business! Who doesn't know who? This is the price, nine taels of silver! If you agree, we'll pay the money, otherwise we'll find another one!"
After saying this, Gu Lianshan grabbed Gu Tang, pulled her and turned to leave.
Gu Tang was confused and didn't react for a moment, so she was pulled two steps by her father.
"Hey, hey, hey! Big brother! Please give me some more! At least let me earn some hard-earned money!"
"At this price, you will definitely make a profit!"
Gu Lianshan did not stop, pulling Gu Tang and continuing to walk out, with one foot already out of the threshold.
"Come on, come on! My good brother! I'll give it to you at this price! Who let me see your daughter is so happy, and she is so filial that she only cares about buying you and doesn't want anything for herself? Just consider it for her face! You can take it at this price!"
Gu Lianshan turned his back to the shopkeeper and finally showed a genuine smile on his face.
He left Gu Tang behind, turned around, and went to re-tie the bedding with a grin.
She even boasted to the shopkeeper: "I have four children, but this one is the best..."
The shopkeeper also put on a smile again, as if nothing had happened, and happily held Gu Lianshan in his arms.
At first glance, this seemed like a very pleasant conversation.
Gu Tang didn't want to say a word. Her father's bargaining routine was so familiar... Wasn't this the common bargaining routine in her previous life?
And there was this shopkeeper, who said he wasn't making any money, but after her father cut her off by 800 coins, he still sold it happily!
So, how deep is the water here?
Sure enough, she is the dumbest and most honest one!
Gu Tang rubbed her face, learned a lesson from it, and will do the same next time!
"Girl! Hurry up and take out the money, we have to go back." Gu Lianshan picked up the bedding and shouted to Gu Tang.
"good!"
Taking out his purse, Gu Tang took out two triangular pieces of silver and handed them to the shopkeeper.
The shopkeeper smiled even more widely. He took the silver and bit it a few times with his mouth, then took out a scale to weigh the silver.
The two pieces of silver weighed ten taels each, and the shopkeeper gave back one tael in change.
In just a short while, nine taels of silver were spent.
Gu Lianshan was still very distressed, so he quickly took Gu Tang out of the cloth shop and away from here.
He was afraid that the one or two ounces in Gu Tang’s hand would be spent.
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