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All the other women surrounding them, who also had their eyes on this piece of fabric, all gasped at the same time. Two hundred wen? That’s the cost an entire roll of fabric, enough for eight or even nine sets of clothes!
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All the other women surrounding them, who also had their eyes on this piece of fabric, all gasped at the same time. Two hundred wen? That’s the cost an entire roll of fabric, enough for eight or even nine sets of clothes!
Even third grandma was a little hesitant.
Mountain goods went for around 2 wen per jin (close to one pound,
or 500 grams). Their family would have to sell a whole 100 jin to be
able to recoup the cost of the piece of fabric. But the quality of the fabric
was top notched, the color was bright. If her daughter have it on, she’d most
definitely be pretty like a flower.
When Third Grandma heard that, she
gritted her teeth and stomped her feet and said, “Okay, I will take it,
Shopkeeper Qian. I will pay you after all the mountain goods were sold.”
The family that the brother had spoke to
for the daughter was a decent family, and close to town. Her daughter was quite
fair as well. If only she could wear clothes from this fabric, this betrothal
would be a done deal! If her daughter could marry out of this poor, remote
village and have a decent rest of her life, it was worth the money!
All the other women from the village were
gathering around picking out needles, threads, and other household items. Those
with some spare money would also pick some fabrics for making new clothes for
the kids before the end of the year. There would not be any more merchants
visiting them before the year was over.
Mrs. GU, on the other hand, was not part
of this group. She merely looked at the merchants and their merchandises from
afar. She had her own plans in mind; she would be going into town in the next
couple of days; the merchandises in town were cheaper than what the merchants
brought with them. She wasn’t about to pay extra for them. As for her mountain
goods, the only reason she was doing business with the merchants was because
she didn’t have any mules. Otherwise, why would she be so dumb as to let the
merchants made money off of her?
Qingshan Village had roughly thirty or so
families. By the time all of the mountain goods have been weighted and paid
for, it was already night time. Shopkeeper Qian and his men stayed the night in
the village and the caravan started their trip back the next day.
Gu Ye had been waiting just outside of
the village since earlier that morning. At her feet was a basket filled with
dried games.
Naturally, Shopkeeper Qian was familiar
with Gu Ye. He had heard all about her from the villagers all along. In his
mind, she was a poor child who had been abused by her step mother.
He was quite surprised when he found her
stopped them in the path of the caravan. He walked up to her and asked, “My
child, do you have something you want to sell?”
Gu Ye nodded and removed the leaves she
had been using to cover up her basket. She asked lightly, “I wonder whether
Shopkeeper QIan would purchase dried pheasants or rabbits?”
“Of course!” There weren’t a lot of
proficient hunters in the few surrounding villages. Families like Hunter Zhang
usually owned their own mules, making it easy for them to delivery their catch
themselves. So it was unusual for Shopkeeper Qian to come across items like
that.
He thought about it for a moment and said
to her, “Tell you what? The going rate for dried pheasants and ducks is 20 wen
a jin. I will pay you exactly that and not make money off of you.”
“Thank you, Shopkeeper Qian!” Even though
Gu Ye was not familiar with the going prices of air dried game meat in town,
but she did know that Shopkeeper Qian had always been fair with his pricings
and that he would not try to cheat a little kid like her.
Gu Ye kept taking out the dried games one
after another. Shopkeeper Qian got progressively more startled as time went on.
Inside the basket there were 8 pheasants, 5 wild rabbits, and a few
pigeon-liked birds. After weighting them, it was close to 40 jin. Where did
this kid got all these game from?
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