BXBX NOVEL Chapter 111 - 111: 111 It’s time to leave.
“Alright.” Lady Li picked up the coarse cloth from the corner and started measuring it with a cloth tape.
Xiao Yuchuan was a keen observer, staring at her as she measured twenty-one feet, not allowing her to miss even a tiny amount. He watched until she finished cutting the cloth, then said, “I’ve almost sold out of embroidery thread in my goods, so I need to buy some more embroidery threads and scraps of cloth from you.”
“The scraps are over there.” Lady Li pointed to a pile of mixed good and bad quality scraps in the corner. Chuan was a vendor who traveled from village to village selling to poor families. The scrap cloth was usually used for mending clothes, at most picking out a few pieces to make a few handkerchiefs. Even if resold, there was not much profit to be made.
He picked up a large bag of scrap cloth, and Lady Li took out a large wooden box containing various colors of embroidery threads, “I will give you the old price for the threads.”
Xiao Yuchuan selected a batch of inferior embroidery threads and a few good yellow threads, “Please calculate the price together.”
Lady Li skillfully manipulated the abacus beads, “Scrap cloth isn’t worth much, and it’s not very useful anyways, so a large bag is just twenty-six cents. Fifty inferior threads, four cents each, good threads are seven cents each, and there are eight good threads in your selection, which comes to 256 cents. For twenty cents per foot of cloth, twenty-one feet would be 420 cents. Altogether… 702 cents. I won’t collect the extra two cents. You owe me 700 cents minus the 54 cents from the six embroidered handkerchiefs you sold, for a total of 646 cents. Can you confirm the calculation?”
Xiao Yuchuan also calculated seriously and confirmed the result before handing over the money. He said somewhat embarrassedly, “I haven’t received any formal education, so it took me so long to calculate the total, unlike you Lady Li, who can read and write as well as use abacus beads.”
“It’s nothing, I can’t read many characters either, but I can write numbers and do calculations. Considering that you never went to school and can still handle money, that’s pretty good.”
“It’s strange about money; even those who can’t recognize a single character can still count money.”
Lady Li laughed upon hearing this. It was indeed the case.
Xiao Yuchuan packed the cloth for his wife’s clothes and the purchased threads into the large cloth bag he brought earlier, and the three of them left the cloth shop.
Lady Li had made a sale, despite not earning much profit, she still made some money and called out to their retreating figures with a smile, “Please come again next time.”
Yuchuan waved his hand as if to agree. He counted the remaining money and handed it to Xiao Yishan, “Second brother, I will carry my goods on a carrying pole to sell tomorrow. We have a total of 276 copper coins left.”
“You should keep the money. You’ll be needing it when you sell your goods.”
“These are all small, inexpensive items, and everyone pays with copper coins. As soon as I sell them, I’ll have change, so I don’t need to bring money to give change.”
Xiao Yishan finally accepted the copper coins, and as they passed a steamed bun stall, he stopped and asked, “Boss, how much are your buns?”
The stall owner lifted the lid of the steamer, “There are only two buns left, and they are cold. One vegetable bun and one meat bun. The vegetable bun is one cent, and the meat bun is two cents.”
“I’ll take both.” Xiao Yishan paid three cents and handed the meat bun to Su Qingyue, “It’s almost evening, and we’re still in town. Let’s have a bun to fill our stomachs first.”
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Both of the big men ate only half a vegetable bun each.
She took a few bites and realized that she was holding a meat bun.
Second brother didn’t need to be so kind to her. She felt so embarrassed to continue freeloading at his house.
In fact, she was recovering quite well now. Even if she was temporarily deaf, it was time for her to leave his home..