Chapter 34 Big Purchase

Chapter 34 Big Purchase

Of the 525 kilograms of chestnuts purchased, 20 kilograms were given away for roasting, leaving 505 kilograms.

Qianhuan’s family set up a stall for four consecutive days. On the first two days, they brought 200 kilograms of chestnuts to the city. On the first day, they sold 140 kilograms. On the second day, business was booming and they sold 160 kilograms of chestnuts. On the third day, they sold 125 kilograms.

There were 80 kilograms left on the last day, and they were sold out in two or three hours.

After four days, 505 kilograms of chestnuts were sold for a total of 5 taels of silver and 50 coins.

After deducting four days' stall fees and 56 wen for the ox cart fee, there were more than four taels of silver left, plus the more than one tael he had left in his hand, the total was about more than six taels of silver.

"Dad, let's close the stall early today. I want to go for a walk on the street with mom. There are so many things we are missing at home. Now that we have some extra money, I plan to buy all the things we are missing, and also buy some rice, eggs and meat to improve our meals at home." Qianhuan said as she packed up the stall.

It has been more than twenty days since she came here, and she has never eaten meat. She really wants to eat meat and white rice.

"Okay, then you can go shopping with your mother."

Liang Laoer thought that his wife and daughter had not eaten meat for a long time these days, and he felt a little ashamed. If his leg had not been healed, how could they have suffered so much.

After Qianhuan put away her tools at Zuixianju, she came back and said to Liang Laoer, "Dad, is there anything you want to buy? Mom and I will bring it back for you."

"Dad doesn't have anything to buy. You and your mom can buy whatever you like. Dad has difficulty walking, so I'll wait for you here."

"Okay, Dad, then Mom and I will go shopping."

Qianhuan happily carried the bamboo basket on her back. At this moment, she looked like a real 13-year-old innocent girl.

The two of them walked around for more than half an hour and bought a lot of things.

They first went to the vegetable market. Qianhuan weighed a pound of fat and a pound of lean meat, caught an old hen, bought fifty eggs, and weighed a pound of coarse salt. In total, they spent nearly 200 coins on all the various things.

Then the two of them went to the rice shop and bought a stone of white rice. She found it really hard to swallow brown rice. After earning money, she would definitely improve her life first, so white rice was essential.

The boss asked his men to help carry a bag of rice to Old Man Wang's ox cart. Rice was 8 wen per catty, and one dan was 120 catties, so he spent 960 wen.

Qianhuan felt that her current body was too malnourished. She looked pale and thin, and needed to take good care of herself.

Liu was not reluctant to spend money on food, she also felt that her daughter needed to be well nourished.

Qianhuan also bought a pack of toilet paper. There were only a few sheets of toilet paper left at home. If she didn't buy some today, she would have no paper to use when going to the toilet and would have to use leaves. She felt sick just thinking about it.

The two of them went to buy three ceramic cups for drinking water. They had been using bamboo cups made by Liang Laoer before, but now that they had money at home, they naturally had to change to ceramic cups.

It was inconvenient not to have a water jar at home, so she went to a ceramics shop and bargained with the owner to buy a rough pottery water jar for 25 wen. Because the water jar was large and heavy, it was delivered to the owner's home, and Qianhua gave the owner her home address.

Qianhuan and Liu went to the ironware store to buy an axe. Her father had to borrow the axe from Uncle Zhang next door every time he made bamboo products, which was very inconvenient.

I bought an axe for myself, so I don’t have to bother other people anymore.

"Mom, let's go buy two more oil lamps."

When the family was divided, Old Lady Liang did not give her family an oil lamp, so at night, her house was dark because there was no lighting, and Liu and Liang Lao Er would go to bed early.

"Oil lamps consume too much oil. Your father and I go to bed early, so we don't need oil lamps. We can just buy one." Liu was quite thrifty, and she couldn't bear to buy two lamps.

"Mom, just buy two. Two are more convenient. I need one for my room, and one for the living room or kitchen."

"Okay, I'll listen to you and buy two."

The oil lamp cost 120 wen each, and two lamps cost 240 wen, and I also bought 10 wen of lamp oil.

Qianhuan and Liu each carried a bamboo basket and placed the purchased items in the baskets.

Qianhuan thought that her clothes were too short and old, and her parents' clothes were also too old, so she suggested going to the clothing store to buy clothes.

"Qianhuan, it's not cost-effective to buy ready-made clothes. Let's just buy cloth. One piece of cloth can make two sets of clothes, which is much more cost-effective than buying ready-made clothes."

A piece of coarse cloth costs about 300 wen, which is enough to make two sets of clothes for my daughter. The cheapest set of ready-made clothes costs five or six hundred wen. Two sets of clothes cost at least one or two taels of silver. It is not cost-effective to buy ready-made clothes.

Of course, for other 13-year-olds, one piece of cloth could make three sets of clothes. But Qianhua was tall, so she could only make two sets.

Her grandmother, Mrs. Liang, had scolded her father before: "Why do you save all the good things for her to eat? She is so tall, it will waste a lot of cloth to make clothes, and her husband's family will dislike her in the future."

In ancient times, poor families did like petite wives because it would save fabric when making clothes, but this was just the idea of ​​poor families.

Rich families don't care about these things. They naturally like tall girls like her.

To be honest, I am really surprised at her current height.

Lingzhou is located in the southwest of Dayuan Kingdom. The people here are originally shorter than those in the north of Dayuan Kingdom.

In addition, Yunfeng Village is located in the mountains, and the villagers are relatively poor. They don’t have enough food to eat or warm clothes to wear, which makes them even shorter.

Men in the village are generally around 1.6768 meters tall, and 1.70 meters is considered tall. Women are more common at 1.50 to 1.55 meters, and 1.60 meters is considered tall.

The living standard of people in the county town is better, and they are generally taller than those in the village. For example, the young master of Zuixianju is only about 15 years old, but he is about meters tall.

The original owner's father, uncle and younger uncle were all only about 167cm tall, and her eldest cousin was estimated to be only 170cm tall. Cuihua was the shortest, only 152cm tall.

Her mother Liu is not tall either, but she is only 13 years old and is already 165cm tall. She will probably grow taller in two years.

The two walked to the cloth shop. Qianhuan thought that it would be more convenient to wear men's clothes when she went out in the future, so she went in and chose a piece of dark blue linen, which cost 350 coins per piece.

Qianhuan wanted to buy brocade and satin. Although they were a bit expensive, the materials were more comfortable.

But wearing clothes made of such fine material in the village would probably be too conspicuous, so it would be better to keep a low profile for the time being. Besides, they had to use the money to buy chestnuts, so they had to save where they could.

Liu thought the cloth was chosen for Liang Lao Er and asked, "Why don't you choose one for yourself? Mother thinks this rouge red is very beautiful and suitable for you little girls."

"Mother, I'll choose this stone blue color. You can choose one for yourself and one for Dad."

"You're just a kid, why did you choose such an old-fashioned color like cyan?"

"Mom, we are setting up a stall in the county town, and it is more convenient for me to dress up as a man. The stone blue color is more suitable, so let's choose this one. You should quickly choose another one for yourself and dad."

Seeing that her daughter's words made sense, Liu stopped trying to persuade her and let her choose the stone blue cloth.

She found that since her daughter woke up from falling into the water and received the gift from heaven, she has become more independent in doing things. No matter what she does, she can make her own decisions, like a little adult.

Liu chose the cheapest coarse cloth, which cost 300 coins per piece. She chose the gray-brown color, thinking that both Liang Laoer and herself could wear it.

One piece of cloth could make a set of clothes for her and her husband, so they only needed to buy one piece.

Qianhuan asked Liu to change to a better piece of linen. Liu said that they did farm work every day, so they would just wear coarse cloth, which was dirt-resistant and wear-resistant. Qianhuan couldn't do anything about it.

After choosing the cloth, Qianhuan went to pay for it, a total of 650 Wen. Qianhuan asked the boss for a discount, but the boss refused to give them a lower price and instead gave them some scraps of cloth.

Qianhuan thought that the scraps of cloth could be used by Liu to make a belt or purse or something, so she paid the money.

The scraps of cloth were put into bamboo baskets, and the two men each carried a piece of cloth out of the cloth shop.

After buying almost everything, the two of them met up with Liang Lao Er and rode a ox cart back home.

Someone at the entrance of the village saw them. Everyone saw that the big bamboo basket on Liu's chest and Qianhuan's big bamboo basket were full of things, and they all stretched their heads to look inside curiously. Someone saw a big hen, and two pieces of cloth were also seen by everyone.

Everyone thought: Liang Laoer's family has made a fortune. They just bought chestnuts from several villagers next door a few days ago, and now they have enough money to buy old hens and cloth.

Liu hugged the bamboo basket tightly to her chest, got off the ox cart, and the three of them entered the yard. Liu quickly locked the yard door.

After entering the inner room, Qianhuan took out the silver and counted it. She had spent a total of two and a half taels of silver on shopping in the county town today.

Of the six taels of silver in her hand, only three and a half taels were left. She wrapped the silver in rags and hid it.

Qianhuan put the hatchet and rice in the guest room, Liu put the eggs in a bamboo basket under the bed, and put the old hen in the kitchen. She poured some of the pound of coarse salt into the salt jar and put the rest in the guest room.

Qianhuan put the lean meat in a newly bought plate. The weather was not hot now, and the meat would not go bad if left for an afternoon, so she did not marinate it with salt.

There were no cupboards in her house yet, so many things were piled on a wooden board on the floor.

Fortunately, his father had nailed a wooden rack with wood before, and she put the plate of lean meat on the wooden rack, which would be more hygienic than putting it on the wooden board on the ground. Then she covered the plate of lean meat with a newly bought empty vegetable plate, so she didn't have to worry about bugs crawling in.

Liu was also busy at the stove. She took out the pound of fat she had bought and began to refine it in the pot. One pound of fat produced half a bowl of lard.

Liu put the lard in a ceramic bowl and placed it in the corner of the kitchen. This small half bowl of lard was enough for them to cook for several days.

The oil residue was put into a plate and placed on a wooden rack, ready to be used for cooking in the evening.

At this time, the water jar was also delivered to her door, and the clerk from the ceramic store helped put it in her kitchen.

After finishing her work, Qianhuan went back to her room and went to sleep. It was rare that she had nothing to do this afternoon. She got up early every day to set up her stall in the city, so today she could finally make up for her sleep.

Liang Laoer was also half leaning on the bed to rest, while Liu was sitting by the bed cutting cloth to make clothes. She planned to make a robe for her daughter first.

Half an hour later, there was a sudden burst of rapid knocking on the door.