Chapter 47 Eighteen taels of silver

   "Oh? What kind of shrimp is that?"

   This kind of shrimp is really hard to see.

  It is not comparable to ordinary shrimp.

  This shrimp is thicker and more fragrant than ordinary shrimp.

"It's called a crayfish, and its shell is very thick. If you can produce 20 catties of dried shrimps for 100 catties of fresh shrimps, I have to secretly enjoy it. If you want 100 catties of dried shrimps, the amount of fresh shrimps you need is not a small amount. "

  Five cents a catty of silver, Qiao Yi's heart has already moved, but judging by Zhou Hong's appearance, the price is still negotiable.

  That's why she said what she just said.

"Nine cents a catty, no more. I don't care what kind of shrimp you are or where it comes from. I just want dried shrimp. I'll give you half a month, can you dry it out? Of course the quality can't be bad. I demand the same as today's shrimp." The dried shrimps you brought are the same. How about I charge a tael of silver per catty for the dried shrimps you dry out in the future?"

  Zhou Hong needs this dried shrimp very much. She said five hundred words before, all to test Qiao Yi. She doesn't want to miss such a rare thing.

  In order to prevent Qiao Yi from selling it to others, she gave a very high price.

   "No problem, I will pay attention to the quality."

  Joy nodded. She didn't expect to earn so much more per catty after saying a few more words.

   "I'll send a car to your house later to fetch the remaining shrimp."

   Zhou Hong is a man of action, and he does not procrastinate at all when he is determined.

   "Well, I have an unasked request..."

  Joe said with some embarrassment.

"What's up?"

   "Can you give me part of the money first, and the rest will be paid after I get the dried shrimps. I only brought two pennies with me today, and I handed it over when I entered the city."

   "Do you want to buy something?"

   Zhou Hong quickly understood what Qiao Yi meant.

"Well, it's cold now, and I want to buy some cloth and cotton. Go back and make some quilts and some clothes. The money I earned a while ago was used to build a house, and now my hands are a little tight, otherwise I don't want to sell the shrimp , I originally planned to keep it and sell it in the winter, when it would be more valuable."

   Qiao Yi cryptically pointed out that it's not that no one wants the dried shrimps. It's winter, and it might not be possible to buy them at this price.

   Zhou Hong understood Qiao Yi's words, but if she didn't understand, her life would be in vain.

  I feel a little dissatisfied, but I do have the capital to say this because they have good things.

   This thing will indeed be more expensive in winter.

  Looked Qiao Yi up and down, she was dressed clean and tidy, but the fabric on her body was very cheap, and the shoes, it was autumn, and she was still wearing straw sandals.

  I think the conditions at home are really bad.

"Okay, let me give you the money in this jar first. Twenty catties of shrimp, nine coins per catty, a total of eighteen taels of silver. I will give you a silver ingot of ten taels, and the other eight taels will give you broken silver. You see how?"

   "Thank you."

   Joey is sincerely grateful.

   "I'll give you half an hour to buy things. After half an hour, you come here, and I will go with you."

"OK."

   Qiao Yi took the eighteen taels of silver, then quickly turned and left.

  The twenty catties of dried shrimps at home can still be sold for eighteen taels, plus the deposit, there are dozens of taels.

   In this way, the silver in her hands can be spent recklessly.

  Plus there is a carriage to ride back home, of course she will not miss this opportunity.

  The first thing Joey did was to come to Buzhuang.

  As soon as she entered the door, Qiao Yi saw a familiar face. Isn't this the same person who sold her cheap cloth before?

"You are here, do you still want to buy cheap cloth? We found a lot of cloth here a few days ago, all of which are moldy, and they can be used for washing and drying. If you buy them all, I will give you a cheaper one. Thirty A piece of wen, this is cotton cloth with an original price of 30 wen a foot."

  Sun Mei had a deep impression on Qiao Yi, so she recognized Qiao Yi when he came today.

  She got a lot of benefits last time, and saw Joey again today. How can we not make her happy?

   "Okay, where is it? I'll go and see."

  Joy nodded with a smile. Although I have a little money in my hands now, there are cheap ones. Who will buy expensive ones?

   Besides, this time I mainly make quilts. It doesn’t matter if the lining of the quilt is good or not, as pure cotton is still warm.

   At that time, just make a better-looking quilt cover.

   "I specially put one outside, and the rest are still in the warehouse. You should take a look at this one first."

  Sun Mei enthusiastically took a piece of moldy cloth from the counter.

  Because of mold, the cloth has turned off-white, but it's not a big problem.

   "The 30 Wen is a bit expensive. If you can make it cheaper, I will buy all the moldy cloth in your store, and I will also buy some other better cloth and cotton."

   It's a bit troublesome to take it back and wash it in the sun. Even if it's thirty yuan a horse, Qiao Yi thinks it's a bit expensive.

  The cloth I bought last time is stronger than this one anyway, and that one is just fading.

   "These thirty articles are already the lowest price."

  Sun Mei didn't want to lower the price, so wouldn't she earn a lot less?

   "Okay, let's take a look at this first, how do you sell cotton?"

   "Fifteen cash a catty for old cotton, thirty cash for this year."

   "Look at this year's."

  Joy's idea is very simple. Since he has money, he should buy a good one. Besides, it's better to have a warmer quilt. I don't know if it's cold in winter in this place.

   "Here is the newly delivered cotton this year."

  Sun Mei brought Qiao Yi to the front of Cotton.

   Qiaoyi glanced at the cotton, picked up a little and put it in his hand to look at it.

  It is indeed good cotton, as white as snow, with a unique fragrance of cotton.

  Joy had the final say, she wanted to make a modern double quilt, which would be especially warm and comfortable.

  A big quilt with twelve catties of cotton, there are five people in her family, Yueying doesn't know if she will come or not, but she has to prepare a bed.

   One quilt is reserved, so at least seven quilts should be made.

  So Qiao Yi directly made up the whole, eight quilts.

   Mattress Joey also made a big mattress for two people, the kind that is two meters wide.

  The quilt doesn’t need to be too thick, as it doesn’t need as much cotton as the quilt, but Joy doesn’t want to make the quilt too thin either. She plans to use eight catties of cotton to make a big quilt.

  The quilts are relatively large. It sounds like it would be heavy to make a quilt of more than ten kilograms, but it is not very heavy to cover because it has a large area.

   Eight quilts, ninety-six catties of cotton, eight mattresses, sixty-four catties of cotton.

   This requires one hundred and sixty catties.

  It’s going to be winter soon, and they still need to make cotton-padded clothes, trousers and cotton-padded shoes, not much, at least one person can wear two different clothes.

   "To make cotton-padded clothes, trousers and cotton-padded shoes, how much cotton is needed?"

  Joy is not good at making clothes, so I can only ask Sun Mei.

   "We are still very cold this winter, five catties of cotton is enough to make clothes and shoes, but if you want to be warmer, you can add two catties of cotton."

   Qiao Yi made up his mind when he heard the words, and each person carried seven catties of cotton.

  Five people are thirty-five catties, and two bodies are seventy catties.

  Adding the previous one hundred and sixty catties, she needs to buy at least two hundred and thirty catties.

   One tael of silver is equal to ten coins.

  

  

  (end of this chapter)