Chapter Twenty-Nine: Min'er Clarifies Doubts
"Hehe, you little girl is interesting, don't worry, I won't ask for a high price. That stone is indeed an ordinary stone, you can give twenty wen. Now the shopkeeper also sees that Zhao He is abnormal, and he also has some sympathy in his heart, and the young lady is buying goods for her.
"So expensive? Isn't this stone everywhere? Min'er was annoyed when she heard this.
"Haha...... It's different, if it's the same, who still comes here to spend money, just go outside and pick it up. As soon as the shopkeeper finished speaking, he saw Min'er running out of the door at once. Ling'er and the shopkeeper were suddenly blindfolded, what is the situation? After a while, Min'er held a stone like an egg, and she held the stone high and said to Zhao He:
"Dad, you see I have a stone egg here, maybe I can hatch a little stone chicken." Her words made the two people in the circle petrify instantly.
"Shopkeeper, my father doesn't want your stone anymore, now let's choose the paper." After Min'er got Zhao He, she said to the shopkeeper with a smile.
"Huh? Okay, good ......" The shopkeeper returned to normal for a while.
"What's the price of your paper?" Min'er noticed that the top of the counter was full of white paper, and the bottom was worse, but it was much better than the straw paper they had bought at the grocery store. I also knew in my heart that this must not be cheap, so I pointed to the paper below and asked the shopkeeper for the price.
"There are four kinds of paper below, this is the best five taels of silver a knife here, although it is slightly yellow, but the writing is not smudged, and the texture is thick and not easy to break; This is a slightly worse three taels of silver a knife, the writing is slightly rough, and the texture is thick and not easy to break; This one or two silver and a knife, the writing will be smudged, and the texture is thick and not easy to break. This is the worst of the 300 texts and a knife, I can't write, and the texture is thinner, which is used as hand paper. The shopkeeper said very carefully, only to see Min'er's brows furrowed into a Sichuan character, and he couldn't tell what she meant.
"Sister" Ling'er saw that Min'er didn't react, so she gently pulled her, and she didn't dare to provoke Min'er at this time.
"Shopkeeper, how do you sell the cheapest ink?" Min'er's heart is dripping blood, but she can't help but buy it.
"Then please come over here," said the shopkeeper, who brought a few people to the counter on the left, and pointed to the bottom of the counter.
"The inkstone and ink block below are the cheapest, the inkstone is two taels, and the ink block is one, two, or four. These three pens are the cheapest, and they are all two by two. Min'er's brows were about to knot when she heard that, so Ling'er hurriedly asked first:
"Is there anything cheaper?"
"To tell you the truth, all I give you is the lowest price, if you inquire elsewhere, you will know, that is, you can't buy this without three taels." The shopkeeper was telling the truth, he mainly thought Min'er was very interesting, and Zhao He's situation made him feel compassion.
"Shopkeeper, we want a knife of five taels of paper, a knife of three taels and a knife, a knife of three hundred wen, an inkstone of two taels, four pieces of ink and these three pens, and I will give you a total of seventeen taels of silver. I'll buy it, if it doesn't work, forget it, anyway, our sisters don't test their fame. Min'er is in a very unhappy mood now, Ling'er believes that Min'er does what she says, thinking of this, she is busy looking at the shopkeeper with pitiful eyes, for fear that he will refute, in that case, Min'er will definitely leave immediately.
"That's it, you little girl, it's really a stake." The shopkeeper now regrets this, he would have increased the price if he knew it, who would have thought that someone would come to the bookstore and bargain? The bookstores of this era belonged to the real price stores, and there was basically no bargaining.
Ling'er was holding the things she bought from the bookstore, she was in a super good mood but she had to pretend to be unhappy, there was no way, Min'er was terrible now.
"Okay, don't pretend, just laugh if you want, what's that weird thing like?" Min'er nodded at Ling'er's forehead, pulled the arm of Zhao He, who was only interested in studying stones, and saw that Ling'er's expression was normal before he continued to whisper:
"Ling'er, think about it, did that old man teach you how to make paper?" Min'er thought about it, this paper is still too expensive, and they will definitely use a lot of it in the future, which is a lot of money.
"I'll have to think about this." Eldest sister, do you think I'm Du Niang? Do you know everything? Wait, though...... Ling'er seemed to remember something all of a sudden, but she couldn't remember it for a while.
"Okay, think about it, we have to go to the grocery store and buy some straw paper, we ......"
"Ah, I remember." Ling'er's shouting interrupted Min'er's words, so frightened that Zhao He almost threw the stone out, but fortunately he reacted quickly and held the stone tightly in his hand. Min'er was also taken aback, and said angrily:
"You kid was shocked at first glance? Want to scare people to death? "Min'er is really convinced, this little sister has to have some situation from time to time.
"Sister, I seem to have memorized how to make papyrus, but I'm not sure that I have to go home and try it slowly." Ling'er remembered that in modern times, she was packed by her mother and sent to her grandmother's house in the countryside shortly after she was discharged from the hospital. There is a paper making workshop in my grandmother's village, and she goes to play when she has nothing to do, and she is familiar with the people there. Later, she accidentally fell into the large pool of slumber and almost drowned her, and she hasn't been there since, and then the government banned it. Although she didn't see it less, she didn't know if it would work.
"Really, that's great." Seeing Min'er's happy appearance, Ling'er immediately added:
"Sister, don't be happy first, this paper is very troublesome to make, and it takes a lot of time, and he didn't make it clear at the time, I don't know if it can be done." If the vaccination really fails, it will not be repaired too badly.
"It's okay, anyway, after the village opens a workshop, we will be idle, just enough to tinker with, and become the best, if it doesn't work, it's not a big deal, isn't it?" In Min'er's heart, as long as you work hard, you will definitely reap the rewards, which is the experience she gained from learning arithmetic and words. If she hadn't been too far before, even if Wang had killed her before something happened, she wouldn't have believed that she would be able to count and write one day.
"That's right, let's go to the grocery store now, it's not early." This is to make handmade paper, but white ash is indispensable, and you have to go to the grocery store to have it.
The sisters quickly prepared the things they needed, and it was not without benefit to take Zhao He out, at least he could take a lot of things, this time Min'er did not insist on walking, but hired an ox cart. The main reason is that Zhao He is afraid that he will run up as soon as he sees the mountain, and Min'er thinks that he will have to buy an ox cart in the future, this time it will be too expensive. Finally, Shin Jeong (16:00) arrived at his grandmother's house, and after agreeing on the time to pick them up, the ox cart went to town.
As soon as the three of them entered the door, they naturally greeted each other, and seeing Zhao He's appearance naturally caused everyone to cry, and it took a long time to calm down. Ling'er carefully looked at her grandmother's house and found that the inside and outside were extremely clean, and she could see that her aunt was diligent at a glance. The faces of the grandmother's family have also improved, and they all have a luster and are not as yellow as before, which makes Ling'er very happy. The eldest cousin Wang Jizu is twelve years old this year, thin and tall, probably because of family reasons, it is estimated that he will gain weight after a while. Second cousin Wang Jizong is the same age as his sister, but he is two months older than her, and he is not short, he is a head taller than his sister. This made Min'er very angry, obviously it was too much worse in the same year. Cousin Wang Xianger is six years old this year, she is a very shy and shy girl, and she is also very cute. Qian saw that everyone was talking about the same, so he said:
"Min'er, can you explain the matter of that shop?" In fact, she wanted to try, but Min'er didn't say it carefully, so she couldn't get up to it. Her words immediately attracted everyone's attention, and the grandmother who was talking also stopped to look at Min'er, and Min'er hurriedly explained:
"We came here this time mainly for this matter, last time it was not intentionally not to explain, but our sisters did not think carefully about it is an idea, and we came over after a few days. We want to open a shop in the town that specializes in selling mountain goods, and we also sell and collect, mainly dealing in mountain goods or things made from mountain goods. For example, mushrooms, fungus and other things are sold directly, such as straw sandals, mats and other things are processed into finished products in the workshop, and we receive the goods and sell them. We let my aunt go mainly to take care of things, and you are in charge of everything in the shop. We must hire guys for this shop, so my aunt basically doesn't have much contact with people. I think so, it's okay to have an eldest cousin learn to raise deer with my uncle, and let the second cousin follow my uncle to open a shop in the town. I will pay for this shop, and my aunt will share it, and half of the net profit will be given to you. As for the second cousin, he started working for two taels of silver a month. Do you think so? "This was planned by Min'er and Ling'er a long time ago.
"What about Chacheng? That's too much to make. Wang Zhanshan and Qian said in unison.
"It's not much, our sisters and sisters will come up with ideas, and we will take care of big things, but we may not be able to encounter a big event all year round. So it's still you who suffer, and we still have that condition to keep it secret, so that others think that this shop is opened by you, and we can't let others know that this shop belongs to our sisters. Even if you marry your cousin in the future, you can't say it, this is the condition, if we say it, we will take back the shop. Min'er is very yearning for the low-key rich life that Ling'er said, so she will think of this first without Ling'er.
"That's too much, we don't do anything, we just can't do so much if we do something." Qian still thinks that she has taken advantage of her sister-in-law's family too much, which makes her very uneasy.
"Uncle, if this shop makes money, you will have points, and if you don't make money, you will live in vain, so you have to worry about the affairs of this shop, which is as it should be. We are a family, and the benefits are naturally for our own family, if you refuse, then we will go to find someone else, and it is okay to find my sister-in-law. Min'er feigned anger.
Everyone stopped saying anything when they saw Min'er like this, and then they realized that Min'er looked smiling, but in fact, she had a big idea, and what others said couldn't shake her, and she really looked like the head of a big family. Naturally, they haven't seen it, they just think it's like being a family.
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