Chapter 64 - Chapter 64: Chapter 64: How Is It You_l (1/2)
Chapter 64: Chapter 64: How Is It You_l
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Chunniang hesitated, unwilling to open the door: “My husband is not at home, it might not be convenient to let you in.”
The visitor grinned, “You’re Jiang San’s wife, right? We’re from Jinxiu Cloth Store in Simen town. We heard that your family has two large gourds and we wanted to see them for ourselves. Look, we travelled quite a distance, could you let us have a look?”
Yingbao peered out from behind her mother, tugged at her softly, whispering, “Let them in.”
Maybe they’re big spenders.
Chunniang patted her daughter’s head and went forward to open the bamboo gate.
The two men walked in, giving Chunniang a slight bow: “Sorry to disturb you.”
Chunniang didn’t let them inside the house. She brought out the large gourd herself and put it on the stone slab in the middle of the courtyard for them to see.
The two men circled the gourd in amazement, exchanged a glance, and asked with a smile, “Is this gourd for sale?”
Yingbao answered first, “Of course it’s for sale, but if the price isn’t right, then we’re not selling.”
Chunniang nodded, “Several people have wanted to buy this gourd from our house. I wonder how much silver can you offer?” One of them asked back, “How much do you want for it?” Chunniang was speechless.
She didn’t really know how much the gourd could sell for.
Yingbao also countered, “So, you’ll give us as much as we say?”
The man choked, then burst into laughter, “This little girl of yours is quite
funny.”
The other man said, “We really would like to buy it, but anything over thirty taels wouldn’t be a good deal.”
Yingbao grinned, “That’s alright. Thirty taels it is.”
She had plenty of these things in her cave, selling one for thirty taels were already a hefty price, she couldn’t be too greedy or risk getting struck by lightning.
The two men were straightforward, taking out three silver ingots from their bag and placing them on the small table under the apple tree: “These are ten-tael silver ingots, take a good look.”
Assuming that farmers didn’t recognize silver ingots, he pointed out the characters inside the ingot to Chunniang: “This is silver made by the Luzhou Prefecture, ten taels. Got it?”
Chunniang nodded: “I see.”
As the two men were lifting the gourd to leave, Yingbao stopped them, “Take out the seeds first before you go.”
The man laughed, “This little girl is really sharp, the gourd would be worthless without the seeds, even ten taels wouldn’t be worth it.”
He quickly stepped out of the yard, placing the gourd carefully on the mule cart. The two men jumped onto the cart, whipped the mule, and quickly left the village.
Yingbao chuckled quietly, touching the silver and muttered, “If I hadn’t said that, you’d probably think you got a bad deal. Hmph.”
Chunniang, on the other hand, was regretting at the side, “Yes, how could I forget to take out the seeds first.” Even a few would suffice. It would be so much better if she could plant some of her own.
Yingbao: “We still have another large gourd on the South Slope, can’t we just grow its seeds?”
Even if that fails, she still had many more in her cave.
“Correct, correct, correct!” Chunniang carried the silver back to the hall, asking her daughter, “Do you want to keep this cash or should your mom help you keep it?”
“You keep it.” She still had more than forty taels stored in her cave, it was better to let her parents keep the thirty taels.
When Jiang San’er came back that evening and heard that the gourd from their house was sold for thirty taels, he was stunned. “Who bought it?”
“It’s a cloth store from Simen.” Chunniang told her husband everything that happened that day. “We should scoop out the seeds from the gourd on the South Slope and plant some of them, what do you think…”
“Sure thing! I’ll go to the South Slope and scoop out the seeds from the gourd tomorrow.” Since it was so valuable, why not try to grow some ourselves? If they can grow large gourds, it would be another source of income.