Bai Yaoyu led Bai Zhi’er back to his cloth stall.
Beside the bun stall, a middle-aged man having his breakfast glanced at the siblings.
At this moment, a passerby approached Bai Zhi’er and asked, "How much are the potatoes per pound?"
"Fifty cents." Bai Yaoyu answered without thinking.
The passerby was very surprised, "Fifty cents? It’s more expensive than meat!"
Bai Yaoyu was already a little displeased, now spoke irritably, "Buy it if you want or leave it!"
The passerby didn’t want to say more and walked away directly.
Bai Zhi’er blinked her long eyelashes and moved her small body next to her brother.
"Brother, a meat bun is only five cents. Are our potatoes made of gold? Why do they cost fifty cents per pound?"
"I just heard the vegetable stall next door, that aunt is selling at ten coins per pound."
Bai Yaoyu hesitated for a moment, "Really?"
He hadn’t sold anything before and was selling at fifty cents because he had bought from a friend’s friend at the low price of thirty cents per pound.
He thought thirty cents per pound was already the lowest!
Unexpectedly, he was still swindled!
Bai Yaoyu looked at the potatoes in front of him, distressed, "What should we do now? We can’t sell them! We’ll definitely lose money!"
Bai Zhi’er’s bright dark eyes darted around.
She actively walked over to another stall selling potatoes and some seasonal vegetables.
The stall owners, a couple, were about thirty years old.
"Uncle, auntie, my brother and I came to sell potatoes today, but the sales aren’t ideal. I just noticed that you don’t have many customers either."
The aunt with the headscarf glanced at the pink little figurine.
"Now it’s cold, and there are fewer people buying vegetables. Little girl, I see you’re not poorly dressed, why do your family send you siblings out to run a stall?"
Bai Yaoyu had been setting up his stall opposite them for three or four days without much business, a bleak affair.
Bai Zhi’er said softly, "Because our family needs money."
"To buy medicine." The little one answered honestly.
The couple was taken aback, exchanged a glance.
Such a small child, so beautiful, and yet in such dire straits.
Alas, the world has just settled, those noble families with power in the former dynasty are now barely surviving.
This little child, who knows which former dynasty’s princely noble descend she is a pitiable child of!
Bai Zhi’er was unaware of their thoughts.
She just blinked her long eyelashes, innocently asking, "Now there are few customers, but I have a method that can help us sell everything."
"But it requires uncle and auntie to put all the potatoes on my brother’s stall, and I’ll sell them together. The money we make will be split evenly."
The couple hurriedly said, "How can that work? By then it could get mixed up, we are strangers, how do we divide the money!"
Bai Zhi’er, soft and small, looked up with clear dark eyes.
Her voice was gentle, but her logic was clear.
"We can sort this out, my brother has about two hundred potatoes, auntie, I’ve roughly counted, you have around two hundred as well. If that’s the case, the silver we collect will be divided equally, it’s very fair!"
"Usually, potatoes are ten coins per pound, but if you let me sell, I’ll raise it to thirty-five cents a pound. For five hundred pounds, we could split over ten thousand coins, that’s around fifteen taels."
She was thinking too quickly, the couple was momentarily stunned.
Thirty-five cents a pound, they never dared to dream of that!
Bai Zhi’er’s little hands were behind her back, she smiled sweetly, "Just think it over. If we sell separately, customers will inevitably compare and choose the cheapest option."
"But that’s not good for us, why not let me handle it, uncle and auntie have nothing to lose, why not give it a try."