Translator: 549690339
“No matter what the item, it’s the market that determines the price. Sure, you could wait for the price to drop. Maybe someday it’ll come down to a hundred thirty or even a hundred cents. But can you wait? Can your wife wait? And if she can, can your old father?” She persuaded kindly, “Your father didn’t raise you easily, and you can make money again. You cannot save a little money at the expense of your wife and father.”
“What Sister-in-law of the Xiao family said is reasonable.” Zhang Shun gritted his teeth. “Alright, I’ll take all four jin.” He handed Su Qingyue a piece of broken silver.
She took the silver, not knowing how much it was. Judging by the weight, it should be around 1 tael. She said, “Hold on a moment.” Then she went into the master bedroom, threw the silver to Xiao Yuchuan and said, “Third Brother, I sold four jin of poisonous snake for 576 cents, you need to give change.” After all, all the money was on the wooden tray on the bed.
Both Xiao Yuchuan and Xiao Yishan were impressed by their wife. It was surprising that she managed to sell four jin of poisonous snakes so quickly. In fact, if you buy four jin at once, it is already good to be able to sell it for a hundred and thirty cents per jin. They originally thought that it would be good if they could sell the four jin of poisonous snakes for four hundred cents. The price is much higher than expected.
“Okay.” Xiao Yuchuan took the broken silver, counted out the copper coins, and strung them together for Qingyue.
She asked, “How many copper coins have been strung up?
“Two hundred and twenty-four.”
She mumbled, “So the silver just now was one tael.”
Xiao Yuchuan pointed at the broken silver in the wooden tray and asked, “Wife, do you not know how much that broken silver is?”
“Of course, how would I know.” She used paper currency in modern times, not silver.
“It would be normal for the wife not to know.” Xiao Yishan’s voice was very calm.
Xiao Yuchuan nodded, “That’s true, the old lady Zhu is very stingy, and it must be rare for my wife to get to see even a bit of copper.”
“Indeed.” She had collected some antique copper coins, but she didn’t usually see ordinary copper coins, nor was she bothered to see them.
Qingyue went to the storage room, pulled out a long piece of grass for tying up the herbs, went to the kitchen, tied several pieces of snake meat with grass, and together with the change given to Zhang Shun, “Here’s your change. This snake meat was weighed raw, the pieces of meat added up to exactly four jin, some villagers were present at the time. Now it’s half dried, naturally it’s a bit lighter, but the snake is always sold at the price of raw meat. You should be clear about this.”
Zhang Shun hesitated slightly. In case the raw meat wasn’t that heavy, wouldn’t he have lost money…
She continued, “Look at the number, size, and length of these pieces of meat, you know that the raw meat must not be less than four jin. Being from the same village, I wouldn’t deceive you. Dried snake meat is always sold at several times the price. You’re going to make it into snake powder anyway. If you were to buy it raw and do the drying yourself, that would take a lot of work, and I’m not even charging extra for that process. If you don’t want it, I can sell to someone else…” She made a move to take the snake meat back.
Zhang Shun wouldn’t let here, “I trust you, Sister-in-law. And I’d be the one taking advantage.”
Su Qingyue didn’t really plan to take it back either. Otherwise, where was she supposed to sell the snake in a hurry? Even if she sold it in the town, she might not find a buyer right away, “Alright then, when you get home, dry it further, and grind it into powder once it’s completely dry. One dose a day, the size of a thumb should be enough, it can last for a long time.”
“Count the change I gave you..”