Chapter 710: 710 Little Bastard picks up Qingyue
This way, she could save several hundred cents.
She also saw a few medical books on the bookshelf, with annotations and accompanying illustrations of medicines.
She quickly flipped through them as well, and with her memory, she could remember them after just one read.
They were just some common medical books, and she didn’t really need to read them. It was just that some medicine names were different from modern terms, so she skimmed through them.
“Girl, what are you looking at medical books for?” the shop owner cautioned. “The cheapest medical books cost five taels of silver each. Be careful, don’t damage them.”
“No worries.” She spent two hours flipping through all six medical books on the shelf.
She now understood the differences in medicine names between ancient and modern times.
The shop owner saw her flipping through the medical books one by one. It was rare for a man to be literate, let alone a woman.
He couldn’t help but take a second look at her. Her appearance was ordinary, and aside from her good figure, there wasn’t anything particularly outstanding about her.
However, she flipped through the books so quickly, reading ten lines at a time. He didn’t think she could really understand anything. He wanted to tell her to stop flipping, but since she was buying a lot of items, he didn’t want to offend her.
The shop owner held back those thoughts a few times.
After putting down the last medical book, Su Qingyue went to the counter, took out a string of copper coins, broke off a few of them, and handed the rest to the shop owner. “This is 2,230 cents. Please count.”
In the past few days, many people from her village and neighboring villages had come to her house to buy the medicinal mud toothpaste, earning her a bit of money. After buying paper, brushes, books, and ink, she only had a few copper coins left.
Once a large group of people had bought the medicinal mud toothpaste, it would last them a while before they needed more. She estimated that there would be sporadic sales in the meantime.
Fortunately, the medicinal mud toothpaste was something that people would need long-term. As soon as they used it up, they would need to buy more. This made it a long-term money-making method.
The shop owner finished counting and handed her a small cloth bag. “The cloth bag is a gift for you. All the items you bought are inside.”
Su Qingyue checked the bag, made sure it was accurate, and then left the shop.
“Please come again next time if you need anything,” the shop owner called out. Some people never need paper and ink in their lives, but those who do will be long-term customers.
Su Qingyue then went to the vegetable market to buy the vegetables she had planned to buy for the day, and then headed to the place where the Wang Crippled’s cow’s car was waiting.
Wang Crippled’s cow’s car was already filled with several people. Su Qingyue squeezed onto the car with her large hemp bag, and carried five live chickens and five live ducks, their feet tied together with rope.
One of the passengers was the wife of the hunter Li Yibao, who lived next to the Xiao Family in Wushan Village. She looked at Su Qingyue’s large hemp bag and the tied-up live chickens and ducks. “Yo, wife of the Xiao Family, you’re really lucky. If you came later, the cow’s car would have gone back to the village.”
“Yeah,” she nodded. If she were late, she would have to walk or rent a car from the town, or stay the night in town and wait for the cow’s car the next day.
Waiting for the cow’s car wasn’t necessarily practical, in case Wang Crippled had something to do the next day and didn’t come…
That’s what it’s like when transportation is inconvenient. Most of the time, you have to rely on your own two legs.
But she had already asked Wang Crippled to wait for a while beforehand.
Li Yibao’s wife looked at her hemp bag on the cow’s car. “What’s in that big bag of yours?”
“You Xiaos must have struck it rich,” Li Yibao’s wife said with a hint of sourness in her voice. “Buying so many things at once and building a new house…”
Su Qingyue didn’t bother to respond.
When the cow’s car was still a distance away from Wushan Village, Little Bastard came running from afar.
It ran alongside the cow’s car, constantly standing on its hind legs, trying to get to its owner. The little wolf whined excitedly and whimpered for attention.