C27

The seasonings of the ancient era were naturally incomparable to those of the modern era. The three siblings had finished their meal in a bare bowl, almost licking the bottom of the bowl clean.

When Li Yannian was going to sleep at night, she suddenly remembered that the Gu family's third young master had told them to continue sending out paper, but did not say what size paper they wanted. After thinking about it, it would be best to ask when she went to Du Jia Village tomorrow. After all, there were too many restrictions on the transaction of this treasure system.

Li Yannian vaguely mentioned this thought to Black Bean. After thinking for a while, Black Bean gave her a rather reliable idea.

Let's just bring the ox-cart to the manor tomorrow. We'll leave the ox-cart at First Uncle first, then go there and ask about the papers they want. After that, you can decide whether or not we should deliver the goods that day.

Li Yannian could not help but nod his head: "I think that's good, then I'll listen to you tomorrow, we'll act accordingly."

Thus, it was decided that the family would sleep peacefully for the entire night.

The next morning, the three siblings finished packing and headed towards Du Jia Village. It was easy to find the Du Family's Cloth Shop that the First Uncle was working in. They were just one street away from the Gu Family's Bookstore. When three siblings arrived, it was already noon. First Uncle Zhang Bao was originally eating behind his table, and when he heard the shop assistant say that his nephew and niece had arrived, he was both surprised and happy. He even forgot to put down his bowl and ran out.

Zhang Bao's eyes were filled with happiness, but he still asked them in surprise: "Why did you come to the village? Have you eaten? "

As he spoke, he habitually reached for the money at his waist.

Li Yannian looked at the bowl in his hands. Inside, there was still some grains and rice left, the color was a little suspicious, and there was even a small piece of pickled radish. It was obvious that the quality of the lunch given to the workers was not very high.

Li Yannian immediately stopped First Uncle from taking out the money and laughed: "Let's take a walk around the villa to see you. We would also like to buy two sets of new clothes for Mao Dou. We only came here after eating, First Uncle, don't be busy. "

After saying that, Li Yannian glanced at Mao Dou worriedly, afraid that he would see through her own lie. Although the outer sect's conditions were better than the Li family's, they weren't rich either, and they didn't have the reason to extend a hand for things every day.

Zhang Bao thought that the three siblings had a lot of money to spend on repairing the house. The kids wanted to wear new clothes, so he wanted to tell them to live a long life with water and save some money, but when he thought about how the three of them had lived a miserable life for more than half a year, he decided against it and nodded, "Alright, you guys can buy some clothes to find uncle. I'll pick out some good stuff for you guys to let the shopkeeper be a bit cheaper."

Black Bean nodded his head and laughed: "There's no rush, Uncle. You haven't even eaten lunch yet, I will first take the red beans to the streets for a stroll, and then come back to buy things. Also, we need to borrow the Uncle Li's cart, so it would be inconvenient for us to carry it. Uncle, where do you think we should put it? "

Only then did Zhang Bao notice the oxcart behind them, and laughed boldly: "I'll lead you guys to the back of the shop, it's no big deal! Black Bean, take your little brother and sister and play around with them, and be careful not to get taken away. There are a lot of children abducting on the streets recently. "

Black Bean was old, so no one needed to worry about him. However, Red Bean and Mao Dou were both only 7 years old, and were both young children. If they played with each other later on, it was unknown whether Black Bean would be able to continue watching them.

Li Yannian saw his worry and laughed as she guaranteed, "Uncle, don't worry. There's also me holding onto my little brother, I definitely won't lose him."

Black Bean hurriedly guaranteed, "I will take good care of them. Uncle, go eat lunch, we'll be back soon."

Zhang Bao could only agree and lead the oxcart back to the store.

As soon as he left, Mao Dou's stomach rumbled loudly. Li Yannian smiled and pointed to his nose: "Luckily, Uncle was so sensible when you were here earlier, otherwise you would have been a joke. Let's go to Bookstore with Big Bro and have a look. After we finish, Big Sis will take you to have some good food. "

Mao Dou nodded his head obediently. He patted his belly with his hand. "Endure your belly a little longer. There'll be something to eat later."

Originally, he wanted to go alone and let Li Yannian bring his brother to eat. However, seeing that Li Yannian was worried, she could only compromise: "Then let's go, let's hurry and ask them what kind of paper they want."

Li Yannian nodded.

The Bookstore wasn't far away. They had only walked a short distance when they saw the main gate of the Gu family's Bookstore.

It was noon, and there was no business in the shop. Thus, the moment the siblings entered the shop, they attracted the attention of the shop assistant and the shopkeeper. Just as the shop assistant was politely asking them if there was anything they needed, the shopkeeper had already walked up to them enthusiastically.

"Are you from the Li Family? The last time we let this little brother suffer in the shop, our boss was very sorry. But don't worry, the shopkeeper from before is no longer working at the Gu family. If you have any more goods, you can just come and find me directly.

Black Bean cupped his hands politely to the others: "Manager Xu is being too courteous. Yesterday, your Third Young Master specifically came to us to explain the situation and we were already extremely embarrassed. If you continue to be this polite, we won't dare to come again. "

The Manager Xu laughed: "That is only natural, you do not need to care about this, that is because you have a stomach, if you did something wrong in the shop, it would be our master doing the wrong thing, if you have an apology, then just apologize, the Gu family has always been this way, you do not need to be afraid, just take it as it is. This matter, was really too unsightly done by our Shopkeeper Xing. "

Fortunately, Manager Xu did not continue with his pleasantries and directly went straight to the point. "However, I wonder what business Brother Li has here today?"

What he really wanted to ask was, how come there was no delivery? When the Third Young Master passed by the Bookstore yesterday, he specifically told her that the Li Family might come to deliver paper today. He had been anxiously looking out the door all morning and thought that they wouldn't come, but the person just appeared with a bang. But no matter how you looked at it, it didn't look like this Li family was carrying dozens of blades of paper.

Manager Xu looked towards the outside of the shop again. Last time, the goods in front of the shop belonged to Li family members who used the ox-cart camels.

Black Bean laughed: "Yesterday, when Third Young Master left in a hurry, he forgot to mention what size paper your store wanted. It's not like I can casually ask people for the goods. After all, it's something from a large sect.

Black Bean spoke as if he was the source of the paper shop, the Manager Xu did not suspect him, and replied with a smile: "Third Young Master is busy, it's no wonder he forgot to bring his word. Brother Li, this time, the paper is for printing books. This is the first time you sent Little Zhang's paper.

She rushed to speak in front of Black Bean: "We did have some luck with Xiao Zhang's paper, but we are not sure which type you want, so my brother already has friends and family."

Manager Xu's face lit up when he heard about the goods: I wonder how many of them have you brought over?

Black Bean did not recklessly say how much it was, but asked the Manager Xu: "How much does your store want? I'll see if it's enough. I'll send it over to you guys first. If it's not enough, we'll add more later. "

Manager Xu stroked his beard, as if he was talking to himself, and finally thought of a number. "I only recruited people this month at the bookstore, and I'm still working on the rigidity. It's not yet time for me to use a lot of paper … The scribe was already in place. If it was originally meant to be copied, then so be it.

Black Bean was speechless, he subconsciously looked at Li Yannian, there were six thousand pieces of paper and two hundred blades! Can my family supply it?

Unexpectedly, Li Yannian nodded at him with absolute certainty.

Even though Black Bean's heart was thumping, under his sister's attentive gaze, he still nodded his head: "I do. It's just that the number of people who come today isn't too much. Six thousand pieces isn't a small number after all …"

Manager Xu heaved a sigh of relief. He was really afraid that the Lee family would not be able to say so much to him.

"That's not a problem, just send as many as you have. We still need to discuss about the price. Brother Li, you should know that since there's been a lot of this paper lately, the price won't be as good as it is now. "According to our boss, these three knives are worth one tael of silver. As you can see …"

The more Manager Xu spoke, the redder his face became. He had been a shopkeeper for many years and was shamelessly trying to push down the price for these children. If not for his boss's instructions, he would not have said anything.

Three blades and one taels of silver. This was more than half the original price. It turned out that the Gu family was planning this. In fact, the price they had offered the last time was not very fair. The full size of the Xuan paper was one thousand pieces of paper and the full price of four feet four hundred pieces of paper was only sixty taels of silver. The young lord of the Gu family had taken advantage of the weakness of their guilty conscience. The other party had raised the price on the spot, while he had lowered the price on the spot.

Three cuts, which was one tael of silver for ninety pieces, was equivalent to 157 yuan. As for her, she only sold them for thirteen to sixteen yuan each. Not only did she make a lot, but she also made a ton of money!

Li Yannian immediately nodded her head at Black Bean. Black Bean understood, although he was unhappy, he still agreed: "Then let's go with the price, we will send a carriage over first, the silver was paid on the spot, and I will urge the workshop to send the rest over."

"I think we should do it like this. Brother Li, you guys still have to specially drive the paper over every time. It's really tiring. "Give me a rough estimate and I'll have the shop assistant come to collect it. We'll take as much as we can and it'll be settled in cash. What do you think?"

Just as Black Bean was hesitating, he heard Li Yannian respond crisply: "That's for the best. Boss, please send someone to take this in, I can let my brother stay home and work, it will save us a lot of work."

Manager Xu's heart dropped for half a second before he chuckled and said: "Then when should I have this fellow come?"

Manager Xu was secretly speechless in his heart. Good heavens, what paper workshop was so powerful in this area? And what was even more puzzling was that their boss had not found such a paper workshop before! If he had found them long ago, he would have eaten up the large order from the merchant. There was no need for him to be so bored with the Du Family's little rascal.

"Alright, then it's a deal. Seven days later, I sent someone over to my door and didn't say anything else. "

Black Bean nodded his head. With the excuse that he had other things to do, he brought Li Yannian and the others out.