The next day, after breakfast, Li Xiaonan was spinning around in the yard, waving her arms and kicking her legs, waiting for Awu to return from his tour of town.
Although Ah Wu never said a word every time he came back from his tour of town, Li Xiaonan still insisted on waiting for Ah Wu to come back, and then arrange other things after hearing Ah Wu's words.
Li Xiaonan is in a good mood.
Today she made an appointment with Wan Qing to pick her up and go to Bieye to read.
She planned to read a book all day and have a meal with Wan Qing at noon.
Ah Wu came back more than a quarter of an hour earlier than usual. He dismounted outside the courtyard gate without tying the horse. He held the reins and stretched his head in from outside the courtyard gate, waving to Li Xiaonan.
Li Xiaonan ran out in a hurry.
"There's business! It seems like it's still big business!" Ah Wu pulled Li Xiaonan down the steps and lowered his voice.
"Really! Where's the cloth?" Li Xiaonan stretched her head to look at the horse. There was only a saddle on the horse and no cloth.
Every time Ah Wu went to patrol the town, he would bring broken silver and a few strings of copper coins with him, so that when someone was selling fine cloth, he could buy it back immediately at the price.
"It's the Sun's grocery store in Guoxiang Town. They say it's a big business. It's really big. They say there are dozens of pieces of cloth. But something seems to be wrong. I can't tell. You'd better go and have a look. I'll talk to shopkeeper Sun about the business.
It's too big, I have to ask my boss to come over." A Wu said in a low voice.
"Then hurry up and go take a look." Li Xiaonan agreed, went up two steps, raised her voice and confessed to Sister Mei, went to the corner door of the tea house and called Wang Yuting, the three of them got on the horse and went straight to Guo Alley. p>
Awuxun Town is always on the day after the market. Compared with the day of the market, Guoxiang Town is a bit deserted.
The three people got off their horses at the entrance of the town and walked half of the bluestone road to Sun's grocery store.
"Come on, come on!" Shopkeeper Sun was sitting at the door of the shop. When he saw Ah Wu, he immediately stood up and called inside.
A haggard middle-aged woman in her forties came out of the shop, her whole body tense, and she looked nervously at the group of three people who were hurrying over.
"Didn't Shopkeeper Yao say he would bring his boss over to have a look?" Shopkeeper Sun looked at Li Xiaonan and Wang Yuting who were following A Wu, and stretched his head to look behind the three of them.
"My boss is busy with a big business. This is my boss's sister, and she can also be the master of the house." Awu introduced Li Xiaonan.
"It turns out it's the little boss. It's really amazing." Shopkeeper Sun smiled perfunctorily.
Can such a little Nier be the master of the house? Shopkeeper Yao thinks something is wrong, so he brought someone here just to fool him?
Alas, he has tried his best.
"You want to collect muslin? I have muslin!" The middle-aged woman stared at Li Xiaonan with a nervous look on her face.
"It's me, where's the fine cloth? Let me take a look." Li Xiaonan smiled.
"They're all here." The middle-aged woman took two steps forward and opened an old camphor wood box half a person's height at the door of the shop.
Li Xiaonan faced the smell of stale camphorwood and stared at the densely packed fine cloths in the box.
The fine cloth had turned a strong yellow color, and Li Xiaonan did not dare to reach out to take it. She was afraid that if she touched the fine cloth carefully, the fine cloth would break into pieces.
"How many years have you kept this fine cloth?" Li Xiaonan asked, pointing to the fine cloth.
"You didn't say whether it was new cloth or old cloth!" The middle-aged woman tensed up and immediately retorted. Seeing Li Xiaonan frowning, she immediately pointed at shopkeeper Sun and said, "I've asked about it, carefully.
Yes, you didn’t tell me!”
"Can I take a look?" Li Xiaonan asked, pointing to the fine cloth in the box.
"Yeah." The middle-aged woman pursed her lips tightly and hummed through her nose.
Li Xiaonan carefully held up a piece of muslin, carefully pulled out a section, looked at the words "Hangcheng Weaving" on the edge of the cloth, put down the muslin, looked at the woman and said: "This is the product of Hangcheng Weaving Department, you did not weave it yourself." "You didn't tell me!" the woman said quickly.
Li Xiaonan looked at Shopkeeper Sun.
Shopkeeper Sun had a dry smile on his face, "You just talked about collecting fine cloth, right? You didn't talk about anything else, right? If you don't believe me, just ask Shopkeeper Yao, right? You didn't talk about it."
"Is this your dowry? What happened at home?" Li Xiaonan looked at the woman and asked.
The woman pursed her lips tightly and said nothing.
"Do you know her? This fine cloth is indeed from her family? Is the origin okay?" Li Xiaonan looked at Shopkeeper Sun.
"We are old neighbors. It belongs to her, so it must be hers. Don't worry." Shopkeeper Sun smiled dryly and nodded.
"Take it. According to the price agreed with Shopkeeper Sun, you can help count the numbers." Li Xiaonan was silent for a moment and looked at Awu Dao.
The woman stared at Ah Wu closely, watching her and shopkeeper Sun take out the fine cloth from the box and counting them, watching shopkeeper Sun take out the coins and weigh the silver, and then watching Ah Wu count out the copper coins and take them from shopkeeper Sun's hand.
After taking the silver and copper coins, he breathed a sigh of relief and burst into tears. He choked up and thanked shopkeeper Sun. He held the silver and copper coins tightly, lowered his head, and passed Li Xiaonan before running away.
Ah Wu paid Shopkeeper Sun's money again, picked up the fine cloth, and tied it one by one to the horse's back.
Li Xiaonan looked at Shopkeeper Sun and said, "Our business ends here, and we won't bother you anymore."
"Shopkeeper Yao!" Shopkeeper Sun turned to call A Wu.
"This is our little boss, she has the final say." Ah Wu bundled the box and responded without looking back.
"Little boss, this is not how this business is done. You really didn't tell me, did you?" Shopkeeper Sun looked at Li Xiaonan.
"We really didn't say it, so we just accepted it all, right? But you know this business very well, your old neighbor knows it very well, I know it very well, and my shopkeeper Yao also knows very well that this business is
Did you do this?" Li Xiaonan looked at Shopkeeper Sun and said with a cold face.
Shopkeeper Sun avoided Li Xiaonan's gaze, took a step back, and muttered: "What a woman, she obviously didn't say anything."
Li Xiaonan looked at him for a moment, then turned around and watched A Wu tying up the fine cloth. Wang Yuting let Li Xiaonan pass, glanced sideways at Shopkeeper Sun, and spat on the ground.
Shopkeeper Sun put his hands on his hands and muttered: "You didn't tell me, right?"
After leaving the town, Wang Yuting stretched his head and looked at the place where the fine cloth was tied with the rope. He stretched out his fingers and found a crack in the fine cloth.
"You should have said no at that time!" Wang Yuting plucked another piece, looking at the fine cloth that split in response, he was furious.
"That's not okay! It's true that we didn't make it clear. As a human being, you have to say what you say!" A Wu glared at Wang Yuting.
"It's not your money, right?" Wang Yuting said back rudely.
"No... pretend I didn't say it." Awu immediately shrank his head.
"Awu is right, that's how business is done. Keep your word and keep your word first. If you admit your mistakes, you'll be worth a thousand pieces of gold and a horse's bones." Li Xiaonan was dejected.
A total of twenty-one pieces of fine cloth, plus the money given to shopkeeper Sun, her capital of twenty-five taels of silver was lost in this trip!
