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Those who were leaving turned back together. We had just sold it at a loss, so why would you be willing to pay another hundred cents less?

Lin Wenxuan paid the money without Ye Qing saying anything.

Ye Qing went out without bringing her wallet, so she gave Lin Wenxuan fifty taels of silver and asked him to be responsible for their food and drink.

The vendor packed the comb and handed it to Lin Wenxuan.

"Dear guests, would you like to bring some other things? This is the cheapest stall in the city."

Ye Qing took a look at the others. They were all common things and he didn't like anything in particular.

Ye Qing glanced at the others, all of whom looked uninterested.

The vendor smiled and sent them away, continuing to shout and sell things.

Ma Rui dared to speak only after Ye Qing and his group had walked a long way.

"I just counted them, there are about thirty combs. He lost more than three taels of silver on one business deal."

Others had the same idea. When it was 300 wen, they said they lost money, and when it was 200 wen, they lost even more.

Ye Qing looked at them speechlessly, "I think the man just now could earn at least three taels of silver from these combs."

Ma Rui didn't believe it. She had never done business before and didn't believe that a comb could make such a big profit. She saw that the vendor was honest and didn't seem like a liar.

Ye Qing glanced at the other people. Ma Youdao nodded the fastest, and it was obvious that he thought what Ma Rui said made sense.

The few of them happened to meet Shuanzi and his group coming from the opposite direction. They went to deal with the goods they brought, and some of the things could be sold along the way.

"Brother Shuanzi, we just bought a comb and the man wanted five hundred coins."

Before Ye Qing finished speaking, Shuanzi started rolling up his sleeves.

"That stall is such a rip-off, the combs are rimmed with gold and they're so expensive."

Ye Qing quickly grabbed him and said, "Brother, please listen to me."

Shuanzi's personality is very similar to that of Uncle Zhou Er. He is good in everything except that he has a bit of a bad temper.

Shuanzi looked at Ye Qing and waited for him to finish speaking before going to settle the account with the vendor.

"We bought them for the last two hundred coins a bunch. They said they were made by the master's apprentice and used by the nobles in the palace."

Shuanzi had traveled a lot and when he heard the price, he looked at Ye Qing in shock.

"Okay, you guys are good at bargaining, I think we can make a profit in half at this price."

Ma Rui calculated it and it was still about three taels of silver. Since both of them said so, it shouldn't be much different.

"He's too bold in asking for a price. If someone doesn't know how to deal with people, he would spend 500 coins to buy a comb and could only make 400 coins for a comb," Ma Youdao sighed.

They had never bought anything so expensive. At most they had bought candied haws, which were the same price.

"Qingya, how dare you say two hundred coins?" Ye Chenjing was curious.

Ye Qing had forgotten his previous anxiety and said in a pretentious manner, "Do you want to know?"

The others said in unison that they wanted to, and Shuanzi also wanted to know Ye Qing's method of judgment.

“When you think the price is inflated, you cut the price in half.”

Everyone understood and felt that they had learned a trick. In the future, when they go out, they must not be taken advantage of.

Shuanzi was also very curious. He had done a lot of business and could tell the cost by just looking at it.

He explained, "From now on, you can bargain like this, but the price can't be too low. Let people make some money, so that everyone is happy."

The others turned their attention to the surrounding stalls, eager to immediately try out the skills they had just learned.

Ye Qing reminded them, "If the stall owner doesn't lower the price, you should pretend to leave, just like we did just now, and see if the stall owner will call you back."

After hearing this, the others couldn't wait to try it out. Shuanzi saw that they were having fun and didn't stay for long. There was a lot of things to do in the caravan, so he had to go back first.

Ye Qing asked him to go back and rest, and that they still had time to hang out and have fun, but he had never been seen out for a walk.

Ye Qing ignored them. The street was full of these little gadgets for sale, so she slowly picked them out and put them on her desk when she got home.

Ma Rui came back first. She didn't have much money, so she could only buy the things she liked the most.

"Sister Qingya, I really bought it according to your method. The stall owner just now thought that I was from another place and didn't know the price, so he deliberately asked me for a high price."

Ye Qing looked at the cheerful little girl and praised her for a long time. The little girl laughed so hard that her eyes could hardly be seen.

Ye Qing gave her a silk flower in his hand. This silk flower looked like a real one.

Ma Rui took the flower and pinned it directly in her hair, then turned it around in front of Ye Qing to let her see if it looked good.

Ye Qing felt that the flower matched her skin tone very well. The girl had fair skin, and wearing the flower made her skin look even whiter.

Ye Qing looked at them with envy, so he took one and put it in his hair, and asked the stall owner to put the others away.

Lin Wenxuan took the hairpin and paid for it, then resigned himself to continuing to pay with Ye Qing.

He had just spoken a few words to Ye Qing alone when the little girl came over again.

Others found the joy of shopping and simply couldn’t stop.

Among these people, only the Ma brothers and sisters could restrain themselves a little. But when Ye Qing said that he could advance Ma Rui one month's salary, she could not resist the temptation.

They left here quickly, as their home was waiting for them to return.

A group of girls will soon graduate from the Girls' College, and she wants to open the embroidery workshop before they graduate.

Only when these girls receive monthly wages can more people around them see the benefits of going to school, and only then can some families that favor boys over girls send their girls here to study.

Ma Rui heard that there was a girls' academy in their village and she was very interested in it. She learned some Chinese characters at home with her brother and she also wanted to go to the academy to have a look.

Ye Qing saw her eagerness and said, "When you get to the village, you can also go to the academy. They not only teach reading and writing, but also various skills. They also teach housekeeping and accounting."

Ma Rui was happy at first, but then became a little hesitant.

"Maybe I'm a little too old to study with a group of kids, and I feel a little embarrassed."

"No, the girls' academy has only been open for a few years. The girls in our village are all studying now. They are already married women, and they can listen there if they want."

Ma Rui yearned for Kaoshan Village even more and couldn't wait to go there.

Although Suzhou was prosperous and women worked outside, not many of them were literate.

Shuanzi was worried about rain, so he walked very fast for the rest of the journey, stopping in a town for at most one day, and then urged everyone to set off.

It didn't take long before they saw the city wall of Wu'an City in the distance.

Ye Qing stretched herself. She was finally getting home and she was almost dead tired.

Sitting in the carriage was too boring, so she rode a horse for an hour or two every day.

I have become tanned during this time away from home, and my family will definitely be worried about me when I get home.

Ye Chenjing and the others looked at each other. They felt that they would definitely be scolded when they returned because they had not taken good care of their sister.

They also forgot to prepare sunshades for Qingya, which caused Ye Qing to get tanned.