Travel to ancient times and become rich women with your bestie

After the big purchase, there were still 611 coins left from today's sales. The two of them calculated that they could still buy some more things. Tao'er didn't know how to count, and she just felt that the bucket of money was getting lighter and lighter. Her heart was bleeding. The bucket was so heavy at the beginning, how could it be so light now?

What she is spending is not money, that is her life!

When she turned around, she saw her mother and Aunt Zheng go into the cloth shop. They turned back and called her in. Taoer had no choice but to follow them.

There are ten people in the family, and they haven't made new clothes for many years. The few sets of clothes they have to change are passed down from the older ones to the younger ones after they are worn out, and they are patched up again and again. They are all worn out and look terrible.

The two wore ragged clothes for a month and felt itchy all the time. It was probably because they were too torn and started to shed hair. The most important thing was that they had no underwear. The bellybands of these two old women were so old that the color could hardly be seen and they could not hold anything. With such good nutrition in modern times, the two still had bean sprout bodies. In ancient times, when people were short of food and clothing, these two bodies were surprisingly large.

The worn-out bellyband hung loosely around my neck, and I always felt it swaying and rubbing. Not to mention that there were no bitter tea seeds, so I always felt cold when I walked.

Now that I have money, I will buy some cloth and design a set for myself.

Not many villagers would make new clothes at this time of year, so the cloth shop was deserted with only a few people choosing cloth.

On the right hand side of the door there was a huge pile of cloth that looked like linen.

"Would you like to buy some linen?" The shopkeeper came out from behind the counter.

Judging from the clothes the three of them were wearing, the shopkeeper guessed that they wanted to buy linen.

"Yes, how much is this linen per foot?"

Zheng Yuan and Duan Minmin were also planning to buy linen. Firstly, they didn't have much money and couldn't afford better cloth. Secondly, they wore it every day in the mountains and fields, so linen was more practical because it was durable and hard-wearing.

"Four cents a foot of linen."

One foot is about 0.33 meters, so Dashu needs at least meters of cloth, she and Amin need about meters, Taoer and Hui Niang need...

Zheng Yuan muttered to himself for a long time but couldn't figure it out. The main reason was that old lady Zheng hadn't made new clothes for many years and had no memory of it.

Never mind, just ask the boss directly.

"Boss, we have two older boys, the two outside the door." Zheng Yuan pointed outside, then pointed at Tao'er, "There are also three girls about this height, two girls in their teens, a six-year-old boy, and the two of us. If we all make a set, can you help us calculate how much cloth we need?"

The shopkeeper was a little surprised. Seeing how ragged their clothes were, he thought they were so generous as to make ten sets of clothes at a time.

"Five to six feet will be enough for the two boys. Five feet will be enough for the two of you and the three girls. Four and a half feet will be enough for the smaller girls, and three feet will be enough for the little boys. All together, forty-nine feet will be enough, which is a little more than three pieces. Otherwise, you can just buy four pieces and I will give you a discount. You can also use the extra cloth for mending."

The two of them thought so too, there was no big deal in buying a little more, they would need them anyway.

"Okay, then give me four pieces of cloth. One piece of this indigo blue one, and three pieces of this blue one." Zheng Yuan pointed to the pile of cloth on one side.

"Okay!" The shopkeeper happily went to pick up the cloth.

"Originally, I want to sell one foot of cloth for three cents, and one piece of cloth is 130 cents. Sisters-in-law, you buy a lot, so I will charge you 120 cents per piece, okay?"

One hundred and twenty coins per horse, four horses cost four hundred and eighty coins, which is a bit expensive.

"One hundred and one, how about it?" Duan Minmin asked.

"No, no, this is too much of a loss, it's more than the purchase price!"

It's the same old talk again. Their ears are so tired of it. Zheng Yuan and Duan Minmin naturally don't buy it.

"Then either you give us seven feet of cotton cloth at one hundred and twenty pieces, or one hundred and eleven pieces. If it's okay, then it's okay. If not, we can go somewhere else to look." After the two men said this, they pretended to leave.

"Hey, hey, hey, come back! We can talk about it. Why are you two sisters-in-law in such a hurry? I'll give you seven feet of cotton cloth." The shopkeeper looked painful, but was still unwilling to pay less than ten cents.

When the two heard this, they agreed. They quickly paid the money and went out with the cloth.

After the people had gone far away, the shopkeeper calculated on his abacus and thought, hey! It would be better to sell it at one hundred and ten per piece. He retailed the cotton cloth at seven cents per foot. Now, he gave them a discount of nine cents.

After they walked quite far away, Zheng Yuan and Duan Minmin laughed out loud: "This shopkeeper won't do anything for 110 coins, but he is happy to let her deliver the cloth, earning seven feet of cloth for free."

"That's right. I just heard the man next to me say that cotton cloth costs seven cents a foot. Now I've picked up nine more cents. Haha."

The three children were completely confused. They counted on their fingers for a long time but could not understand why their mothers were so happy and how she calculated the nine cents she earned.

After buying the cloth, the bucket containing money was really empty. Most of the bucket was filled with copper coins, and now only a thin layer of copper coins was left at the bottom of the bucket. Tao'er's hands were shaking as she held the bucket. But looking at her mother and Aunt Zheng, she looked like she would not stop until she had spent all the money, so she continued to wander around the market.

"Mom, let's go back." Tao'er spoke in a low voice with a sad face, fearing that they would have to spend more money.

Dashu and Erhe naturally also saw that there was only a thin layer left at the bottom of the bucket, and they nodded quickly.

"Okay, okay, let's buy some more things and then go back."

Still want to buy more?! The three children’s faces were almost wrinkled.

Zheng Yuan and Duan Minmin didn't care about them and went into the market. It was about to end now, and it was a good time to pick up bargains.

So, under the resentful gazes of the three children, he spent 100 coins to buy a bag of rice from a farmer, which weighed about 25-26 jin. At the grain store, it was 5 coins per jin. If it wasn't for the fact that the grain was about to be sold out, how could he buy it for 100 coins?

They spent another ten cents to buy two packs of fried sanzi, and finally stopped shopping. It wasn't that they didn't want to buy anymore, but they only had twenty-one cents left and they had to take the bus home.

Looking at the backs of the two mothers walking out of the city, the three children breathed a sigh of relief, but when they thought about how Duan Minmin had just taken out the only twenty-one copper coins left from the bucket, they felt sad again. These two mothers spent money too much.

When they reached the ox cart, a group of women were already sitting on it. Zhao Youwang watched them come out and hurriedly greeted them.

He was also muttering in his heart, usually these women would be eager to tear him apart if they waited any longer, but today they waited for half an hour and didn't say a word, which was really strange.

From the moment Zhao Youwang greeted them, the woman in the car never took her eyes off them.

Look, he is holding four pieces of cloth and carrying a bucket that looks very heavy. Who knows how many good things he must have bought. No wonder he doesn't allow them to follow.

"Wow~ You've made a lot of money, Dashu Niang. Buy these old things!" Liu Cuilan said sarcastically.

"Yes~ What's the matter, Auntie? Didn't you make any money? Why didn't you buy anything?" Zheng Yuan also spoke in a sarcasm.

Liu Cuilan was so angry that she fell backwards. What a shameless person.

Li Juxian saw that the situation was not going well, so she quickly spoke to ease the atmosphere: "Mrs. Chen, Mrs. Zhao, your ice jelly business is really booming. You bought so many things, I'm afraid you made a lot of money, right?"

"Yes, yes, how much money did it cost to buy these old cloths? And what's in this bucket?" A woman answered and reached out to lift the lid of their bucket.

Fortunately, they were prepared and held the buckets in front of themselves to protect them tightly. When they saw her reaching out her hand, they immediately protected it tightly.

The woman failed to get what she wanted, and smiled awkwardly: "What kind of treasure is hidden in it, so carefully guarded? You must have made a lot of money, but you don't know how to help the villagers."