my grandmother

Chapter 111 The First Pit
The next day, after breakfast, Li Xiaonan was circling in the yard, waving her arms and kicking her legs, waiting for Ah Wu to come back from Xunzhen.

Although Ah Wu came back every time he toured the town, Li Xiaonan insisted on waiting for Ah Wu to come back, and after hearing Ah Wu's no word, he would arrange other things.

Li Xiaonan is in a good mood.

Today she made an appointment with Wanqing to come and pick her up to read in Bieye.

She planned to read for the whole day and have dinner with Wan Qing at noon.

Ah Wu came back more than a quarter of an hour earlier than usual, dismounted from the horse outside the courtyard gate, held the rein, put his head in from the courtyard gate, and waved to Li Xiaonan.

Li Xiaonan hurried out.

"There is a business! It seems to be a big business!" Ah Wu pulled Li Xiaonan down the steps, suppressing 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's back, but no cloth.

Every time Ah Wu went to visit the town, he brought broken silver and a few strings of copper tin, so that when someone sold fine cloth, he could buy it back at the price immediately.

"It's the Sun's grocery store in Guoxiang Town. It says it's a big business, and it's really big. It says there are dozens of pieces of cloth. It seems that something is 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." Awu said with a suppressed voice.

"Then hurry up, go over and have a look." Li Xiaonan agreed, went up two steps, raised her voice and confessed to Sister Mei, went to the corner gate of the tea house and called Wang Yuting, and the three of them got on their horses and went straight to Guoxiang.

Awu Xun Town is always on the day after every fair. Compared with the days of every fair, Guoxiang Town is a bit deserted.

The three of them got off their horses at the entrance of the town, walked half of the bluestone road, and arrived at the sun's grocery store.

"Here we come!" Shopkeeper Sun was sitting at the door of the shop, when he saw A Wu, he immediately stood up and yelled inside.

A haggard, forty-something middle-aged woman came out of the shop, looking tensely at the group of three who hurried over.

"Didn't shopkeeper Yao say to bring the owner 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.

"The boss is busy with a big business. This is the boss's younger sister, and she can also be the master of the house." A Wu introduced Li Xiaonan.

"It turns out that it's the little boss's house. It's really amazing." Shopkeeper Sun smiled perfunctorily.

Can such a little Nier be the master of the house?Shopkeeper Yao didn't look right, he just brought someone here, trying to fool him?
Alas, he did his best.

"You want to gather fine cloth? I have fine cloth!" The middle-aged woman stared at Li Xiaonan nervously and said.

"It's me, where is the muslin? Let me see." Li Xiaonan smiled.

"It's 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.

Facing the stale camphor wood smell coming towards her face, Li Xiaonan stared at the densely packed muslin in the box.

The muslin had already turned a thick yellow color, Li Xiaonan didn't dare to reach out to grab it, she was afraid that if she touched the muslin, the muslin would shatter.

"How long have you kept this muslin?" Li Xiaonan pointed to the muslin and asked.

"You didn't say whether it's new cloth or old cloth!" The middle-aged woman tensed up and immediately turned back. Seeing Li Xiaonan frowned, she immediately pointed to shopkeeper Sun and said, "I've asked all of them, and I've asked carefully. Oh, you didn't tell me!"

"Can I have a look?" Li Xiaonan asked, pointing to the muslin in the box.

"Hmm." 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 Hangzhou Weaving on the edge of the cloth, put down the muslin, looked at the woman and said: "This is a product from the Hangcheng Weaving Department, you didn't weave it yourself."

"You didn't tell me!" The woman snapped.

Li Xiaonan looked at Shopkeeper Sun.

Shopkeeper Sun smiled dryly, "You just talked about collecting fine cloth, right? You didn't say anything else, did you? If you don't believe me, you can ask Shopkeeper Yao, right? You didn't say anything."

"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.

"You know her? Is this fine cloth really from her family? Is there nothing wrong with the origin?" Li Xiaonan looked at Shopkeeper Sun.

"We are old neighbors. It belongs to her family. It must belong to her. Don't worry about that." Shopkeeper Sun nodded with a dry smile.

"Take it, it's the price you negotiated with Shopkeeper Sun, and you can help count." Li Xiaonan was silent for a moment, then looked at A Wudao.

The woman stared at A Wu, watched her and shopkeeper Sun take out the fine cloth from the box, counted them, watched shopkeeper Sun take out the silver coins, weighed the silver, and watched A Wu count out the copper tins from shopkeeper Sun's hand. After receiving the silver and copper coins, he was relieved in one breath, tears welled up in his eyes, he choked up a word of thanks to shopkeeper Sun, held the silver coins and copper coins tightly, lowered his head, brushed past Li Xiaonan, and ran away.

Ah Wu paid shopkeeper Sun's middleman again, picked up fine cloth, and tied them to the horse's back one by one.

Li Xiaonan looked at Shopkeeper Sun and said, "Our business ends here, and I won't bother you anymore."

"Master Yao!" Shopkeeper Sun turned his head and called Ah Wu.

"This is our little boss, she has the final say." A Wu tied the box and replied without looking back.

"Little boss, this is not how this business is done. You really didn't say anything, did you?" Shopkeeper Sun looked at Li Xiaonan.

"It's true that we didn't say anything, so we just took it as ordered, right? But you know this business, your old neighbors know it well, I know it clearly, and my shopkeeper Yao knows it too. Did you do that?" Li Xiaonan looked at shopkeeper Sun and said coldly.

Shopkeeper Sun avoided Li Xiaonan's gaze, took a step back, and muttered, "Women are really, obviously they didn't say anything."

Li Xiaonan looked at him for a moment, then turned around and watched Ah Wu tie up the muslin. Wang Yuting stepped aside from Li Xiaonan, gave Shopkeeper Sun a sideways glance, and spat on the ground.

Shopkeeper Sun folded his arms and muttered, "You didn't say anything, did you?"

After leaving the town, Wang Yuting stretched his head to look at the places where the muslin was tied with ropes, stretched out his fingers, and the muslin tore a crack.

"You should have said no at that time!" Wang Yuting plucked another horse, looking at the fine cloth that was torn apart by his hand, he was furious.

"That's okay! It's true that we didn't make it clear. To be a human being, you have to say what you say!" A Wu glared at Wang Yuting.

"It's not your money, is it?" Wang Yuting snapped back very bluntly.

"No... Pretend I didn't say it." Ah Wu immediately shrank his head.

"Ah Wu is right. This is how business is done. Keep your word and keep your word first. If you make a mistake, you can admit it. It's like a bone of gold." Li Xiaonan was dejected.

A total of 21 bolts of muslin, plus the middleman's money for shopkeeper Sun, half of her 25 taels of silver capital was removed this trip!
Now she has only the cost of a loom.

(End of this chapter)