The lucky girl in the village has a good way of making money.

Chapter 62 How Much Earned
This cloth shop is good at business, and there are many customers looking at and buying cloths.

When Shiliu and the others entered, a woman wearing a wooly blue apron came up to greet them.

When she saw Li Jihe, she knew he was her father. He must have made the decision on what she wanted to buy, even if she was talking to him.

But unexpectedly, it was Pomegranate who answered the question. After she was briefly surprised, she immediately entertained Pomegranate seriously.

"Auntie, please show me, my father, my eldest brother, my second brother, and me. In addition, there are my mother and my eldest sister, who are probably a little taller than me, and my brother, who is so tall. If one person makes a dress, it will probably take How many feet of cloth do you need to pull?" Shiliu first pointed at Li Ji and the three of them, then pointed at herself to show her height.

After listening to Shiliu's gestures, the woman knew something in her mind. She worked in this cloth shop, and her eyes were like rulers. She could tell how much fabric the person wore by looking up and down. If it's a ruler, there's no need to go to the ruler to measure it.

She nodded, and then led Pomegranate to the counter to choose fabrics to see which fabric color she wanted so she could get the scissors.

Farmers usually buy the most common coarse cotton for clothing. Those from a slightly wealthier family are willing to buy slightly better cotton, and the higher ones are fine cotton.

This fine cotton is comfortable to the touch, and it has fine lines and flowers, and the colors it dyes are pretty, but it's not suitable for wearing at work.

The bright colors and patterns also look too eye-catching.

Pomegranate hesitated for a moment, but chose coarse cotton. The coarse cotton had a single color, which was blue, green, pink, and red. Blue was used to make clothes for Li Ji and the others, cyan and green were used to make upper and lower skirts for Mrs. Song, and she and the eldest sister were made of pink at the top and green at the bottom.

Pink and willow green, a combination that later generations thought was too earthy. Not to mention, when it comes to seriousness, this is also a very poetic color combination.

Coarse cloth only comes in a few colors. If you take a walk around the village, nine out of ten girls will be wearing this kind of dress. It is inevitable to wear matching shirts.

Pomegranates are not afraid of soil, so it would be more embarrassing to wear a shirt, right?

She thought that when she made more money, she would buy clothes, and she would definitely buy fine cotton. She could also feel the difference in wearing fine cotton. The most important thing was that fine cotton had more colors and looked better with different clothes. The probability of color is not so 100%.

When the woman heard her matching, she knew how to do it. She used her scissors to cut out the required lengths of fabrics of various colors. When she cut them all perfectly, she couldn't help but said to Pomegranate, "I'll just cut them out." The cloth must be just right! If it’s not enough, just come to me, Ms. Cui!”

I selected the cloth and bought the cotton needed to make these clothes. When I added it up, the cotton was six pounds, sixty cents per pound, the coarse cloth was eight cents per foot, and a piece of cloth was ten feet more. The total was two pounds per pound. There is another forty coins.

After paying the bill and leaving the cloth store carrying the fabrics and cotton on his back, Li Jihe couldn't help but mutter to Shiliu that if he went to buy ready-made clothes, he would definitely spend half a pound more than this!
Pomegranate also lamented, otherwise the lower class people would not be willing to make new clothes all year round. It costs nearly two taels of silver to make a new set of clothes for this person, how many people are willing to do so!
After walking for a while, she saw a shop. Pomegranate got excited and walked inside.

Li Ji and the three of them were stunned for a moment, and were about to follow, but when they looked up and saw that the houses seemed to be occupied by women and girls, and heard the noise inside, they realized that this seemed to be a shop selling makeup and powder, so they stopped immediately. , did not go inside.

After waiting for a short while, Pomegranate came out. Li Rongyu asked curiously: "Pomegranate, what did you do in there?"

Pomegranate opened her palms like a baby, revealing a small round clay pot in her palms, "I bought the face cream! The face balm!"

When he heard that it was for wiping his face, Li Jihe was stunned, thinking that his little girl has grown up and knows how to love beauty! He didn't understand what facial fat meant or not, so just buy it. He was about to ask his daughter to go in and buy one for his eldest daughter.

I heard the little girl sigh: "It's too expensive. It's only two coins for such a small one! I originally wanted to buy one for my mother and my eldest sister. Alas, let's make do with it for now. The three of us can use it together. We can use it together later. After making these two sales, buy more!"

He swallowed his words decisively, "Mother, that's it, two coins?"

Forget it. There was no further delay. The group of people went all the way to the city gate. They only bought twenty steamed buns from a stall at the city gate. They also asked the stall owner to drink two bamboo tubes of hot water, and then left the city, non-stop all the way. Rush home.

Those who hurried and hurried slowly, by the time they got home, it was already noon.

The three Songs, who were busy grinding kudzu powder at home, were eager to do so, but they never thought that they would be back the next day. No, when they heard someone knocking on the door, they thought it was Father Li or someone else.

But as soon as the door opened, Li Rongzhang jumped up when he saw the four pomegranates outside, "Mom! Dad and the second sister are back!"

When the mother and daughter of the Song family in the backyard heard the sound, they also lost their work and ran forward, "Why are you back today? How is it? Is it easy to sell?"

The three of them looked at each other, and Shiliu showed off the big cloth bags they were carrying, "Mom, look, we bought a lot of cloth and cotton to make new clothes! Do you think it will sell well?"

Only then did Mrs. Song see the many things carried by several people. When she heard that her daughter said that she was making new clothes, her heart skipped a beat. So many candies, had they really been sold?

day!
How much money was it sold for?

Li Jihe and the others didn't calculate how much they sold. They had a rough count of the pomegranates, but it was also a pleasure for the family to count the money and settle accounts together.

At that moment, the whole family entered the house and sat down on the straw mat. Then Li Jihe took out all the silver ingots and broken silver from his body, and the three pomegranates also took out all the money strings in their pockets.

The countless copper coins, the Song family, and the other two people were fine with it, after all, they had seen selling candy last time, but the few conspicuous silver ingots made them so shocked that they couldn't even speak clearly.

"Why do you have so much money?"

Pomegranate first took away two small silver ingots from inside, "This is the deposit, it cannot be included in the price of this sale."

After that, he gave it to Mrs. Song to keep, and then started counting the money.

The copper plates have all been strung together. Now there is no need to take them apart and count them. All you need to do is count the pomegranates together and calculate a general ledger.

Mrs. Song watched her counting the money, and couldn't help but ask Li Jihe about the two silver ingots in her hand, "What's the deposit?"

Li Jihe couldn't help but grinned, "Xiuying, you must not have imagined how good our sugar sales business was in the city this time. Not only that we sold all the sugar, we also took over two big businesses, just doing that There are seventy wooden boxes in total, Pomegranate said, six hundred and sixty for one!"

"How much?!" Ms. Song's eyes widened, and she was completely shocked and speechless. This huge amount was too big for her to digest.

But here, Pomegranate was focused on nothing else. She had already counted all the money clearly and the accounts were clear.

"The six thousand candies we made this time, fifty flower baskets, three wooden boxes, one hundred and ninety-seven large bags, and forty small bags were sold. There was no one left, and the total price was thirteen ounces and four cents. Another seventy-four cents! We spent four cents and forty cents per pen on cloth, cotton, and facial ointment, and now what is left here is a total of twelve poles and thirty-four cents!"

　One piece of cloth = ten feet = 100 feet ≌ 33 meters

　　
　
(End of this chapter)