idle mistress

Chapter 43
"Master, how did you sell this bowl?"

Seeing that someone finally came to ask, Uncle Huang hastily cheered up and stretched out five fingers to the other party: "Five cents a piece."

Hearing that, the man shook his head.

Seeing that someone was about to leave, Uncle Huang became anxious, and hurriedly stopped him: "If you want two more, I will count you 4 Wen each."

But the man still left.

Xu Weiqiu was free, and when he turned around, he saw Uncle Huang sitting beside him with a sad face.

"What's the matter, Uncle Huang, is there no business?"

The old man smiled wryly at her: "Girl, it seems that I came here for nothing today. I can see it. On this road, fish and meat sellers like you have a little business. Those who want to buy pots and pans Yes, it’s not urgent. I went to the market and saw that it was sealed. Didn’t they all go home? Who would come here to look for it.”

Xu Weiqiu heard what he said, looked around, and found that the stalls selling vegetables and food were indeed doing better business, and there were no people in front of the stalls selling groceries.

Seeing that there was no business, an aunt who sold woven bamboo baskets on the opposite side shook her head and quietly closed the stall.

Xu Weiqiu suddenly had an idea: "Uncle Huang, don't worry."

She asked Uncle Huang to move half of the pottery bowls to the opposite side. She picked up a stone from the ground, found a wooden board, and drew and wrote on it for a while. After a while, a simple price tag was made. .

She put up the sign in front of Uncle Huang's booth opposite.

While selling fish, she helped Uncle Huang look at the original stall. After about a stick of incense, someone came up to her and asked her, "Girl, how do you sell this bowl?"

Following Uncle Huang's example, she stretched out five fingers: "Five cents a piece."

The other party looked at the pottery bowl in front of her, and then looked back at Uncle Huang's stall behind. There were six big characters written on the board there: twelve coins and three coins.

"The opposite side only sells 4 Wen a piece."

Hearing this, Xu Weiqiu said brazenly: "You get what you pay for. My products are in good condition. The ones on the opposite side you can see at a glance. The workmanship is rough, and the quality is far different."

The man looked at it and said, "I see it all the same."

"What kind of eyes do you have? They are all the same. Can you see them? They are all the same. Go to the next door and buy them."

"Why do you have such an attitude as a businessman?"

The other party was so provoked by her that he really ran to the opposite side and bought three pottery bowls.

Many passers-by heard that the same bowl was sold here for five cents apiece, and on the opposite side for twelve cents for three. If there was a bargain, who would not like to take advantage of it, they all went to the other party to buy a few.

This business is very particular about popularity. Once the popularity is high, people who don't understand will come to see what's going on. Soon, there are many people around Uncle Huang's stall picking bowls there.

Seeing this, Xu Weiqiu secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Seeing that the fish was almost sold out, she sat leisurely in front of the stall, watching the pedestrians coming and going, she yawned frequently, and closed her eyelids after a while.

At this time, a tall man was guarding an obese old woman who was over half a century old and hurried past. The road was narrow. Pedestrians saw the two walking in a hurry.

The two came in a hurry, Uncle Huang's booth was busy, when the two passed by, they were forced to lean towards Xu Weiqiu's booth.

Xu Weiqiu was dozing off with her head tilted, when she heard the sound of 'clang', she opened her eyes and saw several pottery bowls in front of her were kicked down by passers-by and shattered to the ground.

But the troublemaker continued to walk forward quickly as if nothing happened.

"Hey...hey...wait..." She quickly stepped forward to stop the perpetrator: "Brother, you kicked my things and didn't even say a word of modesty?"

The man glanced at her, impatiently took out a piece of broken silver from his belt and threw it on the ground, and pulled the people around him to lift his feet and was about to leave.

"and many more……"

Xu Weiqiu was annoyed by his rude attitude, and quickly stepped forward to stop them.

The man looked at her and said dissatisfiedly, "Have you given all the money? Is there any other problem?"

Xu Weiqiu said brazenly: "That money is not enough..."

Hearing her words, the man was stunned for a moment. He was tall, so he saw the same goods on the opposite stall. , No matter how you can buy ten or twenty.And the ones I kicked were only two or three bowls...

"Is that not enough?"

"Not enough." She shook her head.

The man pointed to the stall opposite, and said, "The same thing is sold across the street, and it only costs twelve yuan and three yuan. I can buy your entire stall with this little silver."

Xu Weiqiu just can't understand his appearance of being rich and capable of turning ghosts.

"Who said that these bowls of mine are the same as those on the opposite side? He is a bowl for eating, but mine is a handicraft. Do you understand handicrafts? If you don't understand, let me tell you. These goods of mine are all from Taiding In the hands of a famous teacher in the county, one would cost one tael of silver." Taiding is the famous ceramic capital of the Cheng Dynasty.

The fat woman next to the man heard what she said, and said with a sore throat, "A broken bowl like this is worth a tael of silver, what about blackmailing people?"

When the three of them made a fuss, people around came over to watch the excitement. When Uncle Huang saw that she had an argument with a passerby, and the other party was a burly man, he was frightened and hurried forward to dissuade her.

Xu Weiqiu is not such a person who is easy to compromise, she looked the two of them up and down, and said to the fat woman: "Mother, in this place, whoever has the loudest voice is not the one who is justified, I will put the words down today , your son should either humble himself to me, or buy these four broken bowls for one tael of silver."

When the round old woman heard this, she pointed at Xu Weiqiu's nose and yelled at her. This fat woman was quite powerful, and she scolded her so bloodily.

"You little girl, you still talk back, do you know what it means to be disrespectful?"

"Of course I know this. Not only do I know what it means to be disrespectful to young people, but I also know what it means to be disrespectful to old people."

Xu Weiqiu is not a vegetarian either, and when the other party scolds, she replies, and the two quarrel endlessly.

Xu Weiqiu saw that the two were hurrying on their way, and at the end of the scolding, she said to the crowd watching:

"Let's judge and judge. Do you have to pay for things that are broken? As for whether the things are worth so much money, I don't care if I say it. It doesn't matter if you say it, aunt. How about it? Let's report to the official and wait." The officials will come to make a conclusion."

The fat woman did not show weakness: "Report to the official, report to the official, whoever is afraid of whom."

The strong man on the side looked at the two people, and then looked back, his face was very anxious, and he couldn't help but shouted at Xu Weiqiu:

"You shrew, if you keep pestering me, you will..." After saying that, she raised her hand.

(End of this chapter)