Farmer's clever woman busy farming

Chapter 371 High Price
Gu Jiujiu accepted the bank note with a smile. Seeing that the tea in front of Shopkeeper Yu was almost finished, he took the teapot beside him and poured him a full cup.

Shopkeeper Yu drank a few sips of tea, and chatted with Gu Jiujiu and the others. Since he still had work to do, he didn't stay any longer. After getting up to take his leave, he left.

Gu Jiujiu and Yan Shi sent Shopkeeper Yu to the outside of the shop and watched him get into the carriage. Gu Jiujiu turned to look at Yan Shi and asked casually, "Mother, do you know how the persimmons are sold in the market?"

"Persimmons are cheap. In the market, two copper coins sell for one catty, and ten copper coins can weigh five catties." After finishing speaking, Yan continued: "However, if we want to buy a large amount of persimmons, we have to go to the village. There are not many small vendors selling persimmons in the market, and they can’t buy much, and they can only buy a few hundred catties at most.”

When Yan said this, Gu Jiujiu planned to go to the village to buy a large number of persimmons.

As for the purchase price of the persimmons, in order to attract more people to sell them the persimmons grown on their own persimmon trees, Gu Jiujiu decided to buy them at half the price of the market.

As long as the persimmons are sold for a lot of money, the farmers will definitely be willing to harvest the persimmons from the persimmon trees in their homes and sell some spare money to supplement their families.

Gu Jiujiu told Yan Shi about his idea, and Yan Shi also agreed, "Xiaojiu, mother thinks your idea is good. After all, it is because the persimmons are sold for less money that most of the farmers do not sell their own persimmons. The persimmons that grow on the tree are harvested and sold in the market. If we give the same money as the market price, we will not be able to buy many persimmons. If you give a high price, everyone will be happy to sell their own trees. Hit the persimmons on the farm and sell them to us."

After negotiating the price, Gu Jiujiu and Yan Shi closed the door of the shop together, and returned to the village in a carriage.

At noon, Mrs. Yan cooked a simple meal, and everyone ate a makeshift meal.

After the meal, Gu Jiujiu asked Yan to go to the village to release the news that they were going to buy persimmons, while she was going to Lan Niang's house to give Lan Niang half of the money for selling persimmons.

Gu Jiujiu drove the carriage to Lanniang's house. Lanniang was choosing vegetables in the yard. When she saw Gu Jiujiu coming, she immediately smiled, "Miss Gu, why are you here?"

"Lan Niang, I'm here to give you money for selling persimmon cakes." Gu Jiujiu said, got off the carriage and walked to Lan Niang's side and gave her a 500 tael silver note.

Lan Niang smiled and took the bank note from Gu Jiujiu's hand. When she saw the number on the bank note, she immediately opened her eyes and looked at Gu Jiujiu, "Miss Gu, why are you paying so much money? Is it wrong?"

Persimmons are not worth a few silver coins at all, although Lan Niang knows that persimmon cakes sell for much more money than persimmons.However, no matter how she thought about it, she never thought it would be this number.

500 taels of silver is enough for her to work in the embroidery workshop for several years.

Gu Jiujiu looked at Lan Niang's surprised face, smiled lightly, and told her, "Lan Niang, don't worry, I did not give the wrong number, it is indeed this number."

"How could it be sold for so much money?" Lan Niang still felt a little unbelievable, this figure was really too much for her.

"Lan Niang, I made persimmon cakes, and I bought a basket of dried persimmons at the market, and I gave all the rest to the shopkeeper Yu of the dry goods store." As he said, Gu Jiujiu looked at Lan Niang's general He explained, "The persimmons shopkeeper Yu took to Jin'an City and sold for [-] copper coins each. The money he sold was high, so he made a lot of money. I made an agreement before I gave the persimmons to shopkeeper Yu. Give me [-]% of the profit, so I sold so much."

(End of this chapter)