The lucky little girl of the Shoufu family

Chapter 57 The Missing Girl!

He Xuanji looked at this small town, which was no different from the small towns on the [-]th line she had seen before, even more dilapidated.

Walking on the small dirt road with potholes, He Xuanji was a bit dull, but the others were very excited and looked around.

Liu proposed to go to the market to sell cassava cakes first, and then purchase supplies. He Xuanji looked at Wang Dashan's uncle and nephew: "Do you have money on hand?"

"Yes, we brought a lot of copper coins!"

As Wang Daniu said, he took out two hanging copper coins from the basket at the back.

"Alright, let's split into two groups. Give me the money. Ning Yi and I will go buy some fabrics, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar. You go to the market and sell these dry biscuits."

"Okay, here it is!"

He Xuanji took the copper coins with a wrinkled face. There are a thousand copper coins in one string here, and two strings of copper coins weigh several catties.

"Yaoer, give it to me!"

Seeing her like this, Ning Yi knew that the copper coins were heavy, and quickly took the two strings of money in her hand.

The group split up, Liu's mother and son took Dashan and Xiaolian to the market to sell cassava cakes, while Ning Yi and He Xuanji went shopping.

The suit He Xuanji was wearing was made of burlap with a patch on it. It was already new clothes for the people in the village, but she didn't feel comfortable wearing it.

The first battle between the two was a cloth shop.

In this year of drought, food is in short supply. As long as there is some copper money in hand, everyone will rush to scramble for food, and the business of cloth villages seems deserted.

The proprietress stood behind the counter, looking at so many fabrics in the shop, with a sad face.

These fabrics were all imported at the beginning of last year. If the year is good, they can be sold out in half a year, but now it has been more than a year, and there is hardly any movement.

The fabrics in her shop are quite good, and many well-to-do families in the town will come to buy from her, and they are all regular customers, but now the regular customers have also become strangers, and they don't come here very often.

Because the business was sluggish, the proprietress fired all the small workers and came here by herself, occasionally calling her younger brother to help.

At this moment, she just drank some water, propped her head on the counter with her hands, and stared outside.

Suddenly, a skinny young man with a basket on his back came in, followed by a juicy little sister, and the proprietress stood up all of a sudden.

This is business!

"You two, are you here to buy fabric?"

She went to entertain them warmly, afraid that the two would turn around and leave again.

"Well, are you the proprietress here?"

He Xuanji could tell at a glance that she was the master here, because she was well dressed and had a handsome face, she was not the kind of worker.

It's just that there is a bit of worry in the brows. Looking at the coldness in the shop, he knows that he is worried about business.

"Yes, you two, the fabrics in our shop are all high-quality cotton and some refined ramie, which are not at all uncomfortable to wear. If you two like it, you can choose one. Today, who are you?" I'm the first customer, I'll give you a discount!"

He Xuanji didn't expect that the proprietress would be so straightforward in doing business, which suits her appetite, but she is not the kind of person who can be fooled by eating a candied date, so she asked, "Madam proprietress, how do you sell your fabrics here?"

The proprietress said: "I used to sell fine cotton cloth for thirty yuan a foot, but now I sell you twenty yuan, and refined ramie costs twenty-five yuan a foot, and now I sell you fifteen yuan, what do you think?"

He Xuanji didn't respond. Ning Yi had said before that she wanted dozens of pennies a foot, which shows that she didn't fool herself.

Moreover, the productivity in ancient times was backward, and it took half a year for a weaver girl to weave a piece of cloth, so it was not too much to sell.

She walked up to the fabrics and made gestures. Three feet is one meter, and the width of a piece of cloth is 1.2 meters. It is no problem to buy four or five feet to make a set.

Ten feet is more than three meters long, and two hundred Wen is enough to make two clothes. She has two thousand copper coins on hand, and it is just right to spend one thousand Wen to buy fabrics.

So she touched the cotton cloth with her hands, and it felt quite delicate, and it was definitely better than burlap to wear on her body. She then touched the refined ramie, which also felt good, not prickly, and would be cool to wear in hot weather.

"That's fine, you can cut me ten feet of this color, ten feet of this color, and ten feet of this one, and these three kinds of refined ramie, ten feet each!"

This is one thousand and fifty copper coins.

It seems a bit expensive, but He Xuanji thinks it's nothing.

The proprietress was dumbfounded. The two looked shabby, and they didn't look like rich people. Why did they buy so much at once?

Noticing the astonished eyes of the proprietress, Ning Yi didn't want to be too high-profile, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble, and explained: "It's the fabric of our whole village! It's not easy to come to the town, so we will buy it together."

Only then did the proprietress feel relieved, "Okay, I'll cut it for you two. Please wait a moment, I'm the only one in the shop!"

The proprietress brought the scissors for cutting the fabric, and smiled apologetically, it took a lot of effort to cut so much fabric, and it was embarrassing for the guests to wait for her for a long time.

"It doesn't matter, the lady boss can do whatever she wants!"

He Xuanji showed a sweet smile, which made the proprietress very happy.

After about a quarter of an hour, she cut all the cloth and packed them with a piece of cloth. When she arrived at the counter for settlement, she said, "If you buy so much, you can count it as consistent money!"

When He Xuanji heard what she said, she knew that the proprietress knew how to do business, and nodded repeatedly: "Okay, thank you proprietress, I will come to buy from you next time!"

"Oh, you girl can really talk! People like it after seeing it. Nong, this is for you!"

The proprietress took out a handkerchief from a side drawer and stuffed it into He Xuanji's hand.

"Thank you lady boss!"

After some politeness, He Xuanji settled the bill and left, but when she was about to step out of the cloth village threshold, the proprietress stopped them again.

"Two wait." The proprietress looked around and saw that there was no one in the store, so she said in a low voice, "My little brother, your sister is beautiful, so you have to watch closely!"

"How to say?"

Seeing her secretive look, Ning Yi felt a little bit in his heart, thinking that something bad happened.

The proprietress thought that they mentioned that they were buying fabrics for the whole village, so she knew that they came from the countryside and didn't know what happened in this town.

"It's like this. Recently, girls have often disappeared. The more beautiful girls are, the more likely they are to disappear. You are such a cute and smart girl. Don't take them out for a while. You will be in trouble if you are targeted by bad guys!"

"Missing?"

Both He Xuanji and Ning Yi were taken aback, no wonder the atmosphere in this small town was always felt wrong, it turned out to be because of this!
"But Madam Boss, my uncle told me before that the town was robbing food because the officials who escorted the relief food died. What happened to that?"

"What are you talking about? It's been a month ago, and it's settled down early!"

"Already ready?"

He Xuanji and Ning Yi looked at each other, it seemed that they were really behind the news.

"That's right! Okay!" Before the two of them could ask, the proprietress went on and on, "At first, the town was very chaotic, but then a Taoist priest came from the county government. Cure the chaos in the town!"

(End of this chapter)