Xiao Yu walked out of Yingbin Building with one tael of silver and over ten jin of seaweed in her hands. She had sold it at the price of 100 cents per jin because it was wild-grown and particularly light when dried. Despite appearing to have brought a lot, ultimately, she had both sold and given it away for just one tael of silver.
However, Uncle Zhang did not see it that way; he thought she was cheating him, not realizing that the price of seaweed was quite expensive in modern tis.
One hundred cents per jin, that’s reasonable, isn’t it?
Of course, she had managed to sell it at that price only because she had written five recipes!
Otherwise, who would bother with a crazy person like her, bringing toxic Purple Star Grass to sell? Wasn’t that just asking for trouble?
According to Xiao Yu’s suggestion, "You could use the seaweed egg drop soup as a free soup for custors to taste when you have special offers. Since it’s free, people will definitely try it. As long as they see there’s no problem after trying it, even if soone later realizes it’s Purple Star Grass, they will know it’s non-toxic."
So, she had paid one tael of silver for the seaweed, and now he was expected to offer it for free?
If it weren’t for the fact that the girl ntioned only a little seaweed was needed per bowl of soup, he really wouldn’t have accepted it just like that.
It was this proposal that made the Shopkeeper reluctantly buy her Purple Star Grass.
With that one tael of silver, she and Yaya were thrilled to go to the grain store.
They bought twenty jin of millet, priced at five cents per jin. In ancient tis, prices were calculated by the dou, but she had automatically converted it to jins. Twenty jin cost her 100 cents.
They also bought ten jin of cotton, priced at fifteen cents per jin, which was quite expensive, spending a total of 150 cents.
Additionally, they got ten ters of cloth. However, it was not sold by the ter there but by the chi, which ended up costing another 150 cents.
There were dicines in her "space," so she didn’t buy any for the Old Lady. Before leaving, feeling that they also needed so millet, they turned back to the grain store and bought twenty jin of millet, which was cheaper than millet at four cents per jin, totaling eighty cents. This brought her total expenses to 480 cents as she headed ho.
The load was not light; she wasn’t so foolish to carry it all herself. While she was organizing the bamboo baskets, she transferred so into her own "space" and also shifted so of Yaya’s load onto her own back. Yaya was reluctant, but she insisted, proving her strength before she comfortably made the transfer.
By the ti they got ho, it was already dark. She hurried to start a fire and cook for the Old Lady. Yaya had eaten a very filling al in the afternoon, so she wasn’t hungry, but Xiao Yu was absolutely famished. Fortunately, the octopus she had caught in the morning looked barely alive by evening, so she planned to prepare a feast to reward them for their hard day’s work.
But before they ate, they both had a lot of tasks to take care of. The first task was to give acupuncture and administer dicine to the Old Lady. While Yaya was reheating the dicine (since she had already fed her in the morning, it only needed to be boiled now), Xiao Yu took a small needle from her "space" and gave Grandma an injection.
Grandma was lucid and had gotten used to her acupuncture over the past few days. Although she didn’t understand why the acupuncture involved just a single needle, she had felt much better these days and found it effective, so she cooperated very well.
After the injection, Xiao Yu also showed today’s spoils to Grandma, explaining that they were the earnings from selling Purple Star Grass. The Old Lady could hardly believe it, so Xiao Yu detailed how exactly she had managed to sell the Purple Star Grass. The Old Lady kept saying they had encountered good people, and also ntioned that eting Xiao Yu was a stroke of luck for the both of them.
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