EBE Chapter 155 Quilt
Chapter 155 Quilt
"...Guoguo is right. Our family doesn't have that much, so we can buy less. But we need to buy good cotton for these clothes and pants. It's 66 coins per pound, so 15 pounds will be enough. Guoguo, can you calculate for me, how much does 15 pounds cost?"
"Aunt, it's nine hundred and ninety coins, less than one string of silver." Zhou Guo blurted out.
"Hey, Guoguo, can you calculate for me? How much would it cost if I bought 12 kilograms?"
"Seven hundred and ninety-two coins, less than eight hundred coins."
Everyone came forward and asked her to calculate how much it would cost if they bought so many kilograms of cotton.
The cotton shopkeeper was stunned as he listened to this. He wanted to speak up several times to tell them that his high-quality cotton was 76 wen per pound, not 66 wen. However, he couldn't get the point across and sweat started to drip down his forehead.
After buying cotton, you have to buy a quilt.
Zhou Guo discussed with Li, "Mom, there are four kangs in our house, and each kang needs at least two quilts, one for mattress and one for cover."
"Well, then we need eight quilts. The cover should be thicker, eight kilograms per quilt, and the cushion should be five kilograms per quilt. Boss, how much do you charge for this quilt?"
The shopkeeper was wiping his sweat, but when he heard that they wanted to buy quilts, he was overjoyed.
"Quilts are different from each other. The quilt you want is made of high-quality cotton, which weighs six pounds, and costs 560 yuan. The quilt made of low-quality cotton costs 280 yuan."
Zhou Guo calculated that the processing fee for a quilt was about one hundred coins.
A quilt weighing eight kilograms costs about six hundred yuan. She looked at her mother's frown and knew that she was distressed. After thinking for a while, she said, "Mom, if you feel sorry for it, you can use good cotton for the quilt and use inferior cotton for the padding underneath. Inferior cotton is cheaper."
Li was a little tempted, but then she thought that low-grade cotton was 30 wen per jin, and medium-grade cotton was 56 wen. If she could bargain, it would be 40 wen per jin, which wouldn't be much different. "Then I'll use the medium-grade cotton quilt. I can bargain and get 40 wen per jin, which would save me a lot."
"Okay, then use medium-quality cotton." Zhou Guo said with a smile.
Their family requested eight quilts, which was more than other families. Other families still had one or two quilts left, but they had none left.
"Boss, you see we need to buy both cotton and quilts, so you have to give us a lower price, otherwise we will turn around and go to another store." Zhou Guo said.
"Hey, no, no, no, I'm going to give you less. Just tell me what you want. If you want more, I can give you less." The shopkeeper said with a smile.
Zhou Guo was the first to say what he wanted.
The remaining women also said what they wanted, and sure enough, their family bought the most things.
The shopkeeper took note of every one of them, his eyes were blurred with laughter. As expected, it was right for this man to be more attentive, sweet-spoken, diligent and smile more. Look, here comes the big order, which is enough for him to sell for a month.
After the aunts finished speaking, they rolled up their sleeves and began to bargain, "Boss, we're not buying a little bit. Seventy-six cents for top-quality cotton is too expensive. Sixty cents a pound is fine. For the medium-quality cotton, don't give us any more. Sell it to us for forty cents a pound. And this quilt, six pounds a quilt, is also three hundred and sixty cents according to the price of cotton. I'll spend some time to bend it, and give you eighty cents, so it's only four hundred and forty cents a quilt. Four hundred and four doesn't sound good. Four hundred and two is fine. We bought so many quilts, so just sell it to us for four hundred and one."
The shopkeeper broke out in a cold sweat. This guy was bargaining too much.
"Well, ladies, it's not that I won't give you less, it's just that this is too little. I still have to rely on this to make a living, so you have to let me make some profit, right?"
"You can make money, right? We bought so much from your family. Ask other families if they buy cotton quilts like this. Our village is big, and many people are interested in renovating their quilts this winter. If you buy less, I will tell the villagers about it when you go back. If they are happy, they might all come."
"That's right. Why don't you have the generosity of the cloth shop owner? He agreed to everything we asked for and even gave us a lot of cloth. I wonder if you have anything to give us. You don't have any cloth, so why don't you give us some of your cotton? You can't just give us nothing, right?"
"Not only that, the shopkeeper wants to send it back to us. Do you guarantee that it will be sent back?"
You and I were talking at the same time, just like in the cloth shop. The shopkeeper was feeling happy and sad, with mixed emotions.
Some people outside the door who didn't understand the situation were watching the fun. Since they were bargaining, they must be buying things. It seemed that they were buying quite a lot. Such a big customer had to be led to their store to have a look.
Little did he know that the shopkeeper was in dire straits.
Zhou Guo folded her hands and watched the fun. The aunts were really good at bargaining. They even bargained and asked people to give them gifts. They pointed at the snow-white cotton and demanded several handfuls as gifts. She almost cried when she saw the shopkeeper.
After several rounds of negotiations, the price of high-quality cotton was settled at 62 wen, and that of medium-quality cotton at 40 wen. A quilt weighing six kilograms was sold at 410 wen, and a quilt weighing eight kilograms was sold at 520 wen.
Li asked for four quilts weighing eight catties, and four mattresses made of medium-quality cotton weighing eight catties, and bargained for three hundred and sixty coins each. Twenty-five catties of high-quality cotton and five catties of medium-quality cotton, the total was five strings of two hundred and seventy coins, of which only seventy coins were removed. The price she paid was several handfuls of high-quality and medium-quality cotton. Zhou Guo thought that the high-quality ones were probably six taels, and the medium ones were probably one catty, enough to make shoes for the whole family in winter.
The shopkeeper sent them out with a bitter face and a smile.
Besides the shop assistants from the surrounding shops, Zhou Dacang and others were also waiting outside. They had already bought the farm tools and had them loaded onto the car. When they saw so many people gathered here, they looked inside and saw Zhou Guo and others. They didn't feel like going in when they saw them bargaining fiercely.
Zhou Dacang saw with sharp eyes that they had bought so many things, so he took people to drive a few cars over and waited at the door.
As soon as the people came out, they took the things in their hands and moved them to the cart. A group of people walked into the store and moved all the quilts and cotton cloths into the cart. A group of people came in and out several times, and the mountain of things was emptied.
It's like a robbery.
The shopkeeper was shocked at first to see so many people rushing in, but he was relieved when he realized they were moving things.
There were so many men, all of them were resolute and silent, dressed like refugees. The guys outside the door scattered and hurried back to the shop. They didn't dare to pull such people. What if one of them was hit by a fist? They couldn't beat him.
The four cars were so packed that there was no place to step.