After seeing off the shopkeeper, a few people entered the room and Gu Yi walked happily and quickly to the table.
Those who came to buy peppermint oil in the morning were all schoolchildren from slightly poorer families and were given coppers, which took up most of the table. He grabbed a handful and raised it slightly, let go and let the coppers fall back onto the table, then grabbed another handful and raised it again, playing with it with great pleasure.
Song Si walked over and stopped him rather disgustedly, while picking up some copper plates in front of him, “Hurry up and finish counting them, we’ll eat lunch and go sell them at the door.”
“It’s me and Young Master Gu, there’s no big brother about it.”
Song Wan Yue also came over and sat down, picking up some copper plates in front of herself, “Even if the shopkeeper doesn’t come to say, I won’t sell upstairs again this afternoon, it affects big brother’s reading.”
I can go down and play! Gu Yi’s eyes instantly glowed and he couldn’t restrain himself from nodding happily in agreement, “Yes, yes, yes, we can’t delay big brother from reading his book, little girl and I will go out to sell.”
Song Si’s eyes were full of these half-table coins, counting them carefully one by one, and he didn’t say anything else. As for the two of them, if they were too busy, Xiao Si and a few other servants would help.
“Excuse me, is this place selling peppermint oil?”
A voice of enquiry came from the doorway.
Gu Yi was overjoyed and bent down to pick up the back basket which still had a few bottles of peppermint oil left and walked out with great strides.
The door was opened from the outside by Xiao Si, and the man standing at the door froze in place when he saw a gorgeously dressed teenager coming out with a back basket.
Gu Yi had already walked up to the door, “Peppermint oil is one hundred and twenty wen a bottle, if you buy it and then bring your friends over to buy it again, you will be refunded ten wen per bottle. ”
Only when he heard his words did the man at the door come back to his senses and asked, slightly embarrassed, “Is this peppermint oil something you can sell on behalf of others?”
Song Wangyue looked him up, wearing a white washed blue cloth robe, he was from a very bad family.
Gu Yi didn’t know how to answer for a moment, as he hadn’t encountered this kind of situation in the morning, and looked back at Song Wan Yue.
Song Wangyue got up and walked over to him, nodding her head, “Yes.”
The man became even more embarrassed and lowered his head slightly, not daring to look at their expressions, “Can I sell some on their behalf?”
“Yes, the deposit for each bottle is one hundred and five wen, sell as many as you like and we’ll take back the rest at the original price.”
The man’s two hands at his side tightened slightly and his voice was as low as a mosquito’s, “I don’t have any silver, can I use something else as collateral?”
“Yes.”
Seemingly not expecting Song Wangyue to agree so quickly, the man raised his head incredulously.
“What do you want to use as collateral?”
The man hurriedly pulled out a cloth bag from his arms and handed it to him, “This is my road guide and appearance book, which can be used as collateral.”
The “road guide” and “appearance book” are equivalent to the “examination card” and “identity card” in modern society. These two items are very important, as they are crucial for students to be able to enter the examination hall.
Song Wangyue took it and didn’t even look at it, “How many bottles do you want to sell on your behalf?”
“Twenty bottles.”
“Big brother, get him twenty bottles.”
Song Si took twenty bottles out and saw that he was surrounded by books, so he should also be a scholar who had come to take the examination.
The man standing at the door was very embarrassed, took the peppermint oil, thanked him, turned around and hurried downstairs.
Song Si watched his back disappear at the entrance of the stairs before he let out a soft sigh. Without Yue’er, I’m afraid he would have been in a similar predicament as the man who had just come to the capital.
Song Wan Yue handed the cloth bag to Song Si, “It’s better for big brother to help put such important things away.”
Song Si carefully took it in his hand, “Yue’er, you did the right thing.”
Even if they could sell ten bottles, they would still get at least a hundred wen. If they were frugal, they would have money for a few days’ worth of food or a day’s worth of shop. Looking at the man’s dress just now, I’m afraid he had even raised the money to come to the capital city to borrow. For him to have this opportunity to earn some was a godsend.
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After eating lunch, as soon as Song Si returned to the house, Gu Yi couldn’t wait to go over and pick up another back basket and greet Song Wan Yue as she went downstairs and came outside the inn.
The weather in early August was pleasantly high and crisp in autumn.
Gu Yi placed the basket on the left side of the inn’s entrance, and the man was just about to go up and say something when the shopkeeper waved his hand at him.
He could see that Song Wangyue was a deft little girl and she should know what to do.
Sure enough, Song Wangyue told Gu Yi to move the basket a little further away.
Gu Yi put the basket down, and his eyes started to look around. The government town was indeed much busier than the county, with many shops and many people coming and going.
He put the basket down and his pretty eyes slithered around a few times, putting on a pitiful look, “Little girl, we haven’t even left the inn since we came to the capital, mine are suffocating, can we wait a bit before selling peppermint oil and go somewhere else first.”
“Sure.”
Gu Yi was just saying that, not holding much hope. He knew Song Wangyue very well, just a little wealthy fan, let her not earn money to accompany himself to go play, simply by the sky is more difficult.
When he heard Song Wangyue’s promise at first, he thought his ears were out of order and looked at her blankly.
Looking at this silly look, Song Wangyue held back her laughter, “What’s wrong, don’t you want to go?”
Only then did Gu Yi react and almost jumped up with joy, “Little girl, you’ve agreed?”
“I want to go out for a spin too.”
“Then let’s go right now!”
Gu Yi completely forgot about the peppermint oil and took Song Wan Yue’s hand and was about to run off into the distance, when Song Wan Yue pulled her back, “Wait.”
Gu Yi turned his head with a smile on his face, pulling Song Wan Yue’s hand slowly tighter, his jade-like face floating with a bubbling red layer of beauty.
“Xiao Si, you stay and sell peppermint oil, if there are too many people to busy yourself, call them over to help you.”
Xiao Si had already taken a step forward, but after hearing Song Wan Yue’s words, he was reluctant to take it back, he had been serving beside the young master since he was young, he followed him wherever the young master went, he had never left, and there were many people in the city, if he didn’t follow, what would happen if the young master made a mistake?
“Miss Song, I’d better go along, these peppermint oils are already sold anyway, there are people coming to the door, and they know how to sell them.”
Before the words left his mouth, he was given a fierce kick by Gu Yi. This no-eye thing, it was so hard to have a chance to have alone time with the little girl today, why are you following and causing trouble?
After the kick, he said in a vicious voice, “You stay, wait until the evening to sell the ten taels of silver, then take out the twenty taels of silver ticket that the little girl gave you to make up for it.”
Xiao Si wailed in his heart, did the young master know how important the twenty taels of silver was to them? If they really took it out, they wouldn’t even be able to get the money to buy a candy man when the young master went out on the street in the future.
After saying Xiao Si, Gu Yi changed his smile for a second, “Little girl, let’s go.”
