bookrebus Chapter 61 Valuable Wine Glasses
Chapter 61 Valuable Wine Glasses
Normally, ordinary cabbage and radish sell for only 1 wen per jin (500 grams). However, in winter, when fresh vegetables are scarce, the price of these two common vegetables soars to 5 wen per jin!
Normally, lettuce and spinach cost only 2 coins per pound, but with the arrival of winter, their price skyrockets to 10 coins per pound.
As for cucumbers, their original price was 3 coins per catty, but once the cold winter season arrives, their price soars to 15 coins per catty!
In contrast, chives, cilantro, and scallions are much cheaper. Normally, one coin can buy two catties, but in winter, Manager Du offers a purchase price of five coins for two catties.
The price of vegetables had increased fivefold from the original price. This price was still somewhat lower than Wen Yuxia's expectations, but overall it was still considered quite fair and reasonable.
The reason it failed to meet Wen Yuxia's expectations is that in her previous life, she had read a large number of online literary works.
She read the most online novels with a time-travel theme. A classic description in these novels was that vegetables were sold for tens of coins per kilogram in the dead of winter. At the time, she believed such descriptions without a doubt.
However, after she traveled to the Great Xia Dynasty and personally experienced and learned about the real vegetable and meat prices there, she suddenly realized that the absurd price setting mentioned in the online article, such as "one pound of vegetables can sell for three pounds of pork," was simply nonsense!
Having figured everything out, Wen Yuxia signed the agreement without hesitation and instructed Manager Du to send five mule carts to her house to pick up the vegetables the next morning.
One acre of fertile land, with careful tending and cultivation, can yield approximately 500 to 1000 catties of various fresh vegetables.
Based on a conservative average yield of 600 catties per mu, five mu of vegetable fields could yield a total of 3,000 catties of vegetables. Selling these vegetables at high prices in winter could bring in around 30 taels of silver.
别小看这三十两银子的购买力，5文钱1斤的糙米能买6千斤糙米，14文钱1斤的猪肉能买2千斤，
However, Wen Yuxia looked down on the yield of the five mu of vegetable garden; what she valued were the two mu of land in her space that she had brought from her previous life, with a yield of up to three thousand jin per mu.
The two acres of land in the space have been harvested round after round, and the originally spacious storage area is now piled high with produce.
Thinking of the mountains of vegetables piled up in the space that would soon turn into piles of silver, Wen Yuxia seemed to already see a rich and wonderful life beckoning to her.
The next morning, Lu Zhigang and his family of four would get up in the middle of the night to pick vegetables in the greenhouse. The harvested vegetables were neatly stacked outside the greenhouse, and afterwards, the family of four would go back to their room to catch up on sleep.
After daybreak, Wen Yuxia took advantage of the absence of people in the backyard to move the vegetables out of her spatial storage, and then went outside to wait for the mule carts that would be hauling the vegetables.
Because of her cheating, the five mule carts sent by Manager Du couldn't carry all the vegetables piled on the ground in one trip. It took the five mule carts two trips to haul away all the vegetables harvested that day.
Today, she sold 3,500 jin of vegetables, 3,000 jin of which she smuggled out from her spatial dimension.
Wen Yuxia put the 24 taels of silver into her spatial storage and walked happily towards the kitchen. During the days she was selling vegetables, she was in charge of the family's meals.
Braised chicken with lettuce, stir-fried cabbage with vinegar, and smashed cucumber—each dish was divided into two portions, one for the siblings and one for Lu Zhigang's family. Finally, she even steamed an egg custard for Wen Yunhong.
"Hong'er, come out for dinner."
"coming."
For five consecutive days, all the vegetables in the greenhouse in the backyard were sold out, and the vegetables piled up in Wen Yuxia's space were also dealt with. With 15,000 jin of vegetables sold, she gained over 100 taels of silver.
Wen Yuxia counted the silver in her spatial storage, totaling 1,231 taels and 2 mace. She wondered if this money would be enough to buy a manor.
Having not visited the brokerage firm in a long time, and wondering if they had any suitable properties, Wen Yuxia suddenly had a sudden urge to go to the brokerage firm to find Xiao Zhang.
"Miss Wen, you've come at the right time. There's a farm about three miles outside Biyun Town. Would you be interested in going to take a look?" Xiao Zhang had just stepped out of the brokerage when he saw Wen Yuxia driving a mule cart towards him. He waved enthusiastically and said...
"How much?" This was Wen Yuxia's biggest concern regarding the farm's price.
Xiao Zhang said with a grin, "The largest farm has 500 mu of fertile land and two hills, and it costs 6,500 taels of silver. The smallest farm only has 50 mu of fertile land and costs 600 taels. The one I'm introducing to you is the 600-tael one."
After pondering for a moment, Wen Yuxia jumped off the mule cart and said to Xiao Zhang, "Watch the mule cart for me, I'll be right back."
It seems Xiao Zhang owns more than one farm. She needs to prepare more money so that she won't be unable to buy a farm she likes when she goes to Biyun Town.
Wen Yuxia quickly ran into a deserted alley, slipped into her spatial dimension, changed into men's clothing, put two stemmed red wine glasses into her handbag, and then left the spatial dimension.
An online article said that wine glasses could fetch a high price, so she wanted to give it a try. There was a pawnshop not far from the brokerage firm, so Wen Yuxia quickly walked over.
The pawnshop owner was humming a tune with his eyes half-closed when he heard someone asking if he bought cups. He opened his eyes and said impatiently, "No."
Wen Yuxia blushed slightly, quickly stuffed the wine glass into her handbag, and awkwardly turned to leave.
"Wait, isn't that a glass cup you're holding?" The shopkeeper rubbed his eyes vigorously; he thought he had just seen a glass cup worth a fortune.
"There's hope!" Wen Yuxia took a wine glass from her handbag, turned around, and said, "That's right, it's a glass."
"Little girl, you didn't steal this cup, did you?" The shopkeeper looked Wen Yuxia up and down suspiciously.
Dressed in nearly new fine cotton clothes, without any accessories, how could such a person possibly possess a glass cup? The shopkeeper mentally calculated how to drive the price down to the lowest possible level.
Wen Yuxia rolled her eyes in dissatisfaction and said, "What stealing? These are family heirlooms passed down from my ancestors. If it weren't for Grandpa's illness requiring ginseng to sustain him, I wouldn't be willing to pawn these two treasures."
"It's good that it wasn't stolen. Come, come, let me see it," the shopkeeper said eagerly, extending both hands and carefully taking the wine glass.
After some haggling, the shopkeeper paid Wen Yuxia 3 taels of silver for the two goblets.
Wen Yuxia stuffed the silver notes into her satchel and ran out of the pawnshop excitedly. Several thugs outside had already overheard the conversation between the shopkeeper and Wen Yuxia.
Knowing that Wen Yuxia had three thousand taels of silver, they were prepared to rob her. However, when Wen Yuxia ran out of the pawnshop, they couldn't even see where she went.