The Lucky Farmgirl

Old Zhou stared, "Sell? After you got the money, didn’t you exchange it for wheat?"

Manbao smiled and nodded, waiting for Old Zhou to praise her.

Old Zhou asked with a trembling voice, "How much did you sell?"

Manbao proudly said, "Sold it all!"

Not just Old Zhou, but Zhou Dalang and several others who were enjoying the cool in the courtyard couldn’t sit still anymore; they all crowded around, "Sold it all?"

Old Zhou couldn’t remain seated; he slid off the threshold and onto the ground, slapping his thigh and couldn’t help but cry out "aiyo, aiyo." He pointed at Manbao with both a can’t hit and can’t scold expression, he could only cry, "You’re ruining the family. What’s the use of exchanging for money, can money be eaten, can it?"

Old Zhou shouted, "The family had only a tiny bit left from last year’s summer and autumn grain harvests, if you sell all the wheat, what will the whole family eat?"

Manbao was taken aback, she was only focused on making money and didn’t think of this.

However, she quickly recovered and comforted her dad, "Dad, it’s okay. Old Master Bai said that tomorrow, once the transaction is complete, we’ll have money and can just go buy grain."

Old Zhou couldn’t help but tap her forehead with his finger and said, "Girl, are you being silly from studying too much? You sell the grain and then go buy grain, what’s the point in that? Do you know how much you’re going to lose from this back-and-forth?"

"No loss," Manbao said, "Even if we’re buying back wheat, I sold a dou for one hundred fifty wen, and buying a dou for fifty wen would still yield a good profit."