Chapter 73. Buy salt
This trip was also Hua Xin’s last delivery of blueprints for the year, and it was the most profitable one.
Over two hundred taels of silver! Bidding farewell to Shopkeeper Zou, Hua Jin put the silver into the space according to her father’s instructions.
She also marveled at how well her father adapted, as he only learned about it yesterday and was already comfortable letting his daughter handle it today.
They headed straight to various general stores, filling the ox cart with coarse salt and charcoal, stacked higher than a person except for the seats left for the father and daughter in the front.
Just the salt alone took almost half of each store’s stock in the town. She would have liked to buy it all if she wasn’t worried about being questioned.
About five hundred pounds in weight, and the charcoal was also several hundred pounds, completely tiring out the family’s big yellow ox. It drank a whole basin of water and ate a trough of feed once they got home.
The silver coin spent also wasn’t negligible; over twenty taels of silver were gone.
Even though the family had earned quite a bit recently, hearing about such expenditures still made everyone’s heart ache involuntarily.
Taking advantage of the roads not being blocked by heavy snow, Hua Chengtian decided to make another trip to the county town the next day. There wasn’t enough coarse salt in the town’s stores, so he would pull another load back from the county. If they’re storing it, they might as well store a lot.
Knowing her father’s intentions, how could Hua Jin miss the chance to explore an ancient county town? After dinner, she went to her parents’ room, indicating her desire to go along.