Reborn in Dunhuang, I am farming and doing business in the desert

Chapter 58 I get angry when I see you

After dinner, Shen Zhao returned to his room and bought a set of literacy cards.

There are pinyin letters on the literacy cards. Xiaoqing said that as long as you learn pinyin first, it will be much easier to read texts in the future.

"Brother, learn this card first, and I'll teach you how to read it."

Shen Zhao took out a piece of paper and handed it to Shen Xun: "Read the first letter on it."

He took out another writing cloth and said, “This one doesn’t require ink. You can write with a brush dipped in water and it can be reused.

Once you have mastered the letters on the card, I will teach you the next one."

Shen Xun spread out the writing cloth, dipped the brush in water and tried to draw a line on it, and a clear line of words appeared on the writing cloth.

After a while, the writing disappeared automatically, which was really amazing.

He looked up at his sister, with many questions weighing on his mind.

"Don't be stunned, repeat after me: Ah~"

Shen Zhao sat down at the low table at the door and taught his brother to read carefully.

Shen Xun had no choice but to recite along and write it down with a brush.

But before she could write a few words, Zhao Cui brought her son Gou'er into the yard and came to the low table.

"Hey! Recognize words! Can my dog learn from you?" Zhao Cui said as she pushed her son: "Hurry up and recognize the teacher."

Shen Xun quickly stopped her: "Aunt, please don't embarrass me. I can't teach students."

This woman really has no sense of boundaries. I'm not familiar with her at all, yet she has the nerve to make such a request.

"It's okay, he just needs to be there with you." Zhao Cui said as she stole a glance at Shen Zhao and pushed her son: "Gou'er, your sister Zhao can read too, why don't you learn from her? You two have known each other since childhood, so you must be very close."

Shen Zhao's face darkened, he stood up and went back to the house.

Everyone knows Aunt Zhao Cui's Sima Zhao's intentions. I'm not really fourteen years old, so how can I not see the woman's intentions?
Shen Xun also put down his face, raised his eyes and said: "Auntie, please don't say such strange things, aren't you a miller? Why don't you go?"

Zhao Cui was scolded by him and said awkwardly: "I was just joking."

Her son Gou'er's face turned redder. He quickly bowed to Shen Xun and pulled his mother to grind the grain.

Shen Xun wrote the letters with his left hand for a while and read them many times. Seeing that the mother and son were still grinding the mill, he felt very annoyed.

After returning to the house, he whispered, "A Zhao, why don't we move the stone mill outside the yard? Otherwise, people will come here to grind flour every day, which will be very noisy."

Besides, there are so many people and so many eyes. It would be terrible if they saw something they shouldn’t see.

Shen Zhao: "I was thinking the same thing. I'll let them move when my second brother comes back."

Shen Xun nodded, recited the letters several times, and then bent over the table to write them down.

After Zhao Cui and her son left, Shen Zhao had completely mastered the three letters and took out the second card.

After a whole day, Shen Xun already knew the twelve letters.

When Shen Heng came back in the evening, the five young men also came back.

They were beaming with joy and handed a bag of money to Shen Zhao: "Here are 4,200 coins, count them."

Shen Zhao took the heavy cloth bag, went back to the house and directly recharged the account. It was indeed four thousand two hundred.

"A Zhao, we still want to buy more goods." Several young men said in unison: "We need 20 cotton coats, 20 cotton shoes and 20 cotton pants each."

Shen Zhao opened his eyes wide: "Twenty per person?"

The young men shook their heads: "Not everyone, but we are all taking so much together. Our goods are all placed together, and we are afraid that if we take too much, people will look at us."

"Okay, wait a minute." Shen Zhao closed the door and spent another 500 coins to buy a batch of goods. He counted out 20 cotton coats, 20 pairs of cotton shoes, and 20 pairs of trousers, and put them into a big bag. He dragged it out of the room and threw it to the boy: "You count them, and then we'll sign a contract later."

"No problem!" Several young men came over, opened the bundle, and smiled with their eyes curved into circles.

This time, each of them made a net profit of several hundred dollars. If they can continue to make money like this, they will become rich!

After signing the contract, the young men left with their large bags. Shen Heng then sat down leisurely on the kang and dumped his purse out.

"This should be enough to buy a bow and crossbow, right?" He bared his big white teeth and laughed: "Guess how I sold the goods today?"

Shen Zhao took a look at the copper coins and asked, "Did you exchange them with the merchants?" Only merchants would give cash. If they were sold retail to the people, they would more or less get some grain or pigs and sheep in return.

"Hehe! You guessed it right!" Shen Heng said proudly, "Ten cotton coats cost two thousand coins, thirty pairs of cotton shoes cost one thousand eight hundred coins, and thirty pairs of cotton trousers cost one thousand five hundred coins. The total here is five thousand three hundred coins."

Shen Zhao touched the copper coins and silently said "recharge" in his mind. In a blink of an eye, all the copper coins disappeared and the account balance changed to 16,207 coins.

This is a new ability she has learned. As long as she places her palm on the copper coins and silently says "recharge" in her mind, the money will be automatically deposited into the account.

Shen Heng, who was just halfway laughing, suddenly froze his mouth and stared at his sister in disbelief: "Huh? Can you make money disappear?"

"It's not disappeared, it's deposited in foreign shops." Shen Zhao answered his second brother, but another possibility flashed through his mind.

If I open a shop in a mall, can I also store things at home there?
If this is true, isn’t it equivalent to having your own mobile warehouse?

From this it can be seen that the mall shop must apply successfully.

"Then quickly choose a crossbow!" Shen Heng urged excitedly.

Shen Zhao: "Why are you in such a hurry? What if you show off and cause trouble after buying it? Wouldn't that make your parents worry?"

Shen Heng was immediately discouraged: "Humph! If I had known you wouldn't buy it, I would have bought it at the market."

Bows, crossbows, swords and halberds are also sold in the market. Most of them are villagers who have retired from the border, and some are garrison soldiers. They have no money to buy warm clothes or daily necessities, so they have to pawn or sell their weapons and redeem them when they get their military pay next time.

Of course, once the weapons were sold, few could redeem them.

Shen Zhao glanced at him and said, "If you dare to buy weapons at the market, do you believe that I will confiscate all your money?"

Shen Heng:.
"Hmph! You don't keep your word!" He jumped off the kang and went to share the money with his cousins.

At least I could earn two or three hundred coins from selling tofu. I would hide the money and quietly buy a bow and arrow.

Thinking of this, Shen Heng felt happy. He discussed with his cousins how many beans to soak tonight and then divided the beans he had exchanged for food today.

Because the amount of grain and beans is increasing, it is too troublesome to keep accounts every time, so it is better to divide them among three families temporarily.

If we make tofu, each family should contribute one stone, and we should do the same in the future to avoid messy accounts.

"Brother Ah Heng." Ah Zhu walked to Shen Heng and quietly pulled his sleeve: "I also want to go with them to sell cotton shoes."

On the way back, the teenagers kept showing off the money they earned, which made Ah Zhu very envious.

He has worked for his father for so long, but his father doesn't give him a penny. It's really unfair.

In that case, I might as well follow A Gua and the others and sell cotton clothes.

Shen Heng scratched his head: "That's fine, how about we go together next time?"

Ah Zhu was immediately happy and hooked Shen Heng's shoulder: "I'll tell you one more thing. Second Aunt's dog also wanted to do business with us, but I rejected him!"

"What do you mean?" Shen Heng didn't understand what Ah Zhu wanted to say.

Ah Zhu: "He hangs out with Qin Yi and the Xue family kid all day long. It makes me angry when I see him."

(End of this chapter)