LGHTNOVELBOOK 18: Another Profitable Deal
With a smile, Gu Yu declined the fat chef’s suggestion, citing inconvenience as his reason. He then casually departed with his basket, leaving the fat chef standing reluctantly at the side door with a wistful expression, as if worried he might not return, which made Gu Yu both amused and exasperated.
It wasn’t that he didn’t want to deliver it now; the main issue was that he had no way to bring the roe deer over.
If he tried to carry a roe deer weighing nearly a hundred jin, he’d probably faint the very next second.
So Gu Yu decided to browse the ancient shops for a while. When he returned to the restaurant’s side door, he would transfer the roe deer from his space into the basket when no one was looking, performing a sleight-of-hand trick.
Having planned his next move, Gu Yu took his four taels of silver and began a leisurely shopping tour of ancient times.
Previously, without money, he could only browse but not buy. Now with cash in hand, Gu Yu wasn’t stingy, knowing this wasn’t the time to save money.
Money could be earned again, but necessary items needed to be prepared.
First, a knife.
Though it was laborious for Gu Yu to kill prey with stones when in the mountains, it wasn’t impossible—it was just that the animal blood nearly splattered all over him, which he found intolerable.
Therefore, a handy knife was very important, making it more convenient to kill prey.
However, knives in ancient times were truly expensive.
Perhaps due to the difficulty of finding iron ore, tools made of iron were very costly. Not just knives, but even farming tools like hoes made farmers’ hearts ache at their expense.
That’s why when families in rural areas divided, a complete set of farming tools and iron woks was essential. Otherwise, buying these items oneself would cost a considerable amount.
Gu Yu spent one tael of silver at the blacksmith’s shop and painfully purchased a dagger. Looking at the plain, dark dagger in his hand, he felt heartbroken.
Although a cleaver hanging nearby cost only 500 copper coins, considering aesthetics, Gu Yu still decided to buy the dagger.
After all, it was lightweight and easier to handle than a cleaver.
Gu Yu didn’t want to become a skilled butcher, so the dagger was better suited for him.
When no one was looking, Gu Yu placed the dagger into his space, then continued shopping with his basket. After buying some cooking seasonings, Gu Yu purchased twenty jin of rice and twenty jin of white flour from a grain shop. As he put them into his basket, he immediately transferred them to his space.
At this moment, Gu Yu was grateful that the basket he bought had a lid; otherwise, with everything exposed, he wouldn’t have been able to send things into his space in public.
Those four copper coins weren’t wasted!
The seasonings—soy sauce, vinegar, and salt—cost 150 copper coins, while the grains, at fifteen copper coins per jin for rice and eighteen per jin for white flour, totaled 710 copper coins.
The grain shop sold several types of grain. What Gu Yu bought—rice and white flour—were considered fine grains, typically eaten by townspeople. Villagers, to save money, only ate coarse grains.
Coarse grains like corn, millet, and wheat bran cost just three copper coins per jin, very economical.
But Gu Yu didn’t plan to buy these coarse grains. Now that they had money, they could occasionally eat coarse grains, but all three family members needed to grow, so they must eat well.
His little wife, before their afternoon nap, had said she would try hard to grow up, hadn’t she!
After buying these items and subtracting the money spent on the dagger, Gu Yu still had less than three taels of silver left.
Money truly flowed like water. When Gu Yu inquired about the price of a padded garment at a ready-made clothing shop, he learned that each finished garment cost 700 copper coins.
With three people in the family, that would be more than two taels of silver.
And there were still cotton quilts, winter provisions, and so on—all requiring money.
It seemed that before autumn passed, Gu Yu needed to work hard at “hunting” more.
After wandering around and buying almost everything he needed, Gu Yu finally headed back to the restaurant’s side door, ready to sell the roe deer from his space.
This back-and-forth took Gu Yu less than half an hour, and someone was still specifically waiting for his return at the side door.
In a corner not far from the side door, Gu Yu didn’t hesitate to stop, then put the roe deer from his space into the basket and covered it with some items. Only then did he run to the side door, signaling to the worker to come over and take the basket.
There was no help for it—his body was too small, and he simply couldn’t carry such a heavy item… Just like the wild prey he had sold earlier, Gu Yu had used his deceased father as an excuse, saying he had left the items at the door and departed, leaving him to sell them.
In reality, it was because of the space’s help that Gu Yu could move such heavy prey around at will…
Afterward, everything proceeded without incident. After weighing, the roe deer was ninety-two jin. At ninety copper coins per jin, plus an extra ten copper coins per jin for an intact roe deer, it totaled 9,200 copper coins.
With thirteen taels of silver in hand, Gu Yu was very satisfied.
His first pot of gold in ancient times had directly earned him enough silver to build a house. Thinking about it, he was truly impressive.
After feeling pleased with himself for a while, Gu Yu finally calmed down.
If he hadn’t agreed to protect Gu Mengyao for life, Gu Yu wouldn’t have received the space cheat device. Now he was getting carried away after earning just eleven taels—he was still too frivolous.
He had seen plenty of money in his modern home, but Gu Yu hadn’t been as excited as he was now, perhaps because that money hadn’t belonged to him.
However, with a young wife and brother-in-law to support, he still needed to amass more wealth.