Chapter 25
Chapter 25
More than ten days passed in the blink of an eye.
In a twinkling of an eye, the grapes matured and more than one mu of field was planted with grapes. At this time there were more than 1600 clusters of grapes. Xu Muan and Xiao Jingting picked up the first five hundred clusters of ripe grapes and sent them to the city.
Because they had already made oral contracts with Yuehe Restaurant and several families in the city, the grapes were sold out quickly this time. Three hundred clusters were sold to the owner of Yuehe Restaurant at a price of two hundred copper coins for each cluster, and another two hundred clusters were sold to the big families at a price of 250 copper coins for each cluster.
Five hundred clusters of grapes were sold a total of 112 taels of silver, Xiao Jingting, who had enough money now, gave 30 taels of silver to Xu Muan, who felt like he was dreaming while holding a large bag of silver. Xu Muan even walked lightly with this bag of silver.
“Shall we go back now?” Xu Muan asked.
Xiao Jingting shook his head and said, “No, let’s go to the weapon store and buy something to set traps.”
Xu Muan nodded and said, “Good!” The crops in the medium-level fields were almost ripe, so they needed to prepare early.
Xiao Jingting spent twelve taels of silver to buy a lot of iron clips and some sharp thorns.
Xu Muan’s eyes were attracted by a pair of sleeve arrows in the weapon shop. Xiao Jingting followed Xu Muan’s gaze and looked at the sleeve arrows on the wall and said, “Do you like it? Buy it if you like it.” The sleeve arrows hanging on the wall were obviously not ordinary goods. Xu Muan liked to hunt in the jungle, but he did not have the proper weapons, which was not safe.
“Sir, you really have a good eye. This sleeve arrow is made from the sharp thorns of a fifth-grade needle beast and can easily pierce the hard armor of a third-grade monster.” The owner of the weapon shop said.
“How much is it?!” Xiao Jingting asked.
“Thirty taels of silver.” Xu Muan was stunned and secretly surprised.
Xiao Jingting generously took out thirty taels of silver and bought it.
Xu Muan stopped him and said, “Forget it, it’s too expensive.”
Xiao Jingting shook his head and said, “It’s fine, you love going into the mountains. You need some decent weapons.”
Xu Muan looked at Xiao Jingting’s cheerful face and felt warm in his heart. Xu Muan didn’t know why Xiao Jingting had become like this and only prayed secretly that Xiao Jingting would keep the way he was forever.
After buying the sleeve arrows and the things needed to set up the trap, Xiao Jingting had only a small amount of silver left .
“Do you need to buy anything else?” Xu Muan asked.
“It would be better to buy a storage bag.” Xiao Jingting said.
Xu Muan’s face went pale. The storage bag was a precious thing. A storage bag with a cubic meter space inside can sell for at least eighty taels of silver. It was a good thing but it was too expensive.
Xiao Jingting looked at Xu Muan and said with a smile, “I was just thinking about it. We need money to buy many things at home now, so it is not good to buy that thing at present.”
“Are we going back now?” Xu Muan asked.
“We will buy some jars and go back.” Xiao Jingting said.
“Why do you want to buy jars?” Xu Muan asked.
“In the future, you will know.” Xiao Jingting said.
Xu Muan didn’t ask any more questions when he heard this words. He accompanied Xiao Jingting to buy dozens of jars, large and small, which were not expensive. They bought a pile of them but only spent one tael of silver.
After shopping, Xiao Jingting and Xu Muan went out of the city and joined the people in the ox cart.
Seeing Xiao Jingting and Xu Muan coming back, several villagers in the ox cart glanced at the sleeve arrows on Xu Muan’s arms. Although the villagers were poor, many of them knew the goods.
Xu Muan was a little embarrassed and sat down next to Xiao Jingting.
“Xiao, you must have made a lot of money!” Some villagers said.
Xiao Jingting shook his head and said, “No, I didn’t make much.”
“Xiao, you are too modest. Are you afraid to let us know that your husband’s sleeve arrows cost dozens of taels of silver?”
“Muan,don’t go into the mountains and jungle when you have nothing to do. You don’t even have a proper weapon. I’m really worried about you.” Xiao Jingting changed the subject.
“Master Xiao, I heard that you sold the grapes to Yuehe restaurant. The grapes are valuable. How did you grow the grapes? How did you grow it like that? ”
“I just planted it casually.” Xiao Jingting said faintly.
Xiao Jingting lowered his eyes. In the past, when he sold the grapes, he had already attracted the attention of many people. As far as he knew, many people had learned from him to improve their soil and grow grapes. Once the grapes were sold, everyone in the village would know.
If he kept selling grapes like that, he would make many people jealous, and then… He wish he was much more powerful now, then he wouldn’t care about how others thought about anymore.
As if sensing Xiao Jingting’s worry, Xu Muan reached out and grabbed Xiao Jingting’s hand. Xiao Jingting also held Xu Muan’s hand back.