Siheyuan: The romantic and suave Xu Damao

After Xu Damao had eaten and drunk his fill, he wiped his mouth and walked towards his bicycle.

"What do you think of these two pieces of clothing?"

"It looks good, it must be expensive, right?"

"It's not expensive, try it on."

"Then thank you, little brother."

Seeing the two women enter the house, Xu Damao carried a 50-kilogram bag of flour from the basket, went straight into the room, opened the bag, and poured the flour into the empty flour jar.

This behavior happened to be seen by two women who came out.

"Brother, is that white flour?"

"Correct."

"It's expensive, right? Actually, you don't need this. You're not that old, right? You probably don't have much money on you."

"You're wrong. I have a lot of money and a house in the city. These things are nothing."

"Don't lie to me. In the past, only the landlord's family could eat this white flour. Even the farmhands could hardly eat it."

After all, Cuilan had been a landlord's concubine, so she had more experience.

"It's different now than before. We have our own fields and can eat these things often."

Xu Damao said this, but in his heart he was thinking, it has been a while since the food coupons were issued, and he guessed that it would be difficult to buy flour in the future as it was rationed.

I walked around the yard and found an empty pigpen.

"Cuinong, why is your pigsty empty?"

Cuinong changed into a white dress and walked out with a happy face. When she heard Xu Damao's question, her brows frowned slightly.

"I fell ill a few months ago. My family had no money, and the things I brought back from the landlord were not worth the money. No one wanted them, so my sister sold this pig. She spent half of the money from selling the pig to cure my illness..."

"My sister used to weigh 100 kilograms, but she lost more than 10 kilograms during that period..."

As Cuinong spoke, she remembered how her sister had been running around for her, and she couldn't help but lower her head, her voice getting smaller and smaller.

"Hey, isn't this a coincidence? There's a piglet in the cage behind my bicycle. It's too much trouble for me to carry it with me, so I'll just give it to you."

Seeing Cuinong’s sad look, Xu Damao turned and walked towards his bicycle.

"No need, brother. We don't have that much money and can't afford it."

"It's okay. I'm giving it to you. It's a gift from a friend. It's too much trouble to carry it with me, and I can't take care of it when I get home. So let's just leave it like this."

Accompanied by the piglet's shrill cries, Xu Damao walked to the pigpen with the piglet in his hands and slowly put the piglet in.

"No, we sisters may be very poor, but we cannot take your things for free."

"It's okay. Didn't you say you brought some jewelry from the landlord's house? Bring it here for me to see. I know a lot about these things. I can sell them for a good price in the city."

"Okay, big brother, I'll go talk to my sister."

Cuinong walked into the room and went to discuss with her sister Cuilan. Xu Damao felt a little bored, so he took out some wheat bran and poured some into the stone trough in the pigpen, then turned and entered the room.

I only saw Cuilan sitting on a stool, while Cuinong was standing on a stool and struggling to take down a wooden box.

"Ouch, be careful not to hit it."

Seeing this, Xu Damao took a step forward and took the wooden box from Cuinong.

"My sister has already told me the story. I have sold these jewels in the village. But they are not worth the price of a pig. If you like them, take them."

Cuilan looked at Xu Damao with gratitude. After all, the family didn't have much money and the flour jar was empty. Xu Damao came and filled a jar with flour and also gave a pig, which solved the urgent needs of the two sisters' families.

"Let me see. The people in the village don't understand these things. In fact, the things that come out of the landlords' homes are very valuable."

"I, Xu Damao, am a honest man. I will pay you what you deserve. I will never cheat you."

Xu Damao said as he opened the box.

Needle and thread, strips of cloth, headscarf, silver hairpins, silver bracelets, jade and agate bracelets, and several pieces of crown jade, which are the jade pieces on the hat.

The color of the jade bracelet is very good, but the water quality is not good. This is also a characteristic of this era. People like color but not water quality, so it is not worth much.

As for this agate bracelet, it would probably be sold for ninety-nine yuan including shipping in the previous life.

Xu Damao reached out and rummaged around for a few times, then took out a cloisonné embellished green pine bracelet. He looked at it carefully and put it on his wrist with satisfaction.

"Brother, those bracelets and hairpins are all made of silver, which is better than the green jade."

Cuinong saw that Xu Damao only put on the string of green jade and thought that Xu Damao was interested in this thing, so she couldn't help but remind him.

"I know that all these silver bracelets, silver hairpins, and these crown jades, combined, are not as good as this thing."

Xu Damao looked at this jade-like turquoise bracelet and liked it more and more. It was so beautiful! In his previous life, it would have been worth tens of thousands of grams.

"We sisters don't need these things anymore, brother, if you like, just take them all."

When Cuilan saw that Xu Damao really liked this thing, she waved her hands happily, looking very generous.

"This is not okay!"

"I know these things are not worth much and can't buy the flour and piglets, but...but my family really doesn't have much money..."

Cuinong felt a little aggrieved. She looked at Xu Damao with her big eyes. Perhaps she remembered something sad and tears were welling up in her eyes.

"Stop! Cuinong, please listen to me first. I'm saying that the price of this bracelet is far more than the value of this bag of noodles and that piglet. I can't take advantage of you two sisters."

"How about this, you can keep the remaining silver hairpins, silver bracelets, and these crown jades for yourselves. It will be a token of your longing. I will settle accounts with you."

"Okay big brother, I'll go get the abacus. I've been learning how to use it from my sister lately."

When Cuinong heard that her jewelry was not worthless but was actually very valuable, she burst into smiles and ran out happily.

Cuinong came back quickly, moved a small stool, sat opposite Xu Damao, put the abacus away, and looked well-behaved.

"Then you better remember what I'm going to say."

"Ok!"

Cuinong nodded vigorously.

"I came here to eat a chicken from your house. The chicken was very big and the three of us couldn't finish it. It cost more than two dollars. Let's charge it as two dollars and fifty cents."

"But we both ate it, so we can't let you buy it all, right?"

Cuinong's little head was shaking like a rattle, and her mouth was slightly pouting, she was so cute.

"You said mouth pout... pout pout pout pout."

Xu Damao was a little dazed.

"That's the money. Consider it my treat for you two."

"A bag of flour weighs 50 jin, let's say 17 cents per jin, that's 8.5 yuan."

"That piglet weighs about 24.5 kilograms (it was kept in the space for a few days), so let's say it's 22 yuan, which adds up to yuan, right? Minus the yuan for the rooster, you owe me yuan."

Xu Damao was calculating the price seriously, while Cuinong was taking notes on an abacus with one hand, her little face full of seriousness. Cuilan was sitting aside watching all this with a smile.