Chapter 134 Big Order

Qiao Ran smiled gratefully: "Okay, thank you, Brother Amu!"

The girl's smile was pure and bright, and Amu felt dazed for a moment.

He actually felt that Miss Qiao was particularly beautiful when she smiled. Her clear eyes seemed to be shining, which attracted people involuntarily.

In fact, if you look closely, you can see that although Miss Qiao's face is dark and has a few ugly dark brown patches, her facial features are very straight.

If you ignore those spots, her face is actually very delicate.

If her skin color could be lighter, she would be a very beautiful girl, right?

"Brother, I want to go up the mountain too! Let me help you?"

"I'm going too! I'm going too! I'm good at climbing trees and can help pick lychees!"

"I will pick honeydew melons and make sure I pick the ripest and sweetest ones!"

Three crisp sounds interrupted Amu's daze. He came back to his senses, looked at his younger brothers and sisters, and then at his father.

Amutai nodded and spoke: "Let's go together and see if any wild animals come down the mountain to eat our melons. By the way, we can get some pigweed to feed the pigs tomorrow."

So the four Amu brothers and sisters, plus Qiao Ran, a total of five people walked to the orchard in the back mountain.

Amu and his sister each carried a backpack, two wood knives and a wooden stick, and walked up the mountain.

Amu's sister Aqing is about the same age as Qiao Ran. She is also a little girl who is about to have haircuts. Her skin is a little tanned, but of course it is much whiter than Qiao Ran now.

Amu's two younger brothers are named Ashan and Ashui. One is 12 years old and the other is 9 years old. They have very cheerful and lively personalities.

The three of them did not dislike Qiao Ran, the somewhat ugly sister, and chattered around her, asking her what she had learned while escaping from the wilderness, and proudly introduced her orchard.

The openness and generosity of these people made Qiao Ran feel friendly, just like she felt towards her younger brothers and sisters.

She thought for a moment and picked up some of the more impressive things that happened on the road and told them to the four brothers and sisters.

Stopping carriages, retreating refugees, killing bandits, robbing cottages, hunting big pythons, wild boars, wild deer, etc., as well as the tragic situation outside Yunzhou City...

These novel things made the brothers and sisters who had never left the small town exclaimed, admired, dazed, and clapped and cheered.

The excitement of these stories was much more thrilling than what they heard from merchants traveling from north to south!

"Sister Ran, the road to escape is so dangerous, otherwise you can stay in our town and open up wasteland to grow lychees and honeydew melons to sell!"

Ah Shui was a child and didn't have the worries and precautions of adults. He just felt sorry for Sister Ran and the others. So many dangerous things happened along the way, and so many people died on the way to escape.

He naively wanted to keep this sister Ran and let her stay in the town and earn money by growing lychees and honeydew melons like his family.

After he said this, Amu quickly apologized: "Miss Qiao, my second brother is still young and has childish talk. Don't be offended!"

There was some embarrassment on his face. After all, the mayor had said that refugees were not allowed to come into the town, but Miss Qiao’s family was still outside the town and couldn’t come in!

Qiao Ran saw the embarrassed and apologetic look on Amu's face, waved her hands and said nonchalantly:

"It's okay. Thank you Ah Shui! It's just that there are too many people in our village and your town can't accommodate them. And Yunzhou Prefecture doesn't accept so many refugees now. I'm worried that we won't be able to get household registration, so we can't stay."

Ah Shui was a little disappointed when he heard this, but as a child, he forgot about it after a while. He happily pulled the hem of Qiao Ran's clothes, pointed to the forest in front of him and said:

"Sister Ran, look, this forest is my lychee garden! Honeydew melons are grown on the other side. How many lychees and honeydews do you want? My second brother and I will help you pick lychees, and my sister will help you pick honey. melon."

Qiao Ran thought about the lychees and honeydew melons she had just eaten. They tasted very good. If they were sold in the capital, they would definitely fetch a good price.

Take another look at the red fresh lychees dotting the branches of this tree, and the plump oval honeydew melons on the melon patch not far away.

She thought for a moment and said, "Bring me 100 kilograms of lychees and 200 kilograms of honeydew melon first!"

"This, so much?"

Amu was so surprised that he stuttered a little.

He originally thought that the girl just wanted to buy a few pounds to give her family a taste, but he didn't expect that she would buy so much.

300 pounds, this is a big order for my family!

"Miss Qiao, do you really want to buy 100 catties of lychees and 200 catties of honeydew melons?"

Amu asked again uncertainly, worried that he had misheard.

Qiao Ran nodded: "Yes, I want 100 kilograms of lychees and 200 kilograms of honeydew melons. Do you have that many at home?"

"Yes, yes! Of course! You can have as much as you want! My lychees and honeydew melons this year haven't been sold much yet! Just Miss Qiao, if you want so much, how much will it cost... ?”

Amu scratched his head, unable to figure it out for the moment.

These numbers were a bit complicated, and he had to go to the shopkeeper on the street to borrow an abacus to calculate them.

Qiao Ran replied casually: "Lychees are 80 yuan per catty, and 100 catties is 8000 wen, which is eight taels of silver. Honeydew melon is 40 yuan per catty, and 100 catties is 4000 wen. For 200 catties, another 4000 wen is added, which is 8000 wen. , is also eight taels of silver. Eight taels plus eight taels is equal to 16 taels of silver."

"so much?"

Amu marveled.

This is the first time his family has received such a large order. In the past, other people would come to him to collect dozens or a hundred kilograms of goods because they couldn't get so much goods at a time.

Miss Qiao suddenly weighed 300 pounds.

16 taels of silver, which was more than half of his family's annual income in the past!

Earning so much in one day makes dad so happy?

Ah Qing's focus was on other aspects. She looked at Qiao Ran with shining eyes and asked with admiration: "Miss Qiao, how can you calculate so fast? My brother had to use an abacus for a while to figure it out."

Only then did Amu react: "Yes, Miss Qiao, there is no abacus here. How did you figure it out so quickly?"

Qiao Ran said with a smile: "I know how to do mental arithmetic, and I also have an abacus in my mind that I can do calculations in my mind."

"Wow, Sister Ran, you are so powerful! Even more powerful than my elder brother!"

Ah Shan and Ah Shui clapped their hands in admiration.

Amu and Aqing also looked at Qiao Ran with admiration. They really didn't expect that this unattractive girl could actually have such ability?

Even the most powerful shopkeeper in their town does not have such great mental arithmetic skills!