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Chapter 107 Buying Charcoal
Only 25 of the 100 apprentices passed the examination, and four of the 25 were unwilling to stay in Liuguang Pavilion to continue their studies.

Those who failed the assessment and the four who were unwilling to continue studying left Liuguang Pavilion on the second day of October.

But before leaving, a large number of them signed contracts with Linglong Embroidery Workshop.

Even those who have not signed a contract with Linglong Embroidery Workshop, with what they have learned in the past year or so, they will be able to support themselves with their embroidery skills in the future.

In addition to these apprentices, the twenty embroiderers sent by Linglong Embroidery Workshop also left Liuguang Pavilion. During this period, Zhou Ran had taught these twenty embroiderers double-sided heterochromatic embroidery, but because everyone People have different talents, so their current mastery of double-sided heterochromatic embroidery is also different.

However, they have mastered the techniques, and they will need to practice on their own later.

On the day when these embroiderers and apprentices left, the progress bar of the task in the system moved forward a little bit.

After Zhou Ran and Xu Xiu Niang discussed the recruitment time for the next batch of embroidery ladies, they left Liuguang Pavilion and went home.

On the way, she met someone selling freshly killed mutton. Zhou Ran bought some and prepared to eat hot pot at night.

After returning home, she did some embroidery work for a while, and when it was almost dark, she started preparing the ingredients for the hot pot.

When the ingredients were ready, Ye Ximing also came back from Mr. Zou.

Zhou Ran put the ingredients on the table, set up the charcoal stove, called Zhao Wu, and the three of them started eating around the charcoal stove.

At the beginning, Zhao Wu would refuse to eat at the table, but now he is used to eating at the same table with Zhou Ran and the others.

Zhou Ran prepared a lot of dishes, but the three of them finished them all.

After the meal, Ye Ximing and then Zhao Wu went to wash the dishes. Zhou Ran originally wanted to walk around the yard to eat, but when the cold wind blew out of the door, Zhou Ran lost the interest and went directly back to their room.

In the evening, after the clouds and rain, Ye Ximing hugged Zhou Ran who was huddled in his arms and said, "Tomorrow I will ask Zhao Wu to buy some charcoal and come back. Let's light the charcoal basin early."

Zhou Ran nodded and said: "Okay, it seems to be very cold this year. Let's prepare more charcoal. By the way, we can also prepare some for the house and Da Niu's house. When I went back a few days ago, I met Da Niu's grandma and I felt that she was in good spirits. It’s a lot different all of a sudden.”

"We need to prepare a lot of charcoal in this way. How about we buy some for home tomorrow and buy the rest with Zhao Wu when I have a rest?"

He had three days left before he could rest.

Zhou Ran said: "No, Zhao Wu and I can go."

The next day, Zhou Ran got up early and went to give the first embroidery lesson to the twenty-one embroiderers who stayed.

After class, she told Xu Xiu Niang to prepare charcoal for Liuguang Pavilion as soon as possible. If she felt cold, just burn charcoal. No need to save.

After coming out of Liuguang Pavilion, she and Zhao Wu went to a store specializing in charcoal.

There are two relatively large stores specializing in selling charcoal in Nanxing County, one of which is owned by the Pu family.

Although the store under the Pu family's name was bigger, Zhou Ran didn't like the Pu family's style, and she took Zhao Wu with her, so she went to another store.

The location of this shop is not very good, but when Zhou Ran and Zhao Wu arrived at the shop, there were many people coming to buy charcoal.

Everyone is talking about the weather this year.

"The weather this year is a bit abnormal." "Yeah, last year at this time our little boy was still running around in a single coat, but this year he's starting to feel cold even in a thin coat."

"The last time it was so cold was thirteen years ago. There was a lot of snow that winter, and many places suffered from snow disasters. There are also many elderly people and children here who did not survive that winter."

Zhou Ran was listening to everyone talking when suddenly there was a noise in front of him.

A young man raised his voice and said: "What? Nine cents per pound! Wasn't it only six cents per pound yesterday? Why did it increase by three cents overnight? Who can afford it? It's so expensive."

The clerk's attitude was quite good. He explained: "There have been too many people buying charcoal in the past two days, and we don't have much charcoal in the warehouse. We can only adjust the price upward, and we are not the only ones who have adjusted the price." , other families have adjusted."

After saying that, the waiter advised the man: "I advise the customer to buy it quickly, otherwise the price may rise tomorrow, and you will not be able to afford it if you want to buy it again."

"Let it go up, let it go up. I can't afford it. I won't buy it from the main bank. I don't believe it will freeze me to death." The young man said angrily and turned around and left the store.

An elderly woman shook her head and said to a young woman next to her: "That guy is right. I remember that the price of charcoal got higher day by day in the winter that year, so I took advantage of the charcoal price. It’s better to stock up a little more before the price rises completely. It’s more expensive, it’s better than freezing to death.”

When the old woman arrived, she gritted her teeth and bought three hundred kilograms of charcoal.

The young woman listened to the old woman's advice and bought all the money she had with her into charcoal.

Zhou Ran and Zhao Wu followed the two of them. Zhou Ran originally planned to buy three thousand kilograms of charcoal, but after listening to the discussion just now, she simply doubled the price and asked for six thousand kilograms of charcoal. .

The waiter in front of Zhou Ran raised his head in surprise after hearing Zhou Ran's words: "How much charcoal do you want?"

"Six thousand catties." Zhou Ran repeated it again.

The waiter said: "The quantity you asked for is a bit too big. Please wait a moment and I'll ask the shopkeeper."

After a while, the waiter came out with the shopkeeper.

"You want six thousand kilograms of charcoal, right? I don't know which family you belong to?" asked the shopkeeper.

Zhou Ran said: "I am just an ordinary person. I run some food business at home."

The shopkeeper nodded and said: "I'm really sorry, we don't have much charcoal in our shop. If you ask for so much at once, we will almost empty out the inventory in our shop. There will be so much more to buy later." We have no way to explain to our customers, what do you think about us selling you three thousand catties?"

Zhou Ran nodded: "Okay, then I'll bother the shopkeeper."

Zhou Ran did not use the family's horse-drawn carriage to pull three thousand kilograms of charcoal. Instead, she asked Zhao Wu to find two special carts to pull the charcoal back home.

After that, Zhou Ran went to Pu’s charcoal shop.

Pu's charcoal shop is just like that one, there are also many people, and in a short time, the price of charcoal in Zhou's charcoal shop has increased to ten cents.

When Zhou Ran came to the front of the queue, she still asked for six thousand catties of charcoal, but Pu's shop only sold her one thousand catties.

When Zhou Ran went back, Aunt Guo next door saw her bringing back so much charcoal and asked, "Aran, why did you buy so much charcoal?"

"I'm afraid of the cold. I use more charcoal in winter, and I also bought it for my family and Da Niu's family. It's not much." After Zhou Ran finished speaking, he asked Aunt Guo, "Aunt, do you buy charcoal at home?" Yet?"

(End of this chapter)