Chapter 145: Perfect for Grinding Tofu

Lady Li also stood up along with her. Seeing that they were about to leave, Red Aunt pulled Gu Xiaoyao's hand and shook it with a smile.

"Xiaoyao, come on over to my house and sit for a while! I still haven't properly thanked you for what happened last time!"

The matron had originally thought they were just putting on airs. Wasn't that how everyone did business? They would try to drive the price down and then claim they were going to look elsewhere.

Yet her soybeans were genuinely good. Search the entire village, and you wouldn't find anyone else who cleaned out the bad beans with such meticulous care.

"Sigh, you two just don't believe me. The soybeans I have here are truly the best in the entire village, and they even taste different."

Gu Xiaoyao turned back, offered her a faint smile, and pulled Lady Li straight toward the courtyard exit without looking back.

Even if those soybeans could be eaten and tasted sweet, when she used her supernatural ability to sprout them into soybean sprouts later, the taste would be just the same.

"I suppose I'll just go ask somewhere else!"

Seeing that they had genuinely stepped out of the courtyard and were about to leave, the matron panicked and hurriedly ran out after them.

"Oh dear, oh dear! If you feel the price is a bit high, we can talk about it properly! Why are you walking away so fast?"

"Fine, fine, fine! You name the price, then! My soybeans are truly of exceptional quality, really. Had I known, I wouldn't have bothered putting in so much effort to pick out the bad beans."

The matron felt aggrieved to death. Originally, picking out the bad beans was done with the thought of making a few extra cash coins later on; now look at it, all that hard work had gone to waste.

"Xiaoyao, she's definitely willing to lower the price now. Her family's soybeans are indeed very good. Why don't you go back and ask again?"

Red Aunt tugged at Gu Xiaoyao's hand. Nobody else in the village had the patience to pick out the bad beans—she was the only auntie meticulous enough to do it.

"Alright then, I'll go back and negotiate the price with her once more!"

After Gu Xiaoyao turned around, the two of them haggled back and forth for a long while before finally settling on a price of two copper cash per catty.

"Auntie, if it weren't for the fact that your soybeans have been so carefully handpicked, I would never offer you two copper cash per catty."

Consider it building a good affinity for the future, though if she came back to purchase more next time, she definitely wouldn't be paying two cash anymore.

Hearing this, the matron gave an awkward, sheepish smile, repeatedly muttered her agreement, and then hurried her husband to carry the soybeans out.

"Every single one of these can be sold. Take a look and see how much you need! I can even gift you a portion of them free of charge."

There were five sacks of soybeans here, all of them thoroughly sorted, with each sack weighing approximately thirty catties.

"I'll take them all. Bring out the scale and let's see how much the total weight comes to."

Thinking about how these meticulously picked soybeans could later be used to grind tofu, Gu Xiaoyao knew the tofu made from such carefully selected beans would undoubtedly be delicious.

Upon hearing that she wanted all five sacks, the matron's previous irritation vanished like smoke in the wind. She urged her husband to borrow a scale from next door.

Once all the soybeans had been weighed, Gu Xiaoyao calculated the price. The total weight of the five sacks came out to slightly over a hundred catties.

"Let's round it up to a neat figure. Auntie, see if you can make it add up to a hundred and fifty catties, and I'll give you three hundred copper cash."

Gu Xiaoyao produced the strings of copper coins she had brought with her. These coins were all threaded together with red rope, making them quite an effort to pull out.

"Deal, deal! I'll have the amount topped off right now. You two sit down and have some water; I'll take care of this."

With the help of her husband, the matron topped off the soybeans to a neat total corresponding to three hundred cash, and Gu Xiaoyao readily handed the money over to the couple.