Old Zhou said, "Yet I've never seen you bring back the money you earned."
Zhou SiLang: "Didn't I spend it all on furs, pearls, and medicinal herbs? And cattle too. Check the accounts; we earned quite a lot last year, and this year we're bringing so much tea, we'll only earn more."
Old Zhou asked, "And then you'll bring back more furs, pearls, medicinal herbs, and cattle?"
Zhou SiLang had indeed planned that, but when his father questioned him, he hesitated and said, "Dad, isn't that a good thing?"
Old Zhou replied, "Good my foot! We're earning all this money, but what's the point in buying and selling things endlessly?"
He said, "Datou is not young anymore; he definitely needs to get married this year. Marriages require betrothal gifts, and the Imperial Doctor Liu's family looks wealthier than ours. We can't have shabby betrothal gifts."
Zhou SiLang: "Aren't you afraid that when you send the betrothal gifts, they'll just keep everything and give you a granddaughter-in-law?"
