"Oh, oh, oh."
"Why didn't you say so earlier?"
"Brother Ansel too, why keep fussing about so much cultural papermaking?"
Only then did the mountain folks suddenly understand. But though they understood, the enthusiastic response Ansel envisioned was absent; instead, they began to converse quietly among themselves.
After privately discussing for a long while, one person was finally pushed forward.
He stood up hesitantly: "You're spending money to buy wool, giving us yarn to spin for free, and then collecting it for free after it's done—how can we accept this?"
For these mountain folks, the transportation fees of purchasing wool from afar was already a hefty sum, and selling the spun yarn posed another significant problem.
In every transaction, whether buying or selling, traders would bleed them dry. Ansel's approach, with clear pricing and no cost risks, seemed somewhat unbalanced.
