Numbers
- Auntie speaks to a man in a language Lakshmi doesn't understand—they are talking about Lakshmi.
- The man asks Auntie a question, and Auntie answers with the number twelve. The man then asks Lakshmi in her own language, and Lakshmi says she is thirteen, causing the man to turn and slap Auntie across the face.
- The man and Auntie barter until they come to an agreement and the man gives Auntie money.
- Lakshmi doesn't know what they have decided, but she knows that it's "nearly enough money to buy a water buffalo" (53.Numbers.9).