246 still short of 1 tael.

Disliking the heaviness of the copper coins in her sleeve pocket, she dumped some of them into the basket and then took them all out, placing them on the wooden tray that held the goods. She carried it in, "In total, the goods fetched 990 copper coins. Rabbit meat sold for 100 cents, beef for six cents, and all the brown rice fetched four hundred cents. That makes 1,496 cents."

"Eight hundred cents equal one tael. So it's less than two taels." Zhou Fuquan also helped with the calculation, "Adding the one and a half taels I borrowed, it makes three taels and 296 cents."