Chapter 201: Stock up on food and salt (second update)
Chapter 201: Stocking up on food and salt (second update)
Looking at the little girl's cute appearance, Jiang Zhiluo felt like she was overwhelmed by the cuteness.
This is too cute!
Beautiful and cute.
He is also very smart and knows how to spend five cents to buy a loaf of bread.
Especially her chubby face, which bulges when she speaks, is particularly cute.
Jiang Zhiluo wanted to reach out and knead it, but she held back.
Jiang Zhiluo knelt down, looked at her and asked patiently: "Do you want to eat this bread?"
Qiao Mengmeng nodded obediently and said: "Yeah, it's very fragrant. My brothers all said it's delicious."
As she spoke, she looked at her brothers around her.
That is, the scholars of the college.
Jiang Zhiluo took out the last two pieces of bread and gave them to Qiao Mengmeng and said, "Here you go, this is what my sister invited you to eat."
Qiao Mengmeng looked at the two, tilted her head and thought for a moment, then took out another five cents from her pocket, carefully counted dozens of pennies, and said softly and cutely: "Sister, two, ten cents, here. ”
Jiang Zhiluo thought the little girl was so funny, "You still have money in your hand!"
The little girl patted her little cloth bag and said, "Yeah, my mother gave it to me, so I can buy something to eat."
“Where is your mother?”
That woman as tall as ice made a deep impression on Jiang Zhiluo just by her eyes.
She is an extremely calm and steady woman, very different from other women.
Although I have never seen her face, I feel extremely beautiful just by looking at her figure and eyes.
Qiao Mengmeng said: "Mom has something to do, and Mengmeng is very good."
Whatever she wants to eat, she will buy it herself.
Looking at her being so smart and sensible, Jiang Zhiluo's heart softened and she couldn't help but want to give her a hug.
It was very strange that she met the children in the village. She went to the town to sell bread and met some children. It was not the same feeling as when facing a little girl.
"Take it. If my sister doesn't charge you, I'll treat you as my sister and ask you to taste it."
The scholar who just wanted to buy the last two loaves of bread was too embarrassed to fight with a little girl.
What's more, this is the young lady that their academy loves very much.
The little girl seemed to think about it seriously and said, "But I can't get something for nothing, and I can't take things without spending money."
Jiang Zhiluo's mind moved and she felt that the little girl was well educated.
Jiang Zhiluo could only say: "In this case, you can treat your sister to something else next time."
Jiang Zhiluo just found a reason to give the little girl bread.
The little girl nodded happily.
After Jiang Zhiluo sold all the bread, she closed the stall and drove the ox cart away.
She was going to go shopping to buy grain and salt.
The county is larger than the town and has several grain stores.
But after Jiang Zhiluo visited a few stores, she found that the price of food had increased by one or two cents per kilogram.
“How come thick noodles cost ten cents a pound?”
In the past, it was eight cents per catty.
The shopkeeper was not surprised by Jiang Zhiluo's inquiries. He seemed to be asked a lot.
“Little lady, it’s not that the price of food in our store has gone up. If you go out and find out, it’s still the same price.”
Jiang Zhiluo thought of what Mrs. Cui had said and what she had said about food in her previous dream. Her expression changed and she said, "Why did the price increase all of a sudden?"
“Will the price increase in the future?”
The shopkeeper was stunned for a moment, but he came back to his senses in an instant. He said calmly: "Little lady, it's normal for the prices in the food store to rise and fall. We can't tell whether the prices will rise or fall in the future. If you buy Just buy it. If you don’t buy it, there will be people who want to buy food later.”
The shopkeeper's attitude is very perfunctory and he is too lazy to explain and attract customers.
As if the customer has no loss if he doesn’t buy, that’s not the attitude of doing business at all. Jiang Zhiluo visited several food stores, and the shopkeepers and waiters in the stores almost had the same attitude.
It can be seen that they are not worried about not being able to sell the food at all.
And they must have gotten some gossip.
Now that she knows the market price, Jiang Zhiluo should buy it.
Jiang Zhiluo asked deliberately and tentatively: "If I buy more, can it be cheaper?"
The shopkeeper said: "Little lady, it's not that I'm not cheap, we are also working for the boss. We can't change the price set by the boss at will."
Jiang Zhiluo's face condensed. As far as she knew, the shopkeeper had some power, so he could naturally give customers discounts.
But looking at the shopkeeper's attitude, she also understood something.
Jiang Zhiluo no longer wasted her words and just said: "Bring me two hundred catties of multi-grain noodles, two hundred catties of fine noodles, five catties of red beans, ten catties of soybeans, twenty catties of rice, twenty catties of corn..."
Jiang Zhiluo bought some of everything.
Actually, she wanted to buy more, but she didn’t want to attract attention, so she planned to buy some in every store.
Anyway, she has space and no one will notice anything.
The shopkeeper was shocked when he heard the amount.
He looked Jiang Zhiluo up and down, and saw that she was wearing coarse linen clothes, and she didn't look like someone who could buy so much food at once.
“Little lady, are you sure you want to buy so much food?”
Jiang Zhiluo nodded and said: "Sure, I'm going to do a small business. Shopkeeper, you can give me a cheaper price. If I buy food again, I will continue to buy it from you."
As soon as the shopkeeper heard about the business, he gave up his worries.
Those who are in the pasta business do need a lot of grain.
Although he had doubts, he didn't think much about it.
He directly asked the waiter in the store to help weigh the food, but he didn't give Jiang Zhiluo any advantage.
After Jiang Zhiluo bought it, she put it on the bullock cart, then deliberately turned it around to make room for the grain, and then went to other grain stores to buy it.
In this way, she bought more than 600 kilograms of things, including various rice, flour, grains and other crops.
Be prepared and feel at ease.
And when she went to the store to buy salt, she also bought some at each point.
Hard a lot of salt.
Originally I wanted to save a little, but I still spent thirteen taels of silver.
As a result, Jiang Zhiluo only had more than six taels of silver in her hands.
But she knew that she couldn't care about money at this time, and she had to hoard food and salt.
When walking back, Jiang Zhiluo put most of her things in the space. There were just a few baskets and baskets outside, so that no one could see anything. Moreover, the baskets were covered with a layer of straw, so others couldn't peep into them.
It was already half afternoon when I got home.
Mrs. Cui felt more at ease when she learned that Jiang Zhiluo had bought a lot of grain and salt, and said, "Just buy it back."
“Mom, you don’t think I bought too much, do you?”
“This is nothing, I have planned to settle down early.”
"If there is nothing and the price of food does not rise, we will not suffer any loss by hoarding this food. If there is a war and the price of food rises, we have nothing to worry about if we have this food."
“I still have food and feel at ease.”
Jiang Zhiluo said seriously: "Mom, I went to the grain store and the grocery store to check. The prices of various grains have increased a bit. I asked tentatively. I guess the prices will increase in the future, but they will increase a little bit every day. You can't see it. What's going on?"
After hearing this, Mrs. Cui knew what was going on.
After having food, Jiang Zhiluo and Mrs. Cui should do business every day.
Everything seemed normal in the town and county, but a few days later, in late April, someone entered the village and started collecting grain.
(End of this chapter)