Chapter 228: Shell Forged Lime (first update)
Jiang Zhiluo looked at the duck eggs in the old lady's basket and felt they were big and good. She smiled and said, "It's okay, I bought them all."
When the old lady heard this, she was immediately shocked, "Girl, you, you buy them all?"
“Yes, just pay the price you said, two for one penny, and buy them all.”
“How many are there in total?”
The old lady couldn't believe it, and she was so excited by Jiang Zhiluo's words that she was speechless. After a while, she finally said: "One... sixty-two duck eggs in total."
She saves everything every day.
She would count the eggs several times every day. When she came, she would put all the eggs in the basket and count them several times for fear of making a mistake.
Each duck egg costs half a penny, which is very important to their family.
Their family has no food, but the price of food in the town has increased. After selling the duck eggs, they can buy some grain noodles to eat as a family.
Eat sparingly so that you can survive until the food comes.
The old lady and her family only had one meal for several days.
Eat some wild vegetables when you are hungry.
They were reluctant to eat even the vegetables from the fields, so they tried to bring them to the market.
An extra penny is a penny, because grain is five pence more expensive than usual per kilogram, and the price of miscellaneous grains has almost doubled.
She was also hungry now, but she endured it.
She carefully walked to the market every day carrying a basket of duck eggs. No one bought them and carried them back.
She has been here for several days.
There are actually many people selling duck eggs, but people don’t eat duck eggs very much, and there are few people buying duck eggs.
That’s why no one bought a basket of duck eggs for so many days.
At this time, listening to this girl's words, the old lady almost shed tears.
But she still worried about it, for fear that the girl would not buy it again.
Jiang Zhiluo found thirty-one cents and handed it to the old lady and said: "Sixty-two duck eggs, two of which are one cent each, a total of thirty-one cents. Old man, can you count them?"
The old lady stretched out her hand and carefully took the copper coin.
Jiang Zhiluo saw that her hands were rough, dark, and cracked. It looked like they were hands that had been working all year round.
The old lady counted them one by one carefully. After counting, she said: "Girl, it is thirty-one cents."
“Old man, please put it away and go home early.”
When Jiang Zhiluo bought duck eggs, she deliberately used the wood power to shield the surroundings so that no one could see the movement here.
She mainly wanted to prevent anyone from seeing the old lady’s money, and what she would do halfway through.
In this way, no one will notice this side, and the old lady will be safe.
The old lady nodded and said: "Yes, yes, girl, thank you, thank you."
Old ladies have to bow to Jiang Zhiluo.
Jiang Zhiluo hurriedly supported the old lady, "Old man, I need more duck eggs, so I bought them all. No need to thank me."
But the old lady still thanked the girl in front of her. She could see that the girl was a kind person.
She stretched out her hand to help put all the duck eggs in the basket into the girl's basket, and then left the market with the basket and the backpack next to it.
The old lady walks briskly.
She sold the duck eggs and had more copper coins in her hand. She couldn't wait to go home and share the good news with her family.
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Jiang Zhiluo strolled around the market again and bought almost all the duck eggs in the market.
●There are stalls selling eggs and duck eggs in the market here, almost in a basket.
Jiang Zhiluo bought a lot, almost more than 600 duck eggs.
They were all put on the bullock cart.
Mrs. Cui said: "Fortunately, we brought many backpacks, otherwise there would be nothing to hold them.
Duck eggs cannot be stored in sacks because they may fall accidentally due to bumps.
Even when going back, the cattle cart must be driven a little slower. Jiang Zhiluo placed the duck eggs on the oxcart and put straw on top. This blockage actually secretly put the duck eggs into the space.
In this way, you don’t have to worry about bumps when driving the cattle cart.
“Mom, let’s go buy something first and then go home.”
“Isn’t there any in the market?”
Jiang Zhiluo said: "Well, I just took a stroll. There is nothing here in the market. Most of them sell food here."
“Let’s go to the dock or the grocery store. I want to buy some shellfish.”
When she heard the shells, Mrs. Cui said, "Isn't that something only found in the sea?"
Mrs. Cui didn’t know what the shells would be used for.
But if you want to buy Zhiluo, it will definitely be useful.
Jiang Zhiluo said: "Well, there are many beaches, but we in Beizhou are not close to the sea, so we can only buy them there."
“Fortunately, we have a dock here with convenient transportation, and it’s not far from the sea. Some people think that the shells are novel and beautiful, so they will transport some to sell them.”
Most people think this thing is just for looking at, and it doesn’t look very good, so few people buy it and the price is cheap.
Jiang Zhiluo went to the grocery store first.
She deliberately looked at this and that, then pointed at the shell next to her and said, "This one looks a bit strange."
“Oh, the girl is really discerning. This is something transported from the seaside. People over there like to use this as decoration.”
Jiang Zhiluo said: "Even if it is used as decoration, it must be processed. These look like a pile of debris."
The shopkeeper hurriedly promoted: "Girl, you can't say that. If you decorate it properly, it will definitely look good."
I don’t know how long those shells had been there, they were already a year or two old. They were old goods and no one was buying them, so he was anxious to sell them.
Finally a girl saw these things.
“It looks very ordinary, but I don’t know what the price is. The price is too expensive, so it’s not worth it.”
The shopkeeper looked at the girl's expression carefully and saw that she was frowning and didn't really want to buy it.
The shopkeeper murmured in his heart and could only say: "If the girl buys more, it will definitely be cheaper."
Jiang Zhiluo said: "How many do you have here?"
“There are five sacks!”
In this way, Jiang Zhiluo negotiated the price and bought one large bag for ten cents, and five large bags for fifty cents.
The shopkeeper was also happy. Although it was cheap, he still made some money.
To him, these things looked like rocks.
I don’t know why people at the beach like these things.
People here think these things are not practical. Poor people don’t have enough to eat, so they don’t care about decorations.
Rich nobles like gold and silver jewelry and don’t wear them.
In fact, in Jiang Zhiluo’s opinion, shells are really beautiful, especially when used as decorations.
It’s just that ordinary people here in Beizhou are still in a state of food and clothing, and they don’t care about decoration.
I bought Jiang Zhiluo because the shells can be used to make lime.
She has not found limestone yet, so she can only use shells first.
In this way you can pickle preserved eggs.
After walking forward from the grocery store for a while, Mrs. Cui suddenly pointed over there and said: "Zhiluo, look, isn't that Lin Zhuzhu's stall? Isn't that Lin Zhuzhu's re-arrangement of the stall? ?”
Hearing the sound, Jiang Zhiluo turned around and saw a meat stall at the entrance of an alley.
In the past, when Jiang Zhiluo came to town and wanted to buy meat, she would go and take a look.
But the door was closed every time. As time went by, Jiang Zhiluo stopped paying attention to that side.
Unexpectedly, the meat stall will be reopened this time.
Just looking at the woman setting up the stall, Jiang Zhiluo was slightly surprised.