Chapter 42: Sitting on the ground and starting the price
Song Wenzhi nodded, and then took out a silver dime from the money bag at his waist, "Half of the deposit is three hundred cents. I only have silver dimes now, and this piece is about three cents. Do you want it? If you don't want any silver,
I can go to the Wantong Bank next door to change the copper plates for you."
But Song Qiu thought that today's deposit was all in copper plates. It was really difficult to store so many copper plates, so silver coins would be more convenient.
"No, just this silver coin!" He said and took the silver coin from Song Wenzhi's hand.
She didn't know how much such a piece of silver was, but Song Wenzhi wouldn't fool her. This piece looked similar to the one Zhang Yang gave her just now, so it should be worth three cents.
After receiving the money and keeping track of the accounts, Song Qiu hurriedly said goodbye to Song Wenzhi and repeatedly stated that it would be delivered to him before the fifth day of the Lunar New Year. Then he got on the five-pound ox cart and went with him.
Let’s go back to Ankangfang together.
Back in Ankangfang, Song Qiu first went to the rice and grain store where he bought glutinous rice last time, planning to buy some more glutinous rice.
When he first entered the shop, the shopkeeper was particularly enthusiastic when he saw her, "Little girl, my family bought two rice dumplings from the morning market today. They were made of glutinous rice and mung beans, but you made them."
Eating? Last time I heard you and another little girl talking about what they wanted to do for a living, but I didn’t expect it to be this!"
"Little girl, how did you come up with the idea of using glutinous rice to make this food? And what is the shell that is wrapped in it? It is really unique. I have never seen this food before! I heard that a lot of people are buying it today.
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The inquiring intention behind the words is very obvious, but people are curious, isn't that the case?
Song Qiu understood this, so he didn't think there was anything wrong with it. He was just being stupid and saying everything, which was impossible.
So she just said a few words casually and asked the waiter to weigh her a hundred kilograms of glutinous rice, eight kilograms each of red beans and mung beans for takeout, and five kilograms of red dates, and then asked the shopkeeper to pay the bill.
Seeing her buying so many things at once, the shopkeeper thought she was making money. I heard there were quite a few people making reservations today!
It was inevitable that his heart was burning, but the little girl was obviously not stupid, and she didn't answer him at all. The shopkeeper wanted to be restrained and asked a few more questions, but when he saw a burly man standing next to the little girl, he kept looking at him.
I can only give up and start calculating the accounts seriously.
"One hundred kilograms of glutinous rice, eight kilograms of mung beans, eight kilograms of red beans, five kilograms of red dates, Chenghui, a total of one thousand three hundred and sixty-five cents." The shopkeeper plucked the beads on his abacus quickly, and after a moment, he said with a smile.
When Song Qiu heard this, he frowned, "That's not right. Did the shopkeeper make a mistake in his calculation?"
The shopkeeper's eyes showed surprise. This little girl didn't have any calculations, so she actually questioned whether he was right after he finished speaking?
Is it possible that he can calculate better and faster than his abacus? I can’t tell.
The shopkeeper found it hard to believe that this little girl could calculate accounts so quickly and accurately without using an abacus.
Who in this world can calculate so quickly without using an abacus?
This is something worth thousands of words, not dozens of words.
It's unusual for these farm girls to be able to break off ten fingers.
The shopkeeper was puzzled in his heart, but he said on his face: "Little girl, you don't know, the price of glutinous rice has just increased today, it's twelve cents a pound."
It turns out that glutinous rice is worth twelve cents, no wonder she said why there is such a big difference.
Song Qiu looked directly at the shopkeeper and suddenly smiled, "It turns out that the price has increased, and the clerk didn't explain it clearly. Since the price has increased, I won't buy it."
Next to him, Wu Wujin couldn't help but said: "During the Taiping Period, nothing happened, so why did the price of rice suddenly rise? Glutinous rice has gone up by two cents, but what about brown rice?"
He is also worried that the price of rice has increased and he will have to spend more money. The brat at home can cook five bowls of rice in one meal, so don't worry about him to death?
Naturally, it didn't increase. The shopkeeper was a little embarrassed when he was asked this question, but it was hard to say it out loud.
Song Qiu already understood that he did this on purpose, so he immediately took Wuji Jin out of the shop and went directly to the Wu Ji rice shop opposite without going far.
Wu Wujin was really worried about the price of rice. He didn't get an answer at the shop just now. Now when he entered this shop, he couldn't help but ask, "Shopkeeper, the price of rice has gone up?"
Shopkeeper Wu first watched them enter and then come out from the opposite side. He could grab the other side's business, but it was such a happy event. He was very enthusiastic at the moment, "Price increase? Brother, who did you hear this from? The price of rice is still the same.
The price is so good, how can the price increase?"
Wu Wujin breathed a sigh of relief, "I'm just telling you! It's weird to see a price increase, but the shop opposite has increased the price. Glutinous rice is selling for twelve cents per catty!"
Shopkeeper Wu burst out laughing when he heard this. Is he trying to bully other country people by raising prices?
After a while, he would spread the word and see who would come to his house again.
"This is nothing. Li Ji opposite, it has always been like this. The price of glutinous rice in our shop is still the same, ten cents per catty. How much does it cost, big brother? I'll ask the clerk to weigh it for you!"
I didn't buy rice in Friday Jin, but I was a little worried after the price increase. I thought I had almost enough rice at home, so I happened to buy medicinal materials twice in a row today, plus the morning's rice.
The man with ten coins also brought some copper coins with him.
He said: "Weigh ten pounds of brown rice for me!"
Shopkeeper Wu thought he wanted to buy glutinous rice. When he heard it was brown rice, he thought he heard it wrong, but he didn't show any signs of it. Ten pounds of brown rice cost fifty cents. He was also happy with the business he had snatched from the other side.
!
Now let the guy weigh it.
As soon as Song Qiu entered the shop, he looked around. After looking around, he felt that the items in this shop were pretty good. When he heard that the shop didn't raise the price, he told him what he wanted.
Shopkeeper Wu didn't pay attention to the little girl Song Qiu at first. He suddenly heard that she wanted so many things. He hadn't come back to his senses. He saw Wu Wuyi didn't make a sound, so he said uncertainly: "The little girl really wants it."
So many? Did I hear that correctly?”
"No, I just want these. The shopkeeper, hurry up and weigh me, we are in a hurry for something else!"
Shopkeeper Wu immediately burst out laughing. It turned out to be such a big deal. No wonder Old Li was so evil that he raised the price when he saw a little girl asking for glutinous rice!
Sure, such a big business was given to him for free!
Immediately, he ordered the waiter to weigh the weight.
Wanting to win over the little girl, and hoping to get repeat business, shopkeeper Wu was very generous and grabbed a large handful of newly arrived chestnuts and packed them into weighed red dates.
"The newly arrived chestnuts are delicious! The little girl took them home to eat and play with!"
When Song Qiu saw such a large amount of chestnuts, he thought that the shopkeeper was generous and knew how to do business, so he accepted the kindness and thanked him.
The final balance was a total of 1,165 yuan.
That's a whole two hundred words less than what was there just now.
So, if she was taken advantage of there today, she would lose two hundred dollars in vain, which would make her feel very sad.
That Li Ji is really evil.
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There are always people urging me to update, eh, let’s do two more updates today. To be honest, I have tried my best, but I still haven’t saved the manuscript, because I became pregnant as soon as the new book was published. It was because of the serious pregnancy, so I barely insisted on typing every day.
But it can’t be coded much. Little cuties, please understand, you can store it to fatten it up, and then I’ll refuel again when I’m pregnant.