Chapter 6 How much do you think my Shu brocade is worth?
Chapter 6 How much do you think my Shu brocade is worth?
In the same car were several aunties from Rock Village.
They chatted quietly and ignored An Shuyao, but An Shuyao, who had a sharp ear, still heard it and were discussing her and Lu Jin.
So An Shuyao entered Taolin County after hearing the gossip all the way.
I thought Taolin County was a nice name, but An Shuyao thought it would be almost the same no matter how bad it was, until he saw the dilapidated city gate with peeling paint. The entire county was dusty with no bright colors at all.
She accepted the reality that Anzhou was a slum.
Uncle Zhou looked at An Shuyao, his mouth opened and closed, and finally reminded him: "Ms. Lu, my ox cart is parked here. We should go back at noon, please remember to come back."
An Shuyao looked at Uncle Zhou, who looked forward to her, as if she was gone forever, so he responded with a dark face: "I understand."
The aunties who were traveling with her all carried baskets on their backs. They must have come to the county to sell things. An Shuyao walked along the stone road. Taolin County was not particularly big, but there were a lot of passers-by. There were shops selling goods on both sides of the street.
An Shuyao looked around and saw that most of them were selling game.
She was not interested in these, so she asked around along the way and found Anhe Tang, the only medical center in Taolin County.
The medical clinic is quite large, and the decoration is the best on this street. You can imagine that the wealth of the person who opened this medical clinic is not much different.
She walked in, and the medicine boy guarding the medicine cabinet asked: "My dear lady, do you want to see a doctor or take medicine?"
An Shuyao looked around and asked, "Where's your doctor here? I want to show him something."
The medicine boy understood immediately and was here to sell medicine.
Anyway, here, every once in a while, someone will bring strange-looking plants to the old doctor for recognition, but how do the people in the countryside know about medicine? All they bring are weeds, and it must be thanks to the kindness of their old doctor, otherwise
This group of people had been kicked out long ago.
However, he saw that this young lady was well-dressed and she was not the kind of person who wanted to trick her. He turned around and said, "Wait."
So An Shuyao waited for him to call the old doctor.
The old doctor's surname is Sun, and the local people call him Doctor Sun. He looks to be in his sixties, with gray hair and beard, and droopy eyes that look clear.
"Young lady, you want to sell medicine?"
An Shuyao nodded and took out the fifty-year-old ginseng he was carrying. The old doctor took a look and found that it was really fifty-year-old, but a little smaller.
He saw that An Shuyao was dressed richly and did not ask her where she came from. The old doctor pondered for a moment and then said: "This ginseng looks good, but it is too small. It costs one hundred taels of silver. What do you think, little lady?"
One hundred taels...
Converted into RMB, it's 20,000 to 30,000 yuan.
And her ginseng was indeed a bit small, so she nodded: "Okay."
The old doctor collected the ginseng, gave her a tablet of fifty taels, twenty taels of silver, and exchanged the others for thirty taels of silver. Then he continued: "Little lady, if there is any good medicine next time, it will be fine."
Bring it to Anhe Hall."
An Shuyao put the money in his purse and asked, "Are you collecting wild yams?"
The old doctor nodded: "The whole ones are collected at two hundred cents per catty, and the concocted ones are five hundred cents per catty, as much as you want."
An Shuyao pondered: "Okay."
Immediately, she bought Lu Jin five more patches of good medicine to treat internal injuries. This set cost seven taels of silver. Although she felt distressed, she couldn't bear to use the money to trap her husband!
An Shuyao went out with the medicine, and then spent more than ten yuan to buy a large bamboo basket, and also bought a hoe and sickle. Then she threw the medicine and these things into the basket, and then started to buy rice, noodles and condiments.
These things.
It’s just that she found that although Anzhou is poor, the prices are really high, especially rice, which is sold at sky-high prices, thirty-five cents per catty, white flour is thirty cents per catty, and thick noodles are much cheaper.
Fifteen cents per pound.
An Shuyao bought the same ten kilograms, and including salt, seasoning bottles and pots and pans, it cost almost one tael of silver.
Fortunately, the rice shop here guaranteed delivery. An Shuyao paid the money, gave the address and left.
Then I walked to the street and saw the vegetables sold by people around me. However, the dishes were not very good and looked like they were malnourished.
She stepped forward and asked, and she actually shouted out the price of fifteen cents per catty for vegetables with yellow leaves, which was almost the same as the price of thick noodles.
I even asked a few stalls, and the prices were astonishingly high.
An Shuyao now understands why Anzhou can't eat enough. With such prices, how can ordinary people afford it?
At most, only businessmen and county magistrates can live a decent life here.
Meat is also expensive, but game is very cheap.
An Shuyao spent 100 Wen to buy five kilograms of suet, plus some lean meat. He also pitted a tube bone and put it in his backpack.
In this way, a visit to the county is over.
But when she passed a clothing store, she stood at the door and thought for three seconds before walking in.
When the proprietress of the ready-made clothing store saw the arrival of a customer, her eyes lit up. She hurriedly said, "My dear lady, do you want to see some cloth? I have all kinds of cloth here, including the most precious silk in the south of the Yangtze River."
An Shuyao's eyes lit up: "Is silk expensive?"
"right."
"Then how much do you think my Shu brocade is worth?"
Clothing store proprietress: "???"
An Shuyao pulled off his clothes: "80% new, wearing it for the second time, do you think?"
"..."
Finally, the proprietress of the clothing store bought her clothes for fifteen taels.
When she came out again, An Shuyao put on thick blue and white cotton clothes. She wanted to buy a quilt when she went back, but the thought flashed through her and she immediately rejected it.
It doesn't work now, the strategy has not been successful yet. After buying a new quilt, Lu Jin will definitely sleep with her on the same quilt. With his temperament, it doesn't matter if he sleeps on that thin quilt.
So she spent another tael of silver to buy two pieces of blue cotton, planning to go back and show off her embroidery skills to make clothes for him.
When she returned to the city gate, Uncle Zhou was surprised for a moment. An Shuyao gave Uncle Zhou four coins, and he happily accepted it.
While waiting for the others, An Shuyao was thinking about how to tell Lu Jin how much the ginseng was sold for when she went back.
The second I thought about it, I suppressed the idea. No, no, men will become bad if they have money!
Moreover, once you have money and the quality of life has improved, how can you still embody the revolutionary spirit of sharing joys and sorrows and adversity?
So An Shuyao put the money bag in her sleeve, and all the one hundred taels of silver went into the space as soon as she realized it. She only had five taels of silver left on her body as a spare.
When she got back, she would have a hard time with Lu Jin, and Lu Jin definitely felt sorry for her!
Soon, the aunts came back. When they saw that An Shuyao's clothes had changed, the kind-looking Aunt Lin came to talk to An Shuyao.