The host's wife nodded but did not answer. Xia Qiyue quickly gave the water to the two children, and then winked at her younger brothers and sisters to drink too, and then drank another glass of water in one gulp.
In fact, at the end of the day, in order to save water, they had not drank much water, and their mouths were extremely dry.
The two children drank the water, looked satisfied, squinted their eyes, and swallowed slowly.
Xia Qiyue did not keep the host's wife waiting for too long, looked at her and spoke.
"Madam, this is our situation. The children really need money for medical treatment..." Xia Qiyue said this and looked at the two little guys with a guilty look on their faces after drinking the water. How could this look like this?
Looking sick?
However, the host's wife didn't think so. She looked at Xia Qiyue with sympathy in her eyes, thinking that she still had a swaddled baby.
After all, Ke'er and Xuan'er are already three years old, so it's normal to have younger brothers or younger sisters.
"In this current famine, I really have no choice, so I took out the life-saving rations in exchange for money..."
"Okay, okay, Cui'er, go get the money!"
The host's wife was a kind-hearted person. When she heard Xia Qiyue's words, she quickly asked her maid to get the money.
Forty-eight pounds of wheat, Xia Qiyue thought it would be good to sell it for several times the price. Unexpectedly, the host's wife just put two taels of silver in her hands.
"This... is too much!" Xia Qiyue said in a low voice. She really didn't want to give it back, but these two taels of silver were almost ten times higher than the usual price, and she deserved it.
"Sister, just keep it. You don't know how much the wheat you sent has solved our family's urgent needs. The old lady in the family has a bad stomach and can't eat too coarse food. Now the grain store can't buy it.
With this fine grain, I watched the old lady lose weight day by day... Alas, the drought has caused trouble, and now I have to buy all the food..."
Xia Qiyue's eyes lit up. Buying water? Is there such a good thing?
"Madam, what do you mean? Are there any water sellers in this city?" Xia Qiyue asked excitedly.
The host's wife seemed not to expect that she would ask this question. She was surprised for a moment, and then said clearly, "Yes, the county magistrate has surrounded the river and has people guarding it. A pound of water has been sold for ten copper coins."
Well, sister, you must have just entered the city, otherwise this matter wouldn’t be a secret.”
"Ten coppers per pound of water?" Xia Qiyue was confused in the wind. Ten coppers per pound of water? Then she felt that it was not excessive to sell wheat at ten times the price. After all, her wheat was produced in space, and it was among the best.
Excellent product, the wheat flavor is particularly strong and nutritious.
After walking out of the back door of this wealthy family, Xia Qiyue held a huge sum of twenty taels of money in her hands, carried her two children on her back, and headed for an inn with her younger siblings.
Although it was a year of famine, the security in this county was surprisingly good. There were many refugees on the streets and many people coming and going. However, the government officials came out to patrol from time to time. No one dared to rob, and no one stayed in the city and refused to go out.
Because there is a sign in your hand with a date on it, the time limit for entering the city is one day. If you don't have the current date in your hand, you will be kicked out of the city.
Xia Qiyue soon saw Ruyi Inn on the street, and she walked in without hesitation.
The waiter sat feebly in the hall to greet the guests. When he saw Xia Qiyue and others coming in, he didn't even raise his eyelids and said something with dry lips.
"Is it objectively necessary to stay in a hotel? If it's a top-notch one, please go somewhere else. We don't offer it anymore!"
Of course Xia Qiyue knew, she walked forward slowly and said, "We're staying in a hotel! A medium-sized room is enough. How much does it cost for a night?"
When the waiter heard that he was staying in a hotel, he stood up, "A medium-sized room costs 200 copper coins per night, and no meals are provided. If you need water, one liter of water will cost 50 copper coins! Can I ask you, do you want to stay?"
Xia Qiyue just heard that one pound of water costs ten copper coins, but two pounds here costs fifty copper coins, which is too dark, and a medium-sized house costs two hundred copper coins.
After grabbing it, let's look at the conditions of this inn. At most, forty or fifty copper coins are enough.
But she knew that at this time, everything should be expensive. Even if she went out to find another one, it would definitely be the same.
So she nodded and asked for a medium-sized room. As for water, forget about it. She still had a little water on her body. She would eat some steamed buns and dry food first, and not cook porridge yet.
When he saw the two taels of silver, the waiter's eyes lit up. He bit some with his teeth, and then his expression immediately changed. He smiled and gave Xia Qiyue the change. There was no silver, only copper plates, 1,800 copper plates.
That is eighteen coins.
The waiter had already stood up to pick up the luggage in her hands. Xia Qiyue did not let him go, he saluted and carried it by himself, and followed the waiter up to the second floor.
The room the waiter took them to was neither too big nor too small. It had a bed, a soft couch by the window, an Eight Immortals table, a dressing table, a wardrobe, and a large bathtub behind the screen.
There are indeed many things in the home, but the bed is still not enough for sleeping. Fortunately, there is a soft couch next to the bed, and the weather is hot now, so I can sleep on it.
Xia Qiyue walked in, looked up and down, left and right for a while, then put down the two children, let her brothers and sisters put down their luggage, and then closed the door.
But the waiter still stood there motionless. Xia Qiyue looked over with some confusion. The waiter immediately smiled and spoke in a flattering manner.
"Objectively, there is some secret water here, which can be cheaper for you. It is absolutely clean. Take a look, do you want it?"
Xia Qiyue raised her eyebrows, "Cheap? How much?"
When the waiter heard this, he thought it was a good idea. He immediately became energetic and started bragging about how good and clean the water in his hand was.
"So, after all this talk, how much money is it?" Xia Qiyue was a little impatient. She had something else to do later and couldn't waste her time here.
"Thirty coppers per liter, isn't it cheap enough? It's only two liters of water. Objectively speaking, if you don't want it, there really is nothing cheaper than this!"
Xia Qiyue disagreed, "I heard that the county magistrate is also selling water, and one liter of water only costs twenty copper coins. Do you still think your water is cheap?"
But the waiter in the shop laughed, "You don't know objectively. The county magistrate sells water, but if you want to buy water, you have to buy more than five liters, otherwise they won't sell it to you! If you don't have enough money, you really can't
If I can't drink water, I will be different. Girl, if you want half a liter of water or half a catty of water, we can sell the small ones!"
Xia Qiyue understood clearly and had a better understanding of these operations in the city.
They also engage in wholesale sales. They sell ten kilograms of water at a time. If you don't have enough money, it is still difficult to drink water.
One hundred copper coins was an astronomical figure for a refugee fleeing the famine. At least she had not had a single coin on her before.
"Objective... Do you want this water? Your children's mouths are so dry. I see that you don't even have water for the ceremony. Buy some to quench the children's thirst!"
The waiter at the main store was in a hurry to buy water from the county magistrate. He didn't have that many copper coins in his hand. He had to sell the water in his hand to get a hundred copper coins to buy water. If he didn't buy water, he would be very thirsty.
But after drinking the water in front of him, he had no money to buy more water. He just wanted to make a difference so that he wouldn't die of thirst, but he couldn't actually make any extra money.