"What...what are you doing? Don't mess around! I'm warning you!" Xia Qiyue said hesitantly as he backed away, with a guarded look on his face, and he almost turned around and ran away.
Only then did the shopkeeper react. His expression frightened the little girl. He quickly grabbed the strong men on the left and right, and then apologized with a smile on his face.
"I'm sorry, little girl, it's just that I was surprised and surprised when I heard you say you wanted to sell grain, and I scared you."
It's not an exaggeration to call myself a young old man, because the shopkeeper looks quite old, has a long beard, and has a fairy-like appearance, but he runs a grain store and does business with his
The image is particularly inappropriate.
Xia Qiyue stabilized her mind, coughed to hide her cowardice, then moved closer to the opening and asked again, "So you accept it?"
The shopkeeper hurriedly answered the call, fearing that the little girl in front of him would run away if he was too late.
"Collect it, collect it, collect it!"
"So...what's the price?" Xia Qiyue asked.
The shopkeeper quickly opened the half-locked door of the store and extended his hand to invite me, "Girl, come in and have a chat. The walls here have ears!"
Xia Qiyue looked at the empty space around her in a funny way. Where is the wall here? But she still boldly followed in.
It's not that she's not afraid anymore, on the contrary, there's no point in being afraid. She's already here, and she must survive. If you don't enter the tiger's den, how can you catch the tiger's cubs?
After she followed her in, the shopkeeper said with a mysterious face, "Girl, the grain is in short supply now, so the price will definitely satisfy you. Girl, tell me how many kilograms of grain you want to sell, this fine grain."
Or coarse grains, how is the quality? If you can bring the grains over and let me take a look, it will be better to set the price!"
Xia Qiyue reached out from the package she was carrying, used the package to cover her, took out a handful of wheat from the space and handed it to the shopkeeper.
The next second, she could see the shopkeeper's surprised expression.
She didn't have any surprises. The products produced by the space must be high-quality products. This is a certain phenomenon. She has nothing to be surprised about.
The shopkeeper was so tempted by the smell of wheat that he wanted to eat the wheat in his hand raw, but for the sake of face, he still looked at it for a while and then raised his head, "Girl, this wheat is of high quality. I haven't seen such full-grained wheat in three years."
"Yes, don't worry, girl, I won't treat you badly at this price. I'll take as much wheat as this in my hands."
"144 kilograms! You set the price and see if I am satisfied with it. If you are satisfied, go get the food!"
She only planted three crops, so that's all. This is also because her land is too small. People travel across thousands of hectares of fertile land, but when they come here... they only have one piece of land.
She might just be the foot-washing girl beside Tiandao's father, and she was taken care of so lightly.
"So much... so good! Well... the fine grain here, little old man, costs eight copper coins..."
The shopkeeper counted with his fingers. Xia Qiyue listened and raised the corner of his mouth. Eight copper coins per pound? He was thinking too much. That was the price when there was no famine. Now that drought has caused famine, there is no food left.
After eating, can the price still be the same as usual?
However, she stood there calmly, observing the appearance of the store.
There is indeed not a grain of food left, and it seems that there is no granary here.
Before she could observe more, the shopkeeper spoke. With a flattering smile, he said, "Girl, we charge eight copper coins per pound for our fine grains. But considering the current situation, I will give you five times the price."
, how about I charge you forty cents per pound?"
When he said this, he felt that the price was astronomical, and he felt confident that the little girl in front of him would definitely agree.
Unexpectedly, Xia Qiyue turned around and was about to leave, and Li didn't want to talk to the shopkeeper anymore.
The old shopkeeper panicked, this can't work. If he takes back more than 140 kilograms of fine fine grains and sells them to those powerful or wealthy people, then he will not only double his money, but also have many benefits, not only for the grain
Paving it well will also benefit him personally a lot.
"Hey? Girl, why are you leaving? Are you not satisfied with the price? This is already five times the price, little girl?"
Xia Qiyue stopped, turned around, and interrupted the shopkeeper in a casual tone, "I said shopkeeper, you are not sincere in accepting it! Does the Su family in the east of the city know? I sold it once at noon, and it was ten times the price.
You only bought it for five times the price, but it was life-saving food, and you actually had to make so much from it, aren't you feeling guilty?"
After saying that, Xia Qiyue turned around and waved his hand, "I'd better take him to Su's house to sell it! I won't be cheated by you!"
When the shopkeeper heard this, he looked a little panicked. It turned out that this little girl knew the market.
Yes, fine grains are not available at all these days, and those rich people don’t care about the small amount of money. If they can really buy fine grains, even if they raise the price twenty times, there will still be people willing to pay for them, and they will rush to buy them.
Thinking of this, he immediately followed Xia Qiyue, who kept walking out, and said, "Okay, okay, auntie, I'll take it tenfold, so don't bother yourself! Is that okay?"
Xia Qiyue originally didn't go to the Su Mansion because she didn't want to go through any trouble and didn't want to arouse others' suspicion. Now this was exactly what she wanted, so she didn't hesitate and agreed happily, then borrowed the cart from the grain store and went to pick it up.
All the wheat in the space was pushed back.
The fourth crop she planted was almost ripe, but she couldn't wait any longer, so she sold it first, then went back to the inn to draw a lottery, and dinner was almost ready.
After the shopkeeper checked and found that all the grains were of this quality, he happily gave them money.
A total of eleven taels and five hundred and twenty articles.
Including the remaining 568 Wen in her hand, she now holds twelve taels and eighty-eight Wen in her hand.
Now I can take another paid lottery and still have more than two taels of silver left.
Thinking about the exposed shoes on the feet of my younger siblings, the patched tattered clothes on the two children, and myself...
No, she still can't be too high-profile, just give everyone a pair of shoes, forget about the bedding, the weather is still warm anyway.
Walking back, I passed by the grocery store where I bought sacks and walked in.
They had no pots and pans, so it was really inconvenient for them to escape from the desert.
First buy a pot, five bowls and five pairs of chopsticks.
The waiter at the grocery store recognized her when he saw her, after all, she had been here just now.
Xia Qiyue bought a small iron pot. It was really small, and the food cooked was only enough for the five of them.
Because the earthenware pot was fragile, she chose an iron pot that was twice as expensive, but she couldn't buy one that was too big because they couldn't lift it.
Finally, Xia Qiyue remembered that she didn't have enough salt at home, so she asked the waiter to get some more refined salt.
But the waiter was confused, "I wonder what the refined salt objectively refers to?"
"It's just salt!" Xia Qiyue explained.
"Girl, didn't I already know about the salt? Wait! I'll bring it to you right away!"
With that said, he ran to the backyard and got it back not long after.
But Xia Qiyue was a little confused when she saw the salt brought back by the waiter in front of her.