Buying groceries

When I was in Xiangyang, there was always a vegetable market every two or three squares. The government provided the place, collected the rent, and the guilds managed it. The population in Luoyang is too small now, so only three markets were built in a few squares near Huitong Bridge.

There is a vegetable market, many of which are government stores.

Ma Kuo's eldest son, Ma Chong, walked along the street and walked around the vegetable market.

It's summer, and there are a dazzling array of vegetables in the vegetable market. Everything you need is available. However, the Ma family used to employ maids to cook, but there are no maids anymore. The women in the family are not very good at cooking. After thinking about it, I bought two

I steamed the fish at home and ate it.

Holding the slaughtered fish in his hand, Ma Chong bought another leg of lamb, a live chicken and slaughtered it, two kilograms of eggs, some random vegetables, and then went to a cooked food shop. This cooked food shop is

Xuanfusi Industry, named "Touguxiang", has a semicolon in every state and city. The recipes used are uniformly researched, standardized procurement, standardized production, and the taste is the same everywhere.

With the current scale of Luoyang City, "Touguxiang" does not make much money, and it is really boring to maintain so many employees. However, Luoyang is a big city, and Wang Xiaolie insisted that what is available in other places should be available here, so he had to open it here. Even just

Even the headquarters was moved to Luoyang City.

After watching for a while, Ma Chong asked: "How much does the cooked beef cost here?"

The person in the store said: "Sir, there is a price tag on the wall over there. Cooked beef is one hundred and sixty cents per pound."

Ma Chong curled his lips and said to the shopkeeper: "The imperial court has a law that a pound of beef is no more than twenty cents. Even if it is cooked, it is only thirty or forty cents. You charge so much per pound, and you cook it with fairy grass?"

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The shopkeeper laughed and said, "Guest is joking. The beef that costs twenty cents per pound is sick cattle and dead cattle. We have them now. It's different here. They are all slaughtered cattle. Fresh meat costs one hundred cents, cooked."

Beef costs 160 yuan, which is very cheap."

The Song Dynasty banned the slaughter of farm cattle, but it did not mean that beef was not eaten. Cows that died of illness or old age were still eaten. In order to prevent people from stealing farm cattle, the price of beef was limited, and the price of beef was not allowed to exceed 20 fen per pound. Ordinary mutton cost 100 fen.

Pork in Kaifeng is a little more expensive per pound, and it is similar in other areas. Others, such as live chicken, cost about a hundred cents per pound, and geese are slightly cheaper. Eggs cost five cents each, which is about seven or eight cents per pound.

Ten cents. The price of beef is limited to less than twenty cents, which is basically unprofitable. However, in some places, you can kill the cow and sell the meat to the neighbors, and you can still sell it for a hundred cents.

Under Wang Xiaolie's rule, the price of meat has not dropped, but it has not increased either. It is basically the price before Jingkang. Compared with other places now, it is very cheap. In many places, due to wars and northerners

A large number of people moved south, and prices skyrocketed.

The "bone-flavored" beef is bought directly from the slaughterhouse, much lower than the market price. It sells for 160 cents, and the profit is not much. This is a business strategy, the price is not high, the taste is stable, and it can be made for a long time.

Business.

After listening to the store owner's explanation, Ma Chong said nothing and just stared at the meat on the stall.

In addition to beef, there are also beef cheeks, tripe, hooves, etc., all of which have been braised and can be eaten as soon as you buy them. In addition to beef, there are also cooked muttons on the side. Of course, the most popular ones are pigs and chickens.

There are cooked pig heads, cooked pig trotters, cooked elbows, cooked pork tongues, and even cooked ribs. Chickens include whole cooked chickens, chicken feet, chicken legs, and even chicken hearts.

In this era, pig's trotters, chicken feet, etc. are not valuable, and "Touguxiang" is also sold cheaply.

After standing aside and watching for a while, Ma Chong said: "Cut two kilograms of beef after you have chosen it, mix it and wrap it up. Also, there is one kilogram of tripe, which needs to be mixed well before wrapping it up. Come back over there.

Six chicken legs, one elbow, and three pig trotters."

The storekeeper agreed loudly. He cut the beef and tripe and mixed them together, then took some lotus leaves and wrapped them. Another clerk took the chicken legs, elbows, and pig's trotters, wrapped them in a few lotus leaves, and handed them to Ma Chong.

Ma Chong took it and sighed. These cooked meals cost a lot of money. Since Ma Kuo's disaster, the family has never been so rich. I don't know if this life can last. God has mercy on me, I hope.

My father can be safe and sound.

After coming out of the vegetable market, Ma Chong went to the liquor store nearby and bought a bottle of liquor, a bottle of wine, and a bottle of rice wine. He couldn't take any more, so he called a man doing odd jobs nearby and asked him to carry the food on a load.

Transport it home yourself.

Walking on the road, Ma Chong took out the remaining money, counted it carefully, and hid it carefully in his underwear. He spent less than two guan today, and the rest was the private money of his small family. Wang Xiaolie

Under the rule of the Communist Party of China, people are encouraged to separate their families early and large families are not encouraged to live together. If the father can settle down in Luoyang City, he should also consider taking his wife and children to separate and form a small family. This money is the capital of the small family.

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After returning home, Ma Kuang came out and saw that his son had hired someone to pick out the food. He couldn't help but be surprised. In this era, prices are so high that his son took five guans out and bought such things. He just bought wine, and he couldn't help but wonder.

Too lazy to care.

He asked his mother and wife to get fish and mutton to cook. Ma Chong put the cooked food on the table and said to his father: "Dad, there is a cooked food shop here called "Touguxiang", which is under the Xuanfu Division.

.Everything is sold there, which is really convenient. I bought some and brought them back for my dad to drink with."

Ma Kuo came up to take a look and couldn't help but shake his head and said: "This elbow is very plump and interesting. What do you mean by the other things you bought? Although our family is not very rich, how can we eat cooked beef? Which serious wine shop have you seen?

, can you sell this kind of food?"

Ma Chong said: "Dad, under Xuanfu, unlike other places, cattle are not allowed to be slaughtered. The meat is freshly killed and tastes very good. I looked at that shop for a long time and saw people

The most purchased item is cooked beef.”

Ma Kuo couldn't help but frown after hearing this: "It is forbidden to slaughter cattle here? Is there such a thing in the world?"

Ma Chong said: "I asked others and they said that as long as they have been raised for ten years, even cattle can be slaughtered. So the beef sold here is more expensive than other places, but it tastes delicious. It has lived for dozens of years.

How can I do this if I haven’t eaten beef yet?”

Ma Kuo glanced at his son, picked up a piece of beef and ate it. After tasting it for a while, he said: "Sure enough, this is good meat!"

Ma Chong smiled and said: "I've been looking there for a long time. How could I lie to my father? The wines here are all the best in wine shops. My father has a taste."

He picked up the white wine and poured it for Ma Kuo, holding the bottle and looking at it.

Ma Kuo picked up the wine and drank it all in one gulp. He said, "This wine is still powerful! Here in Luoyang, you can not only serve the country, but also have good wine and food. What more can I ask for!"
Chapter completed!