"Mom, if you can ask for rice soup for Qiaoer, my daughter-in-law will make cows and horses for you from now on without any complaints." Zhao Hehua said quickly.
"Qiao'er is also my granddaughter, why do you need to be like this? What's more, since you have married into our family, you must listen to me just like Dahu and the others."
In the past, he earned five taels of silver from selling flowers. Ye Chuqiu spent three taels of silver to buy food in Lusu City. He also received a reward of one cent and a pot of tea cost ten cents. In addition, he spent several hundred copper coins on the gratitude token yesterday.
Fortunately, she had some gratitude points earned by delivering water, which saved her a lot of money.
Now, she still has one tael of silver and two coins of broken silver in her hand. She can exchange one coin of silver for some rice grain, which is more than enough.
In fact, Ye Chuqiu still has two buckets of rice that have not been touched here, but she gave the basket to Zhao Hehua yesterday. Now, she has nothing in her hands and cannot conjure food out of thin air, so she plans to exchange it with the villagers.
, then we can get the food out.
In order to make it easier to carry things in the future, Ye Chuqiu no longer used the basket, but took out an empty backpack. From now on, she would put her things in the backpack and take whatever she wanted from the backpack.
Carrying a basket on his back, Ye Chuqiu got off the cart and walked up to the villagers, "I'm not a refugee, and I don't beg. I just want to spend money to buy some food from you. How about this? I'm willing to pay the market price for both.
Buy twice as much.”
"purchase?"
After hearing what Ye Chuqiu said, the villagers were a little relieved.
"Yes, buy it." Ye Chuqiu said, taking out a piece of silver from his arms, "Can these two pieces of silver prove my purchasing power?"
"It's okay to spend money to buy food, but in this disaster year, I won't buy double the food." A fat woman next to him said, "At least triple the price."
"What three times, at least ten times!"
Another skinny old lady looked at the one tael of silver in Ye Chuqiu's hand, with a flash of light in her withered eyes.
"Yes, ten times!" After hearing what the old lady said, the fat woman also said quickly.
"Ten times?" Ye Chuqiu looked hesitant on his face.
"If you want to, just be willing. If you don't want to, forget it."
"That's right, we're still not willing to sell it even if it's ten times the price."
The surrounding villagers were saying this, but there was clearly some greed in their eyes.
Ye Chuqiu glanced at Qiao'er and then nodded, "Okay, who asked my child to drink rice soup? I agreed!"
"Come with me." The tall and thin old lady glanced at Ye Chuqiu and led her into the village.
Immediately afterwards, the strong men who were guarding also said: "You see, it's not that we won't let you in, as long as you can also come up with money and buy ten times the food, we will let you in, otherwise there is no need to talk!"
For one tael of silver, Ye Chuqiu exchanged five buckets of rice with these women. Although he bought it at ten times the price, it was actually cheaper than the rice he bought in Lusu City before.
Without it, these women had doubled the amount of rice they sold before ten times, but they didn't know that those profiteers had doubled their profits even more.
Moreover, although the dou of rice measured by these women is only an equal dou, the dou of rice they use is a normal dou, which is still much larger than the dou of rice measured by those profiteers in Lusu City.
All in all, this is a deal that everyone is happy with.
Ye Chuqiu took out another coin and bought some jars, bowls and other items from them, and also bought a kitchen knife and a hatchet from them. These women seemed to be mainly the skinny old lady, who listened to them
As you call her, this old lady seems to be the village chief's wife. No wonder there is still some food left at home.
The old lady increased the price for Ye Chuqiu. After buying so many things with her one penny, she only had eight copper coins left.
But Ye Chuqiu didn't care anymore. The knives at home were snatched away by the rebels. Without weapons in his hands, he felt insecure. Now with these two knives, Ye Chuqiu's sense of security doubled.
With the remaining eight copper coins, Ye Chuqiu asked them to send two jugs of water, which were put in the jars she bought; and asked them to send a bundle of hay for the big buffalo to eat, and asked for a few pieces of wood for them to eat.
Dahu used it to make a bullock cart for her.
Of course, her eight copper coins were also used as a reward for them, which was a thank you for their hard work.
She exchanged her last remaining silver for copper coins with the village chief's wife, then carried her things and left with satisfaction.
"Sister-in-law, what good things did you get in exchange?"
Seeing Ye Chuqiu coming out, Li Youmei hurriedly greeted her. Ye Chuqiu gave her a sideways look, which meant: You roared like that last time, causing me to lose so much food. You haven't learned a lesson yet?
After receiving Ye Chuqiu's look, Li Youmei quickly covered her mouth, not daring to say anything anymore.
Lin Dahu on the side came over and took the fodder and wood from Ye Chuqiu's hands. Ye Chuqiu said: "Dahu, let's settle down near this village and prepare the ox cart before setting off. Otherwise, we have so many things, you guys
It’s too tiring to carry it.”
The actual reason is that she wants to wait until she has a meal before harvesting the gratitude points. Although this village is not big, there are dozens of households and hundreds of people at least. This is not a place to be missed.
It's just that she doesn't have much money now, and she just hopes to sign some candies to exchange gratitude points with the children in the village.
"Okay, mother."
Lin Dahu responded, pulled the ox aside, and then pushed the cart again, thinking in his mind how to make the cart.
Ye Chuqiu also took out rice and asked Zhao Hehua to make rice soup.
In the past few days, the wheat porridge they had eaten was very thin, and their stomachs were empty every day. They just got rice today, and Ye Chuqiu asked Zhao Hehua to cook more so that everyone would be full.
As soon as Lin Erhu and the others set up the stove, the refugees outside the village all looked at them, their eyes straight and frightening for no reason.
Ye Chuqiu was afraid that when the food was ready, these refugees would come to snatch it away, so he went forward to negotiate with the villagers, "I will give you eight cents to rent you an empty house. We can only rent it for two hours. Is that okay?"
The leader of the big man thought for a moment, exchanged glances with several men around him, nodded in agreement, "Okay, we agree."
There was a reason why Ye Chuqiu said he would give eight cents. There were only four big men guarding the entrance of the village. If they were to share it, each of them could get exactly two cents.
Even though these two pennies may not seem like much, in rural areas, all the money at home is saved from one penny to one penny, and they have very few opportunities to make money.
Therefore, what Ye Chuqiu said, and just now Ye Chuqiu bought something worth more than one or two silver in the village, she proved her financial strength, and their family also has a big buffalo, which proves that they are not that kind of person.
Desperate refugees, and besides, they only rented it for two hours, so these big guys agreed.
One of the big men led Ye Chuqiu and his family towards the village. Li Youmei and the others were about to follow, but they were stopped by the big man, "You are not allowed to let so many people in."