The shopkeeper stood at the counter, rolling up his sleeves and fiddling with his abacus. From time to time he picked up a brush and made a few strokes on the account book.
The side of the counter against the wall,
There is a row of rice boxes.
Each rice box contains most of the grain rice.
The grains contained in this row of rice boxes are mainly for display purposes to customers.
If the amount of grain purchased is small, you can naturally load the grain here and pay for it to be taken away.
Mi Zhuang conducts large-scale transactions of grain worth one stone or more.
They all carry food from the warehouse in the small door behind the counter.
"Boy, girl, what kind of grain do you want to buy?" The waiter in the shop seemed to be more concerned about the business here than the shopkeeper. He saw Su Wu leading Li Zhuer into the rice box to check, and he was still helping a customer.
Weighing the brown rice, Su and Wu were already greeted.
Su Wu glanced at the row of rice boxes.
Found inside this Xinglong Rice Village,
The only types of grains and rice sold are brown rice, polished rice, glutinous rice, flour, dried sweet potatoes, etc.
The sign stuck in the pile of rice only identifies the name of the grain.
It does not state how much this kind of food is worth.
Compared with the supermarkets of later generations, it seems quite inhumane.
Su Wu grabbed a handful of brown rice and looked at it. When the waiter was free, he was about to speak.
Li Zhuer, who had also checked the quality of brown rice, already said: "Man, how much does the brown rice here cost per pound?"
"Brown rice costs ten cents per pound," the waiter replied with a smile.
Seeing that Li Zhuer was pretty, he was willing to negotiate with Li Zhuer.
Li Zhuer grabbed a handful of brown rice and looked at it: "We came to buy rice a few days ago. Brown rice only costs eight cents per catty. In the past few days, it has already increased to ten cents..."
“The year is not peaceful, and food prices are changing day by day.
Now, let alone eight cents or nine cents, you can't buy a pound of brown rice." The waiter replied with a smile.
At this time,
The shopkeeper who was keeping accounts behind the counter put down his brush.
He glanced at Li Zhu'er and said in a neutral tone: "Now the price of brown rice is the same everywhere. If you want to buy it, just pay for it. If you don't need it, just make room for it for future generations!"
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Today's situation,
Those who have food in their hands and those who have people in their hands are both very ruthless.
It happened that all the rice farms had food and people.
The shopkeeper's words were somewhat arrogant.
It was also because he saw that Li Zhuer and Su Wu were dressed in tatters, so he guessed that they would not be big customers.
Li Zhuer listened to the shopkeeper's words,
Liu's eyebrows were slightly raised, and his voice was raised a bit: "Since I came in, I came here to buy rice, so I wouldn't come here to entertain you!
shopkeeper,
A pound of brown rice here costs ten dollars.
How much does a stone of brown rice cost? Is that the same amount?"
Seeing that the little lady seemed angry, the shopkeeper of Mi Village relaxed and said with a smile: "If you can afford one stone of brown rice, I will give you nine yuan - no, eight yuan and five pounds of rice!"
One stone of rice is one hundred and fifty kilograms.
Calculated at eight and a half copper coins per pound, one stone costs two hundred and seventy-five coins.
There are seventy-five coins more than the twelve hundred coins the master said.
Su Wu felt that the price was acceptable.
However, Li Zhuer has not let go yet,
He is not good at bargaining,
Just give the stage to Li Zhuer to perform.
I secretly thought that this Li Zhuer might be of some use,
The price was reduced in just a few words.
If it were him,
I will only listen to the other party's quotation and come up with one myself.
If the other party's offer is acceptable, then buy it.
The price quoted by the other party was unacceptable, but I really needed this thing, so I bit the bullet and bought it.
If you don't really need this thing, then just turn around and leave.
The current price negotiation process between Li Zhuer and Mi Zhuang also seems to be the same to Su Wu.
But I don’t know why,
The price will then come down,
It's amazing.
"I'll buy you ten shi of rice, and I'll pay seven cents per catty!" Li Zhuer said suddenly.
The shopkeeper looked at her with a smile,
Suddenly I heard her take the initiative to quote,
His expression turned out to be a bit serious: "How can you do it with seven dollars a pound?
Eight yuan per catty, eight yuan per catty is the lowest price!"
"I bought you ten shi of rice and you refused to give me a good price. Why should I buy it?" Li Zhuer shook her head and dragged Su Wu to leave, "In three days, there will also be a market in Longtou Town.
We can go to the rice store there to buy it!”
She pulled Su Wu,
While walking out of the shop,
He turned around and said: "Shopkeeper, it's not me who said that last year's weather was pretty good, and everyone still had some surplus food on hand. This year, the weather here is also going well. You have so much rice on hand..."
I don’t know what Li Zhuer said that moved the shopkeeper.
The shopkeeper suddenly said: "Seven cents and five cents,
For seven and a half copper coins a pound, I'll sell you ten shi of rice!
The ugly thing is ahead, if you can't afford ten shi of rice today..."
"What can't you afford?" Li Zhuer seemed to acquiesce to the rice price of seven and a half copper coins per pound. She stretched out her hand towards Su Wu and said, "Elder brother, here is the money."
Su Wu quickly calculated in his mind,
I realized that Li Zhuer had set the price lower than the price quoted by the master.
I felt relieved immediately,
He took out the bag of silver from his arms and handed it to her.
She unfolded the cloth bag,
Ten silver ingots weighing twice as much were revealed.
He smiled at the shopkeeper and said: "Shopkeeper, if you buy it with silver, do you want to give me a more affordable price?"
in this way,
Li Zhuer paid seven cents, three cents and five hundred kilo of rice.
I bought twelve stones of brown rice at Xinglong Rice Village.
It cost eight taels and eight cents of silver.
The shopkeeper took the small scale on the counter, weighed one tael of deposit, and said to Su Wu and Li Zhuer with a smile: "Two guests, where will these twelve stones of rice be delivered to you later?"
go?
Do we need to hire those outside thugs to help transport it?
The current situation is not peaceful, so I suggest you spend a few cents to hire them to help transport the goods.
Although the cost is a bit higher,
But safety is the most important thing!”
"Don't ask them to help transport it,
Doesn't your rice store guarantee delivery to the place?" Su Wu asked aloud.
"That's not the case, that's not the case." The shopkeeper shook his head repeatedly, "You two are big customers and bought so much food from us, so we naturally sent our guys to deliver the food to your place.
However, if you encounter danger, our guys will not stand up for you.
The old man suggested that you hire a few people from the business, it is for your own sake..."
"No need."
Su Wu shook his head and rejected the shopkeeper's so-called 'good intention'.
The longer he stayed here, the more he realized the purchasing power of one tael of silver.
If you use one tael of silver to buy grain, you can buy nearly 200 catties!
But now the shopkeeper asked him to spend a tael of silver to hire a few thugs who looked useless?
Then isn’t this money wasted?
It is impossible for him to agree,
He turned to the shopkeeper and said: "We will go out to do some things later, and come back and set off with your guys.
Send us the food to the stove team at Qingshi Nian Village.
——The master of Zao Team asked us to buy these rice."
"So they are the disciples of the master in charge!" The shopkeeper's eyes changed slightly when he looked at the two of them, a look of fear flashed across his eyes, and the smile on his face became much thicker. He nodded repeatedly and said, "It's easy to say, easy to say, you guys will come back later.
,
I just asked the guy to load the car.
Let’s set out with you!”
This matter was agreed upon,
Su Wu took Li Zhuer and left Mi Village.
Then he went to the east of Zhujiazhuang,
A blacksmith shop behind an alley.
With his hands empty, Su Wu opened the curtain in front of the blacksmith shop. When he stepped inside, he already had a huge package in his hand, which was filled with scraps of copper and iron that he had collected from the black and romantic bandits.
In the blacksmith shop,
The space is relatively spacious.
On the wall facing the door, there are many pots, pans, shovels, hoes and other cooking utensils and agricultural tools hung on it.
A broken counter stood in front of the ironware,
There was no one guarding the counter.
Instead, from the east side of the house, there were bursts of hammering sounds.
Blacksmith Zhu, who was wearing a leather apron and only a single coat, placed a red-hot iron bar on the iron felt. He held a hammer in his other hand and kept hitting the iron bar.
smash it into shape,
Sparks flew everywhere!
Dang! Dang! Dang!
Zhu Tiejiang obviously saw Su and Wu walking into the shop.
He yelled: "Wait a minute!"
The loud voice surpassed the sound of forging iron tools and reached the ears of Su and Wu.
The two of them found seats and sat down to wait.
Blacksmith Zhu forged the red-hot iron bar into a piece, which was thicker than a baby's arm, and then inserted it into the furnace to continue calcining.
His son, Blacksmith Xiao Zhu, kept fanning the stove.
Make the fire burn brighter.
Only then did Blacksmith Zhu have some free time. He walked up to Su Wu and Wu, glanced at the pile of broken copper and iron spread out by Su Wu on the ground, and asked them directly: "Do you want to use it?"
Can you exchange these things for some iron tools?"
"yes,
Change some cooking utensils.
Also, please ask Blacksmith Zhu to make some weapons for us." As Su Wu spoke, seeing Blacksmith Zhu frowning, he followed up, "It's mainly for us, the disciples of the Zao Team, to travel around."
As soon as I heard the name Zao Team,
Zhu Tiejiang's eyebrows relaxed slightly, and he sat down on the large armchair. He patted the armrest and asked Su Wu: "The stove team is the stove team of Mr. Li named Zao who stayed in Qingshi Nianzi Village?"
"Exactly."
Su Wu nodded.
At this time, Li Zhuer had no time to speak.
He said: "My master asked us to come here to find you, saying that you can make weapons."
Blacksmith Zhu stretched out his hand to pull away the pile of broken copper and iron on the ground, nodded and said: "The iron tools collected here are nearly a hundred kilograms when melted. A few sets of cooking utensils and a few weapons are enough.
Cooking utensils are readily available,
You just choose a few sets.
As for the weapons, they are also ready-made, just wait a moment."
talking,
Zhu Tiejiang then turned around and went behind the counter.
He dragged a large box out from behind the counter and brought it to Su Wu.
Once out of the box,
On the straw inside, there were shining swords, guns, swords and halberds!
"I made this myself recently,
See if there is anything you like." Zhu Tiejiang put the things in front of Su Wu and let him choose, while he went back to rummaging through the pile of scraps of copper and iron that Su Wu had brought.
The weapons in the box,
Most of them are made in the shape of a plain knife,
There are several wild goose feather knives in between.
There are also two pairs of winter melon hammers - the so-called winter melon hammers do not mean that the hammer heads are as big as winter melons.
In fact, the head of the hammer is not much bigger than an adult's fist. Even so, one hit with the hammer can make the cavalry in the military formation flip over.
