Chapter 9 The Market
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Jin Dazhong nodded repeatedly, but still looked back at Taohua. When he saw Taohua nodding, he immediately responded: "Okay, even if it's fifty-money."
The young man looked at Taohua curiously and said cheerfully: "Okay, uncle and a few of you guys are waiting here for a while, I'll go get the money."
When Taohua and his friends saw the young man carrying the basket, they turned the inner door and went to the backyard. This time they couldn't help but speak out.
"Wow, I didn't expect that I could sell it for so much money. My embroidery and I couldn't make that much money even after two years of embroidery." Li Hua exclaimed.
"Yes, yes, you can buy a lot of things like this." Mingsheng also said with his eyes lit up. He didn't know if he could ask his father to buy a candy man for him after a while. Last time, Zhao Bao's father bought him a candy man, and he showed off all over the village, making him envious for a long time.
But in a short while, the young man came out, carrying two hanging coins in his hand, and handed them to Jin Dazhong, saying, "Uncle, the four rabbits have a total of 200 cents, but today my shopkeeper happened to be here. When I met a few of them for the first time, each one calculated two cents for an extra 208 cents. Please count, uncle."
"How can this make it happen? This is not possible." When Jin Dazhong heard this, he said nothing. He took out the money string and returned it with eight cents. He was honest and honest and could not get any advantage.
"Uncle, what are you doing? How can you send money out?" The young man quickly pressed Jin Dazhong's hand. This was specially told by the young master. If he couldn't do anything well, he would have no shame to see the young master.
"Dad, just keep it. Since the shopkeeper is so generous, we don't have to be pretentious. If there are any good things in the future, we will only sell them to the game shop." Taohua said crisply behind Jin Dazhong, and then looked at the young man.
"Oh, this little girl is talking very well. If there are any good things in the future, just sell them to our game shop." The young man smiled and said, "Boy A Sheng, come here next time and look for me."
When Jin Dazhong heard Ah Sheng say this, he was a little helpless. He had been dealing with the land and was a little uncomfortable with talking like this. He didn't know how to interfere, so he had to nod and say yes.
After a few people left the game shop, Ah Sheng ran to the backyard. He saw that there was a unique world in the backyard. The square yard was clean and refreshing. Under the ginkgo tree, two boys sat face to face through the stone table, with a pot of tea and two snacks on the table.
"Young Master, everything is done." A Sheng whispered, and repeated what had just happened. The joy he had just passed was completely gone between his eyebrows and eyes, and his face was calm.
The young man didn't respond, just looked at the person opposite him and said casually: "That little girl is interesting."
The boy opposite also looked at him, who was not Su Jinchen?
Su Jinchen was as gentle as ever and said softly: "If you can help, you can help me, just a little effort."
"Why don't you give me more?" The boy stared at him, his pair of phoenix eyes were amazingly beautiful under the sun.
"Give too much may not be a good thing." Su Jinchen picked up the tea and took a sip. He couldn't see his expression clearly in the mottled shadows of the tree.
After leaving the game shop, Jin Dazhong, who had never had so much money in his pocket, was a little uneasy. He looked around from left to right, fearing that he would be snatched away.
"Dad, don't be so careful. The more you do this, the more those little thieves know that you have money." Taohua said helplessly: "Brother, do you think so?"
"Dad hasn't taken so much money to go out? Kim Dazhong said awkwardly.
"It's okay, dad, we will have more money in the future." Jing Sheng said childishly.
"Haha." Kim Dazhong would only be so funny.
"Lihua, you take a hanging of money and take your sister and brother to buy things. Your elder brother and I will go to the dock to see if there is any work." After walking out of the vegetable market, Jin Dazhong said and handed the money in his hand to Lihua.
"This..." Li Hua looked at a bunch of money and looked at Jin Dazhong at a loss. Looking at Jing Sheng, she had never received so much money, and now she just felt it was a bit hot.
Taohua thought for a while and said, "Dad, brother, don't go to work anymore. It's not safe to bring a lot of money with me and my second sister. Why don't we buy all the things we need at home today before talking about it."
"Okay!" Jin Dazhong also felt it made sense, so he nodded.
According to what was discussed yesterday, Jin Dazhong took Taohua and a few little guys to run around to buy things.
First, buy all the things the family needs at this stage. Taohua followed her and calculated the accounts carefully in her heart. She bought a bag of flour and rice for nearly 100 cents, a pound of salt and a half pound of rapeseed oil for fifteen cents. There was still 78 cents left.
Originally, everyone was still in high spirits, but seeing that the money in their hands was getting less and less and there were still a lot of things to buy, the face couldn't help but sink, and even Mingsheng, who had been yelling to buy sugar people, didn't say anything. In fact, in Taohua's opinion, the purchasing power of this money was still very strong. One hundred cents could buy a bag of flour and rice, which saved enough for the whole family to eat for several months. In this dynasty, one tael of gold was equal to ten taels of silver, and one tael of silver was equal to one thousand cents. According to the current purchasing power, one cent was almost equivalent to one dollar in modern times, but the value of the goods here was very different from that in modern times. Just like salt, it was very cheap in modern times, but here because there was state control and the origin of salt was strictly controlled, it was very valuable, but salt was a necessity in people's lives. No wonder there was always a role in TV dramas to play the role of salt smuggling merchants as much as they are rich, and it seemed that there was a basis.
After buying food, it’s time to buy something to keep warm, which is definitely not something to save.
Standing in the cloth shop, Jin Dazhong and Jingsheng put down the noodles and rice on their backs respectively. Peach Hua held the salt bag, peach Hua held the oil tank, and Mingsheng bit his finger and looked at the candy seller outside.
The shopkeeper was an elderly woman, sitting upright behind the counter, her hair was combed in a high bun, and she was not messy at all. Seeing Jin Dazhong and others coming in, she hurriedly greeted her with a smile: "You guys are looking at her. Is it the first time I'm here in the small shop? I don't know what you want to buy?"
"Shopkeeper, we want to buy some cotton cloth and cotton," said Kim Dae-chung.
Cotton was the cheapest fabric at that time.
"It's a coincidence that I happened to have a batch of new goods back. The cloth surface was so soft that it felt soft. Whether it was making clothes or quilts, it was the best." The woman said, and took everyone to the shelf where the cloth was placed on the left, pulled out a dark blue piece from the second floor and put it in front of everyone, casually ripped apart and said, "Touch and see if this fabric is good."
"It's so good, it's so good." Jin Dazhong touched and said, his hand quickly retracted from the cloth, as if he was afraid of getting dirty: "I don't know how much it costs per foot?"
Taohua frowned when she saw it, looked at her cautious father, thinking that she would definitely live a good life in the future and make her family calm.
"It's not expensive, only two cents per foot, two or three feet is enough for an adult to make a new dress, which is very affordable." The woman's round face smiled and her flesh shook, and her eyes were shrewd.
Finally, Taohua and others chose the three-foot smoke-blue color for Zhang, and the six-foot dark blue for Kim Dazhong and Jingsheng, because the boss's wife said that she would buy a color for a penny. Kim Dazhong asked Taohua to choose one too. Taohua shook her head and said, "Let's talk about it later."
Finally, it was also called five kilograms of cotton, which cost 50 cents. Cotton is really expensive and peach blossoms are depressed.
Adding the money to buy cloth, this time I spent a total of 64 cents.
After the account was settled, Taohua suddenly spoke.
"Beautiful aunt," Taohua hid behind Jin Dazhong, suddenly spoke, looking at the boss's wife timidly, and shouted in a small voice. Although the sound was not loud, it was enough for everyone present to hear it.
Jing Sheng glanced at Taohua and didn't say anything. This girl has become more and more bizarre since she woke up from illness last time. There must be a reason for her sudden shouting.
Hearing the words of Taohua, the boss's wife immediately smiled and touched her face with her fat hands, and the silver hairpin on her head also shook.
"Is this girl your family? She is really good at talking." The proprietress bent down and pinched the peach blossom's face: "Little girl, what's the matter with calling aunt?"
"Well, it's okay, I just want to ask my beautiful aunt the fabric or not?" Taohua looked at the boss's wife and said timidly, her big eyes blinking, and her little fingers pointed at the piece of cloth piled in the corner of the door.
The proprietress looked at the cloth in the corner. It was all the rag heads left by the guests' clothes, and it was useless. They were piled up randomly on weekdays. If someone wanted it, they would sell it at a low price. If no one wanted it, they would throw it away. Anyway, it was not worth much. After looking at Jin Dazhong and others, the woman's eyes were flashing. She was about to speak, but Taohua stopped her from talking.
"Beautiful aunt, if you are useful, it's fine. My family is poor. I originally thought that if my beautiful aunt doesn't need it, I'll take it back and let my mother use it as a cloth for the table or foot cloth. Our family is really poor. Can you give it to us by a beautiful aunt?" Taohua raised her head and looked at the boss's wife, with a pitiful face and a pair of eyes that were about to cry.
The woman felt distressed when she saw it. She remembered her daughter at home. When she was a child, she looked at herself like this. She felt soft and said, "Forget it, just take it if you want it. Anyway, it's useless to keep it."
"Thank you, beautiful aunt!" Taohua immediately said happily.
Finally, Taohua and his friends picked up the rag head in the corner and left the store.
Before leaving, Taohua waved to the boss lady and said, "Thank you, beautiful aunt."
"Oh, welcome to come again next time!" the boss's wife shouted happily.
"What are you going to do in this scattered step?" Seeing that it was far away from the store, Lihua couldn't help asking.
"Of course it's useful. Our clothes last year were a little short. You can find some similar colors to our clothes in these rags, which saves some money to buy cloth. Besides, it's free stuff, but just say a few more words, don't be idle."
"So that's the case. I said I asked you to pick the fabric, why would you say it later?" Jin Dazhong suddenly realized.
"More importantly, we can use these rags to make some purses and sell them with embroidered papers! Although the fabric is not particularly good, it is much more expensive." Taohua said, this is the main purpose.
"That's fine?" Li Hua and Jing Sheng were stunned.
Taohua shrugged, there was no way. The family was too poor and she had no special skills. She had to seize every opportunity to make money. Anyway, she didn't need to embroider...
Kim Dazhong giggled while silly. This little girl is getting smarter and smarter.
Looking at the sky, it was almost noon. Kim Dazhong said, "Are you hungry? Let's find a place to eat before leaving."
"Okay!" Mingsheng was the first to agree. He ran with him all morning and was already a little hungry.
After finding a secluded place, Kim Dazhong and his friends put the things on the ground and took out corn cakes from their bags. Kim Dazhong gave each of the children a piece and kept the smallest one himself.
"We will go back after we finish eating. We bring so many things. We probably won't walk fast. If we don't want to go to the night, we have to walk earlier." Jin Dazhong swallowed a mouthful of the pancake and said.
"If I had known, I would have come to Aunt Zhao's house to borrow a cart." Taohua was a little annoyed.
"It's right that they don't have to borrow it. Their family runs a grocery shop in the village. If they know that we didn't buy things from their house and came to the city to buy it, wouldn't it be annoying to us?" Lihua said.
"Who made his family sell things so expensive? Everything costs one penny more than in the city, and some are two pennies more. We won't go to his place to buy it!" Mingsheng also understood it very well.
"It doesn't matter, just this little weight, it's not bad for people." Jin Dazhong said happily. Zhang was afraid that he would be very happy when he returned with so much food. When he thought of Zhang's smile, his heart felt warm.
"Yes, it's okay, don't worry." Jing Sheng also comforted.
Chapter completed!