Natural disasters at the beginning, widows take space to raise cubs and get rich

Chapter 12
Hearing that there was a gold bracelet, the accountant immediately put down his abacus and took the jewelry from Xia Huai.But the first thing he saw after receiving it was silk flowers, he couldn't help raising his eyebrows: "Hey, isn't this silk flower from Lishui Town?"

Xia Huai nodded: "It's really not, it was bought from Lin'an County."

"Hehe, no wonder the style is different from here. Is the little lady going to die or live?"

In ancient times, pawns were generally divided into two types. As the name suggests, pawns are not redeemable, and the price is more expensive than live pawns.Live pawns can agree on the redemption time, and the pawnshop can collect interest profits.

"Damn it." These things are useless in Xia Huai's view, especially the silk flowers, which are too bright in color, which makes her feel a bit vulgar.

The accountant immediately laughed: "In this case, I will charge this silk flower at eight renminbi per flower, and the gold bracelet weighs about six renminbi. I think the purity and carving are acceptable, so I will give you seven and a half renminbi. As for this pair of jade The earrings are about one yuan, and I'll give you two."

At this time, jade is more valuable than gold, and good jade is even more difficult to find.Although Xia Huai's pair of jade earrings were not top-grade, they were not bad either, so she was reluctant.

After some bargaining, in the end the gold bracelet became eight guan, the jade earrings became two guan and 340 Wen, and the five silk flowers cost [-] Wen, for a total of ten Guan and [-] Wen.

Here it is always one tael of silver, that is to say, the other party will give her ten taels of silver and 340 copper coins.

"Do you want silver or copper plates?"

"Silver." Silver is easy to get, if you don't have enough copper coins to buy grain later, just change it!
Xia Huai was not in a hurry to go back to find her parents. Instead, she walked slowly along the way back, looking left and right. She felt that she still needed to buy something, but she hadn't figured out what it was until she saw a stall Surrounded by several children.

Those children were holding things in their hands, some were holding bright red candied haws with icing sugar, and some were holding a piece of malt candy.

Xia Huai subconsciously lowered her head to see Rui Ge'er's expression, and the child really stared at those children with wide eyes, um, the candy in his hand.

I don't know if some candy can be exchanged in the space vending machine, she thinks it must be better than the ones sold here.

Thinking of this, Xia Huai led Rui Ge'er and walked to the sugar boy.

"How do you sell maltose?"

The young man cheerfully raised a finger: "Four for a penny, how many?"

This kind of malt candy is very small, supported by small wooden strips, only as big as a thumb.

"One penny is fine." Xia Huai took out a penny and handed it to him, while looking at the stall: "Apart from maltose, is there any other candy?"

As soon as the young man heard this, he knew he was here for business, and hurriedly opened the wooden box covered with oiled paper: "Here! Pine nut candy, this candy uses honey and glutinous rice, so it's a bit expensive, two pennies!"

Pine nut sugar is smaller than malt sugar, only as big as a little finger, but it seems to be better preserved than malt sugar.

"It's ten cents."

"Okay!" The young man swiftly pulled out a piece of greaseproof paper, picked out a ten-cent pine nut candy, and finally threw in another one after thinking about it: "Seeing how much you bought, I'll give you one!"

Xia Huai smiled and said, "Thank you very much!"

Holding the pine nut candy in his hand, he greeted Rui Ge'er to go back to the grain shop to find his parents.

Ruige'er was holding two maltose in one hand, and he didn't have time to hold his mother's hand, so he couldn't help being anxious: "Mother"

"It's okay." Xia Huai couldn't help pinching Brother Rui's face, and winked at him: "Mother, don't get lost, let's go back and find your grandparents."

Rui Geer blushed and nodded, tiptoed up to lift up the malt candy and tried to feed it to Xia Huai: "Mother, eat candy!"

A warm current flashed through Xia Huai's heart, and she shook her head lightly: "Mother doesn't like sweets, Brother Rui eats by himself!"

Brother Rui frowned unhappily: "No, mother loves to eat, and mother loved sweets very much before!"

Hearing this, Xia Huai couldn't help but froze. Although she had received the memory of the original owner, she could not receive all the details. Only when she touched certain details could she recall them.

"Ah, mother doesn't like to eat much recently, brother Rui eats by himself!"

Brother Rui didn't insist on asking Xia Huai to eat it, he just lowered his head and stared at the maltose in his hand in thought, and subconsciously read out from his small mouth: "One for cousin, one for cousin, one for me, and one left." At this moment, Rui Ge'er suddenly raised his head and looked at Xia Huai with sparkling eyes: "Mother, there is one more for you to eat!"

"Did you forget? And your aunt's son! That's your cousin!"

The little guy immediately looked like a deflated ball, pouted unhappily, and followed Xia Huai sullenly.

In the grain shop.

"Shopkeeper, your grain prices haven't changed, have they?" Xia Dashan walked around the shop and saw that they were all new grains, so he asked the shopkeeper for the price with satisfaction.

"Hehe, didn't the guest officer see it when he went out? How can we not increase the price! Now the price of wheat is 25 cents a bucket, wheat flour is 38 cents a bucket, rice is divided into brown rice and polished rice, brown rice is [-] cents a bucket Dou, polished rice costs fifty cents a dou, and beans cost ten cents a dou. Guest officer, what do you want?"

"Heh!" Wang Tieniu behind Xia Dashan couldn't help being speechless: "This is twice as expensive!"

The shopkeeper was not angry, and nodded cheerfully: "There is no way, seeing that this year's harvest will not be too good, everyone will not be short of food for the time being after the summer harvest, but what about after the autumn harvest? I will tell you exactly, God If we continue like this, the price of food will still rise in the future!"

Xia Dashan was silent for a moment: "Okay, give me two stones each for wheat and brown rice, and three stones for beans." After thinking about it, he added: "Two buckets of wheat flour."

"Okay!" The shopkeeper quoted the price while dialing the abacus: "Wheat is 25 Wen for a bucket, 500 Wen for two Shi, 38 Wen for a bucket of brown rice, 760 Wen for two Shi, 300 Wen for a dou of beans, 100 Wen for three Shi. Fifty Wen for a bucket of wheat flour." , two buckets are [-] wen, and the total is "

The shopkeeper fiddled with the abacus again, and finally confirmed: "A total of 660 Wen, so, it seems that you bought a lot, let's count it as 650, [-] Wen!"

Xia Dashan couldn't help but twitch when he heard the words, it was too expensive!
When he was about to pay, Xia Huai's voice came from behind him: "Father and mother, is the food ready?"

Zhang Meihua was the first to react, rushed to Xia Huai and started talking: "Xiao Huai, why are you buying these grains? How much grain is there at home? You don't know how expensive grain is now?"

Xia Huai couldn't help but twitched the corners of her mouth, and quickly interrupted Zhang Meihua: "Auntie, just tell me how much it is."

Zhang Meihua was stunned, how much was it just now?

Xia Dashan finally had time to speak out, and hurriedly said: "I bought seven stones and two buckets of grain, a total of 650 Wen."

Xia Huai nodded, and took out a piece of silver of about one tael from the purse: "Shopkeeper, please weigh the amount of silver here first." He also counted all the copper coins on his body, and added if he was not ready.

(End of this chapter)