ancient female doctor

Chapter 16 Salt Expensive
Qingzhu left the cloth shop, and went to the rice shop to buy some rice and flour.

Rice is ten cents a liter, and brown rice is only four cents. In comparison, the price of rice is a bit staggering.But Qingzhu was really fed up with the taste of brown rice, one by one, it seemed to be scratching his own throat, the porridge cooked was not sticky at all, it was really hard to swallow.

Flour is more expensive than rice, and it costs twelve cents a liter.

Qingzhu bought three liters of rice and one liter of flour.It's not that she doesn't want to buy more, it's that these things add up to more than ten catties. She is a little girl, and her shoulders feel a little stretched on her back.

After buying rice noodles, Qingzhu bought a piece of suet more than two catties and a catty of pork belly at the butcher shop.Suet is 25 Wen a catty, and pork belly is [-] Wen a catty.Originally, Qingzhu wanted to buy some stick bones to go home to stew, thinking that the weather is getting hotter and hotter these days, and he is afraid that the things will be damaged after taking them back, so he can only give up.

After leaving the butcher shop, Qing Zhu went to the grocery store to buy a catty of salt and half a catty of sugar, both salt and sugar were terribly expensive.

Half a catty of sugar cost Qingzhu two hundred Wen, but this is also understandable.Sugar is an expensive item in this era, and generally few people are willing to buy sugar.

The most outrageous thing is the salt. A catty of salt costs [-] Wen!

Perhaps compared to sugar, salt is not too expensive, but sugar is not a necessity, but salt is a necessity of life.If an adult does not eat salt for a month, his body will lose strength, and in severe cases, he may even die.And I heard from the boss that this is because the prince of Ningzhou Prefecture is more wise, and the price of salt in other places is more expensive than here.

Although Qingzhu is not very familiar with history, she knows that things like salt can best reflect the prosperity or decline of a dynasty. It seems that the court is really extremely corrupt.

Hey... I don't know how long we can live in peace. Once the world is not peaceful, this life will be as cheap as a dog.

Qingzhu was worried for a while, then laughed, let's live her own life first, whether the world is peaceful or not, it really cannot be changed by a little girl like her.

After buying these things, Qingzhu suddenly found that there were still a small amount of pens, inks, papers and inkstones for sale in the grocery store, and quickly asked the price.

A piece of the cheapest Jianmo is 120 Wen, a side of the cheapest tile inkstone is [-] Wen, an ingot of the cheapest ink is [-] Wen, and a knife is the cheapest raw edge paper [-] Wen.

Qingzhu counted on himself, besides the money to buy rice, meat, salt and sugar, he still had 550 Wen, and the worst set of pen, ink, paper and inkstone was [-] Wen.It's inconvenient to take the money on my body now... Is it true that I don't want to buy pens, inks, papers and inkstones for Qingshan?

Qingshan still has to go to school, it is always better to practice earlier, but the money...

After struggling for a long time, Qing Zhu asked the boss with a blushing face: "Boss, can you make these cheaper? I really don't have enough money on me, otherwise, how about I buy half a knife of paper? Or, you can help me return this candy Okay, can I?"

"Why don't I refund the sugar for you." The boss is a straightforward person, and the price of these things is not less, so he directly offered to refund Qing Zhu's sugar.

Reluctantly, Qingzhu took out the mulberry paper bag wrapped with sugar from the backpack and handed it to the boss, a little reluctant to let go.The boss laughed and said, "How about this, little girl, since you are reluctant to refund the sugar, then tell me how much money you are short, and I will help you find a way."

"I still have five hundred and eight letters on me." Qingzhu said shyly.

"Well then, don't want this ink. I have half an ingot of broken ink here, and a poor scholar bought the lesser half. I might as well sell the remaining half of the ingot to you. I'll give you fifty cents." Now, do you think this is good?" The boss said, and he took out half a dusty ink ingot from the bottom of the shelf, and handed it to Qingzhu, saying: "Ink is good ink, but my boy is too skinny. It was broken for me, and I don’t need it on weekdays, so it’s a good deal for you.”

"That's a total of 480 Wen, right? Boss, please pack it for me. I want it. By the way, do you have tung oil for lighting? If you have, give me some too." Qingzhu said, from He took out money from his sleeve.

"Tung oil is five cents a catty, but let me tell you, little girl, this oil is poisonous and can only be used for lighting. If it is used for cooking, it will eat dead people. I will definitely not recognize it at that time." Not the boss Too much talk, some people are really poor and crazy, bought tung oil to cook, and ended up eating people to death.This matter is not made up by the boss, but real.

Of course, it wasn't the boss who met him, but the owner in front of the grocery store. The family who bought tung oil to cook vegetables carried the dead to the boss's shop. In the end, all the grocery stores were built in.

Afterwards, some people speculated that the family really couldn't survive, so they deliberately ate tung oil to blackmail the boss, otherwise why only one person had an accident, and the others were still alive and kicking.And the person who had the accident is said to be a medicine jar...

Of course, the owner of the grocery store would not casually say this to Qingzhu, if she knew that there were dead people in her store, the little girl would not know how frightened she would be.

"Don't worry, I know this. It's just for lighting, otherwise it will be dark and scary at night." Qingzhu smiled and said to the boss.

"I don't worry about that." As he said that, the boss found a bamboo tube, filled the green bamboo with tung oil, covered it securely and handed it to the green bamboo, and said, "Little girl, this thing must be shocking, and it must not be eaten with food. Put the oil together, and don't put it in a place that is too hot, and don't see an open flame, otherwise it will be a disaster."

"Thank you boss for reminding me." Qing Zhu counted out five Wen and handed it over, taking the tung oil and thanking him.

Although the boss is long-winded, he is a nice person.If it weren't for being a good person, who would have said so much to her.So Qingzhu is really grateful to this boss.

By the time Qingzhu finished shopping, it was already late afternoon. Fortunately, the summer days were long. If it were winter, the sun might have set by the time Qingzhu arrived home.

Qingzhu was carrying something on her back, just as she walked out of Wangjiaji, she heard an anxious and joyful voice: "Sister!"

Qingzhu looked up, it wasn't who the kid in Qingshan was.

"Qing Shan, why are you here?" Qing Zhu asked quickly when she saw Qing Shan.

"Sister, it's great that you're fine!" Qingshan rushed to Qingzhu, looking at Qingzhu with a happy face.

Qingshan's eyes were red with tears in the corners.Sweat sticks the hair to the face, the clothes on the head, and some mud, it looks like it has fallen a lot.

　One liter is about two catties.As for the fact that the price of salt indicates corruption in the government, although Yaoye girl did not find the exact information.But something like salt is indeed related to the foundation of the country.This can be imagined from the fact that Emperor Yongzheng grasped the salt administration so hard. When Japan's nuclear power plant leaked in March 11, when everyone was scrambling for salt like crazy, Miss Yaoye did the same to persuade people around that there was no need to hoard salt.

　　
　
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