The splendid pastoral of the fierce scholar

Chapter 24 Going to the Market 4
Facing him was a young boy with half-smiling eyes.

Chen Yiyi looked at his attire, it was obvious that he was a clerk in the store, so she explained: "No, my grandma and my aunt are shopping, so I just take a look."

"Oh, it doesn't matter, little sister, you can look at whatever you want, just don't touch some edible and fragile things."

In a blink of an eye, another customer came to the store, and the young man hurried to greet the new customer.

Chen Yiyi was so happy that she happened to be alone so that she would not be disturbed, so as not to accidentally pretend not to be.In fact, Chen Yiyi didn't know, in fact, she already surprised Liu Shi very much.

Chen Yiyi's primary goal is to look at the price of grain, and Deng's group is also discussing how to buy grain.

The grocery store here is different from the one on TV, but it is indeed much more comprehensive than the one shown on TV. The food sellers are in the middle of the store.

The food is packed in rattan baskets of similar styles. There are all kinds of rice noodles, including black rice, white rice, barley, and glutinous rice. There are also many kinds of flour. The coarser wheat flour, so-called wheat flour, is the flour of another kind of wheat, which is yellowish in color.And flour with added bran.But this is not the worst one Chen Yiyi has seen. The worst one is that the largest baskets are filled with flour that is somewhat blackened and has a lot of chaff added.

As for the price, there is a small wooden board in front of everything, and the price is written on it.Although it is in traditional Chinese characters, Chen Yiyi can still recognize most of them. Chen Yiyi couldn't help crying, and finally felt the usefulness of knowledge. It's not easy!

Chen Yiyi looked at the prices of various grains, and probably got the bottom line. As far as flour is concerned, the most expensive is white flour, which costs twelve cents a catty, and flour with a little more bran costs nine cents a catty, and coarser flour. Wheat flour is probably a bit special, ten cents a catty, the cheapest is also the most, it is the blackened chaff flour, only three cents a cent.

Looking at the big basket, Chen Yiyi knew that this was the best seller, although it was poor, it was flour anyway.

Rice is cheaper, and Chen Yiyi knows a little about geography. Rice can be grown for two seasons in Shu, and the climate here is very suitable for the growth of rice, and the yield of wheat is average.

The more expensive rice here is large white rice, which costs seven renminbi a catty, and glutinous rice is a kind of rice with very little production, so the price is more expensive, at ten renminbi a catty, and this thing is usually bought for special purposes, so it is only a small In a basket.As for black rice and barley, Chen Yiyi initially felt that it would be more expensive than rice, because rice is the cheapest staple food in modern times, but the rice here is cheaper than white rice, only five cents a catty.

Chen Yiyi pondered, this might be the difference between ancient times and modern times.Most modern people are tired of eating fine white rice, so they tend to prefer other grains, but it is rare for ancient people to eat white rice, so fine white rice is rare.

Chen Yiyi probably has the bottom line in her heart now. In the memory of the original owner, the biggest income of this family is the sale of pigs. A fattened pig is about two taels of silver. Generally, the family can raise up to five pigs. If you kill a new year pig by yourself, then the income from selling pigs for a year is [-] taels.

The Chen family has [-] mu of land, and there are four male laborers in their own family plus Mr. Chen. There were no machines for harvesting and planting in ancient times, so at most [-] mu of land can be planted, and the remaining [-] mu of land can be rented out to others.It is reasonable to say that the produce in this area is also rich, but in fact, the family's life is only considered average, and they can eat white rice mixed with a lot of sweet potatoes every few days.

Chen Yiyi knew very well that there was no hybrid rice in ancient times!The yield per mu is too low, and when Mingjun, who is light on taxation, is in power, he has to pay at least [-]% tax per mu of land. In addition, he depends on the weather, and the tax is collected according to the output when the weather is the most favorable, let alone paying taxes. It is still necessary to kick the tip to let those so-called parents take care of a fortune. The receipt of the grain after deducting the cost is really unimaginably beautiful.

The thirteen members of my family can make do with it for a year, but the Chen family doesn’t grow wheat, and the capital of Shu is located on the middle line between the north and the south, so they have the habit of eating pasta and grains As a habit, the Chen family has to spend money on white noodles from time to time.

As for renting to other people's homes, grain is usually collected as rent. Mr. Chen felt that this was not convenient, there were too many things to do, and it was too troublesome to get grain every year, so he simply converted it into silver based on most people's harvest this year. Twenty mu of land can have a rent of ten taels of silver.

Alas, Chen Yiyi is also very helpless, since she has traveled to ancient times, this is inevitable, and there are gains and losses.For this pollution-free ancient pastoral, the freedom and advanced technology of modern people must be lost.I can't live the modern life of rich material and convenient life, just like now, eating rice has to be considered good.

Woohoo, as a Ph.D. in Biology, Chen Yiyi once tried to use biotechnology to transform a bear that does not eat fish. Would it be possible to have both fish and bear's paws?

While sighing, Chen Yiyi did a rough calculation, and with the usual miscellaneous income, the annual income of the Chen family was about 20 taels of silver.

Eh!Chen Yiyi thought this was very good. In the ancient times when a penny counted as one yuan, one tael of silver was equivalent to one thousand taels, and 20 taels was almost 2 yuan.

Farmers are more self-sufficient in their lives, so most of the money in it can be saved!

Chen Yiyi suddenly feels that the Chen family still has potential, but why, after so many years, does it feel like Mr. Chen has never thought about spending a lot of money?Moreover, the life of the Chen family has not been very good.

It's so strange!

Just when Chen Yiyi was puzzled, Qin Zhao's voice came from beside her ear.

"Hey, Yiyi, I've already bought medicine for my grandfather."

(End of this chapter)