Chapter 12
Mrs. Chen took Gu Yuan and Su Wan to find the owner of the wine shop. After hearing that Gu Yuan wanted to buy all the unsold wine in the wine shop, the boss was so shocked that his pupils dilated.
"Shiro Gu, are you sure you want all these drinks?"
Gu Yuan subconsciously glanced at Su Wan out of the corner of his eye, turned to the boss, bowed and said, "Sure, please help me calculate the price."
"Shiro Gujia, since you are sure you want these wines, I won't say anything more. But after all, Sanniu has worked here for so many years, and I can't cheat you.
The quality of my wine is not good. Even if you are a scholar and know the owner of Xinghualou, your wine cannot be sold in Xinghualou!
Those high-ranking officials were very naughty, saying that this wine had a sour taste, eh..."
Gu Yuan responded to the boss's words while calculating the weight of the wine with the boss.
After the quantities were measured, the boss said: "There are still 518 dou of wine left in total. I'll make it cheaper for you. It costs ten cents per dou, so the total is 5180 cents."
I won’t accept the change of 180 Wen from you, just give me 5,000 Wen.”
Mrs. Chen weighed five taels of silver that she had exchanged with the drug store owner for the wine shop owner.
Gu Sanniu borrowed a cart from the wine shop owner to use for hauling wine.
While the wine shop owner, Gu Sanniu, and Gu Yuan were moving the wine jars on the cart, Chen took Su Wan to the grain store to buy grain.
Compared with the sluggish business of other stores, the grain store's business is very booming.
There was a long queue outside the store.
Su Wan queued up with Chen. After Chen stood on tiptoes and looked inside the store, she said to Su Wan: "Wan Ya, Mom just saw that there is still a lot of food in the store. We should be able to buy it today."
superior."
The family has been out of food for a long time and has been living on wild vegetables and potatoes. Now the wild vegetables and tree bark are almost gone. If we can no longer buy food, the family will have to tighten their belts and go hungry.
Ms. Chen nervously looked at the amount of food left in the store while slowly moving forward with the team.
Su Wan also became nervous. There was still food in her space, but the Gu family had to have the same kind of food before she could secretly take it out. If the Gu family didn't have any, she would conjure it up out of thin air. Who knows if she would be regarded as a fairy?
Still a monster!
Finally it was Chen and Su Wan's turn. Chen asked the waiter in a good voice and asked: "Brother, what is the price of food now?"
"New rice is one tael of silver per dou, white flour is one tael of silver per dou, old rice is 300 cents per dou, rice bran is 50 cents per dou, and wheat bran is 50 cents per dou. How much do you want to buy? Hurry, the people behind are still waiting!"
After a quick introduction, the guy urged.
Mrs. Chen held her purse and looked at the old rice with some trepidation. She didn't dare to look at the new rice or white flour. Finally, she said: "Brother, weigh 20 buckets of rice bran and 20 buckets of wheat bran for me."
"Brother, please add 50 buckets of old rice, 10 buckets of new rice, and 5 buckets of white flour." Su Wan quickly added.
When she and Chen came out just now, Gu Yuan quietly told her to buy as much food as she could.
The waiter stopped holding the rice bran and wheat bran, looked at Mrs. Chen and then at Su Wan and asked: "Do you call rice noodles or not? Who among you makes the decision?"
Although Ms. Chen felt hurt thinking about spending so much money to go out, Su Wan opened her mouth and she couldn't take it back. She gritted her teeth and said, "Weigh, we all weigh!"
After finishing speaking, she looked at Su Wan and said, "Wanya, we bought so much food, how should we get it back?"
Su Wan responded with a smile: "Mom, don't worry, Ayuan and I have agreed that after the carts are loaded with wine at the winery, they will come here to haul food."
Mrs. Chen felt relieved and nodded.
She looked at the bags of food being packed. Although she felt a little sad for the money she had spent, she thought that the last two times she used money to buy food, she didn't buy anything. This time, she was lucky enough to be able to buy so much.
Food and peace of mind.
In this year of famine, we still need to have food at home so we don’t panic.
After the clerk weighed the grain, Gu Sanniu and Gu Yuan pushed the cart over. The cart was already loaded with five large earthenware jars that two people could hold together, as well as several smaller jars.
After Mrs. Chen paid the bill at the grain store, the waiter helped Gu Yuan and Gu Sanniu load the grain onto the cart.
The bags used by the grain store to carry grain are too eye-catching. They are not much inside the city. If they are pushed out of the city like this, the hungry refugees will probably grab them when they see them.
Gu Yuan opened one of the jars. It was empty inside. He mixed the old rice and new rice and poured it in. He also stuffed five measures of white flour into the jar, leaving only the bags of wheat bran and rice bran in the cow's milk.
In the car.
Then he and Gu Sanniu walked towards Gujiacun, one pulling and the other pushing the cart.
When the family arrived at the entrance of Gujiacun, it was almost noon. Because it rained well last night, everyone was busy in the fields at this time.
The villagers who were busy in the fields saw them pushing carts and loading so many large jars back, and asked curiously: "Dayong's family, your family has become rich, hiring an ox cart to bring such jars back?"
Mrs. Chen followed what Su Wan had said to her on the way, sighed with a bitter look on her face and said, "Hey, Qingshan family, stop talking, how are you going to make a fortune?
This was not a good time, and the wine shop where Sanniu worked for could not continue to operate. He did not even have to pay Sanniu wages, so he used the wine to pay for three years' wages.
What do you think our family is doing with this wine?
You can’t sell it, you can’t drink enough to satisfy your appetite, and if you drink too much, things will be delayed.
Hey, from the Qingshan family, I remember that your Qingshan family is very good, how about you sell some of it back to your family, and I can give you a cheaper price, twenty cents a dou?"
The woman who just made fun of Mrs. Chen immediately smiled and said: "No, no, it would have been two years earlier. I would have sold some, but in this age, I don't have anything to eat. Where can I get the spare money to drink that yellow soup?"
oh?"
Mrs. Chen sighed again and said, "Yes, we don't even have any food to eat. What will our family do with so much yellow soup?"
When Gu Yuan and Gu Sanniu pushed the cart a little further, Qingshan's wife in the field muttered in a low voice: "The Dayong family is quite unlucky. A good scholar was beaten into a living dead. When he woke up, he read
Forget it if you can’t study anymore, these three cows have worked for three years for nothing, what a crime!”
After saying that, she shook her head with emotion.
Gu Sanniu and Gu Yuan continued to push the cart towards the door of Gu's house. Halfway there, a figure suddenly jumped out from beside him. He fell directly in front of the cart, hugged his legs and shouted "ouch, ouch".
Su Wan took a closer look, who was this Yang Hu who came to their house to cause trouble that day?
She didn't expect that Yang Hu didn't give up even after being driven away that day, and came back to touch Porcelain today?
Chapter completed!