HLnovel Chapter 248: Which farm was robbed?
Chapter 248: Which farm was robbed?
The shopkeeper gritted his teeth and said, "That depends on how much you want. Besides, I advise you to buy food quickly if you really want to. When there are more refugees entering the city, the price of food will increase even more. Actually, I am not in a hurry to sell it now. I will wait for the refugees to come in and wait for the price to go up."
If Shen Zhiqiu and his friends came from the south, why was it that when they went to the north and talked, the other party didn't realize that they were not locals?
This means that Shen Zhiqiu's hometown in his previous life was in this area. He used the dialect of his hometown in his previous life to communicate with the people here, and there was no sense of incongruity.
When the people in Shenjia Village heard about Shen Zhiqiu, they thought that their third son was very knowledgeable. Maybe he learned it before?
It's mainly a bit of blind trust.
Moreover, Shen Zhiqiu usually spoke in front of everyone not in the tone of his hometown, but in the tone of his original self.
As for Xiaowu who is following him now, he really feels that it is no wonder that he was able to pass the imperial examination and become a scholar. He has only been here for a short time, but he has learned to speak so well.
It's impossible not to admire him.
Well, in the final analysis, they had no idea that there was another possibility, which was time travel. This word did not even exist in their minds.
This is also the reason why Shen Zhiqiu dared to reveal his true nature openly, instead of following the novels he wrote in his previous life, which stated that he had to hide first, disguise himself, and then change subtly bit by bit.
They won't think you are a time traveler at all. As for being possessed by a ghost? Have you ever seen a ghost possessed in broad daylight?
Moreover, this ghost not only doesn’t harm them, but also helps them everywhere?
Even if it was a ghost, it was the ancestor of their Shenjia Village who came back. It was definitely not an outsider. Why would an outsider help them so much?
As I said, no one is a fool. It's not that we can't see the changes. It's that Shen Zhiqiu's family is sincere to everyone, so everyone will find various reasons to dispel their inner concerns.
So when Shen Zhiqiu asked about the price and communicated with the grain store owner, he had no doubts at all, and he never imagined that the person standing in front of him was the refugee he mentioned.
He also advised Shen Zhiqiu, saying: "The price of food in our store is really the cheapest in the surrounding counties. In recent days, many counties have been raising prices.
If it weren’t for the temple fair in our county, where many dignitaries from the capital would come, and the county magistrate had pressured us not to raise the price, we would have raised it.”
He also vowed to Xiaowu: "You post stations should also hurry up and stock up on food. When the temple fair is over, the price of food in our county will definitely go up.
There is a war going on in the south right now, and we are also affected, not to mention the rising prices.
After he finished speaking, he looked around and saw that there were no people around. He motioned for Shen Zhiqiu and Xiaowu to come closer and told them mysteriously:
"My master has someone in the capital who says that the south is in complete chaos and no one is taking care of it. There are peasant uprisings everywhere. They also say that some bandits have declared themselves kings and are secretly coming to our side to buy grain. The grain price will definitely go up like crazy in the future."
Xiao Wu glanced at Shen Zhiqiu casually, muttering to himself, "Why didn't I hear Uncle Shen tell me about this? Logically, they just came from the south, so they should know about it! It seems that I really need to tell the shopkeeper uncle to stock up more food."
Shen Zhiqiu said calmly, "If you really want to buy more, buy five dan of fine flour, ten dan of brown rice, ten dan of buckwheat flour, ten dan each of sweet buckwheat and bitter buckwheat, and corn flour..."
How much cheaper is this?
The shopkeeper was anxiously checking his abacus, his mouth wide open: "You don't have any land? How much grain do you want to buy?"
Shen Zhiqiu said: "I have a large family, and didn't you just say that the price is going to increase? I must buy more before the price increases, don't you think?"
The grain store owner finished calculating on the abacus and said, "The total is thirty taels and eight cents of silver. I'll save you three cents, so you should give me thirty taels and five cents."
Shen Zhiqiu: "Oh, what are you still keeping that five cents for?"
The grain store owner said: "No, no, there is not that much profit to be made. The most I can charge is three cents less."
After some bargaining, the shopkeeper refused to give in. This shows that the price of food is going to increase and will continue to increase.
Even the shopkeeper said, if you continue to bargain, I will not sell it to you and will wait until the temple fair is over to raise the price.
Shen Zhiqiu and Shen Youyou looked at each other and said, "No choice, just buy it."
Why did Shen Zhiqiu initially want to buy some buckwheat noodles, but ended up buying so much food? Wasn't it because he was thinking that Kyoto was not far away? That was the capital of the emperor, and everything there was more expensive than in other places.
Wouldn't it be better if the grain price rose even faster? If they couldn't take it away, Shen Zhiqiu would probably have bought more grain. He would have had to spend at least a few hundred taels of silver. But now the key was that there were still a lot of miscellaneous items in the car.
And they were afraid of getting into trouble if they bought too much. What if they passed through a county and were caught by officials and questioned: "Where did you get the food when you were fleeing famine? What happened? Did you rob a farm?"
Even if this is not the case, they are afraid that some officials will see them as fat sheep and cause trouble for them.
Although he buys a lot now, there are many of them, and more people means they eat faster. If they buy less, there will not be enough to eat on the way, so they still have to keep buying. It is better to buy some here than to buy somewhere else where the price has increased.
After all, it seems that God didn't give them a golden finger. If there was a golden finger space or something, they could just buy food, put it in the space and go, and they could buy as much food as they wanted.
But then again, there are not so many good things waiting for you. If someone in your family dies in an accident, it is already good enough for people to give you a chance to live again. Don't be too greedy and don't need a golden finger.
However, they couldn't take so much food away by themselves, so Shen Zhiqiu continued to discuss with the shopkeeper:
"You see we still have to go somewhere else, so whether you guys deliver the food or not, just deliver it to the post station and ask the shopkeeper to receive it. I'll pay you first. Since the food can't be cheaper by the five cents, just don't charge for the delivery."
The grain store owner said that this was possible: "Just pay the money, and don't worry, our store and the post station have done business so many times, I will ask the waiter to deliver the goods to you."
Coming out of the grain store, Shen Youyou noticed that although her father looked calm, he must be very anxious inside.
There was nothing they could do about it. It looked like they had bought a lot of food, and it looked like they still had a lot of money to continue buying food.
But after a month, even if you don't count other things, you only eat coarse grains, mix a little white flour to make dry food, make noodles, and calculate according to today's grain.
For example, if you don't eat too much, and assume that one person eats 402 kilograms of food per day, that means you eat kilograms a day, and in days a month that means kilograms of food.
One shi is 120 jin, which means one hundred shi is still half a shi more.
Even if you buy the cheapest coarse grains, it will cost you thirty taels and one hundred and fifty copper coins.
This group of people would have to spend thirty taels of silver a month even if they were not full, not counting oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, or vegetables, let alone how many times a month they could eat meat.