Chaoge nodded: "Yes, please help me catch the third one."
Seeing that Chaoge didn't say who gave him the prescription, the old doctor didn't ask any more questions and directly gave the prescription to the accountant at the side to do the accounting and the medicine boy to get the Chinese medicine.
Three prescriptions cost four hundred and eleven coins, each prescription cost one hundred and thirty-seven coins.
Such a price is more than a country family can earn in a month, so even if many people are sick, they just endure it or find some folk remedies on their own and would never come to the clinic.
"Chao Yu, where can I buy food? We don't have much to eat at home. Take me to any grocery store or cloth shop."
"ah?
Sister, we are indeed short of food, but we have everything else, right?
Do you want to make new clothes?
But you can start making it now, as the weather is about to get cold. But I’m not good at manual work, so you can buy it and ask your aunt to help you make it.
There is also a cotton-padded jacket for winter, which should also be prepared. My aunt is busy on weekdays and can’t make it quickly, so now is the right time to make it.”
Chaoge: “…”
She just mentioned the cloth shop, but this girl started talking about a lot of things.
In the end, Yun Chaoyu took Chaoge to the grain store first. Chaoge didn't want to eat those grains that cut her throat, and the baby in her belly probably didn't want to eat them either.
She looked directly at the white rice, but just as she stretched out her hand to take a look, Chao Yu hurriedly grabbed her and said, "Sister, this white rice is very expensive. The one you are looking at is the best. One kilogram should be able to buy ten kilograms of grains.
Big sister, if you want to eat it, buy less, don’t buy pork like you did yesterday.”
When Yun Chaoyu thought of Chaoge's generosity, although she didn't know her eldest sister's wealth, she couldn't help but mention it.
She didn't care about what her eldest sister ate. After all, even though her eldest sister was a maid in a wealthy family, she still ate white rice, which was definitely better than what she ate in the countryside. She was just afraid that her eldest sister would force her and their father to eat it.
If that's the case, how would that money be enough to last for several months?
Seeing Chaoyu's nervous look, Chaoge pursed her lips and chuckled.
"Silly girl, you're growing taller, what's wrong with eating some good rice?"
"Shopkeeper, how much is this rice per pound?"
"Twenty cents for the best kind of rice in our town. Your sister is right. Most people wouldn't eat this kind of rice. That kind is fine.
Although it is broken rice, it is only two cents more expensive per pound than brown rice. It is dozens of times more delicious when cooked into porridge, and it only costs five cents per pound. "
When the shopkeeper saw what the two sisters were wearing, although he was not so arrogant as to look down on others, he still kindly reminded them.
Chaoge looked at the broken rice and frowned.
"Well, weigh me one hundred kilograms of that broken rice.
The good rice weighs twenty catties."
"One hundred pounds! Twenty pounds!"
As soon as Chaoge finished speaking, Yun Chaoyu almost choked on his own saliva and couldn't help but exclaimed!
Chaoge looked back at her blankly: "Our home is so far away, it would be troublesome if we don't buy more?"
“But there are so many, how can we carry them back?
Besides, how long would it take to eat a hundred kilograms? When cooking porridge, you have to add sweet potatoes or wild vegetables, and only a small handful of rice is used.
We can’t finish these 100 kilograms even in a year, right?
And that good rice is what the rich families eat.
It’s more expensive than pork, and even if you eat it, it will turn into shit after you poop it out, so it’s not worth it.”
Hearing Yun Chaoyu's words, Chaoge couldn't hold back any longer and burst out laughing.
Indeed, in the eyes of these people, food is for filling the stomach rather than satisfying the desire for food. However, even when Chaoge was in disaster, it was not so miserable. At most, they were hungry for a while, and there were also wild fruits in the space to fill their stomachs.
Chaoge forgot that people in this era do not eat like they did in peacetime. Nowadays, people in the countryside almost always eat porridge, which is either made of wild vegetables or a mixture of sweet potatoes, corn, and grains.
The rice grains in the real porridge are just a backdrop, while the other worthless grains and wild vegetables are the main ingredients.
Like the white rice porridge they had at the Yun family's old house last night, that was a luxury that Mrs. Zhang treated her with because she loved her and was happy that she was back.
No wonder, no wonder in that situation, what was cooked was not white rice, but porridge.
She wanted to pretend to adapt to life at home, but the three big boxes of gold in the space didn't allow it!
There were still so many silver notes. Not to mention eating white rice at twenty cents a pound, even if it was only one or two taels of silver a pound, she was unwilling to suffer the consequences for herself and the baby in her belly.
Or maybe, Chaoge really had never suffered any hardship and could not become the real Yun Chaoge.
Ever since she saw how good Yunchang and Yun Chaoyu were to her, she no longer intended to let them suffer in terms of food.
Especially seeing that Yun Chaoyu was so thin, she didn't want to let her sister starve anymore, even if it meant letting the mother and daughter take advantage and eat some rice.
“Hey, just buy that much, listen to me.
Don't worry, I've been through hard times too, so I know how to spend money."
Seeing that persuasion was ineffective, Yun Chaoyu had no choice but to shut up.
Afterwards, Chaoge bought 20 kilograms of vegetable oil and soybean oil each. Yun Chaoyu was anxious but did not say anything else.
She had to secretly make up her mind that she would have to work harder when she returned so that she could earn more money for her sister.
After paying the silver, Chaoge asked the shopkeeper to deposit the things for him and come back to pick them up later.
It was a rare opportunity to meet such a buyer, and the shopkeeper was also surprised. Naturally, he was happy to agree to the deal.
Afterwards, they went to the grocery store. Chaoge fell in love with a large bathtub at first sight, and Yun Chaoyu quickly stopped him.
"This thing is too heavy. Let's go back and ask the village carpenter to make one for us, which will save us money and be more convenient."
Chaoge nodded and no longer insisted. He finally listened to Yun Chaoyu's words.
There is a bathtub in the space, it's made of plastic, and I can't take it out for my sister and father to use, but it's fine this way.
Afterwards, he bought some condiments at the grocery store, such as white sugar, brown sugar, soy sauce, vinegar and some food, and filled half of Yun Chaoyu's backpack.
After leaving the grocery store, Chaoge was silently calculating what else he hadn't bought, while Yun Chaoyu was silently calculating how much money her elder sister had spent.
Coming to the cloth shop again, Chaoge waved his hand generously and bought a pile of cloth.
What made Yun Chaoyu even more terrified was that Chaoge actually bought only fine cotton cloth and didn't even look at the coarse cloth.
Yun Chaoyu bit her lip silently, thinking that her elder sister should be pampered. Her elder sister is not like the village girls. She has seen the world, and her elder sister's choice is right.
Besides, why should the mother and daughter dress better than her eldest sister?
What old clothes?
It was obvious that the woman secretly sold the family’s stored grain to buy the new cloth.
Because of this matter, Xia Rong was locked up by her father and got very angry.
What I remember most vividly is that her father loved her so much that she didn't even have a new piece of clothing. The clothes she wore were all altered from her mother's old clothes. However, the mother and daughter used their grain to exchange for silver to buy new clothes, and never even thought of buying her a piece of cloth.
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