Chapter 201 Stockpiling Food and Salt (Part 2)
Looking at the little girl's soft and cute appearance, Jiang Zhiluo felt like she was bursting with cuteness.
This is so cute!
Beautiful and cute.
He was also smart enough to know to spend five cents to buy a loaf of bread.
Especially her chubby face, which puffs up when she talks, is so cute.
Jiang Zhiluo wanted to reach out and rub and pinch it, but she held back.
Jiang Zhiluo squatted down, looked at her patiently and asked, "Do you want to eat this bread?"
Qiao Mengmeng nodded obediently and said, "Yeah, it smells very good. My brothers all said it's delicious."
As she spoke, she looked at the brothers around her.
That is, the scholars in the college.
Jiang Zhiluo took out the last two loaves of bread and gave them to Qiao Mengmeng, saying, "Here, this is for you, sister."
Qiao Mengmeng looked at the two, tilted her head and thought for a moment, then took out another five coins from her pocket, carefully counted out dozens of coins, and said softly, "Sister, two, ten coins, here you go."
Jiang Zhiluo thought the little girl was so funny, "You still have money in your hand!"
The little girl patted her small cloth bag and said, "Yes, my mother gave it to me. I bought some food with it."
"Where's your mother?"
The tall woman as icy as ice left a deep impression on Jiang Zhiluo just by looking at her eyes.
She was an extremely calm and composed woman, very different from ordinary women.
Although I have never seen her face, just looking at her figure and eyes, I think she is extremely beautiful.
Qiao Mengmeng said, "Mom has something to do. Mengmeng is very well behaved."
She will buy whatever she wants to eat.
Seeing how smart and sensible she was, Jiang Zhiluo's heart softened, and she couldn't help but want to hug her.
It was very strange. When she met the children in the village and met some children when she went to town to sell bread, she didn't feel the same as when she was facing the little girl.
"Take it. I won't charge you any money. Just think of it as me treating you to a taste."
The scholar who just wanted to buy the last two loaves of bread felt embarrassed to compete with a little girl.
What's more, this is the young lady who is extremely favored by their academy.
The little girl seemed to think seriously for a moment and said, "But I can't get something for nothing. I can't take things without spending money."
Jiang Zhiluo was moved and felt that the little girl was well educated.
Jiang Zhiluo could only say: "Well, you can treat me to something else next time."
Jiang Zhiluo was just looking for an excuse to give the little girl bread.
The little girl nodded happily.
After Jiang Zhiluo sold all the bread, she packed up her stall and drove away in the ox cart.
She was going to go around and buy some food and salt.
The county is larger than the town and has several grain stores.
But after Jiang Zhiluo visited several stores, she found that the price of grain had increased by one or two cents per pound.
"Why is coarse flour already ten cents a pound?"
Before, it was eight cents per pound.
The shopkeeper was not surprised by Jiang Zhiluo's questions, as it seemed like he had been asked these questions too many times.
"My dear lady, it's not that the food prices in our store have increased. If you go out and ask around, you'll find that the prices are all the same."
Jiang Zhiluo thought about what Madam Cui had said, and also about the food in her previous dream. Her expression changed and she said, "Why did the price suddenly go up?"
“Will the price continue to rise?”
The shopkeeper was stunned for a moment, but recovered in a flash. He said calmly, "Young lady, it's normal for the prices in the grain store to go up and down. We can't predict whether the price will go up or down in the future. If you want to buy, then buy. If not, there will be others who will want to buy grain later."
The shopkeeper's attitude was perfunctory and he was too lazy to explain or attract customers.
It's as if there's no loss if the customer doesn't buy, which is not the right attitude to do business at all.
Jiang Zhiluo visited several grain stores, and the store owners and waiters all had almost the same attitude.
It can be seen that they are not worried at all about not being able to sell the grain.
And they must have gotten some inside information.
Now that she knew the market conditions, Jiang Zhiluo decided to buy it anyway.
Jiang Zhiluo deliberately asked tentatively: "If I buy more, can it be cheaper?"
The shopkeeper said, "My dear lady, it's not that I'm not cheap, but we are working for the boss. The boss has set the price, and we can't change it at will."
Jiang Zhiluo's face turned cold. As far as she knew, the shopkeeper had some power and could naturally give customers some discounts.
But looking at the shopkeeper's attitude, she understood something.
Jiang Zhiluo didn't waste any more words and just said, "Give me 200 kilograms of mixed grain flour, 200 kilograms of fine flour, 5 kilograms of red beans, 10 kilograms of soybeans, 20 kilograms of rice, and 20 kilograms of corn..."
Jiang Zhiluo bought some of each.
Actually, she wanted to buy more, but she didn't want to attract attention, so she planned to buy some from each store.
Anyway, she has her own space and no one will notice anything.
When the shopkeeper heard the amount, he was shocked.
He looked Jiang Zhiluo up and down. She was wearing coarse linen clothes and didn't look like someone who could buy so much food at once.
"My dear, are you sure you want to buy so much food?"
Jiang Zhiluo nodded and said, "Sure, I'm doing some small business. Boss, please give me a discount. I will continue to buy food from you."
When the shopkeeper heard about doing business, his concerns were dispelled.
People who run the noodle business do need a lot of food.
Although he had doubts, he didn't think much about it.
He simply asked the waiter to help weigh the food, but he didn't give Jiang Zhiluo a discount.
After Jiang Zhiluo bought the food, she put it on the ox cart, then deliberately turned around, put the food in the space, and went to another food store to buy more.
In this way, she bought more than 600 kilograms of things, including various rice, flour, grains and other crops.
Be prepared and feel more at ease.
And when she went to the store to buy salt, she also bought some from various places.
Stocked up on a lot of salt.
I wanted to save some money, but I still spent thirteen taels of silver.
As a result, Jiang Zhiluo only had more than six taels of silver in her hand.
But she knew that she couldn't worry about silver at this time, and she had to stockpile food and salt.
When walking back, Jiang Zhiluo put most of her things in the space. There were only a few baskets and baskets outside, so people couldn't see anything. Moreover, the baskets were covered with a layer of straw, so others couldn't see anything.
When I got home, it was already mid-afternoon.
When Mrs. Cui learned that Jiang Zhiluo had bought a lot of food and salt, she felt more at ease and said, "It's good that you bought it back."
"Mom, you don't think I bought too much, do you?"
"This is nothing. The sooner you plan, the sooner you can feel at ease."
"If nothing happens and food prices don't go up, there's nothing to lose by stockpiling this food. If a war does break out and food prices go up, we won't have to worry about anything as long as we have this food to eat."
"It's still reassuring to have food."
Jiang Zhiluo said seriously, "Mom, I went to the food store and the grocery store and checked. The prices of various foods have increased a bit. I asked tentatively and they estimate that the prices will increase in the future, but it will only increase a little bit every day, so no one will notice anything."
After hearing this, Mrs. Cui had an idea in her mind.
After having food, Jiang Zhiluo and Mrs. Cui went about their business every day.
Everything seemed normal in the town and county, but a few days later, in late April, people came into the village and started harvesting grain.
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