Chapter 228: Shell Forging Lime (Part 1)
Jiang Zhiluo looked at the duck eggs in the old lady's basket. They looked big and good. She smiled and said, "It's okay. I bought them all."
The old lady was shocked when she heard this. "Girl, you, you're going to buy them all?"
"Yes, just as you said, two for a penny will do. I'll buy them all."
"How many are there in total?"
The old lady couldn't believe it, and because of Jiang Zhiluo's words, her mouth was trembling with excitement and she couldn't speak. After a while, she said, "One... a total of sixty-two duck eggs."
She saved all of it every day.
She would count the eggs several times every day to see how many there were. When she came, she would put all the duck eggs in the basket and count them several times again, for fear of making a mistake.
Each duck egg was worth half a cent and was very important to their family.
Her family had no food left, but the price of food in the town had gone up. After selling the duck eggs, they could buy some whole-grain noodles to take home for the family.
Eat sparingly so that you can last until the food comes down.
The old lady and her family only had one meal for several days.
Eat some wild vegetables when you are hungry.
They were reluctant to even eat the vegetables from the fields, so they tried to get them to the market.
Every penny counts, because grain is five pennies more expensive per pound than usual, and the price of miscellaneous grains has almost doubled.
She was hungry at the moment, but she endured it.
Every day she carefully walked to the market with a basket of duck eggs on her back, and carried them back if no one bought them.
She has been here for several days.
There are really too many people selling duck eggs, but people don’t eat duck eggs much, so few people buy them.
So no one bought the basket of duck eggs for so many days.
Listening to the girl's words, the old lady almost burst into tears.
But she was still worried, afraid that the girl would not buy it again.
Jiang Zhiluo found thirty-one coins and handed them to the old lady, saying, "Sixty-two duck eggs, two for one coin, a total of thirty-one coins. Old lady, please count them, is that correct?"
The old lady reached out and carefully took the copper coin.
Jiang Zhiluo saw that her hands were rough, dark and cracked, and it was obvious that she had been working hard for many years.
The old lady carefully counted them one by one. When she was done, she said, "Miss, it's thirty-one coins."
"Then you should keep it well, old man, and go home early."
When Jiang Zhiluo bought duck eggs, she deliberately used her wood-based ability to shield her surroundings so that no one could see what was happening here.
Her main purpose was to prevent someone from seeing the old lady's money and doing something along the way.
In this way, no one will notice this side and the old lady will be safe.
The old lady nodded and said, "Yes, yes, young lady, thank you, thank you."
The old ladies all bowed to Jiang Zhiluo.
Jiang Zhiluo hurriedly supported the old lady, "Old lady, I need a lot of duck eggs, so I bought them all. No need to thank me."
But the old lady was still grateful to the girl in front of her. She could see that the girl was a kind person.
She reached out and helped put all the duck eggs in the basket into the girl's basket, then she carried the basket and the backpack next to it and left the market.
The old lady always walks briskly.
She sold the duck eggs and had some extra copper coins in her hands. She couldn't wait to go home and share the good news with her family.
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Jiang Zhiluo strolled around the market again and bought almost all the duck eggs there.
The stalls selling chicken and duck eggs in the market here almost fill a basket.
Jiang Zhiluo bought a lot, almost six hundred duck eggs.
All were placed on the ox cart.
Madam Cui said, "Fortunately, we brought a lot of backpacks, otherwise there would be nothing to put in them.
Duck eggs cannot be put in sacks because they may fall if they are bumped around.
Even when going back, you have to drive the ox cart slowly.
Jiang Zhiluo placed the duck eggs on the ox cart and put straw on top of it. By covering it, she actually secretly put the duck eggs into the space.
This way you don’t have to worry about bumps when driving an ox cart.
"Mom, let's go buy some things before going home."
"Isn't there any at the market?"
Jiang Zhiluo said, "Well, I just took a look around, and there's nothing here at the market. Most of the places here sell food."
"Let's go to the dock or the grocery store. I want to buy some shellfish."
When she heard about shells, Mrs. Cui said, "Isn't that something that only exists in the sea?"
Mrs. Cui didn't know what the shells were to be used for either.
But if Zhiluo wants to buy it, it must be useful.
Jiang Zhiluo said: "Well, there are a lot of them on the beach, but our Beizhou is not near the sea, so we can only buy them there."
"Fortunately, we have a dock here with convenient transportation, and it's not far from the seashore. Some people think shells are novel and beautiful, so they ship some here to sell."
Most people think that this thing is just for looking at and it is not that good looking, so few people buy it and the price is cheap.
Jiang Zhiluo went to the grocery store first.
She deliberately looked here and there, then pointed at the shell next to her and said, "This one looks a bit strange."
"Oh, you have a good eye, girl. This is something shipped from the seaside. People over there like to use it as decoration."
Jiang Zhiluo said, "Even if they're decorations, they should be processed. These just look like a pile of junk."
The shopkeeper hurriedly tried to sell it, "Miss, you can't say that. If it's decorated properly, it will definitely look great."
He didn't know how long those shells had been there, maybe one or two years. They were old goods and no one wanted to buy them, so he sold them in a hurry.
Finally a girl saw these things.
"It looks pretty average, but I don't know the price. If it's too expensive, it's not worth it."
The shopkeeper looked at the girl's expression carefully. She was frowning and didn't seem to want to buy anything.
The shopkeeper grumbled in his heart and could only say: "If the girl buys a lot, it must be cheaper."
Jiang Zhiluo asked, "How many do you have here?"
"There are five sacks!"
In this way, Jiang Zhiluo bargained and bought a big bag for ten cents, and five big bags for fifty cents.
The shopkeeper was also happy. Although it was cheap, he still made some profit.
To him, these things looked like stones.
I don't know why people living by the sea like these things.
People here think these things are not practical. Poor families can't even get enough food to eat, so why would they care about decorations?
Rich and noble families like gold, silver and jewelry, and don't wear these.
In fact, in Jiang Zhiluo's opinion, shells are really beautiful, especially as decorations.
However, ordinary people in Beizhou are still struggling to make ends meet and have no time to care about decoration.
Jiang Zhiluo bought it because the shells can be calcined to make lime.
She hadn't found any limestone yet, so she had to use shells.
This is how you can pickle the preserved eggs.
After walking out of the grocery store for a while, Mrs. Cui suddenly pointed over there and said, "Zhiluo, look, isn't that Lin Zhuzhu's stall? Is that Lin Zhuzhu setting up her stall again?"
Jiang Zhiluo heard the sound, turned her head and saw a meat stall at the entrance of an alley.
In the past, Jiang Zhiluo would go and take a look when she came to town and wanted to buy meat.
But the door was always closed, and after a long time, Jiang Zhiluo no longer paid attention to that place.
I didn't expect that the butcher stall would reopen.
Just looking at the woman setting up the stall, Jiang Zhiluo was slightly surprised.
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