Chapter 16 Subverting Cognition
With Que Hongjin and Bai Qianluo helping with the work, Qiao Suluo would indeed have her work much easier.
"Okay, thank you. Next, let's go buy some things."
There is only a little food at home, which was sent by the villagers. It is only enough to last for a few days. We still have to buy some food to ensure that the family does not go hungry.
When Que Hongjin heard this, he felt it was incredible.
She actually said thank you to them.
As for what to buy, I used to buy it according to her preferences, which were just clothes, rouge, powder and other things, nothing special.
Qiao Su Luo took a few steps forward, and as if she had thought of something, she looked at Que Hong Jin and Bai Qian Luo beside her and asked, "By the way, is there anything you want to eat or buy?"
Que Hongjin and Bai Qianluo were both stunned for a moment, seeming very surprised by her question.
Qiao Su Luo naturally noticed their surprised expressions and asked, "Is there something wrong with what I said?"
Qiao Su Luo blinked her clear eyes, looking very confused.
She looks actually quite cute with this expression.
At this moment, one couldn't help but want to touch her hair. When Que Hongjin realized this idea, his face changed. He should have hated her, so how could he have such an idea?
Que Hongjin quickly shook off the thought in his mind and coughed lightly to cover up the unnaturalness in his expression. Qingrun said, "There's nothing wrong, it's just that my wife never asked us what we thought before."
"So my wife suddenly asked me this, and I didn't know how to answer."
In fact, she shocked him so much today that he has not yet recovered from his past impressions.
But her changes are so great that her behavior, speech and manner are all different.
It made him think deeply.
Qiao Su Luo didn't intend to act in the same vicious way as her predecessor, as that would not be beneficial to the mission. She said, "Oh, that was my fault. We are a family. I should have asked you what you think."
"I also told you that I will correct any mistakes I made in the past. If you want to buy something in the future, you can tell me. Even if you can't afford it now, you can buy it when you save enough money."
Que Hongjin's gentle and picturesque eyes seemed to melt into a dark color. His eyelashes fluttered slightly, hiding the changes in his expression. He said softly, "Thank you, my wife, but there is nothing I want or even want to buy."
Qiao Suluo looked at Bai Qianluo again and said, "Bai Qianluo, what about you?"
Bai Qianluo said coldly: "Wife, I don't want to buy anything either."
"It's all up to the wife to decide."
Seeing that the two of them were still cautious, Qiao Su Luo did not make things difficult for them, but took them to the grain store to buy food.
Que Hongjin looked at the grain store and suspected that she had gone to the wrong place. It was not a clothing store or even a rouge and powder store.
Qiao Su Luo walked into the store naturally, and a waiter immediately came over to greet her, "Sir, what would you like to buy?"
"Our Taoji Grain Store is the largest grain store in our county. We have a wide variety of grains at fair prices, including southern rice and glutinous rice..."
The waiter greeted customers warmly and explained the food in their store.
Qiao Su Luo asked directly: "Do you have soybeans?"
The waiter was stunned when he heard Qiao Su Luo ask this, but he quickly reacted, "Oh, oh, yes, we have soybeans."
The waiter went to the corner and opened the unopened sack, revealing the soybeans inside.
"Would you like to buy soybeans, sir?"
Generally, few people buy soybeans, and I don’t know what this guest is going to do with the soybeans.
Soybeans have a high yield and will grow if you just scatter some on the ground. They are also cheap. The main reason is that there are not many foods that can be made from soybeans. Red beans and mung beans can be used to make snacks, so their price is high. Soybeans are different. They are not delicious when made into snacks. At most, they can be ground into powder and mixed with coarse flour to make steamed cornbread.
Qiao Su Luo naturally knew why the waiter reacted this way. She came here early in the morning to take a look around and inquire about the market, and found out that there was no tofu in the Beast World Continent.
So soybeans should not be popular.
"How much is a pound of soybeans?"
"Four cents a pound."
Qiao Suluo's eyes lit up. Four cents per pound. One pound of soybeans can make about four pounds of tofu, which means the cost of one pound of tofu is only one cent. She can make money no matter how she sells it.
Qiao Su Luo's heart was burning, but she didn't show it on her face. "Are there any other beans?"
"Yes, here are red beans and green beans, eight cents per pound."
Qiao Su Luo didn't expect the price to be twice as different. She guessed it might be because people didn't know that soybeans could be used to make so many delicious foods.
Qiao Su Luo wanted to buy them all, but when she thought about the copper coins she had now, she thought she should buy a little first and buy more when she made money, otherwise she would not have enough copper coins.
Then she looked at the flour and rice. Coarse flour and coarse rice cost eight cents per pound, while fine flour and refined rice cost twenty cents per pound.
In the end, Qiao Su Luo bought 20 kilograms of soybeans, plus 10 kilograms of fine noodles and 5 kilograms of refined rice. After she was able to make money, she no longer wanted to eat coarse noodles and rice because it would hurt her throat.
She also knew that in this backward beastly age, only the rich could afford to eat fine flour and refined rice, because making fine flour and refined rice seemed to be very time-consuming.
There was still four cents for a pound of wheat, so she bought ten pounds of wheat. She wanted to use the wheat to make malt sugar. As for glutinous rice, she would wait a few days until the wheat sprouted and grew before buying it.
The total price is four hundred and twenty coins.
After some bargaining, he saved ten coins and spent four hundred and ten coins, leaving him with five hundred and seventy coins.
Then Qiao Suluo went to the pork stall and bought two pounds of pork belly, which cost twenty-five coins per pound. She also bought some eggs, duck eggs, and vegetables, and spent a lot of miscellaneous money. In the end, she only had five hundred coins left.
After putting their things in the backpack, they prepared to go back.
Passing the acacia tree on the path, Qiao Su Luo rolled up her sleeves and said, "It's definitely too late to make the dough at noon today, but if we make it at noon, we can make acacia flower buns tonight."
The buns made with pork belly and locust flowers must be delicious.
As she spoke, Qiao Su Luo climbed up the tree in a flash.
Que Hongjin knew that his wife wanted to pick these locust flowers. He was just putting down his backpack and preparing to pick up the wooden stick when he suddenly saw this scene. His gentle and picturesque eyes froze instantly, and his face changed. "Wife, be careful..."
He actually climbed up such a high tree so quickly, which completely overturned his cognition and imagination.
Que Hongjin didn't even notice that his heart was involuntarily rising. He came under the tree and looked at her nervously, thinking that if she accidentally fell, he must catch her.
"I'm fine."
Qiao Su Luo used to go out to look for fresh ingredients and often climb trees to pick some things. For her, this was a very common and simple thing.
If this body wasn't so fat, she would be more flexible.
She had no idea what kind of waves her behavior had caused in Que Hongjin's heart.
As she spoke, her hands moved quickly and she picked the acacia flowers and threw them on the ground so that they could be put away later.
Although Bai Qianluo couldn't see clearly, he roughly knew what had just happened by listening to the sounds.
He seemed to sigh softly, with a hint of helplessness in his tone.
But he listened carefully, thinking that if she fell, he would need to quickly determine her position so that he could catch her.
Whatever the reason, it was a fact that she had changed for the better, and he naturally didn't want anything to happen to her.
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