Song Zhi looked at the price board hanging behind the proprietress and saw that pork was 73 cents per pound. She calculated the money she had and only ordered five pounds.
It was the time when cabbage was on the market, and it was only two cents per pound. Song Zhi took a look at the big red tomatoes next to them, and seeing that the price was not expensive, only five cents per pound, he bought some.
"I also want five pounds of cabbage and three pounds of tomatoes."
"Three dollars and ninety cents."
The proprietress weighed it and handed it to her with a smile.
Song Zhi paid the money and waited aside.
Seeing that Song Zhi had bought almost everything she needed, Nie Jinmei didn't know what to buy. Seeing that the piece of beef next to the pork looked good, she immediately asked for it.
"Let me weigh this piece of beef."
Nie Jinmei thought for a moment and then asked, "How much would it be in total if I could add another five pounds of eggs?"
"This piece of beef weighs 6.3 jin, which is 0.90 yuan per jin." The proprietress weighed the beef swiftly and reminded Nie Jinmei while looking at her.
She could tell that the two girls were together. Beef was expensive and most people would not buy it, not to mention that they had already bought pork.
Nie Jinmei took a look and saw that eggs were one yuan per pound. She estimated it in her mind and directly took out a big reunion ticket and 67 cents.
"Can you please calculate it? Is the number correct?"
The proprietress happily accepted it and nodded repeatedly: "Logarithm, logarithm."
Seeing that they were carrying a lot of things, the proprietress kindly took out two snakeskin bags and gave them.
"Put your things in there so it's easier to take some."
This trip was fruitful, but the money was also spent like water. Song Zhi looked at his rapidly shrinking wallet and sighed.
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