Chapter 8 Selling Dried Fish and Buying Food
Shen Qing did not return to her room, but went directly to the kitchen where the dried fish was stored.
She closed the kitchen door carefully, took the bamboo basket containing the dried fish and placed it in front of her. She excitedly pressed "yes" on the "sale" button.
"Twenty-three pounds of high-quality dried fish, eighteen yuan per pound, a total of four hundred and fourteen yuan. You can check your balance."
"You can purchase the items you need from the medicine and food categories available in the mall. Friendly reminder: all items in the mall cannot be directly resold."
Shen Qing saw the dried fish in front of him suddenly disappear, and the balance on the shopping mall screen in front of him showed 414 yuan.
In China, Shen Qing also frequently shops online and is very familiar with how to buy things on Taobao and Duoduo.
She first found the medicines and looked at them for a while. She found that they were very complete and the prices were not much different from those in Chinese pharmacies. She felt much more at ease.
Xiaohua at home is sick. Although she has consulted a doctor, she does not know anything about Chinese herbal medicine. Now that there is a mall where she can buy the medicines she is familiar with, she feels at ease.
Even if Xiaohua can't use it, there are so many people in the family, maybe she will need it one day, and once she does, it will be a lifesaver!
She was deeply grateful that medicine was one of the free categories available in the mall.
After looking at the medicine, she turned to look at the food.
Medicines save lives at critical moments, and food is indispensable!
There was only flour and corn flour at home, so Shen Qing looked at the flour first.
The price of white flour ranges from two yuan per catty to more than ten yuan per catty, but even the flour at two yuan per catty is very good, and she is very satisfied.
After happily looking at the white flour, Shen Qing moved on to the corn flour.
White flour is a refined grain, and it would be too conspicuous to eat it all the time. It would be difficult to say to other people in the family, so we should buy more corn flour.
Shen Qing's mind was very clear, but when he saw the price of corn flour, all his clarity was immediately thrown out of his mind!
Why does the cheapest corn flour cost five yuan per pound?
It's a whole grain, so why is it more expensive than flour? It's more than twice as expensive.
Four hundred and fourteen yuan, at least one hundred yuan should be left for buying medicine, which means that the money available for buying food is three hundred and fourteen yuan.
Three hundred and fourteen yuan can buy sixty-two and three pounds of corn flour, but it can buy a full one hundred and fifty-seven pounds of flour!
One hundred and fifty to sixty kilograms of white flour, mixed with three kilograms of flour for three meals a day, can last for more than a month.
That's fine grain.
Even a fool knows how to choose.
Shen Qing was not a fool, but he didn't dare to choose all white flour.
At that time, three pounds of white flour are mixed with one pound of corn flour. The food made from it has a light yellow color, a delicate taste and the fragrance of corn. If someone asks, just say that white flour is mixed with corn flour.
Shen Qing sold the dried fish and went straight back to his room. He found the flour bag and filled it up.
I only bought a few dozen pounds of cornmeal, mixed it into the sack that originally contained corn flour, and stirred it evenly. Even if the original corn flour was not fine and still contained some corncob debris, it must not be thrown away.
Food is precious and cannot be wasted.
Shen Qing had never agreed with this statement so much.
At the same time, they were thankful that the original owner kept all the food in her room and kept it strictly for safekeeping, not allowing anyone else to touch it. Every time she cooked, she would scoop out the corresponding amount for Huo Bing or Jiang Shui. This also meant that the family only saw the sack, but had no idea how many pounds were left.
With more than 100 kilograms of food and a balance of 100 kilograms in the mall, Shen Qing finally felt a little relieved.
But this feeling of relief didn't last long before Huo Bing's anxious voice came from the opposite room: "Doctor, you said it will be even hotter at night?"
"Yes, the little girl has a fever caused by a cold. This disease is worse at night. Wait for me to prescribe three prescriptions. Bring them back and boil three bowls of water to make one bowl for each prescription. If the fever still doesn't go away after taking the three prescriptions, I will have to seek help from another doctor."
"Ah, so serious?"
The panting voice came from Jiang Xiangdong, with a hint of surprise.
Shen Qing thought, isn't this nonsense? If he doesn't take care of the child for three days and doesn't eat enough, the condition will get worse even for an adult, not to mention a three-year-old.
"Who of you will go back with me to get the medicine?"
"I'll go, I'll go." This time Jiang Xiangdong's voice was without hesitation.
Shen Qing thought that heat was what Huaguo called a fever. Xiaohua had a fever, and it was serious.
She opened the mall and found children's fever-reducing medicine, 37 yuan a box.
I also found children's antibiotics and cold medicine, which cost more than 40 and 50 yuan per box respectively. Fortunately, antibiotics and cold medicine do not need to be taken at the same time. You can choose one according to your symptoms.
There is still too little money, and I bought too much food. I should save more money for emergencies... Saving money alone is not enough. I need to earn money. I will go to the city tomorrow to find a money-making project.
The mall can currently guarantee that you won't starve to death and that you'll have medicine if you're sick, but meat, oil, salt, sugar, seasonings, cloth, and even the vehicles needed to escape famine in two or three months all require earning money!
"Mom! Mom, come and see how many small fish and shrimps I caught. I'm going to cook them for dinner!"
There were happy shouts coming from outside the house, as if everyone in the house wanted to hear them.
It is the sound of the Laosi River flowing north.
At the same time, there was a ding sound.
"I've detected three pounds and four ounces of fresh wild river shrimp, which is thirty-seven pounds per pound. I've also detected seven pounds of fresh wild river fish, which is thirty-thirteen pounds per pound. Are you selling them?"
When Shen Qing heard the price, he finally understood the difference between the mall and China!
When she bought dried fish before, she would buy at least 20 to 30 kilograms at the market, and the mall would buy it for 18 kilograms.
Wild fresh river shrimps are even more difficult to buy in the market. If you go too late, they will be gone. She remembers that she bought them for 60 or 71 kilograms.
Fresh wild fish also weighs 20 to 31 kilograms.
The price given by the mall is not the selling price, but the purchase price! And the things sold to her are the selling price.
Then I think of clearly marked prices and free buying and selling. You can decide whether to buy or sell by yourself. It is fair and just. From the perspective of the mall, it is a business, and of course the purpose of doing business is to make money.
From her point of view, she could sell the small fish and shrimp that she didn't need in this dynasty to the mall at a high price, and then buy the rice, flour and medicine she needed at a low price. Not only did she not lose money, she made a profit.
Shen Qing is very content with having this mall.
She came to the yard and looked at the half-person-high bucket. She saw that most of the bucket was filled with lively fish and shrimps, looking very happy.
Jiang Xiangbei shouted as if to take credit: "Mom, look how many there are! I'm going to smash the fish now and feed them to our chickens so they can eat them and lay lots of eggs!
"Would you like to peel the tails of the river shrimp and cook some for Xiaohua? Mom, let me make it clear first, this is what I cooked, I want to eat more!"
Xiaohua is sick and can't eat much, so he is willing to share some with her.
After saying that, he happily reached out to scoop up the fish and shrimp in the bucket.
Shen Qing quickly blocked it, "Stop!"
Jiang Xiangbei looked up blankly and looked at his mother in confusion, "What's wrong, Mom?"
At noon, the third brother asked the eldest sister-in-law to make an egg custard, but the mother did not agree and asked the third brother to do it. She also asked the eldest brother to run errands when she called the doctor. Does that mean the eldest sister-in-law should be asked to crush the small fish to make river shrimps?
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