Liu Xin left the butcher shop and saw someone selling sesame seed cakes on the roadside. He bought five large sesame seed cakes for twenty cents and ate three in a row before feeling his stomach bloated.

Put the remaining two in the backpack and go back to feed my mother and two younger sisters in the afternoon.

The two pieces of meat Zheng Lai gave each weighed about six kilograms, which cost at least 120 yuan. He must have paid for it himself.

That's fine, beef is rare to many people, but Liu Xin doesn't have those obsessions. In his opinion, these pork are much better than a pound of beef.

Seeing a food shop on the roadside, Liu Xin walked in and the waiter saw that he was in tatters and ignored him. People like Liu Xin, who were half-clothed, mostly asked about the price of food before leaving.

"Store, how do you sell fine noodles?" Liu Xin saw that there was ground white flour here and asked aloud. For ordinary people, eating white flour noodles is the best thing.

"A pound of fine noodles is 6 cents!" the waiter said casually without turning his head.

The kilogram this guy talks about is a small kilogram. A big kilogram is equal to 0.48 kilograms. A small kilogram is equal to half a big kilogram, which is 0.24 kilograms.

In this way, one stone of millet costs only 130 Wen, which is about 30 kilograms, or 120 small kilograms. This white flour is six times the price of whole grains!

"Bring me ten kilograms! Where are the rice and millet?" Liu Xin said he wanted ten kilograms. The waiter immediately became more energetic. He took out a small cloth bag for Liu Xin and started filling it with dough.

"Sir, this rice is new rice from Nanyang County, costing 6 cents per catty. Millet comes from Ningzhou, costing 5 cents per catty." The waiter weighed the flour and took out a small bag to pack the rice for Liu Xin.

Generally, the grains, wheat, and rice bought at grain stores are the cheapest and are eaten by the poor. Wheat is the best for the poor. Wheat is the staple food for the rich. Rice requires high land and the yield is not high.

Compared with wheat, it has the best taste but is also more expensive, generally more than five times the price of grain.

"Just five kilograms each. How much does it cost in total?"

"10 pounds of fine noodles are 60 yuan, rice is 30 yuan, millet is 25 yuan, three bags are 15 yuan, a total of 130 yuan, sir!" The shop assistant took out the abacus and counted a few times, and said to Liu Xin.

This small bag looked exquisite, but he didn't expect that each one cost 5 yuan. Liu Xin took out 130 yuan from the backpack and handed it to the other party, put the food in the backpack and left.

Liu Xin saw that he bought a pound of fine salt from a salt shop. A pound of coarse salt in this salt shop costs 200 yuan, a slightly whiter fine salt costs 350 yuan, and a pound of refined salt that is snow-white costs 1 pound. This made Liu Xin helpless.

Lamented that the price of salt is too expensive.

After buying salt, Liu Xin walked to the cloth shop where his future father-in-law worked. There were many cloth shops in Zhuoxian County, but Zhang's cloth shop mainly sold linen and coarse cloth, and the prices were cheaper than other shops.

When we walked to the door of the cloth shop, there were not many people in the shop. I knew Liu Xin, the shopkeeper, who was two years older than him and also from Zhangjiazhuang.

"Liu Xin, why are you here?" The waiter saw Liu Xin and looked at him and asked, as if he didn't intend to let him in.

"Of course I came to the cloth shop to buy cloth. Where is shopkeeper Wang?" Liu Xin walked into the shop and asked.

"Buy cloth! Do you have money? My master is not in the store, what can you tell me?" The waiter saw that Liu Xin was very hostile.

"What about Xiaohua?" Liu Xin continued to ask.

"You haven't gotten married yet, what are you doing with Xiaohua? With the way you wander around every day, it's no wonder that Xiaohua can marry you in the end!" the man said angrily to Liu Xin.

Liu Xin was so loud. If his father-in-law and fiancee were here, they would definitely be able to hear it. Now that there is no movement, they must not be here. Liu Xin used to come here often to have a meal, even though he knew that his father-in-law's family was not wealthy.

"It doesn't matter if I'm not here? I'm here to buy cloth. This...how can I sell this coarse cloth?" Liu Xin didn't blame the guy. He was angry when he recalled his previous gangster behavior. Besides, the guy had been following his father-in-law, and he was considered half-father-in-law.

A son.

"This is 140 yuan for a foot. This is new cloth. The material is good for 160 yuan. Do you have money?" Usually when buying cloth, you use a ruler to calculate. The clerk deliberately used a foot to calculate. This was to make Liu Xin quit. After all, he was

My master's future son-in-law cannot cause too much embarrassment.

"How much cloth do three adults and two children need to make one outfit?" Liu Xin had never made clothes and didn't understand anything about it, so she asked.

"For an adult, 9 feet is about right. It depends on how big the child is!" The waiter listened to Liu Xin's inquiry and patiently told him.

"A little smaller than Xiaohua!" Liu Xin said.

"Three feet to five feet is about right!" the waiter replied.

"Then, give me the blue one with 18 feet, the gray one with 8 feet, and the colorful one with 8 feet!" Liu Xin said, pointing to the cloth he chose.

"A total of 510 dollars!" The waiter quickly calculated and looked at Liu Xin and said.

"Here are five strings. Count them. Here are ten coins... By the way, how do you sell that [cotton]?" Liu Xin put down the money and pointed to the [cotton] in the corner of the wall and asked.

"[Wood cotton] is 35 yuan per pound, how much do you want?" said the waiter.

"Twelve pounds of it! By the way, there's also bedding cloth..."

There are no quilts to cover the rooms of Liu Xin and her two sisters. There are no mattresses in the houses of mother and second brother, so they need four mattresses and two quilts, each with two kilograms of [wadding], which is 12 kilograms.

"This is the fabric for the bedding. It is cheap and only costs 9 yuan per foot. Six quilts cost 7 feet. The total is 630 yuan. Including cotton and coarse cloth, it is 1540 yuan." The waiter replied.

"There are cloth shoes here, how can I sell these cloth shoes?" Liu Xin saw the cloth shoes and couldn't help but take a look at his own feet. His straw sandals usually have the toes on the outside, so he had to buy himself a pair of shoes!

"Those shoes are made of fine cloth and cost 240 yuan."

"Wrap it all up for me!" Liu Xin looked at it for a while. The sun had already set, so he counted 1,780 yuan and said to the waiter.

The clerk measured the cloth for Liu Xin, and his hands were obviously much looser. Liu Xin took the cloth shoes and put them on his feet directly. They were a suitable size and comfortable to wear. He had never worn such good shoes before.

"I'll charge you 1,750. No matter how much I pay, I won't be able to give you an advantage... You can't squander it casually even if you have money. Xiaohua will grow up in a few years. If you don't have money to marry her then, it depends on my master."

I'll peel off your skin!" the guy said "viciously".

"I know. Since shopkeeper Wang and Xiaohua are not here, I will go back. By the way, I will leave this piece of meat for you. I will go to the young owner today. The butcher shop gave it to me." Liu Xin tied the cloth and cotton wool in the

On the back of the basket, one side took out a piece of meat from the basket and handed it to the other party.

"As long as you are willing, you should take the meat back! Look how thin you have become!" The waiter was about to retreat, but Liu Xin picked up the basket and left in a dashing way!

There is no charge to go out of the city, you don't have to climb over the wall, and no one will check what you take out. Since you bought things from the city in the afternoon, everyone didn't have much money left.

When Liu Xin went out of the city, she thought about the prices in the city. They were unimaginably high. She just bought these things and spent more than two thousand dollars.

I still have more than seven guan of money and one tael of gold. If I can get back the ten guan of money that my sister-in-law has given me, it will be enough to build a yard by myself.

Liu Xin still has 20 [Guinea Fowls] in the system that have not been extracted. He can raise chickens by moving out of his home. With the advantages of modern chicken varieties, he can make a fortune by raising chickens and accumulate a rich family fortune and connections here.

Thinking of this, Liu Xin felt that the basket on her back was no longer so heavy, and she walked quickly towards home.

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