Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Father and the Son
"Miss Liu, my young master will enter the town tomorrow, don't you want to buy food? It just so happens that we will buy it too, let's go together!" Anan calculated the same, and came when Liu Qingxi was worried. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Sure enough, the next morning, Liu Qingxi opened the door and saw a carriage parked at the door, with an unusually familiar smiling face sticking out of the car.
I didn't care about cooking, so I washed up in a hurry, and the two sisters and brothers got into the carriage.
In the car, the young man was dressed in blue, staring at the miscellaneous notes in his hand, and when he heard the movement, he raised his head slightly. A pair of dark and seductive eyes, as if to suck people in.
"Yang Yichen, I'm sorry to keep you waiting!"
"It's okay, let's go early and come back early, and try to add everything today!" Compared with Liu Qingxi, whose soul has not been in this era for a long time, Yang Yichen has more experience in dealing with weather changes.
"There are some pastries here, you two fill your stomachs first!"
Then the carriage fell silent, leaving only the rustling sound of flipping books and chewing, perhaps feeling that such an atmosphere was a little embarrassing, Yang Yichen, as the master, took the initiative to ask Liu Qingyan.
"Xiao Yan, how did you complete the homework assigned yesterday?"
"Uh-huh! I'm done!" Liu Qingyan replied seriously.
By the way, he memorized the three-character scripture he taught and practiced in the past few days: "At the beginning of people, their nature is good, their sex is similar, and their habits are far away......"
Hearing this, Liu Qingxi had to admire Liu Qingyan's memory, and read it with Yang Yichen a few times, and he could almost memorize it.
"Well! not bad!" Yang Yichen, who is strict in schoolwork, also has to admit that Liu Qingyan is a good seedling for reading.
"Qingxi, what are your plans in the future, when are you going to let Xiao Yan enter the academy?" After thinking about it, he continued: "Although I can teach him, after all, I have no experience, so it is better to go to the academy and study with a special master!"
"I know, when the spring is warm, let Xiao Yan go to the town to study!" This was decided early in the morning.
The speed of the carriage was much faster than walking, and the distance of the foot strength in an hour only took two quarters of an hour to reach its destination.
Compared with the few times Liu Qingxi came before, Bixi Town was unusually lively, and everywhere he passed, there was a constant shouting and selling.
The bustling crowd blocked the wide road, and the large road, which could have accommodated three carriages traveling side by side, was completely congested.
Let Liu Qingxi see the scene of traffic jams in ancient times for the first time, and after waiting for a long time, there are only more and more people in front of him, and there is no possibility of scattering at all.
"Young master, why don't we get out of the car!"
Anan's suggestion was exactly what Liu Qingxi wanted to say, and the young man next to him nodded slightly, which was considered to be agreed.
At this time, Liu Qingxi, who was going to be separated from Yang Yichen, didn't expect that the things he needed to buy were almost the same.
"Let's go together, I need to buy food too!"
"That's right, let's go, maybe it will be cheaper if you buy more!" Liu Qingxi was very happy, his eyes narrowed into a slit, like a crescent moon.
Today's main purpose is to buy food, and this time it is necessary to save enough food for the winter, and wait until the next spring, when the snow and ice melt and the earth warms up, before you can enter the town again.
Otherwise, once it snows heavily, the roads are blocked, and the traffic is inconvenient, it will not be easy to enter the town again!
I've come to buy grain before, but this time I don't have to worry about it, and I went directly to the grain store that I often buy.
What Liu Qingxi didn't expect was ......
The long queue in front of the door was like a long line, from the door of the grain store to the other side of the street.
??? countless question marks hovered above Liu Qingxi's head.
A clear voice came slowly, answering the doubts in her heart: "It's going to be winter soon, everyone has to stock up on grain!"
Nodding clearly, no wonder so many people, since they know how to buy food, others must have the same idea.
Fortunately, there is a young man at the door of the grain store who is responsible for the organization, so as not to let the people behind cut in line, and to command everyone to line up in formation and not to move around, otherwise it will be absolutely chaotic.
While waiting, Yang Yichen told Liu Qingxi about the living habits of Bixi Town: "You weren't here before, I don't know, the town is the most lively at this time of year, those who don't have food hurry up to buy grain, and those who have food want to buy oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, so that they can spend the winter at home!"
In his previous life, Liu Qingxi lived in the central region, and although it was cold in winter, it was incomparable to the cold in the northeast, and he had never experienced such weather.
Therefore, her cognition of winter only stays in the narration of others, and there is no deep experience.
But when I saw the poor peasants, who were probably all their savings, buying large bags of things at home, they had a little understanding of winter.
Finally, after waiting in line for more than half an hour, I was hit by them.
In Liu Qingxi's opinion, the situation that if you buy more, it will be cheaper, has not appeared at all, because the grain store does not worry about selling at all.
All their grain stockpiles over the past year will be processed in this short period of half a month.
What's more, you can't buy anything when you come late.
Well, Liu Qingxi was a little surprised when he encountered this kind of scene for the first time, and he was glad that he came earlier, although the price of grain at this time was a little more expensive than before.
The price of brown rice is the same as the original, four wen a catty, and the mixed noodles have risen from three to four wen, as for polished rice and white flour, because there are not many people who buy them, the price has not risen, they are eight wen and six wen, respectively, and soybeans are cheaper, three wen a catty.
"Bring me 100 catties of brown rice, 100 catties of mixed noodles, 50 catties of polished rice, and 50 catties of white noodles! Oh, by the way, let's have another 50 catties of soybeans!" Liu Qingxi had thought about the weight of the purchase before he came, so there was no need to worry about it at this time.
The man weighed it neatly and put it into a bag, and the abacus of the accounting room next to him crackled, and there were words in his mouth.
"Brown rice is four pounds a catty, one hundred catties, mixed noodles...... That's a total of 1,650!"
Liu Qingxi took out the silver from the small package in his arms, although it was a stringed copper plate, but the account room also checked it for a while.
Then there is Yang Yichen, he is relatively fast, because there are more people in the family, all kinds of 200 catties came, and what he paid was not a copper plate, but a silver with white flowers.
Subsequently, Liu Qingxi went to the grocery store and bought a few bowls, a small pot, or invite someone to eat and always let someone else bring the bowl, which is normal for the peasant family, but it is a little embarrassing to do this every time.
In the past, I didn't have the money or conditions to buy too many dishes and chopsticks, but now I have come to the town to sell a few prey, plus the income from repairing the house, there are a total of eleven taels of savings, so I don't have to live so carefully.
There are also some oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and other seasonings, which cost a total of 500 wen.
In the end, he and Liu Qingyan each pulled two cotton clothes, plus two quilts, and spent more than 600 yuan, as well as other miscellaneous things, and when they were all completed, they spent almost three taels of silver.
When I bought it, it was very chic, and when I came back to my senses, I spent so much unconsciously, and the money was really unspent.
Fortunately, this time the things are basically all added for the winter, and there will be no major expenses in the future.
If it weren't for this speed, Liu Qingxi felt that the plan to send Liu Qingyan to school was far away.
Yang Yichen also bought a lot of things, and the two of them loaded a whole carriage together.
Just when he was about to leave, Yang Yichen was blocked by an angry middle-aged man.