When they arrived at South Street, Zhao Yongzhong's father and daughter first went to the grocery store located at the corner of the street.

The shopkeeper of the grocery store also recognized the father and daughter at a glance, not because he had a good memory, but mainly because the father and daughter had not changed their clothes for three days, and it was really rare for a guest who was dressed like this but was willing to spend money to buy so many ingredients.

"Little girl, what do you want to buy this time?" The shopkeeper asked. Zhao Siniang bought enough ingredients last time for ordinary people to eat for a year, and he didn't think that this time the little girl came to buy ingredients again.

"I'm using your ingredients very well, and I'm going to buy some more. In addition, you have to weigh a few pounds of sugar. Zhao Siniang replied.

Getting an unexpected answer, the shopkeeper couldn't help but be stunned, looked at the trolley parked by the door of the father and daughter, and then realized: "Little girl, your family is either going to have a treat, or you are opening a food shop, right?" ”

"Shopkeeper, you have such a good eyesight, and your guess is not bad at all! Our family is an open shop. In the future, I will come to your shop from time to time to buy some things, and you can make a little more concession on the price! Zhao Siniang said with a smile.

"That's a good idea, I'm sure I'll give you the best price!" The shopkeeper was busy.

Zhao Siniang thanked her with a smile and began to choose ingredients.

Before, in order to kidnap Zhao Yongzhong to South Street, Zhao Siniang lied and said that she wanted to buy expensive ingredients. Now in order to fulfill her lie, Zhao Siniang had to ask the guy to wrap up a few big bags of various ingredients, scrape together more money, and pretend to buy valuable ingredients.

Zhao Siniang was dripping blood in her heart, and said secretly: Is she paying for lying?

The shopkeeper originally thought that even if this little girl's family was a shopkeeper, but she didn't seem to have a very good family background, and it was estimated that it was very limited to come to his shop to buy things, who knew that this little girl actually bought so many ingredients in one go! He was overjoyed.

At this time, the shopkeeper heard Zhao Siniang ask the guy if there was any white sugar to sell in addition to the brown sugar outside, so he hurriedly replied: "Yes!" We have white sugar for sale! It's just that the white sugar is produced in Ningguo, and it costs 100 yuan a catty, for fear of ruining it, so I don't dare to put it outside casually. He said as he took out a sugar jar from the counter and opened the lid to show Zhao Siniang.

Zhao Siniang couldn't help but be startled when she heard that the sugar actually cost a pound of 100 yuan. That day, she heard that the brown sugar outside was priced at 30 yuan a catty, and it was estimated that the white sugar would be sold for about 50 yuan a catty, but she didn't expect to pay double the price.

Zhao Siniang looked at the white sugar in the jar, it was crystal white, it was indeed good sugar. But although she has plenty of money now, she is a little distressed to let her spend such a high price on sugar.

"This is made by Ning? So is there any of our swallows made in China? Zhao Siniang knew that the people here were keen to pursue Ningguo's things, and everything with the "Ningguo" mark was much more expensive. Zhao Siniang, who is not in line with the trend, still wants to buy cheap Yan domestic products.

"There are two kinds of brown sugar, which are made in Ning and Yan, but there is only one kind of white sugar in Ning. Not for anything else, it's really our Yan country that can't make sugar! The shopkeeper explained.

Zhao Siniang's eyes were shining when she heard this, and her face was full of excitement, but soon she thought of something, and hurriedly lowered her head and thought about it for a long time. When she raised her head again, her face was already calm, and then she asked, "Shopkeeper, is the brown sugar on the outside made by Ning or Yan?" ”

"Those are made in Ning, and people in the town generally buy that kind of candy. The brown sugar made in Yan's country is the same as the high-priced white sugar, and few people buy it. The shopkeeper saw that Zhao Siniang was indecisive, considering her family background, he took out a sugar jar from the counter and said, "Although few people buy it, our goods are very complete, and Yan's domestic brown sugar is also available." This kind of cheapness is only 20 yuan a catty. ”

Zhao Siniang took a closer look at the sugar in the jar and found that this Yan domestic was not so much brown sugar as brown sugar, but brown sugar, which had a lot of impurities in it, and the quality was too bad compared with Ning's domestic one. No wonder it's so cheap, and the townspeople don't want to buy it, not all because it's produced in their own country.

"By the way, shopkeeper, last time I came to buy something for 80 yuan, you gave me two pieces of candy as an add-on. I remember that the sugar looked lighter and amber than both of the brown sugars, so what kind of sugar was that? And how is it sold? Zhao Siniang asked.

A little girl from the countryside was so observant that the shopkeeper couldn't help but be secretly surprised, and replied, "That's brown sugar, which is also a kind of brown sugar." Like this, it was sold in our shop before, but the people in the town are not used to eating it, so they can't sell it at all, and now our shop is no longer stocking. However, some children like to eat sweet, as long as there is sugar to eat, and they don't feel that brown sugar is not used to eating, so we have some cut brown sugar cubes in our shop. This brown sugar cube is only sold for a single piece, two dollars a penny. ”

Zhao Siniang calculated in her heart: the weight of the brown sugar block is very light, and it is estimated that it will take 100 yuan to make a catty, which means that a pound of brown sugar will cost at least 50 yuan, which is far less cost-effective than buying brown sugar. Although I want to ask about the price of loose brown sugar, if the price is cheap, I plan to ask the shopkeeper to help her buy some goods. But after thinking about it, the amount she uses by herself will not be much, and people may not be willing to buy goods for her. What's more, the idea in my heart has not been put into practice, so don't bother others, so I put the idea of buying brown sugar on hold for the time being.

"Shopkeeper, weigh me four catties of Ning's domestic brown sugar, pack one pound at a time, and pack four packs. Then weigh ten catties of swallow domestic brown sugar, it doesn't matter how many packs this package has. Zhao Siniang commanded.

The shopkeeper was very curious: Isn't your house an open shop? What do you do with so much sugar?

Although he felt that this little girl was not an ordinary country girl, and her knowledge was quite extraordinary, he still couldn't help but look at Zhao Yongzhong, who had been loading wood next to him since he entered the door, and asked him with his eyes: Your daughter is not joking, right?

Zhao Yongzhong saw the shopkeeper's puzzled eyes, and said with a smile: "What my daughter says counts!" Shopkeeper, you can wrap it up! Although he didn't know what Zhao Siniang was doing with so much sugar, he firmly believed that the little girl must have her reasons for doing this, not to mention that he promised that no matter what Zhao Siniang bought, he would not object, so of course he had to fully support it.

The shopkeeper saw that the adults of the little girl's family also agreed, so he hurriedly asked the guy to wrap the candy according to Zhao Siniang's request.

Then the shopkeeper took up the abacus, and the total of these things was five hundred and seventy-three cents. After some deliberation, the shopkeeper decided to charge only 550 yuan, and gave a garlic jar and a garlic pestle, as well as 10 pieces of brown sugar.

When Zhao Yongzhong took out ten taels of silver to settle the account, the shopkeeper was stunned again. It's not that he hasn't seen such a large amount of silver taels, his shop is located in the most prosperous street market in Changle Town, and occasionally there will be guests who take out large ingots of silver to settle accounts, but, but this silver appeared on Zhao Yongzhong, who was wearing patched coarse cloth clothes, it was really too discordant!

However, after all, the shopkeeper had seen the world, and after discovering that this ingot of silver was snowflake filament silver, he decided to immediately give Zhao Yongzhong change.

Although Zhao Siniang has never used silver, she also knows that just like gold, there is a difference between gold and pure gold, and silver is also divided into fineness. Although she couldn't identify the fineness of the ten taels of silver, since it was a noble guest's reward, it was not much worse than the fineness. Now, through the performance of the shopkeeper, I know that this ingot of silver is definitely in excellent condition.

So Zhao Siniang hurriedly asked the shopkeeper to help her grind the ingot of silver, and used the pole to select a piece of broken silver weighing six coins to meet the account, and then carefully put away the bag of broken silver and the fifty yuan for change.