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Blue Creek Street.

Li Xiao took a few people to the grain shop first, the New Year is approaching, there is still a lot of grain in the shop, corn, millet rice, sorghum, soybeans and wheat are all available, and the prices are also directly marked.

"Buy millet."

Yang Dayan, a dog-headed military advisor, suggested that millet is corn, and it is also called small yellow rice.

The price of corn is cheap, a bucket of millet is only two and a half yuan, and it is only twenty-five yuan to buy a stone. The small yellow rice can be steamed and eaten directly, or it can be ground into yellow rice noodles.

Compared with the japonica rice of 11 wen and one bucket, it is much cheaper.

"It's also good to cook some millet porridge and steam some millet cakes." Li Xiao also nodded, there must be twenty or thirty people in five or six families in Zhuangzi, and nine of them came, more than thirty people at once, and they ate a lot every day.

"Shopkeeper, buy a stone of small yellow rice."

Huang Chengcheng's copper coin was taken out, and the shopkeeper of the grain store was very polite.

Buying one stone of corn at a time is also a big customer.

He hurriedly beckoned the guy to take the bucket of rice, Guo Biao stared at the guy, and the people with a pair of bull's eyes were a little scared.

"Boy, don't give me two pounds."

"What did this guest officer say, our small shop has always operated in good faith, and there is no way to deceive customers, if there is a shortage of catties and two, we will compensate ten times."

Yang Dayan reached out and picked up a handful of small yellow rice, carefully looking at the quality of the millet.

A stone of millet has been shelled, but it is also saved to be processed and milled after returning.

"This stone millet can be eaten for ten days and a half months." Yang is big-eyed and calculated.

Li Xiao shook his head, normally speaking, an adult gets at least two liters of rice a day, after all, there is a lot of labor in this era, and there is a lack of non-staple food and water. Even if it is now winter, if one person halves it and only eats one liter a day, those forty people will have to eat four buckets a day, and one stone of millet can eat two and a half days.

Two and a half days of grain to eat for ten days and a half months, which has to be compressed and compressed, it is estimated that you can only eat millet porridge and add some wild vegetables.

"We'll buy it again tomorrow." Li Xiaodao.

He asked the shopkeeper to buy some more sorghum and beans and bran bran to feed the horses and mules they had brought back, which were not only a means of transportation, but also used for farming, so to speak, they were still very important and had to be fed.

Sorghum and soybeans are relatively cheap, and the shopkeeper is also easy to talk to, giving a preferential price.

I spent 300 yuan before and after, bought a stone of millet, plus some sorghum beans, and the bran was directly included.

"Walk slowly!" The shopkeeper sent out the door with a smile on his face.

"Let's go buy some more groceries!"

There was still silk money worth 1,700 yuan in his hand, and Li Xiao didn't plan to go back.

Those people in the family probably haven't eaten enough this winter, so they must be fed today. This meal was also the first meal they had when they arrived at the Blue Bridge, and they would live here in the future.

He believes that the days will definitely get better and better in the future.

Guo Biao sniffed his nose and took Li Xiao and them to the meat stall where the pig was killed, he used to be a pig killer, and he was very familiar with this business, looking at the black pig on the board, and shaking his head that he was too thin.

"No fat, this winter's pork is not fat, it's not delicious."

The pig is a black pig, with some flowers, not the kind of big white pig of later generations, and it is indeed not very fat, and it looks thinner like a wild boar.

There is even a smell of commotion from afar, which is different from the smell of mutton, it is a commotion.

It is precisely because of this that the people of the Tang Dynasty, generally rich people are not willing to eat pork, they mainly eat mutton, and pork is sold relatively cheaply, which is eaten by those lower-class people. But even if it is the people at the bottom, not everyone can afford pork.

After all, a pound of pork costs five cents, and at this price, you can buy two buckets of millet.

Rich people don't want to eat it, but poor people can't afford to eat it, pork is in a very embarrassing position in this era, just like dog meat can't be on the table, and pork is the same.

Buying pork to eat, it is more of those peddlers and pawns, as well as some wealthy peasants and small landlords.

"Five pennies a pound? It's too expensive, I see that you still have more than half of it left, and you can't sell it, give us a little cheaper, and we'll buy more. Guo Biao bargained very unceremoniously.

"Brother, this business is difficult to do, a small business, there is no profit, no matter how cheap it is, I can only drink the northwest wind." The butcher who killed the pig cried.

Li Xiao thinks that five cents a pound of pork is not expensive, after all, those people in the family also need to make up for it, mutton can't afford to eat, pork has to be eaten, and it can't be done without oil and water.

However, he saw Guo Biao's skillful bargaining, so he didn't interrupt.

"That's it, five cents a pound is fine, cut ten catties of waist for us, and the waist should be exactly the fattest. On the other hand, you give us the pig's blood, the large intestine, the pig's liver and lungs, and so on. ”

The butcher looked at the pigs in the barrel on one side, these things were basically not bought, most of them were given when the meat was sold, and sometimes the remaining little was taken home and eaten by himself. It's not tasty, but it's better than nothing.

Most of those who killed pigs had long shoulders and big waists, and most of them were fattened because of eating these.

"It's okay to send you a little." As soon as the butcher heard that he was going to buy ten catties, he was easy to talk.

Li Xiao said beside him at this time, "The pig's head is sold to us for ten cents." ”

The pig's head has no meat, it is all bones, and it is not easy to deal with. However, for Li Xiao, in fact, the pig's head can be made into a delicacy if it is handled.

The pig's head meat is very delicious, and the pig's face, pig's nose, pig's ears, and pig's mouth are all good things.

"Ten dollars is too cheap, fifteen dollars?" Butcher markup.

"It's ten." Li Xiao said very calmly.

"Okay, here you go." The butcher gritted his teeth and said very dryly.

Ten catties of waist fat, plus a big pig's head, and pig blood, intestines, a pair of pig liver and pig lungs were also included, and it only cost 60 yuan in total, which is also very affordable.

The butcher skillfully tied the meat with straw and handed it over.

Sixty copper coins were handed over, and the butcher counted them back and forth several times with his greasy fingers, and even carefully watched the style of each piece in case there was any fake money.

After coming out of the pork stall, Li Xiao led people into the grocery store to buy salt.

The quality of the salt is very average, the particles are large, and they are very dark, and when you put a little bit in the mouth, they are salty and bitter. But just like that, salt costs 11 yuan a liter, and this price is basically sold at ten times the price of rice, Li Xiao has to sigh, this salt is really profitable.

No wonder that after the collapse of the Tang Dynasty rent, the Tang court would impose a high salt tax. Now the imperial court does not levy a salt tax, and ordinary people cannot afford to eat salt, which is a big burden after the introduction of the salt tax.

Originally, Li Xiao also wanted to buy some soy sauce, spices and other seasonings, but either the price was not what he could afford now, or there was no such thing here.

"Let's go, go home!"

Looking at the pile of things purchased, Li Xiao smiled, he can have a good meal tonight.