Chapter 13: Buying Food (Revision)
Zheng San bought this set of mansion Zhiwen is very satisfied.
When you open the gate, you will find the front yard, and in the middle is a green brick pavement, and the vegetable patches are dotted on both sides.
The hall is located in the middle of the front yard, and with the wings on both sides, there are three main rooms.
The houses are built with blue bricks and black tiles, and Zhiwen likes this style.
There is also a backyard behind the main house, which is not small, with a kitchen and a utility room on both sides of the backyard.
There is also a well in the corner between the kitchen and the hall, Zhiwen looked at it, it has bottomed out, there is water in his fish pond, Zhiwen doesn't care.
Zhiwen Niang is also very happy, she finally has a house, and it is still her own.
She was timid, holding Zhiwen's hand. There are few large houses in the village that are so beautifully built, and she has only seen them from afar, but she has never gone in to see them.
Now this house, with blue bricks and white walls, is so clean that I don't dare to touch it with my hands.
"I've changed the door locks," Zheng Sanle asked Zhiwen Niang for credit, "The well in our courtyard is out of water, but there is a well in the alley and there is still water, and people nearby go there to fetch water." ”
And he took out the deed and showed it to everyone.
Zhiwen glanced at it from a distance and got busy.
According to the room allocation agreed before, he put the family's clothes, bedding and other daily necessities in their respective rooms, and put pots and pans, grain tanks, and water tanks in the kitchen.
Although Zhiwen Niang had seen how Zhiwen changed things one by one in the cave, but at this time, she saw that the empty house was conjured out of thin air by Zhiwen and placed them one by one.
Zheng San was even more dumbfounded, and he didn't know when the deed in his hand fell to the ground.
In the land temple, Zhiwen Niang secretly told him about his son's miraculous ability, and now he saw it with his own eyes, surprise, joy, panic, and overwhelm, all kinds of emotions surged into his heart together, and he was speechless for a while.
Only Nan Nan is normal at this time, following Zhiwen like a fart, and she doesn't think it's strange at all about the things that suddenly appear, just touch it with her hand to confirm whether it's her own thing, if the location is not to her liking, she will clean it up by herself, and the cowardice just now gradually disappeared.
The first day was tired of traveling, and the place to sleep at night was his own house, and in a good mood, Zhiwen Niang's three sons got up late the next day.
It was Zheng San who rushed over from the Land Temple, and breakfast was ready, so he woke them up.
Speaking of which, Zheng San now has a house in his own house, not only can he not live in it, but he can't even show it off, and he is also quite depressed. But a poor man suddenly bought a house to live in, which is really eye-catching.
This high-profile style, if those with bad intentions are targeted, is indeed the way to death.
Zheng San can only leave the Land Temple during the day, have work to do, and go to his house to hide quietly when he has no work, and go back to the Land Temple to sleep at night.
After the meal, Zhiwen told his parents about his plans, first of all, to buy food, buy as much food as possible, of course, not to be targeted by people.
For this, Zheng San and his wife naturally have no objections, they have food in their hands, and they are not panicked.
As for the second point that Zhiwen said, he wanted to make two sets of clothes for each of the three people except Zheng San, and they didn't agree at first, they both felt that the clothes on their bodies were a little torn, but they could still wear them if they were sewn up.
Zhiwen explained, what song is sung on what mountain. In the past, this family had no land and no house, so they relied on Zheng San and his wife to do odd jobs to make a living, so they naturally wore these patches and patches of clothes. Now that I live in this kind of house and wear this kind of clothes, it is incompatible with the people around me, but it looks different, which is inconsistent with our original intention of keeping a low profile.
Zheng San and his wife were silent, thought for a while, and felt justified and agreed.
Nan Nan knew that she was going to wear new clothes, so she was so happy to hug Zhiwen and kissed her several times, which made Zhiwen salivate.
Zhiwen wanted to make a winter coat by himself, but it was only May, and it was still early.
There are still nearly 2,000 kilograms of grain in the warehouse, and in a few months, another batch can be harvested, and his family will not be able to eat all the wheat noodles.
Since Zheng San spent most of the year in the county looking for work and knew a lot of people, it was not good for him to buy so much food and be bumped into by acquaintances.
Therefore, the task of buying grain fell on Zhiwen and Zhiwen Niang.
The mother and son took the sack and went out in the direction pointed out by Zheng San.
Entering the first store, Zhiwen saw that it was a hodgepodge.
In addition to selling grain, there are oil, salt, tea, vinegar and other spices, and selling seeds, but also can exchange copper coins, silver taels, gold, is a grain store and grocery store in later generations, and also a seed store, as well as the function of a bank counter, I don't know if the business is not good to carry out a wide range of operations, or has always been this business.
Looking at the price of grain, one tael of silver and twenty catties of hybrid noodles are still limited, and the family only sells these grains to you a day.
There are not many people who buy food, and the guys have a good memory, so they don't have to worry about the phenomenon of one person buying more than one person.
It turned out that Zhiwen was embarrassed by how to buy more food without being noticeable, but now there is no need to be embarrassed.
Zhiwen Niang was taken aback by the price of grain, and was busy pulling Zhiwen out of the grain store, bent down, and asked in a low voice: "Zhiwen, is the silver enough?" , the price of this grain has risen again in less than a month. ”
"Last month, your father bought thirty catties of mixed noodles for one or two pieces of silver, and now he can only buy twenty catties."
"That's enough, mother." Zhiwen smiled, looked around again, and found that no one was paying attention, so he said to his mother's ear, "If it rises again, you don't have to buy it, you have to buy as much as possible, if it doesn't rain, the price of this grain will only get more and more expensive, no, mother." ”
"Then what can I do if I can only buy one or two pieces of silver?" Zhiwen Niang asked again, how long can you eat these twenty catties of noodles?
"Let's go to a few more grain stores today and buy some from each one," Zhiwen said softly, "It's just right, you can't buy a lot of grain in one store, it's too conspicuous and easy to recruit." In a few days, we will come back to buy it from house to house. ”
Zhiwen Niang was relieved at this time, and pulled Zhiwen to turn around and go into the grain store.
Large households have enough grain to store themselves, and there is no need to buy it, and there is nothing to buy without limiting it, and small households can rarely buy 20 catties at a time in the face of this grain price, and there is no limit.
There are very few people who buy grain, basically they buy a few catties and a few catties, Zhiwen They bought twenty catties this time it was a bit conspicuous, and they wanted to exchange broken silver for some silver ingots and gold bars, so they had to give up.
Not far into a deserted alley, put the mixed noodles into the warehouse, and Niang went straight to the next target.
The layout of each grain store is similar, it is a hodgepodge, and it seems that this is how grain is sold here.
The price of grain is the same, it is estimated that the merchants have reached a price alliance, and the grain stores in the back, Zhiwen and they dare not buy enough 20 catties, some more and some less.
The county seat is not big, the population is not large, and there are less than ten grain stores in Manda, but it took Zhiwen and his son to buy it in such a circle, and it still took most of the day, and when they got home, it was past noon.
"Mother, I did the math, and I bought a hundred and eighty pounds of noodles today." Zhiwen said while eating.
"Hey, Zhiwen, you can count?" Zheng San, who was next to them to dinner, asked in surprise.
"What's so strange about our son being so smart that he can do the math." Zhiwen Niang glared at Zheng San dissatisfied.
Yes, Zhiwen completely forgot that he was only eight years old this year, and he was still a little kid who didn't know anything.
Forget it, Zhiwen knows that he is already a demon in the eyes of his parents now, and it is really a trivial matter to change things and change them out again.
"Let's buy it again the next day, Daddy, you don't have to go, I'll do it alone, and I'm familiar with the road." Zhiwen didn't answer Zheng San's words, what he wanted was to buy grain by himself, and it was not up to him to decide how much grain he had at that time.
There is no need to buy it at all, there is a lot of it in my warehouse, and buying grain today is just an excuse.
It's the tea in the grain store, Zhiwen remembers, he was fond of tea in his last life, and he went to the grain store alone to buy tea in the future.
"Okay." Zheng San and his wife looked at each other and knew that their son was now capable.
"Buy it when it's crowded, ah, Zhiwen."
"Don't buy enough 20 catties in a store at a time, you have a small body, a few catties are enough."
The two began to explain various precautions in a chattering manner.