Qi Shan came back soon, untied the rope and said, "The Yuji grocery store is in front, let's go and ask." ”

Qi Jiuli, Qi Shixiang and Qi Shiyi followed Chi Lingmiao to the side of the donkey cart, and they didn't want to take the donkey cart anymore just a few steps.

Qi Shan asked Chi Lingmiao and Qi Shiyi to look at the donkey cart, and asked him to park the donkey in an alley some distance from the grocery store, and he took a few pieces of charcoal and took Qi Jiuli and Qi Shixiang in.

"Guest officer, what to buy?" A young man wearing a brown coarse cloth jacket and pants, almost the same age as Qi Jiuli, greeted Qi Shan with a smile.

"Young man, where are you shopkeepers?" Qi Shan asked with a smile.

"Dad, someone is looking for you." The little boy turned around and shouted, and then a middle-aged man about thirty or forty years old, wearing a black knee-length jacket, came out of the curtain behind the counter, "Who? ”

"I don't know."

"I wonder what the guest officer is looking for me?" Shopkeeper Yu glanced at Qi Shan a few times and asked politely.

At this time, there were no other customers in Yu Ji's grocery store, Qi Shan had no scruples and directly stretched out his hand to spread it out, revealing the charcoal inside, "Shopkeeper Yu, I don't know if your shop can accept charcoal?" ”

Shopkeeper Yu didn't expect that they were here to sell charcoal, so he took a piece from Qi Shan's palm, looked at it carefully, and said with a smile, "This black charcoal looks pretty good, but it's February now, and black charcoal is not easy to sell, you see, the black charcoal in my shop has been on the table for a long time, and few people come to buy it." ”

Qi Jiuli and a few people looked in the direction pointed by Shopkeeper Yu, and sure enough, they saw charcoal in a bamboo basket on the ground, almost half a basket.

When Qi Jiuli turned his head, he saw the expression of the little boy just now, he was snickering, but he quickly recovered his expression, and Qi Jiuli frowned.

"Since Shopkeeper Yu doesn't accept it, then we'll go." Qi Shan wanted to take back the piece of charcoal in Shopkeeper Yu's hand, but Shopkeeper Yu took it away and avoided it.

"Eh, I didn't say no." Shopkeeper Yu said a little helplessly, "It's just that charcoal is not easy to sell now, so if we collect it, we can't give a very high price, and it can't be compared with years ago, at most three cents a catty." ”

Qi Shan heard this price, and his brows furrowed, "Shopkeeper Yu, then we won't sell it." ”

"Eh, you, why are you so anxious, if you are not satisfied with the price, you can discuss it again."

"Shopkeeper Yu, I also know the price of charcoal, the broken black charcoal in your shop sells for at least five cents a catty, and the price of the good one has doubled, if I set up a stall to sell it today, the price must be on par with your shop, otherwise it will disturb your business." Qi Shan said seriously.

"So today we come to sell it sincerely, if the shopkeeper also sincerely wants to receive, please give a fair price, although it is already February, but the weather is still very cold, there are still many people who use charcoal."

Shopkeeper Yu thought for a while and said, "At most, five cents a catty, but how many do you have?" ”

"Two baskets." Qi Shan replied, "Shopkeeper Yu, we have to work hard to get this charcoal, and ask Shopkeeper Yu to add some more, and the children at home are waiting for the money to study." ”

Shopkeeper Yu was stunned for a moment, "Where are you studying?" ”

"Fang's private school." Qi Shan replied.

The smile on Shopkeeper Yu's face really changed a little, "That's good, charcoal costs six cents a catty, it's really the highest price." ”

"Thank you shopkeeper Yu, I'll move in and weigh it." Qi Shan asked Qi Jiuli and Qi Shixiang to stay in the shop, went out and moved two baskets of donkey carts, let Qi Shiyi stay in place, and asked Chi Lingmiao to go to the town gate and wait.

Although Chi Lingmiao was strange and only moved two baskets, and asked her and Qi Shiyi to act like this, she didn't ask anything, when she went out, she obeyed everything and listened to Qi Shan, and after untying the rope, she led the donkey to the gate of the town.

Seeing Chi Lingmiao walking away, Qi Shan explained that Qi Shiyi was looking at another basket in place, and only then did he carry a basket of charcoal out of the alley with a little difficulty, and saw a strange man walking in front of him.

"The little one got the order of the shopkeeper Yu to help the guest officer carry the charcoal together."

Qi Shan smiled and expressed his gratitude, "That's really thankful, I originally let the children in the family watch it, but the children are still young and can't move, so it's annoying for the little brother." ”

"Eleven, go in with Uncle."

Two baskets of charcoal were moved into the shop, and Shopkeeper Yu checked it and said with a smile, "I don't know what to call it?" ”

"Shopkeeper Yu, my surname is Qi, you can call me Lao Qi." Qi Shan said with a smile.

"Lao Qi, this charcoal looks good, but I still have to check how it burns." Shopkeeper Yu said with a smile.

"It should be, it should be." Qi Shan said in a loud voice.

The guy who just helped carry the charcoal came out with a burning stove, and the shopkeeper Yu put a few pieces of charcoal down, and the charcoal burned red after a while, smelled it, looked at the smoke, and the shopkeeper Yu showed a satisfied smile, "Lao Qi, your black charcoal is good, I want it." ”

The young man helped to weigh the two baskets of charcoal, exactly ninety catties, and the shopkeeper Yu happily let people settle the money.

As soon as Qi Jiuli heard this number, he already had the answer in his heart, six wen a catty, a total of five hundred and forty wen, and there were five baskets on the donkey cart, and according to this price and weight, there were also 1,350 wen, not bad.

"The shopkeeper, a total of four hundred and ninety-five Wen." The guy who had just helped with the scales made an abacus for a while, smiled and told Shopkeeper Yu a number, Qi Jiuli listened to the guy who was going to make a plate, and then looked at Shopkeeper Yu, his brows furrowed.

"Make up a whole for Lao Qi, five hundred wen." Shopkeeper Yu waved his hand and said magnificently.

"Multi-......"

"Uncle, it's not much, even if you add the five more Wenwen given by Shopkeeper Yu, it's less." Qi Jiuli interrupted Qi Shan's words of thanks that he was about to speak, and as soon as Qi Jiuli's voice fell, all the people in the shop looked over.

"Ninety catties of black charcoal, one catty and six wen, a total of five hundred and forty wen, this guy miscalculated." Qi Jiuli said seriously, "Shopkeeper Yu, if this guy is your accounting room, you have to pay attention, this time it is to give the guest less count, in case you return to the guest more money, then you will suffer." ”

Qi Jiuli's face was full of sincerity, and he said something for the sake of others.

"You talk nonsense, I can't be wrong." The guy retorted, but the confidence was a little lacking.

"Little brother, people have to be humble to progress." Qi Jiuli replied, "If you don't believe it, if you still can't calculate it, then go to the shop next door and ask Mr. Bookkeeper to help you calculate, after all, I can't make a mistake." Qi Jiuli said a little arrogantly.

Qi Jiuli kept looking at the guy, of course, he didn't miss the shopkeeper Yu, he kept looking at it with his eyes, only to see the guy looking in the direction of the shopkeeper Yu, then lowered his head and counted it again, calculated it for a while, and finally calculated it, and said embarrassedly, "Shopkeeper Yu, it's all a small mistake, it's really a small mistake, this little brother is right, it's five hundred and forty." ”