Hearing his daughter-in-law say that he wanted to buy oil, Wu Hongsheng thought about it and nodded happily.

Her daughter-in-law has lost weight recently, so she should eat some oil to make up for it.

So, Wu Hongsheng took Wu Guifang, turned around, and found a shopkeeper he knew in a grain and oil shop on the street.

"Shopkeeper Wang, business is booming! It's been a long time, and you're getting more and more red. ”

The king's shopkeeper of the grain and oil shop had a kind round face of flatbread. The skin is white and tender, and when you see people, you are smiling.

At this time, as soon as he suddenly saw Wu Hongsheng, he was excited.

After he strode over, he said to Wu Hongsheng with an enthusiastic face.

"Oh, brother, you're finally here!"

"I said I heard the magpie croak early this morning! It turns out that my brother is coming to me......"

Speaking of this, the shopkeeper Wang smiled happily.

He talked to him with a smile, and politely invited Wu Hongsheng and Wu Guifang in.

After letting them sit down, the shopkeeper urged the young men in his shop to quickly serve tea and snacks to the guests.

Soon, on the round table covered with red lacquer, there was a small plate of melon seeds, a small plate of fried soybeans, a small plate of mung bean cake, and a small plate of fried tofu.

Seeing these plates of things that exuded an extremely attractive fragrance, Wu Guifang, who had been hungry for a long time, subconsciously swallowed his saliva.

It's not that she's unproductive!

It's really because of this body, the loss is terrible. There is an urgent need for high-energy food.

The so-called high energy refers to high oil, sugar, and salt.

Only those who have oil and salt can enter it!

Although an hour ago, Wu Hongsheng spent eight cents to buy her a bowl of noodles to eat. But after she had eaten enough, she was hungry in a few moments!

The noodles with clear soup and little water, without oil, do not satisfy hunger. It's not tasty either.

She has no money in her hands now, she has nothing, she can't pick if she wants to.

Noticing that Wu Guifang stared at the plates of dim sum without moving, Shopkeeper Wang was still the same as before, very enthusiastic.

"Sister-in-law, when you and Brother Wu come to my place, don't be polite to me!"

"These little snacks are just made by the family. I can't get on the table. I usually eat it as a snack. ”

Wu Guifang saw that he was so polite to her, a little peasant woman, so she subconsciously turned her head and glanced at Wu Hongsheng.

Wu Hongsheng saw it and said to her with a smile.

"Shopkeeper Wang is my brother who almost worshipped him, and we are all family. He tells you to eat, and you eat. He has the ability to do it, and he doesn't lack this thing. ”

Hearing this, Wu Guifang began to eat.

When Wu Guifang was eating with relish, the shopkeeper Wang, who was almost in his 40s, talked to Wu Hongsheng.

"Brother, you brought the donkey here this time, are you planning to buy something in this county to go back?"

"If you want to buy anything, you can tell me. I don't have it here, but I can also introduce you to a few old acquaintances. When the time comes, it can also help you bargain. ”

Wu Hongsheng listened and replied with a smile.

"This time, I want to buy some oil and go back."

When the king's treasurer heard this, his eyes lit up.

"Brother, what a coincidence!"

"I've just arrived here with a new batch. There are good soybeans from the north and soybean oil squeezed out. There was also some sesame oil and rapeseed oil from the south. As for the meat oil~, I have a lot of it here! Soybean oil is the cheapest, 37 yuan a catty. Sesame oil and rapeseed oil are slightly more expensive, both at 45 wen a catty. As for lard, it's a bit more expensive. 50 dollars a pound. ”

"Which one would you like to buy?"

Wu Guifang, who was sitting on the side, was surprised when she heard this.

This ancient edible oil is really too expensive!

It's not your average price!

It is no wonder that some people say that in ancient society, those who could eat oil every day and eat oil every day were definitely the kind of people with very good conditions.

In an ordinary farmer's family, she estimates that the oil she eats in a year is less than a catty!

You know, she listened to her parents back then, and in the sixties and seventies, they couldn't get meat and oil all year round.

It is only during the Chinese New Year that the commune canteen will slaughter a pig weighing more than 100 catties. Let all the people in the commune smell the meat and lick the meat foam. Eat something good once stained with meat oil.

As for the usual times, they basically have boiled corn paste, sweet potato mush, pumpkin mush, and pea mush.

In short, it's right to cook those things that are not easy to digest into a paste.

The peasants of the seventies and eighties lived a life of material inabundance. Not to mention the ancient societies where productivity was more backward and the business environment was more closed.

……

Although she knew that this oil was quite expensive, Wu Guifang still let Wu Hongsheng spend money to buy it.

She asked him to buy 5 catties of sesame oil. 5 pounds of rapeseed oil. There are also 5 catties of soybean oil.

Wu Guifang's math is not bad.

This simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division problem, she figured it out at once. That's a total of 635 dollars.

All the family's savings, 18 taels of silver, are now all in Wu Hongsheng's hands. Wu Hongsheng also paid the money happily.

Then, under the enthusiastic recommendation of the shopkeeper Wang, Wu Guifang also bought ten catties of soybeans, ten catties of mung beans, and ten catties of red beans. As for the fragrant yellow rice, she also took five catties.

In the grain and oil store of the shopkeeper Wang, Wu Guifang bought a lot of miscellaneous goods, and after spending a full two taels of silver, she stopped unsatisfied.

Wu Guifang bought too much, so Shopkeeper Wang gave her a big bag of mung bean cakes and fried soybeans for free.

……

After leaving the grain and oil store of the shopkeeper Wang, Wu Guifang said to Wu Hongsheng.

"Brother Hongsheng, money is something outside the body. We should spend it. I bought so many things today, don't feel sorry......"

Wu Hongsheng listened and nodded lightly. "Daughter-in-law, I understand."

“……”

Seeing his sullen appearance, Wu Guifang thought for a while, and carefully put the beans on the donkey into his own space. While saying to him with concern, "Brother Hongsheng, isn't it heavy for you to carry more than ten catties of oil on your shoulders?" ”

"Put all those things on the donkey's back."

Wu Hongsheng saw Wu Guifang and kept giving him a look, he thought about it for a while, and took her to a quiet alley.

"Daughter-in-law, can you put all these things in?"

Wu Guifang listened to it and patted her chest to reassure. "Don't worry. That's all there is to it. ”

After speaking, she grabbed the burlap bag on the donkey a few times in front of Wu Hongsheng. The dozens of catties of grain disappeared all of a sudden.

Then, she also put the urns that Wu Hongsheng was carrying on her shoulders into her space at once.

"How?"

"Aren't we much more relaxed this time?"