"Hahaha, in the future, I will be responsible for making money to support my family, and you will be responsible for being beautiful like a flower."

Zhao Jijiao learned a joke she had seen on the Internet, but it was said by a man to a woman, and it was not bad to steal it now.

"Beautiful as a flower? Well, it's the one who should be responsible for being beautiful like a flower. ”

Li glanced at Zhao Jijiao twice as usual, and repeated what Zhao Jijiao said. However, the meaning seems to have changed.

"Xianggong, how about we go buy some rice? I've only eaten rice once when I've grown so big. ”

It happened that there was a rice shop in front of her, and Zhao Jijiao remembered that there was no rice at home, and the gluttonous worms in her stomach began to make trouble.

"Rice? Do you like to eat rice? ”

Li Ruchang actually doesn't have much appetite, as long as he can fill his stomach, so he doesn't pick anything to eat.

"Mmmmmm, I've heard that eating rice grows fast and looks good. Look at those big families, are they all delicate and good-looking. ”

Zhao Jijiao also fought hard in order to eat rice.

"Anyway, it's all the money you earned, you don't have to ask me what you want to eat or buy, as long as you're happy."

Who said that in ancient times, they were all a group of straight men, and they couldn't talk about love, they were simply big liars, and now Zhao Jijiao has been teased and don't want it.

"Let's go, attack the rice!"

Zhao Jijiao dragged Li Ruchang's big hand and walked into the rice shop.

"What do you two need?"

The one who spoke was a thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy, his face was very clean, and his smile was very cute.

"What is the price of your rice?"

"I have two kinds of rice, one is the high-grade rice of Yumi Township, which costs twenty-five yuan a catty, and the other is a little worse quality, only eighteen yuan a catty."

No wonder they can't afford to eat rice, this cheap rice costs 18 yuan a catty, you know, a pound of sorghum rice only costs 3 yuan, and cornmeal is only 5 yuan.

"What about flour?"

"There are also two kinds of flour, one for only ten cents, and the other for twelve."

"Then you can bring me 100 catties of rice and 18 cents of rice, 50 catties of rice of 20 cents, and 80 catties of flour of 12 cents."

As soon as Zhao Jijiao finished speaking, the shopkeeper who had been lowering her head at the counter and holding an abacus came over, with a flattering smile on her face.

"Ah Liang, go and load food for this young lady, miss, do you want to sit down and have a cup of tea?"

Only then did Zhao Jijiao see the table and chairs against the wall, on which tea was placed. Estimating that the food he wanted might be a little too much, he sat down, not forgetting to ask Li Ruchang to sit down as usual, have a cup of tea, and rest.

"What kind of family is Miss, do you need our shop to help deliver it to the door?"

The shopkeeper never thought that two people in coarse cloth clothes would buy so much food, which big family is estimated to be the descendant of a large family? He has seen all the big families in the town, and every time the people who come to buy food are also fixed, could it be that they are new big families?

"We are not a big family, we are from Zhaojia Village, uncle, can you still help deliver the goods to the door?"

Zhao didn't expect that there would be a door-to-door delivery service now.

"Oh, I bought a lot, our rice shop will naturally help deliver it to the door, but the carriage just went to send it to another family, I don't know which household the girl's family is in Zhaojia Village, and I will send it to you later, how about it?"

As soon as I heard Zhao Jijiao say that it was not a big family, the title immediately changed.

"My home is at the foot of the mountain in Zhaojia Village, it is very recognizable, at the foot of the mountain is our family, and I see three thatched houses."

Zhao Jijiao naturally did not take the changes of the shopkeeper seriously, and carefully told the shopkeeper her address. While speaking, the young man named Ah Liang had already packed all the food, while Li Ruchang stared at them one by one, without the slightest mistake.

"One hundred catties of eighteen cents and one catty of rice is one tael of eight hundred cents, fifty catties of rice of twenty cents per catty is one tael of silver, and eighty catties of flour of twelve cents and one pound of flour is nine hundred and sixty cents, a total of ......."

"Three, two, seven hundred and sixty dollars."

The shopkeeper was still hammering the abacus, but Zhao Jijiao told the total price first.

"How much is cornmeal a pound!"

"Cornmeal costs five pennies a pound,"

"Then give me eight catties, just three taels or eight hundred dollars."

As soon as Zhao Jijiao finished speaking, Li Ruchang had already taken out a silver ingot of five taels. After the shopkeeper weighed the weight of the silver as fine, he found one or two hundred or two hundred dollars to give to Li Ruchang.

After confirming the address with the shopkeeper repeatedly, Zhao Jijiao led Li Ruchang to wander around again, it would be at least an hour before noon, and the most important thing they had not done was to find a craftsman to build the house.

"It's not a big town, but where are we going to find the craftsmen who will build the houses!"

Zhao Jijiao was just a thirteen-year-old girl, and there was no information about building a house in her memory, and Li Ruchang had been alone in the past few years, and she had never befriended anyone, and she didn't know who would build a house.

"Otherwise, let's go back and ask the village chief, we want to build a house, and we need to register it with him."

"That's all it can be."

Zhao Jijiao walked on the street, a little depressed, which made Li Ruchang a little overwhelmed, but fortunately, Zhao Jijiao was quickly attracted by other things.

"Rock sugar gourd, sell rock sugar gourd!"

An old man shouted while walking with a large handful of rock sugar gourds.

"Wow, rock sugar gourd, grandpa, bring me two strings, how much?"

Zhao Jijiao immediately ran to the old man and picked two strings of rock sugar gourds. Can't wait to take a bite, sweet and sour, super delicious.

"Girl, two pennies will do."

The old man's kind appearance is very similar to Zhao Jijiao's grandfather before his death, when his grandfather was still alive, he often secretly bought candy for her to eat, because her grandmother did not allow her to eat sugar, every time she was discovered, her grandfather always had to be scolded by her grandmother, and as a result, she would still buy candy for her next time.

"Thank you, grandpa, the rock sugar gourd you made is so delicious!"

Zhao Jijiao showed a sweet smile, the exposed teeth were a little yellow, but they were not heavy, pay attention to hygiene, and they should still be white.

The old man didn't stay, and walked away with his large amount of rock sugar gourd, and Zhao Jijiao had a sour nose inexplicably.

"What's wrong? Rock sugar gourd is not delicious? ”

Li Ruchang didn't understand why Zhao Jijiao, who was smiling a second ago, suddenly looked like she was going to cry or not.

"No, it just seems like something flew into my eyes. Come and try it, it's delicious. ”

Zhao Jijiao wiped the moisture from the corners of her eyes, regained her former spirit, and handed another string of sugar gourds to Li Ruchang. Actually, Li Ruchang didn't like this kind of child's food, but he couldn't bear to refuse Zhao Jijiao, so he lowered his head and bit one, which was sour and sweet, and he didn't know what was delicious.

"Let's go, let's go buy some more vegetables, and by the way, buy some pastries and bars, and go to the village chief's house, so it's embarrassing to go empty-handed."