Ye Qingfeng saw that Xu Jingnan was deflated, smiled secretly, and also said,

"Brother Xu, put away the money quickly, we won't ask for it! Seeing that it's almost noon, let's go shopping. ”

Xu Jingnan could only take the silver back, thinking about finding an opportunity to give it out in the future.

"Eldest sister, what are we buying?" Ye Qingfeng asked excitedly.

"Brother Xu wants to buy rice, let's also buy some rice back, and buy some meat, well, there are some fine noodles for dim sum, bean paste and the like. Do you have anything you'd like to buy? Ye Qingyu asked.

"No, it's nice to have meat." Ye Qingfeng said with a smile.

"Can the little brother make an abacus?" Ye Qingyu suddenly thought of something and asked him.

"Yes, I used to learn abacus from my grandfather." Ye Qingfeng said, "After the accident in the tofu workshop at home, the family has no abacus, so I haven't studied again." ”

After such a reminder from his younger brother, Ye Qingyu remembered that his grandfather was also a bookkeeper when he was young, and the abacus crackled in one hand, and later the family opened a tofu workshop, and it was also his grandfather who kept accounts and managed the accounts.

"Let's go buy an abacus and go back and let grandpa teach you how to settle accounts." Ye Qingyu said to his junior brother.

"Yes, yes!" Ye Qingfeng nodded excitedly, "Grandpa's health is much better, let him teach me to settle accounts, and also find things for grandpa to do, grandpa will not be idle and cranky." ”

"You're right." Ye Qingyu smiled and patted the younger brother's shoulder, "The eldest sister thinks so too." ”

Xu Jingnan glanced at Ye Qingyu and thought to herself that she was really thinking about her family everywhere, delicate and considerate, she was really a good girl.

A pair of the most ordinary and cheapest abacus also costs 600 Wen, and when Ye Qingfeng came out of the store with the abacus, his face ached.

So expensive, so expensive!

Ye Qingyu looked at the distressed appearance of his little brother, and couldn't help but wonder, "Use it well to learn to settle accounts, and let it be used for you, it will be worth it." ”

Ye Qingfeng nodded heavily, saying that he must study hard!

Subsequently, Ye Qingyu and the others went to the grain store again.

Ye Qingyu also inquired about the price of rice for the first time, and found that this rice is also divided into three, six, nine and so on, what is the best blue stem rice, rouge rice, is a sky-high price of five or six hundred wen a catty.

Of course, the shops in this town are too small, and they don't buy such high-end goods, which is used by the shopkeeper Zhao of the grain store to brag when he introduced the price of rice.

There are several kinds of rice in the grain store, that is, fragrant rice, new rice, old rice, and the inferior rice is inferior rice mixed with some unhulled rice.

And the price, this fragrant rice costs 50 wen a catty, new rice is 30 wen, old rice is 20 wen, and the lowest inferior rice also costs 10 wen!

All in all, rice is much more expensive than flour!

Because you can buy a pound of white noodles for ten yuan, and coarse grain noodles only need four yuan a pound.

The reason why this is the case is because Qinghe County is backed by mountains, there are few paddy fields, most of them are dry land, and the rice production is small.

Most of the rice in the grain store is transported from outside, and in ancient times, it was very laborious, most of them were by water, which was a month or two, and there were various risks, so the price was naturally much more expensive.

"Eldest sister, we might as well buy some white noodles." After Ye Qingfeng heard the price of rice, he tugged at the eldest sister's clothes and whispered to her, "Rice is too cost-effective." ”

Ye Qingyu also hesitated, it must not be delicious to buy old rice, it is better not to buy it.