Chapter 21: Buying Grain
", our family is rich!"
Closing the courtyard door, Yang Ge happily teased Xiao Huang.
"Woo ......"
Xiao Huang also happily fluttered back and forth in the yard.
"Let's go, Daddy will take you to splurge!"
Yang Ge waved his hand magnificently.
As soon as Xiao Huang heard this, his little eyes lit up, and he couldn't wait to turn over his dog leash.
Yang Ge looked at its excited appearance, took the opportunity to take out the mouth cage from the corner, and said with a smile: "Good girl, let's put this thing on, so that those children outside will not be afraid of you!" ”
"Smack."
The leash fell silently from the little yellow mouth, and the tail didn't wagged.
……
The two of them walked the same step and happily went out on the street.
The surrounding neighbors all greeted Yang Ge familiarly, and the bold bear child saw that Xiao Huang was wearing a mouth cage, and he jumped up and grabbed Xiao Huang's big fluffy tail with a smile.
Frightened, Xiao Huang grabbed his tail and dragged Yang Ge forward, wanting to get out of here quickly.
Yang Ge laughed and dragged the rope to prevent it from escaping the clutches of these bear children.
Xiao Huang fell into the pile of bear children, and his slippery fur was frustrated, and the expression on the dog's face was called a loveless life.
The residents near Chaimen Street were originally families who made a living by collecting firewood, and most of them lived a relatively simple life, but their temperament was generally very simple, and the neighborhood relationship was also very harmonious and united.
Previously, Yang Ge reorganized the small courtyard, and no one came to accuse him of banging all day long, but several times he came back with heavy wood and stones, and the neighbors around him took the initiative to help him when they saw it.
After the two of them left Chaimen Street, they went straight to the grain market.
Sure enough, as Wang Dali said, at least one-third of the shops in the straight street of the grain market are closed.
There are fewer grain shops open for business, but there are more than twice as many grain buyers coming and going as usual!
As far as the eye can see, there are several families pushing a wheelbarrow full of grain, and slowly squirming with the crowded flow of people.
But more than that, it was the grain buyers who were holding a bag of grain the size of a watermelon and following the flow of people with a sad face......
The inexplicable melancholy cast a shadow on Yang Ge's bright mood of paying his salary.
He unconsciously quickened his pace and walked towards the familiar grain store.
"Little Brother Yang, you're here!"
Xiao Er, a grain shop who was familiar with him, saw him and warmly beckoned him to go inside.
Yang Ge walked into the grain store, and when he swept his eyes, he saw that in the two grain buckets he usually bought, there were wooden signs with the words "Nineteen Wen One Bucket" and "Thirty Wen One Bucket".
Nineteen Wen and one bucket are corn.
Thirty wen a bucket is barley.
Da Wei Jun system, one stone and ten buckets, one bucket is twelve and a half catties.
"This has doubled, hasn't it?"
Yang Ge asked in shock as he stood next to the two rice buckets.
His shock was not pretended, you must know that when he was a shopkeeper before, his monthly salary was only one hundred and fifty yuan.
And this level of wages is definitely not low in Luting County.
It can be seen from this that the increase in food prices this time is really big!
The shopkeeper laughed with him: "Who said it wasn't?" But I don't know what's wrong with this grain recently, it's at this price anywhere, our boss's leg is about to break, and he can't buy the grain at the previous price, at this price now, he is shouting at a loss, and there is really no way to do it......"
Yang Ge hesitated, but did not speak.
Seeing this, the shopkeeper asked cautiously, "Otherwise, you will go around again?" Come back later? ”
Yang Ge sighed and asked, "At this price?" ”
The shopkeeper spoke nicely: "No one dares to fool you?" ”
Yang Ge hesitated for a while while with Xiao Huang's dog head, and finally made up his mind and asked, "There is no limit to purchase, right?" ”
"Purchase limit?"
The shopkeeper recited this new term, and immediately reacted, and replied confidently: "The small store has enough food, you can buy as much as you want!" ”
Yang Ge nodded: "Okay, give me ten stones for corn and five stones for barley!" ”
"Much, how much? How much do you say? ”
The shopkeeper suspected that he had misheard.
Yang Ge had no choice but to repeat: "Ten stones of corn and five stones of barley...... Can you deliver it to your door? ”
"With such a large amount, the trumpet can send someone to send you to the house......"
The shopkeeper couldn't help but look Yang Ge up and down rudely, no matter how he looked at it, he felt that his body was not much different from himself, and after hesitating for a few breaths, he whispered in embarrassment: "Little Brother Yang, we are acquaintances, but the little man is soft-spoken, but there is no way to give you credit!" ”
Yang Ge didn't say anything, just took out the money bag, took out the only silver ingot from it and held it in the palm of his hand, and after pinching it until his palm was sweaty, he reluctantly handed it to him: "You are tired, help with the inspection!" ”
When the shopkeeper saw the silver ingot, Yang Ge's eyes changed.
He smiled, slumped his waist, took the silver ingot from Yang Ge's hand with both hands, first took it in his hand and checked it, and then couldn't wait to take it to his mouth and bite it, and then looked at the tooth marks, and immediately said firmly: "Ten out of ten silver...... Official bank? ”
Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by an exclamation.
Yang Ge came to him in a puzzled way, and saw that the bottom of the silver ingot was clearly printed with the words "Three years of Great Wei Jianping, Hubu Silver Treasury System".
'Gan! ’
Yang Ge scolded speechlessly, and asked casually: "What's the matter, don't you collect the official money?" ”
The shopkeeper looked Yang Ge up and down again, and some strong smiled and returned the silver ingot with both hands: "The villain is indeed the first time to see the official silver...... Tired of the big officials to go to the silver number, the villain first prepared the food for the big officials, to ensure that the big officials can't miss the big things! ”
"What can I do!"
Yang Gepi took back the silver ingot with a smile: "What am I doing, you don't know, this is the silver tael I got from selling the ancestral house, I didn't notice it was official silver before, it seems that the customer who bought my ancestral house is still an official family!" ”
"That's for sure, otherwise there's no official money, right?"
The shopkeeper stretched out his hand and made a "please" gesture while perfunctory and drove Yang Ge out: "It's not too early, the big official will go back quickly, and the villain will go to prepare food for you!" ”
Yang Ge only had a perfunctory "uh-huh-ahh
The shopkeeper stood on the steps in front of the shop, watching Yang Ge go away with a smile on his face.
It wasn't until Yang Ge's back disappeared into the crowd that the smile on his face disappeared abruptly, and after taking a sip, he said, "You said you are the second shopkeeper of Yuelai Inn?" I also said that you are a strong man who cuts the mountain and cuts the path! ”
He cleaned up his face, turned his head and went to greet the other guests enthusiastically.
Preparing for food?
He didn't think Yang Ge would come back at all!