My Weird Life

   Chapter 267 Bargaining and Blacksmith Shop (22)

   Rice Shonai,

   There is a counter across from the door.

   The shopkeeper stood at the counter, rolled up his sleeves and fiddled with the abacus, and from time to time he picked up a brush and drew a few strokes on the ledger.

   The side of the counter against the wall,

   is a row of rice boxes.

  Each box of rice contained more than half of the grain.

   The food in this row of rice boxes is mainly for display to customers.

  If you buy a small amount of grain, you can naturally store the grain from here and pay to take it away.

  Mizhuang conducts large-scale transactions of grains of one stone or more,

  The food is carried from the warehouse in the small door behind the counter.

"Little Lang, girl, do you want to buy that kind of food?" The guy in the shop seemed to be more interested in the business here than the shopkeeper. He saw that Su Wu was leading Li Zhuer into the rice box to check, and he was still helping a customer in his hand. Weighing the brown rice, Su Wu and the others were already greeted.

  Su Wu glanced over the row of rice boxes.

   Found this Xinglong Rice Village,

  The grains and rice sold are only brown rice, polished rice, glutinous rice, flour, dried sweet potatoes, etc.

  The sign inserted in the rice pile only identifies the name of the grain.

   does not specify how much this kind of food is worth.

   Compared with the supermarkets of later generations, it seems quite inhumane.

  Su Wu grabbed the brown rice and looked at it. When the man was free, he was about to speak.

   Li Zhuer, who has also checked the quality of brown rice, has already said, "Man, how much does the brown rice cost in your place?"

   "Brown rice is ten cents a pound." The man replied with a smile.

   Seeing that Li Zhuer was handsome, he was willing to negotiate with Li Zhuer.

  Li Zhuer grabbed a handful of brown rice and looked at it: "We came to buy rice some time ago, and brown rice was only eight cents a pound. It's only been a few days? It's already ten cents..."

   "The year is not smooth, and the price of food is the same every day.

   Now, not to mention eight pennies, even nine pennies cannot buy a pound of brown rice. "The guy replied with a smile.

   At this time,

   The shopkeeper who kept the account behind the counter put down his writing brush,

He glanced at Li Zhu'er, and said indifferently: "Now brown rice is the same price everywhere, if you want to buy it, pay for it, if you don't need it, hurry up and make room for future generations! "

   The present year,

   Those who have food in their hands and those in their hands are very vicious,

   It just so happens that all the rice farms have food and people,

   The shopkeeper's words were a bit arrogant.

   It was also because he saw that Li Zhuer and Su Wu were dressed in tatters, so they would not be big customers.

  Li Pearl listened to the shopkeeper's words,

  Liu's eyebrows were raised slightly, and her voice raised a bit: "Since you are here, you are here to buy rice, so you won't come here to find your entertainment!

   the treasurer,

  伱 Here is ten dollars for a pound of brown rice,

   How much is that one stone of brown rice? Is it the same number? "

   Seeing that the little lady seemed to be out of anger, the shopkeeper of Mi Zhuang relaxed and said with a smile, "If you can afford a stone of brown rice, I'll give you nine bucks—no, the price of eight bucks and a pound!"

   One stone of rice is one hundred and fifty catties.

  Eight and a half copper coins are counted for a pound, and a stone requires a hanging and two hundred and seventy-five coins.

   The 1,200 coins that Master said were still seventy-five more.

  Su Wu felt that the price was okay.

   However, Li Zhuer has not let go,

   He is not good at bargaining,

   gave the stage to Li Zhuer to play.

   I thought to myself that this Li Zhuer is still somewhat useful,

   killed the price in a few words.

   is him,

   will only listen to the other party's offer, come up with an offer yourself,

   If the quotation given by the other party is acceptable, then buy it.

   The offer given by the other party was unacceptable, but I really needed this thing, so I bought it bravely.

  If you don’t really need this thing, then turn your head and leave.

   The current bargaining process between Li Zhuer and Mi Zhuang is the same for Su Wu,

   But somehow,

  The price will then drop,

   is amazing.

   "I'll buy you ten stone rice, and I want seven cents a pound!" Li Zhuer suddenly said.

   The shopkeeper looked at her with a smile,

   suddenly listened to her offer,

  's expression turned solemn: "How can you do it for seven dollars a pound?

  Eight cents a pound, eight cents a pound is the reserve price! "

   "I bought you ten stone rice, and you still refuse to give a good price. Why should I buy it?" Li Zhuer shook her head and dragged Su Wu in a gesture to leave, "In three days, there will be a fair in Longtou Town.

  We can also go to the rice farm there to buy! "

   She pulled Su Wu,

   While walking out of the shop,

   turned his head and said, "Treasurer, it's not me who said that last year was okay, everyone still has some surplus food on hand, and this year is also good for us here. You bet so much rice in your hand..."

   I don't know what Li Zhuer said that moved the shopkeeper,

   The shopkeeper suddenly said: "Seven coins and five,

   For seven and a half copper coins per pound, I will sell you ten stone rice!

  Ugly speaking up front, if you can’t afford ten stone rice today…”

   "What can't you afford?" Li Zhuer seemed to have acquiesced in the price of seven and a half copper coins per pound of rice. She reached out to Su Wu, "Elder Brother, bring the money."

  Su Wu made a quick calculation in his mind,

   found that Li Zhuer had set the price lower than the price quoted by the master,

   Immediately relieved,

   took out the bag of silver from his pocket and handed it to her.

   She spread out the cloth bag,

   revealed ten silver ingots twice the size of their feet.

   smiled at the shopkeeper and said, "The shopkeeper, buy it with silver, do you want to give me a more affordable price?"

in this way,

  Li Zhuer at the price of seven coins, three centimeters and five one stone rice,

   Bought twelve stone brown rice at Xinglong Rice Village.

   spent eighty-two-eight silver.

The shopkeeper took the small scale on the counter, weighed a tael of silver, and said with a smile to Su Wu and Li Zhu'er, "Second guest officers, where will these twelve stones be delivered to you later? go?

  Do you need to hire those outside thugs to help with the delivery?

   Now that the times are not peaceful, the old man suggests that you should hire them to help transport them for a tael of silver.

   Although the cost is larger,

   But peace is the most important thing! "

   "Don't ask them to help deliver,

   Don't you Mi Zhuang package delivery to the place? "Su Wu asked aloud.

   "That's not true, that's not true." The shopkeeper shook his head again and again, "The two of you are big customers, and they bought so much food from us, so we sent our guys to deliver the food to you.

   However, if you are in danger, our buddies will not stand up for you.

  The old man suggested that you hire a few people who work in the bank, and it is also for your sake..."

   "No need."

  Su Wu shook his head and rejected the so-called 'kindness' of the shopkeeper.

   The longer he stayed here, the more he could appreciate the purchasing power of a tael of silver.

   If you use these two pieces of silver to buy grain, you can buy nearly two hundred catties!

   But now the shopkeeper asked him to spend a tael of silver to hire a few thugs who were not good enough?

   Isn't this money wasted?

   He could not agree,

   turned to the shopkeeper and said, "Let's go out to do some errands later, come back and set off with your buddies,

   Send us the food to the stove team at the head of Qingshi Nian Village.

  —The master of the kitchen team asked us to buy these rice. "

"It turned out to be the disciple of the master of the stove!" The shopkeeper's eyes changed slightly when he saw the two, his eyes flashed with fear, and the smile on his face became much stronger, and he nodded repeatedly, "It's easy to talk, you can come back later. ,

   The old man will let the man load the car,

  Let's go with you! "

   agreed on this matter,

  Su Wu left Mi Zhuang with Li Zhuer.

   turned to the east of Zhujiazhuang,

   A blacksmith shop behind an alley.

  Empty-handed, Su Wu opened the curtain in front of the blacksmith shop, and when he stepped inside, he already carried a huge package in his hand, which was filled with scraps of copper and iron that he had collected from the black wind bandits.

   in the blacksmith's shop,

  The space is more spacious.

   On the wall facing the door, there are many pots and pans, shovels, hoes and other cooking utensils and farm implements.

   A broken counter stood in front of the ironware,

   There was no one at the counter.

   Instead, from the east side of the house, there were bursts of iron hammering.

   Wearing a leather apron, the single-clothed blacksmith put a red-hot iron bar on the iron felt, and holding a hammer in the other hand, he kept hitting the iron bar.

   smash it out of shape,

   Smashed with sparks!

when! when! when!

   Blacksmith Zhu apparently saw Su Wu and the two walking into the shop,

   He shouted: "Wait a minute!"

  The loud voice overwhelmed the sound of the forged iron and passed into the ears of Su Wu and the two of them.

   The two found a seat and sat down to wait.

   Blacksmith Zhu forged the red-hot iron bar that was thicker than a baby's arm into a sheet, and inserted it into the furnace to continue calcining.

   His son-Xiaozhu blacksmith kept fanning under the stove,

   makes the fire burn more vigorously.

Until this time, Blacksmith Zhu had time to spare. He walked to Su Wu and the two approached. He glanced at the pile of tattered copper and iron that Su Wu had spread out on the ground, and asked them directly, "Do you want to use it? Replace these things with iron?"

"Yes,

   Change some cookware.

   In addition, we asked Blacksmith Zhu to make some weapons for us. "Su Wu was talking, and seeing Blacksmith Zhu frown, he followed up with a sentence, "It's mainly for the disciples of the kitchen team to travel around. "

   As soon as I heard the name of the stove team,

   Blacksmith Zhu's brows stretched slightly, he sat on the large armchair, patted the armrest and asked Su Wu, "The stove team, is it the stove team of the Master Li surnamed Zao who stayed in Qingshi Nianzi Village?"

   "Exactly."

  Su Wu nodded.

   At this time, Li Zhuer had no reason to speak.

   He said: "My master asked us to come here to find you, saying that you can make weapons."

   Blacksmith Zhu stretched out his hand and pulled at the pile of tattered copper and iron on the ground, nodding his head and said, "The iron tools collected here are nearly a hundred kilograms melted, and a few sets of cooking utensils and a few weapons are enough.

  Cookers are readily available,

  You choose a few sets.

  Weapons are also ready-made, just wait. "

   talking,

   Blacksmith Zhu turned around and went behind the counter,

   dragged a large box from behind the counter to Su Wu.

   As soon as you open the box,

On the straw inside   , there is a dazzling sword, spear, sword and halberd!

   "I made this myself recently,

  Do you see anything you like? Blacksmith Zhu put the things in front of Su Wu's eyes and let him choose, while he himself went to pick up the pile of broken copper and iron that Su Wu brought.

  The weapons in the box,

   is mostly a knife-shaped system,

Between the    there are several goose quilled knives.

   There are also two pairs of wax gourd hammers—the so-called wax gourd hammers are not as big as wax gourds.

   In fact, the hammer head is not much bigger than an adult fist. If so, if a hammer hits it, it can also make the cavalry in the army turn upside down.

   (end of this chapter)