The worst time travel, surviving seven years of famine

After a long time, the food was not so delicious.

Gu Liang returned to the market, thinking about what to buy. He must buy food. He had food stored at home, so he didn't have to worry about anything.

But before that, he had to buy some food to reward himself. Gu Liang bought a string of candied haws and a fried cake, and ate while walking on the road. Rural people are not so particular, and Gu Liang didn't care about being elegant. He couldn't even eat enough, so who would he show his elegance to?

Ding ding, ding ding, ding ding ding... This sound is so familiar. A burst of metal knocking sound came into Gu Liang's ears. Gu Liang seemed to have heard this sound in modern times. Although this sound was not pleasant, it seemed to bring Gu Liang a sense of intimacy.

"Maltose!"

Gu Liang looked at the small stall surrounded by children. An old man was hammering inside. On the stall was a large piece of white maltose, which looked very delicious. This moment made Gu Liang return to the era of picking up plastic bottles to exchange for candy.

"Boss, how much is this candy?" Gu Liang's voice came over, and the surrounding children instantly cast envious eyes on Gu Liang. After all, this candy is not affordable for everyone. Eating candy occasionally can make people have a lot of aftertaste, and most of the time they can only watch others eat. But although they can't eat it, they still can't resist the temptation of candy, as if they can eat it by looking at it, so they all gathered in front of the candy stall. This scene is no different from modern children looking at Lego toys.

"One penny for 1 yuan, two pennies for 2 yuan, five pennies for 6 yuan, come and have a look, those who pass by, the fragrant and sweet maltose..." Most of the children only asked the price but did not buy it, after all, their parents were reluctant to part with it, so the old man just mechanically repeated the answer.

"I want this big piece, how much is it?" Gu Liang's face showed a sense of pride at this time.

It's not that he was showing off for no reason, but after he said this, it was as if shit went into the pit and flies exploded (the elegant way to say it is that the atomic bomb was dropped into Japan - the devils exploded, hehe).

"Wow, he is so rich." "Fuck, nb" "I want to eat it too, I'll go home to find my mother quickly" "When can I eat all the candy I want?" The children around talked about it, all of them cast envious eyes at Gu Liang, and even worse, he actually cried with greed, wailing.

"Kid, are you serious? Where are your parents? Don't try to fool an old man like me."

"My parents are selling things over there. I have money, so I'll buy a big piece."

The old man saw that Gu Liang looked calm and didn't think he was talking nonsense, so he said, "This big piece of candy weighs about four pounds. One pound of sugar costs 30 coins. I'll sell it to you cheaply, 100 coins."

([1] Mu Sujie, China: Sugar and Society - Farmers, Technology and the World Market, p. 75. This article is fictional, but the prices are all based on the prices in the early Ming Dynasty.)

"Okay, but I only have this small change." Gu Liang took out one or two ounces of silver.

"Old man, I usually accept copper coins. I don't have a scale or pliers here. There is a shop opened by my fellow villager in front. Let's go there to help you find silver."

So Gu Liang followed the old man selling candy in the circle of children. After passing the market, he stopped at the first shop on the street. This shop was a cloth shop.

The old man put down his burden, greeted the clerk inside, and took out a small scale and pliers. After Gu Liang handed over the silver, the old man weighed it and cut it open. After seeing the quality of the silver, he nodded with satisfaction.

After weighing it, the old man returned the remaining broken silver to Gu Liang, but Gu Liang felt that the silver was troublesome to use, so he exchanged the broken silver for 900 copper coins (following the rule of one tael of silver for one thousand coins).

After doing all this, Gu Liang asked the old man to break the malt sugar into small pieces and wrap it with grease, and then left under the envious eyes of the children at the door of the store. After leaving, Gu Liang stuffed a piece of maltose into his mouth, and put the rest into the space. 900 coins were indeed heavy, and indeed they were heavy, so Gu Liang thought about exchanging the remaining copper coins for grain.

When he walked to the door of the grain store, there were more people inside than in the pharmacy, and those who bought and sold grain were bargaining. So no one noticed that Gu Liang, a child, came in, and naturally no one entertained him.

"Kid, what are you doing standing here? Can't you find an adult?" asked a thin young man who had just grown up.

"I'm here to buy grain."

"Oh, that's great, my name is Zhang San, I'm a new guy here, whatever grain you want to buy, I have it here." The young man originally just wanted

I, Gu Liang, went to show my concern when he got lost, but unexpectedly, a customer came. He just came here to work as a waiter. People here only recognize familiar customers, so he basically has no customers. The shopkeeper suspects that he is not smart enough and often scolds him.

"Please follow me. We have brown rice, polished rice, japonica rice, glutinous rice, white flour, black flour, fine flour... everything. What do you want?" Zhang San said a lot of it, as if he was afraid that Gu Liang would leave.

"What's the price of this brown rice?" Gu Liang asked

"This brown rice is three cents per catty. How much do you need?"

"Give me 100 catties first, and help me move it to the alley on the back street. My family will come to pick me up when the time comes."

"Okay, young master" Zhang San was even more surprised when he heard that he had to buy 100 catties. He didn't expect that an ordinary child would be a big customer.

Gu Liang didn't expect that after buying 100 catties, he would become a young master in the eyes of others. He took out three strings of money, a total of 300 coins, and gave them to Zhang San.

When Gu Liang got to the alley, he took advantage of no one to send the bag of brown rice into the space and continued to walk.

Gu Liang has been in this era for more than a month. If he had to say what he craves the most, the first thing he craves is pork. How can he not eat some meat when he finally has money? He must have some pork.

The pork shop is not far from the grain shop. The butcher is in line with the stereotype. He is a standard big and strong man with a greasy and rosy face and a big waist, as if he has eaten all the meat in his house.

The pork shop owner saw Gu Liang standing in front of the meat stall and was about to joke that he should go find his parents to buy some. Unexpectedly, the child spoke up first: "Boss, give me three pounds of pork."

"Kid, do you want to buy it yourself? Do you want fat or lean meat? My fat is 16 cents per pound and lean meat is 13 cents per pound."

(The author is afraid of writing about prices incorrectly, so he refers to the Ming Dynasty. Refer to "Journal of Southwest University" No. 3, 2016; author: Professor Chen Baoliang of the School of History and Culture;

"Journal of Tsinghua University" 2008(03):47-64+161. Author: Professor Gao Shouxian of the School of History;)

Gu Liang looked at the remaining pork on the meat stall and found that there was more lean meat than fat. The ancients really preferred things with more oil and water. Here, you have to buy some lean meat with fat. If it were in the 21st century, there would be no lean meat left. Gu Liang thought about it and chose a piece of leaner pork belly. After all, he was afraid of pure fat.

Since he had bought the pork belly, the first thing Gu Liang thought of was the braised pork dish. It was fat but not greasy, lean but not dry, and he drooled just thinking about it. Gu Liang bought a pot of soy sauce at the sauce shop. As for cinnamon and bay leaves, Gu Liang asked around and found that they were not sold. He had to go to the pharmacy to buy them.

So Gu Liang had to return to the pharmacy. Lin Ye, who worked at the pharmacy, was a little surprised to see Gu Liang coming back. Before Lin Ye could speak, Gu Liang reported a bunch of cinnamon, bay leaves, star anise, pepper, and angelica.

Lin Ye instinctively asked Gu Liang if he had a doctor's prescription for buying these and what disease they were for.

"It's not a disease, it's for cooking," Gu Liang replied.

This surprised Lin Ye even more. Some of these things can indeed be used in cooking, but he had never heard of this pile of cooking. But these are not toxic, so it's okay to sell them. So he listened to Gu Liang's words and bought some of each. Lin Ye felt that Gu Liang was a very interesting kid.

After the purchase, Gu Liang held a piece of meat in his left hand, a packet of medicine and soy sauce in his right hand, and a few hundred copper coins in his clothes in between, looking like a wealthy man who had suddenly become rich.