Farming in space: the struggle of peasant girls

Chapter 30 030 Black Shop
Mu Yu was startled, this question was well asked, and he had to deal with it properly.

If the answer is not good, the old man will be vigilant and lose his goodwill, and she will never get the supplies she needs from this grocery store.

Immediately bowed his head and thought about how to deal with it.

Talking nonsense and trying to fool him, I am afraid that if the old man asks a few words, there will be a flaw. This old man is shrewd, so he can't easily fool him.

Fortunately, she has just turned around the East Street area and has some understanding of the layout of the East Street.

She thought about it, and wanted to describe herself as the grandson of the old man in the dilapidated adobe house on the edge of the East Street. She used the excuse that she hadn't been out much because of the birthmark on her face. purchase.

Starting with filial piety may make the old man feel more sympathetic and agree to her request to exchange weeds for eggs.

She was satisfied that she could think of such a comprehensive solution in just a few seconds, but she was about to speak when she suddenly realized something.

No, normally you don't ask where you live when you're shopping for greetings. This old man must have discovered something by asking this question.

This old man runs a grocery store nearby, so he must be very familiar with the surrounding situation, and at such an old age, I am afraid that he knows all the people in the surrounding area, and they are all descendants of his relatives and friends, so her statement is very likely will be spotted.

Time passed by little by little, and there was not much time for her to think.

"I, my family lives in the far north..."

"Oh, there are 32 north-south streets in Huangshacheng, and the northernmost street is called..."

Then Mu Yu knew that the old man was really familiar with the surroundings, and he was glad that he didn't say the previous answer, otherwise he would be seen through.

"My family lives on the north side of the northernmost street..."

The old man: "..."

Seeing that the old man didn't say anything, she felt proud, and she was also very familiar with the situation around here, especially the ruined temple.

The main streets of Huangsha City are indeed the 32 north-south streets, but outside these 32 streets, there are some simple houses, wooden houses, thatched sheds, etc. The people living here are either foreigners or even their own houses. A prodigal who can't live.

The local people look down on these people and are seldom willing to understand them. Even if the old man knows a lot, it is impossible to understand all of these people.

What's more, these people themselves are also very mobile. They either moved to join relatives, or sold themselves as slaves and moved away, and they might die of starvation, illness and death...

For example, she now plans to claim to be the daughter of a family not far from the ruined temple. She has already learned the details of this family from the beggars in the ruined temple.

"I came here with my parents to join my aunt's family. Only when I came here did I know that my aunt and uncle had passed away. My uncle's family was willing to let us live in the house, but my mother was sick..."

Mu Yu lowered his head and wiped away the non-existent tears, and secretly observed the reactions of the old man and the young man through his fingers. Seeing that their attitudes had eased, they no longer stared at this question, and felt a little more relaxed.

"Okay, don't cry, you just said you want to change the eggs?"

Mu Yu choked twice and said,

"I, I just want to ask, how much is an egg, my mother is sick..."

Maybe it was because she acted too realistically, the boy rushed to say without waiting for her to finish speaking,

"Eggs cost ten copper coins, and the small ones are cheaper by one or two copper coins."

Mu Yu was a little dazed for a while, and secretly calculated what level the price might be.

The memory of the original owner is not of much reference value. When I was at home, I couldn't touch the money or get in touch with it. After escaping from the famine, the price of everything was outrageous, and being a beggar was all about running around to survive.

Since she came here, most of the people she came into contact with were beggars, and the beggars didn't have an accurate understanding of money.

But this didn't bother her. The prices of things during the famine years were ridiculously high, not to mention that this shop has a "black shop" temperament at first glance.

"Yes, isn't it too expensive..."

The guy opened his mouth, wanting to refute but had nothing to say.

But the old man smiled and said,

"In these days, which food is not expensive?
Eggs are always a rarity, especially in this calamity year. Although the price of ten cents a piece is a bit expensive, they have always sold well, and there has never been a time when they cannot be sold. "

It is true that in this calamity year, in order to survive, people have to pay several times or dozens of times the original price to buy food.

With no food and no money, there is only a dead end and a dead end.

"I don't have that much money, can, can I exchange it with other things?"

Mu Yu said pretending to be weak and helpless.

"can."

To her surprise, the old man answered happily,
"Gold and silver jewelry, cotton clothes and quilts, all kinds of food or other useful things can be exchanged, and I can guarantee that the price I give will be a little higher than that of the pawn shop.

but……"

Mu Yu was speechless, the pawn shop was almost robbed, it is a little higher than the pawn shop, so where is the benefit?
It just happened to be able to confirm the name of the black shop.

"However, I don't give money. What do you like here, just use it to pay for it."

Mu Yu sighed inwardly, but didn't reveal anything on his face, pretending to be thinking.

Forget it, black shops are black shops, the shops that can survive in this year, except for the old and big shops, are these black shops.

Black shops are better than none. There are no black shops in the streets next to the ruined temple.

She took a deep breath and said awkwardly,

"Jewelry, cotton clothes, father and mother won't let me move, we don't have much food, other..."

The old man's surname is Wang, and his neighbors call him Old Wangtou. When he was young, he worked as a peddler in the streets and alleys. Later, he saved some money to open this grocery store.

He is very accurate at seeing people, and he is very good at doing business, so this grocery store has been open for decades. After two or three years of drought, other stores have collapsed, and he is still doing business here.

He just brought people in, so he naturally felt that he could make money by doing business, but now he was a little uncertain.

This little girl, it doesn't sound like she can afford it. Could it be that he is too old to be mistaken?

No, no, he saw that this girl was clever early in the morning, and she was probably pretending to be pitiful at the moment.

He also pretended, frowned and said,
"Then there's nothing I can do. I can't give you the eggs for nothing."

But the boy went on to say,
"Don't you have anything to eat at home?
As long as it can be imported, it can be exchanged for things, such as bran..."

The old Wang glanced at the boy sitting beside him, that was his grandson named Chenggui, he was optimistic about the candidate to inherit the shop, but he was still too immature.

However, this sentence hit the right point.

What Mu Yu was waiting for was such an opportunity,
"Is it really enough as long as you can eat it? I can get some weeds here..."

As he spoke, he took out ten weeds that he had prepared a long time ago from his pocket.

When the little guy Wang Chenggui saw the bright green color, he ran over to take a closer look in three steps at a time, and then looked at the old Wangtou with surprise,
"Father, do you see?"

Old Wang shook his head and walked over with a sigh. His grandson was so innocent, so he couldn't trust to hand over the grocery store to him.

　Alright

　　
　
(End of this chapter)