Jiang Zhiluo looked at the duck eggs in the old lady's basket and felt they were big and good. She smiled and said, "It's okay, I bought them all."

When the old lady heard this, she was immediately shocked, "Girl, you, you buy them all?"

"Yes, just follow the price you said, two for one penny, and buy them all."

"How many in total?"

The old lady couldn't believe it, and she was so excited by Jiang Zhiluo's words that she was speechless. After a while, she finally said: "A... 62 duck eggs in total."

She saves everything every day.

She would count the eggs several times every day. When she came, she would put all the duck eggs in the basket and count them several times for fear of making a mistake.

Half a penny for each duck egg is very important to their family.

Their family has no food, but the price of food in the town has increased. After selling the duck eggs, they can buy some grain noodles to eat as a family.

Eat sparingly to last until the food comes down.

The old lady and her family only had one meal for several days.

Eat some wild vegetables when you are hungry.

They were reluctant to eat even the vegetables from the fields, so they tried to bring them to the market.

Every penny more is worth a penny, because grain costs five pence per pound than usual, and the price of miscellaneous grains has almost doubled.

She was also hungry now, but she endured it.

She carefully walked to the market every day carrying a basket of duck eggs. No one bought them and then carried them back.

She has been here for several days.

There are actually many people selling duck eggs, but people don’t eat duck eggs very much, and there are few people buying duck eggs.

So no one bought a basket of duck eggs for so many days.

Listening to this girl's words, the old lady almost shed tears.

But she still worried about it, for fear that the girl wouldn't buy it again.

Jiang Zhiluo found 31 cents and handed it to the old lady and said: "62 duck eggs, two of which are one cent each, a total of 31 cents. Old man, can you count them?"

The old lady stretched out her hand and carefully took the copper coin.

Jiang Zhiluo saw that her hands were rough, dark, and cracked. It looked like they were hands that had been working all year round.

The old lady counted them one by one carefully. After counting, she said: "Girl, it is 31 cents."

"Then old man, please put it away and go home early."

When Jiang Zhiluo bought duck eggs, she deliberately used the wood power to shield the surrounding area so that no one could see the movement here.

She mainly wanted to prevent anyone from seeing the old lady's money and what she would do halfway through.

In this way, no one will notice this side, and the old lady will be safe.

The old lady nodded and said: "Yes, yes, girl, thank you, thank you."

The old lady had to bow to Jiang Zhiluo.

Jiang Zhiluo hurriedly supported the old lady, "Old man, I need more duck eggs, so I bought them all. No need to thank me."

But the old lady still thanked the girl in front of her. She could see that the girl was a kind person.

She stretched out her hand to help put all the duck eggs in the basket into the girl's basket, and then left the market with the basket and the backpack next to it.

The old lady walks briskly.

She sold the duck eggs and had more copper coins in her hand. She couldn't wait to go home and share the good news with her family.

……

Jiang Zhiluo strolled around the market again and bought almost all the duck eggs in the market.

The market stalls here sell eggs and duck eggs, almost in a basket.

Jiang Zhiluo bought a lot, almost 600 duck eggs.

All put on the bullock cart.

Mrs. Cui said: "Fortunately we brought many backpacks, otherwise there would be nothing to hold them.

Duck eggs can't be packed in sacks because they might fall accidentally if there's a bump.

Even when going back, the cattle cart must be driven slower.Jiang Zhiluo placed the duck eggs on the oxcart and placed straw on top. By blocking them, she actually secretly put the duck eggs into the space.

In this way, you don’t have to worry about bumps when driving the cattle cart.

"Mom, let's go buy some things first and then go home."

"Isn't there any in the market?"

Jiang Zhiluo said: "Well, I just took a stroll. There is nothing here in the market. Most of them sell food here."

"Let's go to the dock or the grocery store. I want to buy some shellfish."

Upon hearing the shell, Mrs. Cui said, "Isn't that something only found in the sea?"

Mrs. Cui didn't know what the shells were going to be used for.

But if you want to buy Zhiluo, it will definitely be useful.

Jiang Zhiluo said: "Well, there are many beaches, but we in Beizhou are not close to the sea, so we can only buy them."

"Fortunately, we have a dock here with convenient transportation, and it's not far from the sea. Some people think the shells are novel and beautiful, so they will transport some to sell them."

Most people think this thing is not very good-looking just to look at it, so few people buy it and the price is cheap.

Jiang Zhiluo went to the grocery store first.

She deliberately looked at this and that, then pointed at the shell next to her and said, "This one looks a bit strange."

"Oh, the girl is really discerning. This is something transported from the seaside. People over there like to use it as decorations."

Jiang Zhiluo said: "Even if it is made as decoration, it must be processed. These look like a pile of debris."

The shopkeeper hurriedly promoted: "Girl, don't say that. If you decorate this properly, it will definitely look good."

I don’t know how long those shells had been there, they were already a year or two old. They were old goods and no one was buying them, so he was anxious to sell them.

Finally a girl sees these things.

"It looks very ordinary, but I don't know what the price is. It's too expensive, so it's not worth it."

The shopkeeper looked at the girl's expression carefully and saw that she was frowning and didn't really want to buy it.

The shopkeeper murmured in his heart and could only say: "If the girl buys more, it will definitely be cheaper."

Jiang Zhiluo said: "How many do you have here?"

"There are five sacks!"

In this way, Jiang Zhiluo negotiated the price and bought one large bag for ten cents, and five large bags for fifty cents.

The shopkeeper was also happy. Although it was cheap, he still made some money.

To him, these things looked like rocks.

I don’t know why people at the beach like these things.

People here think that these things are not practical. Poor people don't have enough to eat, so they don't care about decorations.

Rich nobles like gold and silver jewelry and don't wear them.

In fact, in Jiang Zhiluo's opinion, shells are really beautiful, especially when used as decorations.

It's just that ordinary people here in Beizhou are still in a state of food and clothing, and they don't care about decoration.

Jiang Zhiluo bought it because the shells can be used to make lime.

She didn't find limestone yet, so she had to use shells first.

In this way, you can pickle the preserved eggs.

After walking forward from the grocery store for a while, Mrs. Cui suddenly pointed over there and said: "Zhiluo, look, isn't that Lin Zhuzhu's stall? Isn't that Lin Zhuzhu's re-arrangement of the stall? ?”

When Jiang Zhiluo heard the sound, she turned around and saw a meat stall at the entrance of an alley.

In the past, when Jiang Zhiluo came to town and wanted to buy meat, she would go and take a look.

But the door was closed every time. After a long time, Jiang Zhiluo stopped paying attention to that side.

Unexpectedly, the butcher stall would reopen this time.

Just looking at the woman setting up the stall, Jiang Zhiluo was slightly surprised.


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