my weird life

Chapter 267 Bargaining and Blacksmithing (22)

Mi Zhuang Nei,
A counter is horizontally opposite the door.

The shopkeeper stood at the counter, rolled up his sleeves and fiddled with the abacus. From time to time, he picked up a brush to draw a few strokes on the ledger,
The side of the counter against the wall,
There is a row of rice boxes.

Each rice box is filled with more than half of the rice.

The grains contained in this row of rice boxes are mainly for display to customers.

If the purchased grain is small, you can naturally store the grain here and pay to take it away.

The rice farm conducts bulk transactions of grains of one stone or more,
They all move grain from the warehouse in the small door behind the counter.

"Xiao Lang, girl, what kind of grain do you want to buy?" The shop assistant seemed to be more concerned about the business here than the shopkeeper. He saw Su Wu leading Li Zhu'er into the rice box to check, and he was still helping a customer Weighing the brown rice, he greeted Su Wu and the others.

Su Wu glanced across the row of rice boxes.

Found in this Xinglong Mizhuang,
There are only a few types of rice sold, such as brown rice, polished rice, glutinous rice, flour, and dried sweet potatoes.

The sign inserted in the pile of rice only marked the name of the grain,

It did not specify how much this kind of food was worth.

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

Su Wu took a look at the brown rice, and when the clerk was free, he was about to speak.
Li Zhuer, who also checked the quality of the brown rice, said, "Man, how much is the brown rice here?"

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

Seeing that Li Zhu'er looks good, he is also willing to negotiate with Li Zhu'er.

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

"The year is not peaceful, and the price of food is also changing day by day.

Not to mention eight cents now, even nine cents can't buy a catty of brown rice. "The man replied with a smile.

At this time,

Behind the counter, the shopkeeper who kept the account put down his brush,

Glancing at Li Zhu'er, he said in a nonchalant manner: "Now brown rice is the same price everywhere, if you want to buy it, you can just pay for it, if you don't need it, you should quickly make room for the people who come after you! "

The present age,
Those who have food in their hands and those who have people in their hands are very fierce,

It just so happens that all the rice farms have food and people.
The shopkeeper's words are unavoidably a little arrogant.

It was also because he saw that Li Zhu'er and Su Wu were dressed in shabby clothes, so he guessed that they would not be big customers.

Li Zhuer listened to the shopkeeper's words,
Liu Mei raised her eyebrows slightly, and her voice raised a little: "Since you came in, you naturally came here to buy rice, so I won't come here to entertain you!

Treasurer's,
Here is ten yuan for a catty of brown rice,

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

Seeing that the little lady seemed out of breath, the shopkeeper of Mizhuang relaxed and said with a smile, "If you can afford a stone of brown rice, I'll give you nine cents—no, eight cents and five catties!"

A stone of rice is one hundred and fifty catties.

Eight and a half copper coins per catty are calculated, and one stone needs 270 five coins per sling.

There are 75 coins more than the [-] coins that Master said.

Su Wu felt that the price was acceptable.

However, Li Zhuer did not let go,

He is not good at bargaining,
Just give the stage to Li Zhuer to play.

I thought to myself that this Li Zhuer is still useful,
A few words killed the price.

If it was him,

He will only listen to the other party's quotation, and come up with a quotation himself,
If the offer given by the other party is acceptable, then buy it.

The quotation given by the other party is unacceptable, but I really need this thing, so I bite the bullet and buy it.

If you don't really need this thing, then turn around and leave.

The current bargaining process between Li Zhuer and Mi Zhuang is also the same in Su Wu's view.

But for some reason,
The price will come down accordingly.
It's amazing.

"I'll buy you ten stones of rice, and I want seven cents a catty!" Li Zhu'er said suddenly.

The shopkeeper originally looked at her with a smile,
Hearing her offer suddenly,

His expression was a bit more serious: "How can you do it for seven dollars a catty?

Eight cents per catty, eight cents per catty is the base price! "

"You still refuse to give me a good price to buy you ten stone rice, why should I buy it?" Li Zhuer shook her head, and pulled Su Wu as if to leave, "In three days' time, there will be a fair in Longtou Town,
We can go to the rice shop there to buy it! "

She pulled Su Wu,

While walking out of the shop,

Turning around and talking: "Treasurer, I didn't say that, last year was not too bad, everyone still has some surplus food on hand, this year our side is also in good weather, you bet so much rice..."

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

The shopkeeper suddenly said: "Seven cents and five,

For seven and a half copper coins a catty, I'll sell you ten shimi!

Ugly words first, if you can't afford ten stones of rice today..."

"Is there anything I can't afford?" Li Zhu'er seemed to acquiesce in the rice price of seven and a half copper coins a catty, and she stretched out her hand to Su Wu, "Brother, here comes the money."

Su Wu quickly calculated in his mind,
Finding that Li Zhu'er lowered the price than the price quoted by the master,
Immediately relax,

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

She spread out the cloth bag,

Ten silver ingots weighing two feet were exposed.

Smiling at the shopkeeper, he said, "Shopkeeper, if you buy it with silver, do you want to give me a more affordable price?"

in this way,

At the price of seven cents, three centimeters and fifty-one stones of rice, Li Zhuer,
I bought twelve stones of brown rice at Xinglong Rice Village.

It cost eight taels of silver.

The shopkeeper took the small scale on the counter, weighed one tael of fixed silver, and said to Su Wu and Li Zhu'er with a smile: "Guest officers, where will you send the twelve stone rice later?" go?

Do you need to hire those outside thugs to help with the delivery?
The times are not peaceful now, the old man suggests that you spend a tael of silver to hire them to help transport,
Although the cost is higher,
But safety is the most important thing! "

"Don't ask them to help transport,
Doesn't your Mizhuang deliver to other places? " Su Wu asked aloud.

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

It's just that if you encounter danger, our buddies will not stand up for you.

The old man suggested that you hire a few dealers, it is also for your sake..."

"No need."

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

The longer he stayed here, the more he could realize how powerful a tael of silver was.

If you use this tael 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 are not worth it?

Isn't this money wasted?

He couldn't possibly agree,
Turning to the shopkeeper, he said, "Let's go out to do some business later, come back and set off with your buddies.
Send us the food to the stove team at Qingshinian Village.

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

"It turned out to be the disciple of Master Stove Master!" The shopkeeper saw the slight change in the eyes of the two, and the look of fear flashed across his eyes, and the smile on his face became much stronger. ,

Let the old man load the car,

Let's go with you! "

agreed upon this,
Su Wu took Li Zhu'er and left Mizhuang.

Turned to the east of Zhujiazhuang,

A blacksmith's shop behind a laneway.

Su Wu, who was empty-handed, lifted the cloth curtain in front of the blacksmith shop, and when he stepped in, he had already carried a huge package in his hand, which was full of broken 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 agricultural tools.

A broken counter lies before those irons,
There was no one guarding the counter.

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

Wearing a leather apron, blacksmith Zhu put a red-hot iron bar on the iron felt, and held a hammer in the other hand, constantly hitting the iron bar,

smash it out of shape,

It smashed into sparks!

when!when!when!
Tiejiang Zhu obviously saw Su Wu and the two walking into the shop,

He yelled, "Wait a minute!"

The sonorous voice overwhelmed the sound of forging iron, and reached the ears of Su Wu and the others.

The two found seats and sat down to wait.

Blacksmith Zhu forged the red-hot iron bar thicker than a baby's arm into flakes, and then inserted it into the furnace to continue calcination.

His son, blacksmith Xiao Zhu, kept fanning under the stove,
Make the fire burn hotter.

It wasn't until this time that Blacksmith Zhu was free. He walked up to Su Wu and the two of them, glanced at the pile of broken copper and rotten iron that Su Wu had spread out on the ground, and asked them directly: "Do you want to use it?" Exchange these things for some iron?"

"Yes,

Get some cooking utensils.

In addition, I asked Blacksmith Zhu to make some weapons for us. "Su Wu was talking, seeing Blacksmith Zhu frown, he followed behind, "It's mainly for us disciples of the stove team to travel around. "

Upon hearing the name of the kitchen team,

Tiejiang Zhu stretched his brows a little, sat down on the wide armchair, patted the armrest and asked Su Wu, "The stove team, is it the stove team of the old master named Li who stayed in Qingshi Nianzi Village?"

"Exactly."

Su Wu nodded.

At this time, Li Zhu'er had no chance 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 hands to pick up the pile of broken copper and rotten iron on the ground, nodded his head and said: "Where did the iron utensils collected here weigh nearly a hundred catties after being melted, and a few sets of cooking utensils and a few weapons are enough.
The cooker is readily available,

Just choose a few sets.

There are also ready-made weapons, just wait a moment. "

talking,
Tiejiang Zhu turned around and went behind the counter,
He dragged a large box out from behind the counter, and dragged it to Su Wu.

Once out of the box,
On the straw inside, there are shining swords, guns, swords and halberds!
"This is what I made myself recently,
Do you see if there is something you agree with? Blacksmith Zhu put the things in front of Su Wu, and let him choose, while he went to pick up the pile of broken copper and iron brought by Su Wu.

The weapons in the box,
Most of them are in the shape of simple knives.

There are several goose feather knives in between.

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 head of the hammer is not much bigger than an adult's fist, so if it is so, a single blow of the hammer can also make the cavalry in the army stand on their backs.

(End of this chapter)