Yipin Farmer

During breakfast, there was a plate of boiled eggs on the table as usual, Ting Shuang remembered something.Said: "Two days ago I was playing with my friends and chatting with them about daily affairs. A Mr. Zhang asked me what I had for breakfast. I said, I eat boiled eggs and steamed buns and white porridge every morning. He said that your family is like this. Extravagant, an egg costs five renminbi.

Since eggs are so expensive, should we not eat eggs in the future? "

Ting Shuang thought she was very sensible and considerate, but Meng Kejian glanced at him with surprise, and said, "Idiot."

Ting Shuang was puzzled: "I'm talking about eggs, not fools."

Yang laughed, "You really don't know how to make a living." Then she turned to Meng Kejian and said, "If the child doesn't understand, you should teach him. It's rare that he cares about family affairs, so you call him a fool. It's not because you locked him up since he was a child." I study dead books in the study, but I fail the exam, I am stupid, and I don’t know how to make a living.”

Hearing what his wife said, Meng Kejian changed his attitude and took the initiative to explain: "How can eggs be so expensive? Even the fairy chickens in the sky don't cost five cents a piece. The most expensive one on the market is no more than three cents a piece. That's so expensive." Outrageous is the overhead price."

"What is the overhead price?" Ting Shuang still didn't understand, and brothers Ting Hui and Ting Ke also listened attentively.

Meng Kejian explained to his sons in a rare and kind way: "The overhead price is a false price, which is different from the real price. When a big family buys something, there are special servants who act as compradors. As long as they pass the hands, they have to scrape off a layer of oil. The overhead price and the real price are quite different. The most greedy is the House of Internal Affairs, which serves the emperor. The purchase of any object, including an egg, has to be exploited layer by layer, and the person who handles it has to be corrupted. Repairing a screen costs 5000 taels of silver, and buying one during the Chinese New Year Cucumbers cost 50 taels, which can feed a family of five for two years. Although it is not easy to grow cucumbers in the cellar in winter, it does not cost 50 taels.

The second is the rich and powerful families, especially the servants in the capital who are the darkest, treacherous and shameless, giving them ten taels of silver and being able to buy something worth five taels of silver is considered kind and honest.The Mr. Zhang you are talking about is the son of the famous Zhang Mansion at the top of Kaifeng Mansion, right?The descendants of Zhang Tingyu, his family is also considered to be a famous family, and the servants under his hand make false claims when buying things, which is more serious than other families. "

Ting Shuang understood a little, and asked again: "But, those masters let the servants deceive them like this?"

Yang said with a smile: "That's something that can't be helped. The older generation saved their family property, and the younger generation relies on the old man's shadow to enjoy the blessings. They don't know how difficult it is to make a living. Besides, those high-ranking officials and nobles, the sons and daughters of the aristocratic families feel that they are in harmony with them. Dealing with peddlers is a shame, and they don't even bother to ask the price to buy things, so the masters of those wealthy families know that their subordinates are falsely reporting prices, so they have to let them fish.

Those sons and daughters only know how to enjoy life and have fun, but don't know how to make a living, how the money comes from and how it is spent, they don't know anything. They say that they are rich for only three generations, and the Pan family in the west of the city has not passed even two generations. "

"That's right." Meng Kejian added, "Master Pan's family started from scratch and managed to earn a fortune. After his death, the young master only knew how to gamble and whore, and smoked opium. The fields were mortgaged, and the family's antiques and curios were also sold out at low prices by the servants, and as a result, the young master of the Pan family is now living in the gang room."

"What does the bar room do?" Ting Shuang asked curiously.

"When people hold weddings and funerals, they carry the coffin and hold the guard of honor. It's only the unemployed vagrants who can't get on with it."

Ting Shuang scratched aimlessly on the plate with her chopsticks, and she had a plan in mind.He asked again: "Is it the same way that our servants give ten to five when we buy things?"

"Our servants here are not as dark as those in the capital, and your father also came from a hard life, so the servants dare not deceive you too blatantly." Yang explained to him.

Ting Shuang made a decision, put down her chopsticks, and said, "Father, mother, I think I'm so old that I don't have much hope of going to school, and I can't just stay at home and let my parents take care of me for nothing. Why don't I help the family with the business. Manage housework, buy things and so on, and learn to plan for a living, so as not to be deducted by those servants."

Meng Kejian's face became more amiable, with some joy in his eyes, but he cursed: "Idiot."

Ting Shuang was puzzled again: "What's the matter?"

Yang said with a smile again: "Do you know how to buy things?"

"What's so difficult about buying things? I'll ask the price, and just buy it with silver."

Ting Shuang still has a little confidence in his ability to survive. In his previous life, one of his classmates had a very good family background. He only knew that the money came from the ATM. He didn't know how to bargain when he bought things, and he didn't even buy soy sauce. However, he still did a work-study job in school anyway, and he knew that money was exchanged for labor, not just taking it from the ATM.

Therefore, he feels that he is not bad, not the kind of person who knows nothing but only knows how to spend money on food.

"Idiot." Meng Kejian cursed softly again, "Do you know how much copper coins can be exchanged for a tael of silver recently?"

Ting Shuang touched his head. He really doesn't know what the exchange rate between silver and money is, isn't it stipulated by the state?

Meng Kejian had a reason to scold: "You can't even live a life like this. If I'm not here, you have to go out to beg."

Ting Shuang was not convinced: "Don't look down on people so much."

"That's right." The two younger brothers followed suit.

"You don't agree with me, how about this." Meng Kejian took out ten taels of silver and put it on the table, "Use this to buy our family's eggs, fish and meat for a month, as well as oil, salt, rice noodles and so on."

Ting Shuang took the silver and went shopping confidently.

After time travel, I don't have the ability to build a harem to play around the world. Is it okay to live a good life and keep the family business?Who wouldn't buy something?

Let me show you what I do, Ting Shuang swore to herself.

It was only after he actually operated that he realized that things were not as simple as he imagined. It was not like those in the modern society who pick out good things and ask for a good price, and then take out the banknotes to count and pay the money to get a loan.

First of all, the egg peddler saw that he looked like a young man in silk and satin, and couldn't believe that he was only here to buy [-] catties of eggs. Where had he ever seen a young man in silk and satin go to the street to buy egg oil and salt?

The boy next to him went up to Ping An to ask the price, and the peddler believed that he was indeed here to buy eggs, but the peddler didn't have clippers to buy eggs, so he couldn't get the change, so he took the silver to the grain store to buy rice. , the price of rice at that time was one tael of rice, one tael and seven renminbi, and ten taels of silver to buy rice, and the grain store asked for eight taels and three renminbi, but silver is not a banknote, and the shop will not happen to have eight taels and three renminbi of broken silver, the clerk picks one Almost the same silver ingots were weighed, and the remaining mantissas were converted into copper coins, and the change was made according to the silver-money exchange rate of the day.

Copper coins, also known as making money, are the legal tender of the country. There are special shops for the exchange of silver and money. The transactions between the two vary with the fluctuations of the market. Not sure what the exchange rate is per day.

Ting Shuang, who had two big heads on one head, complained. He didn't expect it to be so troublesome to buy things with silver, which made him very inconvenient who was used to using banknotes.

Pingan smiled and said, "That's not bad. The shopkeeper saw that we belonged to the Meng family and believed in us, so he accepted the money."

Pingan told him that if the shopkeeper doesn't trust people who buy things with silver, they are afraid that there will be lead in them, so they have to cut them open with a pair of scissors for inspection.

Ting Shuang had an idea and said, "In this case, let's cut the silver into small pieces of one or two at home. Wouldn't it be convenient to use it?"

Pingan laughed again: "You really don't know how to live. How can people like ours have clippers? Even if they do, no one knows how to use them. Do you think that cutting silver is the same as cutting cloth? Clippers are not something ordinary people know how to use. If you are not careful, not only will you not be able to cut it open, but you will also hurt your hands. Only big merchants, government offices, and pawn shops in the money shop and furnace room will use it."

"Then wouldn't it be convenient to use bank notes?" Ting Shuang had a new idea, watching those characters in novels and movies just throwing out a few bank notes, so chic.You can exchange silver into hundred taels, ten taels or one or two taels of banknotes, isn't it convenient to use?

Ping An quickly waved his hand: "You can't use bank notes. Many bank shops are closing down now. Sometimes when you change the money tonight, the money shop will flee tomorrow. When accepting other people's banknotes, you have to carefully check whether the shop that issued the tickets is reliable, and you have to be careful whether there are any counterfeit ones. The old Zhang in our store accidentally received two fake banknotes and was fired by the master."

Ting Shuang was very frustrated. He thought that he could do something for the family, but he didn't expect that it would be so difficult to buy something. He also thought that he could help old man Meng take care of his business in the future, but he didn't even know how to use silver. I don’t know the rate, and I can’t give change to customers, let alone distinguish the authenticity of the banknotes. If he didn't fall into a wealthy family, wouldn't he starve to death? Fortunately, he has parents who love him and his family is rich, so he can learn slowly and don't have to worry about life problems for the time being. Thinking of this, he regained a little confidence.

"Do you really want to learn?" Meng Kejian looked at his son who wanted to learn business in front of him, a little disbelieving.

"Trust me." Ting Shuang vowed, "If you teach me, I will definitely learn it. I can't write stereotyped essays, so I might as well learn to do some practical things."

Meng Kejian thinks about it too. This kid has been studying for several years, and he can't even memorize the four books. The more he learns, the more he becomes dull. After a serious illness, I know that I can take care of my family, so it's good to teach him.

"It's true, if you don't find something to do for you, you will learn from those dubious people."

"Where did I learn badly?" Ting Shuang was very dissatisfied. He was a good young man with a Marxist-Leninist education and lofty beliefs. He would never give in to temptation.

"You still have the nerve to say that a few days ago, your kid went out to gamble secretly and came back in the middle of the night. You thought I didn't know? It's really embarrassing."

"It's true that I went out to play, but I didn't gamble, I really didn't." Ting Shuang called out to Qu, and said in her heart: I just almost gambled, but after all, I didn't really gamble, so it can't be counted as learning. bad, huh?

"Anyway, you seldom interact with Luo Fengnian and his gang, they are all idle sons and gentlemen, what can you learn from being with them."

Although Meng Kejian said so, he still took Ting Shuang to the store to learn how to do business.

Ting Shuang decided to study hard, and show her fists in the future to see who dares to underestimate her.