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When we left the tea shop, it was still early. After finally making it to the town, we naturally had to go shopping.

However, this town is not very prosperous, and it may not be a popular place. Yan Kai walked around for a short time and found that there wasn't much to see.

The main reason is that in this era, probably due to productivity reasons, there are very few things sold.

Maybe it will be different when you go to big cities like Chang'an and Luoyang.

He has already inquired today. The location of this town is more than 60 miles away from Luoyang.

It is relatively close to Luoyang, so many people traveling to and from Luoyang will rest here. The main customers of the tea shop are these businessmen and the like.

There are blacksmith shops, cloth shops, etc. on the street, but Yan Kai didn't know what to buy after thinking about it, and finally decided to buy some food and go back.

The food he eats at home every day is not oily at all. Today he asked Mao Dan that although he was in charge of the food at the tea shop, he only ate whole grains, so don’t think about meat or anything like that.

After asking around, I found a butcher shop with a few pieces of meat hanging in front of it.

The price was written in red paint on a wooden sign.

Pork: 3 yuan per tael.

Mutton: 5 cents per tael.

Looking at the price, Yan Kai was speechless. To say it was expensive, he didn't think it was expensive.

Even for his current income, the consumption is still high.

Fortunately, he has a live broadcast to reward. Last time he cashed out 50 articles, and today he rewarded more.

And after the third-level anchor, his share with the live broadcast room system has become [-]-[-], which means that if someone rewards one yuan, he can get [-] cents, which is much better than the [-]-cent first.

There was a total of about 170 yuan in rewards today, and he could get 50 yuan. If he converted it into copper coins and cashed it out at 1:7, he would have a full 350 yuan. Adding the original 50 yuan withdrew, his net worth exceeded 400 yuan. arts.

This is undoubtedly a huge sum of money in such a small town, at least for ordinary people.

Thinking about his younger siblings, Yan Kai also planned to be heroic.

"Boss, here's a pound of pork!"

The butcher who was a little sleepy suddenly woke up when he heard Yan Kai's voice.

You must know that the reason why the price is three cents per tael is because people who buy meat in this era basically use taels as the unit. If you buy a pound at a time, you are a big customer.

Looking up, he saw that he was a young man. The butcher asked with some uncertainty, "Do you really want a pound of pork?"

The implication is, you little brat, are you rich? You're not here to entertain me, are you?

Yan Kai heard this and took out a handful of copper coins from his pocket and put them on the stall.

"Okay!" The butcher was so excited about money. Seeing that Yan Kai was rich, what else could he say?

Pointing to the meat hanging in front, he asked: "Which position do you want, young guest? Is it fatter or thinner?"

Yan Kai didn't expect that when buying meat, he could choose whether it was fat or thin. Naturally, he pointed to the thinnest rib and said, "Everything is thin!"

"Okay!" The butcher didn't say anything on his face, but he was secretly happy in his heart. Everyone likes to buy fat meat. This lean meat is difficult to sell without oil and water. Unexpectedly, a silly boy came today and only picked out the lean meat. purchase.

After a few cuts, a piece of lean meat was cut off, and it was weighed on a scale. The butcher added some more to it, and the scale beam was raised high.

"Look, young guest, it's a pound of gold! A total of 48 Wen!"

"How much?" Yan Kai was stunned.

"48 yuan!" the butcher said with a smile.

"Three cents, one tael, I want one pound, why do you..." Yan Kai got stuck at this point.

Yes, I forgot that the big catty used in the Tang Dynasty was 16 taels per catty.

Half a catty, isn't that where the word half a catty comes from?

It almost made a joke!

He touched his head in embarrassment and said, "Yes, yes, it's 48 Wen!"

After counting 48 coppers and paying it to the butcher, Yan Kai took the pork tied with hemp rope.

He tipped the weight with his hand. He didn't know whether the butcher burned his own scale, but he felt that the piece of meat weighed more than a kilogram in modern times.

In fact, fixed vendors in this era are relatively honest. Tang Dajin is 16 taels, but 1 tael only weighs more than 30 grams in modern times. This piece of meat weighs more than 600 grams per catty now. There are many butchers like him. of.

The asset of a pound of meat shrunk by one tenth, and Yan Kai did not dare to buy anything else. In order to be less conspicuous, Yan Kai asked the butcher to give him half a piece of oil paper.

The butcher thought that this silly boy had bought so much lean meat, so he just gave it to him without saying anything to him.

It took almost three hours to walk back. By the time we got home, it was almost dark.

"Brother!" Sanya didn't dare to recognize him at first. After all, the clothes Yan Kai wore were different from those he wore when he went out in the morning. It wasn't until Yan Kai got closer that he realized that it was really his elder brother.

"Brother, why did you change into new clothes!" Yan Xiaoer was also surprised. For them, as long as the clothes are not patched, they are new.

"Hehe, my brother is now a storyteller in the town. These are the work clothes issued by the tea shop owner in the town!"

Regardless of whether they knew the meaning of work clothes or not, Yan Kai proudly threw the oil paper bag in his hand to his brother.

"Brother, what is this?" Yan Xiaoer has never seen such a large piece of pork in his life. It was wrapped in oil paper and felt soft when he pinched it, but he didn't know what it was.

"Open it and see!"

"Meat!" The oil-paper bag opened a crack. Although he didn't eat meat often, Yan Xiaoer had seen meat sellers, so he recognized it at a glance. The heavy piece in his hand was actually a whole piece. Meat.

"That's right, we are eating meat today, take it in and ask your mother to cook it for us!"

"Okay!" Yan Xiaoer jumped up excitedly, holding the meat like a treasure and ran home, shouting as he ran: "Mom, I'm back from buying meat, you can eat meat today!" "

When Sanya saw it, she also followed behind, staggering and chasing: "Second brother, wait for me, wait for me!"

After running for two steps, he thought of Yan Kai again, turned around and took Yan Kai's hand: "Brother, hurry up, go home and eat meat."

"Okay, okay, go home and eat meat!"

After entering the house, Yan Laoer and Sister Yan also walked to the door. Yan Laoer picked up the pork in front of him with a surprised look on his face, looked at Yan Kai and asked: "Your meat?"

"Well, my...no, my meat, dad, I bought it with the money I earned today!"

"Did you really buy it?" Yan Laoer still didn't believe it.

"I really bought it. Isn't this in your possession? If I didn't buy it, where else could I go to grab a pound of meat?"

"how much is it?"

"48 Wen!" Yan Kai took out another two Wen and handed it to Mrs. Yan: "When I went to the tea shop today, I was asked to be a storyteller. My wages are paid every month. Today's reward alone is fifty Wen. .”

What Yan Kai said was not completely false. The money was indeed a reward, but it was withdrawn from the reward in his own live broadcast room.