Others are fleeing famine, but I am a salted fish

Now that Lin Xiaoyue's intimidation was gone, the guy came back to his senses and looked at their clothes with disbelief. His lips opened and closed as if he wanted to protest, but he suddenly remembered the feeling of oppression that Lin Xiaoyue had given him just now. He opened his mouth, turned his head away, and looked unconvinced.

Although the shopkeeper didn't think that a few young girls could buy much food, he had a lot of life experience after all, and was not as immature as the waiter. Da Chichi showed his thoughts clearly on his face.

Lin Zhaodi ignored the waiter and asked the shopkeeper directly about the current price of grain.

There were several types of food in this era: polished rice was the most expensive, white rice that tasted fragrant and soft, and cost 18 wen per jin. Coarse rice cost 12 wen per jin, and although it was cheap, the rice was not very good, and it was mixed with a little stone sand and other impurities. The worst brown rice also cost 8 wen per jin. As for flour, the best white flour cost 20 wen per jin, and the black flour cost 15 wen per jin.

The price quoted by the old shopkeeper was similar to what the noodle stall owner said, or even slightly higher. It was not that the old shopkeeper deliberately raised the price to "rip off the customers", but the price the noodle stall owner said was the price from two days ago.

I guess the noodle stall owner himself doesn’t know that food prices have increased again in the past two days, otherwise, he wouldn’t have said that he would raise the noodle price in two days.

I hope the noodle stall owner can be more alert, otherwise he will suffer a lot of losses in these two days alone.

Lin Zhaodi also heard the shopkeeper's words. She pursed her lips, stood silently by the side holding the two little ones, and became anxious.

Normally, refined rice was only 6 cents per pound, coarse rice was 3 cents per pound, brown rice was only 2 cents per pound, white flour was 8 cents per pound, and black rice was 4 cents per pound. But now, with the change in climate and the arrival of disaster victims, food prices have skyrocketed like crazy.

If things continue like this, families that are not well-off to begin with will probably be drained of their assets and suffer terribly.

Lin Xiaoyue bit her lower lip and thought for a while. The reason why the noodle soup she had at home yesterday was so hard to swallow must be the brown rice.

Most people feed chickens with brown rice, but in their situation, it is extremely difficult to compete with the chickens for food. After all, it is good enough to have something to eat, so why be picky about it.

However, no matter how long this brown rice is cooked, it will remain hard and prickly, and will neither become soft nor cooked. It is extremely harmful to the human stomach and intestines and is not easy to digest.

Since she didn’t have the financial means before, Lin Xiaoyue just made do with what she had.

But now, with the money she had just earned from selling bear meat and wild boar, she didn't want to waste herself anymore. After all, who would want to deliberately suffer if they could live a better life?

Besides, the children are still young and have tender stomachs. It is very bad for their stomachs to always eat brown rice.

Finally, after consultation, Lin Xiaoyue and Lin Zhaodi bought 200 kilograms of polished rice, 100 kilograms of coarse rice, 100 kilograms of white flour, and 50 kilograms of black flour. In addition, Lin Xiaoyue bought 10 kilograms of salt, 50 kilograms of cornmeal, 30 kilograms of soybean powder and mung bean powder, some seasonings, and some household pots, pans, and other items.

When Lin Xiaoyue saw that the store actually sold tobacco pots, she did not forget that the village head's tobacco pot was smashed because he was protecting their family. The debt of favor could be repaid slowly, but the tobacco pot could still be bought for the village head first.

In this way, she spent a total of 23 liang and 635 wen. Seeing that they bought a lot, the shopkeeper gave them a change of 5 wen and asked the clerk to call a donkey cart to help deliver the goods.

The donkey cart driver was shocked to see the little girls buying so many things at once, but he didn't say much.

After coming out of the grocery store, Lin Xiaoyue asked the driver to deliver the goods to a remote alley to unload them, paid the driver and let him go. After making sure that there was no one around, she waved her hand and put most of the food into the Qiankun bag (space).

The sisters who had endured hard times watched Lin Xiaoyue collect the rice, flour, grain and oil that had piled up like a small mountain. They all smiled with eyes curved in the corners of their eyes, feeling a bit like the joy of a little mouse stealing oil.

With the food in hand, everyone felt more confident. Looking up at the time and weighing the time to gather, Lin Zhaodi urged Lin Xiaoyue and the two little kids to hurry to the next location to continue shopping.

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After Lin Xiaoyue and her three sisters left the grocery store, the old shopkeeper raised his hand and gave the clerk several quick, accurate and fierce blows. The clerk covered his forehead and screamed in pain, dodging in various ways, still accusing the old shopkeeper of having a crooked elbow.

The old shopkeeper sat behind the counter, slowly unpacking the cakes he had bought, and calmly poured himself a cup of tea. He took a sip, stroked the few white whiskers on his chin, and sneered, "You kid, I told you not to look down on others, but you just wouldn't listen. Even though those girls are in a shabby state, the girl in the middle is so dignified that she must have a great future. Who knows, you might not even be worthy of carrying shoes for others, and you still dare to laugh at others here? You really don't know how high the sky is or how deep the earth is!"

The clerk curled his lips in disbelief, "Old shopkeeper, you are pretending to be a charlatan again!"

The old shopkeeper took a sip of tea and a bite of cake, then said slowly, "It's okay if you don't believe me, but just now at the market, a lot of people saw that girl carrying a wild boar weighing no less than 300 kilograms on one shoulder and parading through the market. The grand scene made many people dumbfounded and dropped their jaws. Isn't this a powerful person?"

As he said this, the old shopkeeper sighed and said with pity for the clerk, "I won't tell you anymore. Anyway, you should be more careful and stop bullying the weak and fearing the strong all the time. Otherwise, don't just say that I didn't teach you well, but you will end up being a clerk at best in this life!"

The waiter looked outside the store when he heard it. The old shopkeeper glanced at him and said faintly, "He left long ago!"

The old shopkeeper looked at the clerk, turned his head away proudly, and thought: I won't tell you, I just followed you all the way to Ruyi Tower to join in the fun. The girl is a ruthless person who can knock down a big brown bear with one punch. Tsk tsk tsk, there are always talented people in every generation!

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As for the people in the topic here, the four sisters of the Lin family followed suit and went to several smaller grocery stores and rice shops to make some purchases.

However, it is obvious that the prices sold in the following stores are slightly higher than those in the first one. But even so, there is no other way. You can't buy all the products in the same store, as that would be too conspicuous.

In the end, Lin Xiaoyue left more than 50 kilograms of rice and flour, as well as commonly used pots, pans, and other items outside to decorate the house and fool people, and put everything else into the space.