The road to wealth of a peasant widow

Returning to Lin's Mountain Goods Store, Changping seemed a little awkward and a little embarrassed.

Chen Cui didn't care. She thought it was normal to compare prices from three different stores. Although they were sellers, comparing prices was also a common practice. It was common sense that the one with the highest offer wins.

Sure enough, Lin’s staff had probably seen many such guests coming back, and they didn’t see anything unusual at all.

However, when Chen Cui wanted to ask if the price could be higher, the other party clearly responded in the negative.

"Sister-in-law, this price is already very fair. We still need to nitrate the leather and repair it. The profit from reselling it is not as high as you think."

"Okay, that's it."

Chen Cui didn't originally expect the price to increase much more, she just asked out of habit.

The matter of the wolf has been dealt with, but there is still something else to ask about the yam.

She asked Chang'an to take a yam from the car and let the waiter see if he would accept it.

The waiter took the brown thing in his hand and examined it carefully. After obtaining Chen Cui's consent, he broke it open and looked at the cross section. Finally, he asked with certainty, "Sister-in-law, how much of this yam do you have left?"

When Chen Cui heard her say the name of yam, she felt relieved.

She was also worried that the name of Yam might have changed due to the change of time and space, or that this guy wouldn't recognize it.

"It's about 40 to 50 kilograms. Do you buy it? How much per kilogram?"

The waiter quickly replied, "Yes, but I want to see the quality of the other yams before I tell you the price."

The rest of the yams were on the ox cart. After the clerk examined them, he thought they looked good, with each section basically intact and not many broken parts. So he gave them a price of two cents per pound.

The yams on the cart were weighed and there were a total of 48 pounds, which cost 96 coins.

Although the money earned from selling the yams was far less than what the wolf earned, the family was still very happy.

They didn't expect that the thing their mother asked them to dig could actually be sold for money. According to their mother's estimation, there should be more than one place with yam on the mountain, and they could sell it for money if they dug it up in the future.

My mother also said that maybe we could plant this thing in the fields in the future so that we could have a long-term income.

The total income from selling the wolf carcass and yam was five taels and six cents of silver, of which five taels was paid in silver and six hundred cents was paid in copper coins.

After getting the money, Chen Cui showed it to her children to let them know that the family had an extra income.

However, for safety reasons, she still kept the money. It seemed that she put it in the purse around her waist, but in fact, she threw it into the space.

When you want to take it, you can take it out with just a thought. There is no risk of it being stolen. It is very safe.

By this time, the sun had risen high in the sky and it was past breakfast time.

Although each of them had eaten a bun before, that little bit of food was not enough for the growing boy!

It just so happened that Chen Cui also needed to go for a walk, so the family left the ox cart in the backyard of the mountain goods store and went shopping for food on foot.

When they arrived at the stall selling mutton soup, they couldn't help but take a deep breath. It was so delicious!

Unfortunately, they have to observe mourning now and cannot eat meat. The boys could only shake their heads regretfully.

Chen Cui couldn't help but smile when she saw their greedy looks.

"Boss, I want four bowls of mutton soup. No mutton or mutton offal. Just clear soup, okay?" Chen Cui asked.

The boss, who had just gotten some free time and was worried about the lack of business, quickly replied, "Sure."

He has been running the shop here for many years and has seen all kinds of customers, but he doesn't take it seriously.

Some people are short of money and can't bear to spend it, but they also love the delicious mutton soup and want to drink some hot water to warm themselves up, which is not impossible.

To him, everyone who comes is a guest, and he would sell as many bowls as possible. Since they don’t want meat, it’s just a matter of adding a few more bowls of water.

"A bowl of this clear soup costs two cents. How many bowls do you want?"

"Four bowls." Chen Cui took out some money, counted out eight cents to the boss, and then gave Chang'an a handful of money and asked him to go to the stall next door to buy some sesame cakes.

Changan got the money and ran to buy sesame cakes like a gust of wind, while the others sat at the stall waiting for soup.

Chang Ping came close to Chen Cui and whispered, "Mom, this boss is too ruthless. He only sells soup without meat for two cents a bowl."

He had just asked, mutton soup is ten cents a bowl, mutton offal soup is eight cents a bowl, and this clear soup with no ingredients on it actually costs two cents.

Before Chen Cui could reply, the soup was served and they had to stop talking.

A large wide-mouthed bowl was placed in front of each person. Chopped green onions and garlic sprouts floated on the milky white soup. I don’t know what seasoning was added to the soup, but it was fragrant.

Changping leaned closer and smelled the fragrance, and could no longer say that the soup was not worth two cents.

Pingyin is located in the west of the Great Zhou Dynasty, not far from the grassland. Most of the sheep raised by local people are breeds from the grassland. The freshly slaughtered mutton has almost no fishy smell and is very delicious.

Just at this time, Chang'an bought some freshly baked sesame cakes, sprinkled with sesame seeds, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, very tempting.

How could those people, who were already hungry, resist the temptation of the double aroma?

The three brothers each held a pancake in one hand and a spoon in the other, and were busy putting food into their mouths. The whole table was filled with the sounds of them chewing and drinking soup.

Chen Cui held Sui Sui in her arms, sitting a little further away from the table, watching the scene with a smile on her face.

She felt that if the mutton soup wasn't too hot, they would probably pick up the bowls and pour it down their stomachs.

Changping was the oldest and ate the fastest. In a short while, he had finished two sesame cakes and a bowl of soup.

He wiped his mouth with his sleeve, reached out to take Sui Sui and said, "Mom, eat it quickly, the soup will be cold soon."

Chen Cui responded and asked him to sit farther away from the table so Sui Sui wouldn't be able to reach the bowl. Then she started eating and drinking.

It seems that this soup has been added with seasonings such as five-spice powder, which makes the already delicious taste even better.

I don’t know if pepper powder has been introduced to the Central Plains. It would taste better if pepper powder has been introduced, Chen Cui thought.

Even without pepper, the soup tasted delicious. She finished a pancake and drank a bowl of soup, with sweat on her forehead and nose.

When the three brothers walked away from the mutton soup stall, they all rubbed their stomachs at the same time. The feeling of being full and satisfied was so good!

Chen Cui was paying attention to the shops on the street all the way. The children were also curious about the county town, so they walked and strolled until they arrived at the grocery store.

The only seasoning at home was salt, so she couldn't make anything delicious, so she took this opportunity to buy some.

If nothing else, at least there must be soy sauce and vinegar.

After asking, Chen Cui found out that a jar of vinegar cost ten cents, and soy sauce was even more expensive, costing fifteen cents. It was really not cheap.

This small jar weighs only about two kilograms, no wonder the Liu family didn't buy it originally.

But if you think about the fact that soy sauce and vinegar were both made from grains in ancient times, it's understandable.

Due to low productivity and low grain output, it is inevitable that products brewed from these grains are expensive.