Nodding, Xia Qingyu replied, "Just delivered."

"Yes, Brother Iwakawa, please wait a moment." Wang Zhufu stood up and was about to take the knife to cut the meat when he saw his elder brother carrying Zhudou out and taking the knife from him.

He also reminded him, "With your brother here, you don't have to limp around. Otherwise, if you get hurt, you'll have to spend money to find a doctor for you."

Hearing this voice, Li Yanchuan realized that Wang Zhusheng, who was cutting the meat, was also here, and that he was Wang Zhufu's brother.

The two exchanged a few pleasantries and greeted each other.

"Time is a bit tight. My eldest brother and I will do our shopping separately. The city gate will be closed in a quarter of an hour." Li Laoer took the silver while explaining to Xia Qingyu.

Xia Qingyu learned from the original owner's memory that Grandpa Niu once told her that the closing and opening times of the city gate of Muqiang Town usually remain unchanged, and it is closed at 6:30 p.m. in the evening.

"By the way, seventh brother's sister-in-law, we went to ask about the dried chili pepper you mentioned, but we couldn't find it." Li Yanxi told Xia Qingyu what his brother said.

"It doesn't matter if I can't buy it. It's okay for now."

They were not too disappointed. Xia Qingyu just wanted to eat the chili noodles earlier. When she was resting on the road, she casually mentioned it to them, and they actually wrote down what she said.

"Brother Yanchuan, the price of this fat meat has not changed, it is still 18 wen per jin. I will give you a discount of 1 wen, so 10 jin will cost you 170 wen in total."

After saying that, Wang Zhufu took the silver handed to him by Li Yanchuan, without even counting it, and threw it into the wooden box on the table.

They are all old acquaintances. After Li Yanxi and his friends sell their prey and buy meat, they will also come to Wang's butcher shop to buy.

Brother Wang Zhufu is usually not in the butcher shop, as he works in the government office. He is usually responsible for selling meat, and naturally he also knows Li Yanchuan who has been working in the town for many years.

"Here, this is the fat you bought." Wang Zhusheng packed up the ten pounds of cut fat and handed it to Li Yanchuan.

Knowing that they didn't buy much meat, Xia Qingyu glanced at the pork on the chopping board.

Seeing a piece of pork fat on top, Xia Qingyu's eyes lit up and he said to Wang Zhusheng, "Brother Wang, how much is this pork fat?"

Looking at the lean meat next to it, Xia Qingyu asked again, "Where's the lean meat?"

"This pork fat is 20 cents per pound, and lean meat is 15 cents per pound. Sister Qingyu, how much do you want?" Wang Zhusheng asked Xia Qingyu, and then replied to her, "It's evening now, so I'll give you a discount of one cent per pound."

He also went to the Li family today and knew that there were many people in Sister Qingyu's family.

The city gates are about to close now, and I guess I can't buy any meat, Wang Zhusheng said truthfully. He didn't raise the price arbitrarily and order dishes based on the customers like some other shops did.

Even though their Wang family butcher shop had a cooperation with my uncle's restaurant, there was still some pork left, but it was only recently slaughtered in the afternoon.

Even the lard is still there, which is something many people in the town know, and that is why everyone likes to come to their house to buy meat.

"Okay, you weigh them all. We will buy all the other pork belly and other things as well." Xia Qingyu replied with a smile.

In this era, fat meat is more expensive than lean meat, unlike before the end of the world, when many people did not eat fat meat in order to lose weight.

Especially the common people, who cannot even guarantee food and clothing, will not stop eating fatty meat in order to lose weight.

Xia Qingyu knew that in terms of taste, fat meat was more appetizing than lean meat, and in terms of calories, fat meat was also more filling than lean meat.

Hearing the price, Li Yanchuan looked at Wang Zhusheng again. He had just come from other butcher shops, and some of them even deliberately raised the price.

"All?" Wang Zhusheng picked up the knife and was about to take action but stopped and confirmed with Xia Qingyu again.

"Sister Qingyu, there is so much meat. You may not be able to finish it if you buy it back. It will go bad easily in the hot weather. How about you buy less?" Wang Zhusheng subconsciously advised, not wanting the food to be wasted.

Hearing his brother's words, Wang Zhufu smiled and shook his head helplessly.

Everyone hopes that others will buy more, unlike my brother, who always worries about others wasting when he sees others buying too much and habitually tries to persuade them to buy more.

"Don't worry. There are so many people and there won't be enough food. Just weigh it all." Nodding, Xia Qingyu gave a simple explanation.

To build a house, you will definitely need a lot of people, so just make do with this little bit of meat for now.

"Okay!" After answering, Wang Zhusheng weighed the meat quickly and started packing it.

"Sister Qingyu, there are 16.1 jin of fat, 9 jin of lean meat, 15.1 jin of pork belly, and 12.8 jin of pork fat." After weighing the meat, Wang Zhusheng put the meat in the pig's backpack with straw as he did before.

Even the backpack that Li Yanchuan brought was padded with a thick layer of dry straw.

"Sixteen catties of fat meat, two hundred and seventy-two cents; nine catties of lean meat, one hundred and twenty-six cents; fifteen catties of pork belly, two hundred and forty cents; twelve catties and eight ounces of pork fat, two hundred and forty-three cents..."

I remember my brother said that one cent would be deducted from every pound, and when Wang Zhufu calculated, he would simply negate the extra one or two pounds.

"The total is 881 coins." The moment he said this, Wang Zhufu saw Xia Qingyu handing him the silver.

Li Yanchuan, who was standing next to him, looked at his seventh brother’s wife in surprise.

It turned out to be so quickly?

Wang Zhufu was also stunned for a moment, and then added, "Just give me 880."

"No need, you have already removed the extra one or two taels when weighing." Xia Qingyu handed over the silver and said with a smile.

"Sister Xia, you are so awesome." After taking the silver, Wang Zhufu didn't say anything else, but looked at Xia Qingyu with admiration.

Xia Qingyu bought the meat and paid for it, and the two brothers Li Yanxi carried the pork on their backs.

Wang Zhusheng hurriedly took out the backpack filled with bones and pig offal. He originally planned to let them take it back, but when he saw that they were all carrying things, Wang Zhusheng decided to give it to them as a gift.

They sold pork in the town and often delivered meat to wealthy families.

Just as Xia Qingyu and the other two were about to turn around and leave, Wang Zhusheng said, "Wait a moment, I'll take you to the city gate."

As he spoke, Wang Zhusheng gave his younger brother a few instructions, then put on the bamboo basket and followed them to the city gate.

No matter how Xia Qingyu and the others tried to persuade him, Wang Zhusheng did not change his mind, and in the end they had no choice but to let him do as he pleased.

"Actually, you can make it yourself." Li Yanchuan knew that it was a gift for them, so he couldn't help but persuade them.

Carrying the smelly pig offal, Wang Zhusheng said with a smile: "Hey, this thing has a strong smell. You know, it won't taste good if you don't know how to cook it."

"Besides, there are only my brother and I in our family, and the two of us can't eat so much."

A few people were walking towards the city gate while chatting. When they passed by a grocery store, they heard an old lady cry out.

"Oh, Zhusheng, you actually carried all these things here. I feel so embarrassed. Hurry, put them down." The middle-aged woman came out of the shop and waved to her son to take the basket and put it on his back.

"Mom, just ask him to send it home. The clothes I'm wearing today were just bought. Won't they get dirty if I wear them?"

The short and fat man with dark eyes and weak legs opened his mouth, covered his nose with his hands, and backed away.

"No, no, what's wrong with you? I told you not to bring that shit-smelling thing with you. Just throw it away." As he said this, the short and fat man seemed dissatisfied and ordered Wang Zhusheng.

After saying that, the man looked at Xia Qingyu, and seeing that she had nothing in her hands, he pointed at her and ordered in a duck-like voice, "You, take that stinky thing back quickly."

Xia Qingyu: “…”

Where did this idiot come from?

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