Tang Qiuyue first went to the grocery store to inquire about oilcloth, but learned that oilcloth was only available in cloth shops and was quite expensive.

Expensive? How expensive could it be? She had earned several dozen taels from selling fish and rabbits today, which should be enough to buy oilcloth for two mu of land.

After asking about the location of the oilcloth, Tang Qiyue went to the rice, flour and seasoning shop and bought two months' worth of seasonings and salt. Then, as if remembering something, she asked the waiter, "Waiter, do you accept rice?"

The waiter glanced at Tang Qiyue's unpatched jacket and said seriously, "The rice in our store is specially supplied. You can buy it from others, but you have to ask our shopkeeper about the price, and it also depends on the quality of the rice you have."

It's not that there are no common people who sell rice at home, but they are short of money and can only sell some rice to buy other things. However, for farmers, selling the harvested grain at the end of the year is like cutting their meat, but there are still people who sell rice for silver.

Tang Qiyue thought for a moment and took out a handful of rice from her small bag. This small bag was the same crossbody bag she had asked Lin to make from the remaining cotton cloth in her previous life. It was very practical. "Do you want this?"

"If you can't make a decision, ask your shopkeeper to come out."

The rice grains in the woman's palm were plump and white, whiter than the snow at the door, and immediately attracted the eyes of the waiter and other women who were buying food in the store.

In an instant, they all gathered around.

She pinched the rice one by one, and almost took all the rice in Tang Qiyue's hand. Fortunately, the waiter was quick to grab a handful and said to Tang Qiyue, "Wait a moment, I'll go and ask the shopkeeper."

Tang Qiyue nodded, "Go ahead."

At this time, the woman who was chewing the rice raw came over and asked, "Sister, do you still have this rice? What's the price? How do you grow it? Why is it so good?"

It tastes good even if you chew it raw.

The other women nodded hurriedly and stared at Tang Qiyue.

Tang Qiyue stepped back and said, "You want to buy it?" How could she say that?

"Buy, buy, buy! Of course I want to buy it! I just don't know the price..."

Tang Qiyue was about to speak when she saw the waiter leading the shopkeeper out in a hurry, "Shopkeeper, the person is in the lobby, please hurry up, what if he runs away?"

Just now he showed the shopkeeper a handful of rice he had plucked. The shopkeeper's eyes lit up on the spot and he said that this rice was better than the best rice in the store and was the top quality rice!

As a waiter, he didn't know what top quality was, but he knew that the rice brought by the woman was good stuff, the best stuff.

"Miss, miss, I'm Manager Fang from this rice shop. Is this rice from yours? How much is it?" Manager Fang saw Tang Qiyue surrounded by women from a distance. He pushed through them and walked over, staring at Tang Qiyue with his bright eyes.

Tang Qiyue looked at him impartially and said, "Manager Fang, this rice is grown by ourselves. We don't have money to buy warm things at home, so we have no choice but to sell some of our stored grain." She had already thought of a lot of excuses.

When Shopkeeper Fang heard this, his eyes lit up even more. "I'll take whatever you have. You should know that I'm the only rice shop in Linjiang Town. The old rice in my shop is 30 wen, the brown rice is 8 wen, and the polished rice is 100 wen."

Tang Qiyue had already known about this price before, and nodded, "The shopkeeper should know that the rice I have is better than any refined rice in your store."

Shopkeeper Fang's heart skipped a beat. Could it be that this young woman was trying to ask for too much?

The refined rice in her hands was much better than the one in her own shop, but rice should be affordable for everyone, except for the refugees who would not live long.

"Shopkeeper Fang, I'm not shouting nonsense. How about two taels of silver for one dou of rice?" One dou of rice is equal to twelve and a half pounds. Tang Qiuyue can accept this price, and believes that the other party can accept it as well.

When Shopkeeper Fang heard this, he thought, "Two taels for one dou?" That was equivalent to one jin, one hundred and sixty coins, much more expensive than the fine rice in his shop. But as soon as he thought about the fact that he could earn several times more by selling the rice from the woman, he felt relieved.

"Okay! I want them all. How many do you have?"

Tang Qiyue raised her eyebrows at his straightforward look and said, "Nine hundred kilograms." She wanted to keep one hundred kilograms for herself.

After we build the greenhouse, we won’t need to grow strawberries in that space anymore. We can then grow rice and wheat exclusively. As for vegetables, we can also try growing them in the greenhouse.

The woman who heard the price nearby murmured with a little hope, "Why is it so expensive? I want to buy a pound to feed my child! Oh!"

"Why not? But this rice is really good. We can't afford it at this price."

"Forget it, let's just buy some cheap brown rice and go home."

After Tang Qiuyue and Shopkeeper Fang agreed to deliver 900 kilograms of rice at 5 p.m., they went to the cloth shop in the west of the city.

Hua's Cloth Shop.

Tang Qiyue stared at the word "Hua's" and inexplicably thought of Mr. Hua of Hua Run who came up the mountain to buy carbon squares a few days ago. She took a deep breath and thought that maybe they were not from the same family.

"What are you doing?" The gatekeeper stopped Tang Qiyue fiercely.

Tang Qiyue patted her messenger bag and said, "I bought cloth."

"Why come to our cloth shop instead of going to a ready-made clothing store to buy cloth?"

Tang Qiyue's face darkened, and she said with a hint of displeasure in her tone, "The clothing store doesn't have the cloth I want to buy. Please ask the manager to help. Otherwise, it will be a big mistake to delay the cloth shop from making money."

Seeing that Tang Qiyue spoke in a serious tone, the servant could only turn around and go into the cloth shop to ask the manager to come out.

The Hua family steward saw that it was a young woman, glared at the servant who didn't know how to look at people, and said to Tang Qiyue indifferently, "What kind of cloth do you want to buy from our Hua family cloth shop?"

He was a servant of the Hua family and had worked for the family all his life. When he was getting older, Mr. Hua took a fancy to him and gave him the name of his family to make him the manager of the cloth shop.

What kind of cloth can a little girl buy? Look at Tang Qiyue, she is wearing only the cheapest cotton cloth. I guess she doesn't have much money to buy fine cloth. Isn't this a waste of his manager Hua's time?

The more he thought about it, the angrier he became. The Hua family's steward glared at the ignorant servant. The servant shrank his neck in fear, wanting to cry but without tears.

"Oilcloth." Tang Qiyue said calmly, "I'll buy as many as you have."

When the Hua family steward heard this, he thought, isn't this just a gift of a pillow for someone who dozes off? Some time ago, someone in the farmhouse was dishonest and damaged a lot of oilcloth. There were flaws on them and they couldn't be sold, so they had to be kept, but there was no use for them.

"Really?" Manager Hua was a little unconvinced.

"really."

Manager Hua clapped his hands, "Okay, follow me in, there are a lot of oilcloths, you must have money to buy them!"

Tang Qiyue sneered and followed him into the cloth shop without saying a word.

At this time, a carriage drove out from the front of the cloth shop. The wheels made a harsh creaking sound as they pressed on the snow. A corner of the curtain was lifted, and the people inside just happened to see Tang Qiyue's back.

"Why is she here?"

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