The stepsister of a peasant family in a book is spoiled by the big brothers

Li Taohua hesitated between the second and third options.

Qin Huiyin helped her make a choice directly: "Boss, ten kilograms of unripened broken rice."

After that, she said to Li Taohua, "Mom, this rice is all good. It's just a couple of cents cheaper because it doesn't look good. Everything you put in your mouth will be chewed up anyway. It doesn't matter whether it looks good or not, as long as it's healthy."

"You're right," Li Taohua said. "Boss, ten kilograms of flour, ten kilograms of broken rice, and thirty kilograms of peas. Give me a discount."

"Oh, my dear, we are a small business..."

"Don't tell me all this nonsense. There are more than one rice store in this town. You can't do without this one. Let's go to another one."

"Okay, okay, I'll give you two pounds of peas, okay?"

"Five pounds."

"Auntie, I don't make much money. I will lose money if you do this."

While Li Taohua was bargaining with the grain store owner, Qin Huiyin touched Tang Luwu's arm and said, "Did you learn anything?"

"Ah?" Tang Luwu looked at her blankly.

Qin Huiyin said unhappily, "You must have gained something from your trip to the city today! My mother demonstrated it so many times, but you didn't learn anything? Look, if you talk a little, you can save a lot of money, right? When you go out, you need to be thick-skinned to make life easier."

Tang Luwu blushed and stammered, "I...I can't do it. I can't speak."

"Then learn! Do you see that over there? After we buy rice and flour, we have to buy meat. You go and negotiate the price of the meat." Qin Huiyin took out fifty coins from her purse and stuffed them into Tang Luwu's hand. "I only need two pounds of meat, two pig's feet, a pig's head, and pig's heart, pig's lungs, and pig's offal. As long as you buy all these things, whatever is left is your private money."

"I can't do it." Tang Luwu waved her hands in panic.

"I'll go with you." Qin Huiyin said to Li Taohua, "Mom, let's go to the butcher shop and wait for the boss to load it and then we can come back and carry it."

As she spoke, she pulled Tang Luwu towards the butcher shop.

Tang Luwu was so nervous that she didn't shake off Qin Huiyin.

"Boss..." Qin Huiyin smiled sweetly, "Last time I bought meat from you, I bought a pound, but when I got home it was an ounce more. We've never seen anyone as generous as you."

The butcher was a big fat man with a face full of flesh and looked a bit fierce. He waved his knife to cut the meat and the butchers did not dare to get close to him.

After hearing Qin Huiyin's words, the fat boss was stunned for a moment, obviously confused by the sudden "good guy card".

"Sister, this is the butcher shop owner you mentioned who is generous and honest in business, right?" Qin Huiyin asked, shaking Tang Luwu's arm.

Tang Luwu's cheeks were red. She was honest and simple, and she received Qin Huiyin's hint and nodded reluctantly.

"Luckily, I thought I had found the wrong one." Qin Huiyin patted his chest, "There's another butcher shop over there. If it's not this one, then it must be another one."

The butcher was displeased when he heard this and quickly said, "You're right, it's me. I never cheat on weights when doing business. Little girl, since you're a regular customer, I'll give you a discount on whatever you buy this time."

"I want two pounds of meat, two pig's trotters, a pig's head, and pig's liver, lungs, and offal." Qin Huiyin said, "Boss, please calculate how much it costs."

Without waiting for the boss's reply, Qin Huiyin turned to Tang Luwu and said, "I just asked the boss of Yangji Butcher Shop. He said pig's trotters are all bones and not very oily, so he only charged us five cents. The pig's head, liver, lungs, and offal combined only cost us ten cents. A pound of meat costs thirteen cents, so all the ingredients add up to forty-one cents, and the boss said he would only charge us for forty cents. If the price here is higher than that, let's go to another place to buy it! There are a few weddings going on in the village, so I'll introduce them to the boss of Yangji."

"But this boss always weighs the meat well enough, and we just praised him. Now if we buy meat from other places, people will think his meat is inferior!"

Tang Luwu glanced at the anxious butcher and pretended to be embarrassed. In fact, she didn't need to pretend, she was really embarrassed, after all, this was her first time to lie.

"We are all poor people. One penny can buy half a pound of cornmeal. We should save as much as possible! If we can save some money on weddings in the village, we will be even happier."

"Girls, I haven't given you a quote yet. How do you know whose is cheaper?" The fat boss patted his chest and said proudly, "I'm an honest businessman. Not only is the meat fresh, but the prices are also fair. How about this? Two pounds of meat will cost you 25 cents, and the other items will cost you 13 cents, for a total of 38 cents."

"Brother, is that true?" Qin Huiyin looked at the fat boss in surprise. "Brother, you are such a good person. From now on, we will only come to your house to buy meat. When the villagers have weddings, we will also let them come to you. Sister, you are right, brother is really a good person."

Tang Luwu responded in astonishment: "Hmm..."

The fat boss was flattered by the praise. The tall, aggressive man, who had previously seemed rather ferocious, now looked rather honest and simple. Everyone had been quite intimidated by him before, but now that the two young girls were praising him so much and he was acting so accommodating, more customers came over.

Tang Luwu put dozens of kilograms of meat into the backpack and covered it with weeds.

Qin Huiyin took out twelve coins and gave six to Tang Luwu: "I originally planned to use fifty coins to buy meat, but now I have saved twelve coins, so we can each take half."

"No, no, no, I don't need it." Tang Luwu quickly refused. "I didn't do anything. Besides, my family is short of money now. How can I take money from them?"

"It's only a few cents. Keep it with you so you can use it in an emergency. Keep it. If you don't want to use it, save it and use it later."

When Qin Huiyin turned around, she saw a familiar figure coming out of the butcher's shop. The man moved very quickly, and there were many people buying meat at the moment, so she didn't look closely to see if it was that person.

The fat boss's father came out carrying a wild boar and said to the onlookers, "You are in for a treat! Someone sent us a wild boar today and we are selling it at a low price."

Wild boar meat is not that delicious, but it is meat after all. For people who haven't eaten meat for a long time, it is more cost-effective than buying pigs raised by buyers.

When Qin Huiyin saw the wild boar, she was certain that the person she had just seen was Song Ruize. She had left yesterday, and Song Ruize was injured and bitten by a poisonous snake. She didn't know how he later transported the heavy wild boar down the mountain.

Qin Huiyin and Tang Luwu returned to the rice store. Qin Huiyin showed Li Taohua what she had bought and said proudly, "Is your apprentice ready to start his apprenticeship?"

"Can these things be eaten? There is not much meat and oil in them. It would be better to buy a pound more meat!" Li Taohua said with disgust, but still carried the heaviest backpack.