Chapter 7： purchase

Chapter 7 Procurement

Li Yu hurried towards the town. When he arrived at the town, the market had already dispersed. Occasionally, people walked by in a hurry on the street. The shops on both sides became deserted. It's two completely different scenes.

Li Yu looked at the shops on both sides as he walked, and saw that although the town is small, the types of shops are quite complete, and there are various styles of Sapporo hanging in front of the shops.

Li Yu saw a cloth shop and went in to buy 30 catties of cotton, one piece of azure and one piece of blue muslin, one piece of earthy white coarse cloth, ten feet of gauze and ten feet of plain white cotton. Two mosquito nets, a needle and thread cost 22 taels of silver, and the proprietress happily gave a pair of thread and a bag of cloth heads.

Li Yu deposited his things in the cloth shop and found the blacksmith shop at the end of the street. The blacksmith leaned on the bamboo chair by the door and snored.

The blacksmith was a middle-aged man, wearing a dark coarse cloth jacket, his face was tanned and red, Li Yu shouted at the blacksmith: "Uncle, wake up, I want to buy something."

The blacksmith was suddenly woken up and was startled. He opened his eyes and saw that it was a little girl. He patted his heart, "Ouch! I was almost scared to death by you little girl."

Li Yu looked at him innocently, "Uncle, you can't blame me, I can't just go in and take it!"

The blacksmith laughed heartily, "That is, that is, what do you want to buy, girl?"

Li Yu went into the shop to have a look and asked for two iron pots, some locks, two hoes, a shovel, a kettle, two sickles, tongs and a spatula. Finally, Li Yu saw a dagger and took it. After getting up and playing for a while, he looked at the blacksmith and said, "Uncle, how do you sell this dagger?"

The blacksmith looked at what Li Yu had chosen, "Little girl, six hundred for a pot of iron, thirty for a spatula, . . . add up to a total of 4,910."

Li Yu did the math and said, "Uncle, do you think this is okay? For four or nine coins, you can give me another iron nail, okay?"

The blacksmith nodded cheerfully, "Little girl, I'll sell it to you. Can you handle two iron pans so big?"

Li Yu thought to himself: It seems that I have to buy a backpack to hold so many things.

"Uncle, how can there be a backpack for sale nearby?"

The blacksmith pointed to the grocery store diagonally opposite, "Hey, there is a Zhouji grocery store diagonally opposite."

Li Yu took a look at those things and instructed the blacksmith, "Uncle, please pick out two better iron pots for me, and I'll buy a back basket and get it."

"You can rest assured, little girl, everything in my house is good." The blacksmith boasted of his things and watched Li Yu go to the opposite grocery store.

Li Yu entered the shop, and it turned out to be a grocery store, with everything for eating in it, the man greeted him diligently and looked at Li Yu with a smile, "Girl, look, what do you want to buy? We The Zhouji stuff is good and cheap."

Li Yu took a look, pointed at Anise, and said to the man, "Please weigh the grass fruit, star anise, cinnamon, fragrant leaves, peppercorns...the same as three taels, and peppers for one catty."

"Okay!" The man quickly weighed the things and put them in the oil-paper bag, and asked Li Yu with a smile, "Girl, what else do you need?"

Li Yu pointed to the oil in the jar and asked, "What oil is in this?"

"Vegetarian oil, rapeseed is 35 cents a pound, do you want some?"

Li Yu thought for a while, "Five jins! I bought so much, you should give it to me later to make it cheaper!"

The guy smiled and nodded, "Okay, I'll give you a discount when you choose."

Li Yu bought two more catties of brown sugar, two catties each of salt, soy sauce, and vinegar, a wooden steamer, and a bunch of other things.

In the end, it came down to a total of 915 pennies. The guy charged Li Yu 900 pennies. After Li Yu paid the money, the guy looked at a lot of things and glanced at Li Yu worriedly, thinking: This small body How can you take so many things.

"Girl, can you take it?"

"You help me install it. I'm going to think about buying some lard to go back. Where is the meat seller?"

The guy pointed to the street that Li Yu had walked through when he came, "Go to Zhennan, there is an alley on the right, and there are all meat sellers there."

"Thank you." Li Yu went to the blacksmith shop opposite to pay the money and counted the things. The blacksmith helped Li Yu to move the things to the grocery store, and persuaded Li Yu to see a lot of things, "Little girl, how do you take so many things? I have to go back, I advise you to go to the town and hire a car!"

"It's alright, it's also troublesome to walk around. I'll hire a car when I have a suitable car at the town entrance."

The two saw that Li Yu was unwilling to hire a car, so they had to say, "We will help you pack the things."

The blacksmith and other guys put the tableware and those fragile things into the back basket, put the pot on the back basket, and then put the other things into the pot and fasten them with ropes. The blacksmith looked at Li Yu, who was thin and weak. Worryingly persuaded: "Little girl, if you can't carry it, don't be brave and be careful to crush your body."

"Uncle, don't worry about my back."

Li Yu squatted down and carried the basket on his back with ease. The man looked at Li Yu in amazement, and hurriedly handed the basket and broom to Li Yu.

Li Yu held a basket in one hand and a broom in the other, and said with a smile, "Thank you, I'll take care of you next time I buy something."

The two laughed, "Okay!"

The blacksmith looked at Li Yu's relaxed footsteps, and realized that she was born with great strength. He sighed and walked back, thinking: It's a pity, if it's a man, I'll take him as my apprentice.

Li Yu watched while walking, went to the cloth shop to pick up the things stored in the store, and walked for a while before reaching the alley the man said.

Li Yu looked inside and saw that there was still a meat seller that had not closed the stall. Li Yu walked over and saw a few bones, a pair of pig lungs, a pair of cockscomb oil, and a piece of about three or four pieces on the meat stall. Heavy ham.

"Uncle, do you still sell this meat?" Li Yu asked the butcher who was dozing off on the meat stall.

The fat butcher looked up and saw a little girl carrying a cauldron, stunned for a moment and smiled kindly, "Sell! I'm a little late today and that's all that's left, and I'm afraid of the noise at home when I get home, girl, I'll help you first. Put down the sling."

Li Yu waved his hand, "Don't bother, you can quickly tell me how much you sell for a pound, and I'll wrap it up for you if the price is right, so you don't have to wait in the hot weather."

The butcher pointed to the cockscomb oil and the hind legs, "The two together are worth six cents a pound, and the pig lungs just want to charge you two cents a piece, and the bones will give you that!"

Li Yu nodded cheerfully, "Okay, how much can you weigh?"

The butcher weighed a total of nine catties and two taels. After Li Yu paid the money, the butcher looked at the things Li Yu was carrying, "Girl, where do you live in Xishan Village, I'll take you in a car by the way? ."

Li Yu's eyes lit up, "It's a coincidence, I also live in Xishan Village."

"Yes! It's a coincidence that you also live in Xishan Village. It's been almost three years since my family moved to Xishan Village, why haven't I seen you?"

"I used to live in the county, and I just returned home today."

"So that's how it is! My surname is He and I live at the end of the village, right in the house where a section of the courtyard wall collapsed. Just a little later, you can take my ox cart and go back!"

"Thank you Uncle He, my surname is Li, you can call me Xiaoyu! My house is the one where the courtyard wall collapsed. My brother and I just came back today. Uncle He, I didn't think we were still neighbors." Butcher He went up to help Li Yu Put down the sling.

"It's quite a coincidence," Butcher He packed up the tools for setting up the stall, "Little fish, wait for me here, I'll bring the cow here."

"Okay." Li Yu Ying put the meat and bones into the pot, put the pig's lungs in the basket, and Butcher He came over with the cow.

After Butcher He greeted Li Yu to get into the car, the two walked towards Xishan Village in an ox cart.

"Your house is closer to the ditch below, and there is a well in the yard. I originally wanted to buy your house, and I had already negotiated the price. Later, your second uncle said that he would not sell it, so I asked the village chief. I bought a new foundation and built it myself.”

Li Yu didn't expect that the Zhang family wanted to sell the Li family's house too. If it didn't sell, it might be because he asked Xiao Li Yu to get the house deed and didn't get it, so he stopped thinking about it! Never thought that there would be such insatiable, shameless people in the world.

"Uncle He, I didn't know my family was going to sell the house! Besides, the house was left to my brother by my parents and couldn't be sold!"

"Oh!" Butcher He thought to himself after hearing this: This little girl's surname is Li, and the surname Zhang Zhong who sells the house must be tricky, but luckily she didn't buy it, otherwise it would be troublesome.