After filling his stomach randomly, Yun Chao continued shopping.
There was no ready-made clothing store, so I bought some pieces of cloth and made them myself.
Salt is very expensive, one hundred cents per pound, almost ten times as much as rice!
This is still coarse salt. If you want to buy refined salt, it will cost almost one or two silver per pound!
There are also cheap ones, priced at 30 cents per catty. It is a kind of dusty, earth-like thing. When cooking, rub it twice in the pot, and it will taste a little salty.
Yun Chao came from a later generation and was a graduate student at the Agricultural University. He was well aware of the dangers of garbage salt. Who knew whether there was any poison in the inferior salt.
If you can't afford one tael of silver per catty of refined salt, why don't you still want to buy a hundred cents of coarse salt?
Come on ten pounds!
There are also several sets of iron farm tools, hoes, plows, etc.!
When people in Wolong village farm, most of them use wooden farm tools. Iron farm tools are too expensive, costing several taels of silver per set, so they are unaffordable.
And meat.
Mutton is expensive, costing more than 200 yuan per pound, and even Yunchao is reluctant to buy it.
Pork is so cheap that it actually costs a hundred yuan, but Yun Chao is still reluctant to buy it!
The ancients didn’t like pork, the nobles refused to eat it, and the poor didn’t know how to cook it. These are all lies, and they are completely the imagination of scholar-bureaucrats who are out of touch with the masses.
It may be true that rich people disdain to eat, but it is pure nonsense that poor people are not willing to eat. They can’t even eat all kinds of grains, but they are still unwilling to eat pork. Are all poor people fools?
One hundred yuan per catty, not only do you not want to eat it, but you simply can’t afford it, okay?
Buy grain, buy cattle, buy cars, buy cloth, buy farm tools...
More than half of the fifty taels of silver have been spent, how dare Yun Chao mess around.
Since you can't afford meat, just buy a pair of pigs.
Compared with pork, pork is relatively cheap. The meat seller didn't even weigh it and just threw it to Yun Chao.
A piece of water weighed about thirty kilograms and cost five qian. Yun Chao was also given a few stick bones to add to his head.
Seeing Yun Chao buying water, Lai Zhicheng was disgusted: "Yun Er, why did you buy this thing? It stinks!"
Yun Chao ignored Lao Lai and continued shopping. He spent three coins and bought a copper hairpin for Lin Youniang.
"Humph, if you have silver, you don't want it. If you buy copper, you won't mind the price drop."
Lai Zhicheng's eyelids kept twitching, and every time Yun Chao spent money to buy something, it felt like he was cutting his flesh.
Buy it, buy it, your little adoptive mother will also be mine in the future!
"Shopkeeper Wu, do you know where I can buy alkali?"
After almost buying everything, Yun Chao returned to the grain store and asked shopkeeper Wu casually while paying the bill.
"Alkali? Xiaolangjun, are you talking about the alkali stone used in medicine?"
"Alkali stone? Yes, yes, it's alkali stone."
Listening to Shopkeeper Wu's tone, Yun Chao understood that it seemed that the Wu Dynasty had not yet consumed alkali. The alkali stone he was talking about was probably soda ash in nature.
Soda ash, chemically composed of sodium carbonate containing crystal water, is widely found in nature and is mostly contained in surface alkali lakes and mineral deposits exposed on the surface.
"The herbal medicine shop in the west of the city should sell it. Young Master can go and have a look."
After settling the bill, Yunchao and Shitou got into the bullock cart and asked Lai Zhicheng to drive the cart.
Driving a cart is a craft job, and not everyone can do it, especially when the cart is pulled by a young bull.
Yunchao and Shitou were both poor people, and they had never driven a car for a rich person, so they didn't know how to operate it at all.
No matter how reluctant Lai Zhicheng was, he had no choice but to work as a coachman for them.
Lai Zhicheng's teeth were itching with hatred.
I am the majestic village leader of Wolong Village, but I am driving a carriage for you two little bastards. You are not afraid of losing your life!
The way out of the city was through the west gate, and we happened to pass by a herbal medicine shop.
"Shopkeeper, do you have any alkali stone?"
"Yes, how much does it cost, guest officer?"
As soon as he saw what the drugstore shopkeeper brought out, Yun Chao knew it was ready. Just by smelling it, he knew it was an alkali, which flushed his nose.
Although this is a thing of nature, it is inconvenient to transport, so alkali stone is not cheap.
Yun Chao bought five kilograms for three cents of silver and spent one, two and a half cents of silver.
"Shopkeeper, please buy more when you have time. I may need to buy more often in the future."
…
Lai Zhicheng is indeed a Muramasa, and his skill in driving the cart is beyond praise. Although the road conditions are not good, he can still drive the cart steadily.
"Shitou, learn from Muramasa. If you can learn it, you will be able to drive this car from now on."
Shitou was very happy and stared at Lai Zhicheng without blinking, trying desperately to remember his every move.
In ancient times, driving was a skill that was superior to driving in later generations. It was similar to the old drivers in the 1960s and 1970s. For the poor, it was definitely an enviable profession and a skill that could support the whole family.
Lai Zhicheng did not hide anything this time. He had regarded Yun Chao's ox cart as his own property. It would be good for Shitou to learn to drive the cart, and he could drive it for Lao Lai's family in the future.
While driving, Lai Zhicheng imparted experience to Shitou. Halfway through, he even let Shitou operate by himself, and he gave personal guidance beside him.
Stone is very smart and learns quickly.
By the time he returned to Wolong Village, Shitou had learned the basic operations and was barely able to drive a car!
"Muramasa, I've been busy all day. Thank you for your hard work. Do you want to go home for dinner tonight?"
Lai Zhicheng's nose is almost crooked. If you want to be invited to a meal, just do it. If you don't want to be invited, don't be frivolous. What a stupid question. If you ask, can I, the majestic Muramasa, still lick his face and say it?
"Okay, since you are sincere, Yun Er, I will give you this face today."
Yun Chao was stunned. He didn't expect Lai Zhicheng to be so shameless. You are the head of a dignified village. I was just being polite, but you really followed the stick?
"Aha, great, I was worried about how to deal with these pigs in the water, please Muramasa, please show your skills!"
"Ahem, Yun Er, I suddenly remembered that there seems to be something going on at home tonight, so I won't go to your house for dinner today. It's late. You two should go home quickly! By the way, Yun Er, I promised you something It’s been done, don’t forget what you promised and come find me early tomorrow morning!”
After saying that, without waiting for Yun Chao to say anything, Lai Zhicheng jumped off the bullock cart and left. No matter how Yun Chao shouted, he never looked back.
Just kidding, I, the majestic village leader of Wolong Village, will wash away those pickled pig dung and pig urine for you, so you can only dream of it!
As soon as Lai Zhicheng left, Yun Chao was surrounded by villagers. To be precise, Yun Chao's bullock cart was surrounded.
"Brother Chao, where did this bullock cart come from?"
Yun Chao's performance in the past few days has been really unexpected. Now the villagers have basically stopped calling him Yun Er, and they all call him Chao Geer instead.
"Is it Muramasa's... Hey, it seems like this isn't the Muramasa's cow?"
"Look, this is a young bull. What a good bull!"
"..."
Yun Chao wanted to explain, but the villagers didn't give him a chance to explain because everyone had already discovered the things on the ox cart.
"Brother Chao, what's in the car?"
"Wow, food! So much food!"
"And cloth! So much! It's so beautiful!"
"What...salt is this? So much good salt? Brother Chao, you are crazy. You have bought so many things, can you do it?"
"..."
