Hard times have room

Chapter 104 The price has risen

Wang Jiandang replied yes, but he also had his own ideas. It would be easier for the two to go for a walk apart, but he was afraid that Paulin would be too busy shopping and would not be able to bring anything back, so the two would meet in an hour, he was relieved a little.

"If both of you have bought a lot of things, then take them back to Qin's house and leave them there. Then we'll go shopping together to see if there are any good things."

"Also, if I forget to buy the Qin family's door-to-door gift, don't forget to remind me when I come to the door. It's my first time visiting the door, and my hands are empty. I even bought fish and rice to entertain us. I'll wait for the next time. When we entered her house, we didn't bring anything with us, and we didn't know what to count, so we had to make up for it."

"Okay, okay, I'll remember to remind you, then it's settled, see you in an hour." After Paulin finished speaking, she smiled slyly, and mixed into the crowd with a basket on her back. After a while, Wang Jiandang was standing. I can't see Pauline's figure.

During this hour, she had to take good care of it and spend as much money as possible in her hands.

I hope the drought on this land has little effect on the price of seafood!If the influence is too big and the price is too expensive, to be honest, she can't buy anything for ten yuan.

Paulin thought about it, and walked forward another hundred meters. This time her father was also there. Let's go further and see the price over there!

If it is close, maybe, when shopping, she will meet her father. At that time, this thing can't be put in the space. After all, it is something that has passed the bright road in her father's eyes.

"Uncle, how do you sell this fish?" Paulin asked while holding the fish on the stall that had apparently just died, and the fish was still a little soft.

There are also live fish on the stall, but they are raised in seawater in wooden barrels. You don’t have to think about it, the fish in the barrels can’t be cheap.

After she put it in her space, the fish would still die, and it wouldn't live if she took it out. She still picked a few fresh dead fish, the price was cheap and affordable.

"This fish is good and fresh. I salvaged it yesterday. It was originally raised in a big bucket at home with seawater. Unfortunately, it died this morning."

"I'm not framing you either. I'll give you a sincere price. This fish is four cents a pound."

"Oh, I'll take a look again, I'll come later." After listening to Baolin, she had a bad feeling. This time the price of seafood has been raised. Last time, the fresh seafood was only seven or eight cents a pound, and now it is with the grain. The price has also doubled.

However, she did not ask other stall owners whether the offer was true or not.

I went to four fish stalls in a row, and they were all quoted at [-], which was not much different, so Paulin only bought fish to see if the fish was fresh.

Buy fresh ones for four cents, and stale ones for three cents.

To see if the fish is fresh, one is to look at the scales of the fish. If the scales fall off and the skin of the fish is damaged, it means that the fish is not fresh and cannot be bought.

The second is to look at the eyes of the fish. The eyes of the fish can directly reflect whether the fish is fresh. The eyes of fresh fish are clear and translucent. If the fish is not fresh, the eyes of the fish will be white, protruding and cloudy.

The third is to look at the gills. The gills have many blood vessels. Fresh fish will have bright red gills. If the fish is not fresh, the gills will turn dark red or even black.

Paulin picked a total of thirty sea fish weighing two to three kilograms from six different stalls, and spent a total of ten yuan and eighty cents. For these fish, she took more than half of the money that Paulin secretly squeezed. .

Later, after inquiring about a few stalls, he took the remaining five yuan and eighty cents to buy dried fish.

This time the dried fish increased from six cents last time to ten cents. Pauline directly bought a total of 45 dried fish from four stalls, all of which weighed about one catty. It cost her five yuan and fifty cents. And left her twenty-five cents.

She also took the opportunity to receive space for these dried fish. This trip made her exhausted. She estimated that her one-hour appointment with her father had already expired.

After spending only twenty-five cents of her small money, Pauline hurriedly carried an empty back basket covered with a piece of cloth, and walked in the direction of the big tree when she was coming and going.

After walking about ten meters, he ran quickly, and when he was about to reach the agreed place, he put his own cloth in a ball and put it in the back basket.

Paulin, who originally thought she was coming late, didn't expect her to be there and didn't see her father. It seems that her father was hooked by something in this market!

But she was not in a hurry, walked behind the tree, reached out and put the cloth storage space in the back basket.

After sitting and waiting for about ten minutes, Pauline saw her father's figure appear in front of her.

"Paulin, ha.. ah, it's been a long wait." Wang Jiandang came to Baolin, scratching his head and smiling a little embarrassedly.

After all, he is an adult and a father. This is not punctual, but it is not a good example. Before, he was worried that his daughter would not be punctual, but now it is better. He has been so late and left the daughter to wait here alone.

"I didn't wait long, Dad, put the bag down, I want to see what you bought?" Pauline ran to her dad's side, grabbed the bag on his back, and said with a little urgency.

After all, her dad saw that she was waiting here, and he walked over slowly. It wasn't that there was something in the backpack. It should be quite heavy, but he didn't know what her dad bought.

"Okay, but you have to let me go under the big tree, otherwise, you want to see things in the sun?" As soon as Wang Jiandang's voice fell, Pauline parted her hands and let her father go forward.

When Wang Jiandang walked under the tree with a little heavy footsteps and put down the basket, Paulin couldn't wait to step forward and look through what he had bought.

Wang Jiandang leaned against the tree alone, and let out a slow breath. It was not easy for him to carry those things on his back. In addition, the sun was shining, and he was also very tired after carrying things all the way.

"Well, there is rice, there are soybeans, and there are potatoes. Well, it's still rice, er, no more." Pauline flipped through the pages and thought about it.

"Dad, did you buy these rice here? How much is a pound? And potatoes and soybeans, are these more expensive than what you bought in the town that day?" Pauline asked, looking at the apparently most rice in the basket.

This place is indeed much richer than their Shanghe Village, and even rice is sold, although the price is definitely more expensive than potatoes.

"You don't even look at who your father is. It's 35 catties in total. I bought it from two people at fifty cents a catty, and it cost 17 yuan and five."

Wang Jiandang pointed to the rice in the back basket and said quite proudly.

"Just to buy this, I came back so late, and I was grinding the price with the old man who sold it. It just went from sixty cents to fifty cents. Even though it was rice, not white rice, I had to hull it myself. It's worth it, after all, fifty cents can't buy white rice now."

(End of this chapter)