The beloved baby has a space

Chapter 275: Just take a look, I won't buy.

Little Ayu had set her sights on a goal and was filled with fighting spirit. It just so happened to be a day off, so she immediately went to the grain and oil shop with her hands behind her back.

Tangyuan quickly followed behind her.

"Little master, where are you going? Let me tell the old lady!" Tangyuan called out as she followed behind Xiao Ayu, holding an umbrella in one hand and a handkerchief in the other.

"Sister Tangyuan, I'm going to the shop to take a look. Let's go together." Little Ayu turned around, took Tangyuan's arm, and happily headed towards the grain and oil shop.

The grain and oil shop was unusually lively today, with the shopkeeper busy greeting everyone.

This is because their shop recently introduced a new type of rice. Normally, a shi (a unit of dry measure) of rice, including the husk and the grain, costs nine qian (a unit of weight), while a finer variety costs one liang (another unit of weight).

Most families can't afford it.

But the new rice that comes out now is so fresh, each grain is distinct and glistening, and a shi (a unit of dry measure) costs only one liang and three qian (another unit of dry measure). That's rice that has been hulled!

Not to mention its snow-white appearance, which makes one's mouth water at first glance.

Many families who were slightly better off pooled their money to buy grain and oil from the shops.

"Is this rice from the south? I've never seen it before, it looks so good!"

"It's a bit expensive, but yesterday I bought a peck of rice. I cooked half of it into rice and the other half into porridge, and it was all gone in no time. Everyone in my family is a picky eater, so this rice is definitely different."

"That's right! My bedridden mother hasn't been able to eat anything for the past few days, but she ate two bowls of this rice porridge!"

"To be honest, I think the price is fair. Who doesn't spend some money to buy rice?"

As they lined up to buy, they discussed loudly.

The shopkeeper next to him was already grinning from ear to ear.

How could he not be happy when so much money was being thrown into the counter?
Moreover, this rice came from Wanning City, so it was practically free.

This refers to the Xiaoyao Prince's Mansion, which was recently discovered to have been illegally cultivating land and growing grain. In order to avoid being investigated by higher authorities, the Xiaoyao Prince's Mansion secretly sold all the rice it grew.

They were selling for 500 coins per jin! The shopkeeper's owner happened to be in that area and bought most of it, transporting it all the way to their town of Nanhe. Sure enough, they made a fortune. The shopkeeper smiled and greeted everyone, "Don't rush, everyone, take your time. Our rice can still sell for another 10 days. After 10 days, we'll have to wait until next year!"

I don't know why the rice from the Prince Xiaoyao's Mansion is only coming out so late, and I don't know if it will be sold to them next year.

But that doesn't stop them from using rhetoric.

The rice smells like a foreign space, not yours.

Little Ayu was a little unhappy: "Are there other people like this too?"

Do elves also have to work in those spaces?
[What are you thinking? This is someone else's space. These rice grains look like they were nurtured by the energy of that space.]

What Tuanzi didn't tell Xiao Ayu was that the reason it felt familiar was because the atmosphere of this space had its own scent.

It should be the space that was previously separated. There was a spring inside, but without the dumpling maintaining it, the spring will eventually just become ordinary water and will no longer have that function.

Moreover, space itself can collapse, and the more the holder of the non-space consumes the spring water, the faster the space collapses.

"Oh." Upon hearing that it wasn't her own space, Xiao Ayu lost interest.

"What do you want to buy, little master?" Tangyuan asked from the side. "There are too many people here, I'll go buy it for you."

It wouldn't be good if Ayu got pushed over.

Little Ayu leaned over for a look, then pouted and said, "Let's wait until these uncles and aunties leave before we buy them."

She saw that the rice everyone was scrambling to buy wasn't as good as the rice grown in their village.

She doesn't want to buy it.

And she didn't have much money.

(End of this chapter)