Chapter 39: Delusional Attempt to Buy the Formula

Jiang Xiaoxiao was furious.

Having sold snow cakes with her mother for a few days, she was responsible for collecting money. The customers all praised her for being young but smart, sensible, and capable. This was the first time she had encountered someone with such a bad attitude!

So what if I'm a little girl?

Don't tell me you didn't crawl out from between a woman's legs?

Jiang Wei was fine at first, but upon hearing this, she directly darkened her face, "Shopkeeper Jia, speak directly if you have something to say."

"You selling snow cakes on this street, not to mention blocking the intersection, is also making people panic." Shopkeeper Jia scanned Jiang Wei arrogantly, "Why don't you sell the snow cake formula to me? You can also do it once and for all, and you won't have to come to this street to suffer in the future."

"Heh." Jiang Wei curled her lips coldly, "Then how much money are you prepared to pay to buy my formula?"

Hearing this, Shopkeeper Jia thought Jiang Wei had agreed to sell the formula, and a flash of joy appeared on his face. He stretched out five fingers and said as if giving charity, "How about five taels of silver? So much money is enough for you country people to live without worry for several years."

Jiang Xiaoxiao, who was listening on the side, was almost laughed to anger by these words.

Five taels of silver?

Is he joking?

Just the snow cakes and ice cream sold to Shopkeeper Zhou every day are worth more than one tael of silver. Five taels of silver, they wouldn't even need five days to earn.

"Heh, Shopkeeper Jia of the dignified Zuixianju is only willing to use five taels of silver to dismiss people. It really opened my eyes." Jiang Wei mocked mercilessly. She deliberately raised her voice to attract the surrounding passersby to watch.

"Without a few thousand taels, don't be delusional about buying my formula. I advise you to give up this idea, go back and open your restaurant properly, and don't come out to lose face."

After saying this, Jiang Wei packed up the stall, pulled Jiang Xiaoxiao, and turned to leave.

"You, you..." When had Shopkeeper Jia ever been mocked in front of so many people? He pointed at the backs of the mother and daughter, so angry that he couldn't say a complete sentence.

The passersby watching the excitement whispered, pointing at Shopkeeper Jia who remained in place.

Shopkeeper Jia's old face couldn't hold on anymore. He glared hatefully at the backs of the mother and daughter walking away, flicked his sleeves, and left.

"Mom, do you think he will come to find trouble with us?" Jiang Xiaoxiao said somewhat worriedly.

This Shopkeeper Jia of Zuixianju looked like a narrow-minded person. Today, in front of so many people on the street, his face was lost, and he would probably come to find trouble with them later.

"Don't be afraid, soldiers come to block, water comes to cover." Jiang Wei said lightly.

How could she not feel Shopkeeper Jia's malice? But facing this kind of person, if you aren't tough, you will be held firmly by the other party.

Jiang Xiaoxiao sighed long. Comparing the two, Shopkeeper Zhou is really a very good person.

No wonder he could make the restaurant business booming. In this large county city, the first restaurant everyone thinks of is Yuelai Restaurant, not Zuixianju.

This Zuixianju probably saw Yuelai Restaurant attracting a large number of customers by selling snow cakes and ice cream, and also wanted to try it, so they came to them.

Unfortunately, he used the wrong method as soon as he came up.

Her mother was short of money to build a house at this time, and she wouldn't have refused if someone came to cooperate, but unfortunately, Shopkeeper Jia of Zuixianju was delusional about buying the formula.

Heh, did he think the mother and daughter would be stupid enough to cut off their own wealth?

Jiang Wei's mood was not affected by Shopkeeper Jia's arrival. She pulled Jiang Xiaoxiao and went to the grain shop.

"Although we aren't short of food, there is a drought and lack of water this year, and the harvest in the fields will definitely not be very good. It's best for us to buy some coarse grains to store." Jiang Wei explained it this way.

After hearing this, Jiang Xiaoxiao felt somewhat helpless. Her mother really had a hoarding habit.

Even if the food in the space was already inexhaustible, once she sensed that danger might occur in the future, she would uncontrollably hoard existing resources for emergencies.

This is probably a habit developed by everyone living in the apocalypse.

Entering the grain shop, Jiang Xiaoxiao found that there were exceptionally many people coming to buy grain.

Walking to each counter to take a look, the grain had actually risen in price!

Rice used to sell for fifteen wen per jin, now it sells for eighteen wen per jin, and white flour used to sell for eighteen wen, now it has risen to twenty-one wen!

The brown rice that was originally eight wen per jin has also risen to ten wen per jin!

Jiang Xiaoxiao was stunned.

How can ordinary families afford this?

Especially the price of this white flour, it's almost catching up to the price of meat.

"Mom, why don't we stop buying it? Keep the money to build the house..."

Jiang Xiaoxiao had just opened her mouth to persuade, when she saw her mother suddenly take out a large bag of white flour from the back basket, pile it on the counter, and say, "Boss, do you accept white flour?"

Jiang Xiaoxiao: "..."

Fine, she thought wrong.

Her mother probably predicted that the grain price would rise long ago, and now she is using the materials in the space to earn the price difference.

"Accept, accept, accept! Of course!" Seeing such a large bag of white flour, the boss smiled and said directly, "We will accept it at this price of twenty-one wen per jin, how about it?"

Now the weather is dry, and every household is consciously starting to hoard grain. The further it goes, the price of this grain will only rise. This business is a steady profit for him!

"Okay." Jiang Wei nodded, "Then exchange all the money for this white flour of mine into brown rice and millet, half of each."

There were many villagers like her who exchanged fine grain for coarse grain, so the boss agreed without hesitation and directly called two shop assistants to weigh the grain.

This large bag of white flour was a full forty-five jin, nearly one tael of silver. If all exchanged for brown rice and millet, there would be about fifty jin of each.

Jiang Wei's basket couldn't hold it anymore.

Helplessly, she could only use the basket to hold the brown rice, and carry the fifty jin of millet directly on her shoulder.

Leaving the grain shop, the mother and daughter turned into an empty alley. Jiang Wei moved her mind, and only then did she store the nearly one hundred jin of coarse grain into the space.

In her space, most of the food stored is the big white rice that modern people often eat, but these brown rice and millet are almost non-existent.

"With this food, even if someone comes to the house in the future, we can take it out to deal with it." Jiang Wei said.

Otherwise, eating big white rice for every meal would sooner or later make people suspicious.

Jiang Xiaoxiao expressed understanding.

The big white rice that modern people often eat is an extremely rare existence in this ancient world with scarce materials. Hoarding some coarse grains that ancient people often eat can also be just in case.

Before leaving, Jiang Wei also took Jiang Xiaoxiao to the blacksmith shop to buy a large pot.

The quantity of ice cream and snow cakes required on Shopkeeper Zhou's side had greatly increased, and the pot at home was clearly not enough.

The mother and daughter picked a very large pot, so large that it was enough for a five-year-old child to jump in to boil water and take a bath.

But the price was not cheap, costing a full four hundred wen.

Returning home this time, the mother and daughter had a hasty lunch and started to make ice cream and snow cakes.

Jiang Xiaoxiao was responsible for breaking the eggs and separating the egg whites and egg yolks, while Jiang Wei was responsible for cooking part of it.

There were two stoves at home, just enough to put two large pots. Jiang Wei burned the fire and cooked while stirring constantly to avoid burning the pot.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 40 =====