Chapter 115 - 114: A Hint
"I’ll take a jin of oil, no, make it three jins. No Food Coupons needed. Do you have anything else besides oil?" The old lady thought about it and decided to order more; after all, oil wouldn’t spoil, and there wouldn’t be much left after splitting some with her two sons’ families.
"Yes, we do. We have salted wild boar meat, rabbit meat, pheasants, wild ducks, and fish. Besides these, we also have chestnuts, Chinese yams..." Lu Aiguo took out everything from his basket, one by one, placed them on the dining table, and reported their prices.
The old lady was overjoyed, "Wait a second." She quickly called into the inner room, "Old man, come out here."
"What is it? Who are these people?" An old man quickly came out from the inner room, glanced at the three visitors with a hint of suspicion, and immediately became guarded.
The old lady pulled the old man aside and whispered a few words to him. When he looked at them again, the wariness had disappeared from his eyes, replaced with surprise and delight.
The transaction went smoothly because the meat was processed and could be stored for a long time as long as it was hung up. In the end, the family, in addition to the oil, bought ten jins of wild boar meat, two wild ducks, two pheasants, one hare, and three fish. They even bought about five or six jins of chestnuts, but they hesitated over the odd-looking Chinese yams and ultimately didn’t buy any.
Even though Lu Aiguo boasted extensively about the Chinese yams, they still shook their heads, considering them too exotic and unfamiliar, and expensive at one mao and five fen per jin. After all, on the market, most fresh vegetables and potatoes were only about five fen per jin, and even the most expensive vegetables rarely cost more than one mao.
Since they had bought a lot, Lu Aiguo ended up giving them two Chinese yams for free and carefully introduced several ways to cook them. Before leaving, he casually asked the old lady, "Granny, do you know if there’s anyone around here looking to sell a house, or rent one out?"