Chapter 25 25. Big customer!
A pair of black goggles appeared under the wide hat. She observed for a moment without any obstruction, then found a place to block her body and entered the space.
After a while, a figure that was thinner than before appeared again, with a skateboard under his feet.
It was a full twenty miles away, and she didn’t want to walk there with one foot deep and one foot shallow. Since there was a better way, why not use it?
Cheng Xi is a master who never wrongs himself, so he naturally enjoys himself as much as he wants.
He put his left foot on the ground with a little force, bent his lower body, and the figure quickly stepped on the skateboard and paddled out.
The villagers walking on the road only felt a "swish" flash in front of their eyes, and when they looked hard again, they found nothing.
“?!”
“.What’s going on?”
“Something just passed by, wasn’t it?”
"Ah, it seems to be there, but it seems not?"
Passers walking doubt their lives.
What a ghost.
It must be too windy and snowy!
Cheng Xi skated all the way until he was about a mile outside the city gate before he stopped, and found a deserted place to change back into the same outfit as going out.
No one noticed anything unusual from beginning to end.
At this time, two soldiers in armor were standing at the city gate, trying to sleep and trembling.
Cheng Xi: "."
She twitched the corner of her mouth and coughed lightly, successfully waking the two of them up.
“Who?!”
"Two eldest brothers, I want to enter the city."
"Into the city? Oh, yes, yes, this is the city gate."
The two of them suddenly seemed to be in a dream, rubbed their hands and stretched out, " Give us two coins and you can enter the city."
Cheng Xi did as he was told and quickly entered the city gate, with two faint complaints coming from behind him.
“Damn, it’s too cold!”
"Who would have thought that it would snow so heavily this year? It almost froze me to death!"
"There is no other way, the door still needs to be guarded."
"It's not going well these days. Not many people come into the city, for God’s sake Who dares to go out in the heavy snow?”
“Because there are not many people coming, the number of people has been reduced to two. If we bear with it, we can change the shift later.”
Cheng Xi suddenly realized after hearing the conversation.
No wonder I always feel like something is wrong. It’s because there are fewer people standing guard.
However, there were really few people on the road, which allowed her to increase the speed of her skateboard to the highest speed.
***
Due to the heavy snow, the streets in Fucheng were greatly affected.
The terrain here is already low, with heavy snow covering almost half of the city, and the snow on both sides has almost reached the windows.
And half of the originally bustling market was closed, and only food stalls were left open except for necessities.
Cheng Xi stood at the street corner and looked at it, and he could see where he wanted to go without spending too much effort.
——Without him, there are too many people lining up at the entrance of the grain store.
“Don’t be too crowded, don’t be too crowded, there is enough food in the shop!”
“Ouch, please slow down, you stepped on me——”
"What? A kilogram of black noodles has increased by three cents? You are robbing money!"
"Oh my god, let's not let people live, you gang of black-hearted merchants!"
< br>"Oh, there's nothing we can do. It's said that there was a snowstorm in the north and the food can't be transported. Why shouldn't the price increase?"
"What's the price of rice?"
"It's increased by two cents."
"What's wrong, the south is also affected by the disaster?"
"That's not true, but there are more people buying, so why don't we just follow the increase."
"If you don't buy it, don't buy it. Wait until the snow stops, I don’t believe it will continue to rise!”
Cheng Xi: “.”
There is no need to go in.
She was originally inquiring about food prices, but thanks to this group of people, she knew everything!
Cheng Xi turned around and left without even a moment's pause.
Compared to the grain store, the door of the grocery store can be described as empty - on a cold day, who wants to go out and suffer the cold if they have something at home?
At that time, the only clerk in the grocery store was huddled in a corner packing mushrooms. The temperature has dropped to a new low in the past few days. Most other stores are closed, but his store owner insists on keeping it open.
What's the use of leaving it open?
Half a day passed, and he didn’t see a single customer come in!
“Hey, what are you trying to do? Don’t I get paid?”
The guy doesn’t understand, the guy doesn’t understand.
However, the next second he was slapped in the face by reality.
"Boss, is there any salt left?"
"Yes, yes! How much salt do you want to buy, little lady?"
There is someone, there really is someone, and she is a beautiful little lady!
The waiter jumped up and looked at the only customer in the store with gleaming eyes.
Cheng Xi glanced at him strangely, his eyes passing over the merchandise one by one.
"How much salt do you have here?"
"Well, it's a full one hundred and fifty pounds, my dear lady"
Why are you asking?
“I need them all.”
Cheng Xi took out three banknotes from his body and placed them at the counter without saying a word.
"All, all???"
The guy is stupid.
“I want them all, that’s all, right?”
“Yes.”
“That’s OK, I’ll take it.”
Cheng Xi was always a resolute person. After paying the money, he grabbed a sack in one hand and walked out of the grocery store effortlessly.
The guy gasped and was dumbfounded again.
“?!”
What just happened? Was he awake and dreaming?
However, the three fifty-tael banknotes at the counter clearly told him that it was the truth.
"No wonder the shopkeeper keeps the shop open. I bet he knows he has a big customer!"
He must have secretly read the almanac himself!
Here Cheng Xi found a deserted place, threw the two bags into the space, and wandered around again.
First, he went to the embroidery shop and bought a lot of embroidery thread for Xingqi. Then he took out the medicinal materials that Shen Xingluo had given him from the space and exchanged them for two hundred taels of silver at the drug store.
“Now my wallet is full again.”
The previous 3,000 taels of silver notes have been spent for 7,788, and finally something has been credited to the account.
Shennong Mountain is a big treasure house. Occasionally, if you have no money, you can buy some goods. This is much more profitable than working hard at the dock selling food.
"As the saying goes, the greater the risk, the greater the return. Economists do not deceive me!"
Cheng Xi decided to go there often when he has time.
Even if you can’t come across precious medicinal materials, scaring small animals can increase the fun, right?
For the last stop, she went directly to the inn in the south of Lin'an Prefecture. As Shen Xingluo expected, Cheng Daqian's latest family letter had arrived.
"Xiaoxi, are you here to get the letter?"
"Yes, does Brother Sun have any news from the north? I heard there is a snowstorm over there."
" Indeed."
Sun Xiaorong carefully observed the surroundings and took Cheng Xi to find a secluded place.
"The snowstorm in the north is quite serious. Many people have frozen to death. Some people from several prefectures have even decided to move south."
"Is it so serious?"
"Master Prefect We have already received the news. Anyway, I am afraid that the price of food will rise in the future. Please prepare more."
Cheng Xi was surprised. He didn't expect him to be so well-informed.
But what happened to the pause just now?
Isn't the prefect Zhou Xuzhi's father? My son is not a good bird, and I guess I am not too kind either.
Cheng Xi glanced at Sun Xiaorong again and gradually understood the meaning of his words.
"I understand, Brother Sun, please prepare more."
Thanks to book friend 854049****66 for the reward!
I instantly felt like I was being taken care of, hey hey~~~
Yuchen will continue to work hard!
(End of this chapter)