Surviving the famine: I made my fortune by helping others

"Is there a limit on the amount of condiments I can buy?" Ye Chuyi asked worriedly. She really wanted to buy a little of everything she saw.

"There is no limit on the quantity, but these are all the items in the store, and the prices are relatively high."

The shopkeeper said this as he took the items from the cabinet to the counter.

"What are the prices? Please tell me the prices, boss."

Ye Chuyi put on a smiling face.

Forced by reality, she is now a pauper oppressed by the system. She doesn't have much money on her, so it's better to ask clearly, so as to avoid not being able to pay when the time comes and making people think she is looking for trouble.

The shopkeeper didn't think there was anything wrong with it and just pointed at the items on the counter and started introducing them.

"Garlic and ginger are cheaper, only 30 wen per jin. Sichuan peppercorns and numbing peppercorns are more expensive, 45 wen per jin. Star anise and cinnamon are more expensive, 60 wen. These spices are even more expensive, 120 wen per jin."

The shopkeeper sighed and said, "This price is already much cheaper. In previous years when the market was good, the price of these things would double."

After all, although these condiments existed in ancient times, they were not fully popularized. Ordinary people would use them on a daily basis.

What's more, at a time like this, the yields in the fields are not high and filling stomachs is a big problem. Naturally, no one will deliberately make these things, so the quantity is small and the price is higher.

Ye Chu was shocked when he heard this.

As for those garlic and ginger pieces, they were actually very small, completely incomparable to the common ones today. She even felt that they might not even be as good as the wild ones today. There was not much of them.

The shopkeeper put out quite a few bags, but the most stuff in each bag was probably only three to five kilograms.

After calculating in his mind, Ye Chuyi quickly figured it out, "Boss, give me all of these."

The shopkeeper was stunned for a moment, but quickly calmed down, "Shanda, come over and help this customer weigh all the things."

"Hey, here we come."

Shanda put down the table rag and ran over with a beam scale in his hand.

Ye Chuyi only glanced a few times and then looked around, but was suddenly attracted by a small pile of red things in the corner of the counter.

"Boss, what do you have over there?"

The shopkeeper reacted and looked in the direction Ye Chuyi pointed after a while. It was indeed the chili noodles that she had taken out when she was packing up and had not had time to put away.

"This is just an ordinary little thing. I call it spicy noodles. They are not sold in the store. I just want to try it for fun."

The shopkeeper said this with a slight smile, and reached out to pinch a small piece and handed it to Ye Chuyi.

Ye Chuyi indeed smelled a familiar scent, like the scent of chili pepper, but a little different.

Maybe it was the most primitive pepper that had not yet undergone hybridization. Although Ye Chuyi didn’t quite understand it, he was really interested in it.

"Boss, what is your spicy noodles made of? I like the taste."

"This was brought to me by a distant relative of mine. I don't know what it's made of, but I know it's hard to come by. There aren't many of them, so I don't sell them in the store."

As the shopkeeper said this, he was about to put away the small bag of chili powder.

Ye Chuyi quickly pleaded, "Boss, I really like this thing. I wonder if you can give me some of it?"

The shopkeeper thought about it for a moment and nodded. She was the only one eating this and couldn't eat much each time, so it would be nice to share some with others.

"How about this? I don't know what the price is, so I'll give it to you at 60 wen per pound. Do you think that's okay?"

If not, she would keep it for herself.

"Thank you, shopkeeper." Ye Chuyi expressed his sincere gratitude.

"Shanda, give this girl a pound of this as well."

In the time it took to say these few words, Shanda had already quickly weighed the other things.

"Miss, do you need anything else?" Shanda asked respectfully.

Ye Chuyi pondered for a moment, then turned his attention to other things in the shop, "Are all the seeds in your store here?"

"Yes, we have the most complete variety of seeds in our shop. They are all here. What do you want, sir?"

Shanda followed Ye Chuyi with a smile on his face, and would carefully introduce anything she looked at for a few more seconds.

Ye Chuyi nodded in satisfaction, "Give me a pound of each of these seeds."

Ye Chuyi was full of ambition, but in fact, she had no idea how much a pound was, let alone how much she could grow with one pound.

Shanda didn't ask any more questions and quickly started packing his things.

About quarter of an hour later, Ye Chuyi finally got her shopping bill as she wished.

"Miss, our salt is 70 wen per catty, 30 catties is 2 liang 1 qian, and the spices are 3 liang 5,000 in total. Although the price of these two kinds of vegetables is lower, they are more diverse, so the total is 2 liang of silver. All these add up to 7 liang 6 qian, all after rounding off. Miss, do you think there is anything wrong with it?"

As Shanda spoke, he pointed out the things one by one to Ye Chuyi.

You know what, the young man has a very good memory. He could remember every single one of the so many things exactly after weighing them just once.

"Please give me a backpack or something. I can't carry so many things with my hands." Ye Chuyi said with a smile.

After hearing this, Shanda didn't hesitate. He took a backpack from the side and put all the things into the basket according to categories.

"This backpack is a gift from us. If you are satisfied, I hope you will come here often in the future."

Ye Chuyi did not act pretentiously. Using the cover of his sleeve, he quickly took out an ingot of silver from the space in his bracelet.

There is no way around it. The rewards given by the system are all these silver ingots, each one is round like a work of art.

After Shanda took the silver ingot, he was obviously stunned for a moment, looked at it over and over again, and then gave the silver ingot to the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper had the same expression and movements. He placed the round and full ten-liang silver ingot in the palm of his hand and looked at it carefully several times.

"Bai Zai, is there something wrong with the system rewards issued by your system? Could it be that they found something wrong?"

Ye Chuyi felt panicky.

[It's impossible. When the system rewards are released, they are all based on the background of the times. Especially the rewards such as currency are aligned with the standards of the times. There is absolutely no way there will be any problems.]

Baizai patted his chest confidently.

As Baizai finished speaking, the shopkeeper also broke into a broad smile.