Transmigrated To Another World: General, I'm Not Your White Moonlight - Chapter 83

Chapter 83: Jealousy And Curiosity
As the daughter of a wealthy merchant in Chun Shan Town, the young woman knew that only distinguished customers could be personally entertained by Tan Lidan. She was very curious when she saw that the servant was so polite to Duan Yixin, so she asked out of curiosity.

The servant shook his head and said, “This little one doesn’t know.”

The young woman became even more curious and said to one of her personal maidservants, “Go and pay for the ointment.”

One of her personal maidservants, who was standing behind her, bowed to the young woman and then followed the attending servant to pay for the ointment. Without waiting for the maidservant, the young woman left Chang Shou Pharmacy with the other maidservant. She looked around the street for a long time but couldn’t find Duan Yixin.

She thought for a while and then said, “Go back home.”

When the young woman got into the horse carriage with a heart full of curiosity, Duan Yixin was waiting in line in front of a grain store.

While queueing, Duan Yixin looked at the people leaving the grain store. Just as she was watching an old couple leave with despairing expressions, someone suddenly asked in a loud voice. Duan Yixin craned her neck and saw a man standing in the front, arguing with the grain store worker.

“Wasn’t yesterday’s price of coarse grains only ten copper coins for a catty? Why has it become twenty copper coins today?” The man asked in disbelief.

The worker looked at the man and said helplessly, “Customer, you also know that because of the bandits, no merchants are visiting our town anymore. Due to security issues, we need to hire guards and escort the goods from another city. Money is required to do that, so the price of food will naturally rise. Customers, if you are unsatisfied with our prices, you can try your luck at other grain stores.”

Hearing what the worker said, the man wanted to argue again, but a woman standing next to him grabbed his arm and shook her head at him. When the man saw this, he gritted his teeth and said, “Please give us a catty of sorghum.”

The worker nodded and weighed a catty of sorghum for the man. Then, he poured the sorghum into the bag bought by the couple and accepted the woman’s twenty copper coins. After the couple left, Duan Yixin saw that most of the people queuing in front of her had only bought a little bit of coarse grain.

Soon, it was her turn. The worker looked at her and asked, “Young Lady, what do you want to buy?”

Duan Yixin looked at the small wooden plate on the side and found that almost all grain prices had doubled.

She put down the bamboo basket and thought, ‘One catty is equal to six hundred grams. A bag of grain weighs ten catties. Then, the price of a bag of coarse grains is two hundred copper coins. Although it is very expensive, I should buy more while there are still grains to buy.’

After thinking for a few seconds, she said, “Sir, please give me a bag of sorghum, a bag of millet, a bag of brown rice, a bag of white rice, a bag of white flour, and a bag of coarse flour.”

When she finished ordering, everyone gasped and looked at her in surprise. The worker looked at her for a while and asked with a frown, “Young Lady, are you sure you want to buy so many grains?”

Although the worker did not say it directly, everyone knew that he was worried that Duan Yixin would not have enough money to pay. Looking at the worker’s expression, Duan Yixin nodded and lied without blinking, “I buy these for the villagers.”

After hearing her answer, everyone else lost interest. A woman waiting behind her also said, “No wonder she bought so much food. It turns out she bought it for others. Judging from her clothes, it was obvious that she could not afford food.”

Duan Yixin noticed the jealousy and sarcasm in the woman’s tone, but she ignored the woman and said to the worker, “Can you please prepare the grain for me?”

The worker nodded and said, “Of course. Please wait a moment, Young Lady.”

While asking other workers to prepare Duan Yixin’s order, he calculated the price and said, “The price of coarse grains is twenty copper coins for a catty, so one bag of coarse grains is two hundred copper coins. Since the young lady bought three bags of coarse grains, the total is six hundred copper coins. The price of white rice is thirty copper coins per catty, so a bag of white rice costs three hundred copper coins.”

After speaking, he calculated the price of the flour and said, “The coarse flour is three hundred copper coins per bag. White flour is four hundred and fifty copper coins per bag. The total is one tael of silver and six hundred and fifty copper coins.”

As soon as he said this, the people waiting in line took a breath and started talking in low voices. Duan Yixin, on the other hand, calmly used her sleeves as a cover to take out the money pouch from the warehouse and took out two strings of copper coins, amounting to two thousand copper coins.

She untied the second string of copper coins and put the three hundred and fifty copper coins back into her money pouch. After that, she handed one thousand six hundred and fifty copper coins to the worker and said, “Please put the grains into my bamboo basket.”

The worker counted the copper coins, and after confirming that the amount was correct, he loaded the grain into the bamboo basket. After the worker closed the lid of the bamboo basket, Duan Yixin carried the bamboo basket and left the grain store under the jealous and curious eyes of the crowd.