Transmigrated to Ancient Times with System

Chapter 6 Buyind Lard

Li Yao found an herbal medicine shop. Seeing the herbs were all high quality and aged, the owner gave 900 wen.

"Come back with more medicine in the future. I'll give you the fairest price," he promised.

Carrying the heavy copper coins, she went to a noodle shop with Da Zhuang and ordered three bowls of wonton and five steamed buns.

Because it was a famine year, grain prices had risen quite a bit. This meal cost 50 wen.

Li Yao didn't mind the money and gave Da Zhuang 500 wen to buy rice, flour, meat, salt, vegetables, and rice vinegar.

On the way out she also took out twenty steamed buns from space to take home.

She wandered around the streets, going through every shop in town.

Baichuan County was close to the mountains. Although its location was remote and destitute, its jurisdiction was extremely large. There were a total of 33 villages below it, with a population of over 40,000, the largest among the surrounding counties.

Therefore, Baichuan Town, the county magistrate's seat, was actually quite big with five wide streets running vertically and horizontally. There was no lack of wealthy people in town either.

There were several restaurants, inns, teahouses, pawn shops, fabric shops, wine shops, cosmetic shops, bookstores, pawn shops, blacksmiths, coffin shops...everything imaginable.

Business looked pretty good.

If it wasn't a famine year, it would be even more bustling and prosperous.

Hunting and gathering medicine could only solve the most urgent needs. Li Yao couldn't go into the mountains to dig herbs and hunt every day.

The fastest and most effortless way to make money was still doing business.

She took special note of the food industry.

The food of this era really is very backward. The cooking methods were simple, the ingredients casual, and very little use of spices, just the same few cooking techniques over and over.

Even the best He Ji Restaurant in town only had four or five signature dishes, completely devoid of innovation.

Therefore, Li Yao decided that her first business would be selling food.

At the door of the blacksmith's shop, Li Yao ran into Da Zhuang.

"Mother," Da Zhuang said, "Prices have risen sharply. A catty of flour costs 12 wen, and a catty of rice costs 15 wen. I only dared to buy 10 catties each."

"It's okay," Li Yao said.

Prices will continue to rise later on.

"I didn't buy any meat either," Da Zhuang said. "Pork belly is too expensive."

In ancient times, fatty meat was the most expensive. Now, a catty costs 40 wen!

Lean meat, pork ribs, and pork legs are a bit cheaper, while pork offal and bones are the cheapest, almost half-priced.

Li Yao went to a pork stand and saw that the entire pork offal hadn't been sold out at all, totaling 25 catties. After some bargaining, she took it all for only 80 wen, which worked out to just 3.2 wen per catty.

She also brought 10 catties of white meat , 18 wen per catty, which is used to make the lard.

She spent 20 wen to take all the bones that were picked off.

She also bought a pair of straw sandals for each person.

Although it wasn't winter yet, it is still at the end of September, mornings and nights were getting cold. Wearing straw sandals was better than going barefoot.