The farce that happened outside Sun Ji's grain store in the afternoon obviously didn't affect the business of the grain store.
After the restaurant opened for business in the afternoon, the customers still came as usual.
A busy day always passed by very quickly.
This era was different from the peaceful times of the later generations. After six o'clock, most of the shops in the town began to close one after another.
Sun Cheng's grain store was no exception!
There were no watches yet, and even pocket watches were rare. They had not been mass-produced by foreigners.
Sun Cheng had wanted to ask someone to buy a pocket watch to check the time two years ago, but when he asked for the price, he immediately gave up.
In the prosperous Ten Miles Trading Company, a Western pocket watch could be sold for six to seven hundred dollars.
He asked someone to bring it from Yang Cheng to Shangxiang Town. The price had more than tripled, reaching a sky-high price of 2,500 yuan.
One had to know that in this era, the purchasing power of one dollar could buy nearly 40 catties of rice in other provinces.
Or about 15 catties of pork and 20 catties of chicken.
In the past few years, although Sun Cheng had saved a lot of money, he was not willing to be a sucker.
Moreover, in this day and age, the Chinese also had their own ways of telling time.
"Bang bang…clang…"
He heard the sound of night watchmen on the street outside.
Sun Cheng knew that it was almost midnight.
The night watch was an ancient night time system that had been formed in Xia country after countless years of exploration.
This gave rise to a job called night watchman, also known as night watchman.
The night watchman was usually employed by the town head, village head, or the county government to beat the gong or beat the night watch to report the time.
At the same time, they would also be responsible for patrolling for bandits and fires, and when they discovered them, they would sound the alarm!
The ancients had divided the night into five chapters since a long time ago. Each chapter was two hours, which was two hours.
In the blink of an eye, Sun Cheng had been in this world for six years.
In the past six years, he had completely gotten used to seeing the sun and the angle of the shadow caused by the light during the day.
At night, he listened to the night watchman to determine the time of the day.
When Sun Cheng heard the night watchman start to beat the gong, he knew that it was already around seven o'clock in the evening.
He quickly closed the shop and locked the doors and windows. He then pulled out dozens of thick planks from the wall and moved them behind the windows and doors.
The past two years had not been peaceful in Gui Province. Because of the war at the border, coupled with the local government's forced recruitment of food and grass, there were many who were forced to become bandits and occupy mountains.
Although Shangxiang Town was located in the rear, it had suffered from bandits several times in the past two years.
Although Sun Cheng had never encountered bandits before, he had been robbed a few times at night. Although he only lost about ten dollars, he was still uncomfortable and began to strengthen his precautions.
After doing all this, Sun Cheng was not in a hurry to go upstairs. He lit a kerosene lamp and started reading the account book.
" We sold a total of 736 catties of fresh sweet potatoes, 2437 catties of sweet potato flour, 33 catties of sweet potato vermicelli, 175 catties of sweet potato noodles, 62 catties of sweet potato jelly, 38 catties of sweet potato candy, 17 catties of sweet potato wine, and 3 catties of sweet potato vinegar…After deducting the cost, we made a total profit of 172 yuan and 3.6%…"
" We sold nineteen pots of sweet potato porridge, 192 sweet potato buns, and three catties of pickled vegetables…A total loss of 2.7 yuan…"
"It seems that the war between the Qing court and France in the past two years has had an increasing impact on the economy of Gui Province…Recently, many people have come to my place to buy cheap sweet potatoes that they are not used to. It can be seen that everyone has no money in their pockets…"
After calculating today's business, Sun Cheng weighed the heavy storage box.
As usual, he picked out all the silver coins.
Among these silver coins, there were Guangxu Yuan Bao sold by the Qing court, Longyang from Fusang, Yingyang from America, and Spanish silver coins, which were manufactured by the English colonies and sold in large quantities to Manchu.
Because of the difference in the amount of silver in these silver coins, their values were not exactly the same.
However, in general, the difference in conversion was not big.
Looking at the seventy to eighty silver coins of various colors on the table in front of him, Sun Cheng couldn't help but feel proud.
After transmigrating to this world for six years, he had now completely established himself in this world.
Sun Cheng wasn't short of money, but he still enjoyed the feeling of earning money.
After playing with it for a while, he reached out his hand and held it in the air.
The next moment, Sun Cheng took out a heavy wooden box from his inner world and gently placed it on the table in front of him.
He opened the wooden box. The moment the lid was lifted, it was already filled with all kinds of silver coins. There were probably thousands of them.
Sun Cheng admired it for a while before throwing all the silver he had earned today into the wooden box.
After he closed the wooden box again, he placed one hand on the wooden box and another idea appeared in his mind.
In an instant, the large wooden box filled with all kinds of silver coins was once again returned to the inner world by Sun Cheng.
Although his body couldn't enter the magical small world in his body, he could store things inside.
In the past six years, Sun Cheng did not dare to say that he was completely familiar with the Inner world.
However, he was also certain that other than himself, no one else could sense the existence of the inner world.
Therefore, to Sun Cheng, there was no place safer than the inner world.
All his valuables were placed in the inner world.
As for the storage box, although there were still copper coins worth more than a hundred dollars inside, Sun Cheng did not care about them.
It was just locked and placed casually under the cashier on the first floor!
After putting the account book away, he turned around and went up the stairs to the second floor.
He bought this two-story storefront from a merchant four years ago. At that time, it cost him more than 700 yuan.
Seven hundred yuan was definitely not a small sum in this era.
In Shangxiang Town, Sun Cheng's current fiancée, Yang Xiaoyun, came from a carpenter's family.
After a year of hard work, they had to scrimp and save, and the money they could save was only about 20 yuan.
This 700 yuan required a skilled family to save for at least 30 years.
This was because although this shop was located in the north gate market of Shangxiang Town, its location was not very good.
Otherwise, even if the price doubled, they might not be willing to sell.
Sun Cheng's shop had two floors and a small courtyard of less than 20 square meters behind it.
The small courtyard behind was where he usually cooked and washed up.
The two storefronts on the first floor had been opened up by Sun Cheng to become a grain store. As for the second floor, it was where he usually slept and rested.
He opened the door and entered his bedroom on the second floor. After locking the door, he lay down on the bed and closed his eyes to peer into the inner world.
Soon, he seemed to have transformed into a Creator as his gaze appeared in a magical small space.
After six years of continuous exploration and absorbing a large amount of resources from the real world, the two of them had finally reached a consensus.
The small space that Sun Cheng obtained at the beginning had expanded from the original length, width, and height of 100.100.10 meters to the current 2760.2760.276 meters.
In other words, the land area of the Inner world had expanded from less than ten acres to more than eleven thousand acres.
It was not an exaggeration to say that Sun Cheng had already become a landowner with ten thousand mu of fertile land.
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