Bab 76: Is It Expensive?

"The cheapest food is indeed four copper coins per catty, but that's black noodles." Mother Rong was calm and did not retreat from fear. She said calmly, "But my porridge is pure white rice porridge. How can it be compared?"

Ye Lulu had calculated the expenses of the people present and already guessed that someone would explode and find it very expensive, so she had taught Mother Rong how to deal with this in advance.

"One catty of white rice is nine copper coins. Although little rice is used to cook porridge, my family's porridge takes a long time to cook. It took more than two hours this morning before we came to the stall. The rice has already been boiled and there isn't much water added. You can see that this porridge is smooth and dense. There's definitely quite a lot of rice used. Besides, look at our bowl. It's a little bigger than an ordinary bowl. It's not expensive to sell a bowl of plain porridge for two copper coins."