"Cornmeal is twenty cents a jin, rice is thirty cents a jin, and eggs are one yuan fifty cents a jin," the young woman said.
Chi Yin nodded, leaning half-across the podium as she wrote and spoke: "Twenty jin of cornmeal is four yuan, thirty jin of rice is nine yuan, and three jin of eggs is four yuan fifty cents. That comes to seventeen yuan fifty cents. Let's call it eight yuan for various household sundries. How does that sound to you?"
Chi Yin looked up at Liu Qingchun, who let out a cold snort. "Fine."
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