"Give me five more bags of black bread."
"Five bags of black bread, that's sixty copper coins!" Kem couldn't stop smiling after trying the tasty white bread, few people were willing to eat the hard, tough black bread.
Now was a good chance to clear out the inventory.
After painfully handing over three silver coins, Susan took the groceries she had purchased and couldn't help but frown. Not only had the price of bread increased several times, it was visibly smaller, too. Bread that used to be four fingers thick was now scarcely three fingers thick.
A sense of worry unknowingly welled up in Susan's heart. Since the Wizards had taken control of the capital, famine seemed to be a thing of the past, but the recent rise in grain prices was troubling her greatly.
Even though she could still barely afford it now, what about in a week or even a month?
Susan clutched the last few silver coins in her hand, hesitating whether to buy more.
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