The rice seller was shocked , though he has been selling rice for a two days now most of the people only brought coarse rice from him which wasn't much as for polished rice , he was only able to sell ten meters of rice and that too after many different customers brought it from him . Now this guy was asking for twelve meters of rice from him , this was simply amazing !
Because of the flood , The rice seller wanted to empty his warehouse because in such situations there was always a chance for the refugees to rebel and loot from their warehouse , at that time they wouldn't be able to make any profit . Thus, the rice seller was in such a hurry to sell his rice at the same time making a big profit out of it .
As for an extra meter , with twelve taels in hand he didn't mind giving a meter extra " sure , sure. If you buy twelve meters of rice , I will give you one meter extra , will that do ?"
