The blessing of the splendid farm family is married to the world

Chapter 209 Barter
Gao Xian was a businessman traveling between the Western Regions and Huoliang City. This day he drove his camel caravan to Longmen Station. After passing through Longmen Station, he entered the range of Huoliang City, so he could have a good rest.

"Huh? Today's Longmen Station is different." A boy pointed to the front and said.

In front of me, a group of children surrounded a small booth, and the children were chattering like "I want one piece" and "I want two pieces".

Surrounded by the booth was a young couple.

They keep taking money and handing out something.

As he got closer, Gao Xian could clearly see that it was a square bamboo box, and inside was a palm-sized piece of pale yellow dim sum.

It looks very fluffy and soft.

Gao Xian stopped unconsciously and asked, "Dare to ask, how are these dim sum sold?"

An Xu looked at it with a smile, and said, "One penny and one yuan, if you have something worth exchanging in your hand, you can barter it."

Gao Xian walked over, and the sweet smell rushed into his nostrils. There were still five or six yuan left in the box on the table, but such a good snack only cost one penny, which is too cheap.

"Can you wrap it up for me?" Gao Xian asked.

"Auntie," the two children who bought cakes and didn't leave in a hurry, said to An Xu, "Little Hu'er just went to pick wild fruits and will be back soon. Can you stop selling them all?" ?”

An Xu smiled reassuringly at them, and then said to Gao Xian: "My snack is limited to one piece per person."

Gao Xian took a look at his caravan, there were only two boys.But the two children next to him watched eagerly, even though he had more than a dozen guys, he was too embarrassed to take all these snacks in one pot.

"Then give us three yuan," he said, handing over three Wen.

An Xu took the money, and Zong Che took out three boxes of cake rolls and handed them over.

Gao Xian and the others didn't leave immediately after buying the cake rolls, let alone the meal was about to be served, they stood there holding the cake and started eating.

The soft and sweet taste melted in his mouth, Gao Xian immediately removed the pastry, put it in front of his eyes for a long time, and couldn't help but said to An Xu: "You are such a skillful hand, how do you make such a pastry? "

An Xu smiled and said: "Thank you for the compliment, but if the guest officer is interested, is there anything good in your cargo? Can you let me see, if there is something I like, I can take a pastry recipe with you You exchange."

Gao was first surprised and surprised, and then vigilant.

Such a good cake, might someone be willing to hand over the recipe?
Gao Xian hesitated and didn't speak, and two young men also came forward to persuade him.

An Xu was not in a hurry or urged. To her, it didn't matter whether the exchange could be made or not.

The sound of thumping footsteps approached, and the little boy who came to inquire about the price of the pastry at the beginning ran over, holding a large handful of yellow and purple wild berries in both hands.

He held it to An Xu and asked, "Auntie, are these enough?"

An Xu smiled and said, "Enough."

After collecting the wild fruits, he took a box of cake rolls from Zong Che and handed it to the little boy.

"Thank you auntie, thank you uncle." The little boy bowed almost ninety degrees, and the two children waiting next to him also showed smiles that their little friends finally got their favorite items. The little girl among them said: "Let's go, let's go eat over there."

It was the first time Gao Xian saw such a kind person, so he was willing to believe in the character of the couple.

"Unpack," he turned to the boy and said, "Let this lady choose."

An Xu really has a dispensable attitude, and feels that the exchange she just proposed is not going to work. It may take her to establish a reputation at Longmen before anyone is willing to believe them.

It is very dangerous for a businessman who is out and about to open the goods for inspection.

After all, no one can tell whether the passers-by who appear on this long journey are good or bad.

Seeing that An Xu didn't move, Zong Che walked over first, An Xu saw it and quickly followed.

Although it was a small caravan, it brought more than a dozen packages of goods, most of which were spices, and there were also some things that surprised An Xu, such as the watermelon and red dates on the last camel, and raisins on the front camel .

An Xu wanted them all, and I was embarrassed to exchange them with only one cake recipe. After all, if you search the Internet for this thing in later generations, there will be a lot of it.

She is like this, a bit of a bully.

However, if you pay for it after finding out the prescription, will you be regarded as a fool?

Zong Che saw that her eyes were on three things: cold melon, red dates, and raisins, so he said, "Let's exchange these three things."

Gao Xian's heart sank. In his camel caravan, the most valuable things were not these at all, and the cold melon was just bought as water for drinking on the road when they passed through Hamili City ahead.

But you can't be too straightforward, Gao Xian hesitated for a while, and then said: "Okay."

Finally, under the conditions that both parties are very happy, they reached an exchange of this prescription.

In the slanting sun, Zong Che was driving the carriage ahead, and An Xu was overjoyed seeing the three big bags full of things on the carriage.

She opened a bag in the car that was used to hold money. There were also many wild fruits unique to the grassland, some were sweet and sour, and some were only sweet.

In the small purse at her waist, there are about a dozen copper plates.

I didn’t bring anything with me when I went out today, but when I went back, I got so much. An Xu couldn’t help but think of a sentence that his grandfather often said when he took her to cook at the beginning: You don’t need to be overwhelmed by skills, and your skills are your livelihood.

An Xu shook the money bag happily.

Zong Che tilted his head and said with a smile: "It's just some copper coins. Do I want you to feel the happiness of receiving copper coins from the outside?"

An Xu sat forward, leaned on Zong Che's back, looked at the blue sky, and said with a smile, "It's different, it's something we can take out and get back no matter what the environment is."

Zong Che reached back, held her shoulder and rubbed it.

A few days later, when Zong Che rested again, they drove the carriage to Longmen Station again.

This time, before the car was parked, a child walking nearby cheered and ran towards the dragon gate, shouting, "Here we come, the cake seller's aunt and uncle are here again."

He almost broke his voice from shouting.

As soon as An Xu and Zong Che put the things out, there was a caravan from laymen. The leader stopped and walked up to him. After looking at it for a while, he pointed to the milky white soap behind the cake and said, "This pastry What is it? Can you exchange prescriptions?"

An Xu: "You know a businessman surnamed Gao?"

The man smiled and said: "I have heard about him a little bit, who doesn't envy his good luck nowadays?" In exchange for a good pastry recipe, it is said that a friend knows the imperial chef who retired from the palace, and he has seen the recipe They all said they hadn't seen it.

An Xu said: "The one you are asking about is not a pastry, but I can also change the recipe for this, but there are three conditions."

The merchant's caravan was bigger and more cautious. Hearing this, he said, "I don't know if I can ask first, what is this?"

"Look at it." An Xu said, and Zong Che handed out a piece of goat milk soap, as thoughtful as the best guy in Huoliangcheng's shop.

Liu Zhou took this small piece, and it was smooth in his hands, and it smelled of a light milky fragrance and a strong sweet-scented osmanthus fragrance.

"Is this similar to Xiangpanzi?" Liu Zhou said hesitantly.

An Xu smiled and said, "Good eyesight, this is the soap I made myself. It has a stronger cleaning ability than the soap, and it is simpler to make."

Liu Zhou suppressed the excitement in his heart, turned around and said, "Ah Tu, fetch water."

The clear water in the cowhide pouch was poured down in a thin stream, and the white and delicate foam on Liu Zhou's hands was washed to the ground. It was indeed more effective than fragrant soap.

At this moment, Liu Zhou could no longer suppress the excitement in his heart, and stepped forward and said, "Madam, I don't know how much the price is for this party?"

No matter how naive he is, he also knows that today's prescription cannot be obtained by exchanging a few random things.

Zong Che said, "Do you know the price of Xiangpanzi's prescription?"

Liu Zhou's face turned pale. The fragrant pancakes were all held in the hands of people with family backgrounds. With his wealth, he couldn't buy the fragrant pancakes even if he took them all out.

And this soap, which is better than Xiangpanzi, is probably even more unaffordable for him.

An Xu smiled and said, "So we came up with a method. This recipe is not exclusive. As long as you can take out 50 taels of silver and agree to my three conditions, this recipe will be yours."

"50 taels?" Liu Zhou almost bit off his tongue, calmed down, and asked, "But I don't know what the lady's conditions are?"

"First, a piece of soap should not be smaller than five inches square; second, the price of each piece should not exceed ten renminbi; third, the prescription should not be sold to Mr. Su in Huoliang City."

Every condition makes Liu Zhou unbelievable, but the price of this piece of soap can't exceed ten cents, so what else does he earn?
An Xu smiled and said, "Don't worry, even a piece of soap for three or four pennies is enough to make a profit. Can you meet these conditions?"

If she can't do it, she can also make this person's business impossible.

After all, the most important raw material for making soap, soda ash, is currently only available to her in this dynasty.

After thinking about it for a while, Liu Zhou agreed.

Just as he was about to pay, a wave of children came running over with a penny or a bag of wild fruits.

The children who took the wild fruit each had a big bag, but they didn't have to measure it with their hands, and then they only used that handful to exchange for pastries.

They all held up the bags in their hands and asked An Xu to accept their "money". After getting a piece of cake roll, they stood outside contentedly, eating and waiting for their companions.

Liu Zhou, who wanted to pay for the recipe, was completely squeezed to the back. When the group of children left eating cakes, he was able to step forward. Seeing that there was a row of pastries missing in front, he couldn't help but say: : "Young master and madam are really kind-hearted people."

An Xu smiled and said: "We are not kind, you are wrong."

Thinking of the third condition proposed by the lady, Liu Zhou sighed.

But as long as this is not aimed at him, he is a rare good person.

This idea was slightly discounted after Liu Zhou got the soap making recipe. It turned out that he had the only raw material in his hand, so it was not purely blind but kind.

Fortunately, a bag of seventy or eighty catties of soda ash only costs one hundred cash.

Around You hour, a carriage stopped beside a noodle stall in Huoliang City.

A carriage passing by not far away also stopped, Su Lianxiang lifted the curtain of the carriage and looked out for a while, with a blushing smile on her face.

She said to the servant girl: "You wait in the car, I have something to do when I go down."

As soon as the carriage over there stopped, Mrs. Zong walked towards a shop on the side of the road in a hurry. It looked like the Fang family's canning shop.

The little servant girl was worried about her young lady, and said: "Miss, although Mrs. Zong has gone away, the eldest lady said that Mrs. Zong is very difficult to get close to. This slave girl will go with you."

Su Lianxiang went down with the curtain of the car, and couldn't help but smile shyly again when she heard the words, "Who wants to approach him? You stay inside."

"A bowl of mutton noodle soup, and a bowl of fresh fish noodles." Fresh fish noodles are Huoliang City's specialty, and she has liked them more since she ate them once.

With a faint smile on the corner of Zong Che's lips, he ordered noodles and two more dishes, and was about to go to see if An Xu was well, when a woman walked up to him and bowed softly.

"Minister Su Lianxiang, I have met Master Zong."

Zong Che frowned, is this the woman who annoyed Xu'er?

Zong Che asked, "Do I know you?"

Su Lianxiang looked at him in surprise, and said: "Jun saved the little girl from danger, and the little girl dare not forget every day."

"I don't have any impression, and I already have a family." Zong Che didn't want this woman to fly over like a fly to annoy her in the future. "When you see me in the future, can you please pretend that you don't know me?"

When Su Lianxiang heard this, she lowered her head shyly and ashamedly, looking weak and pitiful, living up to her name.

Zong Che felt that he had made it very clear, and was about to walk sideways, feeling his sleeve being pulled, he frowned and looked back, Su Lianxiang let go of his hand, with tears in his eyes: "Why are you so cruel?"

Zong Che stretched out his hand and patted his sleeves. There was no need to talk to this kind of woman who couldn't understand.

Just the next moment, a soft hand grabbed his hand, and the light fragrance of Xu'er's body saved his nose from sneezing.

"Because he already has a wife." An Xu and Zong Che intertwined their fingers, seeing Su Lianxiang's heartbroken look, feeling sick, "and he has no intention of marrying a concubine."

So you can rest.

Being so humiliated, Su Lianxiang felt a stabbing pain in her heart when she saw the expressionless face of the man she liked, she looked at An Xu with hatred, and said: "Like you, it will only make people more disgusting. "

Zong Che's brows were almost twisted together. Up to now, in the entire Huoliang City, the Su family is the least acquainted.

He can consider directly starting from other aspects and killing the Su family as an example.

An Xu held Zong Che's hand and said, "You don't have to worry about this matter."

She needs to let people know that she is not vegetarian.

Su Lianxiang was very sad seeing them standing so tightly together, and Zong Che completely ignoring her, covered her face with a silk handkerchief and ran away.

The Su family's carriage left quickly, and Zong Che took An Xu to sit down again. Neither of them noticed that a small green cloth donkey cart followed the Su family's carriage.
(End of this chapter)