Wear ancient times with a house

Chapter 189

Probably everything that needs to be explained has been clearly explained. In a few days, the Xu family is preparing to return to Liyang County. Even Aunt Song, who has been a little angry with her daughter recently, is reluctant to part with it. Followed her husband and continued to leave.

The only thing that comforts the old couple of the Wang family is that Wang Zhen plans to leave a few children behind and entrust her parents and younger brothers to take care of her.

Xu Zhiqing had been working in the south before, a water town in the south of the Yangtze River.No matter what the position is, at least they are living a good life, and Wang Zhen also likes the climate there.

Moreover, the waterways in the south are well developed and commerce is prosperous. In other words, there are many rich people, and there are many ways for officials to get money.

Xu Zhiqing is still a person with a bottom line. After all, he is self-made and has no support, so he is not corrupted like other officials who work in prosperous places. His family property has increased a little, but there is nothing wrong with it. origin.

But when she went to the Northwest, for Wang Zhen, her husband's promotion was certainly something to be happy about, but she was more worried. She was not young, and her children were about to get married, so she didn't want to go there. Blowing the sand, I don't really want the children to suffer there.

But Wang Zhen is not at ease if her husband is to work alone. Even if there is a concubine's room, it is difficult to communicate with other officials' back houses without the presence of the head mother.

Wang Zhen originally wanted to stay in Jinju Prefecture to accompany her parents and relatives, but finally decided to go to the northwest with her husband.

She must also take her youngest son and two concubine daughters, after all, they are still young.

Like the eldest son and daughter, she plans to stay in her hometown, one continues to study, and the other is taught by her grandmother to learn various skills in managing housework.

After sending off the Xu family, it was also the end of the new year, and the Song family finally didn't have to go out to be guests in the cold, and could prepare some New Year's goods.

Chinese New Year in Fucheng.Although the preparation of New Year's goods is the same, new clothes are cut in the same way, and New Year's gifts are given to each other in the same way, there is a difference, that is, there are more varieties of New Year's goods.

Like when they were in Liyang County, most of the candies were rice cracker candies and sesame candies. Peanut candies were only occasionally bought, and they were all very expensive. Others were basically candied fruits.

Song Yun boiled mint juice before and made mint candies so-so, which are considered to be the same kind of candy that can be eaten at home.

Fucheng is different. When Song Yun and his three brothers and sisters went to Caizhizhai to buy New Year's goods with Shen Shi, they found that the store's New Year's goods were dozens more than usual.

The candy boxes used for gift-giving alone include Sanyang Kaitai, Liuliu Dashun, Bafanglai Cai, Ninety-Nine Concentric, Perfect and Ten Perfect, which are Sangongge, Liugongge, Bagongge, Jiugongge, Ten squares.

It contains not only rice cracker candies that are also sold in Liyang County, but also Daigo candies that Song Yun has never seen before, as well as sweet-scented osmanthus cakes, guatiao candies, honey ringo, almond halva, inlay bean candies, etc.

Among them, Daigo candy is actually somewhat similar to toffee, which is softer than white rabbit and less sweet.

Like Honey Ringo, Song Yun originally thought it was a lost fruit in modern times, but after listening to the store clerk introduce it with gestures and descriptions, he realized that it should be the modern Sakyamuni fruit.

Fortunately, she always thought that it was a fruit introduced from Southeast Asia in modern times, but she didn't expect it to be available in ancient times, and it was not as expensive as Song Yun imagined.

The most special thing is that a whole piece of shaped candy, although not as colorful and three-dimensional as modern candies, is still quite amazing, but the price is also amazing.

For example, the most suitable Jade Rabbit Chengxiang money is only the size of two palms, but it costs five taels of silver. of.

But during Song Yun's wandering in Caifangzhai for a while, there are already several servants in charge of other households who took the money to buy, and even bought several kinds, which shows that this business is indeed very easy to do.

After asking about the intentions of several children, Shen gritted her teeth and chose the gift box with the most styles, and picked out a few mid-priced candies that were not in the gift box. The arrangement is complete.

This is not the end, Shen still has to buy for relatives and friends, in Fucheng and Liyang County, at the end of the purchase, Shen is numb, this is all the money she has worked so hard to save, after a year , It costs so much!

Don't say she is distressed, Song Yun feels distressed, isn't it just some sugar, there are basic sugars such as maltose, white sugar and brown sugar, you can make it yourself!
But this year is a bit late, Song Yun secretly made up her mind that after the new year, she must try to make some candy, even if she can't develop a new business, at least she won't have to let others earn their money when giving boxing gifts next time.

After buying candy and putting the things in the car for Uncle Li to watch over, the mother and son went shopping in other shops.

Like meat, eggs, milk, food, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, Granny Li and his wife have already bought them before, and they are basically complete.It's snacks and the like. The winner's family decides what they want to eat.

And for the New Year, if you don't go out to buy things in person, you will lack the charm, so Shen and the others went out in a cold day.

I also bought some dry goods, such as pine nuts and hazelnuts from the Northeast, as well as lychees, lotus seeds, torreya seeds, ginkgo biloba, jujube rings, ringospin, steamed dates, etc. The prices ranged from expensive to cheap.

But for Chinese New Year, it's okay to buy it and taste it. Shen felt that she had paid a lot of money for other people to buy candy gift boxes, and she couldn't treat her family badly.

Almost a few children pointed out something, and she asked the waiter to weigh it, but they didn't weigh too much, and each item was only about a catty.

When the money brought out was almost spent, they also felt tired and were about to go home. Song Yun saw sharply that there was a shop selling mutton soup nearby. Delicious.

Song Yun pulled Shen's sleeve and pointed out the store to her. Without saying anything, Shen understood what she meant.

Thinking about shopping for half a day, she was indeed a little hungry, and she had already spent a lot of money, so she didn't need to be stingy with this little money, so Shen made a rare heroic gesture:
"Okay, let's go drink the mutton soup! After we're done, we'll bring Uncle Li a few mustard pancakes. He must be feeling cold after waiting in the car for so long."

Song Ce and the others had no objections. They drank mutton soup by themselves and bought a pancake for the servant who had worked hard all day. No one would be stingy with the money.

When I went to the shop, several tables were already seated, because they were all women and children, and the shopkeeper specially arranged seats inside.

I ordered four bowls of mutton soup, and added fresh leeks. Yes, leeks also cost money, and the price is special in winter. After all, the production of leeks is low at this time.

In order not to be full, Shen also ordered two sesame seed pancakes and two sweet milk pancakes, which filled the whole table and were all steaming hot.

After taking a mouthful of hot soup, Song Yun only felt the strong aroma of mutton filled his mouth, but it was not smelly at all, which shows that the shop's craftsmanship is indeed good.

The mutton inside is thinly sliced, not much, only three or four slices, but the taste is very good, and the stew is soft enough, with a slight salty taste.

Song Yun took another sip, and when he was lowering his head, a pair of chopsticks appeared in front of him, with a piece of mutton sandwiched between them.

She looked up and saw that her own mother had picked up the meat from her bowl, and naturally, there was an extra piece of meat in Song Ce and Song Zhen's bowl.

This is probably what mother wanted, Song Yun only felt warmer.

(End of this chapter)