Being fooled by fierce beasts to travel through the beginning is fleeing famine

Chapter 160 Inquiring (seeking Subscription and Monthly Pass)
The man said: "The big iron pot costs nine renminbi, and the small pot costs three renminbi and a kitchen knife and two renminbi. The total is one, two or four renminbi."

Qingyan was taken aback, is it so expensive?She calculated that one penny here is almost equivalent to one to two yuan in the future market.This is calculated based on the price of food she buys. Generally speaking, the price of food is equivalent to the local price.

That big sesame seed cake will sell for at least one to two yuan in later generations, so she thinks it is quite appropriate to pay for one penny.

And one tael of silver is equivalent to 1000 yuan, and one penny is equivalent to one hundred. These pots and kitchen knives are 400 yuan!
More than 1000 yuan to buy two pots and a kitchen knife is indeed a bit too expensive.

However, thinking that the current productivity is extremely low, ironware seems to be still under the control of the government, and it is not allowed to be used or traded in large quantities, because it is used to make weapons, so I understand a little bit.

Sighing, she was not short of money anyway, so she paid the money happily.

When the guy and another man who was supposed to be a blacksmith came out with a big pot, Qingyan was shocked.

Depend on!Isn't the twelve-seal pot the kind of big firewood pot in my hometown?Why is it so big?
I feel like I can stew myself. This is the kind of pot used for weddings and weddings in rural areas!

Hey...Qingyan sighed again, forget it, the money has already been paid, and the older you are, the older you are, at most, you can try to find a place where there is no one in the future.

Let them put the pot on the carriage. Fortunately, the small pot that was taken out later was not too small. It was enough for boiling water and cooking a dish, so I gave up the idea of ​​buying another medium-sized pot.

I took the kitchen knife from that guy, and I still need to sharpen the knife. Although it looks like it has a blade, it is not very sharp, so I still need to sharpen it.

Another thing is to install a wooden handle for this kitchen knife. There is only an iron bar at the handle position. It is not like the one that has been finished. It is either a wooden handle or a plastic handle. Think about it, he is a blacksmith In the shop, if the customers don't prepare it for others, it is impossible for them to make it for you.

Just like the farm tools, she remembered that her grandfather said that they could only be bought at the end before, and they pressed the wooden handles by themselves after returning home.

In this case, simply buy what you want to buy first, and it will not be easy to store it in the space anyway.

The cauldron was about to fill the carriage shed, mainly because the carriage shed was not very tall at the time, it was made of straw mats after all, and the branches were not that long.

Thinking of the carpenter shop that made furniture I met when I came here just now, I wonder if I can help her make a wooden carriage. Even if I don’t order it in advance, there should be ready-made planks and strips, as long as the length is made according to the size, She can install it herself.

If it doesn't work, just buy some wooden slats there, and then go to the grocery store to buy some mats and oilcloths, and then do the same as the donkey cart before.

Continue to walk back and prepare to buy furs. There are no money houses or pawnshops in this town. I don’t know if it’s too poor, it’s not worth opening a money house in such a remote town, or there are no money houses in this world yet.

She thinks it should be the former. Banks are generally in chain form, at least in the county town. Otherwise, the communication is underdeveloped and it is not easy to manage.

And in a small town like this, it is estimated that few people would save money in the bank.

Of course, there is another possibility that another time and space has been changed. If it is a time and space before the Song Dynasty in history, it is normal to have no bank notes.

When I arrived at the fur shop, I looked around and bought a piece of cowhide, as well as the brown-red fox skin I was looking forward to before, and I also bought a few sheepskins.

The sheepskin here is the cheapest, because most of the nearby villages raise sheep, and she plans to use the sheepskin to make quilts and mattresses.

I inquired about it just now when I was clothing it. There is no cotton sold here. If I want to buy it, I have to go to some big county towns.

Nowadays, cotton is generally used for weaving, and quilts are too expensive, so only wealthy families can use them.

Those who have the conditions here mostly use this sheepskin to make fur coats, or fur mattresses and quilts.

She felt that this place was similar to the Northwest of later generations, and most of the livestock raised were cattle, sheep and donkeys.

In winter, apart from fur jackets, people mainly rely on kangs for heating, so don’t even think about buying quilts here.

Although there are a lot of cattle here, the cattle cannot be slaughtered at will, so they can only get the cowhide if they die accidentally or die of illness.

The cowhide was not much cheaper than the fox's fur. Just these few skins cost her 11 taels of silver, which is more than 1 yuan for later generations, which is a lot of money.

Roll up all the skins together, use the leather rope sent by the seller to help, and then go back to the previous shop that sold sesame seed cakes, and directly wrap all the remaining sesame seed cakes into rounds.

The old man looked at her with bright eyes. He probably rarely encounters such a big customer, but he didn't find her strange. After all, this cake can be used as dry food when going out, and people who go out probably buy more Yes, this thing is easy to store, even if there is no space, it can be stored outside for about a week in this weather.

I bought 32 this time, and put them in the basket first.

After buying sesame seed cakes, I went to the cloth shop and bought a piece of coarse cloth. I don’t need to buy fine cotton cloth. There are still some in the Chou Chou space, and the fine cotton cloth here is more expensive than the ones sold in Hancheng before. Maybe it’s just As mentioned before, cotton is relatively scarce, so the cloth woven is not cheap.

Coarse cloth is much cheaper, and it only cost a penny for a piece.

I still have to go to the tavern, mainly to inquire about the situation.

So when she arrived at Mi's Tavern, Qingyan parked the carriage on the side of the road, and walked in with her satchel on her back.

Unlike the restaurant in the big city, there is a special place to park livestock cars at the back, but there is no place to park. There is an open space in front of the tavern, and it is no problem to park two or three cars.

Moreover, this street is much wider than the East Street in Hancheng, but it is just an ordinary dirt road without stone slabs.

I also understand that it is only a town after all, and such a wide street is probably reserved for the convenience of livestock cars.

Just as she was thinking, a donkey cart stopped in front of the tavern, Qingyan stopped and looked over there.

There should be a family on the donkey cart. There are two young people, a man and a woman, who should be young couples, an old lady and a child of two or three years old.

There are many salutes on the donkey cart, it should be a family outing.

The donkey pulling the cart was also different from what she saw, it was light gray, a very light gray.

Most of the donkeys I saw before were dark, either brown or black. It’s not that I haven’t seen gray ones, I’ve seen them on TV, but they’re not so light. I don’t know what it is here. Variety.

And it was smaller than the donkey I bought before, not to mention the wild donkey that Chouchou got in the mountains before, but it was quite strong, and the people pulling the family didn't see its legs trembling.

The style of the wild donkey before is very similar to those in the Xiangxiang space, but there is no space. Those donkeys are smart, there is no way, they all grew up drinking spiritual spring water, and the grass they eat has spiritual energy. Of course, they are monkey spirits.

I don't know who I learned from, but I even gave her mother a flower, and in front of her father, her father was so angry that she often said that she wanted to eat donkey meat.

The animals in Xiangxiang Space were originally used to eat black pigs and black goats. After a long time of raising, they all became spiritual, and they were no longer used as food. All the food was bought outside. of meat.

Because Xiangxiang's appearance is a little black pig, the parents thought it was the cub born of the black pig that was kept inside at first, and they were afraid of eating its parents, so they put it in the mountains and forests, and those pigs eventually turned into wild boars in the mountains .

If it wasn't for Xiangxiang's control, the pigs on the mountain would have been overrun.

How do you control it?Of course the boars were gelded to prevent them from leaving seeds everywhere.

Seeing that the family should also be here for dinner, Qingyan stopped paying attention and continued to walk inside.

The tavern is not big, there are only six tables, all of which are square, and one table is equipped with four benches.

There are already people inside, just now she secretly glanced at her watch, it was ten past ten, it was time for dinner.

When the boy saw someone coming in, he rushed up to greet him, "Young lady wants to eat, how many people are there?"

Qingyan nodded and said, "It's just me, my carriage is outside, so I'll just sit by the window."

Boy: "Okay, then you can sit at the table on the left, which is closest to the window."

The seat by the window is not like the seat close to the window in the later generations where you can only sit on both sides. In that case, the utilization rate is not high. Instead, a table is placed near the window, and there are still four benches.

Qingyan thanked her, sat at the side facing the window, and said to him: "I will look at the menu and order, you go and do your work first, I will call you if there is anything to do."

Seeing that she could read, the man nodded and rushed to greet the family that came in behind Qingyan.

He said he was looking at the carriage outside, but in fact he was just pretending that there was a ugly staring at it, so it was impossible for someone to steal it.

Opposite Qingyan was the counter, and there was a man in his 50s or [-]s sitting inside, who should be the shopkeeper.

Qingyan first opened a pottery cup on the table, picked up the pottery pot and poured a glass of water, but didn't drink it, just put it there to let people know that the seat was occupied, so that someone would come in and take it.

Then he got up and walked to the counter. He first looked at the menu board hanging behind him. It was a long wooden board hanging on the wall, with the name of the dish written on it and the price below it.

Seeing her like this, the shopkeeper said with some surprise in his tone: "It's really rare that the girl has read books."

After speaking, he glanced at the carriage outside, his eyes stopped on the horse, and when he looked at Qingyan again, his face was clear.

Those who can afford a horse must have a good family background, and it is not surprising that women can read and write.

Although there are menus, most of them are for themselves to see, so that they can’t remember the dishes every day. The guests usually listen to the waiter or he gives the name of the dishes.

There are not many dishes, there are only six dishes in total, it seems that there are not many choices.

Moreover, Qingyan also found that there are no stir-fried dishes in this tavern, they are all stewed, steamed, stewed, and boiled.

"When I was young, I studied with my brothers in my family for a period of time, and I knew a few words."

Qingyan said modestly.

Then I chose a stewed lamb, a stewed lamb head, and a bowl of lamb soup.

She and her mother have been to the northwest side. The most famous dish there is the stewed lamb, which is very delicious. The main reason is that the breed of sheep there is different. I don’t know if this is a kind?You can have a taste.

I asked the shopkeeper, and I know that these are all stewed in advance, and you can just put them on the plate. You don’t need to wait, and she didn’t order them to take away in advance. They pack it and that's it.

Of course, the premise is that it is delicious.

Taking advantage of the waiting time, I chatted with the shopkeeper and said, "Shopkeeper, when I was shopping in other shops, I heard that you are the most knowledgeable person in Xifeng Town, so I wanted to ask you something. I don't know if it's convenient?"

The shopkeeper smiled and said: "Don't dare to be, don't dare to be, girl, if you want to ask anything, just ask, if I know, I will tell the girl."

Sure enough, a person who does business can do it at one point.

Qingyan didn't beat around the bush, and said directly: "I was going to Tianshui City to join my relatives, but I went in the wrong direction. Here it comes.

So I want to ask the shopkeeper, do you know how to get to Tianshui City this day? "

The shopkeeper was stunned when he heard the words, and said with a funny face: "Young girl did go in the wrong direction. That day, Shuicheng and our place were in two directions. Our side is east, and Tianshui city is going to the south, but if you go from here It would be difficult if we passed by. There is a big river blocking it, so we have to go around it.

You have to go west for about [-] or [-] miles, there is a big road there, but I heard that the situation of the foreigners is not good this year, and the autumn wind is coming again, and there are small wars from time to time. It is too risky for you as a woman.

If time is not urgent, it is better to take a detour, more than 100 miles to the east, there is a stone bridge at the narrowest part of the river, the girl can cross there, and then go west for more than 100 miles to Tianshui City.

Speaking of which, if we can cross the river from us, it will only be thirty or forty miles away, but the river is blocking the way, and the water is so fast that we can't even use a boat to cross the river. "

Qingyan thought that it was really the same as what Chouchou used his divine sense to detect. Then, the road to Tianshui City is on the west side, so it should have passed the previous mountain, maybe it was just a mountain away from them. .

Qingyan nodded to the shopkeeper and thanked her. As for what kind of dynasty it is now, she dared not ask, it was a bit too fake, and she didn't even know what dynasty she was in, so it was a bit too strange up.

This can only be insinuated, or revealed from what others have said. Of course, this kind of tavern is hopeless, and I still want to go to the big city.

It doesn't necessarily mean going to Tianshui City, you can continue to go east, there are battlefields in the northwest, which means that it is already considered the border of this country, and there is definitely nothing wrong with going east.

Of course, it should be right to go south, but she felt that there was no need to cross the river and go around hundreds of miles.

(End of this chapter)