Bamboo Fragrance

Chapter 26 Shopping
The two laughed and walked to the main street to the south.Mai Ya'er found a simple and elegant inn with his familiarity.

As soon as they entered, the waiter in the store hurriedly greeted them and asked if they wanted to stay in the store.

Mai Ya'er shook her head, stepped forward and whispered something to Xiao Er.

The waiter glanced at the baskets they were carrying, nodded, and told them to sit at a table on one side of the lobby and wait.And he ran towards the back hall.

Li Kongzhu looked at Mai Yaer with some doubts, "Do you often come to this shop?"

Mai Ya'er shook his head, "It's all the old rules! At that time, you only need to pay some traveling expenses!"

No wonder!Li Diaozhu suddenly realized.

The merchants who wanted to come here to collect goods from north to south attracted many farmers to sell their private goods.The waiter in the store wants to earn extra money, and the licensed dealer wants to receive good products.Over time, such an unwritten rule has naturally formed.

The two didn't sit for a long time, and soon they came out from the inner hall.

Except for the little boy who was leading the way, the person following behind was a middle-aged man with beard and cotton lace.

He looked tall and burly, with a fierce look in his eyes.Not like a merchant, but a bit like a bodyguard.

Sure enough, Xiao Er came over and introduced the two of them, "This is the manager next to the boss. Aren't you here to sell leather goods? Take it out and have a look."

Mai Ya'er and Li Kongzhu took out the fur from Lanzi.

The bearded man flipped through the leather bags of the two of them, and murmured a few words to Xiao Er.

Li Kongzhu listened carefully, and it didn't look like changing the national language, nor did it look like a dialect of any place.

Ganqing or an outsider?

Xiaoer said to the two, "The steward said that the wolf fur inside is worth a little money. I ask you to count it together or separately."

"Separate calculations!"

Xiao Er nodded and explained to the man.

The man nodded and took a purse from his waist.Separated the goods of Mai Ya'er and Li Diaozhu.

There are three rabbit skins and one fox skin for Mai Ya'er.It was sold for six denarii.Li Kongzhu's wolf skin was given a full nine coins because it was complete and the holes were small.

After the incident, Xiaoer asked the two of them for [-] Wen each for errand expenses.

In this way, Li Kongzhu earned a full 850 Wen with a piece of wolf skin and exchanged it for copper coins!Equivalent to more than half a tael of silver.

Turning his head to look at Mai Ya'er's eyes full of spirits, Li Kongzhu knew that this price was a rare bargain!
The two left the inn with the silver.Malt asked her if she had anything to buy.

Li Kongzhu nodded again and again, saying that he had a lot of things to buy, and he was afraid that he would borrow her ox cart.

Mai Ya'er said no problem, let her go ahead and buy as many ox carts as she could fit.

In this way, the two started shopping in street shops with money in their pockets.

First of all, what Li Diabolo wants to buy is to solve the problem of keeping warm.

It's too cold at night, sleeping on a canopy bed made of straw, even though I'm wrapped in an iron quilt, I still feel extremely cold.In addition, when the original body came here as a dowry, there were only two single-cloth clothes, even though she was wearing both, the morning car ride still felt the cold wind invading her body.For the sake of the whole winter, thick cotton clothes and thick quilts are indispensable.

Li Diaozhu didn't go into the physical store to buy finished products, but went directly to the cloth shop, pulled and weighed the cotton.

In my memory, I was originally a female celebrity, so I can use my memory to practice watching.If you don't know how to practice, at worst, when the time comes, pay a few more money and ask Mai Ya'er to teach Wang Shi.

Then there is food. There are only some sorghum rice and corn noodles at home.Li Kongzhu was a southerner in his previous life and wanted to buy some polished rice.But when I saw the price, I gave up immediately.I had to choose another better and cheaper white flour.

We weighed [-] catties of white flour, bought another [-] catties of brown rice, and added oil, salt and some of the simplest seasonings.

After buying all these, Li Kongzhu took Maiyaer to a shop specializing in pastries and candies.

Once inside, Li Kongzhu directly asked the boss if there was rock candy for sale.

The shopkeeper of the station cabinet looked her up and down, and saw that she was covered in patches, and she didn't look like ordinary rich people.

He said: "If you want to buy sugar, you can buy cheaper water (red) sugar. Rock sugar is complicated to make, and the top-quality ones cost six cents a catty!"

Mai Ya'er, who was following next to her, took a deep breath and kept winking at Li Diaozhu while holding her hand.Is the third sister-in-law crazy?This requires sugar, and brown sugar is no good, so I have to buy the staggeringly expensive rock sugar.

Li Diaozhu didn't expect the rock candy to be so expensive.Seeing that Mai Ya'er saw that his eyes had changed, he couldn't help shaking his head and laughing, "I don't know the market, so I thought it was cheap!"

When Mai Ya'er thought about the content of the conversation with her that day, she really didn't understand a lot.He couldn't help but sighed secretly, thinking that he had been fooled.

"Where's the white sugar?"

Before Mai Ya'er could finish thinking about it, Li Diaozhu asked the price of the sugar in the next best thing.

Seeing that she sincerely wanted to buy it, the shopkeeper said, "White sugar is relatively cheap, but it costs 150 Wen a catty."

Li Diaozhu was a bit deceitful, thinking that the ones he bought earlier had already cost nearly [-] Wen, and what was left on his body was only enough to buy three catties.In addition, if you want to keep confidentiality, you have to buy a stove and a small pot. After doing the math, it seems that the money is not enough.

Seeing that she was hesitant to buy it, Mai Ya'er couldn't help but said anxiously: "Sister-in-law three, in fact, water sugar is better than white sugar, water sugar can relieve the pain of sunflower water. White sugar is just dessert, it has no other use!"

Li Kongzhu knew her good intentions, and didn't hide it from her, "I didn't plan to eat it, it's useful!"

"usefulness?"

"En!" Li Kongzhu nodded, and whispered a few words in her ear.

Mai Ya'er was a little puzzled.Li Kongzhu patted her hand, "If I go back and make it, I'll give it to you to taste."

Seeing her persistence, Mai Ya'er had no choice but to nod.Seeing her calling to the shopkeeper to buy it, she opened her mouth hesitantly.He finally followed her without saying anything.

Li Kongzhu weighed two catties of white sugar and the remaining 100 wen on his body, then went to the iron shop and asked the price of the stove and small pot.

With the skill of bargaining, he finally got the small stove pot, an iron plate and an iron kettle into his bag. Naturally, he spent all the money.

On the way back, Mai Ya'er was a little depressed, and tried to persuade her not to be so extravagant in the future.

Thinking that the gourd she mentioned could be sold at a high price, it would be good.If it can't be sold, I'm afraid I won't even be able to get my book back. Wouldn't it be a waste of money by then?
Li Kongzhu smiled and listened, and said that she would not be blind again, so she stopped her non-stop chanting.

(End of this chapter)