Ning Xi waited anxiously for most of the hour, but did not see the island owner, but was told that the island owner suddenly had something to do and could not see her, and because the island owner did not order the specific arrangements between her and You Zhenniang, they were asked to go back to their original place and wait for news.

Then Ning Xi was carried back by a small sedan chair, and as soon as he stepped out of the sedan door, he was still dizzy, and he was surrounded by people.

"How's it going, have you met the owner?"

"What does the owner of the island look like? Isn't it really majestic? ”

"What did the owner tell you?"

The noise made Ning Xi dizzy, waved his hand and said loudly: "Don't ask, I didn't see the island owner, and I didn't talk to the island owner, I waited there for half an hour, and I never got out of the sedan chair, and I didn't see anything!" ”

"Cut!" The crowd dispersed.

Only Han Xiangfei and You Zhenniang remained by her side, and You Zhenniang asked anxiously, "Then how are we now?" ”

Ning Xi said: "I don't know yet, let us go back to the place where we were originally arranged to live and wait for news." ”

Han Xiangfei said: "Since there is nothing to do for the time being, let's go back and rest first, I heard that tomorrow is the day of the market on the island once a month, why don't you go shopping together?" ”

"Okay!" Ning Xi said happily that this is a good opportunity to learn about the situation on the island, and of course it cannot be missed.

You Zhenniang looked at them incredulously: "What time is it now, you still have the heart to go to the market?" ”

Ning Xi glanced at her dissatisfied: "If you don't want to go, forget it." ”

At night, I still received the rice in the kitchen, one meat and one vegetable, cooked in a large pot, the taste is not necessarily good, but it can fill the stomach.

After eating, Ning Xi went back and brought a bucket of water, and asked the kitchen people for a bucket of hot water, because she was the one who wanted to be promoted to a first-class cook, plus the hand that was revealed during the day, the kitchen people didn't dare to slack off, filled a bucket full of hot water and helped her go back to her residence.

Ning Xi took a basin and fetched a basin of cold water mixed with hot water, and washed herself, after being trapped on the boat for so many days, she smelled the smell of her body a little sour.

Finally, I fell down on the hard bed and slept well, although the future is unpredictable, but the big thing will wait until it really happens!

The next morning, Han Xiangfei came to Ningxi to go to the market together, and the two were about to leave, when the door next to them opened, and You Zhenniang walked out: "I'll go too." She had thought all night last night that the support of her friends was indispensable if she wanted to get along well on this island, and that she would know as much about the island as possible, so she decided to go out with them.

Ning Xi didn't say anything, after yesterday's incident, although he was quite sympathetic to her life experience, he didn't like her as a person.

Han Xiangfei said lightly: "Then let's go!" ”

The three of them came to the bazaar together, which was a large area of extremely flat land, about a third of which was paved with smooth bluestone slabs, clean and refreshing, and the other half was muddy, because the weather was sunny and hot, and there were more people walking around, and a fine layer of mud powder was brought up on the ground.

Ningxi inquired about it, this place is usually a drying ground, and the rice, wheat, and some ingredients that need to be dried are all dried here, and when it comes to the day of the market, it will be transformed into a market.

Buying things is free to enter, but selling things is to pay a fee, pay a booth fee of ten cents before admission, you can get a stall with a length and width of three feet square, if you want to pave a stall with bluestone slabs, it costs fifty wen. In addition, after the sale, it is necessary to pay tax according to three-tenths of the income, because the goods carried in and out of the place must be registered, and there are people in the market from time to time to inspect, so it is not easy to evade taxes.

Ning Xi didn't expect that in this small bazaar on the island, the trading items are still quite rich, there are all kinds of daily necessities made by the craftsmen themselves, boxes, wooden basins, barrels, even bath barrels, pots and pans, as well as air-dried pheasants, hares, all kinds of grain, and even pieces of flower cloth, as well as cloth shoes with thousand-layer soles, and I don't know where these people got these things.

Ning Xi also found some brightly colored dried mushrooms on a stall, she squatted down and fiddled with them: "Can these things be eaten?" "In general, the more showy the mushroom, the more toxic it is, and these mushrooms grow colorful, and there are also this gorgeous psychedelic pattern on the back of the mushroom, which can make people dizzy just by looking at it.

The stall owner smiled mysteriously and said in a low voice: "This is a sweet dream mushroom, eat such a small piece before going to bed at night." Reaching out to the size of a fingernail, "I'll keep you having a good night's sleep, but don't eat too much." ”

"What happens if you eat too much?" Ning Xi asked curiously.

"You will go crazy, stab yourself with a knife, or hit a stone like crazy, and others can't pull it!"

"It's so terrible!" Ning Xi was so frightened that he threw back the colorful mushrooms in his hand, "You sell these things and others don't care?" ”

The stall owner squinted at the stewards who were walking around with their toes on their toes: "They just need to collect money, no matter what we sell, and they are addicted to eating this thing, you see, they are the ones who buy the most!" ”

"And where did you get this thing?"

The stall owner glanced at Ning Xi vigilantly: "Do you want to buy something?" If you don't buy it, hurry up and leave, why ask so much nonsense? ”

"Buy, of course!" Ning Xi took out a pair of small and delicate gold earrings, "Pure gold, can I take this and buy all your sweet dream mushrooms here with you?" "This gold ear pendant was quietly given to Ning Xi yesterday when You Zhenniang begged Ning Xi to teach her how to cook, they will be searched when they come to the island, basically nothing can be left on their bodies, and I don't know how she brought this pair of gold ear pendants in.

The stall owner's eyes lit up, and when he wanted to take a closer look, Ning Xi held his palm: "How is it?" To sell or not to sell? ”

The man quickly summed it up in his heart, this gold earring pendant looks like it is not light, and it will cost at least five or six taels to exchange it for silver, and more importantly, jewelry is a strange commodity on the island, and if it is sold, I am afraid that someone will be willing to give it ten taels of silver.

But he didn't plan to sell it, recently he fell in love with a female steward of the sewing bureau, and was about to be courteous, really going to give her a pair of earrings, maybe he would be able to marry someone back as a lady, so although he had to pay a big bag of sweet dream mushrooms for this, and he had to pay the tax out of his own pocket, which made him feel so distressed that he didn't want to, but he still decided to make this deal.

"Then you'll have to show me again, how do I know if it's real gold." The man said.

Ning Xi gave him the earrings: "Just look, I am from the second kitchen, and I live in the fifth courtyard of the fifth row, if there is something wrong with this earring, you can go to me at any time." ”

The man looked at it carefully for a long time, and put it in his mouth to bite it to determine if it was real gold, and Ning Xi was disgusted when he saw it, even if he gave it back to her, she didn't want to ask for it anymore.

The man nodded: "Well, it's okay." But you can't take these mushrooms out by yourself, I'll bring them in and sell them no problem, but it's wrong for you to buy so many by yourself, you have to think of asking someone else to bring some for you. ”

Ning Xi is right to think about it, as long as he eats the amount of a fingernail cover at a time, he can eat a small bag for a long time, and if he buys so much at once, if he wants to say that he has no intention of harming people, who will believe it.

This man only cares about his own business, what others buy back to do, he can't care, life on this island is boring, many people have to rely on this sweet dream mushroom to live, so overdose and self-harm also happen from time to time, the island anyway, people are cheap, as long as it doesn't make a big fuss, no one cares.

"Now that the business is done, you can tell me about the origin of this mushroom, right?" Ningxi Road.

Anyway, it was still early, and the man was idle, so he casually talked to Ning Xi.

He is a small steward of the mushroom garden, in addition to raising mushrooms, straw mushrooms and other edible mushrooms in the mushroom garden, there is also a large area, specially used to cultivate this kind of sweet dream mushroom, the island needs a large number of such sweet dream mushrooms, how much to hand over every month, there is a certain amount, it is said that there are people around the owner of the island who can use these mushrooms to refine people to forget all the troubles in the world after taking them, such as intoxication, desire, immortal, desire, death medicine, who wants to take a pill, that is really a fairy-like enjoyment! But after taking that thing for the first time, I want to think about it a second time, and if I can't eat it, I will scratch my heart and lungs and feel uncomfortable.

Isn't that just a poison, Ning Xi said in his heart. Probably the drug used to stun her before she got on the boat also had this hallucinogenic mushroom in it, so when she was on the boat, she had all kinds of different hallucinations.

This man takes advantage of his position, often can secretly hide some sun-dried sweet dream mushrooms, and when he saves too much, he will sell them in the market for money, as long as it does not affect the number of hands in, others generally turn a blind eye, anyway, everyone does this, and there is indeed a need for this market.

Ning Xi found Han Xiangfei and You Zhenniang, separated the big bag of sweet dream mushrooms, and hid them everywhere on everyone, and the last three people only carried a small bag in their hands, swaggering in front of the steward of the market, and they would not attract any attention.

Ning Xi asked Han Xiangfei: "Do you have any silver?" I also want to buy something. ”

Han Xiangfei nodded a little embarrassedly, his mother taught him since he was a child, when he went out alone, he had to hide some money on his body no matter what, and he had always hidden a small piece of silver in his hair, and he was not found when he searched his body. He didn't ask Ning Xi what he wanted to buy, so he gave her the silver directly.

So Ning Xi bought another cauldron and as much firewood as possible, and asked the two of them to help her carry it out together.

Han Xiangfei didn't say anything, although he didn't have much contact with Ning Xi, he intuitively trusted her very much, believing that no matter what she did, she always had her reasons, on the other hand, You Zhenniang was displeased, she felt that Ning Xi was simply spending money inexplicably, but she didn't dare to say anything.