Chance Encounter (1)
Shen Shixuan led people to the gate of the city, and found that there were already people standing in front of the stall to buy those things, and they wanted to stop it, but who knew that when the young man heard someone shouting, he quickly took the things from the stall owner's hand, and stuffed the silver, without leaving him a chance to speak again.
"This friend, I ordered the things in your hand first." Shen Shixuan walked over quickly, stretched out his hand and patted the man's shoulder, and when he turned around, he was stunned, this face looked very familiar.
"This uncle said that the time you made an appointment with you was the day before yesterday, but you have already passed the deadline." Chu Yiyao took a step back and kept her distance from him, raised the bag in her hand, and smiled harmlessly.
"Even after the deadline, I have paid the money in advance, and no matter how late I arrive, this thing must be sold to someone else with my consent." Shen Shixuan recognized her voice as soon as he heard it, wasn't it the little girl in the pavilion in the lake that day.
"So what, I also paid the money, my deal with this uncle has been completed, as for the relationship between you and him, it has nothing to do with me." Chu Yiyao raised the bag in her hand, even if the person in front of her needed this thing more than her, what reason did she have to give it to him, take it back to Uncle Zhong to see, maybe there would be something else.
"You don't recognize me?" Shen Shixuan suddenly looked down at her, Chu Yiyao was slightly stunned, and blurted out, "Why should I recognize you." ”
When I heard it, I felt that it was not right, and when I looked up at him carefully, I felt a little familiar, but I couldn't remember who it was.
Shen Shixuan saw that she thought about it for a long time, sighed slightly, took off a piece of jade pendant from her waist and shook it in front of her eyes, Chu Yiyao was suddenly surprised, and then a sweet smile rose at the corner of her mouth, "It's better to know it, this uncle has been waiting for you for several days, and he hasn't come home, so don't be embarrassed to ask someone to take your reserved silver." ”
Shen Shixuan was stunned for a moment, his original intention was to remind the people she knew that she should return the things to him, but the people in front of him didn't seem to have the slightest sense of this, smiled at him, turned around and was about to leave, Shen Shixuan's entourage was in a hurry, "Young Master, those things." ”
"This uncle, do you still have the things you sold her at home?" Shen Shixuan turned his head and asked the stall owner who wanted to close the stall, and the uncle shook his head, "If you go into the mountain, you will find these, you don't dare to go too deep, there are fierce beasts." ”
"Get in the carriage and follow them." Seeing Chu Yiyao, she got into the carriage and went to the neighboring village, and Shen Shixuan also got into the carriage and followed them.
"Miss, the man is following." Runzi drove the carriage and looked back, Shen Shixuan's carriage followed not far away, Chu Yiyao opened the curtain and took a look, "It's okay, don't dump them." ”
The carriage arrived at a village near the city gate, Chu Yiyao got out of the carriage, and Shen Shixuan behind him also got out of the carriage, it was time for lunch, Chu Yiyao asked Baosheng to go to the front to inquire, and he stood by the carriage to watch the golden ears of grain in the fields in this village.
"This young lady, I am willing to buy the spices in your hand at double the price, this thing is very important to me, and I hope that Miss will cut her love, just as Shen owes Miss a favor, if it is useful to get Shen's place in the future, I will do my best to help." Shen Shixuan walked up and asked Chu Yiyao to buy these things at twice the price.
The Shen family?
Chu Yiyao's eyes flashed, and the surname Shen couldn't help but make people think of the Shen family, one of the four great families in Jinling, if it was this Shen family, he would inherit his kindness and be useful in the future.
"What are you going to do with it?" Thinking of this, Chu Yiyao's heart was excited, and he asked again.
"There are elders in the family who are unwell, and the two in your hands are for medicine, Shen has been looking for a long time before he heard about this thing here in Datong, it is extremely rare, and now he only hears about these, if you go to find it elsewhere, I am afraid that the elders in the family can't wait." Shen Shixuan said sincerely.
"Are you willing to help with any favor?" Chu Yiyao's eyes flashed with a hint of cunning, and he asked with a wink.
"Do your best." Shen Shixuan smiled, looking at her wearing men's clothes, her skin was even whiter, and she had a bit of creamy femininity.
"Then I'll think about it." In the middle of the ring, Chu Yiyao saw that Bao Wei was back, grinned at Shen Shixuan, turned around and followed Bao Wei to the house where he said yes.
Shen Shixuan stood there stunned for a while, came back to his senses for a long time, looked at her back with a smile, and said to the entourage behind him, "Let's go, let's be cheeky and go have a meal." ”
The entourage behind him didn't understand why the second young master suddenly laughed, obviously this thing didn't arrive, so he followed in puzzlement, Chu Yiyao had already arrived at a small farmer's house, walked into the yard, and two chickens ran next to him, and a child about three or four years old ran in front of Chu Yiyao with braids that rushed to the sky.
"This young master, this house is very chaotic, don't dislike it." A woman wearing a cloth towel came out of the kitchen and hurriedly hugged the child over, facing Chu Yiyao and them a little cramped.
Brought them to the house, there were four or five dishes on a small table, Chu Yiyao sat down, and the woman brought a clean bamboo basket with some roasted sweet potatoes in it, "My man just killed the chicken, you eat it slowly, I will fry meat for you later." ”
After the woman went out, the door was dark, Shen Shixuan came uninvited, but he didn't dislike it, he sat down directly next to Chu Yiyao, looked at the local vegetables on this table, picked up the chopsticks and wanted to taste it, Chu Yiyao took the chopsticks one step faster than him and picked his hand away, "If you want to eat, you can pay." ”
"Tell me, how much silver it will cost." When Shen Shixuan saw her for the third time, it was always difficult to compare her with an ordinary lady from a big family, could it be that the young lady of the Yan family in her previous life was like this before she got married.
"Twenty taels." Chu Yiyao unceremoniously spread her hand, and the lion opened his mouth.
Before Shen Shixuan could speak, the entourage behind him said incredulously, "Twenty taels, why don't you grab it, you can buy several tables of such dishes for one or two pieces of silver." "There are only six dishes on this table, one of which is fish soup, and the rest are small dishes from the farmhouse, not much oil and gas, and very light.
"You can't say that." Chu Yiyao picked up the chopsticks and pointed at the fish soup, "This crucian carp soup is placed in the restaurant on the bank of the Crescent River, and it costs five or six taels of silver casually, and then look at these dishes, but they are all freshly picked, so calculated, plus the chicken killed just now, Baojiao, how much silver does the whole chicken pot in the Qinjia restaurant cost?" ”
"The whole chicken pot in Miss Qin's restaurant, Miss went back to eat it, and I received you twelve taels of silver." Bao Yi said solemnly in the back, Chu Yiyao raised her eyebrows at Shen Shixuan, "In this way, it seems to be cheaper." ”
Shen Shixuan laughed again, the price of the same thing was indeed very different when it was sold in another place, and he took out two small ingots of silver from his arms and put them on the table, Shen Shixuan knocked on the table, "Is this okay?" ”
Chu Yiyao snorted lightly, asked Bao Yi to put away the silver, picked up the chopsticks and tasted it, Bao Yi first served a bowl of soup for her on the side, picked up the spoon and tasted it, Chu Yiyao's expression changed a little.
I tasted the fish soup again, there was no fishy smell, but there was no taste of ginger, the soup naturally exuded a fragrance, the tip of the tongue felt slightly spicy, Chu Yiyao scooped down the soup base, and did not find any chili peppers, looked up at the door, the woman walked in, Chu Yiyao opened her mouth and asked, "Auntie, what do you add to this fish soup, it is very fragrant and not fishy, I don't think it is ginger." ”
"I added some wild things picked from my own mountains, which are not worth much." The woman brought the chicken up, and the aroma of the fried oil made the woman's two children constantly look at the door, Chu Yiyao tasted it, and always felt that there was something added to the taste that she couldn't taste, so she said to the woman, "Auntie, do you have anything else to add here, can you let me take a look." ”
Hearing her say this, Shen Shixuan also felt that the taste in the soup was a little different, but the things that each cook cooked were different, seeing that Chu Yiyao cared so much, he also went out to watch it together.
The woman took out a small clay pot from the kitchen, opened it and put some gray and black powder in it, picked out some and tasted it on the tip of her tongue, a spicy spread on the tip of her tongue, Chu Yiyao squinted, the taste was much stronger than the soup just now, as if it could stimulate the taste buds, and in an instant Chu Yiyao had a feeling of wanting to drool.
"Auntie, did you grow it yourself?" Chu Yiyao was pleasantly surprised to find that this thing was actually the first time she had tasted it, and realizing that there were others behind her, Chu Yiyao quickly suppressed the excitement and asked steadily.
"How can it, it's just a taste, the family can just a few acres of land, what do you eat here, my eldest child picked it up in the mountains, I see that it can be eaten, and it will be ground into powder and used as a substitute." The woman was a little embarrassed.
"Do you still have this here?" Chu Yiyao saw that this small jar was not sold in the trading house.
"The house is gone, if you want, I'll let my child find it for you, it's the right time." The woman urged the child to find the eldest son, and Chu Yiyao hurriedly waved her hand, "No, let me go with me, I'll find it myself." ”
Soon the seven or eight-year-old boy came to him, and when he heard the woman say it, he looked at them with some timidity, "Come with me." ”
The road up the mountain was not easy to walk, Chu Yiyao followed behind the child, obviously left behind a large distance, the child still looked back at them from time to time, Chu Yiyao held on to the low tree and gasped, and the soles of his feet ached.
"Young master, why don't you rest here, I'll go up and look for it." Bao Wei wanted to help her sit down, Chu Yiyao shook her head, the ninja's toe heel was uncomfortable, and continued to follow the child up.
"Here we are." I don't know how many miles I walked, Chu Yiyao looked up, it was a vine climbing on the branch, and there were dense strings of red fruit bunches on the vines, and at a glance, many tall and low trees were entangled with such vines, and there were some blackened fruit bunches on the ground, the child picked up a bunch from the ground, "That's it when it's dried, just grind it into powder." ”
"How many people are eating this in your village?" Chu Yiyao didn't find this in the city of Datong, and it seems that no one specially planted this for use.
The child shook his head, Chu Yiyao looked at such a large area of vines, and had an idea in his heart, as soon as he turned around, Shen Shixuan also climbed up, and with a drumbeat in his heart, what she could think of, the young master of the Shen family in front of her could also think of it, earlier and later, the Shen family's business was big enough, if they robbed them, the Chu family would definitely not be able to fight, and he had to let him give up by himself.