Chapter 263: A Trip to the South Seas
At the same time that Zhao Siniang's family arrived at Jiangjiatan, the boat that Zhao Siniang and Jiang Ling took finally arrived at their destination. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Jiang Ling had already learned through eavesdropping that the final destination of the ship would be Nanyang. When they arrived, they would sell the ship's medicinal herbs, cloth, and porcelain to the local area, and then buy local specialties such as pearls, gems, and spices from the local area and ship them back to Yanguo, making a huge difference in price.
Since Youzhou is far away from the South Seas, it will stop several times on the way to replenish water, food and various basic daily necessities.
Jiang Ling and Zhao Siniang had been on the ship for too long, and when the boat docked for the first time, they couldn't wait to leave the ship. However, after they landed on the shore, they found that it was a foreign country, not to mention that the customs and mountains and rivers were very different from those of Yan country, and even the most basic language had nothing in common with Yan dialect, so they could not communicate normally with the locals.
They can't say everything in a completely unfamiliar environment, and it is really difficult for them to cross the ocean and return to their homeland.
Jiang Ling and Zhao Siniang knew each other very well, and after glancing at each other, they quietly dived back to the boat.
When they docked a few times in the future, Jiang Ling would take Zhao Siniang out to let off steam, but they would all come back honestly before the boat left.
This time, the ship stopped at the largest harbor in the South Seas. Due to the need to trade with locals, the ship will be docked in the harbor for more than a month, unlike the previous short stops.
In this month's time, Jiang Ling and Zhao Siniang certainly won't stay in the boat stupidly, they plan to go around and have a good taste of the Nanyang customs.
As for the expenses needed along the way, they had been living in vain on someone's ship for months anyway, and there was nothing to be embarrassed about, and in the spirit of not bothering the two masters, they took some goods on the ship, intending to sell them for cash for their own expenses on the road.
At first, they were worried that they could not speak Nanyang and whether their goods would not be sold. But when they got off the boat, all their troubles were gone.
Unlike the last few temporary stops, the docks are full of busy people, and the crowd will be haunted by basket vendors. Among these hawkers, many of them are actually selling in the official dialect of Ning Guo.
Although the official dialect of Ning Guo is different from the official dialect of Yan Guo, the difference is not too big. After all, the official dialects of these two countries have changed from the official dialects of the previous dynasty, and it has been less than fifty years since the fall of the previous dynasty, and no matter how much it changes, there is almost no communication barrier between the people who speak the official dialects of Ning and Yan.
So, Zhao Siniang sold the goods in her hand very smoothly.
To her surprise, she was embarrassed to take it for nothing, so she didn't take any particularly valuable cargo from the ship, but only took some ordinary herbs. But these herbs, which can't be sold for a few dollars in Youzhou, are sold here at an unimaginably high price, and they are priceless.
These windfalls, together with a few golden beans in the corners of her little clothes and gold leaves hanging around her neck, turned out to be a lot of wealth.
Whether it was out of his heart or not, Nanyang came here, and the capital was also there, Zhao Siniang, a businessman, naturally couldn't return empty-handed, so he began to think about what to bring back to Youzhou from Nanyang. What kind of Nanyang style sightseeing trip has long been forgotten by her.
As for Zhao Siniang's blind change of itinerary, whether Jiang Ling will have an opinion, you have to worry a lot.
Since Jiang Ling once burned on the boat for three days and three nights, he woke up and changed his sex. In the past, he was always indifferent to Zhao Siniang, and many times Zhao Siniang asked him ten sentences, and he didn't bother to answer one sentence. But after that, although Jiang Ling still cherished words like gold, Zhao Siniang could feel that he began to care about himself and no longer perfunctory. As long as his requests are reasonable, he will do his best to meet them.
Changing the itinerary is a trivial matter, Jiang Ling will naturally not go against Zhao Siniang's intentions.
Let's not mention how Zhao Siniang buys and buys in Nanyang, and then continues to talk about Jiangjiatan.
After returning to Jiangjiatan, Zhao Siniang's family first chatted with Mr. Jiang's family and began to chat about the recent situation.
Not long ago, Yao gave birth to another little girl, named Peach Blossom. Little Peach Blossom, like her sister Pear Blossom, is born with a lovely jade snow, and is very loved.
Zhao Sanniang and her mother teased Little Peach Blossom for a while before they went to help Zhang Luo's marriage. Only then did I find out that Yao's mother's family also came to help.
It's not hard to see why. Jiang's maiden family is thin, and there are basically no close relatives in the village, except for the Yang family, who has just settled down, so it is inevitable that it will be a little difficult to handle the marriage. The in-law Yao family's head of the Yao family is the most enthusiastic, even if his family is a long way from here, he will definitely bring his family to help after hearing about it.
But the problem is that the Yang family and the Yao family, who are also relatives of the Jiang family, seem to have some discord. No, sometimes the two families can't even talk about face-to-face peace, and often they get together face to face.
Let's take Fang Cai as an example, in order to catch the wind for Zhao Siniang's family, Old Man Jiang specially set up two tables of banquets. Old Man Jiang wanted to have a good chat with his daughter and son-in-law, so he let Zhao Siniang's family and the Jiang family sit at one table, and arranged for the Yang family and the Yao family to sit at another table.
At that table, Mrs. Yang's eldest daughter-in-law, Liao, was serving Mrs. Yang vegetables, and she knew that her father-in-law's teeth were not good, so she gave him a few more chopsticks of melt-in-your-mouth tamales. Later, when she saw that today's tamales were fat but not greasy, and they were steamed exceptionally well, she couldn't help but put a piece of it in her own bowl.
But the plate of tamales was placed in front of Yao's mother-in-law, Zhu, and Zhu saw Liao's three or four times pulling meat dishes under her nose, and couldn't help muttering to herself, this is still endless, and this is not allowed to be eaten by others? She felt a little unhappy in her heart.
To be honest, the Zhu family is not bad, but sometimes they can't control their own mouths. In the past year, with the intentional help of his daughter and son-in-law, the Yao family's embarrassing family situation has greatly improved. Zhu no longer has to worry about food and clothing, and gradually has a lot less to worry about, and his heart is naturally much more relaxed. She was so relieved that there was no door on her lips, and her speech became more and more open-mouthed.
Zhu knocked on the plate with the tamales with chopsticks, turned to her daughter-in-law Sun and said, "Hey, I don't know what's going on recently, the price of pork has risen dramatically." ”
Sun hurriedly took his mother-in-law's words and nodded yes. Not only that, but she also added fuel and vinegar to say a lot of things that she didn't have, and if you think about it carefully, you can find that every word she said is insinuating against the Yang family.