Chapter 11 Buying and Selling (1)
On this day, Li Xin looked at the pickled bamboo shoots for ten days, thinking that the sour bamboo shoots should have been pickled, so he opened a jar.
As soon as the jar was opened, there was a rich and long taste of sour bamboo shoots, and she fished out a little bit and tried it, eating it very sour, very appetizing. It happened that there was still a small piece of meat left in the meat given by the village chief in front, so Li Xin made a sour bamboo shoots and fried pork slices to eat. Although there was no seasoning, Wenbo still ate very happily, and finally made their stomachs round.
"I didn't expect this bamboo shoot to be so delicious!" Wen Hao said happily.
"You don't have to eat so much to be delicious! We've pickled a lot of jars! I don't know how long I'm going to eat it. Li Xin was a little funny and poked Wen Hao's head with his finger. He eats the most, and I don't know how such a young child can eat so much.
"It's rare to eat so well." Wen Hao said with some embarrassment.
"Okay, as long as we work hard, we can eat so well every day in the future. Go wash up! After washing, take a turn in the yard and go back to sleep. After eating, wait for digestion before sleeping, otherwise you will be uncomfortable. ”
The next day, Aunt Zhang came to Li's house early in the morning, and only after listening to Aunt Zhang that Li Xin knew that today was the day to go to the town to catch the market. The market in the town is held once every six days, and many villages belonging to this town will go to the market, some go to buy things, some go to sell things, it is very lively. It can also be regarded as a form of trade organization that generally exists in this era. Most people don't go to the town on weekdays, even if they have something to buy, they think about it, and then buy it back when they rush to the market.
In fact, there are also fixed shops in the town, and those shops are open every day, but most of them go to visit the town's people or villages close to the town. There is also a morning market in the town, which is open early in the morning every day, and trading is only a little more than an hour, so it is called the "morning market". The general trade is mainly fresh fruits, fruits and vegetables, and vegetable farmers and residents in the suburbs go to the market in the morning.
As soon as they heard that they were going to the market, several children were happy at first, and then lowered their heads. They have no money at home, and they can't afford anything even if they go to the market. Li Xin was a little excited when she heard it, she hadn't gone to the ancient market yet! I don't know what it looks like yet. And now that there are so many pickled bamboo shoots at home, she also wants to take them to the town to have a look, and I don't know if anyone will buy them. The family is really poor, there is nothing, and there is still a way to earn some money.
Li Xin told Aunt Zhang that she was going, and then took out some sour bamboo shoots and put them in the back basket, and she and Wen Hao went out with a back basket. It happened that the village chief's family was also driving an ox cart to the town, and when they saw them, they let them ride the ox cart together. The speed of the ox cart is actually not fast, and sometimes it is not as fast as a human walk. However, the only advantage of riding an ox cart is that it saves effort, there are no cars here, and the people in the village cannot afford to buy horses, so the only means of transportation is the ox cart.
Riding in an ox cart, the road swayed leisurely, and it took almost half an hour to reach the town. Fortunately, Osmanthus Village is not very far from the town, and some remote villages take two or three hours to come to the town! The town is called "Sanshi Town", and I don't know the origin of the name, but the name has been used for many generations. In the end, it is located in the south and the land is fertile, so Sanshi Town is still a wealthy place, so the scale of the town is really not small.
The streets alone are staggered everywhere, there are several, and there are many shops, looking at the bustling crowd in the town, Li Xin also has to say that Sanshi Town is still very prosperous. There are a lot of people in the town, in addition to the rows of shops, there are many houses, looking at the houses are really a lot, but the streets are arranged in a very orderly manner, but there is no sense of clutter at all. When they arrived in the town, the village chief and Li Xin separated from them, and only said that they would meet at the place where the ox cart was parked when they wanted to go back.
Aunt Zhang took Li Xin's sister and brother all the way, and Aunt Zhang brought some home-grown agricultural products to sell, including eggs and some home-spun twine. In this era, hemp was commonly cultivated, and many families would plant some in front of and behind the house, and they could spin hemp thread by themselves, and some families even woven linen cloth by themselves. Aunt Zhang first found a place to put things on, and then took out a few copper plates, and asked Li Xin to take Wen Hao around, buy some food, and come here to find her later.
Li Xin took the copper plate and left with Wen Hao. Li Xin thought, bamboo shoots are a seasonal thing, and sour bamboo shoots naturally can't be pickled all the time, since you want to make money with sour bamboo shoots, you have to sell more at this time. It is not a way to sell in the market little by little, so she thought that it would be better to find a restaurant or something like that, and if she could find a long-term partner, then the sour bamboo shoots would naturally not be sold.
"Sister, where are we going?" Wen Hao looked around, he hadn't been to town for a long time, and everything felt fresh when he looked at it.
"Do you know where there is a restaurant?" It turns out that Li Xin is not a person who rushes to the market, and he has only been to the town a handful of times, and there is no restaurant in his memory.
"There are two big restaurants in the town, both in the south of the city, not far apart, one is called Yuankelai, I heard that it has been open in the town for many years; One is called Pinxiang Pavilion, which seems to have opened only two years ago. ”
It is a two-story restaurant, with a hall downstairs and a private room upstairs. They didn't get in, because they were stopped by the shopkeeper when they arrived at the door. "Let's go, this is a place to eat, not a place to eat."
Wen Hao's face sank instantly, and he glared at the shopkeeper angrily. Li Xin didn't think anything about it, she had lived for a long time, and she had seen through many things. Snobbish people are everywhere, but it's not surprising at all. In fact, it is not the people themselves who are snobbish, just like a story that was originally a guest invited by the host of the banquet, but because he was dressed a little shabby, he was stopped by the person at the door. He went back and changed his clothes, and the man who stopped him warmly invited him in.
This kind of story is told like a joke, but in fact, it is human nature.
"Let's go!" Li Xin smiled and pulled Wen Hao to leave. She looked at what she and Wen Hao were wearing, she really wanted to be looked down upon! Not to mention the patches all over the body, the size is not appropriate, I don't know whose old clothes were changed. The only good thing is that it is clean, but it still looks tattered.
"Why is he like this!" Wen Hao was very angry