Chapter 49: Shopping Spree
Liu Yuanshan didn't sell it, the county lord was anxious, stomped his little feet and said, "You guy dare to trick me, didn't he discuss it with you?" Sell me the rest, how can you regret it now? ”
Liu Yuanshan shook his head and said, "If you want it, county lord, you can only let your guards come over, or I'll leave, boy." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info”
"You ......" The county lord is not a rude and unreasonable person, it is impossible for her to use the palace guards in this public, Liu Yuanshan is in her soft place, so he deliberately angered her.
No way, who let your subordinates scare Lao Tzu!
"Gone!" Liu Yuanshan waved his hand at the SX family and said, "Come with me, I'll buy you buns to eat." As he spoke, he shook his bulging money bag and was dashing.
Second Uncle Mao in the back showed an expression of appreciation, without any panic and worry on his face at all, and helped Liu Yuanshan carry the remaining ten pieces of osmanthus soap, and left in a hurry under the resentful gaze of the little county lord.
Walking along the neatly mottled floor tiles, the edge has been somewhat rounded, and the streets are lined with quaint buildings of different heights such as scales.
As far as the eye can see, a group of ancient people wearing long sleeves are bustling on the street, setting up stalls, opening shops, steaming all kinds of food shops, as well as colorful cloth shops, as well as jewelry shops, goldware shops, pawnshops and so on.
"San Lang, a few of them should have been hungry for a long time, and they won't be able to stand eating steamed buns and intestines suddenly, I think you should buy them some steamed buns to eat first." Second Uncle Mao walked up to Liu Yuanshan and said in a low voice.
"yes, I almost forgot!"
Liu Yuanshan took a few people to a small shop specializing in selling steamed buns, and bought twenty big steamed buns for four dollars, including the little girl, each of them divided into four.
Several people drifted all the way from the sx over the mountains and mountains, hungry and full every day, eating leftovers and vegetable residues is a common thing, three months have not eaten a serious meal like today, as soon as they see the snow-white steamed buns, everyone doesn't care about the rest, bury their heads and eat.
Second Uncle Mao's eyes were a little sour, and he made a large basin of boiling water nearby and let them drink water while eating steamed buns.
In a quarter of an hour, each person's four steamed buns were already in their stomachs, but they were still unsatisfied, wiping their mouths and continuing to look at the stalls selling steamed buns. Liu Yuanshan couldn't help but sigh and said, "Okay, don't think about eating, it's time to work, follow me." ”
"Hey, hey!" The woman and the children were full and strong, so they followed Liu Yuanshan around the streets of Xiangyang Mansion, and the eldest son also took the initiative to take over the burden in the hands of Second Uncle Mao.
Liu Yuanshan originally wanted to add a few clothes to the family, but after careful inquiry, he felt that it was unnecessary, although the people are in trouble now, but they were also a big family in Shaanxi before, and now the clothes in the baggage are dirty and a little out of their original color, but they are even better than the clothes of Liu Yuanshan's mother and sister.
"Second Uncle Mao, do you have anything you need?" Liu Yuanshan asked.
"I don't lack anything for a big man, but San Lang and your family have just been kicked out by the Liu family, and you need to buy something!" Second Uncle Mao said with a smile.
"That's good!" Liu Yuanshan also thought so, took Second Uncle Mao into a ready-to-wear shop, looked at it for a while, and said: "I originally wanted to buy some clothes for my mother and my sister for winter, but I don't know if it's suitable or not?" ”
"Then buy cloth."
There is also cloth for sale in ready-to-wear shops, Liu Yuanshan took a look, and the quality of cloth in modern society is far behind, but there is also cotton cloth. The cloth is uniformly rolled and placed, and a roll is a horse, about 60 centimeters wide, and it is impossible to see how long it is.
"How long is this piece of cloth?" Liu Yuanshan asked a relatively low-level question.
"Sanzhang!" Second Uncle Mao said.
Liu Yuanshan nodded, patted a white cotton cloth and a black and gray cotton cloth and said, "What about the price!" ”
The guy in the store smiled and said, "Xiao Xianggong's eyesight is good, this kind of cotton cloth is bought in our store for four dollars of silver, if you want more, you can also get a discount." ”
"How?" Liu Yuanshan asked. Ten coins of silver is one tael, and four coins of silver are about four hundred yuan converted into copper plates, he first weighed it, figured out the various conversions of the Ming Dynasty, and then asked for a preferential price.
"If you want more, you can give you one or two pieces of silver and three pieces of cotton cloth!" The guy gave a big margin.
Liu Yuanshan is now a rich man, and he shook his hand and said, "Come on six horses, white, black, and that, two, two of each!" "It's okay to say that the white is black, but the red one is really a bit "quaint", and it seems that the dyeing skills of the ancients are not good.
After a few sentences, I bought a few sets of clothes at the suggestion of the guy in the ready-to-wear store, and when I put them on my body, I suddenly felt different, and even Uncle Mao looked at himself differently.
"Sure enough, people rely on clothes and horses to saddle!" Second Uncle Mao said.
"It's still our little husband who looks good!" The shopkeeper lost no time in patting his ass and said, "Xiao Xianggong was born rich and noble, and he will definitely be the champion in high school in the future." ”
"There is no hope!" Liu Yuanshan sighed meaningfully, told the guys about the inn where he was staying, asked them to send the cloth to the place along with the clothes, and then led everyone away with a smile.
I went to a nearby goldsmithing store, and originally wanted to buy a pair of gold hairpins, two silver bracelets, and some earrings and other trinkets for each of my cheap mother and sister.
But when I asked the price, I knew that I was holding it up, and the smallest gold hairpin was also five taels of silver, and the bracelet was calculated according to the weight of the silver, not a trinket, even if these two sets were priced at the general level, it would be about twenty taels.
Liu Yuanshan shook his head suddenly, and said with some mockery: "I still don't have any money." But I couldn't go home empty-handed, and finally spent ten taels of silver to buy a gold hairpin for my mother and sister.
It's not very big, it's not very good, and of course it's not comparable to Horse Widow's!
But, this is a piece of his heart.
If you have money in the future, change it! Liu Yuanshan secretly swore an oath.
Second Uncle Mao, who was silent next to him, smacked his tongue secretly and reminded softly: "San Lang, this thing is too valuable, your mother may not like it." "Actually, which woman doesn't like it, he just thinks it's very bad for the croppers to do these things.
"It doesn't matter, you can make it again when the money is gone, and the old lady has no chance to be filial if she wants to be filial." After saying that, he bought it decisively, and the remaining silver in his hand was only seven or eight taels after he finished.
"San Lang!" Although Second Uncle Mao agreed with his words, he did not agree with his concept, and was silent for a while and whispered: "In our family, one acre of good paddy field is only five taels of silver, and all the money in your hand can buy four acres of land. ”
did not explicitly point out that Liu Yuanshan would not be able to govern the family, but there was already a bit of an elder blaming the younger generation.
Liu Yuanshan laughed, turned his head and said to Second Uncle Mao: "Does Second Uncle Mao know why I bought these people?" He lowered his voice and said, "Do you think I'm overflowing with compassion and pity them?" Not exactly, because I need these people too. ”
"If I want to buy land, can't I buy two more acres of the ten osmanthus soap that I sold to the county lord just now?" Taking a deep breath, Liu Yuanshan expressed his concerns: "Buying land and becoming a big landlord seems to me to be the most simple thing, but I can't do it if someone else does it." ”
"Why?" Second Uncle Mao was stunned by Liu Yuanshan's tone.
"I have orphans and widows in my family, and I am young. If there is a land of three or five acres, it can be passable, but if it is thirty or fifty acres, it will attract people's eyes; If it is three or five hundred acres, there will be people who covet it day and night; If it's three or five thousand acres, I'm afraid that the whole town will calculate me. ”
"Forehead......," Second Uncle Mao said, "Let's not talk about three or five hundred acres first......
"So Second Uncle Mao, what I want is people, people who are absolutely loyal to me, only by building up their own strength first, can they have the capital to protect the land, otherwise, the big landlord is just fish and meat to be slaughtered."
Second Uncle Mao doesn't know, but it doesn't mean that he Liu Yuanshan doesn't know: in a few years, Xiangyang City, which now seems to be a peaceful scene in the world, will fall into the flames of war, first Zhang Xianzhong took Gucheng, then Zuo Liangyu used troops to Huguang, and finally Yang Sichang ambushed on all sides, one by one, I don't know how many families will be destroyed, and how many people will be destroyed.
As the old saying goes, a thief is like a comb, and a soldier is like a grate.
No matter how big the landlord is, after going through such a combing over and over again, how much family property can he have?
Of course, Liu Yuanshan would not open his mouth to tell Second Uncle Mao this.
"That's it!" Liu Yuanshan comforted Second Uncle Mao with a smile, and bought two silk cloths, some red ropes, colored threads and other things in his blood-dripping eyes.
Since he finally came to Xiangyang City once, Liu Yuanshan of course maximized the use, and asked some traditional Chinese medicine stores, wanting to buy some lake alkali, this thing is the main material for making osmanthus soap, if it is produced on a large scale in the future, it is obviously not possible to rely on plant ash alone, and it has to rely on trona.
But to his disappointment, there was this thing in the medicinal herb shop, but the stock was only a few catties at most, and it was used as a medicinal material rather than an industrial raw material, even if the entire Xiangyang City bought it, it couldn't make much laundry soap.
If you don't have it, you don't have it, it's normal, if you have, it's not normal!
After the matter was done, a few people went back to the Hanjiang Inn where they stayed, and after a little tidying up, they would set off early tomorrow morning.
After arriving at the inn, the woman who came from SX insisted on living in the firewood room, and Liu Yuanshan also let her, spend 20 yuan for the shopkeeper, and found a place in the firewood room for the family of five to live.
In the evening, Third Uncle Shen also returned from outside, with a gloomy face, and he didn't know what news he heard in Xiangyang City, the three of them finished their meal silently, and when Liu Yuanshan was about to fall asleep, someone came to visit.