Chapter 8: Xiuyanfang
The two entered Xiuyan Fang, where in addition to ready-to-wear clothes, there were also curtains and some embroidery pieces, which were dazzling and colorful.
There are not many customers in the store, and the shopkeeper is also a discerning person, who is busy coming to receive them, pointing to the goods and introducing them to them.
Qing Niang looked at the person in front of her, the appearance of twenty years old, apricot eyes smiling, eyebrows slightly raised, small nose straight and slippery, the only thing in the ointment is that the mouth is too thin, but I heard that such people are very good at talking.
She combed a woman's head, and a few silver hairpins were inserted in her smooth hair, which was crisp and neat.
"We're going to buy thread, do you have all the colors here?" Mama Liu asked her directly, and after asking, she turned her eyes to Qing Niang, and the girl only said to come and see, but didn't say what to buy?
"I'm going to see the embroidery over there, are they all flowers and birds? Are there any new tricks? "This place is close to the Northern Desert, and the folk customs are also rough, even if there are some embroidery, they are mostly big flowers, far less delicate than their own bodies.
"People here like these, in fact, most of them are sold over there, anyway, we just sell the goods, regardless of who bought them."
That's the North Desert, although there is no trade on both sides, but smuggling can't be stopped, Qing Niang is interested, and the border trade business is very profitable!
"The shopkeeper is not a local? I see that the embroidery on your body is exquisite, and the ones you sell are not comparable. ”
"Hehe, you can see it, I'm from Jiangnan, I came with my father-in-law, and I don't have any children, I want to make a deal to make up for it, and my man is also willing! I embroidered these clothes myself, and those were collected locally, so they must be different. ”
It turned out to be a family member of the border army, no wonder a woman dared to open a shop in the town, and the one who could bring her family must be an officer.
After buying silk thread, the master and servant went out of the shop, and entered the cloth village on their turns, and she found that there was very little silk here, only a few horses stacked together, and the color was very bright, and it was used for happy events at a glance, and some muslin cloth was placed next to it, and the rest were linen.
The shopkeeper was a man, he looked at them, and he didn't come up to pick them up, but a young man in his teenage years came over and asked them what they wanted.
"Do I want a horse like that, and I can weave it strongly? If it's not strong, I don't want it! ”
Mama Liu heard that she wanted sackcloth, and she couldn't help but say something, it was not good to refute the girl's face in front of people, but what did she do when she bought sack? No matter how down-and-out they are, they don't need to wear coarse linen.
"This sister rest assured, my family's cloth is evenly woven, it can't be broken easily, and it's cheap and good, thank you, thirty dollars." The young man is articulate and seems to be a clever man.
After paying the money, I asked the shopkeeper to send the cloth to Dongsheng Teahouse, explaining that it was from the Su family in Sujia Village.
The next place is the seed store, this is the place that Qing Niang focuses on, since she was given fifty acres of land, then she has to have more food, Li Da's family is also diligent, and it must be arranged well.
There are a lot of things in the seed store, in addition to wheat, millet, millet, sorghum, buckwheat and other grains, you also have everything! Buckwheat, in particular, has a very short growth cycle, so it's perfectly fine to harvest wheat for one season, but the yield of these crops is very low.
She asked about the potatoes again, and the shopkeeper shook his head, but the grandmother said that there were some wild ones in the field, but that one couldn't pay taxes, so they all planted some vegetable fields, and no one used them as food, and sometimes they could be dug up in the wild.
Well, the yield of taro can't be compared with potatoes, the taste is also worse, and the arid environment can't be planted, this is still to listen to what my father said, they often go to the countryside, the countryside for a year and a half, do you have a hunch, the daughter has to dig from the soil?
Mama asked the shopkeeper for some rapeseeds, and Yun Qiao suddenly remembered,
"Is there rapeseed? Is that the kind that can be squeezed for oil? "Looking at the two blank faces, this must not be there,
The shopkeeper saw that Mama had bought a lot, and pulled out a bag from the corner.
"There are some seeds in this, Xiao Lao'er doesn't know what they are, you can take them back and look at them, even if they are sent by me, no money!" Yun Qiao didn't open it to see it, since it was given for free, it was not appropriate to look at it in front of people.
"Let's go to the teahouse, there's nothing else to visit." As soon as the words came out, Mama's face relaxed, how afraid of spending money on herself? Qing Niang thought funny, these are all to make money, okay!
When she walked past the butcher shop, she deliberately walked to the stall, and in the end, someone took out thirty big dollars with a bitter face.
"It's not that the family is out of oil, although it's hot, you can't skip eating at all, don't worry, we will have silver soon, grandma don't have to worry."
When she arrived at the teahouse, in addition to a cup of tea in front of Qing Niang, she also put a fruit saucer, she was not hungry, so she didn't make her anxious, she looked around, although the teahouse has two floors, but there is only a table near the window, and there is no private room.
There is no storyteller at the bottom, it is a pure teahouse, but there are a lot of people sitting, and it seems that most of them are talking about business.
"You are Miss Su, I went to Brother Su's house, I met Miss once, you probably don't have an impression, this is the mung bean cake that was just made, you can try it."
This is the owner of the teahouse, in his fifties, he looks kind, Qing Niang stood up and made a half-salute, the shopkeeper was so frightened that he hurriedly avoided it, and he didn't dare to stand it, anyway, this is an official lady!
What people brought up was not only a plate of mung bean cake, but also two other snacks, Qing Niang said with a smile:
"Mama is too cunning, she didn't call it a snack just now, did she make up her mind to touch other people's light?"
"Heavenly conscience, the girl can't wronged me, what can I do? Isn't this a favor? I have to talk to the second old lady when I go back. ”
Is it human? Not necessarily who owes whom?
Picked up a piece of mung bean cake, it looked pretty good, the mold was carved with flowers and wealth, and after taking a small bite, she frowned, why did this taste so weird?
"What's wrong? Isn't it tasty? I've heard that his dim sum is delicious. That being said, she didn't reach for it.
"Mama try it, this one tastes so weird."
Mama Liu didn't doubt him, took a bite of it, and the sweet smell suddenly spread in her mouth, she squinted her eyes in enjoyment, and then said,
"What's so strange about something so delicious?"
Qing Niang is also to let her eat, and again, she does not feel delicious, sweet and greasy, the key is that the taste of the oil is wrong, it should be made of lard.
"You can eat this, those two dishes will be wrapped up for the second uncle, and let him take them back for the second uncle to eat."
Seeing that the girl didn't like it, she didn't say anything, just ate the piece in her hand, and asked the guy for a lotus leaf, planning to wrap it back and give Moxiang and them a taste.
Qing Niang drank tea and sorted out what she saw today in her mind, it was really not easy to turn over quickly.