Chapter 12 Visiting the Temple Fair
The three of them discussed it and decided to take a day off the next day and not go to the mountains. It just so happens that there is a temple fair in Dinghui Nunnery outside the city, and it is the best and fastest way to understand the living standards and living habits of people in a place, and to go to the temple fair and market.
Only by understanding these can she better choose products, do a more acceptable business, and realize the growth of her wealth and the improvement of her life as soon as possible.
Early the next morning, after the three of them hurriedly had breakfast, they went to the temple fair of Dinghui Nunnery.
Zhang Tao originally thought that he had gone early enough, but he didn't expect that after arriving at Dinghui Nunnery, he found that many small traders had begun to sell goods.
Some people who devote themselves to the Buddha also came to Dinghui Nunnery early to worship.
People's pious attitude towards Buddhist beliefs made Zhang Tao still unaccustomed to it.
In modern society, people say that they have faith, but they are really willing to work hard for their beliefs, and there are still few people who are really religious, especially looking at those who take three steps, one worship, nine steps and one knock, the firmness in their eyes, Zhang Tao's heart is very touched.
Fighting for ideals and beliefs is really a happy life. Unfortunately, he has no faith now.
Although Li Chengshou and Xiaoman also believe in Buddhism, they are young after all, and they don't have much idea about entering Dinghui Nunnery to worship.
And Zhang Tao didn't think about going in at all, if he didn't have faith, he would also defile the gods and Buddhas, so it was better not to go in, when he really had faith, and when he would go in again to worship devoutly.
So the three of them walked around the temple fair, looking here for a while, and looking at where for a while.
Zhang Tao made a rough calculation in his heart, there must be hundreds of vendors at this temple fair. There are all kinds of snacks and snacks, there are also those who sell Buddha incense candles, and there are some daughters' jewelry, peace charms, sachets and other souvenirs, in general, they are everything, and the modern society goes to the tourist area to travel to the souvenir shops that are almost the same.
"Xiaoman, this hemp ball looks good, do you want to eat it?"
The three of them happened to walk to a place selling hemp balls, and Zhang Tao saw that Xiaoman had been staring, so he asked.
The round hemp ball, it looks very pleasing, and there are quite a lot of people who buy it, Xiaoman really wants to eat it, but thinking of spending more money, she swallowed her saliva and shook her head, "I still don't eat it." ”
"Are you worried about spending money? We'll make it again, and the money we're earning is just for us to spend. ”
Saying that, Zhang Tao squeezed forward and bought three hemp balls, Xiao Man held the hemp balls in his hand and sniffed them gently, they were really fragrant.
Zhang Tao broke the hemp ball and saw that the filling inside was beans, and the processing was very rough.
After taking a bite gently, he frowned, the taste was indeed very ordinary. Looking at the Zhengxiang that Xiaoman ate, she was a little skeptical, could it be that there was something wrong with her sense of taste?
After another bite, the taste was still the same unpleasant, and I didn't want to take a third bite.
After watching Xiao Man finish eating the hemp ball in his hand, Zhang Tao handed the rest of his hand to Xiao Man.
Next, Zhang Tao bought several snacks and snacks, and the taste was still very ordinary, but every stall was full of people.
It seems that the business of doing food here must be very prosperous, and my skills are not particularly good, so I can still make a few small snacks. This is indeed a good way, but Zhang Tao thought about it carefully and decisively suppressed the idea.
I am a seven-year-old doll, if I really set up a stall to make snacks to sell, the difficulty is really not small, not to mention whether the food I make is delicious or not, but whenever someone comes to find trouble for me, I am afraid I can't deal with it, and now I don't have the money to hire a bodyguard or something.
After shopping again, Zhang Tao was attracted by a stall selling rouge gouache.
There's no way, in this era, the only skill she can get her hands on now is to make a little rouge gouache.
"How much does this box cost?"
The simple packaging, the taste is a little pungent, and you can see that it is not a good product at a glance.
But Zhang Tao wanted to know the market price, so he asked.
"Fart big kid, what kind of rouge gouache to buy? Roll on, go aside. ”
Compared with the booming business on the food stalls, the business on rouge gouache is very lonely. The small vendor selling goods didn't open all morning, and finally waited for someone to ask, but when he looked up, he saw that it was a seven or eight-year-old hairy boy, and the fire in his heart "banged" up, and he impatiently rushed Zhang Tao.
"Why are you like this, I can't use it, can't you buy it for my mother? Can't you buy it for your sister yet? Why don't you want business to come to your door? ”
was beaten up for no reason, Zhang Tao's heart really couldn't be balanced, and he spoke unceremoniously, so he went back directly.
The small vendor who was scolded by Zhang Tao realized that he had just said wrongly, and thought that there were so many people at the temple fair, if there were people who wanted to buy it next to him, and Zhang Tao made such a fuss, I am afraid that no one would come to his stall again, so he said in a good voice, "Little brother, I'm sorry, I was wrong, don't be like me, the rouge you took is the best seller we have, a box of thirty copper plates, if you buy two boxes, I can still give you a discount, how about it?" ”
"Thirty copper plates are so expensive?"
When he made rouge for Liu Yunfei before, as far as he knew, a box of rouge was sold for several taels of silver, compared to thirty copper plates, which was very cheap, but there was really a thousandfold gap in quality, and there was no comparison with the ones she made at the beginning, thirty copper plates, Zhang Tao really felt a bit expensive.
"Thirty copper plates is too expensive? If you can't afford it, hurry up and leave, don't delay my business. ”
The vendor who was still smiling and welcoming people, heard Zhang Tao say this, guessing that he must have no money and couldn't afford his own rouge, and his tone was bad again.
Zhang Tao was just about to open her mouth to continue to slap back, but was grabbed by Li Chengshou's hand, she saw Li Chengshou shake her head, she had to swallow back the words she was about to say.
"You say I can't afford it, so if I don't buy it, it's all right."
Putting down the rouge, Zhang Tao followed Li Chengshou and Xiaoman.
"Why are you holding me back? He has such a bad attitude and still doesn't let people talk? ”
After walking a long way, Zhang Tao shook off Li Chengshou's hand and said very angrily.
"We're here to visit the temple fair, there's no need to be like such a person, not to mention that you won't really buy it, there are many places that sell rouge at the temple fair, let's just find another one and ask."
Li Chengshou knew that Zhang Tao was angry, but he felt that he had done nothing wrong, and he was not ready to compromise anything, he was just telling the truth.
Zhang Tao was so angry that her heart was about to jump out, but she had no choice but to keep comforting herself: forget it, don't worry about a ten-year-old child, he is an adult, and it is too cheap to care about children in general.
But Zhang Tao still twisted his head and walked forward, no longer looking at Li Chengshou.
After asking a few more stalls, Zhang Tao basically understood the market price of rouge gouache.
If you want to do a good job of rouge, you must use good materials, in view of her current economic strength, Zhang Tao does not plan to make much quality rouge, and it is better to choose some materials that do not cost money.
After making a decision and a plan in my heart, it was much easier to continue visiting the temple fair.
However, just when they were about to go down the mountain to go home, they met a very gorgeous sedan chair, Zhang Tao was the first time to see such a gorgeous sedan chair, much more beautiful than she had seen on TV, so she stopped to look at the sedan chair.
In front of the sedan chair stood a delicate beautiful woman, with two maids by her side, followed by six retinues.
"This is Dinghui Temple?"
The woman looked up at the temple at the top of the hill and wrung her handkerchief in her hand, and she could see that she was a little anxious.
"Yes, madam, I heard that the Guanyin in Dinghui Temple is very effective, so the old lady asked you to take advantage of this temple fair to worship."
The maid beside her supported the woman and replied respectfully.
"Alright, let's go up then."
With her mind made up, the woman, with the help of the maid, began to walk up the mountain.
She is Mrs. Lin Xu Yan, who has just returned to Xunyang City, is a big family lady in the capital, and has been living in the capital with her husband Lin Shen, because the business in the capital has been hit, in order to avoid the limelight, she returned to Xunyang City with her husband Lin Shen.
As a result, Mrs. Lin, who has been in the ancestral house of Xunyang City, looks down on this daughter-in-law everywhere, especially Xu Yan who has been married to the Lin Mansion for many years but only gave birth to a son, which makes Mrs. Lin very dissatisfied.
Therefore, in the name of spreading branches and leaves, Mrs. Lin wanted to give her son a few more concubines. Mrs. Lin naturally disagreed, so she listened to her mother-in-law's words and took advantage of the temple fair to come to Dinghui Temple to worship, hoping to get pregnant as soon as possible.
When the group walked halfway up the mountain, a maid who followed Mrs. Lin quietly gave the entourage behind her a look.
Then two snakes quietly appeared behind Mrs. Lin and crawled towards Mrs. Lin.
"Ah, snake, snake, snake!"
The people who saw the snake around them fled and screamed.
Mrs. Lin, who was walking in front, heard the shouts of the people and looked back in fright, but saw two snakes crawling towards her, and she was spitting out letters, Xu Yan was so frightened that her legs were weak and she couldn't move.
There were already many people at the temple fair, and people were frightened by the sudden snake and fled in all directions, and the entourage following Xu Yan was also dispersed by the crowd, and they couldn't rush to Xu Yan's side for a while.
And the two maids around him were already so frightened that their faces changed color, they were not Xu Yan's wedding maids in the first place, so they couldn't talk about any loyalty, so they naturally couldn't take care of Xu Yan.
Zhang Tao, who was standing not far from Xu Yan, didn't run, but in this case, Zhang Tao didn't dare to step forward, she was really afraid of snakes.
Li Chengshou didn't want to move, but Xiao Man rushed over as soon as he saw the snake, pinched the snake's seven inches, and stopped them with a snake in one hand.
"She, she actually has this skill?"
Looking at Xiaoman's bravery, Zhang Tao stammered a little when he spoke, and even forgot that he was still angry with Li Chengshou.