Chapter 41 Shopping
Jiang Yan has no room for interference in these large businesses, she has a total of a few hundred taels of silver, which is not enough for the shipowners to take a look. Jiang Yan cautiously avoided the sweaty guys and the spitting merchants, and walked towards a row of houses not far from the dock.
These shops are all the business of travelers and merchants, and most of them are restaurants, among which there are one or two inn foot shops, she walked around, chose a neater-looking inn, and planned to stay here for one night.
The shopkeeper politely led Jiang Yan upstairs, and heard that Jiang Yan was here to play, and kept introducing them to the attractions and delicacies here while leading the way.
Jiang Yan went into the house to put away the baggage, grabbed a dozen cents from the purse and gave it to him, "I just got off the boat today, and I'm really tired, I'll go to these places tomorrow." Just take a walk around here today, and I wonder if there are any interesting places nearby? If it must be different from other places, it will not be in vain for me to make this trip. ”
Although this dock is full of people, but there are really not many places to play, he really hasn't seen the guests who come to the dock to play, people are either touring the mountains and rivers or going straight to the downtown area, the dock is full of messy boxes and packages, what's so fun! Xiao Er racked his brains and thought about a few places, all of them were grocery stores, specialty shops, and food shops, he saw that this little boy was dressed ordinary, and he did not introduce those big merchants who specialize in precious goods, although these small shops are inferior to the east and west, but there are goods from the east and west, north and south, and sometimes there are some strange things, which are also different from other places.
Jiang Yan wrote down what Xiao Er said, thanked him and let him go down, closed the door and took out the tight silver tickets and silver ingots placed in the baggage, stuffed them into his arms and sleeves, and prepared to go out to buy a good one.
Because of the high-tech products in the future, Jiang Yan actually has no urgent need to make money, she can't spend half a day running north and south, just buy some ginseng and mink in the north and silk seafood in the south, and sell it for silver. So now she doesn't have any idea of saving money at all, and she has a kind of freedom to come back after her money is gone.
And she is still in Jiafu now, as a maid has no personal privacy at all, the master can check if he wants, and it is no problem to turn your house upside down, it is really not safe for her to put so much silver around her, after all, she can't say that she has a legitimate reason, it can't be said that it is rewarded by the emperor, it is better to eat, drink and spend it.
Of course, with the frequency of her coming out once a year, it will take some time for the hundreds of taels of silver to be spent.
The shop that Xiao Er said mainly relied on collecting the remaining tail goods from big merchants, and there were also some goods piggyback by shipwrights, which were not far from the port, and Jiang Yan didn't take long to find them. It seems that a street has formed spontaneously, and there are small shops on both sides of the street, which is a bit like a modern small commodity market. Those big businessmen don't look down on here, the amount of goods is small and miscellaneous, people go directly to the cargo ship on the other side of the dock, Jiang Yan doesn't dislike the mess inside, she doesn't do wholesale, she is easy to pick and choose.
Jiang Yan went to the shop and bought a box of pearls of different sizes, she was ready to grind them all as pearl powder, and she could apply them to her face and take them internally; A few bags of spices are said to be from Yunnan, and they can also be used after returning to Hexiang; There are also a few bottles of rose dew and mulberry dew, all of which she picks are small in size and consumable, which are convenient for her to take back, and they are gone when they are used up.
She also saw a lot of ink fairy patterns, dark embroidered orchid pattern of silk, it is said that it is a new look just shipped from Suzhou, compared to the current popular butterflies in the capital, flowing cloud bats are much better, but unfortunately she can't buy it.
These all add up to only half the size of a burden, she saw that it was still early, so she was going to go to other stores to have a look, how to bring some gifts back to relatives and friends when she came out, although she can only send one person now, but she can't save it.
Xie Jingxing was born in a wealthy family, and it is estimated that she has seen all kinds of rare treasures, and she didn't think about those valuables, so she directly found a store specializing in selling overseas products, ready to find something novel, but unfortunately returned disappointed. Things from overseas are still very rare, as soon as they arrive at the dock, they are scrambling to grab it, this shop is just a small business, the owner can't compete for those big businesses with rich capital, he doesn't even have to drink soup when people eat meat, and the store is just some ordinary goods, in the name of overseas.
Jiang Yan looked at the store, but there was really nothing to give, so she shook her head and prepared to go out. When the shopkeeper saw that the guest was about to leave, he hurriedly walked out of the counter, "Why don't you tell me what you want to buy, and I'll find it for you." ”
Jiang Yan refused: "No need, your store said that I only came here to sell overseas goods, who knows that things are very ordinary, and there are also some sold outside." ”
The shopkeeper hurriedly said: "If there is no goods, I don't dare to play this signboard, one of my nephews is on the sea ship, but unfortunately, the things brought are all sold out, why don't you take a look?" He smiled all over his face, "We have a small business, and we can't buy too many overseas goods, so let's sell them with some other things." ”
Jiang Yan thought to herself, most of your things are other things, and I don't know if there are overseas goods that are on board.
She excused herself: "I just want to buy some rare ones, and forget about it if I don't have them." With that, he turned and walked out.
As soon as she stepped out of the door, she heard the urgent voice of the shopkeeper from behind, "Wait! Guest officer stays! ”
Jiang Yan looked back at him strangely, not knowing what this person wanted to say. The shopkeeper saw her stop, and quickly moved a potted plant from the corner of the wall, "I remembered, if you want to say that it is rare, I also have it here, but I don't know if it suits your liking." ”
He pointed to the lush plant and said, "This is a really overseas thing, we can't see it here." This is the sweet potato that my nephew brought back from Luzon, I grew it with that kind of seed, I dare not say that there is only one pot in the whole world, but it is definitely a rare thing, that is, it looks ordinary, I will not say much, you will take it for a tael of silver. ”
Jiang Yan saw him come over with a pot of green plants, and she wanted to leave, but when she heard him say sweet potatoes, she looked at the pot of green leaves with interest. Isn't sweet potato just sweet potato, she really hasn't eaten it in Jiafu for many years, I thought it was because Jiafu's family couldn't look down on such bargains, but later I got familiar with the kitchen and knew that there were no sweet potatoes here at all. Although it was a little regrettable that she didn't eat roasted sweet potatoes, there were too many delicacies in Jiafu, and she quickly forgot about it, and she didn't expect to meet here.
Jiang Yan doesn't quite remember what the sweet potato leaves look like, she still saw the sweet potato seedlings in the field when she was a child, and they look quite similar, maybe what the shopkeeper said is true?
But she is not wronged, this thing looks like a weed to outsiders, and she actually offered a price of one or two, even if the weed is foreign, it can't be so expensive! Jiang Yan directly cut it to 100 Wen, but the shopkeeper naturally disagreed, and the two of them finally priced 500 Wen after a long time.
The shopkeeper is just trying his luck, this sweet potato is his nephew brought down a few, let him try it, this thing is tendon how to eat rice delicious, the rest of the time actually sprouted for a long time, he planted it, put it in the corner of the wall almost forgotten, I didn't expect this business to become, five hundred he also made a net profit.