Chapter 9: Native Produce of the Westerland
Jinlong Street is the longest street in the commercial area, and there are bustling restaurants and high-end shops in the central area, but at both ends of Jinlong Street, there are still many markets for the common people, and the flow of people here is not less than that in the central area, after all, no matter where it is, the civilians are the majority. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
On the corner of Jinlong Street, there is a big market here, and the shops in the market sell everything, of course, the things sold are not very expensive.
However, Su Fei, who only had three silver deer in his pocket, could only come to this kind of place to purchase.
Although Sophie had lived in King's Landing for nearly twenty years, he wouldn't have come to the market more than three times, after all, as a rich boy, why would he come to such a dirty place?
Walking into the market, a fishy smell came, King's Landing is the capital of the Kingdom of West, located in the south of the West continent, east of the sea, there are naturally a lot of seafood here, and there are many vendors selling seafood in the market, so the market is always filled with a smell of seafood.
Su Fei searched for the memories of his previous owner of the body, after all, he only came to this world for fifteen days, and he didn't know much about the local products here, although Su Fei turned out to be a rich son, and he didn't participate much in the daily life of firewood, rice, oil and salt.
While analyzing the memories in his mind, while strolling around the market, looking at the goods with different prices, Su Fei was a little embarrassed, his Taobao store can only place one product, and the quantity is three, and the bargains that can be bought with a few copper horns in front of him are naturally not suitable, generally speaking, it must be that the higher price of the goods is sold after the income is greater.
After wandering outside for an hour or two, I was thinking about buying something and rushing back to the store, but Su Fei suddenly heard a noisy sound in front of me, although the market was already quite noisy, but this sound was particularly obvious, it seemed to be ...... Someone is crying.
"Hey, look, there's actually someone here who sells bitter leaves. ”
"What? Selling bitter leaves? And now there are people picking bitter leaves?"
"Yes, yes, I don't know what their family thinks, but no one is using bitter leaves now. ”
"Yes, the effect is not as good as the sachet, but the price is not cheap. ”
"It's not, it's not uncommon for bitter leaves to grow on Bitter Leaf Mountain, but only the buds of bitter leaves can be used to add some aroma to the house, but collecting young shoots piece by piece is a thankless task, and now the rich people's homes are all using sachets imported from across the sea, and we people can't afford to make the house fragrant all day long. ”
Su Fei listened to the discussion of the surrounding crowd, and also squeezed into the crowd, he saw that in the center of the crowd, a middle-aged woman in plain cloth was holding a girl who was obviously her daughter, and was sitting on a blanket spread out on the ground, the middle-aged woman's eyes were full of tears, and the girl was also sad, and on the ground in front of them, there was a basket full of fresh leaf buds.
These leaves are half like tea leaves on earth, but there are tiny scales on the leaves, and they look like they have just been picked for a short time.
"Hey, big brother, why are the mother and daughter crying here?" asked Su Fei, patting the uncle standing next to him.
"Alas, don't mention it, this mother and daughter have been crying here for two days, they ......"
Unexpectedly, this uncle, who seemed to be sincere, was still a talker, and immediately told Su Fei about the mother and daughter.
Roughly like this, the mother and daughter live in a small village outside King's Landing, and the family originally got a berry field in the village, relying on planting berries, it can be considered to be able to support daily expenses, but unexpectedly, just a month ago, the berry land in their village was bought by a trading house in the city, and a small manor for winemaking was built, and the villagers who originally lived by growing berries were hired into the manor.
However, the mother and daughter's family did not meet the requirements of the owner of the manor, the only man in their family, that is, the father of the girl, had a lame leg due to illness, and was originally able to work in the berry field, but only slowly, and there was also the help of the mother and daughter, but now they had no berry field, and the owner of the manor was unwilling to hire two women.
Unless...... That's right, unless the family is willing to let their daughter be a maid to the owner of the manor, although it is a maid on the surface, in fact, everyone knows that the owner of the manor has taken a fancy to the appearance of this daughter.
However, the owner of the manor had a bad reputation, and it was rumored that he liked to play strange games with women, and every morning the "maids" who came out of his room would be covered in wounds.
The couple is also old, and there is only one daughter in the family, of course, the family will never let their daughter "dress" such a beast, so the family that has lost all the berry fields can only find another way.
To the south of King's Landing, there is a small hill called Bitter Leaf Mountain, which is covered with a dwarf tree, of course, this is the same kind of dwarf tree that used to produce bitter leaves.
In the past, many wealthy people would put a stove and boil a small jar of bitter leaves in order to make the air in the house more comfortable, and many people still went to the mountains to pick the young shoots of the bitter tree.
However, a few years ago, the government opened trade with the Essos Federation across the sea to the east, and the sachets unique to the Essos Federation flowed into the market of King's Landing.
There are various types of sachets produced in the Essos Federation, and you can choose different scents, and one sachet is enough to fill the whole room with a fragrance, and a sachet can often be used for half a year.
Since then, Kukouye has lost its market.
The poor mother and daughter who picked bitter leaves to sell were also out of helplessness, the berry fields were gone, the fishing could not afford fishing boats, the only man in the family was still a cripple, if there was a better way to make money, they would never pick bitter leaves, it was a thankless and time-consuming careful work.
But...... After listening to the uncle tell the story of the mother and daughter, an idea suddenly popped up in her heart.
He walked up to the mother-daughter booth, squatted down, pinched a sprout, looked at it for a while, and stuffed it into his mouth.
"Hey, this little brother, although the bitter leaves are very fragrant when cooked, they don't taste good. Immediately, a young man from behind patted him on the shoulder and said.
"yes, but no one likes this bitter taste. Another said.
However, Su Fei Ke ignored their words, and just chewed the leaf carefully, and his tongue rolled in his mouth as if he was reminiscing.
In the end, Su Fei smiled at the mother and daughter and said, "I want all these bitter leaves." ”