When it was getting dark, Li Gui's daughter-in-law hurried back, gave the finished carbon fire iron to Xiangling, and told her that this thing is called "fire bucket" in the city.

Xiangling asked how much it was, and Li Gui's daughter-in-law called for forty yuan. Xiangling had already given her 20 yuan to pay for it, and she made up 25 yuan, and 5 yuan was the cost of running errands back and forth.

Li Gui's daughter-in-law looked at Ge Changlin's face, and said that she didn't ask for errands, but only charged another 20 yuan.

Xiangling picked out the carbon fire from under the stove, put it in the hollow stomach of the fire bucket, covered it with a gray cover, looked at the silk clothes that had been dried up or eight percent, took off the clothes of the military master surnamed Yang, put a piece of cloth in the middle, slid it gently, and when he picked it up again, the folds had disappeared, and the family was very surprised.

After talking about some precautions, let Jiang try it, this test doesn't matter, Jiang got it in the middle of the night, ironed all the clothes, and his eyes were red from the smoke of the charcoal fire.

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Early the next morning, there was a call from a donkey outside, Zhou Langzhong and Xiao-Sanzi drove a donkey cart to pick up Xiangling, and went to the county seat together, Zhou Langzhong went to buy medicinal materials, and by the way, took Xiangling to sell ginseng.

There were too many things missing at home, so Xiangling took the Jiang family with her, wanting to buy some things for the family after selling ginseng.

This is the first time Xiangling has gone to the county seat, and she is indescribably excited in her heart, but after seeing the imaginary county seat, she is slightly disappointed, because the so-called county seat has more population and more buildings.

Fortunately, the trade is very developed, and all kinds of shops are particularly sound, which more or less makes up for the regret in Xiangling's mind.

Xiangling looked left and right, felt that everything was fresh, asked everything, and looked like a girl from the countryside who had never seen the world.

Zhou Langzhong did not stay in the medicinal herb shop, but went to a secluded alley, the alley was filled with the smell of various medicinal materials, there was a two-word plaque hanging at the mouth of the alley, Xiangling asked curiously what the logo was, Zhou Langzhong told her that this is a medicine market, and businessmen who come from other places to sell medicinal materials will live here.

Turning into a huge courtyard, more than 20 men immediately surrounded him, and greeted Zhou Langzhong with nonsense.

Zhou Langzhong straightened his waist and said with an arrogant face: "Today, I will send you a big business." ”

The men looked not very sure, and one of them seemed to be more familiar with Zhou Langzhong, and teased: "Brother Zhou, don't be joking, just your small broken medicine shop, it only takes a few dozen catties to buy medicinal materials, how big can it be?" ”

Zhou Langzhong was about to continue chatting, when he suddenly saw more than a dozen soldiers in and out of the banquet hall, and a sense of foreboding suddenly overflowed in his heart, and he hurriedly grabbed the man and said, "Ah Cheng, Yang is here?" What herbs is he going to buy? ”

The reason why Zhou Langzhong is so flustered is because this surnamed Yang, if he doesn't buy things, the demand for a purchase is too large, and people often arrive empty, if he doesn't happen to buy the few medicinal materials that Zhou Langzhong wants, he is afraid that he can't find the tune when he cries.

Ah Cheng nodded in the direction of the hall of the main room and said, "I came early in the morning, and I have already talked about Sanqi and Tian Qi, and now I am talking about Niu Qianjin." ”

As soon as he heard that there was a thousand catties of cattle, Zhou Langzhong, who had always been slow and reasonable, rushed into the hall like a rolling ball, and Xiangling and the other three had no choice but to follow.

In the banquet hall, there were more than a dozen men sitting around a long table, and Yang Qingyue with a solemn face was sitting in the right position, followed by Sun Liangtian and Jia Xiaoliu, who often followed behind his buttocks.

Seeing Xiangling who entered the hall, Yang Qingyue's eyes were a little stunned, and then she turned her eyes back and continued to talk about things with several owners.

Xiangling was even more surprised than Yang Qingyue, and only sighed that this Lin'an City was too small, and she just won the bet yesterday, and she met again today.

The man put a handful of cattle in his hand on the table, frowned and said to a man: "Luo Dongjia, your batch of cattle and thousands of catties have been transported from the south of the Yangtze River for a long time, after the rainy season floods, some dampness, and the number of catties will be more empty. ”

Luo Dongjia's face was suddenly flustered, and he almost pleaded: "Yang is preparing, Boyang County has suffered a flood, we have been delayed on the road for more than a month, and people have spent a lot of silver taels on eating and chewing, can you give it a little more, let us have an account for this trip." ”

Yang Qingyue raised her eyebrows and said: "If you don't sell it to me, you will pay more money for future generations, and you can weigh it yourself whether you sell it or not." ”

Yang Qingyue no longer paid attention to Luo Dongjia, looked at the fat man next to Luo Dongjia and said, "Zheng Langzhong, it's your turn, get the goods." ”

Luo Dongjia stood up suddenly, bit his lower lip with his teeth, and finally made up his mind: "Yang is going to organize, I will sell." ”

The corners of Yang Qingyue's mouth rose, and she nodded to Jia Xiaoliu behind her, Jia Xiaoliu shouted outside the door: "Liu Er, give Luo Dongjia a thousand catties, C, etc., eleven dollars." ”

A soldier agreed, entered the hall and led Luo Dongjia out.

Zheng Dongjia nervously handed a handful of cow jacks to Yang Qingyue, and said with a flattering face: "Yang Preparation, you see, we have protected the medicinal materials very well and are not damp." ”

Yang Qingyue picked up the medicinal materials, like Lang Zhong, and gave the medicinal materials a good meal, and frowned and said: "Zheng Dongjia, your batch of medicinal materials is indeed very dry, but it is not ventilated and dried, but dried in the sun, and the effect of the medicine has lost a lot. ”

Zheng Dongjia opened his mouth and wanted to plead, but when the words came to his mouth, he swallowed it back, Isn't it useful to deal with Yang Qingyue once or twice, even if he pleads? He simply answers, to sell, or not to sell. Fortunately, because of the customs clearance documents in the barracks, he brought other goods along the way, otherwise there would really be no account to be settled.

Zheng Dongjia almost gritted his teeth and replied: "I sell." ”

bought two cattle and thousands of catties one after another, and Zhou Langzhong was so anxious that he scratched his ears and cheeks.

Xiangling lowered her voice and said, "Zhou Langzhong, do you also want to buy a thousand catties of cattle?" ”

Zhou Langzhong said with a sad face: "Didn't Chen Dongjia sell me a thousand catties of moldy cattle last time?" I picked out a small part that could be used, and I thought that the medicinal herb merchant would buy it when it arrived, but I didn't expect Yang to come to buy it, and as soon as he came, I came for nothing. ”

Xianglinghu said suspiciously: "Can he buy short?" Why do you use so much? ”

Zhou Langzhong said like a mourner: "What about the army of more than 100,000 people, can the amount be not large?" In Lin'an County, all the cloth merchants, medicinal herb merchants, cotton merchants and other merchants from other places are almost all rushing to earn money from the army, but they made a mistake in their wishful thinking. ”

"The army bought it themselves?" In Xiangling's impression, all the supply and demand of the army should be directly supplied by the capital to maintain a high degree of centralization, and it should not be purchased by itself.

What she didn't know was that transportation was now inconvenient, and it was more expensive to transport supplies than to buy them on the spot, so the army had a high degree of autonomy.