Chapter 30: Snow in April
"Brother, I want a little white horse, very beautiful and running fast like a cloud in the sky.
In the future, wherever my brother goes, I can ride the little white horse together, so that my brother will not have a hard time. Ziluo pointed to the white clouds flying in the sky, and said with a yearning expression.
"Okay, when you learn to ride a horse, my brother will take you wherever he goes!" Ziyu touched the little guy's head and said.
The little one will grow up one day, and she can't stay with him all the time, and it's a good thing for him to walk around when he's older.
Reading thousands of books, it is better to travel thousands of miles, at this time, Ziyu has not yet thought about where to settle, so she can only take one step at a time.
"Young master, the neighbor who tasted braised pork just now wants to buy an elbow and go back to his family to taste it." Chen Da happily came in with an empty plate to report.
"Okay, take two of them out and sell them, and tell them to put them at the door at noon every day in the future."
Ziyu didn't expect to open on the first day, and she was even more confident in the marinade she had concocted.
"Okay!"
Thinking of Chen Da, who finally had an entry, he happily went into the kitchen and picked out two braised elbows of the same size.
After a while, Chen Da came in with a handful of copper coins and placed them on the small table in the courtyard.
"Young master, let's make money! It's enough for our family's food expenses. ”
Chen Da, who is aware of the daily expenses of the family, since he knew Hong Feiyang's food consumption, saw that the house could not enter and exit, and he was really afraid that he would be eaten down one day.
"Haha, where is this!
Do a good job, there are more opportunities to make money in the future! ”
Ziyu, who is accustomed to gold and silver, really doesn't look at the hundred and ten copper coins on the table.
Excluding costs and labor, the net profit of an elbow is less than thirty yuan, and she disdains to do this business.
But for poor families, it may be their monthly income, which is the source of supporting the family.
"Young master, I must work hard, and earning enough money for the family is my greatest wish." Chen Daxin swore authentically.
Ziyu smiled and asked Chen Da to be busy, the family's expenses were given, and whether he could borrow chickens to lay eggs depended on his ability.
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The next day, the first colorful glow appeared in the sky, and Ziyu drove a mule cart full of goods and disappeared from the sight of everyone.
Xiao Luo, who had never cried, finally cried 'wow' after he couldn't see his brother's shadow.
"Brother, I want my brother!
Brother Hong, find my brother!"
Hong Feiyang clumsily wiped more and more tears for Xiao Luo, and coaxed in a loud voice.
"Xiao Luo only promised his brother yesterday that he would be obedient and obedient, how could he forget!
Little man, you have to count when you speak, and you can't let your brother worry. ”
"Wow...... I miss my brother! ”
Xiao Luo pointed to the direction where his brother disappeared, crying until he hiccuped, and Hong Feiyang had to carry someone to the street to find it.
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Ziyu, who left everyone's sight, put her backhand on the carriage, and all the goods disappeared.
Leaving only a bedding and a simple stove, pots and bowls, she hurried all the way to Jiangfu.
The fast-moving mule cart, the curtain is blown by the wind, and the simple things in the carriage are displayed in the eyes of passers-by from time to time.
The mule cart with very light rut marks, and the driver of the cart was a teenager in cotton clothes, no one would be interested in it at all.
Ziyu, who crosses the mountains all the way, sometimes stays in the wilderness at night, and sometimes collapses the inn.
Sometimes when you meet someone who wants to take a ride, you will also scare people away with a whip and leave quickly.
When we crossed the Baili Mountains and arrived at Shimoya Province, it was snowing heavily in mid-April.
Ziyu shook and put on a sheepskin jacket, cotton boots, and even a hat worn in winter.
The road was quickly covered in white as the snow fell, leaving a long trail of ruts as the mule carts passed.
Pedestrians and vehicles on the road have accelerated their progress in the hope of finding a sheltered place to warm up from the wind and snow as soon as possible.
The uncivilized frozen soil is bare, and the south has already completed spring sowing at this time, and the four fields are green.
In the north, however, there was a depression, bare branches, hanging low, and Ziyu remembered the heavy snow that had fallen early when she left last year.
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At the end of April, after half a month of headwind and snow, Ziyu stood at the north gate of Yundu City and sighed.
Even she didn't expect that she would return to Yundu again so soon, because when she left, she never thought she would come back.
Ziyu led the mule cart in a weathered manner, waiting in line to enter the city, and found that more than fifty percent of the people who left the city were carrying bags of grain.
"Fifty Wen!" The soldier guarding the door withdrew his hand.
Ziyu was slightly shocked, she clearly remembered that last year, Yundu's entrance fee was only ten wen, how could it be five times higher all of a sudden.
Ziyu quietly took out fifty copper coins and gave them to the soldiers guarding the gate, so that she could lead the mule into the city.
Thick layers of snow piled up on both sides of the windswept streets.
Pedestrians are wearing thick winter clothes, shrunken to avoid the cold wind, and there is no feeling of spring coming.
There was a long queue outside the grain store, and everyone was holding a cloth bag in their hands, which read on the price sign hanging outside the grain store.
A liter of rice is sixty wen, and a liter of flour is fifty-five wen.
"Tsk, that's okay at the price! You can make half of it when you sell it. ”
Ziyu, who was surprised by the price, thought more far-reaching.
The sloppy Ziyu led the mule cart and went to Xiangfu Street to pick a magnificent inn - the Full Moon Inn.
"If you live in a hotel, you want an upper room."
"Where did you come from, Hanako, this is not the place you should be." The guy at the door waved in disgust.
"Smack, Lao Tzu said he wanted to stay in the hotel, see it clearly!" Ziyu took out a silver ticket of five hundred taels and slapped it on the man's face.
As soon as the guy saw the words on the silver ticket, he immediately served Ziyu with doglegs.
Ziyu remembered that this inn used to belong to the Anguo Hou family, but I don't know which Gaomen family it is now.
An upper room costs twenty taels of silver a night, a complete set of beautifully crafted mahogany carved furniture, burning silver filigree carbon, and a brand new silk quilt.
Ziyu took a comfortable bath in the house, changed into a brand new brocade robe, tied her hair with a jade crown on her head, and hung a gem-encrusted extraterritorial dagger around her waist.
A handsome rich son was born soon, coupled with that calm temperament, although his face is tender, he is undoubtedly the same as the prince and noble.
If you shake a gold-sprinkled folding fan in your hand, you will be a proper second ancestor.
In this cloud capital, which is distinguished by its clothing, Ziyu no longer shows herself as a poor boy in a low-key manner.
An Guohou's family was wiped out by the Nine Clans, and the clothes she collected before have long been forgotten in the long river of history.
Ziyu, who was dressed in gorgeous costumes, invited the guys to order the four signature dishes of the Full Moon Building.
Almond whisk, anchovy shark fin, coriander pigeon, colorful beef tenderloin.
Because of the cold weather, there is a small charcoal stove under each dish to heat up, and the porcelain plate containing the dishes is as white as jade, and a cup of bird's nest is also included.
Of course, the price is also very satisfactory to the store, 288 taels of silver.