Chapter 104: A Strange Man Stays in a Small Town
From Qinghe County to the border city, it takes three or four days to ride a fast horse and take a shortcut, but Lin Yanniang followed the group of Huichun Hall this time, so naturally there was no way to take a shortcut.
There were a total of ten carriages in the Rejuvenation Hall going to the border city this time, in addition to two carts full of medicinal herbs, there were also four carts full of food, and the remaining four carts were the things of their group and the places to stay.
Ru Niang hugged Qianqian, Lin Yanniang and Yingniang took An Hao and An Min to sit in a carriage, the car was their private things, and it was Li Boyuan and Dezi who drove the car.
As soon as Lin Keping arrived in the county, he took the initiative to mingle with the guys of the Rejuvenation Hall, as well as a few thick men hired by the shopkeeper of the Rejuvenation Hall from the outside martial arts hall.
When he was leaving, he specially talked to Lin Yanniang and didn't say anything, but Lin Yanniang still heard that Zheng asked him to do this.
"Mother, it's boring. ”
An Min nestled in Lin Yanniang's arms, stretching lazily, when they first set off, he could still lift his spirits, but with the more and more desolate roads and boring things every day, he felt more and more bored.
An Hao watched his younger brother lazily leaning on his mother's arms, and wanted to talk about him, but he felt bored when he thought of himself, so he didn't speak in the end.
The two sons felt bored and bored, how could Lin Yanniang not feel it.
It's just that......
"We're in a hurry, that's how we are going, if you feel bored, just endorse it, and when you see your father, if he takes the test to teach you, you won't be unable to answer. ”
Lin Yanniang originally wanted to bring a needle and thread to sew clothes and embroider on the road to pass the time, but when she really went on the road, she realized that although this carriage was more comfortable than an ox cart, there was still no way to embroider in such an environment.
As soon as Lin Yanniang's words fell, An Hao pulled An Min's sleeve, "Brother, let's recite the articles that my father taught us, if there is anything you don't understand, please ask your uncle as soon as possible." ”
Although An Min is more squeamish than An Hao, he has been weaker since he was a child, he is occasionally coquettish, and his family will not say anything about him.
An Min, who was still thinking of being lazy, heard the words of his mother and brother, and knew that he was definitely going to start reciting the article.
The sound of reciting articles came from the carriage one after another, and Li Boyuan and Dezi, who were driving the carriage, looked at each other and smiled.
Although Min'er is squeamish, she listens to people's persuasion and reads smartly. ”
Li Boyuan opened his mouth and said his evaluation of An Min, Dezi shook his head with a smile after hearing this, "I don't know how to read, but I can see that Hao'er is stable and a good big brother." ”
He is the elder brother, as an elder brother, he must set a good example for his younger brothers and sisters, and discipline his younger brothers and sisters when his father and mother are not around.
Dezi thought that when he was as old as An Hao, he was not so steady.
The sound of the children reading, as well as the occasional laughter from Sissi, infected everyone in this industry.
There were two of them along the way, and they also had a lot of laughter.
That afternoon, Lin Yanniang and his party traveled to a small town again, and when the carriage stopped outside an inn, Lin Yanniang and the others were surprised.
It's just afternoon, so you're not in a hurry?
Lin Yanniang was still puzzled, but the shopkeeper of the Rejuvenation Hall came to Lin Yanniang's carriage in person.
"Madam, this is the last town on our way, let's rest here today, replenish dry food, and go on the road tomorrow morning. ”
As soon as the shopkeeper of the Rejuvenation Hall finished speaking, before Lin Yanniang could speak, the excited eyes of the other people in the carriage lit up.
They had been trapped in the carriage for so many days, and this time they were finally able to get out of the carriage, so they were naturally happy.
"Okay, you can arrange it. ”
Lin Yanniang responded to the words of the shopkeeper of the Rejuvenation Hall, and then led Ru Niang and a few people out of the carriage.
The shopkeeper of the Rejuvenation Hall wrapped up the inn, and every time the Rejuvenation Hall sent something to the border city, the inn would stop here.
This time, there were more people in the Rejuvenation Hall, as well as women and children, and they also looked at them more.
The innkeeper was a woman of about forty years of age, wearing a dark blue diagonal skirt with a ring of fur trimmed with it.
As soon as Lin Yanniang got out of the carriage, she immediately attracted the eyes of the woman, they were close to the border city, but there were no such white women.
The innkeeper walked quickly to Lin Yanniang and the others, and said respectfully to Lin Yanniang and the others, "Madam, the inn is small, and there are only three upper rooms, so the woman will take a few of them up." ”
Lin Yanniang looked at the woman's clean dress, although her skin was dark and yellow, but her hair was neat, she looked down at her nails and feet, and liked this neat woman more and more.
"Thank you. ”
Lin Yanniang politely answered the innkeeper, and after she led them to the upper room, Lin Yanniang said, "We want to go out and buy some fur ...... later."
Before Lin Yanniang's words were finished, the innkeeper said with a smile, "Madame is indeed time to buy fur, wait until we continue to go northwest, there will be a snowstorm in less than ten days, Madame's delicate skin can't be frostbitten." ”
Lin Yanniang would have such an idea, naturally it was not a whim, but the news that Lin Keping had inquired about in the past few days.
Although the winter in Wankou Village is cold, it is not as cold as the winter of the side plug.
If they don't prepare their fur and wait for the winter to hit in a few days, they will really get frostbitten.
"Then I don't know if my aunt has a proper business to introduce?"
"Don't dare to be, don't dare to be. ”
As soon as Lin Yanniang's aunt came out, the innkeeper smiled even brighter, "My brother has a fur shop in this town, if Mrs. doesn't dislike it, Mrs. will take a break, and the woman will take Mrs. to take a look." ”
"That's the best thing to be. ”
As soon as Lin Yanniang heard the innkeeper's words, she smiled and nodded.
With acquaintances leading the way, they can also come back from buying things earlier.
Lin Yanniang was going to buy something, so he naturally wanted to inform the shopkeeper of Huichun Hall, and after he found out, he didn't say anything, but sent two guys who had been here before to go out with Lin Yanniang and his party.
When Lin Yanniang left from Wankou Village, she was afraid that she would bring too much money to attract people's concerns, so all the golden tickets were sewn into the underwear of herself and her two sons, and only two hundred taels of silver tickets were placed on her body.
is on An Hao and An Min's bodies, on the bright side, Lin Yanniang stuffed a silver ticket of ten taels by himself.
Before preparing to buy furs, Lin Yanniang had already inquired clearly, those good and high-grade furs would not flow here at all, but would be bought by merchants in the capital and wealthy places in the south of the Yangtze River.
In this town, the best piece of fur will not exceed twenty taels of silver.
Of course, if these skins were bought by merchants and wandered to some large cities, the minimum would be a hundred taels of silver.
With a bottom in her heart, Lin Yanniang went out with two hundred taels of silver tickets.
The innkeeper's brother's shop is not far from the inn, but it is on the street next door.
An Hao and An Min finally had a chance to go out, although one of them was watched by Dezi and the other was watched by Lin Keping, Li Boyuan was naturally holding his fat daughter Sissi.
When Lin Yanniang and her party arrived at the innkeeper's brother's shop, there were only a few of them left in this shop.
"Auntie doesn't have to be like this. ”
As soon as she saw this situation, Lin Yanniang knew that she was cleared, or she was just waiting for them to come, and she didn't do anyone else's business.
The more the innkeeper looked at Lin Yanniang, the more she liked it, she was white and clean, and she looked better than the princess sung in the play.
"Nothing, nothing. ”
The innkeeper waved her hand absently, and then pointed to a bunch of beautiful but slightly flawed fur and said to Lin Yanniang, "This pile is the best fur in the store, Madame can pick it." ”
As soon as the innkeeper's voice fell, Lin Yanniang's eyes were attracted by a piece of purple fox fur.
Purple with red, red with some purple.
As soon as Lin Yanniang looked at this fox skin, the man who sold the fur, and the innkeeper's brother smiled heartily.
"Madame's good eyesight, this piece of fur is the best in this pile, if it weren't for the fact that the skin color is a little mixed, and the wound is too large when the hunter hunts, this piece of skin would have been taken away a long time ago. ”
Lin Yanniang listened to the man's words, smiled and nodded, and then picked up this fox skin.
Unfolded the fur, only to find that there was indeed a half-palm-shaped hole in the middle of the fur.
"Madame, are you satisfied?"
The man could see at a glance that it was the woman in front of him who was in charge of this line, and he asked Lin Yanniang, but Lin Yanniang smiled and did not say anything, but looked at other furs.
This place is close to Biansai, and there are often people from Biansai who secretly come to sell their furs, and there are many prey in Biansai, but the land can not grow any food, so they can only rely on selling some prey in exchange for some food.
In addition to the beautifully colored fox skin, the remaining fur colors are ordinary, white, gray, and earthy yellow, Lin Yanniang picked and picked, and only then did she choose ten pieces of fur.
"How much silver?"
Lin Yanniang pointed to the pair of furs she picked out and asked the man, the man knew that they were nobles when his sister sent a letter, and the price naturally did not dare to open randomly.
The man pointed to such a pile of furs, and put the furs that Lin Yanniang had selected at the beginning, and then waved his hand, "So many, one hundred and eighty taels together, I will send some rabbit skins to Mrs. ”
The price offered by the man was within Lin Yanniang's budget, and after he finished speaking, he took out the rabbit skin and counted ten directly to Lin Yanniang.
Seeing that the man was so neat, Lin Yanniang also gave the silver happily.
The innkeeper looked at Lin Yanniang and really bought so many furs, and smiled happily.
By the time Lin Yanniang bought the fur, it was getting late, and even if An Hao and An Min liked the little scimitar on the side of the road, they could only regretfully follow Lin Yanniang back.
But the look of the two children's eyes is too obvious, and Lin Yanniang is a child who loves children, looking at them like this, she will not pretend not to see it.
"Like scimitars?"
Lin Yanniang spoke softly to the two children, and the brothers nodded at the same time and lowered their heads in shame.
Seeing that An Hao and An Min were rarely so shy, Lin Yanniang burst out laughing, she hadn't seen these two children with such expressions for a long time.
Printed with the afterglow of the setting sun, a man in a purple skirt with fair skin like a snow woman smiling, just fell into the eyes of a bearded man.