Chapter 247： purchase

The next day, Yingbao and Chunniang got up early.

Chen Zhao, who was sleeping on the bed next to him, also quickly got up and put on his clothes, shoes and socks.

After they had finished packing, two maids, Xiaoqing and Xiaodai, came over with water.

“Hey, Xiao Langzhong got up so early, why don’t you sleep a little longer?” Xiao Qing asked with a smile.

Chunniang quickly took the kettle and said, "We want to get up early and go to the West Market to have a look. Please also ask Miss Xiaoqing to speak to your young lady."

The Crown Prince's wife manages the internal affairs of the Duke's Mansion. Xiaoqing and Xiaodai are also people in the Crown Prince's courtyard, so Chun Niang only needs to tell Xiao Qing that she and her daughter are going out.

“Since I’m going to the West Market, do you want me to tell the Crown Prince’s wife that my family will send a carriage to take you off?” Xiao Qing asked.

Chunniang said quickly: "No need to bother, Yingbao and I just went out for a walk, it would be inconvenient to take a carriage."

Xiao Qing didn't force herself, she stood aside and talked for a while, then ordered a servant girl from the guest house to follow Chun Niang and several others to wait on her, and then left with Xiao Dai.

After several people washed up and had some breakfast, Ying Bao and Chun Niang Chen Zhao followed the maid out.

Li Qing, who used to live across the street, had already been taken by his grandfather Li Langzhong to live at Wen Jingyan's house, so there were only two Chun Niang and Chen Zhao left in the guest house, and of course there were two doorkeepers and two cleaning girls.

Led by the maid, the three of them walked out of the Duke's Mansion through a side door, passed through the alleyway of the outer courtyard, and then arrived on the street.

There are large shops on both sides of the street here, such as gold and silver jewelry shops, silk and satin cloth shops, antique calligraphy and painting shops, incense shops, restaurants, singing houses, banks, carriage shops, etc.

After a few people walked around for a while, the servant girl became impatient and complained to Chun Niang: "Madam, the West Market is five or six miles away from here. I am old, how can I walk such a long distance? Why don't we hire an oxcart to travel instead? Bar."

Chunniang looked at her daughter and saw that she had no objection, so she nodded in agreement: "Then hire an ox cart."

Not far away, the servant woman called for an ox cart.

The driver of the cart was an old farmer. He brought vegetables into the city early in the morning to sell. At this time, the vegetables had been paid to the vendors and he was about to return home when he met someone hiring a cart.

The maid made an agreement with him to stroll from here to the Western Market, and then send them back home, for a total of two hundred coins.

The old farmer was very happy. He cleaned the carriage and let a few people sit on it.

The bullock cart walked slowly along the street. Whenever there was a snack selling on the roadside, Yingbao would jump out of the car to buy it and share it with everyone.

The baked crispy sesame cakes have a layer of fragrant sesame on the outside and a delicious mutton filling inside. They are very delicious.

Ying Bao bought thirty pieces at once, and weighed five kilograms of uncooked raw sesame with the shopkeeper.

Took out a few cakes to share with everyone, and gave the rest to my mother-in-law to collect and keep as solid food on the way back home.

I also met someone selling fried white sausage, blood sausage and haggis, as well as mutton wontons, pepper and goose soup, fried tripe lungs, fried cakes, eel soup, etc. I also bought some for everyone to try.

Soon everyone was full, including the old farmer who was driving the cart. He felt his belly and burped.

When the maid saw that Yingbao was still buying mutton buns, beef patties, hibiscus cakes, and crispy ring cakes, she said to Chun Niang: "Madam, you can't pamper your children like this. The weather is hot now." , If you buy so many things and they go rancid overnight, isn’t this a waste of food?”

Chunniang smiled: "It's rare to come to the capital, not to mention that we will return to our hometown tomorrow. Bao'er bought these for food on the road and won't waste them."

The servant girl secretly rolled her eyes and said nothing.

The ox cart passed by a fruit store, which was a large trading house that wholesaled fruits and melons.

Any melons and fruits from other places that come to Beijing must first enter the fruit shop before entering the market, so there are many varieties of melons and fruits here.

Ying Bao picked out some ripe watermelons, longans and papayas and weighed them, and also bought a lot of lychees and honeydew melons.

After loading all these things into the bullock cart, the servant woman was too lazy to say anything and just closed her eyes and dozed off.

Chen Zhao was very happy. He helped move things from time to time without feeling tired at all.

After buying the melons and fruits, Yingbao asked the old farmer to continue driving the car and walked slowly along the street.

If you meet a charcoal seller, buy a basket, as well as two charcoal stoves and copper kettles for boiling water, including pots for cooking soup and rice. I also saw a Longxu Noodles shop selling all kinds of dried noodles, and Yingbao also bought two big bags.

Then she watched in front of the shop for a long time, watching how they pulled the noodles and dried them.

Next to the Longxu Noodle Shop is a grain shop. Yingbao went in and bought a lot of local vegetable and grain seeds, such as eggplant, radish, celery, turmeric, spinach, broad beans, lentils, gourds, etc., and bought a big bag of each. .

Chunniang took the seeds from her daughter and was very pleased.

I didn’t even think so much, but my daughter thought of everything.

By bringing local vegetable seeds back, not only will your family have vegetables to eat in the future, but the villagers will also benefit a lot.

The bullock cart was walking slowly. Ying Bao and Chen Zhao didn't get on the cart, so they just strolled all the way.

Whenever I saw something new, I bought some to put on the cattle cart, such as shrimp paste, crab paste, mature vinegar and vinegar radish, vinegar courgette, sweet vinegar garlic, etc. I bought two jars of each.

Finally, he came to a large wine shop, and Yingbao bought two jars of lychee wine, two jars of sour plum wine, two jars of distiller's yeast, and two jars of fermented glutinous rice wine.

After the autumn harvest, the family will use the distiller’s yeast to make some wine, which they will drink during the New Year and festivals.

Since her family has a lot of rice, she doesn’t need to sell the grain to pay taxes. As long as the wine she brews is not sold, the government will not care about it.

On the way, I met another shop selling iced drinks. I saw two young ladies standing by the counter, eating with bowls in their hands. The snow-white meatballs in the pottery bowl were dotted with two slices of apricot preserves, and they were steaming. There is a hint of coldness and it looks very tempting.

Chen Zhao swallowed his saliva and looked at Ying Bao pitifully.

She didn’t have a penny in her hand, so she had to ask the little doll for help if she wanted to eat, “Senior sister...”

Yingbao wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "You can take whatever you want to eat and I'll pay for it."

 Chen Zhao has helped a lot along the way, and I am not a particularly stingy person, so it is okay to treat her to a bowl of iced drink.

“I’ll eat that one!” Chen Zhao pointed to the ice bowls in the hands of the two young ladies.

So Yingbao bought three more bowls of ice-snow sugar balls, one bowl for her mother, one bowl for herself, and one bowl for Chen Zhao.

Eating a bowl of iced drink in the dog days of summer is really refreshing, but it’s a pity that I don’t have ice, otherwise I could make it for my dad and brother to try when I get home.

After finishing the ice-snow dumplings, they got on the bullock cart and returned to Xiao Mansion.

The maid asked two boys to help carry things into the guest house.

The maid Xiaoqing looked at the scattered things in the room and couldn't help but said in surprise: "Young lady bought so many things, how are you going to take them away?"

Ying Bao: "It doesn't matter. I can fit it in two boxes."

Xiao Qing glanced at the things on the floor, then at the wooden boxes piled next to him, and was speechless for a moment.

There are just a few wooden boxes. Let alone two, even if they are all used up, they cannot hold so many things.

Chun Niang was also very worried, "Bao'er, can you really hold it in?"

“Yeah.” Even if you can’t pretend, you have to pretend, as long as you don’t let A Niang and the others see how you are pretending.

At night, Ying Bao asked her mother to take Chen Zhao to wash up next door. She quickly opened the box and put the things she bought today inside.

Melons, fruits, mutton, steamed buns, pickles, wine jars, etc. were put into the cave, some of the seeds were also put in, and the rest were locked in wooden boxes.

When Chun Niang and Chen Zhao came back, they saw that their daughter had cleaned up everything in the house. It seemed that everything was put into boxes and locked. They couldn't help but be surprised.

“Is it all packed in a box?”

“Well, it’s all packed in. We can set off tomorrow.”