Chapter 8 Shopping
Lu Jingyan's friends came to help and stayed at home all night, and each family had something to do. After breakfast, Lu Jingyan went to the village to rent a donkey cart and send a few people away.
Looking at the donkey cart at the door, Chaole pulled the cotton coat on his body, endured for a long time and said to Lu Jingyan: "Is this far away from the town?"
"What's wrong?" Lu Jingyan, who was giving away the person, subconsciously asked back when he heard this.
"The weather is getting colder and I want to go to the town to buy some daily necessities, and the seasonings at home are almost gone."
The three words seasoning made Lu Jingyan's brow move slightly. He glanced at the donkey cart and did not answer immediately. Instead, he smiled and sent a group of friends away.
Glazed, when Lu Jingyan turned around, he saw Chaole angry. A smile flashed across his eyes, and quickly restrained himself. He put his hand beside his mouth and coughed. He didn't look at Chaole, "I'll go back." Then he turned around and left.
She stamped her feet on the spot, snorted coldly and turned back to the house. It was rare, she wouldn't go yet.
But then I heard the sound outside and couldn't help but stick out my head and saw the man sitting in the front of the car.
"Don't you say you want to go to the town?" Looking at Chao Le, who was looking at him but didn't come out, Lu Jingyan frowned slightly.
I was happy, but I quickly restrained the smile on my face. It turned out that I had rented a carriage alone. There were several men sitting in the donkey carriage just now. In this era, she was a woman and so many men. Although Lu Jingyan didn't say it, his actual actions showed his thoughts.
Humph, indifferent.
Chaole's psychological dynamics Lu Jingyan was not clear. He sat in the front of the car and didn't enter the private room, chatting with Hu Zi who was driving the car.
When he arrived in the town, Lu Jingyan asked Huzi to find a place to wait for them, so he took Chaole out of the car and headed to the street market.
"What to buy first?" Chaole didn't say anything after leaving for a long time, Lu Jingyan could only ask on his own initiative.
For the first time I saw the street market of this era, the town looked very prosperous and the people were coming and going. When I heard the sound, I turned my head and said, "Buy cloth and cotton first." In the middle of winter, she couldn't bear it.
By default, I took Chaole to a store.
As soon as he entered the store, someone greeted the two of them warmly. After listening to Chaole's request, he quickly introduced the relevant things in the store. After listening to it for a long time, Chaole couldn't help but interrupt the other party, and then said, "Don't have finished products, we can make them ourselves."
"...Oh, please do here." I thought I would buy the finished product, but I didn't expect it to be a stingy person.
"Can you make it?" Although the dishes made by Chaole are delicious.
He threw Lu Jingyan the back of his head and focused on selecting the cloth and cotton he needed. He saw the broken steps in a corner of the counter on his side and pointed, "Do you sell these?"
When he heard that he had bought it in a row, the shopkeeper was stunned and nodded quickly. Who wouldn't do such a good business? The shopkeeper nodded quickly and asked Chaole to buy a lot of steps at the price of ten copper coins.
Lu Jingyan next to him looked silently and listened, wanting to stop him. After all, a pile of rags is useless. You can buy half a foot of cloth with ten copper plates. But thinking about her brain that is completely suitable for business during this period, she endured it again and wanted to see what she wanted to buy this pile of rags.
Then I went to the rice and grain shop next to me to buy various seasonings and white flour rice. The country people rarely buy rice to eat. They were all luxury things. The shopkeeper saw that the two were dressed in ordinary clothes and thought they had no business, but they bought twenty kilograms of rice and twenty kilograms of white flour in large quantities, and they didn't even look at the brown rice.
"Does the customer need delivery?" The shopkeeper smiled and his face was full of pleats.
There are indeed a lot of things, Chaole is planning to stroll around again, "You can help pack it first, we will come back to get it later."
Except for walking on the rice and grain shop for a while, I felt that the people around me stopped and couldn't help but look over and saw Lu Jingyan standing at the door of a book shop.
He was a little surprised why he didn't go in at the door. He walked over and touched his arm, "I want to buy a book? Then go in and take a look." After that, he raised his foot and walked in.
But when I approached the book shop, I found that the person had not followed me. I turned back to find someone. Seeing that he was still standing in the same place, it became even more strange. Suddenly, I thought of the difficulty of making paper in this era. It seemed that books were more expensive. I subconsciously touched my waist purse, gritted my teeth, walked over and said, "Go in and take a look. If there is anyone I like, I will buy it for you."
"..." The eyes fell on the face of the proud girl in front of her, and Lu Jingyan pursed her lips and turned around, leaving without saying a word.
"Hey—" She reacted extremely strangely to Lu Jingyan, but she wanted to go in and take a look. She knew too little about this era. She had to look at the basic regional ambitions. She shouted a few words to Lu Jingyan and then went back to the bookstore.
There are very few people in the book shop, and you can see many poor students reading with books. After all, paper is more expensive than gold. For poor students, a few taels of silver is enough for them to spend a year.
Chaole Yijie's girl, and when she entered the book shop, she naturally attracted much attention. Fortunately, no one came to drive her away, so she started wandering around alone. After searching around, she finally found the book she wanted. Although she couldn't recognize all the traditional characters, she also knew some of them, and some fonts could be recognized by guessing.
The regional aspirations were very strong, so Chaole wanted to buy them. After all, there were dozens of taels of silver in his purse. But when he walked over and asked, he found that a regional aspirations were fifteen taels, and almost let Chaole hold the book on the head of the boss of the book shop.
He suppressed his anger and walked to the corner with his irritability, looked around, stared at the ground, and simply sat down.
"Girl, it's getting dark, let's see you tomorrow." The owner of the book shop has a good personality. He was not angry because Chaole didn't buy it but stayed in the book shop for a day, but instead advised him to speak kindly.
The heart was relieved when she was already stuck, but after pursing her lips for a moment, she still couldn't bear to pay for it. Moreover, she read a lot and probably had an understanding of the world. So she returned the book to the boss, got up and patted her butt, and left step by step.
As soon as I walked out of the book shop, I saw a figure standing outside, carrying something in my hand, ran to Lu Jingyan a few steps, and didn't ask much, and smiled at him, "Let's go."
Lu Jingyan had asked the merchant to deliver all the rice, flour and seasonings he bought to the donkey cart in advance, but because Chaole had been staying in the bookstore for too long, it was almost dark now, so he simply called Hu Zi to find a restaurant for dinner.
Hu Zi was restless when he ate a meal, but he also enjoyed it. The merchants didn’t have so much spare money to go to the restaurant. This supper included meat, fish and white rice. This kind of food was only available during the New Year holidays at Hu Zi’s family.
The dinner was very fast, and the food was added for less than half an hour. After the meal, Hu Zi drove the car to the village, fearing that it would be difficult to get on the road after dark. When he returned to the village, Lu Jingyan refused to accept the car before giving Hu Zi, and said that he had not paid the meal in the village.
But Lu Jingyan finally handed the copper plate to Hu Zi, and went back and forth with thirty copper plates. The price was slightly higher because of the chartered car.
After returning home, Lu Jingyan whispered to Chaole: "Hu Zi has lost his parents and grandparents since childhood, and his life is very difficult."
Chapter completed!