Chapter 17: Brother Mouse (Leader)
After breakfast, Zhao Hao helped Zhao Shouzheng make tea, grind ink, and set up a working attitude.
Then he gave a serious instructor: "My father recently asked to study at home. We poor families should not go out randomly if we have nothing to do."
Zhao Shouzheng sat on a shaking and broken chair, holding the book "The Analects of Confucius Collection" and scratching his head.
"There is really something. I have to go to the Imperial College tomorrow to go through the resumption of school... I haven't been in prison for the past two years, I'm afraid my academic qualifications have been suspended."
"Of course I have to do something, so I'll read with peace of mind today."
Like a worried old parents, Zhao Hao told Zhao Shouzheng a few words and left him with lunch money. Then he said that he wanted to go out for a walk, so he went out.
"You asked me to study at home, but you went out to wander around!" Zhao Shouzheng protested, but unfortunately the protest was ineffective.
Zhao Hao went out, of course not to hang out.
As soon as he thought that the whole family had only two taels of silver left, he would face the dilemma of not being able to make trouble, and he would not dare to delay for a moment.
He wanted to find out if he could find any way to make money to solve the urgent needs of the father and son.
He originally planned to go to the most prosperous area of Confucius Temple in Qinhuai River, but when he asked about the carriage carrying passengers, it took twenty cents to pass.
"So expensive?" Zhao Hao couldn't help but feel pain.
"This guy is twenty miles away. If there are no guests on the return trip, I will suffer a loss this time." The driver wearing a straw hat said angrily.
"How can you lose money?" Zhao Hao smiled and took back his purse and said, "I won't go."
"Boy, let's have fun!" When he walked away, the coachman was still cursing behind him.
Zhao Hao curled his lips and pretended that he didn't hear it.
But he had to travel back and forth forty miles with his legs, and he didn't have the ability. Thinking of the day there were also many prosperous streets in the area of Bell and Drum Tower, he identified the direction and changed his destination.
The more you go south, the more prosperous it becomes. After passing the Lion Bridge and going up to the Gulou Street, the prosperous scene I saw yesterday reappeared in front of Zhao Hao.
He didn't have any rules in his mind at this moment, so he just started to walk around one store after another.
That day, I just took a quick look at the flowers and experienced the prosperity of the southern capital of the Ming Dynasty. Today, I looked closely and saw that he was truly shocked by the development of business and the abundant materials in Nanjing City...
Zhao Hao roughly pointed out that on the wide street less than a mile long in front of him, there were either erected or more than a hundred shop signs with different styles and eye-catching styles.
In addition to the most common restaurants, restaurants and teahouses, there are also dozens of businesses such as "Liu Xiaopingchuan Guang Grocery", "Zhou Ji Fa Dui Guanyan", "Chongming has all the seafood", "Northwest two-header leather goods shipped to customers", "Ruixianghao Silk and Satin Shop", "Nan Wazi Cloth Shop", and "Tang Ji Nan Cargo Store".
Moreover, the wide range of goods and comprehensive categories in these stores were also unimaginable to him. Zhao Hao entered the Nanwazi cloth shop and saw hundreds of various types of cloth placed on the counter.
Zhao Hao was deeply curious and pretended to buy cloth, which made the shop clarity and fluent penis come to the shop's shop.
"Our family has Jiaxing Xitang cloth, Suzhou Qing, Songjiang Qing, Nanjing Qing, Guazhou Qing, Red cloth, Green cloth; Songjiang big shuttle cloth, small and medium shuttle cloth; Huguang Xiaogan cloth, Linjiang cloth, Xinyang cloth; Dingcao cloth; Fujian Sheng cloth, Anhai Sheng cloth, Jiyang cloth, coarse burlap cloth, bookstore raw cloth, lacquer cloth..."
Zhao Hao was very satisfied with hearing this and couldn't help but applaud. The shop's staff became more and more proud, and then he tried hard to submit dozens of cloth items. Then he asked with a breath: "Which kind of thing is the customer?"
"Uh, I think about it." Zhao Hao hugged his arms, pretended to think for a moment, and thought to himself: 'The loom and printing and dyeing technology seem to be able to improve.'
But the problem is still that, far-flung water cannot quench near thirst. Facing the room full of cloth, he could not find any way to make quick money.
"Sorry, I'll go for a walk..." Zhao Hao smiled apologetically at the gang, unable to bear to look at his sad gaze, and slipped out of the cloth shop as if he was running away.
Zhao Hao just like this, and when he went shopping one by one, almost every one would amazed him. He even found a seafood store that specializes in seafood. In addition to selling sea fish, the store also uses sea water to raise crabs, eels, shrimps, snails, clams, silverfish, clams, yellow armor, etc. The categories are not much smaller than those of the seafood market in later generations. I don’t know how they got these seafood that are difficult to keep and are not easy to traffic from hundreds of miles away.
Looking at these seafood, Zhao Hao felt hungry and hurried out from this aquatic restaurant with "Chongming Seafood All" in the sea.
Unexpectedly, the streets were filled with all kinds of tempting aromas of delicacies, Zhao Hao suddenly realized that it was already lunch time. Not only were the food in the restaurants and restaurants fragrant, but the various food stalls on the side of the road also had a wide variety of foods, which made people salivate.
‘’It’s boiled dried shredded shreds, osmanthus duck, raw fried bread, braised pig’s trotters… and fried knife fish, fried meatballs, roasted chicken, and stinky tofu… Why is even stinky tofu so fragrant?’
Zhao Hao couldn't control himself and swallowed his saliva, but when he touched the only two taels of silver left in his arms, he felt extremely cruel at this moment.
"I just ate a basket of buns in the morning and I won't be hungry." Zhao Hao repeatedly hinted to himself: "This is all hallucination, it's greedy, not hungry!"
But he inevitably swears secretly that when I make a fortune in the future, I must take revenge.
Well, boil dried shredded rice and pour a bowl of rice...
Zhao Hao endured his hunger and visited a few more stores. After noon, he entered a store with the yellow-bottomed and black-lined sign on the "Tang Ji Nan Goods Store".
The so-called southern goods are naturally southern specialties. The store is full of Jinhua ham, Shaoxing rice wine, dried seafood, Lingnan dried fruits and other foods from southern Jiangsu, Ningshao, Fujian and Guangdong.
‘It’s a food sale again…’ Zhao Hao muttered and wanted to retreat, but accidentally caught a glimpse of dozens of coarse porcelain bowls neatly placed on the shelves at the door of the store, filled with black or reddish brown paste.
"What's this?" Zhao Hao asked curiously.
"Young master doesn't even know brown sugar or brown sugar?" the shop guy asked with a funny look.
"I have never seen it in a bowl." Zhao Hao shook his head, picked up a bowl of brown sugar and looked at it carefully. He saw that the surface was rough like sand and soil, and the patterns of snowflakes were very beautiful.
"How to sell this?"
"A bowl of brown sugar with thirty cents and a bowl of brown sugar with monday." The guy asked with a smile: "Young master, come some?"
"What's the price of white sugar?" Zhao Hao asked casually.
"White sugar..." The guy was stunned, as if he had never heard of this title.
Zhao Hao clearly remembered that he drank sugar water when he first came. And in his memory, Xiao Zhao Hao also ate sugar a lot, so he would never have such things.
"Is the guest talking about frosting?" the guy asked tentatively.
"It should be." Zhao Hao said in his heart, and it seemed that his name was different, so he nodded and said, "Do you have one?"
"Yes, yes..." The guy took out an exquisite small wooden box from the counter and opened it to Zhao Hao to see that it was sugar inside.
Zhao Hao subconsciously reached out and wanted to try it a little.
Unexpectedly, the guy was facing a big enemy and immediately closed the lid with a snap, almost clamping Zhao Hao's finger.
"You are so ignorant. How can you try such a valuable thing lightly?"
"Isn't it just sugar? Where can it be expensive?" Zhao Hao said a little unhappy.
"Is it kidding to have a liang of silver and a liang of candy?" the guy said with wide eyes.
"What? One tael of silver and one tael of sugar?!" Zhao Hao was shocked.
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