Chapter 247 Procurement
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.
Chun Niang 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 tell your young lady."
The Crown Prince's wife manages the internal affairs of the Duke's Mansion, and 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 my wife is going to the Western Market, do you want me to tell the Crown Prince's wife to send a carriage to take you off?" Xiao Qing asked.
Chun Niang said quickly: "No need to bother, Ying Bao and I just went out for a walk. It would be inconvenient to take a carriage."
Xiaoqing didn't force herself, she stood aside and talked for a while, then ordered a maid from the guest house to follow Chun Niang and several others to wait on her, and then left with Xiaodai.
After everyone 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.
The three of them were led by the maid, and 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."
Chun Niang looked at her daughter and saw that she had no objection, so she nodded in agreement: "Then hire an ox cart."
After not walking far, the servant woman called for an ox cart.
The driver was an old farmer. He had 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 driver.
The servant woman made an agreement with him to go shopping from here to the Western Market, and then send them back to their home for a total of two hundred coins.
The old farmer was very happy, cleaned the carriage board, 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 cart to buy it and share it with everyone.
The baked crispy sesame cake has a layer of fragrant sesame on the outside and a delicious mutton filling inside. It is very delicious.
Yingbao bought thirty of them in one go and asked the shopkeeper to weigh five kilograms of uncooked raw sesame.
He took out a few pancakes and shared them with everyone, and gave the rest to my mother-in-law to keep for food on the way back home.
I also met someone selling fried white sausage, blood sausage and haggis, as well as mutton wontons, pepper goose soup, fried tripe lungs, fried cakes, eel soup, etc. I also bought some for everyone to try.
Soon everyone was full and 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." , I bought so many things and they went rancid overnight. Isn’t this a waste of food?”
Chun Niang smiled: "It's rare to come to the capital, not to mention we will return to our hometown tomorrow. Bao'er bought these to keep for food on the road, so they won't be wasted."
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.
Yingbao 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 onto 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 rice.
Then I saw a Longxu Noodle shop selling all kinds of dried noodles, and Yingbao also bought two large 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. .
Chun Niang took the seed 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 walked slowly, Ying Bao and Chen Zhao did not get on the cart, they just strolled all the way.
Whenever I see something new, I buy some to put on the cattle cart, such as shrimp paste, crab roe sauce, mature vinegar and vinegar radish, vinegar courgette, sweet vinegar garlic, etc. I bought two jars of each.
Finally, they came to a big 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.
After the autumn harvest, the family would use the koji to brew some wine, which they would drink during the Chinese New Year and festivals.
Anyway, her family has a lot of rice, so 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.
On the way, I met another shop selling iced drinks. I saw two young ladies standing by the counter, holding bowls in their hands and eating. 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 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..."
Ying Bao wiped the sweat from her forehead and said, "You can take whatever you want to eat and I'll pay for it."
Chen Zhao had helped a lot along the way, and he was not a particularly stingy person, so it was okay to treat her to a bowl of iced drink.
"I'll just eat that!" Chen Zhao pointed to the ice bowls in the hands of the two young ladies.
So, Yingbao bought three more bowls of ice and snow sugar balls, one bowl for her grandma, one bowl for herself to eat, and one bowl for Chen Zhao.
It's really refreshing to have a bowl of iced drink in the dog days of summer. It's a pity that I don't have ice, otherwise I can make it for my father and brother to try when I get home.
After eating 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?"
Yingbao: "It doesn't matter, I can fit it in two boxes."
Xiaoqing glanced at the things on the floor, then at the wooden boxes piled next to him, and was speechless for a moment.
There are only 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 pretend?"
"Yeah." 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.
In the evening, 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 the wooden box.
When Chun Niang and Chen Zhao came back, they were surprised to see that their daughter had cleaned everything in the house. It seemed that everything was put into boxes and locked.
"Is it all packed in a box?"
"Well, it's all packed in. We can set off tomorrow."