After picking up the daughter of the lucky star, the whole village prospered

The next day, Yingbao and Chunniang get up early.

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

After they cleaned up, two maids, Xiaoqing and Xiaodai, came over with water.

"Yo, Xiao Langzhong got up so early, why don't you sleep a little longer?" Xiaoqing asked with a smile.

Chun Niang quickly took the water bottle, "We want to get up early and go to the West Market to have a look, and please tell Miss Qing to your young wife."

Mrs. Shizi manages the internal affairs of the Duke's Mansion, and Xiaoqing and Xiaodai are also in Mrs. Shizi's yard, so Chunniang only needs to tell Xiaoqing that she and her daughter are going out.

"Since my wife is going to the West Market, should I tell Mrs. Shizi to send you a carriage?" Xiaoqing asked.

Chun Niang hurriedly said: "Don't bother, Ying Bao and I just went out for a stroll, it would be inconvenient to take a carriage."

Xiaoqing didn't force her, she stood by the side and talked for a while, then ordered a maid in the guest house to follow Chunniang and others to take care of her, and then left with Xiaodai.

After they washed up and had some breakfast, Ying Bao and Chun Niang Chen Zhao went out with the maid.

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

The three of them were led by the maid, walked out of the Duke's mansion through the side door, passed through the alleyway in the outer courtyard, and finally reached the street.

There are large shops on both sides of the street here, such as gold and silver jewelry stores, silk and satin cloth shops, antique calligraphy and paintings, incense shops, restaurants, song halls, banks, chariot and horse shops, etc.

After they strolled around for a while, the maid became impatient and complained to Chun Niang: "Miss, Xishi is five or six miles away from here. I am old, how can I go such a long distance? Why don't we hire a bullock cart instead?" Bar."

Chun Niang looked at her daughter and saw that she had no objection, so she nodded and agreed, "Then hire a bullock cart."

Not far away, the servant woman called a bullock cart.

The driver was an old farmer who brought vegetables into the city to sell in the morning. At this moment, the vegetables had been exchanged to the vendors and he was about to return home when someone hired a car.

The maid made a deal with him, and walked from here to the West Market, and then sent them back to the mansion, a total of two hundred wen.

The old farmer was very happy, cleaned the car floor and let a few people sit on it.

The bullock cart walked slowly on the street, whenever there was a snack on the side of the road, Yingbao would jump out of the cart to buy it and share it with everyone.

Baked crispy and crispy sesame seed cakes, with a layer of fragrant sesame seed on the outside, and delicious mutton stuffing inside, very delicious.

Yingbao bought thirty of them in one go, and weighed five catties of uncooked raw sesame seeds with the shopkeeper.

He took out a few pancakes for everyone to eat, and handed over the rest to A Niang to keep them as dry food on the way back home.

I also met a seller of fried white sausage, blood sausage and haggis, as well as mutton wonton, pepper goose offal soup, fried belly lung, fried cake, eel soup, etc., and I also bought some for everyone to try.

Soon, several people ate their bellies, including the old farmer driving the cart, who burped as he rubbed his belly.

Seeing that Yingbao was still buying those steamed mutton buns, granny cow meatcakes, hibiscus cakes, and crispy ring cakes, the servant woman said to Chunniang, "My lady, you can't spoil your children like this, right? The weather is so hot now." , Buy so many things back home, and they will go bad in one night, isn’t this a waste of food.”

Chun Niang smiled: "It's rare to come to the capital, not to mention we're going back to our hometown tomorrow, and Bao'er bought these for food on the way, so it won't be wasted."

The maid secretly rolled her eyes and said nothing.

The ox cart passed a fruit shop, that is, a large commercial firm that wholesales melons and fruits.

All the melons and fruits from other places entering Beijing must first enter the fruit store before entering the market, so there are many varieties of melons and fruits here.

Yingbao picked some ripe watermelon and longan papaya and weighed them, and also bought a lot of lychees and honeydew melons.

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

Chen Zhao was very happy. He helped move things over and over again, and he didn't feel tired at all.

After buying melons and fruits, Yingbao told the old farmer to continue driving and walk slowly along the street.

Buy a basket when you meet someone who sells charcoal, and buy two charcoal stoves and copper pots for boiling water, including pots for cooking rice.

I also saw a longxu noodle shop, which sold all kinds of dried noodles, and Yingbao also bought two big bags.

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

Next to the Longxu noodle shop is the Miscellaneous Grain Shop. Yingbao went in and bought a lot of local vegetables and miscellaneous grain seeds, such as eggplant, radish, celery, turmeric, spinach, broad beans, lentils, gourds, etc., and bought a large bag of each .

Chunniang was very pleased to accept the seeds handed over by her daughter.

I didn't even think about it so much, but my daughter thought of everything.

Bringing local vegetable seeds back will not only have food for the family in the future, but also benefit the villagers a lot.

The ox cart was walking slowly, Ying Bao and Chen Zhao didn't get on the cart, they just strolled around like this.

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

In the end, 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 koji, and two jars of fermented glutinous rice.

After the autumn harvest, the family will use koji to make some wine, and save it for drinking during the Chinese New Year.

Anyway, her family has a lot of rice, so she doesn't need to sell the grain to pay taxes. As long as the brewed wine is not sold, the government will not care.

On the road, I came across a 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 ceramic bowls were dotted with two slices of dried apricots, which were radiating silk. It's so cold, it looks very attractive.

Chen Zhao swallowed, and looked at Ying Bao pitifully.

She didn't have any penny in her hand, and she could only ask the little baby for help if she wanted to eat, "Senior Sister..."

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

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

"I'll 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 for A Niang, one for herself, and one for Chen Zhao.

It's really refreshing to eat a bowl of iced drinks in the dog days, but it's a pity that I don't have ice, otherwise I can make it for my father and younger brother when I go home.

After eating ice and snow balls, they boarded an ox cart and returned to Xiao's residence.

The maid got two young servants to help move things into the guest courtyard.

The maid Xiaoqing looked at the odd things in the room and couldn't help but wondered: "Little lady bought so many things, how do I take them away?"

Yingbao: "It's okay, I can move two boxes to fit it."

Xiaoqing glanced at the things on the floor, then at the wooden boxes piled up next to her, and was speechless for a while.

There are just a few wooden boxes, let alone two, even if they are all vacated, they will not be able to hold so many things.

Chunniang was also very worried, "Bao'er, can you really hold it?"

"Yeah." If you can't put it on, you have to put it on, as long as you don't let A Niang and the others see how you put it on.

In the evening, Yingbao asked Aniang to take Chen Zhao to wash up next door, and quickly opened the box by herself, and put the things she bought today into it.

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

When Chunniang and Chen Zhao came back, they were surprised to see that the girl had already cleaned up everything in the house. It seemed that everything had been put into a box and locked.

"Is it all in the box?"

"Well, it's all packed in. We can start tomorrow."