Small supermarket welcomes visitors from all directions

Chapter 54: Continue shopping in the supermarket

"Let's go to the supermarket first! As for what you mentioned, let's talk about it when we get back!" said the Queen Mother.

"Let's talk about it when we get back!" The main thing is that the attitude of the supermarket is still unknown. If the supermarket agrees, Emperor Yonghui can immediately put Tang Qiao in the supermarket. As for the job at hand, others can do it! Can the Ming Dynasty still lack someone to do things?

For example, Prince Fu is totally fine! He wants to keep himself alive before he is even 40 years old. What good things are you thinking? I am still two years older than him! He gets up early and goes to bed late every day. Thinking about how hard it is to be an emperor, his life is not beautiful anymore.

The three of them continued walking forward and went to the fruit section next to the vegetable section. The dazzling array of fruits was too much to take in, red, green, blue and white.

Although Tang Qiao did not buy these fruits in the Ming Dynasty, he still sent them to the palace several times. However, due to the low temperature in the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Yonghui and the Empress Dowager did not want to use fruits.

So these fruits suddenly became rare commodities.

"Qiao'er! What kinds of fruits are these? I haven't eaten many of them." The Queen Mother asked Tang Qiao.

"Grandma Huang, this is a banana. This is also a banana but it's not a same variety. This is an improved variety of banana, which is more expensive here," Tang Qiao introduced.

"They are so beautiful! I can eat several of them in one go." The Queen Mother especially liked these small bananas.

"Is this a fruit?" Emperor Yonghui pointed at a golden object that looked like a palm. He didn't know if it was a fruit. Although it was placed in the fruit section, it didn't look like a fruit at all.

"This is Buddha's hand! It's a fruit. I was also surprised when I saw it for the first time. It looks so much like the palm of your hand." Tang Qiao was a little hesitant to eat it when he saw it for the first time.

"Show me which one it is!" The Queen Mother was admiring cherries and was immediately captivated by their gem-like appearance. When she heard Tang Qiao say that the fruit looked like a palm, she wanted to see it for herself.

Following Tang Qiao's line of sight, it was golden in color and really looked like a palm. It didn't look like a fruit at all, it was simply a work of art!
"When I get back, I will ask the craftsmen to carve an identical one for me using topaz and place it in the Cining Palace. And it's a good name, too." The Empress Dowager was very satisfied with her decision.

"Why does this look similar to the winter melon just now? What is this?" Emperor Yonghui asked, pointing at a jackfruit.

"We don't have this over there. It's a tropical fruit called jackfruit, and it's delicious. Oh! The one with big thorns over here is called durian. Uncle and grandmother, you can smell it." Tang Qiao left the question in suspense.

The Empress Dowager was close by and sniffed it without thinking much: "What's broken? Why does it smell like that?" As she spoke she fanned the air with her hand.

Although the Empress Dowager said so, Emperor Yonghui still went to smell it. After all, it didn't look bad. As a result, he smelled it and said, "It's not bad! It has a very special smell."

"My son! Is your nose broken? It's obviously smelly, but you actually say it's special." The Queen Mother was very confused.

"Grandma, Uncle Huang's nose is fine. This fruit is called durian. Many people think it stinks, but some people think it smells really good. It has a very high nutritional value. People here say that one durian is equivalent to three chickens, so many pregnant women here will buy a lot to eat. I don't know if it works?"

"How could anyone like this taste?" The Queen Mother was a little confused.

"This is not surprising. They have a snack called stinky tofu here. The smell can really spread ten miles away. The supermarket owner ate it once, and I could still smell it for several days after I came here."

Tang Qiao now has no way to accept the fact that Miss Xiaoyue likes to eat stinky tofu. Anyway, he would never eat it even if he was beaten to death, even if everyone said it was delicious.

Emperor Yonghui also said: "Let's go tell the boss later and let us try one. It really doesn't smell bad to me." "Let's talk about it after the boss and the others have finished their meal!" Tang Qiao could barely accept the durian, but forget about the stinky tofu.

Emperor Yonghui said, "Qiao'er, please introduce all of these to us! There are indeed many that we have never seen before."

"This is a yellow peach, this is a kiwi, this is a dragon fruit, these are grapes, this is an apple and a pear..."

"We don't have some of the fruits they have, and half of them are available in the Ming Dynasty. We eat the tribute fruits, but the quality is not as good as these. Qiao'er, do you know what's going on?"

"Not only the appearance, but also the taste is far worse. I have asked about this, and they also went through many generations of cultivation, seed selection, hybridization, and grafting to achieve the current appearance and taste. We can take a shortcut, and many varieties can be obtained through grafting. These can be discussed in the future."

It was obvious that Tang Qiao already had a plan in mind.

"This matter must be implemented when the weather warms up, you must remember it!" Emperor Yonghui warned.

"no problem!"

The three of them kept walking forward, but there was nothing that particularly attracted Emperor Yonghui. Although they were very exquisite, they could be made in the Ming Dynasty.

I walked all the way to the knife area, where all the knives were stainless steel. Of course, the knives here were all consumer goods, such as kitchen knives, machetes, paring knives, watermelon knives, cake knives, Western-style knives...

"Are there so many varieties of knives?" The Queen Mother was concerned about the styles of the knives.

"How come these knives are all white and have no rust at all? These are a little dusty, but still not rusty, and there are no signs of sharpening. Qiao'er, do you know what's going on?"

As a qualified emperor, what he was thinking about at this time was whether he could bring this technology to the Ming Dynasty to increase the strength of the army.

"This is stainless steel. Other materials are added during the refining process to prevent the steel from rusting. People here like to use this material."

"It is indeed very beautiful, and most importantly, it does not rust! It is just great." The Queen Mother exclaimed.

Emperor Yonghui picked up a machete, which was very heavy, weighing about a pound. "Are you saying that this knife is made entirely of steel?"

"Yes!"

"The technology here is really advanced. They can use such a large piece of steel to make a kitchen knife."

Emperor Yonghui sighed, and then said to the two: "Do you know? This level of knife is the level of sword in our Ming Dynasty. In other words, only the generals of our Ming Dynasty can use the kitchen knives here."

Tang Qiao knew a little bit, but the Empress Dowager was not very clear about these weapons and other knowledge. After all, no one required a woman in the harem to know about weapons!

"Really? Is it really that powerful?" The Queen Mother was shocked.