reborn princess

Chapter 302 Butter Cake
"There are also golden lacquer wood carving ornaments from Chaozhou City, Sifangzhu pipes from Xiqiao Mountain, tea leaves from Ma'er Mountain, jute and kenaf from Dawan County, and crystals from Dazhaoqing. Ornaments and sandalwood fans, lotus root powder from Hangzhou, Baicao oil from Luofu Mountain, bamboo toothpicks from Longmen, everything you need."

Ye Weilan couldn't help laughing and said, "Aren't you a grocery store now?"

The clerk also laughed and said, "Isn't our firm just a big grocery store?"

While talking, the man led her to a shelf dedicated to placing dishes, and rows of dishes were neatly placed on the shelf.

The shapes and patterns of the bowls and plates are different, there are fine white porcelain, blue and white, and pastel. Take the plates as an example, there are round, oval, rectangular, shell-shaped, all kinds of shapes, very beautiful .

Ye Weilan is a person who likes exquisite objects, and has a strong interest in beautiful things. When she sees these beautiful bowls and plates, she can't put them down. When she asked the price one by one, she picked some, and then chose randomly. I bought some other rare things, then paid a deposit, and asked the buddy to help me send it home.

After ordering these big items, Ye Weilan went to the grain and oil shop again, focusing on purchasing various beans, glutinous rice flour, rice flour and other things, as well as fresh soybean oil.

After purchasing all these things, she came to the vegetable market again.

Because it is the end of the year, the vegetable market is unprecedentedly prosperous, there are a lot of vendors doing business, and there are also a lot of people who come to buy new year's goods, so Song Hengzhi didn't drive the carriage in, but waited in the open space at the entrance of the vegetable market, and bought All the tasks are handed over to Ye Weilan.Because Xuan Chen and the others followed, he was very relieved.

Ye Weilan held a vegetable basket in her hand, and looked at the stalls one by one, because a lot of New Year gifts were received this year, whether it was Zhou Qing or Baili Xiao, the gifts were very thoughtful, and the food, vegetables, and vegetables were all provided. She has everything, and there is nothing lacking in the house. She just wants to buy some rarer things.

But before she bought anything, she saw that Luan Ying's deerskin pouch and arms had become bulging, and she was holding a bunch of red candied haws in her hands, and her mouth was full of sugar residue.

Xuan Chen felt ashamed, so he deliberately stayed away from him, and walked side by side with Ye Weilan.

Ye Weilan thought it was fun, and couldn't help asking Xuan Chen, "Luan Ying can eat so much, why isn't she fat at all?"

"Who knows where all the things he ate went?" Xuan Chen said, turning his face angrily to glance at Luan Ying, and saw Luan Ying standing in front of a stall selling spiced peanuts, buying peanuts, He raised his hand to his forehead in frustration.

"Huh? Milk tofu?" Ye Weilan suddenly discovered something new, and stopped in front of a stall. There was a small plate on the stand, and there was a piece of tofu on the plate. This thing looked a bit like tofu, but Definitely not tofu as the color was wrong and it seemed smoother than the surface of the tofu.

The man who set up the stall was an old man in his fifties with a black and red face. He smiled and said, "This milk tofu is made by myself. It is clean and delicious. The little girl looks like she came from the Central Plains, right? How dare you Knowing this kind of milk tofu, it can be seen that he is knowledgeable."

"You sell milk tofu here, so you must also sell butter, right?" Ye Weilan rolled her eyes and said.

The old man lifted up a piece of muslin cloth, revealing a fat-like lump inside, and said, "Of course, you see, little girl, when you add a little butter to the steamed buns, the milky steamed buns you make are also delicious." .”

Ye Weilan asked, "Then how do you sell this butter?"

The old man stretched out two fingers, "Two coins and one tael."

Ye Weilan felt that it was a bit expensive, and frowned slightly, and was about to bargain, when Xuan Chen said, "This butter is boiled out of milk skin, and only twenty or thirty catties can be sold for one catty, so it's rare , Two coins and one tael of silver are really not expensive."

Ye Weilan couldn't help but glared at him angrily, thinking that this kid was nothing if he didn't set the price for her, but he even spoke for the seller.

After hearing what he said, the old man laughed out loud, and raised a thumbs up at him, "Little brother is well-informed, and that's what he said. Little girl, my old lady ate my butter." It’s a lot of hard work. It’s really not expensive. It’s the end of the year, and there’s only so much left. On normal days, people from Nanbei Commercial Bank will come to me to collect the goods. They ship it elsewhere to sell it, and the price can be doubled several times.”

Xuan Chen pushed Ye Weilan aside, "Buy some and go home, I'll make butter cake for you to eat, it's delicious."

Ye Weilan glanced at him indifferently, a little in disbelief, with his young man's virtue, he can still make chicken cakes?
Xuan Chen saw the disdain in her eyes, and was a little annoyed, "What? You don't believe I can make dim sum?"

"I believe it! I'm just a little surprised!" Ye Weilan decided to coax him. After all, only by making him happy and building a good relationship with him can she use him in the future.

She pointed to the small piece of butter on the stall, "How much is this piece?"

The old man quickly wrapped the piece of butter with a piece of oil paper, then took out the scale and weighed it, and said with a smile, "It weighs four taels and two taels, eight cents and four cents."

Ye Weilan was just about to take the money, but Xuan Chen said with a smile: "Old man, why don't you wipe off the quarter of the silver?"

The old man said with a bitter face: "Little brother, the family has worked so hard for so long, and this is what they earn!"

Xuan Chen folded his hands behind his back and said, "Old man, the people from Nanbei Commercial Bank will give you eight cents a tael at most when they collect butter from you, but yours is wholesale, so I didn't follow you if you asked for two cents a tael for retail sales." You set the price, but you should be kind in doing business anyway, give us a little change, and we will come to buy from you next time."

"Uh..." The old man was a little silly, thinking to himself, how does this young man know the price that Nanbei Trading Company came to accept the goods from him?
When Ye Weilan heard what Xuan Chen said, she also smiled and said, "That's right, old man, you can give us a little bit cheaper."

The old man smiled wryly and said, "Well, eight qian silver is eight qian silver."

Ye Weilan happily gave him a tael of silver, and he gave her two strings of change, and handed her the piece of butter wrapped in oiled paper, she put the butter in the basket, turned around Just when he was about to leave, Xuan Chen took the basket from her hand to his own.

"Let me get it!" Xuan Chen said lightly. "Anything else to buy?"

"Uh..." Ye Weilan looked at him. Today he was wearing a squirrel fur coat with a long hem that covered his ankles, a pair of suede moccasin boots on his feet, and a white fox hat on his head. The leather hat gave him the aura of a nobleman, but the vegetable basket in his hand completely destroyed this aura.

She couldn't help but raised her hand, covered her mouth with a faint smile, then reached out to him and said, "Give me the basket, you look so strange."

"What's strange?" He rolled his eyes and glanced at her, plausibly speaking. "My mother said that when a man and a woman go out together, and the man helps the woman carry things, this is called a gentleman's demeanor!"

Ye Weilan didn't understand, and asked curiously: "What wind are you talking about... What speed?"

"You still don't understand!" Xuan Chen raised his chin arrogantly. "Let's go, aren't there still so many stalls left?"

As he said that, he walked towards the next stall with four square steps. Seeing that he insisted on this, Ye Weilan couldn't insist anymore.Moreover, she felt that he was willing to take the initiative to carry the basket for her, which really made her feel very considerate.

The two bought a lot of things miscellaneously. Ye Weilan was surprised to find that with him, he could actually help save a lot of money. This kid is usually quiet, but he is a good bargainer. Sometimes there are not many things. She was too embarrassed to bargain with others for a small amount of money, but he asked others to give him a cheaper price without changing his face.

In addition, this kid has a handsome little face, and when he meets a woman who sells things, he really takes advantage of a lot, and sometimes people take the initiative to give him the advantage, which makes her feel really uncomfortable for a while .

When the four came out of the vegetable market, each of them had a lot of things in their hands. They found Song Hengzhi at the entrance of the vegetable market, put the things in the carriage, and then the four of them sat down tightly in the carriage.

When everyone returned home, after a while, Nanbei Trading Company just delivered the food boxes and bowls. Ye Weilan paid the money and gave a reward, and then led Li Feng, Song Jiayin, Aunt Du, Da Niu and Du Xi Nuo five people started to make snacks together.

But today is just preparing the materials, not making it officially. The glutinous rice and red beans need to be picked out of the sand inside, and then soaked in water overnight before they can be used.

Xuan Chen also brought Luan Ying over. He changed into bunt clothes, took a few eggs, broke them in a large bowl, put some sugar in it, and then grabbed a handful of chopsticks and handed them to Luan Ying asked Luan Ying to stand aside holding a large bowl and beat the egg liquid desperately.

And Xuan Chen asked Li Feng for some fresh milk, and put it in the big sea bowl together with the piece of cream they bought, then filled a basin with some hot water, and melted the cream through the bowl, and then Also holding a large handful of chopsticks, he stood aside and stirred desperately.

Li Feng couldn't help asking: "Master Xuan, what are you doing?"

Xuan Chen said with a smile: "I bought some butter today, I plan to make some butter cakes to eat."

Li Feng couldn't help fussing, "Oh, my little ancestor, you have a noble status, why do you still do these rough jobs?"

Xuan Chen said quickly: "My mother said, you don't have to be too busy with skills, learn more crafts, and if my family goes bankrupt in the future, I can still earn a living."

Li Feng didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "My son, at such a young age, how could he say such unlucky words?"

Xuan Chen hooked the corner of his mouth and said: "The world is impermanent!"

(End of this chapter)