Datang: My apprentice is Li Chengqian

Chapter 14: Living in Chang'an, It's Not Easy

Half the size, eat the poor old man.

Although the Qin family would definitely not be short of Qin Xiedao's stuttering, Qin Xiedao hadn't enjoyed such a sumptuous lunch for a long time.

Normally, most people in Datang live on two meals a day.

Of course, wealthy people naturally have all kinds of snacks, so you don't have to worry about them being hungry.

As for ordinary people, with regard to the grain output this year, they must save as much as they can. Even if they are hungry, they are reluctant to eat an extra meal.

After feasting on a big meal of mutton, Qin Xiedao wiped his mouth and walked out of the restaurant leisurely.

I originally thought that all kinds of dishes, whether boiled or stewed, should be unpalatable.

After eating it, I found out that it was actually okay.

Especially that kind of mutton, I don’t know if it’s because the quality is better. After stewing and eating, even if no spices are added, the taste is very good.

That slight smell of mutton was very much to Qin Xiedao's liking.

Of course, it’s okay to eat like this once in a while, but it’s definitely not okay to eat like this every day.

Qin Xiedao still missed cooking, so on the way back home, he went to the blacksmith shop and asked them to make him an iron pot.

Qin Xiedao didn't realize how expensive iron is in this era until the wallet became deflated.

No wonder many farming implements used by villagers in ancient times were made of wood.

"Lang Jun, are you back?"

Seeing Qin Xiedao come back, Yinger breathed a sigh of relief.

The Zhang family put a lot of pressure on her, and Ying Er was afraid that she would not serve Qin Xiedao well, and that she would be kicked out of the Qin residence.

"Yinger, is there any wine at home?"

Thinking that he could get the customized utensils tomorrow, Qin Xiedao began to prepare things.

"Yes, do you need me to bring a jar of wine?"

"Move all the wine in the mansion to my yard, it will be useful to me."

After Qin Xiedao gave the order, Yinger naturally began to carry it out without saying a word.

Soon, four or five jars of wine appeared in his yard.

"Didn't you say to bring all the drinks?"

Looking at the jars of wine in front of him, Qin Xiedao was speechless.

Shouldn't there be a room full of drinks in the home of a fierce general like Qin Qiong?

Why are there so few jars of wine?

"Lang Jun, brewing wine consumes a lot of food, so the price of wine has always been relatively high. A jar of wine like this costs [-] Wen, and the family doesn't have that much money to buy a lot. "

Yinger's words revealed from the side that the Qin family is not rich.

Although the salary these days is not low, it doesn't quite match up with high.

The main reason is that you don’t have to spend your salary alone, but a large group of people eat with you.

For example, the Qin Mansion is already relatively shabby, but adding up the top and bottom, there are more than No. 20 people.

But Qin Qiong is very rigid and doesn't know how to make money.

Like other nobles, even if they are honest and honest officials, the mansion must have their own property.

In the entire Chang'an City, at least half of the shops behind the basic necessities of life are full of distinguished families.

Most of the famous ones belong to famous families.

It cannot be said that there are no such big businessmen without any background, but they are really rare.

Of course, there must be quite a few shopkeepers of small shops, such small merchants.

"Just these few jars of wine, after processing, there will probably be less than one jar left. You can ask someone to buy dozens of jars and come back."

"what?"

Ying Er stared at Qin Xiedao dumbfounded.

This request was obviously beyond her imagination.

"Lang Jun, drinking is harmful to your health, you'd better drink less."

Although he knew that the mansion should be able to spend the money to buy dozens of jars of wine, but for the Qin mansion, this kind of extra expenditure obviously needs to be avoided as much as possible.

Because the current Qin Mansion has long been unable to make ends meet, and is completely subsidized by Zhang's dowry back then.

Ying Er is very clear about this.

"Hurry up and arrange someone to do it! Then buy dozens of catties of saltpeter, I will be useful."

"Are you feeling unwell, sir? Would you like to see a doctor?"

Yinger obviously also has some common sense. When Qin Xiedao asked someone to buy saltpeter, her first reaction was whether he felt uncomfortable somewhere.

Because these days, saltpeter is only sold in medicine shops, and it is a kind of medicinal material.

"Where is there so much nonsense, go if you are told! By the way, buy some candy by the way."

"Is it icing? Sir, this icing is very expensive..."

Yinger felt that she would not be able to report to Mrs. Zhang later.

The Qin family's money is currently in the hands of the Zhang family.

Qin Xiedao arranged for her to buy so many things, he must find Mrs. Zhang in person to get the money.

However, with such a large amount of money spent, the Qin family probably won't have the chance to eat meat this month.

"Icing sugar? Isn't it white sugar?"

Qin Xiedao was also a little dizzy.

I know that there is brown sugar and white sugar, but I have never heard of it called frosting.

"White sugar? The icing sugar looks a bit dark, how could it be white? Sir, are you talking about salt? As long as that thing is white, but it is also white with yellow inside."

Qin Xie said:? ? ?

"You buy a catty first and come back."

"Ah? A catty? Sir, even a catty of icing sugar, even if it is a relatively bad quality icing sugar, it costs at least two or three pennies. You can buy it for two taels, right?"

Although Ying'er didn't want to bargain with Qin Xiedao there, it seemed that she, a maid, had a lot of things to do.

But she is also difficult.

I don't know how to explain it to Mrs. Zhang later.

"You can figure it out, hurry up and make arrangements!"

Qin Xiedao felt a little tired.

Sure enough, there is only one disease in this world, and that is the disease of poverty.

As the second generation of officials, what I did was too much of a failure, right?

Not to mention the rich clothes and fine food, the slaves are in groups, bullying men and women, and even the appetite of the stomach can't be satisfied.

It seems that we must find a way to get some money as soon as possible, so that the Qin family can achieve financial freedom first.

"Yinger, did Xiedao really order you to buy these things?"

Just when Qin Xiedao was thinking about making money like this, in the backyard of the Qin Mansion, Mrs. Zhang looked at Yinger with a embarrassed face.

She roughly estimated in her mind that those things just now cost at least seven or eight pennies.

According to Qin Xiedao, this is the quantity bought after a discount.

If you really let it go and buy it, it is absolutely impossible to do it without a few tens of dollars.

You know, if Qin Qiong's salary for one year is converted into money, it is only a hundred yuan.

How can this one hundred yuan be enough to support more than twenty people?

Living in Chang'an is not easy.

Zhang's heart was very bitter.

However, she still took out some money and asked Ying Er to go out with a few servants.

(End of this chapter)