Xu's mother was still obsessed with Yu Yanshuang. When she heard that Jiang Miao wanted to open a shop in partnership with Xu Zilan, she was even more excited than Xu Zilan.
"Promise her quickly, promise her quickly!"
Once she opens the shop, she will have the right of first refusal and can use as much as she wants.
If Xu's mother was worried before that Xu Zilan, a young lady who had not yet left the government, would have a bad reputation when doing business, she no longer had such worries at all.
Anyway, the princes in the capital don't like her daughter, so it's better to do as she pleases now. They are merchants and they just like the smell of copper. Let those people dislike her.
"Well, I'll write a reply to her right away."
Furong Town
The people Jiang Miao sent out to buy came back one after another, and everyone returned with laden loads. The carriage was filled with medicinal materials, beeswax, pork suet and other items, and the smell could be smelled from a distance.
Zhang Yong and Liu Laoqi got off two carriages respectively. Both of them were Jiang Miaoxuan's purchasing stewards. They were both literate, smooth and clever.
In particular, Zhang Yong's ancestors were also successful candidates. Because of this, Zhang Yong was taken to school for two years by his father when he was a child. Later, after his father passed away, the family had no source of income, so he could only drop out of school early and fight against the bag on the dock.
But I haven’t forgotten the words I learned when I was a child, so this comes in handy.
And Liu Laoqi is a few years older than Zhang Yong. Like Lian Pozi, he also worked as a servant for a wealthy businessman. Although he was just a steward of a small shop, compared to other illiterate people, he was already very rich.
A capable person.
The two of them led their men around the surrounding cities for five days, and finally bought everything Jiang Miao wanted.
"Madam, everything is here."
"good!"
Jiang Miao took a quick look and knew that what they bought was of high quality.
Take this most inconspicuous piece of pork suet, for example. It is completely white with no impurities visible. This eliminates the step of removing impurities, and the resulting jade cream is more delicate and smooth. She looked at a few more pieces, and they were all in good quality.
Excellent, Jiang Miao passed the initial test on the two of them, and they paid careful attention to this purchase.
"Thank you for your hard work. Let's go and have a rest first. Shi Lei, ask the brothers to cook a pot of thick porridge for them. There is half a chicken and some mushrooms in the kitchen. Put them all in and cook them."
Jiang Miao is not a boss who treats her subordinates harshly. She will not treat Zhang Yong and Liu Laoqi badly if they handle things for her.
And now that we have the raw materials, things like fragrant beads and jade cream will be made soon.
When the things are sold, she will have money to buy food. Who knows how much effort it took to suppress the appetite in Jiang Miao's purchase this time. Now she doesn't eat meat, even vegetables are treasured, and she drinks white porridge every day.
The birds have faded out.
"Thank you ma'am!"
"Thank you ma'am!"
Zhang Yong and Liu Laoqi didn't know what Jiang Miao was thinking. When they heard that they would have chicken soup and mushroom porridge later, they couldn't help but swallow.
Although they were out shopping these days, and Jiang Miao also gave them money to buy food, they both remembered the purchase task. The money was for medicinal materials, and these things were related to the future life of Zhenjiang Mansion.
They are both married people with children. At the moment, they are more concerned about the development of Zhenjiang Prefecture. Their personal appetites have been forgotten, so neither of them was willing to spend the money given by Jiang Miao. They bought a few steamed buns on the way to cope with it.
In the past, I used the extra money to buy medicinal materials. How could I not be happy now that I have chicken soup and porridge?
Jiang Miao also recognized the character of the two of them and rewarded them specially. If they had good food and drink on the road, Jiang Miao wouldn't think anything of it, but both of them care about Zhenjiang Prefecture and put their personal preferences on the people of the whole city.
Later, Jiang Miao felt that they were still worth entrusting to her, and she had a better impression of the two of them.
The buyers here followed Shi Lei to repair and eat, and the women who went to the mountains to pick flowers and grass there also came back.
"Madam, madam, look what we found!"
Mrs. Chang ran over excitedly holding a basket. Her face was red and her hair on her temples was wet and stuck to her face, but she could not hide her happiness at all.
"Madam, you see it's Pao'er Ci!"
Mrs. Chang handed the basket to Jiang Miao. Jiang Miao lowered her head and her eyes suddenly lit up.
Paul's thorn? Isn't this a wild raspberry? Its scientific name is raspberry. It usually grows in the mountains and matures in May and June. The sweet and sour taste is very popular with children. Jiang Miao also climbed the mountain to pick it when she was a child, one bite at a time.
, quench thirst and satisfy cravings.
Jiang Miao's mouth became salivating as she smelled the sweetness of the raspberries. The basket was full of red fruits, which looked delightful. She swallowed her saliva and asked.
"Is this fruit also picked from the mountain?"
After Jiang Miao asked, she felt that she had said nonsense. If it wasn't picked from the mountain, could it have appeared out of thin air?
Now the shops in Zhenjiang Prefecture are not open yet, and no one is selling anything on the street. Mrs. Chang must have picked it on the mountain, but Mrs. Chang didn't take it to heart. She is now filled with the joy of picking raspberries.
"No, just on the mountain outside our city, there are these things halfway up the mountain..."
The outside of the mountain was cleared by the common people. This time, because they wanted to collect flowers and plants, the common people went a little further inside, so they discovered the mountain full of fruits.
You know, they don't dare to go in on weekdays because there are wild animals in the mountains. Some people were so hungry that they went into the mountains alone before, but in the end they never came out. Later, they didn't dare to enter the mountains no matter how hungry they were. After all, no one could
Don't dare to risk your life.
But it's different now. With a bunch of people emboldened, the common people dared to explore inside, and the mountain is indeed rich in supplies.
In addition to flowers and plants, the people also found some wild vegetables and fruits. The wild vegetables were given to Shi Lei to cook porridge for the people to eat. The fruits collected before were few, so the people gave them to several children, picking them like Mrs. Chang.
This was the first time that the basket was full, so not only Mrs. Chang was excited, Jiang Miao was also happy.
"Madam, I'll give you all to eat."
Mrs. Chang is not stingy at all. She tasted one when she picked it earlier and thought it tasted sweet and sour. Madam must have liked it, so she picked a full basket and gave it to Jiang Miao.
When Jiang Miao heard Mrs. Chang's words, she paused and doubts flashed in her eyes.
"Give it all to me?"
"Yes, if it weren't for Madam, we wouldn't have had the chance to find these fruits!"
The people in Zhenjiang Prefecture regarded Jiang Miao and Shen Yanqing as living Bodhisattvas and wished they could give all the good things to them.
However, the family is now very poor. Let alone good things, they can't even afford a grain of rice or a vegetable. They can only work hard for Jiang Miao to repay them. Now that Mrs. Chang has found wild raspberries, she has something to repay.
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This fruit is sweet and delicious. It was not considered a good thing before, but now Zhenjiang Prefecture is short of everything, and Jiang Miao only eats white porridge like them. Mrs. Chang feels that she must like these fruits.
