The next month, Yingbao and Chunniang got up early.
Chen Zhao, who was sleeping on the bed next to him, also quickly got up and put on his clothes, shoes and socks.
After they had finished packing, two maids, Xiaoqing and Xiaodai, came over with water.
"Hey, Xiao Langzhong got up so early, why don't you sleep a little longer?" Xiao Qing asked with a smile.
Chun Niang quickly took the kettle and said, "We want to get up early and go to the West Market to have a look. I would like to ask Miss Xiaoqing to tell my young lady."
The prince's wife is in charge of foreign affairs in the Duke's Mansion, and Xiaoqing and Xiaodai are not people in the prince's wife's yard, so Chun Niang needs to tell Xiaoqing that she and her daughter can go out.
"Since my wife is going to the Western Market, would you please tell the Crown Prince's wife to send a carriage to take us away?" Xiao Qing asked.
Chun Niang went back and said: "No need to bother, can he and Ying Bao go out for a walk? It will be inconvenient to take a carriage."
Xiaoqing didn't force herself, she stood aside and talked for a while, then ordered a maid from the guest house to follow Chun Niang and several others to wait on her, and then left with Xiaodai.
After they washed up and had some breakfast, Ying Bao and Chun Niang Chen Zhao followed the maid out.
Li Qing, who used to live on the wrong side of the street, had already been taken by his grandfather Li Langzhong to live at Wen Jingyan's house, so there were only two Chun Niang and Chen Zhao left in the guest house. Of course, there were also two doorkeepers and two cleaning girls.
The three of them were led by the maid, and walked out of the Duke's Mansion through a side door, passed through the alleyway of the outer courtyard, and then reached the main street.
There are large shops on both sides of the street here, such as gold and silver jewelry shops, silk and satin cloth shops, antique copper shops, incense shops, restaurants, karaoke houses, banks, carriage shops, etc.
After a few people walked around for a while, the servant girl became impatient and complained to Chun Niang: "Madam, the West Market is five or six miles away from there. I am old, how can I walk such a long distance? We might as well hire an oxcart to travel instead.
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Chun Niang looked at her daughter and saw that she was right, so she nodded in agreement: "Then hire an ox cart."
After not walking far, the servant woman called for an ox cart.
The driver was an old farmer who brought vegetables to the city early in the morning to sell. By then the vegetables had been paid to the vendors and he was about to return home when he met someone hiring a driver.
The servant woman made an agreement with him and walked from there to the Western Market, and then sent them back to the house for two hundred coins.
The old farmer was very happy, cleaned the carriage and let a few people walk on.
The bullock cart was walking slowly along the street, and when it came across snacks being sold on the roadside, Yingbao jumped on the cart to buy some and share them with everyone.
The baked crispy sesame cake has a layer of fragrant sesame on the outside and a delicious mutton filling inside. It is very delicious.
Yingbao bought thirty pieces at once, and the shopkeeper weighed five kilograms of uncooked raw sesame seeds.
He took out a few pancakes and shared them with everyone, and gave the rest to my mother-in-law to keep for food on the way back home.
I also met someone selling fried red sausage, blood sausage and haggis, as well as mutton wontons, pepper goose soup, fried tripe lungs, fried cakes, eel soup, etc. I also bought some for everyone to try.
Soon everyone was full and full, including the old farmer who was driving the cart. He felt his belly and burped.
When the maid saw that Yingbao was buying those mutton steamed buns, beef patties, hibiscus cakes, and crispy ring cakes, she said to Chun Niang, "He said, Madam, I can't pamper my children like that. It's going to be so bad tomorrow."
It’s hot, so if you buy so many things and they’ll go rancid in one morning, that’s not a waste of food.”
Chun Niang smiled: "It's rare to come to the capital, not to mention that we will return to our hometown next month. If Bao'er buys it, he can save it for food on the way, and it won't be wasted."
The servant girl secretly rolled her eyes and said nothing.
The oxcart passes by a fruit store, which is a large trading house that wholesales fruits.
Any fruits from other places that come to Beijing must first enter the fruit shop before entering the market, so there are many varieties of fruits there.
Yingbao picked out some ripe watermelons, longans and papayas and weighed them, and bought a lot of lychees and honeydew melons.
After carrying them all on the bullock cart, the servant woman was too lazy to say anything else, so she closed her eyes and dozed off.
Chen Zhao was very happy. He went to help move things and didn't feel tired at all.
After buying the melons and fruits, Yingbao asked the old farmer to continue driving the car and walked slowly along the street.
If you meet a charcoal seller, buy a basket, as well as two charcoal stoves and copper kettles for boiling water, including pots for cooking rice.
Then I saw a Longxu Noodles shop selling all kinds of dried noodles, and Yingbao also bought two large bags.
Then she watched in front of the shop for a long time, watching how they pulled the noodles and dried them.
There is a grain shop next to the Longxu Noodle Shop. Yingbao went in and bought a lot of local vegetable and grain seeds, such as eggplant, radish, celery, turmeric, spinach, broad beans, lentils, gourds, etc., and bought a large amount of each.
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Chun Niang took the seed from her daughter and was very pleased.
I didn't even think that much, but my daughter thought of everything.
By bringing local vegetable seeds back, not only will your family have vegetables to eat in the future, but the villagers will also benefit a lot.
The bullock cart was walking slowly, and Ying Bao and Chen Zhao were not in the cart either. They just strolled along.
Whenever I see something new, I buy some and put them on the cart, such as shrimp paste, crab roe sauce, mature vinegar and vinegar radish, vinegar courgette, sweet vinegar garlic, etc. I buy two jars of each.
First he 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 yeast, and two jars of fermented glutinous rice wine.
After the autumn harvest, the family will use the distiller's yeast to brew some wine and keep it for drinking during the New Year and festivals.
Anyway, her family has a lot of rice, so she doesn't need to sell the grain to pay taxes. She just prays that the wine she brews will not be sold, and the government will not care about it.
On the way, I encountered another shop selling iced drinks, and saw two young ladies standing by the counter, holding bowls in their legs and eating. The snow-red meatballs in the pottery bowl were garnished with two slices of apricot preserves.
It's cool and looks very attractive.
Chen Zhao swallowed his saliva and looked at Ying Bao pitifully.
She doesn't have a penny in her legs. If she wants to eat, she can ask the little doll for help, "Senior Sister..."
Ying Bao wiped the sweat from her forehead and said, "You can take whatever you want to eat and he will pay for it."
Chen Zhao had helped a lot along the way, and he was not particularly stingy, so it was okay to treat her to a bowl of iced drink.
"That's what he'll eat!" Chen Zhao pointed to the ice bowls in the legs of the two young ladies.
As a result, Yingbao bought three more bowls of ice-snowed sugar balls, one bowl for her grandma, one for herself, and one bowl for Chen Zhao.
It was really refreshing to have a bowl of iced drink in the dog days of summer, so I complained that I didn’t have ice, otherwise I could make it for my father and younger brother to try when I got home.
After eating the ice-snow dumplings, a few people walked back to Xiao Mansion in an ox cart.
The maid hired two boys to help carry things into the guest house.
The maid Xiaoqing looked at the scattered things in the room and couldn't help but said in surprise: "Young lady has bought so many things, how can I take them away?"
Ying Bao: "Mei Xing is the type. He can just move two boxes to load things."
Xiaoqing glanced at the things on the floor, then at the wooden boxes piled next to him, and was speechless for a moment.
There are only a few wooden boxes, let alone two. Even if they were all used up, they wouldn't be able to hold so many things.
Chun Niang was also very worried, "Bao'er, are you really pretending?"
"Yeah." If you can't pretend, you have to pretend, just don't let A Niang and the others see how you are pretending.
In the morning, Yingbao asked her mother to take Chen Zhao to the next door to wash up. She quickly opened the box and put the things Mingyue bought inside.
The melons, fruits, mutton, steamed buns, pickles, wine jars, etc. were put into the cave, some of the seeds were also put in, and the rest were locked in the wooden box.
When Chun Niang and Chen Zhao came back, they were surprised to see that their daughter had cleaned everything in the house and put everything into boxes and locked them.
"Is it all packed in a box?"
"Well, it's all packed in. We can set off tomorrow."
