After eating and drinking in the restaurant, Jiang Fan took Lin Wanqing around for a while in Heyang City.
Not only did Lin Wanqing like the excitement, Jiang Fan himself was also full of curiosity about this real ancient city.
The wandering on the street before was just a quick tour. In order to exchange money tickets as soon as possible, I didn't really take a careful tour.
After dinner, it would take quite a while for Su Xiaonuan and others to do their shopping, which gave Jiang Fan and Lin Wanqing plenty of time.
Take a leisurely stroll along the streets of Heyang City, with teahouses, taverns, pawn shops, and workshops on both sides.
There are many vendors with big umbrellas in the open spaces on both sides of the street.
The streets extend to the east, west, north, and south, and there are endless pedestrians moving in and out. There are literally hundreds of houses like a chess game, and the twelve streets are like vegetable beds.
People carrying burdens on their way, people driving oxen and horse-drawn carriages to deliver goods, people stopping to admire the scenery along the inland river, there are all kinds of people flowing there.
With the tall Prince Wu's Mansion as the center, there were rows of buildings on both sides. Jiang Fan walked among them and felt that the beautiful "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" was so truly presented in front of his eyes.
It's like a picture scroll, like a dream.
It was not until dusk that Jiang Fan and Lin Wanqing arrived at the previously agreed meeting place.
For a whole afternoon, both of them felt lingering.
Lin Wanqing has a little girl's nature and naturally likes this kind of bustling and lively scene. Jiang Fan is experiencing this kind of ancient city for the first time and feels that everything is new and surprising.
"Second Miss, Mr. Jiang, according to your instructions, all five hundred coins have been spent!"
When Su Xiaonuan saw Jiang Fan and Lin Wanqing finally arrived, she hurriedly greeted them with excitement and said with a smile.
Behind him, fifteen Lin family members all looked beaming with joy.
The boards of the ten donkey carts were already piled high, and the ten donkeys pulling the carts looked very out of breath. I didn’t know if they could hold on and pull all these things back to the Lin family.
Village.
After a whole afternoon of shopping, Su Xiaonuan and his party had just bought all the things they needed. They arrived at the agreed-upon gathering place and waited for less than a quarter of an hour.
"Hey, what a harvest, what did you buy?"
Jiang Fan looked at the ten donkey carts and asked with a smile.
The floor of the donkey cart was covered with canvas, so you couldn't see what was being pulled on it.
"This donkey can pull up to 1,500 kilograms of things, so for the time being, I only bought 100 shi of grain first. However, the price of grain has risen again. One shi has already cost 400 jin, so this 100 shi of grain will cost
A total of forty strings."
Su Xiaonuan said with some distress.
One stone in the Zhou Dynasty was roughly equivalent to about one hundred catties, so one hundred stones was equivalent to ten thousand catties of grain.
Almost enough to feed four hundred people for a month.
"You didn't just buy food, did you? That food is too monotonous."
Jiang Fan asked in shock.
"How is it possible? Am I that stupid? Besides, Mr. Jiang, you gave me five hundred guan directly, and you can't use them all just to buy food. So I took them and bought ten big fat pigs and fifty sheep.
I bought another hundred bolts of cloth and other odds and ends, so I spent all five hundred dollars!"
Su Xiaonuan grinned widely and continued with a smile: "The cloth here is expensive. One hundred pieces of cloth cost more than two hundred strings. Those people in the family must be going crazy with joy. Not only do they have food and meat,
, and you can also get new cloth to make new clothes. I haven’t lived like this in many years, it’s like a dream.”
"Okay, okay, go back to your eldest lady and divide it according to your eldest lady's request. Wan Qing and I will go to Fujiang Garden to play in a while, so we won't be with you."
Seeing that Su Xiaonuan seemed to be reporting exactly what she had bought in detail, Jiang Fan suddenly felt overwhelmed and hurriedly waved his hand and said.
"Uh... Mr. Jiang, if it's just you and the second lady, it's a bit difficult to guarantee safety."
Su Xiaonuan was startled for a moment, and then said with some embarrassment.
"Isn't your second lady a seventh-grade expert? This safety cannot be guaranteed?"
Jiang Fan was also a little startled.
The key is that in Heyang City, generally speaking, you won’t encounter any danger, right?
A big city like this must be an area under strong government control, and the order should not be chaotic anyway.
"But there are ninth-grade experts in Heyang City. Second Miss, the seventh-grade one, is simply not good enough. If you are not afraid of ten thousand, just be afraid of the worst. If something happens to you accidentally, we can
I can't explain it to the eldest lady. Let's do this... Tieniu, you stay to protect Mr. Jiang's safety, and the others will go back with me to deliver things."
Su Xiaonuan said, turned and shouted in the direction of the fifteen Lin family members.
As soon as he finished speaking, a majestic man whose size was not as big as that of Su Xiaonuan, but not much different, came out of the crowd and came to Jiang Fan.
"Mr. Jiang, this Tieniu is a genuine ninth grade. Although it is only lower than ninth grade, it should be enough to ensure your safety in Heyang City. We will go back now. You and the second lady can have fun."
Su Xiaonuan cupped her fists and raised her hands, and after saying this with a smile, she turned around, waved her hand, and returned happily with the donkey team.
Jiang Fan looked at the strong man next to him who was at least 1.9 meters tall and couldn't help but roll his eyes.
He turned to Lin Wanqing and asked: "Speaking of which, the ninth-grade master is already considered the top expert here, right? Since you have such a master in your family, why do you still worry about food?"
Lin Wanqing glanced at Jiang Fan strangely, and asked in confusion: "What is the relationship between masters and food? No matter how powerful our family is, they will still starve to death if there is no food to eat."
"I mean, since you are already considered a top expert, isn't it very easy to make money? Besides, the status of masters here should be very high, right? Don't mention anything else, just that the money was like a mountain before,
If you are so rich, if there are top-notch ninth-grade experts to offer you as offerings, they will definitely be willing to support you."
Jiang Fan rubbed his temples and felt that he and Lin Wanqing didn't seem to be on the same channel, so he could only speak in more detail.
"We are servants of the Lin family. We only serve the eldest and second young ladies and serve as offerings to others. That is betrayal of the family!"
The strong man who was called Tieniu suddenly said in an angry voice.
"Yes, and how easy is it to make money? We can't do things that violate the law. The only way to make money through force is to help the government catch those strongmen with bounties. But those strongmen don't
It’s easy to deal with, and all kinds of relationships in the world are complicated. If we provoke too many right-wing masters, it will be a big trouble for our Lin family."
Lin Wanqing pouted and said.
Jiang Fan was immediately speechless.
I can only lament that people in feudal society... have such simple thoughts!
Are you all idiots?! It’s like a real-life version of a hero being stumped by a penny...
"Forget it, let's go. It's almost time for the opening of Fujiang Garden. Let's go and see what this first garden in the North looks like."
Jiang Fan reached out and rubbed his temples, and said helplessly.
There is still a long way to go to reform the feudal people's thoughts...