"Not many. There are twenty jars each of braised chicken, duck, goose, and fish, ten jars each of various braised vegetables, and ten jars each of sauerkraut and salted vegetables. Do you have any other pickled vegetables at home?"

There are six kinds of vegetables at home: radish, white cabbage, winter melon, amaranth, bok choy, and rapeseed. That makes sixty jars of pickled vegetables.

Twenty jars each of braised meat, braised fish, braised chicken, braised duck, and braised goose, totaling one hundred jars.

There are ten jars of pickled cabbage and ten jars of salted vegetables, which is sixty jars of each. Adding the pickled fish and twenty jars of salted fish, the total is one hundred and forty jars.

That is, two hundred jars of pickled vegetables.

Shen Yu was stunned for a moment, and when she heard the eldest sister of the You family ask this question, she immediately replied:

"Yes, yes! I just don't know when Mrs. Fan will need it! Can your family finish it all?"

“If you don’t have much stock, I’ll only bring what you currently have! There are several officials in the capital who love to eat this. Some of it we keep for ourselves, and some we give away! We can’t possibly eat it all ourselves!” said Sister You.

"Madam Fan, we still have ten jars of braised meat and fish, and ten jars of pickled vegetables, a total of twenty jars! Do you need these urgently? If not, we will deliver them to you in two months at the latest. It's just that the braised fish will take longer, about six months!"

Sister You said, "There's no rush. Good things come to those who wait!" As she spoke, she took out all the silver notes she was carrying.

Although Shen Yu wasn't very literate, she recognized the words "five hundred taels": "Five...five hundred taels! Madam, you don't need that much!"

One jar of braised meat costs 200 coins, and twenty jars cost 4,000 coins, which is eight taels of silver. One jar of braised fish costs 100 coins, and twenty jars cost 2,000 coins, which is four taels of silver.

Braised goose and duck meat are more expensive, costing 270 coins per jar, and 40 jars cost 10,800 coins, which is 21 taels and 300 coins.

Pickled fish and salted fish have a fixed price: one hundred coins per jar, and twenty jars cost two thousand coins, which is four taels of silver.

All kinds of pickled vegetables have a uniform price of 80 cash per jar, and 60 jars cost 9 taels and 300 cash.

Pickled vegetables and preserved vegetables are priced the same, at eighty coins per jar, and sixty jars are also nine taels and three hundred coins.

Pickled cabbage costs only fifty coins per jar, and sixty jars cost three thousand coins, which is six taels of silver.

The total is fifty-four taels and four hundred cash.

Shen Yu said this.

Sister You smiled and said, "There are forty-odd taels for you to use as transportation fees, and two hundred taels are for you to buy ice chests and ice blocks. In addition, I would like to buy some fruit from your house and send it over! You can take it with you when the time comes!"

"Fruit?"

The fruit trees in our yard have been planted for two years, and I expect that most of them will bear fruit in another two or three months.

"When I first arrived, I could smell the fragrance of your fruit trees in bloom for miles around. Could it be that you don't grow any fruit trees?" Sister You asked.

"Plant it! Plant it!" Shen Yu said. She didn't know if the fruit would spoil when it was transported to the capital. What would happen if it did?

"It's good that you planted them! My sister said that the peaches from your tree last year were so fresh and sweet, even better than other people's! Don't laugh at me for being greedy, I'm just looking forward to eating a few this year!"

Sister You said.

Watermelons on the market cost 20 coins per pound, and a watermelon weighs about six or seven pounds.

Shen Yu happily loaded all twenty jars onto the carriage that Sister You was riding in. After Sister You and Sister You Sanmei left, Shen Yu sat down with Niu Cuihua and Niu Da, the eight members of the family, under the gauze lantern to talk.

Chen Yu said, "Madam Fan also ordered two hundred catties of fruit from me. Honey, I don't think we'll have time to manage the shop! Madam Fan's purchase is equivalent to four or five months' worth of our income!"

Aside from the time she unearthed a treasure, Shen Yu had never seen so much silver in her entire life, let alone earned it.

"But this trip could take two months. Even if there's ice, it won't be enough for two months! And what if it gets damaged in the crush?"

Chen Yu frowned.

Little Fu Bao said, "Mom, there are always many ways!" Looking at the flickering gauze lantern, she had a sudden inspiration and said:

"Mom, we can wax the fruit!" The method of sealing with wax existed in the previous dynasty, but very few ordinary people knew about it.

"Then, for some smaller fruits, you can keep their branches and leaves, and then cover them with some moist soil." "For the others, just keep the branches and leaves."

"We'll change the ice when we get to the back of the shipment. This will keep the food fresh during transport and save us a lot of money on ice!"

Niu Dadao: "I think it's possible. People who sell rice seedlings often use soil to preserve them, so it should work for fruit as well. You can also use a watering can to keep them fresh."

The shower head is made of porcelain, with water spray holes drilled at the water outlet and water holes drilled into the handle.

Niu Da got up, took a few hoes and shovels from the woodshed, and said, "I'm going to the back mountain with Heng'er and Cuihua. The mute has been helping us with the work these past few days, and we'll give him thirty copper coins a day."

Although Niu the Mute received sixty taels of silver from the silver that Niu Da had dug up last time, he used most of it to buy land. In prosperous times, land prices are high, at five taels of silver per mu, so he could only buy twelve mu.

Although life had improved, it wasn't time for him to relax at home. He couldn't stay idle and remained very hardworking.

Xiao Heng placed Xiao Fubao on the grass and used his own clothes to cushion Xiao Fubao. The little guy sat comfortably on the soft cotton clothes.

Niu Meihua led Niu Baozhu and Niu Baolan to play by the field. Niu Meihua could weave beautiful flower baskets, which attracted Niu Baozhu, Niu Baolan, and the three sisters, Xiao Fubao, to eagerly follow Niu Meihua to learn how to weave.

Niu Meihua placed the woven flower basket on Xiao Fubao's head. Niu Baolan, that oblivious girl, wasn't jealous at all. Instead, she pointed to the colorful butterflies flitting among the flowers and said:

"Sister Baozhu, look, a butterfly!"

Little Fu Bao lay on the ground, staring intently at the floor, his little hands seemingly groping for something. Niu Meihua then walked over.

"Fifth Sister, why are you lying on the ground? The ground is dirty!"

"Second sister, look! There's something on the ground!" Little Fu Bao pointed to the ground and said, "There really is something!"

Niu Meihua and Niu Baozhu stopped and looked at the dirt that Xiao Fubao had dug up several times, saying, "There's nothing there!"

Little Fu Bao stomped his feet anxiously: There really is something there!

Niu Baozhu was more observant; she noticed a tiny root, as thin as a hair, sprouting from the soil and said, "Second Sister, it seems there really is something there."

Niu Baozhu shoveled a few times, and the thin root thickened a bit. Niu Meihua also quickly used her small shovel to dig. Several children gathered around, and Xiao Fubao said:

"Almost there, almost there, I can see it!"

The older Niu Cuihua saw this and asked, "Sisters, what are you digging for over there?"

Niu Da and Xiao Heng also stopped what they were doing and looked at them, while Niu Yaba also glanced at them curiously.

Little Fu Bao said, "Daddy, big brother, look, we think we've dug something up!" The thing wasn't on the ridge, but in the ditch, so Niu Da and the other two had never dug it up when they were turning over the ridge.