The next day, the four members of the Qin family went shopping. To be honest, this was their first time shopping since they came to the capital. They took Qin Yi and Qin Jiang with them. Qin Yi used to be with the official's young master and often went out with him, so he was more familiar with the capital. Qin Jiang used to be a little beggar in the capital and often begged in different places in the capital, so he was also more familiar with the capital.

In the capital, the more prestigious people are, the closer they live to the palace, and the less prestigious people are, the farther they live from the palace. Therefore, the distance between the residence and the downtown is relatively far.

When everyone left the Qin Mansion, they took a carriage. When they were about to reach the downtown, they got off the carriage and let the carriage follow behind.

Qin Linyang held his parents' hands, he stood in the middle, looking left and right, the little boy couldn't hide his proud expression.

Niu Dan also came out today, following his eldest brother. Speaking of which, among the brothers and sisters of the Qin family, only Niu Dan followed Qin Fang to the capital. "Brother, the capital is so lively, even more lively than the county town of Yunxiang County before." The county town of Yunxiang County is the most lively place Niu Dan has ever seen.

Qin Fang said: "Of course." The place where the emperor lives is naturally the most lively and the best. If there is a place more prosperous than the capital, then the capital should be moved, otherwise others can enjoy the best things, but the emperor can't, which is a problem.

Niu Dan laughed and said, "My eyes are dazzled by all the things I have seen."

Yang Haiyan said, "What do you want to buy for your uncle and aunt? Go pick them out yourself. Sister-in-law will pay for you."

Niu Dan said, "Thank you, sister-in-law."

Yang Haiyan liked Niu Dan the most because he was not polite. He was cheerful and carefree. He accepted whatever Yang Haiyan gave him. He was not the kind of person who was shy. People with Niu Dan's personality were the easiest to make friends, but being shy was too petty.

Yang Haiyan said, "Let's go look at the specialties first, to see what specialties there are in the capital. Qin Yi, General Qin, do you know?"

Qin Yi said, "General, Madam, please come this way. There are places in the capital that specialize in selling specialties. It seems that guests from all over the country like to go there, but people who are born and raised in the capital don't like to go there." Because places that sell local specialties are specifically for making money from customers. Outsiders value this kind of thing, but people in the capital don't value this kind of thing.

Qin Yi led the way in front, and Qin Fang and Yang Haiyan walked behind, holding Qin Linyang.

There are many shops that sell local specialties in the capital. After all, the capital is so big, but this one is the largest. This shop is called the Authentic Beijing Specialty Shop.

This name is easy to understand. A clear name can attract customers.

The shop has two floors. After entering, you can see that each floor is very large.

After Qin Yi led the Qin family in, he could hear people passing by the door saying, "Look, the bumpkin from somewhere has come in again." Yes, in the eyes of the people in Beijing, people who go in to buy special products are bumpkins from other places.

"What a bumpkin, it's better to buy them separately than to buy Beijing special products there." "

That's right, whoever calls him a bumpkin likes to give money to others."

The Qin family naturally didn't hear these words.

Qin Fang didn't know what to choose, so he said to Qin Yi, "Pick out ten of each item, go and choose." In fact, there are quite a few people in this shop. But... they are all from other places.

Yang Haiyan nodded at Qin Yi. There were so many people that she was too lazy to choose. But she turned and looked at Qin Fang: "Why did my husband choose ten of each?"

Qin Fang said: "There are many people in the family. We need some for ourselves and for my grandmother. We are from the same village. Didn't you say that old ladies like to show off?" Giving away some special products is enough for the three women in the Qin family to show off. The three women are Grandma Qin, Mother Qin, and Aunt Qin.

Yang Haiyan didn't expect Qin to finish school so quickly, and couldn't help laughing.

Qin Fang looked at her and laughed. His cold expression couldn't help but be tender, and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly.

Qin Linyang looked at his father, then at his mother, then shook his mother's hand and said, "Mom?"

Yang Haiyan lowered her eyes and said softly to her son, "Let's buy gifts for Grandpa Zeng, Grandma Zeng, and Grandpa and Grandma. Does Linyang have any gifts he wants to buy for them?" A

two-year-old child naturally has no memories, but Grandpa Zeng, Great Grandma, Grandpa and Grandma are people his parents often talk about. Even if he doesn't have any memories, he can't help but have some impression when they talk about them. Moreover, children also like to choose gifts for adults, so when Qin Linyang heard his mother's question, he said happily: "Yes, buy a gift for the little brother too."

Yang Haiyan touched her son's head: "Okay, buy a gift for the little brother, what about the father and mother?"

Qin Linyang said generously: "Buy, buy for the father and mother too."

Qin Fang wanted to roll his eyes at his son. It sounds nice, but do you have money?

Yang Haiyan seemed to sense his thoughts and looked at him again. Qin Fang raised his eyebrows when he met his wife's eyes.

Qin Linyang walked in front, and Qin Jiang followed beside him. Qin Jiang took whatever he said. Qin Fang and Yang Haiyan walked behind their son, but Qin Linyang had a rope in his hand and Yang Haiyan also had a rope in her hand. This rope is called a mother-child rope in modern times. If the child goes out to play, the mother can sense any movement on the child's side to prevent the child from getting lost or being taken away by traffickers.

They bought a lot and attracted the attention of some people in the shop from time to time. A middle-aged man walked in: "Brother, are you buying so much to go back to your hometown to do business?" The middle-aged man was a businessman and he also bought a lot. "Things in the capital can be transported to other places to sell, and you can make a lot of money by reselling them." In terms of special products, the special products in the capital are the most profitable. There is no other way. The common people have never been to the capital. To own something from the capital is a very proud thing for the common people.

However, only those who are engaged in big business or have something to do in the capital will do business like this. Otherwise, the fare from their hometown to the capital is not enough to make money. Some small merchants will not come to the capital to buy things and then resell them.

Qin Fang glanced at the other party and said, "I am not a businessman. It is rare for me to come to the capital. I bring some things from the capital to my relatives in my hometown."

The middle-aged man smiled and said, "You are really filial." Many people who are engaged in business are particularly good at currying favor with people and dealing with people. Of course, this kind of dealing is also to make friends with people, but it also depends on the person. The middle-aged man traveled a lot and had been to many places. He made many friends, just like today. When he saw someone he could make friends with, he would take the initiative to say hello. After all, saying hello wouldn't lose any money, but maybe it could develop into a relationship worth making friends with in the future.

Moreover, the middle-aged man could see that Qin Fang's family was a wealthy family. From their temperament and clothes, it could be seen that they were not the kind of people who got rich overnight, because they came in here very calmly. Qin Fang

nodded and didn't say much.

The middle-aged man said again: "I don't know where this brother is from. From your accent, it sounds like you are from Yongzhou?"

Qin Fang is not the type to actively make friends. In the past, he was a farmer's son and knew how to recognize his own identity, so he would not deliberately make friends. Now he also knows his own identity. He does not need to make friends and build good relationships with people. He just needs to do his own job well. However, he does not dislike people like the middle-aged man who deliberately makes friends but does not try to please him too much.

Qin Fang said, "I've been in Yongzhou for a few years, so I've picked up a bit of the accent there. I can't tell where you're from by listening to your accent."

The middle-aged man smiled and said, "I've traveled a lot, so I have some accents from each place. When they mix together, I can't tell where you're from. Isn't there a market in Yongzhou in early April every year? Traveling merchants from all over will come here, and there are a lot of things at that time, so every year in early April, I will go to Yongzhou to see if there is any business that can make money."

Qin Fang: "I see." He didn't say much.

Middle-aged man: "Where are you from, brother? I'm from Qiuzhou, Datai County. My name is Lin Dafu. If you come to Datai County, please let me do my best to show my hospitality."

Qin Fang said, "Thank you, I'm from Beijing."

Lin Dafu was stunned, because Qin Fang really didn't have a Beijing accent, but he didn't have much trouble.

"Husband, the things are bought." Yang Haiyan shouted on the side.

"Silver... Dad, silver..." Qin Linyang urged his father to pay. Qin

Fang walked over: "Your father has no silver."

Qin Linyang's eyes widened immediately. He fumbled in his small bag and took out two cents and handed them to Qin Fang: "Here." It's really embarrassing for a father to have no silver.

Qin Fang took the two coins without hesitation and picked him up: "Let's go."

Qin Linyang began to struggle: "Put me down...put me down..."

Qin Fang put him down.

Qin Linyang pulled his hand again: "Squat down...squat down..."

Qin Fang looked at him.

"Daddy, squat down."

Qin Fang squatted down as he was told.

Qin Linyang went around Qin Fang's back and climbed onto his back, but the little guy had short arms and legs and couldn't climb up no matter what.

Qin Fang: "You want me to carry you?"

Qin Linyang patted his father's shoulder: "Sit here." Then he pointed to the two people walking on the side, "Do it like that."

Qin Fang looked in the direction he was looking and saw a little boy sitting on a man's shoulders, the two talking and laughing. Even if he didn't know them, he could vaguely guess that they were probably a father and son, otherwise they wouldn't be so close.

Qin Fang pulled his son down from his back, then picked him up again and put him on his shoulder: "Sit firmly."

"Yeah, sit firmly." Qin Linyang suddenly felt that he was taller. He looked at the child over there, and there was a sense of pride in his eyes.

The boy was chatting happily with his father. He felt someone was staring at him, so he turned around and saw a little brother sitting on his father's shoulders looking at him. In the boy's eyes, the one who let them sit like this must be his father. But why was the little brother staring at him? The boy smiled at the little brother subconsciously.

Qin Linyang was originally comparing himself with others. His father was the tallest, and he, sitting on his father's shoulders, was also taller than the boy, so he was very proud. But when he saw the boy smiling at him, he couldn't help but smile.

Adults naturally don't know the details of children's affairs. After buying special products, Yang Haiyan prepared to buy some jewelry for Grandma Qin and the others. She remembered that Du's second sister-in-law Qu had a jewelry shop, so she planned to go there. It's better to make money for people you know than for others. "Husband, let's go to Du's second sister-in-law's jewelry shop."

Qin Fang: "I listen." He supported his son with both hands to prevent the child from falling down if he didn't hold on tightly.

Qin Linyang shook his calves, looking around with his little head, feeling very proud.

Yang Haiyan didn't know where Qu's shop was, but she remembered the way. Qu had told her before, so she asked General Qin and asked him to lead the way. It was

Yang Haiyan's first time to Qu's shop. The servants inside naturally didn't know her, and she didn't tell her identity. She picked a few pieces of jewelry she liked and left.

Then, she asked the servants to take the things she bought today back to the house, and the family of four went to a famous restaurant in the capital.

"Dear guests, please come in. Do you want to dine in the hall or in the private room?" The waiter greeted them enthusiastically.

Yang Haiyan said, "It's in the hall. Choose a seat by the window on the second floor?" It's not a matter of privacy. In a place like this, it's more interesting to eat outside.

The waiter said, "Okay, there are seats by the window upstairs, please."

The waiter took Qin Fang's family to the window seat on the second floor. The four of them sat at one table, and the servants sat at a table next to them. The waiter took out the menu: "What would you like to eat?"

Regular customers can order their own dishes without looking at the menu. For Yang Haiyan, who came for the first time and didn't know what dishes were available, she naturally had to look at the menu. However, this menu is different from what everyone thinks of. The menu is a piece of bamboo board with dishes written on it and prices on it. The reason why the restaurant does this is to facilitate settlement when the restaurant closes every day, because the daily profit can be known just by counting the bamboo boards.

People who use this method are still quite thoughtful.

The dishes in the restaurant are not many for a modern person like Yang Haiyan, there are only sixteen dishes, but in ancient times, most people only had two or three dishes for dinner, for them, these sixteen dishes are too many.

Qin Linyang sat on the child chair and said, "Eat, eat, eat, eat..." The child chair was specially made high, this is for the convenience of children, the restaurant is quite careful.

Yang Haiyan asked her son, "What do you want to eat?"

Qin Linyang looked at his mother, then at the waiter, and then asked like a little adult, "What delicious food do you have?"

Puff... Yang Haiyan couldn't help laughing, and pushed the bamboo board with the names of the dishes in front of him: "Take out the bamboo board that you want to eat, each dish is written on it. Come on, let us Linyang choose the dishes today, okay?"

Although Qin Linyang didn't quite understand what his mother meant, children like new things and new ways of playing. In his understanding, eating is now just like playing. He looked at the sixteen bamboo boards, then at his mother, stretched out his little finger to point at himself, and then pointed at the bamboo board: "Can I take it?"

Yang Haiyan said, "Yes, I let you take it. Take whatever you want to eat. Go ahead." Speaking of this, Yang Haiyan thought of new toys. She would draw them when she got home, and then ask the woodworking master in the capital to make them. Like all mothers, she wanted to give the best to her children, but she also knew that children could not be spoiled blindly, so she would not show mercy when she needed to teach her children. However, this was ancient times, and the things that could be given to children to play with were limited, so limited that they were too poor for her. Therefore, she spoiled her children a little more. Fortunately,

Qin Linyang was a good child, not as naughty as other children. However, children of this age, even if they were a little naughty, were also a little honest and cute.

Qin Linyang picked up a bamboo board curiously, then looked at her mother and slowly put the bamboo board into her mouth. Yang Haiyan quickly grabbed his hand: "Linyang, what are you doing?"

Qin Linyang grinned: "Eat."

Yang Haiyan: "..." Then she looked at Qin Fang, the meaning was very obvious, this is your stupid son.

Qin Fang didn't want to say anything, he was innocent.

Yang Haiyan said: "This can't be eaten."

Qin Linyang blinked: "Mom said to take whatever you want to eat." Meaning, this is what her mother said, and he believes whatever his mother said.

Yang Haiyan didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Blame her for not explaining it clearly? No, she overestimated the IQ of this stupid son. But think about it, when she was this age, she didn't seem to know anything. Anyway, she didn't remember what she did at this age.

Yang Haiyan explained: "Linyang, you can't eat this. Look, take out this bamboo board, and write words on it. We'll ask the kitchen to cook according to these words, understand?"

Qin Linyang looked at his mother blankly: "Use this to cook?"

Yang Haiyan said: "Yes, come, give this bamboo board to the waiter, let the waiter take it to cook."

Qin Linyang gave the bamboo board to the waiter: "Here, cook."

The waiter took the bamboo board: "Okay, young master, what else do you want to eat?"

Qin Linyang started to take bamboo boards again: "This, this, this..." He took six bamboo boards in a row, "Here." Then he handed them to the waiter.

The waiter took the bamboo board: "Do you want more, young master?"

Yang Haiyan said: "Let's have these first, if not enough, order more." Then he said, "Serve everyone over there a bowl of egg noodles." He was referring to the servants' table.

"Okay, don't worry, ma'am." The waiter said.

Yang Haiyan said to Qin Fang again: "Husband, would you like some wine?"

Qin Fang said: "The wine here is not as good as the wine at home." Whether it is rice wine or fruit wine, Qin Fang has drunk a lot of wine in these years, all of which were prepared by Yang Haiyan for her, so he really doesn't like the wine outside.

The waiter said, "You may not know, sir, our restaurant has a special recipe for brewing wine, which is passed down from our boss's family, so the wine we brew is different from the ones outside, but the price is a little more expensive."

Qin Fang heard it and said, "Then bring some."

The waiter said, "Okay."

The waiter quickly retreated, and after a while, he brought up two plates of snacks and a plate of peanuts: "Please fill your stomachs first, the dishes will be served soon."

Qin Fang said, "Thank you."

The dishes were indeed served very quickly, even though there were many guests in the restaurant, the speed of serving the dishes was not slow at all.

Qin Linyang picked up the fish meat with chopsticks. He had already learned to pick up the dishes by himself, but he was a little messy. Yang Haiyan was not afraid of him picking up other dishes, but she was a little afraid of picking up fish meat, because the little guy would pick up the fish bones together. "Do you want to eat fish? Mom will pick it up for you."

Qin Linyang said, "Okay, eat fish."

Qin Fang took a sip of the wine brewed with the so-called ancestral secret recipe of the waiter, but he didn't drink it after one sip: "This wine is not as good as the one you prepared. In terms of mellowness, fragrance, and depth, it is not as good as the wine you prepared."

Yang Haiyan thought to herself that the wine she prepared was bought on the trading platform. As long as you have money, you can have any wine, no matter how mellow, fragrant, or deep it is.

"Oh? You are so arrogant, sir. Our wine is well-known in the capital. I wonder what kind of wine you are talking about is more fragrant than this one?" A man in his thirties just walked by here. He stopped when he heard what Qin Fang said. He was not angry, but just curious. He looked at the family carefully. They were strangers and did not seem to be sent by the rival to cause trouble. Of course, no one who causes trouble would bring women and children with them.

Qin Fang heard him say: "Are you the owner of this restaurant?"

The man said: "This restaurant is one of my father's properties." It's just that the restaurant business is good. There are many brothers in his family, so they all want to fight for the restaurant, but his father didn't give it to anyone. He just said that whoever has the most promising future will be given the management. The ancestral wine-making recipe that the waiter mentioned was bought by his father. After this wine was brewed, it was quite popular with everyone, so no one ever said that this wine was not as mellow as other wines.

Qin Fang said, "Excuse me, Young Master. I am not saying that this wine is not mellow, but I have drunk mellower wines, and this one is a little worse than that one."

The man said, "You are too polite, brother. I am not angry, I am just curious. We run a wine shop, so we naturally pursue better things, so I am interested in the mellower wine you mentioned. By the way, my name is Shi Jie."

Qin Fang said, "You are too polite, young master. I have drunk that mellow wine. " I don't know where this wine came from, but I don't know how it was obtained. I'm sorry that I can't provide you with any clues."

Shi Jie was a little disappointed when he heard it, but he was not angry: "Is that so? Then can you tell me where this wine came from? Don't worry, I won't ask for your clue in vain. I will remember this favor."

Qin Fang said: "I'm sorry." This wine was prepared by his wife, and he didn't know it, but he wouldn't say it.

Shi Jie sighed: "In that case, then I'm sorry to bother

you." After dinner, the servant went to settle the bill, but after a while, the servant came back: "General, the restaurant said that the young master was disturbed by your meal just now, so they will treat us to this meal and exempt us from the meal fee. What do you think?"

Qin Fang said: "No need, just put down ten taels of silver, no more, no less."

The servant said: "Yes."