"Madam, these porcelain jars are ten coins each. Small ones are six coins each, and there are even bigger ones.
If you like any style, you can also customize it, as long as the quantity is more than 100. "The old man selling porcelain jars fiddled with the jars for Su Qi to see.
Su Qi thought about the large number of porcelain jars needed for the meat sauce and asked, "Is the workshop nearby?"
"Madam, I'm not from Mingfeng Town. Our workshop is in Lu Town, between Mingfeng Town and Yun County. Our family has been firing kilns for over a hundred years.
Business is slow these days. It takes a while to sell the pots fired in the kiln."
The old man kept talking about the hardships of life.
Su Qi took the porcelain jar and looked at it carefully. "I have a meat sauce processing factory that needs a large number of porcelain jars. I drew a blueprint for you, and you can make the porcelain jars according to my blueprint."
There was a light in the old man's dry eyes, "Absolutely no problem." He had originally planned to sell these porcelain jars to seal the kiln, but he was reluctant to give up the craftsmanship passed down from his ancestors.
There's no way the workshop will fall into decline in his hands.
"Old man, please take these to Mengjiazhuang. Ask the steward Yingyi in the Gu Mansion to accept these jars and settle the bill with him later.
Please wait for me in Mengjiazhuang for a while. I will go back to get the blueprints and place an order for you after I finish my work here."
Su Qi put down the porcelain jar and stood up. "As for the jar made according to the drawing, let's talk about the price with the drawing."
"Hey. I'll go right away."
The old man was busy moving the jars onto the ox cart.
The person next to him squatted on the ground with his sleeves rolled up, looking at him enviously.
"Ma'am, take a look at the new accessories I have here."
"I have a lot of vegetable seeds here, many of which we don't have in Dashun." A young man also shouted.
He knew in his heart that Su Qi would definitely not buy it. He had never seen such a generous lady buying vegetable seeds in the middle of winter.
It's just a casual shout.
Su Qi stopped.
"Go and have a look?"
Gu Beiheng nodded, "Okay."
The two turned around and walked towards the young man's stall. "What kind of seeds are these?"
The young man opened his mouth and let out a cry before reacting and opening the cloth bag on the ground. "This is broccoli, this is water spinach, and this is yellow sprouts. These are all vegetables from overseas."
"How heavy are these?"
There are also vegetable seeds in Su Qi’s space. If she bought them, wouldn’t that mean they came from somewhere?
"Each one weighs about half a pound." The young man tried to sell the vegetable seeds for a long time but failed, so he did odd jobs on the boat.
Instead of paying him wages, the boatman gave him these vegetable seeds.
He chased the boat and cursed for a whole cup of tea but there was nothing he could do.
I had no choice but to squat here and sell vegetable seeds, but people said no one would buy vegetable seeds in winter.
Unless you are a fool who can’t be any stupider.
The young man glanced at the two idiots excitedly looking at other seeds, and suggested with a bit of reluctance:
"Ma'am, it's hard to grow vegetables in the winter, and we don't have any hot spring resorts here. How about buying less?"
Su Qi grabbed a handful of seeds and sniffed them. The smell was a bit peculiar, like coriander. She looked at the dozen or so small cloth bags on the ground.
"Don't be afraid. Just pack these up for me."
"All, all... all?" The young man almost choked on his saliva and looked around hurriedly. "You can't blame me for cheating you after the deal."
"Hey, young man, why are you so hesitant about selling vegetable seeds?" Su Qi was speechless.
The young man, not sure whether to laugh or cry, quickly tied the bag tightly. "I'm just worried you'll think I cheated you and turn around and curse my ancestors."
"Don't worry. I want these seeds to be useful."
After Su Qi asked about the price, she realized that the young man didn't dare to ask for more.
Instead, he gave him twenty more coins.
Gu Beiheng carried the cloth bag and returned to the charcoal shop with Su Qi.
The two finally got something out of it today. When they arrived at the charcoal shop, they saw Gu Dacheng receiving passing merchants who came to wholesale. Su Qi and the other person got on the carriage directly from the backyard and returned to Mengjiazhuang.
Just arrived at the entrance of Mengjiazhuang Village.
Su Qi saw his two children squatting on the side of the road.
There were more than a dozen children from other families squatting nearby, all craning their necks to look toward the roadside.
Seeing a carriage coming, he quickly stood up and shouted:
"Dabao, Erbao. Your parents are back."
Dabao and Erbao raised their heads and saw the little red horse at a glance.
The two little guys rushed over, howling.
Gu Beiheng heard the sound, put his arm around Su Qi's waist and walked out of the car.
A beautiful spin landed on the ground.
The dozen or so kids behind him had their eyes wide open.
"Dabao's dad is so awesome. I'll go back and ask my dad to fly." Gousheng sniffed.
"Your father can't fly, he can only blow." Erniu exposed him mercilessly.
Gousheng: ...Let's go back and try. What if his dad can do it? He'll brag about it for a long time.
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"Mom, Dad."
The two little guys, Dabao and Erbao, opened their arms and ran while shouting.
Su Qi took two steps forward and squatted down, opening her arms and hugging the two little ones. "Do you miss your mother?"
"I do. Mom, let Dad go out from now on." Dabao hugged Su Qi's neck and whispered, "Dabao feels so uncomfortable when he can't see Mom. Even the food doesn't taste good anymore."
Erbao didn't want to be outdone and kissed Su Qi on the cheek, "Erbao misses mommy so much. The food doesn't taste good when mommy is not at home."
Su Qi let go of the two children and pinched their increasingly fat little faces. "My eldest and second children, how can they be fat when they don't even enjoy eating?"
"Meat tastes delicious, and so do rice cakes and candies." Erbao giggled.
Dabao kicked the dirt clod with embarrassment. "Aunt Xia He's fried spareribs are delicious."
Su Qi stood up with a smile and took a bag of malt candy from the carriage.
"Erniu, come here and share the malt sugar with everyone."
Erniu now looked at Gu Beiheng with admiration. He sighed and took the bag. "Thank you, Dabao's mother."
"Dad Dabao, you were so awesome just now. Can I learn from you?" Erniu looked at Gu Beiheng eagerly.
Gu Beiheng picked up Dabao and Erbao in each hand and glanced at the dozen or so little brats staring at him eagerly. "Go find Wuming to teach you kung fu."
"Brother Wuming also knows Kung Fu?"
The children of Mengjiazhuang began to dream of becoming martial artists. Those who knew kung fu became great in their eyes.
Su Qi and Gu Beiheng did not take the carriage again. Instead, they walked on the road to Mengjiazhuang.
Listening to Dabao and Erbao chattering away as they tell stories.
From time to time, villagers would pass by and say hello.
Zhou Dashan followed behind in his carriage. He looked at the family of four in front and said to Wei Dagou enviously:
"Looking at the master's family, I want to find a woman to start a family."
Wei Dagou touched his knees with his hands. "Who wouldn't want to? I used to think women and children were really troublesome, but now it seems that's not entirely true."
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