After measuring, I roughly told the boss what I wanted, and then ordered five more sets, asking him to calculate the price. The total cost was 220 taels.
Gu Lingze continued to take out a few silver ingots and asked the clerk to load all the things into the car.
After coming out of the cloth shop, Uncle Xu felt numb.
Gu Lingze was going to the butcher's shop again. When he got there, he bought half a pig first. He originally wanted to buy a whole pig, but he had to buy other things later and there was not much space left on the ox cart, so he had to give up.
I also bought ten pounds of mutton and five cleaned chickens. It was cold anyway, so there was no need to worry about them going bad.
What surprised him was that people could still eat beef in this dynasty.
Gu Lingze remembered that in many periods of ancient times, eating cattle was not allowed. Cattle were used as farming tools. If a cow was lost or died, the farmer would be convicted unless it died of old age.
However, beef cattle are specially raised here, so you can also eat beef.
Gu Lingze once again sighed at the richness of food in this dynasty. Originally, Taoism forbade eating beef, but for some reason, the Guiyi sect did not have such a rule, and he had eaten it often since he was a child.
So Gu Lingze bought another 20 kilograms of beef. He originally wanted to buy eggs, but when he thought about the road conditions, he gave up the idea. Anyway, he could go back to the village to get money to buy them.
Gu Lingze still wanted to buy some vegetables, but Uncle Xu stopped him this time. He said that if he wanted vegetables, he could just get them from the farm. Even if there were no vegetables at home, he could buy them directly in the village. There was no need to spend more money in the county town.
Gu Lingze listened to the advice and turned around and went back to the clinic.
His most urgent task was to buy several medicinal herbs, including ginseng, Polygonum multiflorum, Amomum villosum, agarwood, etc. These were the materials for their Guiyi sect's Guyuan Baozhen Pills.
Although the evil spirit in Xu Mingyan's body had been removed by himself, his foundation was still damaged. If he did not take this pill, he would not live beyond the age of forty, not to mention dying young.
I also have younger brothers and sisters who have suffered since childhood and have never eaten anything nutritious. Each of them takes one pill and then supplements their diet.
The pills made by their Guiyi sect have always been in great demand in the market.
Take the Guyuan Baozhen Pill for example, one pill costs one hundred thousand, and you have to prepare the materials yourself. The better the materials, the better the quality of the pill.
Naturally, the county's medical clinic couldn't possibly have any thousand-year-old ginseng, and it didn't even have any hundred-year-old Polygonum multiflorum.
But Gu Lingze could only make do with it, and if it really didn't work, he would just plan to lose some spiritual energy.
The clinic had the highest expenses, with the final bill being over seven hundred taels. Gu Lingze took out a silver note of one thousand taels from his pocket.
Uncle Xu had been worried that Gu Lingze might spend all his money without planning, but when he saw him take out another 1,000 taels of silver, he felt relieved.
Gu Lingze went to the study again and bought some books as well as pens, ink, paper and inkstone.
Xuan paper is divided into three grades: high, medium and low. He bought several bags of all of them since he could use them all anyway.
Then I went to a silver shop and bought a pair of silver bracelets for little girls and a few standard silver hairpins.
Gu Lingze finally bought everything. He originally wanted to buy some pots, pans, and utensils, but he was cooking at Aunt Tao's house now, and the ox cart was already full, so he had to give up.
After shopping for more than two hours, Gu Lingze felt relaxed all over. He and Uncle Xu took the ox cart and returned to the village with their things.
As soon as I returned to the village, it was the time when the villagers went to work in the fields after lunch, so the things in the ox cart were bound to attract attention.
No one in the village has ever bought so many things at one time, so it must be new to them.
Some people looked from a distance and then went to the fields, while others followed the ox cart with greedy eyes and kept looking at it.
"Hey, Uncle Xu, where did you get all this wealth to buy so many good things? We are from the same village, we should take care of each other." The guy in front of him who was speaking with ulterior motives was one of them.
This guy is the husband of the second son of the Ding family at the east end of the village. Since he married into this village, he has been gossiping all day long and has no time to rest.
If any incident happened in any family in the village, he would want to know immediately, and then go out and gossip about it with exaggeration.
Gu Lingze felt that this kind of person was not worth mentioning, and Uncle Xu didn't want to pay attention to him either. They were from the same village and knew each other's general character.
Seeing that Uncle Xu didn't respond to him, the Ding family husband spat out the melon seed shells in his mouth and said sarcastically: "What's so great about that? You've lived in a village for such a long time, and you have to hide the money you earn. Do you think anyone would care about it?" After saying that, he turned around and left.
Gu Lingze looked at his back and suddenly remembered that he had snatched his things when he was stupid before.
At that time, he had just arrived at the farm and his mother had never cared about him. However, the servants who were responsible for taking care of him had not yet figured out the situation and did a good job of taking care of him on the surface.
Therefore, the fabrics used for his clothes from head to toe were of high quality, after all, they were brought from his original home.
As a result, he didn't know when the husband of the Ding family had set his eyes on him. One day, when there was no one around, he pushed him from behind and snatched away the new shoes on his feet.
Gu Lingze fell to the ground at that time and did not see his appearance clearly, but now seeing his back, he vaguely remembered this.
He narrowed his eyes and watched the husband of the Ding family get some distance away from the ox cart. Then he raised two fingers and a stream of energy hit the tendon behind the other's knee.
The husband of the Ding family was walking in high spirits one moment, and the next moment he lunged forward and fell to the ground like a dog eating shit.
The people around him laughed at his embarrassing behavior. The husband of the Ding family fell so hard that he couldn't get up for a while.
A woman who usually liked to gossip with him came over to help him, but when he looked up, she got scared.
He actually knocked out one of his front teeth and now his mouth is covered in blood.
Mr. Ding just felt pain in his body, but now when he saw the old woman's eyes fall on his mouth, he suddenly felt that his entire lips were abnormally swollen, painful, wet and sticky.
When he touched it with his hand, not only did he get his hands covered in blood, but he also felt a sharp pain in his front teeth.
Gu Lingze was sitting on the ox cart. He heard howling coming from behind. He picked his ears and pretended nothing happened.
As the ox cart arrived at Uncle Xu's house, Jinzi heard the sound, opened the gate and ran out.
But when he saw the things in the ox cart, he was stunned and could only murmur "brother".
Gu Lingze smiled and rubbed his head, saying, "Let's talk inside."
Uncle Xu drove the cart into the yard, and Aunt Tao and Lingzi came out to greet them. They were so surprised when they saw the things on the ox cart that they were speechless.
Only Xu Mingyan showed a thoughtful smile.
Gu Lingze and Uncle Xu had been busy since early morning and were thirsty and hungry. They went into the main room and each poured a glass of water, then drank it up like a cow.
Aunt Tao finally came to her senses and asked, "Where did the things on the ox cart come from?"
Gu Lingze motioned for the others to sit down first, then said to Jinzi, "There are a few packets of snacks in the car, take them and share them with your sister in the inner room."
When Jinzi heard this, he knew that the adults had something to say, so he pulled Lingzi out.
After Jinzi had gone far away, Gu Lingze told her what had happened in the county town that day.
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