Chapter 21: Trip to Taiping Town
"Hey, wait a minute!"
Qiao Qiqi quickly stopped him from closing the door. "Old man, we are heading north. Why don't we go together? I can cook. You can help me treat my husband, and I'll take care of your meals. How about that?"
She negotiated with the other party in a nice tone.
Only then did Mr. Ruan stop closing the door and ask, "Are you going to the north too?"
"Yeah, you see I just bought an ox cart, see?"
Qiao Qiqi looked at him with a sweet smile, "It's a long journey alone, how about having someone accompany you?"
Ruan Lao glanced at the fourth officer and said, "Alright, let me take care of it."
Qiao Qiqi also looked at the expressionless face of the official Lao Si in surprise.
She had an inexplicable intuition, as if Mr. Ruan had agreed only for the sake of the official Lao Si.
My own words just gave him a reason?
Forget it, as long as he is willing to go and treat Prince Pei!
If you have any ideas, we'll talk about it later.
Qiao Qiqi glanced at Mr. Ruan who was packing up his things in the house and thought to herself.
And the fourth officer next to him seems to have some problems as well.
However, I didn't feel any ill will from him or Dr. Ruan, so I'll just observe for now.
Although she was exiled to a cold and bitter place, Qiao Qiqi felt like she was trapped in a deep vortex.
First it was the black-clad killer in the ruined temple, and now it’s the expressionless policeman Lao Si.
These characters, which had never appeared in the original novel, made her feel a little uneasy.
It is better to reach the place of exile as soon as possible and find a way to make Prince Pei agree to the divorce. We must not get involved in this right and wrong.
While Qiao Qiqi was in a daze, Mr. Ruan had already packed a few sets of clothes and a medicine box and left.
"Doctor Ruan, aren't you going to take your things with you?"
Qiao Qiqi looked at his simple bag with a little surprise and asked.
"Didn't you say we'd include food? Why would I bring that?"
Mr. Ruan asked curiously.
The fourth constable understood immediately, "Mr. Ruan, can you please bring your pots, pans, and utensils? My wife was planning to buy some dishes and chopsticks, but if you have some ready-made, we won't have to spend any money."
"Oh, is that so? Then take them with you! I won't be coming back to this house anyway, and if you don't take the things here, they will be taken by the neighbors."
Mr. Ruan waved his hand casually, indicating that they could take whatever they wanted.
Qiao Qiqi smiled at Mr. Ruan and said, "I'm just borrowing it temporarily. I'll return it to you when we reach the north."
"Whatever you want, as long as you take care of my food and drink."
Mr. Ruan waved his hand indifferently.
Only then did Qiao Qiqi enter his yard kitchen and start cleaning up the dishes.
However, what was strange was that the entire kitchen seemed to have not been used for a long time, and even some weeds grew in the yard.
Moreover, a normal doctor's home would hang some herbs and the like to dry.
But she didn't smell any herbs in the yard.
Qiao Qiqi glanced at Mr. Ruan suspiciously and became secretly alert.
In addition to pots, pans, and utensils, there were two bags of rice piled up in the kitchen.
The fourth constable easily loaded the rice onto the ox cart.
"Okay, ma'am, see if there's anything else you need to buy. Let's go shopping together."
The fourth constable asked Qiao Qiqi to take a look at the things in the car and asked softly.
In fact, Qiao Qiqi’s supermarket has everything and nothing is missing.
But to cover it up, she looked at him and said, "Let's go buy some more pork. Since we're not leaving today, I'll make some pork jerky for easy portability."
"Okay, then you guys get in the car, I'll drive!"
The official Lao Si lifted his feet and sat in front of the carriage, ready to drive.
Qiao Qiqi helped Mr. Ruan step onto the ox cart.
The frame of this ox cart was originally used by the old man who sold cattle to pull people. There are horizontal boards on both sides for people to sit on.
Seeing this, Old Ruan suggested, "That dark, um, officer, can you find two pieces of oilcloth to cover this ox cart? Otherwise, if it rains suddenly, I, an old man, will get wet."
Qiao Qiqi thought it made a lot of sense.
After covering it with the oilcloth, others would not know what was on her ox cart.
"Brother officer, how about we find a carpenter to build a wooden frame around the frame and then cover it with oilcloth?"
Qiao Qiqi told the other person what the rear compartment of the tricycle in her world looked like.
"Okay, then let's go buy some meat first, and then find a carpenter. Madam, this is easy for you and will be done quickly."
The fourth constable nodded slightly and drove the ox cart towards the butcher shop.
In front of the butcher shop, Qiao Qiqi's eyes lit up as she looked at the several half-cut pork loins on display. "How much are you selling this pork for?"
In fact, she had an endless supply of pork in her own supermarket, but she had no excuse to take it out.
"Twelve cents a pound. If you buy more, I'll charge you ten cents!"
The butcher looked at Qiao Qiqi, then at the officer behind her and said.
"Then give me two!"
Qiao Qiqi pointed at the pork in his butcher shop and said.
"Ma'am, are you sure? These two doors together weigh over 200 pounds!"
The butcher asked uncertainly, "Can you finish this much?"
Qiao Qiqi calculated in her mind that one catty was ten cents, and more than two hundred catties was more than two taels of silver.
It’s not expensive anyway.
She nodded gently. "Yes, I want to buy it. Could you please cut it into long strips of 5 jin each?"
She took out a few taels of silver from her sleeve and placed them on the butcher's table.
Seeing the silver, the butcher stopped asking questions and started chopping the meat.
Bored Qiao Qiqi casually looked around the butcher shop and found a lot of pig offal casually placed on the ground.
"Boss, are you willing to sell this pig offal?"
Qiao Qiqi pointed at the pig offal covered in dust on the ground and asked.
"Ma'am, decent people don't eat such smelly things."
The butcher gave her a strange look. "You bought so much meat, why do you want this stinky stuff? I'll just take it back and throw it away later."
"This is something that can be used to make delicious food. How much do you want? Sell it to me!"
When Qiao Qiqi heard that he was going to throw it away, she felt it was a pity.
If these pig offal are washed clean and braised, they will be very fragrant.
"Since Madam likes it, I'll just give it to you!"
The butcher generously found a piece of oil paper to wrap the pig offal and handed it to Qiao Qiqi.
After washing his hands, he continued to chop the pork in his hands.
Soon, the money and goods were settled.
Qiao Qiqi sat happily on the ox cart, looking at the pile of pork at her feet.
"Well, little girl, your pig offal stinks, throw it away quickly, throw it away quickly!"
Mr. Ruan covered his nose with a look of disgust.
"Brother officer, can you see if there's a small river in town? I'll go get this pig out of the water first."
Seeing that Mr. Ruan couldn't stand the fumes, Qiao Qiqi planned to deal with the pig offal first.
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