To avoid running into those two, Wen Xi's first stop was not a restaurant or a cloth shop, but a grocery store.
First, an ancient shopping bag and a large backpack. Then, two bags of brown sugar, two bags of maltose, and rock sugar. A clay pot, several bowls, and a small wooden basin. A large jar of pickles.
After paying the silver, he used the backpack to cover everything except a small wooden basin, a bowl, and pickles and put everything in the coffin.
Next stop is the delicatessen!
Six roast chickens and three pounds of braised pork. Two of the roast chickens were ordered by Gu Nan and Gu Shengjian. One more was left as a bribe to Du Mei, and the rest was for the coffin.
Two hundred pancakes were enough to force the old couple to pack up and go home.
There are one hundred spaces for coffins, and one hundred of them are reserved by everyone.
The backpack suddenly felt heavy.
A steamed bun stall! One hundred steamed buns, one hundred meat buns. Forty steamed buns and twenty or thirty dumplings were left, and the rest were all placed in the coffin. Now the coffin is almost full again.
Oh...it's too long!
The next stop, and a must-go place, is the pharmacy!
In order to prepare for various emergencies in the future, he had to prepare two bottles of frostbite cream, two bottles of gold wound medicine, five sets of tonic medicine, five sets of cold medicine, and five sets of fever medicine, spending almost ten taels of silver. He stuffed everything into the coffin, leaving no room.
This ten taels of silver was given to me by my aunt. I haven't even had the chance to pick the lock of my cheap father's small treasury! I can't take out the silver to spend. It seems I need to go to the pawnshop.
After pawning all my jewelry, I only got twenty-three taels of silver. It was really like putting gold in a pawnshop and losing its value.
Seeing that the time was almost up, I hurried to the last stop.
Entered a relatively large cloth shop!
According to the order requirements, all kinds of needles and threads, fine cotton and coarse cloth were provided. Because the stock of ready-made clothes was insufficient, the shopkeeper also borrowed some from other shops.
I also thought that quilts were essential. The weather was getting colder, and I couldn't stay in the straw pile any longer. So I ordered more than twenty quilts.
Seeing that the girl couldn't carry so many things, the shopkeeper asked his servant to push a wheelbarrow to deliver the goods.
When he and his waiter arrived at the teahouse, the two girls had not yet arrived. Wen Xi wiped his sweat and called to the waiter behind him:
"Please wait here for a moment, young man. We are waiting for a few more people."
Then he took out the roast chicken wrapped in oil paper from his backpack and walked towards Du Mei:
"Mrs. Guan, thank you for waiting here for so long. Take this roast chicken home to replenish your body. You have to accompany us on such a long journey every day. It's really hard work."
Looking at Wen Xi's shameless and fawning face, Du Mei didn't find it too annoying.
He put away the roast chicken and replied:
"Yeah, that's thoughtful!"
Then he patted his butt and got up, just as the two girls returned. One of them seemed to be carrying a small mountain on his back, but when he saw Wen Xi pushing a cart not far away, he almost fainted. So this is actually possible?
When we got back to the post station, everyone was waiting in the yard.
When the guys helped to unload the clothes and quilts, they realized that the people who purchased so many things were actually prisoners, and they ran away very quickly.
The fruitful harvest brought long-lost smiles to everyone.
After everyone had received their items, Wen Xi returned the remaining copper coins to everyone and carefully reported everyone's accounts. Because cotton prices were already high, after two taels of silver, no one had much left.
But everyone was still happy because no kickbacks were taken from their spending this time. You know, buying a little thing normally costs more than two taels of silver, so everyone showed a very friendly attitude towards Wen Xi and said that if there was a chance next time, they would let her go.
Each person was given a dozen or so sesame cakes, a few steamed buns, and some pickles. The rest was a cotton-padded jacket, a quilt, and some miscellaneous items.
Wen Xi and Gu Shengmo sat on the soft quilt, eating hot meat buns, facing each other, looking at each other's silly looks and laughing.
Aunt Mao came in with hot water and saw this scene. The corners of her mouth curved up. Then she put the kettle at the door and said to the people in the room:
"I've got some hot water, and everyone can drink it whenever they want."
Second Auntie was almost choking on the bun in her mouth and rolled her eyes. She didn't appreciate the return of someone carrying water. She pouted:
"How can you ask people to drink water without a bowl? Really, people should get it themselves."
After saying this, he twisted his body and went out.
Everyone has a water bag, but because the water is too hot, it will easily explode when poured in, which is not very convenient. Usually, we only dare to pour water into the water bag after it has cooled down.
Wen Xi took out the reserved bowl and handed it to Aunt Mao, but she gave him a look that said "you're going to be punished."
Wen Xi touched her nose again awkwardly.
It seems that this bowl will attract some hatred for itself.
With the bowl of hot water, the mother and her two daughters finished all the buns in one meal.
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