Chapter 99 Daily life in the city

"Xiao Cao, this is absolutely not possible. How can a doctor prescribe medicine without confirming the patient's symptoms? Besides, I don't have the medicine for that disease right now."

Yin Huaixi politely rejected Jiang Cao.

Are you kidding? How can you prescribe this medicine casually?

Jiang Cao felt a little disappointed, but he knew he couldn't force it, so he left quickly.

As soon as she left, the employees from Fengweilou and Dongfuju came to get the oyster sauce.

Before, I only used a small can each time, but now I have changed to a large can, each of which can hold ten kilograms.

Jiang Wan's family can now produce about 25 kilograms of stewed pork every day. Both families pay 10 kilograms each, and the rest is saved for a day. Fengweilou can take 20 kilograms the next day.

Dongfuju is a company that makes it. Their daily consumption is not very large, and ten kilograms is enough.

So we’ll prioritize supplying Fengweilou.

After sending the two employees away, another five taels and eight cents of silver came into the family account.

"Mother, I want to order another batch of bricks tomorrow to build your small pharmacy."

As soon as Jiang Wan said this, she saw her mother looking up at her in surprise.

"Why are you going to build it so soon? Didn't you say you would build it with adobe first?"

"Let's not use adobe bricks anymore. Let's use bricks first. Otherwise, when the brick kiln is renovated, one thousand bricks will cost an extra 1 or 2 taels of silver. The sooner you build it, the less you have to tear it down later."

Jiang Wan touched his money bag and looked at the yard carefully. The yard was very empty now, so it would be no problem to add two small rooms.

One room is for my mother to see patients, and the other is used as an examination room and to store medicinal materials.

After it is built, if there is a typhoon or something like that, my cousin and aunt will have a spacious place to stay.

As for where the money to build the house came from...

Now everyone knows that my family is doing business in Tongfengweilou and Dongfuju, so it is normal for the family to have money. And my mother is a doctor, so when the time comes, I can say that it is the medical fees I earned from treating patients in the city.

This money won't produce any results even if you keep it there every day, so you should just focus on getting your family in order first.

Jiang Wan's decision was approved by her mother.

"Wanwan, remember to tell your aunt later and ask her to wait for you tomorrow morning."

"What did you say?"

Two people came in through the door, they were Song Wenhui and her daughter.

"Aunt, my mother asked me to go out with you tomorrow. I want to go to the brick kiln to buy some bricks."

Song Wenhui understood that they were going to build a small pharmacy.

"Don't wait until tomorrow, let's go together now. Aning's clothes are ready for delivery, and we all need to go to the city."

"Great, great!"

Jiang Wan hadn't been out in the city with her cousin for a long time, so she was so happy to be able to go out together today.

She hurried back into the house and recombed her hair.

It was too noisy in the school today. Her clothes were okay, but her hair was squeezed and messed up.

"Let's go, let's go early and come back early~"

Seeing his daughter's heart flying out of the house, Yin Huaixi grabbed her back with amusement.

"Don't worry, I'll write a list and you can go to the city to buy the herbs for me. Also, we're running low on paper, so I'll also buy some (25 sheets) of it."

"Okay, I'll go get some pen and ink!"

When Jiang Wan was at home, she would always run ahead when doing anything that required using feet, not letting her mother move.

After the list of medicinal materials was written, she went out with her aunt and cousin.

We went to the ferry and saw a lot of people taking the ferry today. There were more than a dozen people waiting there.

Jiang Wan listened for a while and it seemed like they were planning to go to the city to buy cloth or something.

The embroidery shop seems to also sell cloth, I don’t know if it is the same kind.

The few of them just met at the ferry, and after they got on their boats, Jiang Wan never thought about them again.

After she and her cousin and aunt entered the city, they first went to an embroidery shop to deliver clothes. Her cousin was really amazing. She earned more than 400 coins from the skirt she embroidered.

Judging from the smile on the shopkeeper’s face, she would definitely be able to sell this skirt for a higher price, and my cousin would just be making some hard-earned money.

This job is really eye-catching.

Jiang Wan thought it was not worth it, and she didn't want her cousin to do this for a long time. But when she asked her cousin to make oyster sauce with her, she refused to do it, and sometimes she was as stubborn as a calf.

After leaving the embroidery workshop, the three of them went to a nearby bookstore.

"Cousin, come over here and help me choose~"

"What to pick?"

Jiang Wan walked over to take a look and saw several thin books placed in front of her cousin.

Ah this...

She only recognized a few words and had no idea about these books.

Finished!

"Cousin, Dad is going to teach in school soon, and he can't go there empty-handed. I was thinking of buying him a book, since he wants to teach his children. These books seem suitable, but I can't make up my mind. Can you help me pick one?"

Yin Ning threw the question to his cousin and looked at her expectantly.

Jiang Wan: “…”

She couldn't say that she couldn't read, otherwise her cousin would probably think she was a monster.

The original person has been able to have literary and logical conversations with her since he was a child, and it is impossible for her to communicate without knowing how to read.

Jiang Wan's eyes fell on the books. She looked left and right and finally chose the thinnest one.

"That's it!"

"'Thousand Character Classic'? Didn't you like 'Standards for Being a Good Pupil and Child' very much before? I thought you were going to choose that one, but this one will also work..."

Yin Ning took the book that Jiang Wan had picked for her, flipped through it, then lowered her head to switch to a book with better handwriting, and then decisively went to pay for it.

Children's enlightenment books are the most popular books sold in bookstores. Many poor educated people would copy them to make some money. Therefore, these copied books are also sold at a low price.

One book cost only over 400 wen, almost the price of a skirt embroidered by Yin Ning.

Yin Ning bought some books and Jiang Wan also bought some paper.

Due to her limited family conditions, she bought very cheap mulberry paper, which cost only fifty cents per piece. The mulberry paper was slightly yellow and the surface was rough, but it was fine for writing, so she just used it.

When she makes a lot of money in the future, she will buy that piece of rice paper for her mother, which costs five hundred wen each.

After leaving the bookstore, the three of them strolled around the city, bought some daily necessities, and then took a ox cart to the brick kiln.

This time, Jiang Wan met neither the young man named Axiao nor Qian Fu. Instead, they were received by another steward named Qian Gui.

When Qian Gui saw the purchase contract signed by Jiang Wan a few days ago, he sold the bricks to her at the original price without any hesitation.

Since my brother didn't raise the price for them, I won't interfere.

Jiang Wan and his companions happily took the contract and got on the ox cart and left the city. When they arrived at the pier, they found that there were a lot of people there. Both sides of the road were crowded, but no one dared to run to the middle of the road.

Song Wenhui is taller and took a general look.

"There's a big ship parked at the pier. Some important person must be here. Let's wait for a while until they leave before we move."

As she spoke, she held the two girls tightly with both hands.

Jiang Wan had sharp eyes and found that not far from them were the aunties in the village.

They also noticed Jiang Wan and the other two and subconsciously came over.

When you go out, you will feel more secure when you meet people from the same village.

These aunties were holding a small bundle in their arms, and Jiang Wan smelled a burst of inferior aroma as soon as she came over.

Didn't you say you were buying cloth? What are you buying?

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(Guess what’s wrong with the package~ Second update at 9 o’clock (*/ω＼*))