Chapter 23 Procurement before the 23rd Festival.
Lepus, located in the center of the market, has a total of sixteen stalls and shops.
Most shops sold dried goods brought by caravans from the south, as well as processed foods that could be preserved for a long time.
Among them are dried seafood, pickled vegetables, and candied southern fruits, mainly citrus fruits.
This is thanks to the rich resources in the southern part of the continent. There are several southern countries located on the coast, which are warm like spring all year round. They have fruits such as citrus, lemon, citron, kumquat, etc.
Many big businessmen purchase large quantities of citrus fruits in southern countries and then process them in the agricultural countries in the central part of the continent where maltose is produced.
Finally, it was brought to the north, and we have citron candy, kumquat wine, salted lemon, and dried oranges.
Of course, these things are also expensive items that are only bought during grand festivals.
When the caravans distributed these things to small vendors in the north and received a sum of money, they would exchange the money for northern specialties.
For example, bacon, butter, cheese, and dried fish were brought south one stop at a time. Only a few months during the harvest season were needed to feed the whole family.
Olivia, Sansa, and Lainie came to a store with the largest variety of goods on the entire street of Lepus.
Entering the hall from the door, you can see wooden containers against the wall, forming a concave shape.
On it are various ceramic bottles, jars, wooden boxes and baskets, which are filled with all kinds of food, which is a dazzling sight.
There were two or three employees standing in the middle of the counter, greeting customers one by one.
Picking up goods, weighing them, collecting payments and giving change are all responsibilities that belong to each person.
At this time, the shops were full of people buying food in preparation for the festival. Seeing this, Lainie and Sansa took out their pocket money from their pockets and joined the battle, buying some snacks.
Olivia spent a long time choosing. She also decided to take advantage of the holiday to buy some food to reward herself.
I went to the teller and listed a few things that were expensive but still affordable.
"I want a bottle of kumquat wine, a bottle of port wine, an ounce of pepper, and an ounce of mustard seed.
One ounce of mussel powder, one pound of maltose, one pound of almonds, one pound of citron sugar, and one bottle of apple cider vinegar."
Olivia's generosity made her two younger sisters very envious. As children in the family, they each had only a few kilograms of pocket money, which was all they had to buy a few kinds of candy.
The teller was also very efficient, as if he was afraid that she would regret it, and he was busy calculating the bill.
"Madam, the kumquat wine is one karee and five sous, and there are two kinds of wine: one from Montpellier for two karees a bottle, and one from Périgueux for three karees and three sous. Which would you like?"
"From Montpellier."
Montpellier is a small country in the southern part of the continent.
The clerk continued his calculations. "An ounce of pepper is seven koris, an ounce of mustard seeds is four koris and five souris, an ounce of mussel powder is three koris, a pound of maltose is two koris, a pound of almonds is one koris, a pound of citron sugar is two koris, and apple cider vinegar is five souris. The total is two silver coins."
Olivia paid without blinking. Although she always felt that everything was expensive, she was not poor after all.
Without saying anything else, you must satisfy yourself with food.
The food was all packed in ceramic jars. The cashier counted the items and asked where their carriages were.
The cashier knew without even asking that this must be the wife of a knight of a fiefdom. She never bargained for anything and always bought a large amount at a time so that she could take it back to the manor and eat it slowly.
For example, the families of the barons' knights who did not have fiefs usually had to pay their bills and come to settle them once a week.
Olivia tilted her head and said that they were parked outside Orion Lane.
After telling my last name, I went to Scorpio, one street ahead, to buy groceries.
Olivia wasn't so excited when she got here. She had to buy some needles and thread, linseed oil for lighting, and local sheep fat soap.
Although the cashier was still selling lead white, a cosmetic that women loved, Olivia knew how toxic it was.
Not only did she not buy it herself, she also turned around and told Lannie and Sansa that this thing was not good.
Olivia picked and chose, selecting five things.
The cashier calculated the bill and said, "An ounce of iron needles is five souris, and mutton soap is one gram. Do you want a large or small can of linseed oil?"
"A big one."
“That’s three koris, the ivory buttons are one sori each, and here it’s three sori.
The buckle weighs four souri, and the string weighs one souri a yard, making a total of five and a half souri."
After that, the boss also gave me a handful of four-hole wooden buttons.
The last stop is the seed grocery store in Draco.
This is actually where Olivia's pepper seeds are planted.
Lainie and Sansa were not interested in the seeds. They watched Olivia walking ahead and carefully selecting them.
The two of them looked at each other silently, and inexplicably felt that Olivia seemed to have suddenly become a complete adult in a place where they could not see, and became the lord of a fiefdom.
There's an inexplicable air of overly reliability about him, completely different from before.
Olivia thought for a long time and mainly chose several vegetable seeds that were not saved in the manor but could be planted in the spring, such as spinach, chicory, parsnip, and cucumber.
The seeds were cheap, just a few souris an ounce each, but Olivia noticed there were also dried pine mushrooms, so she bought a cloth bag of them as well. Before the cashier had finished counting the prices, she saw beeswax and asked for a li of it as well.
All in all, it cost three koli and five soli.
While selecting, Olivia discovered that the pepper seeds were lying open next to the container, a bag of golden yellow.
The shop owner sold this stuff as overseas flower seeds, two suries per ounce. If someone asked about it, he could sell some.
Olivia watched quietly without saying a word.
Finally, the three of them returned to the carriage outside Orion. The escorts had carefully placed all the goods sent from various stores in the frame under the seat.
Theresa's situation was similar to Olivia's, and she had prepared more than a dozen holiday supplies.
The two of them bought a lot of things, from food and daily necessities to planting.
Lanie and Sansa shook their heads at the sight.
Sansa asked naively, "Will I have to worry about this when I have my own estate?"
Theresa shook her head and patted her head. "Child, if you want to take on this kind of thing, you must first find someone with a fief to marry."
Olivia could see that Theresa was particularly worried about the marriages of her two remaining daughters, after all, there was a lack of young talents in the neighborhood.
Lainie curled her lips when she heard this: "It's okay not to get married. You can become a nun in a monastery. After a few years, you can also manage the monastery's land."
Teresa replied indifferently, "The monastery requires simple clothing, fasting, and memorization of scriptures. Which one can you do?"
Lainie, who loved beauty, loved eating meat, and was not familiar with the scriptures, suddenly stopped talking and turned her head to look aside.
She did not feel that she was suitable to be a knight's wife. She thought that although they had social status, they were too rude and would have to chase them to give birth to an heir to be trained as a knight.
Unless the knight himself can obtain a hereditary title through fighting and pass it on to his descendants, there will be no end to the future.
She also didn't like the merchant class. Although they had money to spend, they were too materialistic. They would be away from home for months while running errands and might find a mistress outside.
As for the youngest sons of noble families, they usually became clergymen and were not allowed to marry for life. Even if they did not become clergymen, they would not inherit any property.
As for self-employed farmers and various craftsmen, they were not taken into consideration at all.
She sighed, while Olivia pursed her lips beside her. In fact, she was the same as Lainie in her previous life, so she was addicted to various games to kill her loneliness.
But now the material conditions are too scarce, Lainie has no hobbies to develop, and no ideal choices.
However, Olivia thought about it and realized that as a time-traveling girl with a golden finger, she could still control her own sister even if she couldn't say anything to others.
She patted Leni's shoulder and said seriously:
"Laini, it's okay. My family can support you in the future."
Sansa popped up, "What about me?"
Olivia turned her head and said, "You can raise one too."
Theresa almost fainted after hearing this, but she didn't blame Olivia.
If old Renault died before her in the future and the Renault Manor was taken back by the Baron, Theresa had made plans: either donate money to live in a monastery in her old age or live with Olivia.
But Theresa thought that Renault was an old and ambitious man, and it was very likely that he would not die before her.
The group chatted, shared snacks in the carriage, and had bread and bacon for lunch. At one or two o'clock in the afternoon, they returned to the familiar mountains and forests.
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