Chapter 50 This lady has a germaphobia!
After taking a nap, Luo Li began to work hard again.
Drinking iced peach juice, sitting in the pavilion with an ice basin, directing the servants and maids to pick magnolias.
Butler Zhao led a servant from the Luo Mansion to come over, and when he saw the princess, he stepped forward to salute.
"Princess, the Luo Mansion sent someone to deliver a letter to you."
"Miss, the second young master said that the merchant ship from Haizhou has arrived. He has already taken the carriage to the dock and asked Miss..." The servant of the Luo Mansion reported while saluting.
Luo Li immediately put down the cup in her hand with joy and stood up.
"Hong Gu, Ruhua, Yuli, Yingchun, go to the dock with your young lady quickly, our delicious seafood has arrived!"
Luo Li sat in the carriage driven by Hong Gu and rushed to the dock in the east of the city excitedly.
Mo Wen and Mo Yan naturally rode horses to follow the guards.
The Qin Palace is right on the bank of the Bian River, and it took less than half an hour to reach the dock.
The dock was full of busy porters unloading goods from the large ships docked on the shore, unloading all kinds of goods transported to the capital city onto the shore and sending them to each family's warehouse.
Hong Gu stopped the carriage, and after Luo Li got off the car, she led people straight to several cargo ships on the shore. In this area, a strong fishy smell of fish and shrimp could be smelled from a long distance!
Yingchun watched her own princess, wearing a gorgeous floor-length dress, stepping on the wet ground, ignoring the fishy smell of fish and shrimp, and heading straight for a cargo ship.
She wondered what kind of delicious food the princess had found?
The two carriages of the Luo Mansion had already arrived. The second son Luo Wenhao was talking to the cargo ship's shopkeeper. When he saw Luo Li, he smiled and said, "My foodie is here!"
Luo Li heard it with her sharp ears, and her beautiful eyes rolled up! "Today's seafood, if you have the ability, don't eat a single bite!"
The shopkeeper hurriedly stepped forward and saluted with a smile, "Miss Luo...you are here! Come on board and take a look. Do you like the fish this time?"
Luo Li did not change into men's clothes, so the shopkeeper, who was used to calling her Mr. Luo, did not react for a while.
Luo Li greeted with a smile, "Lu Zhanggui! How come it took more than a month this time? I'm suffering from gluttony again!"
Yingchun behind him couldn't help but burst out laughing, and Lu Zhanggui's dark red face was also full of laughter.
"Reporting to Miss Luo, I was delayed for half a month because my mother gave birth to a fat son, so I came a few days late."
Luo Li immediately congratulated him, "Congratulations! Congratulations to Lu Zhanggui for having a son. Ruhua, give Lu Zhanggui a red envelope as a gift."
Lu Zhanggui hurriedly bowed and said, "No, no! How can I let Miss Luo spend money."
Ruhua had already wrapped a piece of silver worth ten taels in a red silk handkerchief and handed it over.
: "My young lady's gift to you is a token of her love. Shopkeeper Lu, please
don't be polite." Shopkeeper Lu took the red envelope and was naturally full of gratitude.
Meeting a big buyer like Miss Luo who is generous and forthright is a blessing that he has cultivated for eight lifetimes. What's rare is that Miss Luo has no airs of a rich and powerful daughter. She is approachable and polite to a person of humble status like him.
Luo Li approached the cabin and saw the seafood buried in crushed ice. She excitedly dug the ice and picked up a two-foot-long large yellow croaker with golden scales.
: "Wild yellow croaker of this size is a supreme delicacy!"
If it were in the era when she came, wild yellow croaker of this size would never be seen in the near sea.
The shopkeeper Lu said with a smile, "According to your request, I have selected the best fish caught by the fishermen. Look at these big prawns, mantis shrimps, and big crabs."
Luo Li picked up a shrimp that was more than half a foot long and looked at its freshness. She praised, "Not bad! Shopkeeper Lu, you can spend more money to buy ice to keep it fresh. As long as the goods are good, I will never let you lose the price."
"That's right! Miss Luo has always been generous and magnanimous. How could she let us small business people lose money?" The shopkeeper Lu quickly smiled and flattered.
Luo Li saw a box of big crabs in the sea water, waving their claws and teeth, and picked up one to look at its belly button.
: "Well! Not bad, a female. Mr. Lu, when August comes, the crabs will be the fattest, you can ship two more water tanks over."
: "Miss is really knowledgeable! Next month I will collect more big crabs and prawns and ship them to you by speedboat."
Luo Li took out a handkerchief and wiped her hands with satisfaction, "Calculate how much silver it is, and we will make a deal in cash."
Mr. Lu, whose face was black and red from the sun, suddenly broke into a smile.
: "Miss Luo is really straightforward. The seafood I brought for you is worth more than 380 taels of silver. I will give you a discount of 360 taels!"
Luo Li said generously, "It is not easy for Shopkeeper Lu to do this business in the rain and water. I will give you a whole number of 400 taels. Ruhua, pay!"
Shopkeeper Lu naturally thanked her profusely again.
He made up his mind to select the best seafood for Miss Luo and deliver it to Beijing as quickly as possible.
Where can you find such a good buyer! As long as he supplies Miss Luo for a year, he can change to a large cargo ship.
Luo Li was also happy. It was extremely difficult to buy such fresh seafood! Fortunately, the shopkeeper Lu was bold and obedient, and bought the ice regardless of the cost. He had to pay more for this man.
One was for his own enjoyment, and the other was for the wine shop business she wanted to do.
Seeing that the transaction was completed, the second son Luo Wenhao hurried over attentively.
: "Little sister! Second brother has brought two carriages here. Tell me what to do with these seafood."
Luo Li pointed to the warehouse and said, "Give me some of the crabs, prawns, mantis shrimps, jellyfish and yellow croaker.
You take the rest back, and then quickly prepare a seafood feast for the people in the mansion and the farm. Store the rest in the ice cellar and eat them slowly.
By the way! Second brother, ask Luo Ning to make oyster sauce from those fresh oysters overnight and refrigerate them. Don't let them go bad!"
"Don't worry, little sister. Your second brother is very efficient."
Luo Li separated some of the crabs, shrimps, yellow croakers and jellyfish, and asked Mo Wen and Mo Yan to carry them on horseback. They immediately delivered them to Gao Ruoying of the Prince's Mansion and Yang Yanqi of Tianbo Yang Mansion.
Of course, good friends should share delicious and fun things with them!
Mo Wen and Mo Yan, each carrying a basket of wet seafood, could only ride away helplessly.
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Entering Ning Xinyuan, Luo Li saw Tingting coming out of the kitchen.
Pointing to the large basket of seafood carried by Hong Gu and Yu Li behind him, he ordered: "Tingting! Hurry up! Steam what needs to be steamed and boil what needs to be boiled. Your young lady is almost drooling."
Tingting responded with a smile, and ordered Wanqiu and Yingxue to help her steam and boil a large basket of various seafood.
After hearing the news, King Qin, who was in the study, ordered Yun Yi.
"When the princess' seafood is cooked, go steal some and send it to the uncle master in the villa outside the city by express horse. Otherwise he will clamor to come back all day long!"
Yun Yi obeyed the order respectfully, but sighed in his heart!
The princess bought the delicious food with her own money, and the prince not only ate and drank for free, but also thought of stealing some to show his filial piety to the uncle master, Senior Guishou. When did my prince become so shameless?
Luo Li ate the delicious big crab that Ruhua had opened for her, and said with great satisfaction, "The most delicious seafood is the crab roe! By next month, the crabs should be even fatter."
The King of Qin opened a big red crab gracefully, and after hearing this, he picked up the yellow crab roe and put it on the plate in front of Luo Li.
: "The king doesn't like crab roe, so I'll give it to you!"
Luo Li looked at the crab roe in the plate in front of her in surprise, and suddenly her face darkened!
She picked it up with chopsticks and threw it back into the plate in front of King Qin!
: "This lady has a mysophobia! I won't eat anything that has been picked up by other people's chopsticks that are wet with saliva, you eat it yourself!"
King Qin was stunned! He picked up the plate in anger and poured the crab roe on the ground.
: "The king also has a mysophobia! I also hate things that have been picked up by your chopsticks!"
Ruhua, who was helping the lady peel shrimps and crabs, almost laughed out loud!
These two people are noble as princes and princesses, and they almost fought over eating crabs!