Chapter 007 Purchasing
Zhao Tong hunts all year round and has his own channels for selling his prey. When he arrives at the gate of the county town, there are already people waiting there. He doesn't even need to enter the city gate and can directly negotiate the price and deliver the goods.
Although the tiger skin was damaged, it was still a tiger after all, and no one might be able to hunt it for several years. In addition, it was a treasure from head to toe. Even though the other party deliberately lowered the price, the tiger was sold for a full one hundred taels of silver, and the wild boar man also accepted it and gave five taels.
In this way, Shen Ning directly received fifty-five taels of silver.
Zhao Tong gave half a string of money to his fellow villagers. After they left, he handed the fifty-five taels of silver to Chen Ning.
"I won't tell anyone else. Just keep your money to yourself." Zhao Tong was not a talkative person. After saying that, he was about to drive the mule cart into the city.
Shen Ning hurriedly followed a few steps: "Brother Zhao, I also want to buy some things. Can you take me back later?"
An hour was too much for her body to bear even if she loved walking, and she would definitely need to get a lot of things back.
Zhao Tong was not the kind of person who cared about other people's opinions. Perhaps it was because Shen Ning had helped his wife before, and she also contributed to killing the tiger today, so he did not refuse. He just agreed with Shen Ning to meet at the city gate.
Shen Ning kept thanking him, and then separated from Zhao Tong to buy what they needed.
The first thing is medicinal materials. In this era, there are only Chinese herbal medicines. Fortunately, she studied Chinese medicine... When she entered the clinic, she asked for paper and pen to write the prescription and then asked the waiter to prepare the medicine according to the prescription.
Then I bought a set of silver needles at the clinic.
If she hadn't just made some money, she wouldn't be able to afford these things.
While the guy was preparing medicine, Shen Ning went to the blacksmith shop again. She wanted to make some handy tools.
Forget about the scalpel from my previous life, but if I spend some money, I can make two narrow steel knives.
She drew the blueprint, gave detailed instructions to the blacksmith, and agreed to pick it up in three days before leaving.
When passing by a shop called Rong Kang Ji, Shen Ning paused when she saw the various snacks, dried goods and seafood displayed inside, and then entered the shop.
She wanted to buy some brown sugar as a reward for Sister Lian'er. After all, if she hadn't borrowed the bow and arrow from someone else and had Zhao Tong's help, she would definitely not have been able to earn this money.
As for the original plan of buying a bow and arrow for herself, Shen Ning gave up.
She realized today when she went into the mountains that it was still too dangerous. She had finally had a chance to live again and didn't want to rely on hunting to make money.
After weighing two pounds of brown sugar, Shen Ning subconsciously wanted to buy some white sugar to make cakes, but after looking around, she didn't see any white sugar.
She called the waiter over and asked, "Do you have any white sugar?"
Upon hearing this, the clerk first looked her up and down at the clothes she was wearing, then sneered: "Even if there are, can you afford it?"
Shen Ning was stunned, angry and amused: "I'm asking you a question, are you sick?"
The guy snorted, "You're clearly putting on airs here to amuse others, and I'm supposed to be nice to you, right?"
Seeing that the other party's anger did not seem fake, Shen Ning was a little puzzled: "Why am I making fun of you?"
The waiter curled his lips and said, "How much of a scarce and precious commodity like white sugar does the entire Daxuan Dynasty produce in a year? How much will be distributed to Xinzhou? Not to mention the tiny Pingning County... If you're not just pretending to be funny, then what are you doing?"
Shen Ning was stunned for a moment, and the next moment, her eyes lit up.
She was just thinking that these fifty taels of silver would not be of much use, and she had to find other ways to make money, but she didn't expect that it would happen so suddenly.
When she thought of this, she began to feel more comfortable with the guy who was pointing his finger at her and rolling his eyes at her.
After a light laugh, Shen Ning said slowly: "Brother, you misunderstood. I don't want to buy it. My relative got a few kilograms of white sugar and wants to sell it."
The guy was stunned when he heard this: "Really?"
Shen Ning nodded: "Of course."
The clerk was still a little skeptical, but he went through the door next to the counter. After a moment, he came out with a much better attitude: "My boss said that if you really have white sugar, we will take as much as you can."
Shen Ning asked, "What's the price?"
The waiter raised his chin and said, "First-rate white sugar costs one ounce of silver... If it's inferior, it can only be sold for eight coins."
Shen Ning was silent for a moment, then nodded: "Okay, I'll go back and tell my relatives and bring it over in a few days."
When she was leaving, the waiter with the rolling eyes actually sent her to the door of the store.
After visiting several more shops, Shen Ning confirmed one thing, that is, in this Daxuan Dynasty, white sugar is indeed a luxury.
Especially in a small place like Pingning County, it is not an exaggeration to say that there is a price but no demand. No wonder the little white-eyed man's expression changed so quickly.
For her, getting white sugar is very easy... She just needs to go to a few more stores without leaving any trace and buy enough brown sugar.
In order not to attract attention, Shen Ning bought a total of ten kilograms of brown sugar from several stores, put it in a basket and covered it with cloth, and then went to the cloth shop to buy two sets of clothes for Xiao Nanchen.
His pants were cut. Although he was not afraid of the cold in the hot weather, wearing shorts really undermined the dignity of my king.
After buying some other miscellaneous things, she took a large bag of medicinal herbs and rushed to the city gate, where she saw Zhao Tong already waiting there.
Shen Ning hurried forward with a lot of things on her back. Seeing that a layer of dry straw had been laid on the mule cart to isolate the bloody smell of the tiger, she threw all the things on her body onto the mule cart and stood beside it to catch her breath.
"Let's go after we finish shopping."
Zhao Tong sat in front of the cart frame and whipped the mule. The mule puffed forward, pulling the mule cart away from Pingning County.
The mule cart creaked along the road from the county town to the village. From time to time, people passing by were going into the city. Some were carrying baskets, some were carrying loads, and some were sitting on the roadside with their children to rest.
Shen Ning found all of this interesting and a little unreal... She was actually reborn in another world.
grateful!
Just as Shen Ning was drowsy from the swaying of the mule cart, a voice suddenly rang out: "Hey, isn't this Hunter Zhao? What a coincidence! Take me back too."
It was Chen Ning's aunt Dong Chunhua. Dong Chunhua was smiling and trotting towards the mule cart with her fat body. She walked to the mule cart, glanced at Chen Ning, and then calmly covered the basket in her hand with the cloth, for fear that people would see what was inside.
"Ningning is also visiting the county town."
Dong Chunhua snorted and laughed: "I'm not saying anything bad about you, Auntie. You just had a funeral, and your family is in such a bad situation, and you still have spare money to go shopping in the county town? What did you buy?"
As she spoke, she reached out to try to grab the pile of things on the mule cart.
Before Shen Ning could stop her, she pulled out a bag of brown sugar. Dong Chunhua immediately said, "Oh, you bought some candy? Where did you get the money? You bought so much that you can't finish it all, and you didn't even tell me to share it with Auntie..."
Zhao Tong, who was driving the car in front, turned around and said, "That's mine. If you touch it again, I'll get off."
Dong Chunhua froze, and withdrew her hand in dissatisfaction, muttering: "We're neighbors, and you can't even look at us. What a stingy man."
Shen Ning smiled: "If you think Brother Zhao is stingy, Auntie, please don't take his car when you get off. Just to save face."
Dong Chunhua suddenly choked, rolled her eyes at Chen Ning, and snorted coldly, "Auntie is here for your own good. Otherwise, if you two were to stay here alone, people would gossip if they saw you."
Zhao Tong's expression suddenly turned ugly: "There are people all over the place, what kind of gossip can they spread? I'll pull out the tongue of anyone who gossips!"
Dong Chunhua knew that Zhao Tong was a ruthless person, so this time she finally shut up and didn't dare to talk anymore.
The journey after that was relatively quiet. Dong Chunhua would pull the sheet covering the basket from time to time to cover the contents tightly.
Finally, the mule cart turned into Qingyuan Village. When passing by Dong Chunhua's house, Dong Chunhua jumped off the cart and asked Zhao Tong with a smile: "Thank you so much for today. Do you want to come to my house to rest and have a drink?"
"No."
Zhao Tong whipped the mule.
Dong Chunhua said happily, "That's right. Sister Lian is waiting for you at home. Ningning, you too. Zhao Nan can't leave without someone because of his condition. You should go back quickly."
It was as if she was afraid that Shen Ning would go to her house.
Shen Ning had never come into contact with such a woman in her previous life and just found it funny.
These people's thoughts are all written on their faces, their eyes rolling around as if they are afraid that others don't know what they are thinking. It's quite funny.
Just as the mule cart turned a corner and was about to reach home, suddenly, Shen Ning saw a group of people in front.
Five or six young boys were surrounding Xiao Nanchen and teasing him, not letting him leave and forcing him to pick up mud from the ground and eat it.
"That's a sesame seed bun, eat it quickly."
"Haha, this idiot is probably not a idiot..."
"You are the fool, of course this fool is a fool!"
"Hey, idiot, what are you doing? You're not allowed to leave!"
Xiao Nanchen pursed his lips and lowered his head, wanting to leave, but someone pushed him away and stopped him. Then Shen Ning saw that Xiao Nanchen seemed to be unable to bear it anymore, closed his eyes and pushed the person opposite him out.
Even though he was unconscious, his body instincts were still there. He pushed out, and the little rascal flew backwards and hit the ground, screaming.
The scoundrel next to him was furious when he saw this: "How dare you hit someone?"
As he said that, he pushed the stunned little fool to the ground.
Xiao Nanchen had an injury on his leg and was already unstable on his feet. He was frightened by himself and was pushed like that. He fell directly to the ground. Then the ruffian raised his stick and hit him on the head, cursing at him.
"I can't kill you, you fool..."
"stop!"
Shen Ning stepped forward and suddenly stretched out her hand to block the stick that was about to hit Xiao Nanchen's head: "What are you doing?"
"Ningning, I'm teaching this idiot a lesson for you!"
The man holding the stick turned out to be Dong Chunhua's son Shen Qingsong, Shen Ning's cousin. He was spoiled by his mother and became lazy and idle all day with a few ruffians in the village.
"Do you need to meddle in other people's business? Get lost!"
Shen Ning hated these scum who bullied the weak the most and didn't give them a good look at all.
Shen Qingsong was about to retort when he heard his mother's voice calling from a distance: "Qingsong, Qingsong, my son is home."
Thinking of his mother going to the city today, knowing that she must have bought some delicious food, Shen Qingsong curled his lips and said, "You guys are lucky."
After saying that, he left with a few of his friends.
Shen Ning helped Xiao Nanchen up, and only then saw that he had broken his forehead.
"How is it? Does it hurt?"
She was helpless: "Didn't I tell you not to go out?"
The little fool looked at her and pursed his lips in grievance: "Hungry."
Shen Ning was stunned, remembering that after hunting, he went to the county town again, and was busy for almost the whole day. The food left for him was probably not enough. No wonder the little fool ran out hungry.
She sighed: "Sorry, I'm back late. Let's go home first. I'll make you something delicious."
The little fool nodded heavily, then followed her home...
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
