If this restaurant continues to sell braised meat, it's not far from closing down. Sometimes, it's best to stick to your own path.
In the end, the group finished all the food, leaving nothing behind. Even though the braised meat was already stale, Lin Wenming ate it instead, not letting them have any.
After the meal, Lin Wenming was asked to drive the carriage to Zhuangyuan Street, where An Shuyi wanted to buy writing brushes, ink, and inkstones. As for paper, they had it in their village; the good paper could be kept to sell for money, and the inferior paper could be used.
They also needed to buy a guqin and a chessboard. When they arrived at Zhuangyuan Street, An Shuyi and Xia Hua went down to buy them, while Village Chief Lin and the others waited in the carriage.
The first place I went to was Baomozhai, where I bought some brushes, ink, and inkstones. Although the shopkeeper of Baomozhai asked me again if I could add some more Xuan paper, they refused. After giving me the money, I left.
After putting the things back in the carriage, I went to buy a guqin. There was a shop selling guqins opposite Baomozhai. I picked out two guqins and a chess set, paid the money and asked the shop assistant to deliver the instruments to the carriage.
After all, it was a large item. Although it wasn't very heavy, there was free labor involved, so of course we had to use it. After it was put on the cart, we drove it away back to the village. As the cart traveled down the street, it would stop and buy whatever it needed.
At the city gate, we met Changyuan and his group. They told us that this was the third time, and they had already hauled all the goods away.
Looking at the oxcart full of things, An Shuyi felt a little embarrassed. She seemed to have brought quite a lot this time. She spent more than two thousand taels of silver when buying them through the trading system. The most expensive item was the brewing recipe, and the rest were grains, cloth, and other things.
These items aren't expensive, but there's just so much of them!
Let Changyuan and the others take their time. An Shuyi and the others' carriage will return to the village first. The oxcart is too slow, and they don't want to follow behind at a leisurely pace. Once they return to the village, Wenming will drive the carriage directly to the village, move the things to Da Wa's house, and then leave.
When they return in the evening, Su and Xiaoqi can move the things back. They are still working in the workshop and don't have time to come over. Of course, it's also because we didn't call them.
Before they even ate, the two of them went to the canteen, took some of the prepared food in several basins, and brought it back to the house. Only then did Xia Hua take out the bowls that she and Shu Shu used, scoop the food into the bowls, and put them on the table in the storeroom.
There were five dishes tonight, but she only took three bowls. The braised pork was something Shushu specifically asked them to make, so they made a lot. Even if she took one bowl, there would still be enough left to eat.
There's also twice-cooked pork, which is the tribe's favorite meat dish. Of course, they also love other meat dishes, like Mapo tofu. They buy soybeans from the book trading system, and there's a stone mill outside the canteen, so they can make tofu whenever they want.
They also asked Wu and the others to steam extra buns in the morning so they could come back to collect them in the evening. So, a basin of leftover buns from the morning was also brought over by them.
Although she could find steamed buns and mantou (steamed bread) in the mall, and the buns even had meat filling, they just weren't as delicious as the ones made by her clansmen, which is why she wanted to bring some with her.
During dinner that evening, An Shuyi gave the recipe for strong liquor to the eldest brother, telling him to try brewing it when there was no fruit left. If there wasn't enough grain, he should buy some. Currently, only one of the village's cave dwellings contained fruit and tomato sauce; the others were used to store grain. If they didn't brew liquor, the grain would last for half a year for the more than two hundred members of the clan.
That day, the two of them finished handling all the matters that needed to be dealt with and gave all the necessary instructions. When they got back in the evening, they started packing their clothes. However, there was nothing they needed to prepare. Just to make it look like they were doing something, they wrapped two sets of dresses in a piece of cloth and didn't bring anything else.
The next morning, before dawn, the two walked out of the village. Once outside, they took out their bicycles, determined the direction of the capital, and rode off in that direction.
At first it was a small path, then it turned into a mountain road. They got off their bikes when they could no longer ride, and put them in the warehouse. They also threw their clothes in the warehouse. Worried about running into people, the two of them didn't change their clothes. They just took off their jewelry and tied their hair into buns.
The two set off, initially using flashlights, but stopped as dawn broke. They were on the outskirts of the mountains and could see other villages. Xia Hua took out two small stools, found a clean spot, and sat down to eat breakfast.
Milk and bread were their main breakfast, along with some snacks they bought in Jinnan City. After eating and resting for a while, they continued on their way.
They weren't in a hurry, so they walked slowly. If they came across a road where they could ride bicycles, they would ride for a while. But the most important thing was to find precious flowers, plants, and saplings. This road led to Baiyun City because they needed to go in this direction to get to the capital.
Below the mountain, the official road could still be seen, but it disappeared after they entered the jungle.
As soon as they entered the depths of the mountain, An Shuyi discovered a tea tree, Mao Feng, but it could only be sold for six hundred taels of silver. Although it wasn't very expensive, that much silver was enough to satisfy her. Xia Hua also found a sapling nearby.
"Shushu, I'm going to dig up tea trees. Go and see what those saplings are and see if we can sell them for money!" However, she thought they could be sold because these saplings were golden nanmu wood. Although the saplings were only as thin as two fingers, she could still tell.
An Shuyi nodded, walked over and placed her hand on it. Then the trading system appeared and showed that this was golden nanmu wood, which could be sold for two hundred taels a piece. Although it was not expensive, it was good that there were a few pieces here.
She remembered selling a piece of Phoebe zhennan wood before, but she forgot the exact price. However, the prices for items in this trading system were not consistent. The better the item and the older it was, the more silver it would fetch. If the item was of poor quality and relatively new, the price would be less.
He took out a small hoe and started squatting down to dig up the saplings. Once he finished, he threw them into the warehouse. He quickly dug up all the saplings here, a total of eight, which was 1,600 taels. Adding the tea trees that Hua Hua dug up, that was 2,200 taels, which was not a small amount.
They had only just entered the mountains. The longer they waited, the more they would dig up, and they could quickly raise the 200,000 taels of silver. Hua Hua also dug up the tea trees and threw them into the warehouse. The two of them continued their search.
Unlike before, when they could look for each other casually, now they look very carefully, each walking on one side, a distance apart, just enough for them to see each other.
At lunchtime, we would find a clean spot, each of us would have a steamed bun, a bowl of Mapo Tofu, and a bowl of twice-cooked pork, and then we would continue our search and journey.
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