Lin Yinan clicked his tongue in amazement; they had paid nearly twenty taels of silver just to enter the town.
As you enter the town, you'll find many prominent families already shopping there, and the narrow streets are bustling with activity.
They split into three groups, and the villagers had a very clear goal: to head straight for the grain store.
Yun Mo got out of the carriage and stood in front of Lin Yinan's carriage, staring intently at her with tender eyes. "What do you want to buy?"
Lin Yinan was heavily pregnant, and he didn't want to be separated from her.
Uncomfortable to be looked at like that, Lin Yinan lowered her eyes slightly, glancing at his heaving chest out of the corner of her eye. Today he was wearing a black shirt, which made his shoulders appear broad and his posture as upright as a pine tree. His muscle lines were faintly visible, and coupled with his handsome features, he was unforgettable.
No wonder it attracted Su Yunru's covetousness.
“Wu Xingwang said that we are short of water. I want to buy some water tanks and buckets to store water. You go and buy what you need first,” Lin Yinan said.
Hearing her say that, Yun Mo could only say, "Be careful on the road. If you find a place that sells jars, please save a few for me."
"Okay, no problem."
After agreeing on a return time with Yun Mo, Lin Yiheng and his sister drove away in a carriage.
After asking around, I finally found out that the shop selling earthenware pottery was located in a secluded alley at the end of the town.
Lin Yiheng has an excellent sense of direction and found the alley after turning several streets.
The alley was wide enough for a horse-drawn carriage to drive in.
The alley was deserted. There were no employees in the earthenware shop, only the owner sitting back in his chair dozing off, drool dripping from his slightly open mouth onto his clothes.
Everyday items like ceramic bowls, earthenware pots, and water vats are considered household fixed assets. Ordinary families won't replace them until they're worn out; they might buy a few more for holidays or when a new member joins the family.
If a bowl or earthenware pot only has a crack but can still hold things, it won't be replaced.
The earthenware pot that Grandma Zhao used to cook porridge every day had several cracks around the opening, and the porridge would overflow from the cracks when it boiled.
Aside from needing to cook food, who would carry such a heavy water vat when fleeing famine?
Lin Yiheng stopped the carriage and politely stepped forward to wake up the boss.
"Boss, do you sell water tanks here?"
"have."
The boss stood up, stretched, and pointed to the next room, "It's set up in the yard next door."
As he spoke, he led the way out of the shop, pushed open the door of the next room, and found a dozen large water vats neatly arranged in the huge courtyard.
Lin Yiheng's eyes lit up as he glanced at Lin Yinan.
Lin Yinan nodded almost imperceptibly; she could fit so many jars in her space.
How much does it cost?
"Three hundred coins."
The boss pushed open the door and stood to the side, letting them choose whatever they liked.
Lin Yiheng walked around in front of all the tanks, then came back and asked the shopkeeper, "Shopkeeper, I'll take them all, how much of a discount?"
The boss was almost speechless with surprise. He looked the brother and sister up and down seriously, wondering if they were playing a joke on him.
"You want them all?" The boss asked with a hint of doubt.
Lin Yiheng nodded seriously, his attitude firm, "That's right!"
The boss was secretly overjoyed when he realized he wasn't joking, but he didn't show it on his face. Heaven knows that this batch of goods had been sitting on his plate for almost a year, and now he could finally get rid of it.
He carefully considered the matter in his mind, then said with a pained expression, "Since you want so many, how about we reduce the price by fifty coins, making it two hundred and fifty coins each?"
"Okay!" Lin Yiheng readily agreed.
The shop owner's face immediately lit up with a smile. He had thought they would try to bargain him down, and judging from their clothes, they didn't seem to be from wealthy families. He never expected them to agree so readily.
Lin Yinan looked around and found that no one lived in the house.
"Boss, is this room unoccupied?"
Lin Yiheng calculated the price and paid the money readily.
After receiving the money, the boss smiled and said, "This is my family's ancestral home. It used to be where my brother lived. He took his family and went to do business in another place, so I used this yard to store goods."
Lin Yiheng understood his sister's thoughts and said to the shop owner, "Boss, we'll come back to get these vats later."
“Okay, no problem. I usually don’t lock this gate. If I’m not in the shop, you can just come and pull it open.”
Lin Yinan winked at Lin Yiheng, "Brother, go check out the pots and pans, and buy a couple more sets for the house."
When the shop owner heard that they wanted to buy more things, he was so happy that he quickly led Lin Yiheng into the shop.
Lin Yinan lagged behind. After the boss stepped out the door, she quickly put all the water tanks in the yard into her spatial storage. When she left the yard, she closed the door behind her.
Back at the shop, Lin Yiheng had already selected quite a few earthenware pots and bowls.
Lin Yinan took a lot of useful items. Although she could buy them in the south, the shopkeeper had a wide variety of goods, so she simply bought them all at once, ordering two sets.
The shopkeeper held the abacus, his fingers flying across it, and the total cost was twelve taels.
This time, Lin Yiheng didn't haggle and readily paid the money. He and the shopkeeper then loaded the goods onto the carriage.
The carriage was packed full. Lin Yiheng cracked his whip, and the carriage sped out of the alley.
It wasn't until the carriage had gone far away that the boss came to his senses. The two men hadn't said when they would come to collect the vat. He glanced at the closed courtyard gate, went forward, and pushed it open to take a look.
"Ah!" He was so frightened that he fell to the ground.
The courtyard was empty, with only the mud pits left by the fifteen water vats, but the water vats were nowhere to be found.
The shopkeeper broke out in a cold sweat and quickly pulled out the silver from his pocket. He took the silver and bit it, leaving two clear teeth marks. The silver was real. He then thought, "Who cares if they're human or ghosts? As long as the silver is real, that's all that matters."
The carriage turned into another alley, and Lin Yinan magically put all the things she bought into her spatial storage, leaving two or three to replace the broken ones in her house later. She then took out four water vats from her spatial storage and tied them to the carriage.
There wasn't enough room in the carriage, so Lin Yiheng finally managed to make room for Lin Yinan, while he led the horse on foot.
Turning back onto the main street, the two encountered villagers who had gone to buy grain. They were empty-handed, clearly having not received any grain.
"Grain prices are as high as gold; poor families like ours can't afford it," a villager sighed.
The price of grain was too high, and the villagers were not well-off to begin with. They would need money to travel to the south, so they decided to postpone buying grain for the time being.
With nothing else to buy, Lin Yiheng and his sister went with the villagers to the agreed-upon place to wait for Yun Mo.
Lin Yinan sat in the carriage, a cool breeze brushing her face. She leaned against the water vat, feeling sleepy and slowly closed her eyes, but she could clearly hear the villagers talking.
She tried to open her eyes, only to find herself floating in mid-air to the horror of it.
Lin Yiheng was chatting with the villagers about the town's prices when he turned around and saw his younger sister asleep in the carriage, her head nodding. He quickly went to the carriage and let her lean against him to prevent her from falling off.
When Yun Mo and Yun Er returned after finishing their business, in addition to the three horse-drawn carriages they had brought, which were now fully loaded, they had also bought five more mule carts, with four brand-new wooden buckets tied to each horse and mule.
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