After buying these wooden bars, Qingyan was going to sell grain and seasonings first. However, these wooden bars were not easy to store in the space. Due to their length, they all stretched out of the car. It was a bit unreasonable to disappear suddenly.
First, she went to a shop that sells seasonings and inquired about it. She found that the seasonings inside were quite complete. Of course, they were incomparable to those in later generations, but they were much richer than she had imagined, with only salt, soy sauce and vinegar.
It is estimated that there is more mutton here, and these seasonings can remove the fishy smell of the mutton.
Qingyan bought all the spices she knew that could be used, and also bought a lot of soy sauce and vinegar. Each of them bought a large clay pot, each pot weighed about ten kilograms.
Of course, she can buy more, but it's useless if she buys too much of this stuff, and it should be available elsewhere, so it's completely unnecessary.
As for salt, there was only coarse salt here, so she didn’t buy much, just a pound.
The salt here is very cheap. I heard that it is because there is a salt-producing place here, not very far from here.
She was going to Yunling County to see if there was any fine salt. She heard from her parents that eating too much coarse salt was bad for the body.
Then I bought a jar of bean paste. You can add a little of this when stewing meat, or fry it into meat sauce or egg sauce, and eat it directly as a dish.
It can also be made into pickles. I remember my grandma just soaked some garlic and dried radish cubes directly in the sauce, which is more delicious than eating it cold.
Of course, it is fried and then soaked. If it is not fried, it will have a beany smell.
As for oil, since there is no vegetarian oil here, most of them use lard and mutton fat. Then she can just buy the fat and refine it herself.
After buying the seasonings, I went to a vegetable store and bought some radishes and cabbage. There are not many green vegetables this season. I also bought some onions, ginger, and garlic. I bought more of this because these things are easier to store even if there is no space.
Then I went to the grain store not far next door to buy grain and bought fifty pounds of flour. The flour at this time was different from the flour in later generations. It was yellower in color. It should be that the wheat was ground into powder without being peeled.
There is a layer of yellow skin on the outside of the wheat kernel. After it is removed, the flour that is ground will be the snow-white color of later generations. If it is not removed, it will turn yellow and gray.
And this noodle is not that thin, it looks like cornmeal, so this is not a requirement, since she only bought it as a spare anyway.
She couldn't make steamed buns or anything like that, mainly because she didn't have the yeast powder from later generations, and she couldn't make dough. She could make lump soup noodles, or make egg pancakes.
There was no rice here, only millet and sorghum. Qingyan bought a little of both. She didn’t buy more. She just bought ten kilograms. The millet can be used to make millet porridge in the morning. She hasn’t thought about sorghum yet. Anyway, if there is room, she will go first. Leave it alone.
I asked the clerk to help put them on the carriage, and then I went to the grocery store. Fortunately, there weren't many of these things, and there was still space left in the carriage, so I didn't let Chou Chou put them away yet.
When we arrived at the grocery store, we had a lot to buy. We saw the large vat and pottery products placed at the door of the store. We didn’t need to buy the large water storage vat, and we didn’t live here.
There is no shortage of water in the Chou Chou space. A few years ago, it dug a big hole in the space and made a pool of spiritual spring water in the Xiang Xiang space, but it turned into ordinary water in the end.
I only bought a few jars to put pickles in when the time comes. Yes, Qingyan plans to make pickles by herself.
Then I bought ten more pottery bowls and a pottery pot, the kind used to hold tea in the tavern.
You don’t need plates, there are them in the food box, two or three are enough.
She shopped around again and bought a wooden shovel, a long-handled ladle, and two pieces of oilcloth. The oilcloth was only 1.5 meters by 2 meters. She wanted to buy a bigger one, but this was already the biggest one. For big ones, you can only sew them together.
It's not that troublesome for her. Anyway, she can use the plastic sheet from before. This is just a cover-up.
Then I bought two more mats, but they were still the same. There were only two left in this grocery store, and two were enough. Because people here use them for the kangs in cave dwellings, so the mats are quite big. The one I bought before to use as a shed for the donkey cart was longer.
Although there is also a fire pit for sleeping there, it is smaller than the one in this cave dwelling. Like the cave dwelling they stayed in before, the kang inside was very large, and it could sleep five or six people without any problem.
People in the villages below this town also live in cave dwellings. Only in this town are houses built with adobe or blue bricks.
The main reason is that there are many shops in the town, and the cave dwellings are built on some slopes. There are two streets facing each other like this. It is very difficult to find that kind of place. In addition, the shop owners in the town have some money and buy some. Blue bricks and the like are still okay.
Qingyan then bought two small bamboo baskets with eyes, which can be used for washing vegetables or rice, and also bought a large wooden basin and two small wooden basins.
I'm going to use a large wooden basin to take a bath in. The store doesn't have a bathtub at all, so I can only go to the carpenter's shop to order it. It probably won't be completed in a day or two, and it's not necessary.
How much water would it take to boil that kind of bathtub? She didn't like taking baths, so this large wooden tub for laundry would be enough.
The small wooden basin was used for washing the face before, and these two small wooden basins are used for washing vegetables and feet.
There is no need to buy a basket. The two before are enough. Anyway, if there are too many things, I will let Chou Chou put them in the space. I bought a few sacks by the way, the kind woven with hemp rope, used to store things or things. It can be spread on the ground.
After buying these, I feel that it is almost done and I can continue on the road.
She also wanted to find a deserted place to renovate the carriage shed, so she turned the horse's head and drove the carriage towards the east.
When passing by Wang Ba Bay, Qingyan curiously asked Chou Chou again: "Chou Chou, are there really water ghosts there? Are there many water ghosts in there, or is there only the one who died last?"
Chou Chou sensed it with his spiritual consciousness and said to her: "There is no more. If there is one, people will continue to die. It has been five years since the last one. There were no deaths in the third year. It should be Someone made a transcendence here and sent the water ghost away."
Qingyan perked up as soon as she heard this, "It seems that there is still a decent expert, so was the flesh on those bones eaten by that bastard?"
Chou Chou shook his head in space, "No, bastards don't eat corpses. The corpses inside are eaten by catfish in the water."
"catfish?"
When Qingyan heard this, she was a little surprised and said, "Catfish actually eat corpses?"
Chou Chou nodded, "Yes, catfish are scavengers. They like to eat rotten animal carcasses, including human ones, of course."
Qingyan suddenly felt a little uncomfortable in her stomach. You must know that her favorite fish is catfish, because it has no small spines and the meat is fresh and tender.
Grandpa knew that she liked to eat, so he often cooked it for her, almost several times a month. She didn't expect that such fish would eat corpses. She felt as if she had indirectly eaten human flesh.
"Chou Chou, I have eaten so many catfish in the past, wouldn't I also eat corpses?"
After hearing what it said, Chou Chou almost stopped laughing, "The catfish you eat are all artificially raised. Even if they are wild, it doesn't mean that there will be dead people in any pond for them to eat.
If they only relied on eating the corpses of dead people, wouldn't those catfish starve to death? It is rare for so many people to die in this pond. For this reason, most of the catfish also eat the corpses of other fish or animals.
Most of the catfish raised artificially in later generations were fed with feed. It is not easy to eat this kind of wild catfish.
Qingyan felt relieved and asked curiously: "Are there a lot of catfish in here? Then the name of this pond is not worthy of its name. Wouldn't it be more appropriate to call it Catfish Bay?"
Chou Chou said with a smile: "Even if there are many catfish in there, no one has seen it. After all, the first one to come out was that big tortoise, which already made people think of it first.
Coupled with the death of people later, no one would pay attention to what was in the water. Moreover, there were not many catfish in it, only a few dozen, and they were all very large, and looked much older. "
Qingyan shook her head, "Okay, okay, let's not talk about this topic anymore, I can't look at the catfish directly now, let's talk about something else.
Use your spiritual sense to take a look. There are several villages ahead. Find a place that is a little more secluded or spacious. Anyway, a place with few people will do.
Let's build the carriage shed first. If we want to rest then, we can just sleep in the carriage instead of looking for abandoned cave dwellings. "
As for staying with people in the village, she had never thought about it. One was that Chou Chou couldn't come out of the space, and the little leopard was also troublesome. At least he couldn't be seen by outsiders.
Another thing is that she has a little bit of self-awareness about herself. She is okay if she doesn't encounter problems. When things happen to her, she likes to meddle in other people's business. It doesn't mean that there will be nosy things that need to be taken care of in every village, but what if it happens?
The more villages you enter, the more likely things will happen, so it’s better to stay hidden.
Chou Chou didn't know what she was thinking. He looked around on both sides of the road to the east with his spiritual consciousness and said to her: "There is a village not far ahead. It should be the Gujia Village that the elder brother mentioned before. It is not far away." The nearest village to the town is only less than two miles away."
Qingyan nodded. She could see the village from Wangbawan and knew it was not far away.
There is a piece of farmland between the town and the village. I don't know whether it belongs to the town or to Gujia Village. It may be both.
Chou Chou continued: "Further ahead, there is another village, which is different from Gujia Village. The row in front of Gujia Village next to the roadside is adobe houses, and the row behind is cave dwellings. There are more cave dwellings than adobe houses.
The adobe house in front is probably a small business built by the road. I'm not sure what to sell, because the house is empty now and the doors are closed. It's probably because of the season. Vegetables and other items are already available this season. There is no more, and the food is out of season.
There are no adobe houses in the village further ahead. There is wasteland next to the roadside, a large field behind it, and a row of cave dwellings behind it.
It should be that they are afraid that someone will steal the food or damage the crops, so it is safer to be separated by an open space.
There were only a dozen or so households in that village, and it was about two or three miles away from Gujia Village. The area here was really vast and sparsely populated. "
Qingyan had already felt it, wasn't it the case before she went to Handeng? There were only a few villages far away, unlike in later generations, where there were people everywhere.
Chou Chou continued: "After these two villages, there is a large open space. It is full of sand and gravel and cannot be farmed, so there is no village. There is a village on the opposite side of the road, which has a similar layout to the second village.
If we walk five or six miles further, there is a temple on the roadside. This temple is very similar to the one we met with the three people named He before. It is also made of blue bricks and black tiles. It should be because there is a lack of water here, and people who pray for rain are more likely to pray for it. Duo, it is also a Dragon King Temple.
This temple is not abandoned. There are incense and two monks there, one young and one middle-aged.
The Dragon King statue inside is quite similar. It seems that later generations also used these statues for reference when making TV series. The Dragon King statue is very similar to the one in the TV series for later generations. "
Qingyan said: "Aren't all TV dramas in later generations based on this history? Especially those TV dramas with historical origins are all based on history.
Although people of later generations also have a lot of imagination, the prototypes of these gods should have been passed down from ancient times, and few of them have been made up by later generations. Otherwise, why do those gods wear ancient costumes?
Hey... It would be nice if there was a temple without people. We can visit the temple with the statue of the god and tidy up the car shed there.
There are two monks in this temple, so it’s hard for me to go in. After all, a little girl is here. Even if she goes to offer incense, today is not the first or fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year, so it’s not good. "
If it is synchronized with the previous time, today should be the 16th. If it is the first or fifteenth day of the lunar month, you can follow some faithful men and women to go in and worship.
Qingyan was interested and asked Chou Chou to help her describe the appearance and dress of the two monks, whether they were the same as those in the temples of later generations.
Chou Chou: "The two monks look very ordinary, no different from the people here. They probably have to farm to support themselves, and they are very tan.
He was wearing ordinary coarse cloth clothes and no cassock. He just shaved his head. And the Buddhist beads on his body were not the big, round wood or bodhi beads, but one person wore one. String of grass beads. "
Qingyan was a little surprised and said: "Grass beads? Isn't that what we wore bracelets to play with when we were kids?"
Chou Chou nodded, "Yes, that's it. They were just twisting the grass beads and chanting sutras at the same time. It was probably just a formality."
Qingyan said in her heart that the monks in the Dragon King Temple were quite shabby. It seemed that the temple was not very popular.
(End of chapter)
