Qingyan used her consciousness to look over there and found that not only were there people inside the ruined temple, but there were also many carriages parked behind it.
She looked carefully again, hey! Still an acquaintance!
It was Han Yunqi's caravan. I didn't expect them to take this route.
When she left for Congyun Prefecture, they were still exchanging goods in the city.
They just buy their own goods to merchants in Yunzhou City and then purchase local specialties.
In this way, the trip to the big cities passing by on the road will not be in vain, and you can also increase your income. You don't have to worry about some things deteriorating after a long journey. It can kill three birds with one stone.
Qingyan was not prepared to say hello. Anyway, the other party might not be able to see her in the ruined temple, and even if he saw her, he might not be able to recognize her.
Let Daxiong speed up and cross the ruined temple, try to reach Xingtang Mansion before dark, go to a few restaurants to pack some food and leave. Anyway, he won't spend the night in the city.
She just didn't know what time the city gate of Xingtang Mansion was locked now. It used to be around ten o'clock in the evening. If it changed, she would have to hurry up.
When Qingyan's carriage almost roared past the ruined temple, two people from the Han family's caravan came out to check it out.
"It's so urgent. Could it be that something happened later?"
One of them guessed.
"There's nothing behind me. I guess I'm in a hurry. Let's go eat quickly. After eating, we can go on our way. When we get to Beijing, we can find an inn to rest."
Another man set up a pergola and looked in the direction of Hancheng. He found nothing strange and retorted to his companion.
Qingyan didn't know that her dog-like speed almost caused a misunderstanding, and she was still running at high speed after passing the ruined temple.
Although it can't keep up with the speed of later generations of motor vehicles, it can still reach a speed of ten kilometers per hour, so the journey that originally took an afternoon took about two hours to arrive.
However, Qingyan always felt that something was wrong. When she got closer, she realized that the Xingtang Mansion was much larger than before, more than doubling in size.
When she reached the north gate and looked at the name on the gate, she was in a trance. It turned out to be the word "Beijing".
She suddenly remembered that it was the Northern Song Dynasty, and this time in history was the most prosperous time here.
Although it is parallel time and space, the general direction is still similar.
Qingyan queued up and paid five cents to enter the city. Instead of walking in immediately, she pulled over and used her spiritual sense to explore first.
I found that my consciousness could only see less than half of the scene, and I couldn't even detect the middle part!
It seems that the city has been expanded by at least ten miles, and its diameter is more than twenty or thirty miles.
The side she saw should be in the outer city. They were all residential courtyards and there were only a few scattered shops. They were all grocery stores or carpenter shops. They were not big. They were in alleys and not on the street.
There are two inns, which seem to be cheaper because the environment inside is not that good.
She drove the car and walked inside. After about half an hour, she saw another city wall. It looked familiar and had the words "Xingtang Mansion" on it. It surrounded the previous city. ah.
Qingyan looked at the shops surrounding the city gate. These people really had business acumen. They sold everything, and almost all of them had food, clothing, housing and transportation.
She took a quick glance and found nothing of interest, so she drove directly into the city gate.
There is no additional fee to enter the inner city, but the officers and soldiers told them not to run wildly.
When she got here, Qingyan's consciousness could already see the location of the commercial street. Although there were restaurants and bars outside, they were still not on the same level as restaurants.
She was not short of money, so she definitely wanted to eat the best, so she headed directly towards the cross street where restaurants gathered.
I found the biggest one in the house and parked the carriage. Because it wasn't dinner time yet, there wasn't anyone inside.
When Qingyan went in, she ordered two portions of each of the specialty dishes and packed them up to take away. She used the food boxes from the restaurant. She didn't need to pay a deposit and bought them directly.
She can still use it when she goes to another restaurant later, but the food box she had before may have been used too many times and is broken.
Unexpectedly, this restaurant has a lot of specialty dishes. There are about ten dishes in total. The same two portions come in four food boxes. When I checked out, I spent a total of thirty-two taels including the boxes and vegetables!
This is considered quite luxurious. Calculated, it costs more than 30,000 yuan. I don’t know if the taste of the food is worth the money.
She asked the waiter to carry the food box to the carriage and asked Chou Chou to take it away immediately, and then she went to the next house.
She took the empty food box and went in to order. She didn't stop until she had ordered all the dishes from four major restaurants.
A total of more than ninety taels was spent on more than a hundred dishes, which was about one tael of silver per serving on average.
She had inquired with others and found that there was no curfew in the city and the city gates were open at night, but entry and exit inspections were stricter.
In this case, she was not in a hurry, left the carriage at the restaurant where she last bought groceries, and started shopping on the commercial street.
I bought some small jewelry at a jewelry store, two sets of clothes that I liked, and then bought a lot of vegetables in a store.
This vegetable is not the radish and cabbage before, but eggplant, beans, cucumber and small green vegetables. It is said that it is the output of the host's hot spring village. Although they are all expensive, they are still worth it.
She hadn't eaten in more than two months, and her mouth almost tasted like mutton. If there weren't so many fruits in the space, she would have gotten angry.
The only bad thing is that she can't buy more. Although she is not short of money, the other party has limited inventory and refuses to sell it all to her no matter what.
She said that this was the store's signature product. If she bought all of it, there would be nothing to attract customers, so it was all in limited supply.
Unexpectedly, this boss has quite a business acumen and knows about hunger marketing.
Qingyan rolled her eyes, took the idea into consideration, and said to the old man at the counter who looked aloof, "Shopkeeper, can you make the decision in this store?"
The shopkeeper raised his eyebrows, not knowing what she meant, but still replied: "Of course, this is my own business."
Qingyan nodded, "That's good. I wonder if you, the shopkeeper, will accept fruit? Fresh fruit."
The shopkeeper straightened his face and asked, "What kind of fruit? If it's just apples and pears, that girl doesn't need to tell you, we have them here too."
Qingyan smiled and said: "Of course not, they are grapes, peaches and melons."
This is what she and Chou Chou found recently. The honeydew melons were collected by Chou Chou from Xiangxiang Space before. Neither of them liked eating them, so they just piled them there. They never had a chance to take them out. Now they can just clear them out. .
The shopkeeper was happy at first, and then looked at Qingyan with an inquiring look.
"Girl, you are not trying to trick me, are you? In this season, where are you going to find grapes, peaches and melons? Those are not things at this time, especially peaches and melons, which are ripe in summer. ."
Qingyan waved her hands and said, "What am I trying to do to you? Shopkeeper, just tell me whether you want it or not. If you want it, I don't want the money. You just need to exchange vegetables with me. That thing will still attract people, and it will work just the same." It’s a gimmick in your store, and the price can be even higher.”
As for vegetables, although they are rare in winter, they are just for freshness, so the price will not be as high as they can be.
If it is too high, no one will buy it. Unlike fruits, even when they are in season, the price of fruits is higher than that of vegetables, not to mention that it is difficult to store them out of season.
Those rich people can only eat vegetables when eating, while fruits can be taken out to entertain guests when someone comes, which makes the host more respectable.
The shopkeeper thought for a while and said, "Okay, but I wonder how much you can give me, girl? I have a lot of leftover dishes, and you can't exchange them all. You have to leave some for me as a sample.
And the price must be set, otherwise it will be difficult for us to settle accounts. "
Qingyan nodded, "Of course, these two things are difficult to store, so I will exchange the nine baskets with you and keep the ones on the shelf for you.
The fruits of my family are also grown in the hot spring village. It's just that your village grows vegetables and my hot spring village grows fruits. We can also exchange what we need.
As for the price, how about I exchange it one-on-one with you at a slight loss? My fruits are heavier, so let’s go by weight. Six baskets of fruits for nine baskets of vegetables should be about the same weight. You’ve made a profit. "
The shopkeeper's eyes immediately lit up, and he could no longer maintain his calm expression before. His mouth couldn't help but split open, and his teeth were exposed.
"Okay, okay, the girl is so generous. Our mother has decided this, so when will you get it?"
Qingyan couldn't help but glance at this little old man. As soon as she heard that she was competing with him, her attitude changed immediately. He was indeed a cunning old man.
But for fruits, she now wants to eat vegetables more. There are plenty of fruits anyway, so she doesn't care. There is no need to take advantage of them, as long as she likes them.
"I have to go home to get it. I'll be back in about half an hour."
She was going to find a place where there was no one around. She couldn't appear out of thin air.
The little old man nodded repeatedly, "Okay, okay, girl, go and come back quickly."
In fact, he is not only doing this for sale, but also because his eighty-year-old mother likes to eat it, especially peaches. She likes to eat them the most, but it is not easy to store them and can only be eaten in the next season.
As for his own hot spring village, it's not that he has never thought of planting fruit trees. It's just that although the village is not small, the temperature near the hot spring can only grow things in winter.
The vegetables were grown layer by layer on the shelves and wooden boxes they tried their best to make. There was no room for the fruit trees, so they had no choice but to give up this way of making money.
Word. Qingyan didn't take the vegetables she bought before. She had to come over anyway, so she could just take them away together later.
The shopkeeper didn't say anything and put the things aside. The money was given to him and he just put them here temporarily. Moreover, in this way, he became more convinced that Qingyan was not tricking him and that she really had fruits to give him. Delivered.
Qingyan went out and rushed to the restaurant. All the things she bought before had been put in storage bags in a deserted place, so she was empty-handed now.
When she returned to the restaurant, she gave a coin to the man next to her who was looking after the carriage, and then drove the carriage away.
I used the magic stone to search nearby, and found a dead end like before where there was no one with a yard. I parked the car in, took out the ingot, and let it look outside.
Although the big bear can also watch, its force is not worth it. If someone really comes to steal or rob, even if it kicks the opponent with a horse's hoof, as long as the opponent is agile, there is nothing it can do. There is a carriage behind it, so it cannot be pulled. Let's chase people with their cars and kick them.
At this time, Yuanbao is more useful. It is watching from the outside. If someone comes, it can also send a message to Chou Chou, so she can come back quickly.
He Chou Chou ran to the place where the fruits were stored and brought out two baskets of grapes, two baskets of peaches, and two baskets of melons.
Looking at these six large baskets and thinking about the carriage outside, it seems that they cannot fit at all.
At this time, Qingyan felt a little regretful. She should have stored a few more pallet trucks in this space before, at least more than those with carriages.
After thinking about it, he said to Chou Chou: "Chou Chou, please take the car in first. This place happens to be close to Nancheng. Take the big bear and the carriage in together, and let me out the cow. I will lead him directly to the livestock market." There's a trolley over there.
When the time comes, just put the fruits on top and cover it with oil. Others won't know what's underneath, and it will be convenient to transport the vegetables back. "
After speaking, he sighed and said: "Those vegetables are really rare. We don't know when they will grow out yet. It probably will take a month or two to eat them. If we buy more now, maybe we can eat these vegetables." grow into."
Others may not dare to buy so many, especially cucumbers and vegetables, which are expensive and hard to store. They are different. The space is kept fresh, and you can store as much as you buy.
In fact, she is not too greedy for beans and eggplants, but mainly for cucumbers and small green vegetables. Especially cucumbers, she used to like to eat them raw or make cold noodles.
It's cold outside, but the temperature inside this space is just right. It's fun to make cold noodles and cut some cucumber shreds.
There is also sesame oil produced here. You can buy more sesame oil and sesame paste and put them in the space. It will be more delicious whether it is mixed with noodles or cold dishes.
He did what he thought of and asked Chou Chou to look outside to see if there was anyone around. He had done so when he came in before.
So after going out, Qingyan led the cow directly towards the livestock market she had seen before.
There are only two streets separated from this side, so there is no need to go around, just go through the alley in the middle to go there.
When she arrived at the Nancheng Livestock Market, she went directly to the place where the cattle were sold, where she bought a rack truck and two sets of tools for setting up the truck.
In fact, she wanted to buy two more sets of carriages, but it was just a cow now and it was difficult to take it away, so she could only buy one set first and wait until she went to another city.
I just asked the boss to help me put the car on, and he even gave me a whip.
This car was not expensive, it only cost two taels of silver. It was made of ordinary wood. It was definitely incomparable to the carriage they stole. There was still a difference between the one used by the military and the one used by civilians.
But if you don't have to travel long distances to haul some goods, there's no problem.
