Xu Ling was so excited that he couldn't sleep well all night.
He was planning to add things to his home and buy gifts for his family, and thinking about how they would react. The more he thought about it, the happier he became, and he wished that the sky would light up quickly.
I gradually started to feel sleepy in the second half of the night, and woke up immediately when I heard the rooster crow the next day.
I got up and put on my clothes, laid out the bedding, and tidied up the things in the house. I put the things I use frequently into the room and took them away, and put all the other things that were worthless and took up space at home.
Xu Ling was careful in his work. He thought that he would take a lot of things home, so he planned to get a cart early in the morning. It could be stored in the space when not in use, and he could push it out when he went to the village to receive goods or when he returned home.
He closed the doors and windows and just locked the door when he heard movement behind him.
Looking back, it turned out to be Liu Niang.
Xu Ling said hello helplessly, "Ms. Liu, good morning."
Liu Niang had a look of resentment on her face, "I knew you must have been thinking about your wife and couldn't sleep, so you went back early in the morning when I wasn't paying attention, right?"
Hey, hey, hey, this is so relevant! Even if Xu Ling has a high tolerance for girls, there is a limit.
He said with a hint of helplessness, "Ms. Liu, I just have a long way home, so I got up early in the morning. You and I know everything. Why am I hiding from you?"
Liu Niang seemed to be hurt, she lowered her head and pinched the belt around her waist, and kicked her toes without saying anything.
Xu Ling softened his heart again and comforted him: "Don't worry, I'll be back in a few days. Please help me take care of the yard these days. I have a gift for you when I come back."
"Really?" Liu Niang became happy again, "What gift?"
"Shh," Xu Ling raised his index finger to his mouth and said with a smile, "This is a surprise. I can't tell you yet."
The wind blew through the bamboo forest, and the yellowed bamboo leaves swirled and fell, one in two.
Liu Niang looked at him longingly, her face as red as a mountain flower.
She no longer transgressed the rules and put away her dissipation. Like a twenty-year-old girl who was not yet married, she followed Xu Ling obediently and sent him out of the other courtyard through a side door.
"Brother Xu, are you...are you coming back?"
Liu Niang hesitated for a long time before asking this question.
She didn't want Xu Ling to come back, lest she fall into the trap set by Wang Zhu and her and make Xu Ling look down on her in vain.
But she was looking forward to Xu Ling's return, and she was willing to be husband and wife with him even for just one day.
Xu Ling couldn't see her changing thoughts and said with a happy smile: "Of course I will come back."
He hasn’t finished bringing his stuff yet! That was all bought with money!
Liu Niang smiled bitterly and stood at the door watching him leave the alley, her eyes still infatuated.
Xu Ling was afraid of trouble.
What I fear most is trouble in interpersonal relationships.
In his previous life, he was an older leftover woman. It was not because she was ugly and had many quirks that kept her single. There were also people pursuing her.
But she found it troublesome.
In addition, I dislike the fast pace of fast food love, I like a slow flow of water that slowly heats up, and I don't like to give in, so I have been happily single all this time.
Originally, he wanted to make enough money to pay off his debts in one go before returning home, but Liu Niang gradually crossed the line and changed his mind.
Xu Ling was now very familiar with the market. He went to the cart and horse shop and found the carpenter's shop. He said he wanted to buy a cart, and soon the craftsman took him to the backyard.
Carpenter Lu claims to be a descendant of Lu Ban, and all three generations of his family are carpenters. The square yard is filled with woodworking products.
As an important means of transportation in ancient times, carriages and horses had different styles. There were high-priced carriages for the rich, and there were also flat carts used by farmers to pull crops.
Many salesmen who travel through villages and alleys also buy pallets to use as trucks.
A wooden cart is worth one tael of silver.
Xu Ling didn't hesitate and picked one directly.
The cart is rectangular in shape, and the two wooden posts protruding from the head are where the cart is pulled. It is equipped with a pair of hemp ropes. When the road is difficult to walk, you can also put the rope on the person and pull him along.
However, if there is an animal pulling the cart, people can also sit on the cart.
The cart is like a seesaw, and both ends can land on the ground. Xu Ling wanted to make the cart balanced when he was selling goods, so he asked Craftsman Lu, "Uncle Lu, can you install two supports on both sides of the wooden pillar to support the cart and maintain balance when it is parked?"
After listening to his description, Carpenter Lu thought for a while and said, "That won't work. If you only add this one end, it's fine if you put the things at the front of the car. If the rear of the car is heavier than the front of the car, it won't be able to stop!"
Xu Ling slapped his forehead and realized that this was indeed a problem.
But in the end Carpenter Lao Lu stepped in and decided to order two small benches, which were easy to carry. When Xu Ling was selling goods, he only had to put one at the front and the rear of the car.
Making two small benches is not difficult, but it does take some time.
Xu Ling paid one tael of silver first, explained the situation, and then went to the market to buy other things.
He rushes around the market all day long, all to sell goods, but today is different, it is to buy things.
After his mentality changed, Xu Lingcai realized that spending money really makes people happy.
Compared with the remoteness and backwardness of Erfang Town, Lingbao Town is simply a metropolis. The grain shops here sell all kinds of grains, rice, flour, grains and oils, everything, as well as all kinds of beans, barley, wheat...
Xu Ling was dazzled by what he saw.
One stone of rice costs 6.9 silver, which is almost ten cents per pound of rice.
Xu Ling asked for one stone of rice, one stone of noodles, 30 kilograms of soybeans, red dates, adzuki beans, black beans, etc., each of which cost ten kilograms.
These cost a total of just over twenty taels of silver.
Asking the clerk from the grain store to help deliver it to Lu Carpenter's shop, Xu Ling rushed to Buzhuang.
Nowadays, clothes are sold in ready-made clothing stores, cloth shops, and places where custom-made clothes are made.
Xu Ling went to the clothing store first. He knew his size, but he had no idea what clothes his family wore. After asking about the price, he thought the clothes were too expensive.
Clothes made of different fabrics have different prices. Some styles are popular in the capital this year and are more expensive than others.
All in all, if you want to buy a pair of blue cloth clothes popular from Jiangzhou, you will need about 400 to 600 cash.
Women's clothes are more expensive than men's clothes.
Probably because the colors are more vivid.
Xu Ling went to the cloth store. One piece of cloth could make two pieces of clothing. He thought that there were six people in the family. Although Da Ya was young, his father-in-law also wanted to send some gifts to his family, so he bought five cloths in one go.
Silk cloth is expensive, costing three taels of silver per piece, but its texture is soft, and it would be most comfortable if made into a small coat.
Xu Ling hesitated a lot and asked for three meters of silk cloth, which cost him six hundred coins.
In addition, two pieces of ramie cloth, two pieces of broad white cloth, and one piece of green cloth cost him more than three taels of silver and were still sent to Lu Carpenter's shop.
Clothes, food, and transportation were all ready. As for housing, Xu Ling waited until he returned home this time to discuss building a house with his father-in-law. It was best to build a new house before winter came, so that he could stay warm. Some.
