Food in the Song Dynasty: My System Connects Mountains and Seas

Chapter 123 No Money Again
After practicing archery, it was soon lunch time, and there was a burst of fragrance from the kitchen of the racecourse.Not long after, I saw a group of maids and women filing into the stands carrying steaming dishes.

Seeing this, Wen Shu hurriedly put down her bow and arrow, went to the pool beside her to clean her hands, and then went back to the stands to have dinner with Miss Lu.

Because it was outside, Miss Lu and Mrs. Li and Mrs. Li used the lapis together, and the other two young masters ate and drank with other gentlemen in the small pavilion not far opposite.

Mrs. Li and Mrs. Li couldn't help wondering when they saw that Wen Shu sat down to eat with them, while Lu Xingwan on the side didn't even change his expression, as if he was used to it.

At the same time, she felt that Wen Shu's move was a bit over the top, but remembering that he had saved them just now, it would be a bit bad to mention this at this time, so she kept silent.

The other people in the stands didn't know the inside story, they thought this little lady was a relative of the Li family or the Lu family, so they didn't feel surprised.

After eating, everyone sat and talked again, ate some fruit, and then returned to the city.

Shilipo was less than half an hour away from Cangzhou Mansion by carriage, so it was still early when we got back, and there were at least two hours before the sun went down.

When the carriage drove into the city, Wen Shu asked Lu Xingwan for leave under the pretext of buying medicine for Chu Liulang, saying that she would go for a stroll and let them go back to the house first, and she would go back when she was done.

After listening, Lu Xingwan was surprised and said, "You really know how to cure Chu Liulang's strange disease."

Wen Shu smiled and asked back: "That's right, maybe the girl thought I was joking?"

Lu Xingwan was stunned for a moment, and then said: "That's not true, I just think the little lady knows a lot."

Is this suspicious of her?Wen Shu's heart skipped a beat!
Fortunately, Miss Lu continued to laugh and said, "Speaking of which, the young lady is kind-hearted and loves to help others. That's why there was a traveling doctor who gave me medicine in the past, and a blind mother-in-law who gave me the secret recipe later. Good people are rewarded."

Wen Shu smiled dryly, but shouted in his heart, how could such a good thing happen!

Not all good deeds in this world can be rewarded. For example, when she saved the Prime Minister's wife last time, Prime Minister Qin didn't even thank her at the end.

These things are not rewards from others, but she risked her life and desperately brought them out of the iron box, so it's really not expensive at all for her to charge three times.

That's right!Not expensive at all.

"Then be careful yourself and come back early." Lu Xingwan ordered the driver to stop and let Wen Shu go.

Watching the frame go away, Wen Shu turned around and went to the grocery store until he turned into the alley and disappeared.

The main ingredient for curing nightmares is Ranyi fish, so she doesn't need to buy anything at all, but in order to deceive people, it's better to bring some spices back later.

The reason why she went to the grocery store was mainly to buy umbrellas and coir raincoats.

That's right!After two lessons in the rain, she has deeply realized the importance of umbrellas and coir raincoats.

Originally, she should have bought it together during the big shopping last time, but because there were too many things to buy that time, she forgot while shopping.

No, after another downpour, she finally engraved this incident in her heart.And she always felt that the sudden fear of the cold when she got well this time might have something to do with the rain.

Didn't sister Yinhong always tell her that girls should not catch cold, but last time she was drenched in the pouring rain for a full hour.And the temperature at that time was not too high, similar to the outside, just like early spring.

Just thinking about it all the way, half a quarter of an hour later, she came to the last Wang Ji grocery store.

Remembering the lesson from the fishing net last time, she bought two copies of the umbrella or coir raincoat this time, and made up two more fishing nets.

Such a purchase cost nearly Wen.

It's really not easy to make money and easy to spend money!
Wen Shu sighed, took the things he just bought out of the grocery store, and then found a corner where no one was there to throw the things into the storage basket.

After finishing all this, she went to the blacksmith's shop again, intending to buy the bow she had set her sights on earlier.

Miss Chu has taught her the basics of archery today, and the rest is exactly as she said, and she needs to practice hard.

Because of the iron box, she is not afraid that there will be no venue. There are mountains everywhere in the iron box, where there are many trees, and there is no need to set up a target. She just needs to shoot at the tree she likes.

Generally speaking, as long as you don't run into any ferocious beasts, it is an excellent practice ground.When you can make the arrow follow your heart, you will be able to practice it.

She entered the blacksmith's shop familiarly, but when she asked the price, Wen Shu was stumped again, because the price of the bow was twice as expensive as she had imagined.

She thought that a bow could be bought for five or six hundred renminbi. After all, the bow body is made of wood, so it can't be more expensive than iron.Unexpectedly, when I asked, it would cost two pennies!

What's more terrible is that the arrows are not included, but have to be bought separately, eighty yuan each.

If it’s just for normal practice, it’s enough to buy one, and the big deal is to run back and forth, and pick it up after shooting.Ke Wenshu's training ground is a bit dangerous, in case a fierce beast suddenly ran out while practicing.An arrow may not be shot correctly, let alone shot dead.

So for the sake of her life, she finally reluctantly bought five.A total of two coins and four hundred wen.

She polished the shopkeeper's bow for a long time before he was allowed to give her forty cents less, saying that the bow was not made by the master in their shop, but someone else made it and entrusted it to be sold here, so she couldn't give her too much less. many.

Wen Shu was helpless, she really needed a bow, so despite her heartache, she finally paid 360 Wen for the second round.

It’s just that, after calculating the ten pennies earned from selling fruit that day, after deducting the two pennies and eight hundred wen spent on the big purchase last time and the three penny and sixty pennies spent today, there is only a little more than four pennies left!
How can this money be spent so uncontrollably!

Wen Shu was full of emotion, and the remaining four pennies could not be used anyway, otherwise her father's waist support would be ruined again.

Do you want to sell some fruit?
After thinking about it for a moment, she gave up.

Forget it, seeing that the weather is going to get warmer in ten days or so, there are not many people who will buy it at this time, and she still wants to keep that burden and go back to Bianliang to sell it.

Anyway, the fruit won't spoil if it's placed in the storage basket, and she'll keep it in the second half of the year when winter comes, and it will be a good sell, and there are more rich people in Beijing than in Cangzhou, so they can sell at a higher price.

If the fruit cannot be sold, what else can be sold?

Ran Yiyu is only effective against Nightmare, and not everyone can sell it, and Meng Huai is the only one left.

But Meng Huai's skin is invulnerable, so she is reluctant to sell such a treasure to others.

It's better to find a pig butcher to peel off the skin, and then find a cobbler to tan it, and make it into a waistcoat to wear next to the body, so that it will have an extra layer of security when put in an iron box.

After making up her mind, she asked passers-by to find out where there was a pig butcher nearby. After finding out the specific address, she called Meng Huai out from a deserted place near the pig butcher's house, and then took a little Tao The jar catches the blood from Meng Huai's wound.

This blood was able to attract Ranyi fish last time, and it is not guaranteed to attract other fish, or have other functions, so it has to be collected carefully.

However, because the last time I caught Ran Yiyu, there was a lot of bleeding, so this time I only took a small can and the wound stopped bleeding.

Putting the pot away, looking at the blood-stained Menghuai beast on the ground, Wen Shu hesitated for a while, then carried it on his shoulder with disgust on his face, and went to the pig butcher's house.

(End of this chapter)