However, the uncle's eyes showed vigilance, he shrank his neck and said nothing.

Shui Ling was stunned for a moment, why did he look at her wrongly, as if he was looking at a bad person.

Shui Zheran smiled and said: "They must have encountered a lot of bad guys when they were running business. They thought your water was poisonous and made people faint so they could rob you."

"Ah?" Shui Ling opened the lid and took a sip before handing it over, "What about this? Besides, how many people were watching here, and there were soldiers on patrol. I poisoned him, and I was taken away before the things were snatched.

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The middle-aged man thought for a moment and thought it was true, so he smiled and said, "I'm sorry, we have to be careful."

He took the bamboo tube and drank it without fear of burning it. After drinking it, he scratched his head in embarrassment and said, "Sorry, I've finished all the drinks."

Shui Ling smiled and said, "It's okay. We'll stay at the inn and we'll have water when we get back."

The man returned the bamboo tube to Shuiling and asked with a smile, "What do you want to buy? I'll sell it cheaper."

Shui Ling took a look and saw that there were a lot of dry goods, including kelp, dried shrimps, mushrooms and other goods that were not available here.

"How much does this cost?" Shui Ling pointed at the kelp and asked. She couldn't name it, after all, this place is not close to the sea.

The man smiled and said, "That's a seaweed from the sea. It can grow very big if you soak it in water, but it has a fishy smell and costs two cents per pound."

Shui Ling glanced at Su Qin, who nodded. They both thought it was cheap. Besides, kelp can extract iodine, which is a good thing.

The middle-aged man said with a sad face: "The fishermen like to eat it very much. I thought it would be easy to sell, but the further you go, the harder it becomes to sell. Some people even return the goods."

Shui Zheran thought for a moment and said, "I want all the things you come out of the sea. Please calculate how much it will cost."

"Everyone...needs it?" These words startled the man.

Shui Zheran nodded, "Yes, both."

"That's great. After all the sales, I can go home and celebrate the New Year." The man jumped three feet high, opened the curtain of the carriage and pulled out three large sacks.

"This is a bag of sea vegetables, a bag of shrimps, and a bag of dried fish." He looked around and then said in a low voice: "There are salt particles in the sea vegetables. Go home and pack them up yourself. This bag must weigh two or three kilograms.

Woolen cloth."

Nowadays, salt is controlled by the government, and ordinary people can only buy two taels of salt a month. Even if there are many people, it is not enough to eat, let alone pickles.

The man added: "Dried fish is salty, and it smells bad, but if you use it to stew it, you don't need to add salt, and it tastes delicious."

"My family also eats these shrimps. Even though they are small and don't have much meat, when you make soup, sprinkle a little on them without adding salt to enhance their freshness."

Shui Zheran felt funny looking at his mysterious look. Didn't he just want to increase the price?

However, the man said again: "I will give you the normal price. One hundred catties of sea vegetables are 200 Wen, and one hundred catties of shrimps are 500 Wen. There are big, small, and broken mushrooms. I will give you the medium price for fifty."

A pound of money here is about fifty pounds."

People here are not used to the taste of sea vegetables and shrimps, so they are cheap. Mushrooms are different. They are still dry goods, so they are expensive.

Shui Zheran didn't bargain, he nodded and said, "Okay, you can give me ten kilograms of the rest of the dried fruits."

"Okay." The man was very happy to see that he would buy dried fruits without bargaining.

After the formal transaction, the man calculated, "It's five taels of silver in total. Among the dried fruits, sweet almonds are the most expensive, costing one hundred cents per catty. Because they can be used as medicine, it is said that eating them is good for people with coughs."

Shui Zheran took out his silver bag and took out a five-tael silver ingot, "Sure, can you give it to me? I'll stay at Sihai Inn."

"Okay." It was time for me to leave the city and head home.

After saying that, he loaded the things into the carriage, unloaded them again when he arrived at the inn, and soon drove out of the city.

Shui Zheran frowned, "If you run so fast, could it be a defective product?"

Shui Ling chuckled and said, "People are more honest at this time. Look, I'll give you an extra bag of stuff."

Sure enough, Shui Zheran saw a white bag filled with half a bag of stuff. When he opened it, he saw that it was half a bag of Luo Han Guo. This stuff was also considered the main item for making sugar in ancient times. The most important thing is that it can cure diseases.

Although half a bag of mangosteen fruit is not heavy, it is still worth hundreds of coins. Soaking it in water to entertain guests is a high-end treatment.

Shui Zheran laughed and said, "Sure enough, the ancients did not deceive me. Let's move in."

After moving things into the house, it was almost getting dark after all this work. Shuiling touched her belly and said, "It's time to have dinner."

Shui Zheran looked at the two of them, "What do you want to eat?"

Su Qin thought for a moment and said, "Shred the chicken with your hands."

Shui Ling, "Well...bone soup."

Shui Zheran, "..."

Seeing the embarrassment on his father's face, Shui Ling blinked and said, "Can't you eat it?"

Shui Zheran shook his head, "It's not that it can't be eaten. Why don't we buy the ingredients to make it ourselves, because there is no shredded chicken here. There is big bone soup, but the bones don't have a trace of meat."

"That's right." Shui Ling nodded.

Su Qin said gloomily, "Forget it, go out and find something to eat at a small stall. The food here will definitely be expensive and unpalatable."

The three of them reached an agreement and went to the street to find a small stall, but there was nothing delicious here. Finally, they stopped at a mutton soup shop because they were too hungry.

Shui Zheran shouted: "Here are three bowls of mutton soup and three cakes."

"Okay." A round-headed young man responded.

Soon, the mutton soup was served, along with three hard-looking pancakes.

Su Qin looked at the bowl that was bigger than his face and was a little surprised, "There is so much meat, isn't it haggis?"

Shui Zheran took the cake and broke it into fingernail-sized pieces and threw it into the bowl. "They can't handle the internal organs well, so they don't dare to put them in. There are bones in the mutton soup. It's normal for the bones to have more meat."

Shui Ling and Su Qin followed his example and started to break the cakes. Although the cakes were very hard, after absorbing the soup, they were soft on the outside and bouncy on the inside, which was super delicious.

After the three of them had eaten enough, they went to the cloth shop while the shop was not making samples. Cotton was sold there, with cotton seeds for 30 cents per catty and without impurities for 100 cents per catty. In the eyes of the three of them, it was not very expensive.

They had never been short of money in their entire lives. They bought one hundred catties of pure cotton and five hundred catties with cotton seeds, which was twenty-five taels of silver. Le's shopkeeper gave them a piece of cheesecloth.

The rest of the fabrics were so expensive that they were reluctant to buy them even if they didn't have the money. The shopkeeper asked a waiter to help deliver the cotton to the inn, and the family of three never went out again.

The three of them sat around the table and discussed things.

Shui Zheran said: "Let's go back to the village and let the villagers use their labor to buy these five hundred kilograms."

"How can we pay for it? We don't lack anything." Su Qin asked.

Shui Zheran thought for a moment and said, "Please ask for firewood. There is no one who doesn't need firewood."

Su Qin nodded, "That's right, I don't have much firewood at home."

Shui Ling thought for a moment and said, "Let's build the road. When the cotton comes back, tell me that Grandpa bought it and ask him to mobilize the villagers to build the road. Otherwise, it will be inconvenient for us to drive back and forth."

Shui Zheran's eyes lit up, "Okay, let's do it."
Chapter completed!