Now that I'm back, I must accompany Old Princess Xin and Mrs. Xu to have lunch. They have a great time and make Old Princess Xin laugh so hard that she can hardly breathe.
After lunch, Su Tang sat down for a quarter of an hour before preparing to return to Jingnan Palace. Li Jiyue saw Su Tang off.
Su Tang agreed to ask Dr. Jia to help Mrs. Zuo Xiang recuperate, but he could not ask Mrs. Zuo to wait for her at Zuixian Tower or Zhuangzi like he did to the Crown Prince of Song Dynasty. Li Jiyue was going back to Zuo Xiang's Mansion to get married, so she was a few days ahead of schedule.
I'm going to send some makeup, and while Mrs. Zuo is not busy, I can just take Mrs. Zuo's pulse.
After making up their mind, Su Tang and Li Jiyue talked about themselves for a while, then got into the carriage and waved goodbye.
Normally, she would ride in a carriage with Xie Boting. Being held in his arms, she could not lift the curtains and look out the window. Now that Xie Boting was not around, Su Tang was acting unscrupulously. With her current prestige, even if someone saw her, she would not be able to do anything.
What do people dare to say to her?
Let the old lady and the third wife try humming again. The family rules are not just for her. The third master and Xie Wei and his daughter did embarrassing things. The old lady's face was completely humiliated by them.
It was a hot day and it was noon. There were very few people walking on the street, but the vendors were the same as usual. Su Tang looked around and saw nothing new until she saw someone setting up a stall selling lotus roots.
This is the most prosperous street in Kyoto. There are very few people selling vegetables on this street. However, what made Su Tang take a second look at the small stall was an eight or nine-year-old boy who was bored and playing with lotus root stalks there.
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Su Tang was worried about the emperor's birthday and didn't know what gift to give him, so this is it.
"parking."
As soon as Su Tang finished speaking, Chen Qing quickly tightened the reins, and the carriage drove forward a few more times before it stopped steadily.
Chen Qing put down the footstool, and after Poria got down, he helped Su Tang get down.
There is a big silk and satin shop here. Chen Qing and Fuling both thought that Su Tang wanted to buy silk and satin, but Su Tang walked past the silk and satin shop and stopped in front of the lotus root shop.
Fu Ling was stunned. What was the Crown Princess trying to do? She had never cared about the shopping in the kitchen, not even when she was in charge of Zhongfu. Now that the princess was in charge of the house, she would no longer care about it.
The vendor was a middle-aged man, in his early thirties, who must have been the young boy's father. He was sitting there waving his fan in boredom when Su Tang stopped in front of his stall and made him jump.
He usually sets up a stall at the food market on West Street, but there was really no business in the past few days. His son suggested that he try this street. He thought there was no business anywhere, so a visit would just make his son give up and save him money.
He kept thinking, no, after coming here for a long time, not a single lotus root was sold, and his son sat there frustrated and played with the lotus root threads.
Su Tang stood in front of the small stall. Seeing that the middle-aged man was silent, Su Tang smiled and said, "Aren't these lotus roots for sale?"
The middle-aged man was stunned again and again, "Sell, sell."
Chen Qing looked at Su Tang in surprise, "Prince Princess, are you sure you want to buy lotus roots?"
Could it be that we need to prepare something to eat again?
But there is no need to buy food on the street. If you want any food, just give the order. It can fly in the sky, run on the ground, or swim in the water. As long as it is available in Kyoto, as long as the imperial kitchen has it, I can keep it ready for the imperial concubine.
Su Tang nodded lightly, his eyes swept across a pile of large and small lotus roots, and his eyes fell on the lotus root threads pulled by the young boy, and asked, "How many lotus roots have you planted in your family?"
The man said, "I won three acres of lotus roots. This year's harvest will be good. There should be five or six thousand kilograms of lotus roots."
"That's it?" Su Tang was a little disappointed.
"..."
The man was shocked by Su Tang's tone of voice that it was too little. She was indeed a young lady from a wealthy family. She had never touched the spring water with her fingers. She didn't know that he might not be able to sell all the five or six thousand kilograms of lotus roots. She still thought it was too little.
The man couldn't help but ask, "How many kilograms of lotus roots does the young lady want?"
Su Tang looked at the lotus root threads the young boy was playing with and said, "Actually, what I need is not lotus roots, but lotus root stems. Ten thousand kilograms of lotus root stems can barely extract two taels of dried lotus root threads."
The man was puzzled, so Fu Ling asked, "Prince Princess, what do you want the lotus stems for?"
Su Tang said, "I have my own uses."
With that said, Su Tang looked at the man and said, "Can you think of a way to get shredded lotus root stems for me? Money is not an issue." This chapter has been completed!