Su Yi Ning paused and said, "Mom, I want Ling'er to accompany me."
"What is she going to do? She is a little girl who has never been to the capital. How can she help you? You have to take care of her and don't cause trouble to you. Just take Ah Xin with you."
"Mom, Ling'er is quite smart, she..."
"She goes to learn how women in the capital dress and what jewelry they use, so she can dress up better when she comes back, right? Last time I used so much cotton to wrap a chair, I didn't even tell her, yet she still dared to go out to play! You can go, but she won't allow it.
go!"
"Mom, Ling'er is not what you think..."
"What do I think of her? No wonder they say they forget their mother after marrying a daughter-in-law! Look at you, you obey her orders all day long, how can you not act like a husband? You can learn from your brother, just take a look.
How well your sister-in-law takes care of things! The whole family is harmonious and has never been troublesome."
Seeing that she couldn't be persuaded, Su Yining had no choice but to withdraw.
"How is it? Did mother agree?" Zhao Ling'er asked.
Su Yi Ning fell silent and didn't speak.
"What should we do?" Zhao Ling'er had already packed her bags and sat slumped on the bed.
She thought for a while, stood up, and said, "Well, I'll leave tonight, rush to the capital tomorrow morning, go to Jingchen Temple tomorrow morning, finish shopping, and come back in the afternoon. Mom shouldn't be able to find out."
"Isn't this too urgent? Can your body take the food? This is your first time in the capital. What if you get lost? What if you can't find Jingchen Temple? What if you are abducted by others?
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"But I can't care about that much anymore. If I open a hotpot restaurant, if there are no chili peppers, then the store will not be able to open, and the business will be very poor. Then... the ten thousand taels of silver will be wasted!"
"Hey!" Su Yi Ning sighed and said, "I'll go with you."
Zhao Ling'er smiled, pulled Su Yining and said, "You are the best to me! Let's go back quickly and try not to cause trouble to everyone."
"No." Su Yi Ning frowned, shook his head, and said: "A Xin and A Zhen, you two come here!" After A Xin and A Zhen came in, Su Yi Ning said: "Ling'er and I are going out tonight, tomorrow afternoon
Come back, from now on, one of you will represent me, and the other will represent Ling'er. Tomorrow morning, you will go to the study to study, and you will stay in our room."
At this point, Su Yi Ning shouted again: "Ah Wang, Ah Ke, you two come in too."
"Awang, you will guard the door of the study tomorrow. If the old lady wants to go in, you can tell me that the young master has told me to take the time to endorse it in the past few days. No one can disturb me."
"If she insists on going in, Ah Xin, just turn your back, cover your face, say you have a cold, and ask her to get out quickly for fear of affecting her."
"Ake, you stay at the door of our room tomorrow. If the old lady wants to come in, just say that the young lady has a bad cold. You are afraid of infecting others and won't let her in."
"If she insists on going in, A-Zhen, you should put on the young lady's clothes, lie on the bed, turn your back so that she doesn't see her, and pretend that you are asleep."
Ah Zhen, Ah Ke, Ah Xin and Ah Wang, you look at me, I look at you, and they said worriedly: "Isn't this good? What if the old lady finds out... we..." At this point, everyone was trembling.
Knowing what it would be like if the old lady got angry, as for how to deal with them, hey, I can't even think about it.
Su Yi Ning shook his head and said: "I have no choice but to wrong you. It's too late. We'll leave now. You two, take care and wait until we come back tomorrow. We'll give you lots of rewards."
With that said, he pulled Zhao Ling'er to open the door and got into the carriage in the dark.
Su Yi Ning drove the carriage. In the dark night, only the light reflected from the snow that had fallen a few days ago could clearly see the nearby path.
A biting cold wind blew over, and even though Su Yi Ning was wearing a hat and scarf, there was still a layer of ice on Su Yi Ning's eyebrows and eyelashes.
Zhao Ling'er was sitting in the carriage, opening the curtain from time to time to look outside. The biting cold wind blew in through the curtain, causing Zhao Ling'er's body to hurt.
Zhao Ling'er slapped Su Yining on the back and said, "I'll sit in front!"
Su Yi Ning said: "Go to bed quickly and get some sleep. We will be there at dawn."
Zhao Ling'er really regretted that she was in such a hurry when she went out that she didn't bring a quilt and forgot to bring a hand stove. It was so cold that she couldn't sleep at all. Su Yi Ning must have been freezing outside.
Zhao Ling'er was very sleepy and yawned constantly, but she was sore from the cold air that she couldn't sleep again.
After enduring it all night, the sky finally became brighter.
Zhao Linger patted Su Yining, but there was no response.
Zhao Ling'er hurriedly shook the sedan chair vigorously, and the carriage gradually stopped.
Zhao Linger hurriedly jumped out of the carriage.
Seeing Su Yining turning his neck with difficulty, Zhao Ling'er said distressedly: "Hurry up and sit in the back, I'll take care of the rest of the way."
Su Yi Ning couldn't stand it anymore and returned to the carriage.
Zhao Ling'er sat in front and rushed on her way.
Fortunately, they arrived at the city gate at dawn.
Zhao Ling'er came down and bought a map of the capital city and looked at it carefully. Sure enough, there were three words "Jingchen Temple" on it.
Zhao Linger sped up.
When they arrived at Jingchen Temple, Zhao Ling'er tied up the carriage.
There are indeed many foreigners here!
According to his own memory, Zhao Linger was thinking: These are Europeans, these are Mongolians, these are Sogdians...
Where can I buy chili peppers?
Looking at the bustling crowd, Zhao Ling'er couldn't wait to run to the shops on both sides to check carefully.
There are people selling spices, furs, glass bottles, blue stones, and cotton...
Why is there no one selling chili peppers?
Zhao Ling'er walked forward impatiently and couldn't help but ask one of the shops: "Are there any chili peppers sold here?"
The man shook his head and said: "Chili pepper? People in Li Dynasty don't know what to buy! No!"
Zhao Ling'er frowned, who said people from Li Dynasty didn't know their stuff?
After walking a few doors further, Su Yining asked, "Are there any chili peppers here?"
The man shook his head.
They walked all the way to the end of the street, but there was no one selling chili peppers.
Didn’t peppers grow in this dynasty or in the entire world?
Zhao Ling'er was really going to be discouraged.
It seems that the trip was really in vain.
"Let's go back." Zhao Ling'er weakly pulled Su Yining and turned around to leave.
"Bang!" Suddenly someone ran over and bumped into Su Yi Ning.
A package of things was instantly scattered all over the floor.
Zhao Ling'er looked back inadvertently: Chili pepper!
She squatted down excitedly and picked up a red chili pepper.
I saw the man squatting down quickly, rubbing the chili peppers and putting them in his pocket. It turned out that the pocket was torn.
Zhao Ling'er hurriedly looked around, went to a nearby shop and bought a cloth bag, squatted down and picked it up with the man.
"Thank you, thank you."
The man kept thanking me.
"e." Zhao Ling'er smiled slightly.
After picking up the peppers, the man stood up and prepared to leave.
Zhao Ling'er hurriedly grabbed him and asked where he was going and whether he was selling chili peppers.
The man said: Sell it, but they are pressed for time and have to return to Europe quickly.
Zhao Ling'er pulled Su Yining and hurriedly followed the man to the corner ahead. It turned out that the man had two large bags of dried red peppers. Zhao Ling'er bought them all, spending a total of 1,800 taels of silver.
The man thanked Zhao Ling'er gratefully, but ran away quickly.