Chapter 21 Bring Zhang Zelin to the city

While the two were talking, they arrived in the city quickly, and after paying the entry fee, Fang Qing asked Zhang Zelin. "Brother Lin, do you know where the hoes are sold?"

"I know, we just went over to eat noodles yesterday." Fang Qing drove the carriage to the East Street. Just as he walked in front of the noodle stall, he heard the sound of blacksmithing in the distance.

"Boss, how do you sell your hoes here?" Fang Qing walked in, looked at a few hoes and asked.

"Miss, I have [-] Wen for a hoe, and [-] Wen for a machete."

Zhang Zelin picked up three hoes and three machetes and handed them to Fang Qing. "Buy these first and use them when you go back."

Fang Qing took the hoes and machetes. The three hoes cost 180 Wen, and the three machetes cost 270 Wen, a total of [-] Wen.

"Boss, I'll give you 270 Wen." Fang Qing took out the silver and handed it to the boss.

The owner of the iron shop took out his abacus, calculated that the money Fang Qing gave was correct, took the money and put it in the box.

After buying the hoe, Fang Qing saw that there were vegetable seeds in the iron shop, and asked the boss how to sell the vegetable seeds.

"Hehe! Miss, my kind is fifty cents a catty."

Fang Qing didn't know the seeds and asked, "Boss, what kinds of vegetables are these?"

Zhang Zelin walked forward and told her: "My wife, this is green vegetables, this is amaranth, radish, shepherd's purse, pepper, pumpkin, green beans..."

"How about we buy some vegetables and grow them back?"

Zhang Zelin thought that there were no vegetables at home, so they could buy less vegetable seeds, so they went to the vegetable market to see if they could meet someone selling vegetable seedlings.

"Let's buy less, and wait until we go to the vegetable market to see if anyone sells vegetable seedlings."

Fang Qing asked Zhang Zelin to stop him, and spent [-] Wen to buy some of each vegetable.

"Chicken, sell chicken..."

"My wife, please stop, stop." Zhang Zelin's husband, who bought chickens, told his wife to stop.

"Brother, how do you sell this chicken cub?"

"My husband, my chicken cubs cost ten cents each, how about my husband buying them all for eight cents apiece?"

"Brother Lin, do you want to buy chicken cubs?" Fang Qing saw Zhang Zelin and asked the price of the chicken cubs.

"I bought some chickens to raise at home. The hens can lay eggs when they grow up, so we don't need to buy eggs outside, and the roosters can be killed and eaten."

It was rare for Fang Qing to see him take the initiative to buy things. He saw that he wanted to buy chicken cubs and gave him the money. Zhang Zelin looked at the money handed over.

"Yesterday's money is still with me!" Zhang Zelin was going to give the money to his wife last night, but who knew that the two of them had a quarrel last night, and he forgot about it.

"Use this, and you will keep the money I gave you yesterday, and buy it when you find something you want to buy."

"But!" Fang Qing stuffed the money into his hand and said, "You can keep it, but why so much?"

Zhang Zelin took the money in his hand and asked the man selling chicken cubs. "Brother, I bought all your chicken cubs."

The husband who sold chicken cubs looked at Zhang Zelin enviously and said, "My husband, there are twenty chicken cubs here, and the total cost is 160 Wen."

Zhang Zelin took out 160 Wen from his purse to the chicken seller's husband, Fang Qing carried the chicken into the carriage, and drove the carriage to the place where the vegetable seedlings were sold.

As soon as I arrived here, I saw several village husbands carrying baskets and said: "Vegetable seedlings, selling vegetable seedlings..."

Zhang Zelin hurried to Fu Lang, who was selling vegetable seedlings. "Brother, how do you sell your vegetable seedlings?"

"My little husband, green cabbage and shepherd's purse are worth a penny each, and peppers and pumpkins are two pennies apiece."

Zhang Zelin turned his head and asked Fang Qing, "My wife, how many do we want to buy?"

"Green vegetables, shepherd's purse, buy a dozen or so, and pumpkin and green beans, about five or six."

"Boss, I'll buy ten pieces of green cabbage and shepherd's purse, and five pieces of pumpkin and green beans."

Fu Lang, who came to buy vegetable seedlings, didn't sell a few of them all day. Now that this little husband bought it, he quickly pulled out the amount that Zhang Zelin bought.

Zhang Zelin took the vegetable seedlings, handed the [-] Wen coins to the husband who sold the vegetable seedlings, and drove the carriage with his wife and head back to the village.

Seeing that it was not the way back to the village, Zhang Zelin wondered where his wife was going.

"Boss, how did you sell this little piglet?" Fang Qing drove a carriage to the livestock market, and got off the carriage to buy piglets.

"Miss, my little piglet is a good pig, and the ones I sell are not expensive, just give me a tael of silver."

Zhang Zelin was still thinking about what the wife-owner was doing at the livestock market. Seeing the wife-owner buying piglets, he remembered that he had to return home tomorrow.

"Boss, you want a tael of silver, why don't you go grab it, you treat the silver as my home is blown by a strong wind."

Seeing what the young man said, the boss said embarrassingly: "Little husband, look at my fat and strong piglet, it's cheap for a tael."

"My wife, we don't want to buy her pigs. Let's go to another house to buy them. This boss is obviously cheating on you." Zhang Zelin pulled Fang Qing and walked to other houses.

"Hey! Miss and husband, can you two buy it for [-] Wen?" Zhang Zelin didn't stop when he heard the boss say [-] Wen.

"Five hundred coins, five hundred coins, hey! How about selling five hundred coins to you?" The boss saw that the young man knew the market, and quickly quoted the market price.

Zhang Zelin smiled and stopped when he heard the five hundred words. "My wife, let's go buy that piglet!"

Fang Qing laughed at the man who could see Cheng, smiled and took his hand and turned back to the pig dealer. Zhang Zelin took out five hundred Wen and handed it to the boss.

Pulling up the piglet and walking into the carriage, Fang Qing walked behind him helplessly, the pig dealer had a bitter face, she saw that woman driving a carriage by herself just now, she thought it was the noble family visiting the pig market, Thinking of selling more silver coins, he asked for a price of one tael of silver coins. Unexpectedly, the lady's husband knew the market.

"My wife, you must remember to bargain when you buy things in the future. You see, this pig dealer is obviously cheating you, and ah! This piggy village only sells two or three hundred coins."

"Oh! Then did we lose money?" Fang Qing heard the whispering person say deliberately.

"It's not expensive for us to buy this one. This one eats well and is fat and strong. The ones in the village that buy two or three hundred texts are not as good as this one."

"Okay! It's not a loss." Fang Qing drove the carriage to weigh some pastries and a jug of wine before they returned to the village.

Seeing the two people who came back, Xia Ye smiled and said, "You two also bought chickens and piglets!"

"Daddy, when we arrived at the gate of the city, we saw someone buying it, so I bought it and raised it."

Fang Qing put the hoe away and walked out. Seeing that his father-in-law had already left, he wondered why he didn't eat here before going back.

"Brother Lin, why did father-in-law leave?"

"Daddy said that he's going to help the auntie and the others in the field later, so go back first."

Seeing what he said, Fang Qing thought about taking her father-in-law to dinner next time, so she turned to the kitchen to prepare lunch, walked into the kitchen and saw the food waving on the stove.

"Father has cooked the meal."

"Daddy said he has nothing to do here, so he helped us prepare the meals." Zhang Zelin pulled his chickens and piglets into the pigsty and put them away, washed his hands and walked in.

Fang Qing brought the vegetables to the yard. "Father-in-law actually helped prepare the meals, so let's eat first!"

After they had a good meal and rested for a while, she and Zhang Zelin went to the backyard to pick up the firewood and some garbage that were not in the vegetable garden.

(End of this chapter)

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