I was the best old lady in ancient times

Chapter 16 Buying Brown Sugar

Seeing this, those who didn't buy it immediately complained.

"I've been waiting in line for a long time, why is it gone!"

"I'm really sorry, little girl. How about this, I'll come over to sell it at this time tomorrow, and I'll keep it for you if you want a few dollars, and I won't let you make another empty trip, how about it?"

Ning Pengpeng said to the woman dressed as a woman with a smile.

"My aunt is really good at joking. I'm already the mother of two children. I'm still a little girl! How about this? Leave me six yuan. It's a good idea for Fu Lu Shou. It just happens that my in-laws and my parents give it to me alone." Take a piece and try something new."

After touching her face shyly, the woman said boldly, but after she finished speaking, she felt a little distressed, after all, it cost twenty cents!

"Oh, I really didn't realize that you're already married? Oh, your husband's family married such a filial daughter-in-law like you, I'm afraid I'd be so happy if I didn't dream about it at night. And your parents, It's really not in vain to love you. Such a filial and good boy is really good. "

Ning Pengpeng popped out basket after basket of good words directly, and the woman who coaxed her smiled happily, her heart was full of joy, and she felt sorry for the twenty cents, but she just felt that no matter how expensive it was, this pastry was bought for the elders, and the money was spent value.

"Ma'am, you must keep it for me tomorrow!"

"Remember to stay for us too, we have waited for such a long time!"

The people behind followed suit and shouted.

"Hey, I can remember this girl alone. There are so many of you, it's really embarrassing for me, an old man. I'm getting old, and my memory is not very good. Like this, I will make more and bring them tomorrow. Do you remember? How about coming early?"

"Okay, then you must remember it and do more."

Hearing what Ning Pengpeng said, everyone thought about it, and told Ning Pengpeng to remember to make more and bring them to sell.

Seeing Ning Pengpeng nodding repeatedly, everyone left satisfied.

"Mother, with so many people, we can't do so much, can we?"

Third Ning tightly held the bag of copper coins that he got from selling pastries just now, and then said to Ning Pengpeng nervously.

"Aren't you talking nonsense! Just now most of the people in the market were shouting, who knows which one is for real and which one is a joke?"

Ning Pengpeng gave him a blank look, snatched the money bag from him, and carefully tied it into a basket that had been sold out.

"Then...then why did mother agree just now?"

When Ning Lao San saw his mother say this, he was a little puzzled and asked inexplicably.

"You talk a lot, what did I tell you when you came here?"

"Look more, talk less."

Third Ning scratched his head, and honestly repeated what his mother said in the morning.

"It's good to know, let's go, go to the grain store to buy something."

Ning Pengpeng picked up the back basket that was upside down on the ground, stuffed it into the arms of Ning Lao San, and walked towards the grain store in his memory.

In the grain store in Anzhen, besides the shelled brown rice and polished rice, there are millet, soybeans, red beans, mung beans, peanuts and other miscellaneous grains.

Brown rice and those miscellaneous grains are basically bought by those not very wealthy families in the town.

However, there is relatively little polished rice in the shop, and most of them are bought by those whose families are okay. There is not much demand, so there are not many goods in stock.

After all, wealthy families have Zhuangzi, and the melons, fruits, vegetables, and food at home are all provided by Zhuangzi, and there is no need to buy polished rice from grain shops outside.

And what Ning Pengpeng has to do is to open a hole in the wealthy family and sell her things to the wealthy family.

If you just rely on the business of these not very wealthy people in the town, although you can make money, you can't make a lot of money.

She has to wait until the year of the monkey to replace her legs with a carriage?

When she thought about how she had to get up early and walk in the dark every day from more than ten miles to the town, and then walk more than ten miles from the town back to the village, she felt that her two legs no longer belonged to her.

So, she's going to do something that's not here.

"Boss, give me five catties of peanuts."

As soon as Ning Pengpeng walked into the grain store, he said loudly.

Ning Lao San was following behind her, but when he heard her words, he stepped forward anxiously, grabbed his mother's sleeve and pulled it out.

"Mother, why did you come to this grain shop to buy peanuts? The grain shop sells peanuts for five renminbi a catty, so it's better to buy them directly in the village, where they only cost three renminbi."

"Uh, three pennies a catty is actually cheaper than two pennies a catty?"

Ning Pengpeng scratched her chin in embarrassment, she didn't turn her head around for a moment, she only thought about buying peanuts at the grain store, but she didn't expect that these miscellaneous grains are the most indispensable thing in the village now.

In modern society, neighbors next door may not even know each other, let alone ask neighbors to buy food!
Ning Pengpeng was about to say sorry to the shopkeeper of the grain shop, but the shopkeeper rolled his eyelids, gave her and Ning Laosan a big white eye, and muttered in his mouth.

"Poor ghosts, don't come out and make a fool of yourself."

Hearing this, not only Ning Laosan clenched his fists, but Ning Pengpeng's fists couldn't help but also clenched.

Hmph, don't bully young people into being poor!
Although her body is already 39 years old, she feels that as long as she works hard enough, she will definitely let the owner of the food store know that she is a dog's eye.

"Go, go buy sugar."

That candy can be bought in the grocery store, that is, the store opened by the father-in-law Ning's family.

"Mom, it's not the New Year's Eve, why did you buy candy?"

Sugar is no better than salt. Every household in Yan has to eat it, but sugar is given away during festivals.

Whoever soaks a bowl of brown sugar water when entertaining guests is a distinguished guest!

"Mother, why are you here?"

Boss Ning was guarding the shop, when he looked up, he saw his own mother rushing in, his eyes widened immediately.

Could it be that the old lady regretted it within two days of separation?

"Boss, don't you have brown sugar for sale in this shop, give mother five catties."

Ning Pengpeng waved directly to Boss Ning and said, hearing what his mother said, Boss Ning spit out a mouthful of saliva, and almost choked himself to death.

"Brown sugar... five... five catties?"

When he said these words, Boss Ning almost bit his own tongue.

"Yeah, I don't know if it's enough."

Ning Pengpeng frowned, thinking carefully, and didn't notice the expressions of the two sons looking at each other.

Many of the things she needs to do use white sugar.

There is no white sugar here, only brown sugar, so there is no way but to find a way to purify the brown sugar into white sugar.

However, in this way, after five catties of brown sugar remove impurities, four catties of white sugar can be produced, which is already very good!

And four catties of white sugar, if used to make things and sell them, can't last for a long time.

　To popularize science, peanuts were introduced to our country in the Ming Dynasty, and then sugar, before the Tang Dynasty, our country used maltose (maltose), yes, it is the sugar that can stick your big teeth.Around the time of the Tang Dynasty, the technology of squeezing sugar cane into brown sugar was introduced from India, while white sugar did not become common until the Qing Dynasty.In other words, during the period between the Tang Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, maltose (maltose) was mostly used, and brown sugar was basically enjoyed by nobles.

　　But my book is fictional, and the dynasty was about before the Tang Dynasty.

　　So, don't take it too seriously!

　　In fact, in order to check the price of sugar in each dynasty, I tossed the whole group of authors so much~!

　　Bite the handkerchief and cry~! ! !

　　
　
(End of this chapter)