Medicine Fragrance Pastoral: Nongmen Pretty Lady

Chapter 21 Buying Food
After eating, Bai Xuening looked up at the sky, and found that the sun was slightly westward. If calculated according to the time in the 21st century, it would be around 1 or 2 pm. I am afraid that the market will be closed soon, but they still There are so many things I haven't bought, so hurry up!

On the way to buy food, the mother and son found an old lady selling eggs, but the small vendors selling eggs around her were almost gone, and there were very few eggs left, but she was the only one who had a full basket.

This old lady has gray hair, doesn't yell, and is dressed in rags, and there is a stench near her. Bai Xuening thinks that this is probably the reason why everyone is unwilling to buy her eggs.

Bai Xuening felt compassion, walked up to her and asked, "Ma'am, how much is an egg?"

Seeing someone asking for the price, the old lady no longer had the dull look on her face, and a smile flashed across her face, "It's a penny each, and if you want it all, I can give you a little cheaper!"

"I want them all, and I don't need you to take advantage of them. It's getting late, ma'am, you'd better go home early!"

Her boldness was exchanged for Yuqing's dissatisfaction, "Mom, why did you buy so many eggs? We can't eat so many!"

Bai Xuening didn't want to explain more to the little baby, especially when she said that she felt sorry for her in front of the old man, and she just evaded it with one sentence: "Mother wants eggs to be useful, these are not enough!"

The old man counted the eggs in this basket, there were 41 in total, but he only charged [-] Wen.

Bai Xuening didn't refuse, she put the eggs in the basket and left in a hurry. It was getting late, and she wanted to buy everything and go home early!
41 eggs, it's a bit heavy to put in the basket, and she will have to buy food later, she must be unable to carry it, so how will she go home?
Bai Xuening thought about it, and instead of buying food, went to buy salt and condiments, after all, life without salt is really hard!
After walking for a long time, I found a grocery store with some simple condiments in the cabinet, such as soy sauce and vinegar... "Boss, give me two catties of salt, and I will bring some of each of these condiments! "

The shopkeeper couldn't believe it and asked, "Little lady, are you sure you want two catties of salt? Fine salt costs [-] Wen per catty, and coarse salt costs [-] Wen per catty!"

Bai Xue was stunned for a long time before she realized why ancient salt was so expensive?In modern times, the price of a pack of fine salt is about the same as a meat bun, and coarse salt is even cheaper!
But in ancient times, the price of a catty of coarse salt was dozens of times that of a bun, let alone fine salt!

She originally wanted to buy more salt, pickled vegetables or salted eggs, but now it seems that she can't even afford salt!
"Boss, let's just have a catty of coarse salt!" After thinking for a long time, Bai Xuening only wanted a catty of coarse salt. Who made her poor now?All the household belongings are only a few hundred cash, and you have to buy food. You can’t spend more than 100 cash on salt, you can eat coarse salt!
Soy sauce and vinegar are about the same as they are now, a few pennies a bottle, only fennel, star anise, amomum, cloves, cardamom, cinnamon, aniseed, dried ginger, pepper, tangerine peel, pepper, cinnamon, white pepper and other spices The price is high!

These seasonings are not necessary, but sometimes without them, half of the taste is really missing. She picked the most important spices, fennel, star anise, dried ginger, and peppercorns, and bought three taels each. It cost 110 taels arts!
These spices made Yuqing feel bad, while Yuhe only cared about her meat, "Mom, you must save money for me to buy meat!"

(End of this chapter)