Portable Space: Reborn Little Couple

Chapter 76

There are many shops on Sanchuan Road.

The Second River where Mo Qianrui and the others were located was full of delicacies, and the two of them didn't choose much, but chose a snack shop closest to the inn.

The biggest difference between this snack shop and the tavern restaurant is not in the exquisiteness of the shop, but in the presence or absence of alcohol.Obviously, snack shops don't sell alcohol, and the one Mo Qianrui chose sells rice with soup and side dishes.

Soup rice is a home-cooked delicacy, the method is simple and there are many changes.For side dishes, this shop only sells hot and sour dried radish and pickled vegetables.

Mo Qianrui ordered two bowls of rice with soup and a plate of hot and sour dried radish, and then he and his father ate in the corner.

The taste of rice in soup is not bad, but because the ingredients used are very simple, it can't be said to be very delicious. It can only be said that it is better than ordinary people's craftsmanship, and it is cheap and good.The hot and sour dried radish made Mo Qianrui's eyes shine, not because of how good it tasted, but because she finally tasted the spicy taste that she hadn't seen for a long time.

Before, whether in Yangliu Village or Luluo Town, Mo Qianrui couldn't find this important condiment.

Although Mo Qianrui is not the kind of person who doesn't like spicy food, she uses spicy flavor in many of the dishes she knows. Although the amount is not much, it is indispensable.

This is great, just finding the chili pepper, even if the trip is not in vain.

After a simple dinner, Mo Qianrui specifically asked the waiter where the peppers were sold.

As a result, the waiter looked at her strangely, not with malice, but as if looking at a country bumpkin.However, contempt is contempt, the waiter still told her that any condiment shop on the street in Erchuan sells it.

Therefore, Mo Qianrui's next goal was to decisively buy ingredients instead of buying seasonings.

The condiment shop was easy to find. The shop was not too big, but it looked like a medicine shop.There is a half-person-high counter inside. There is a stack of rough paper on the counter, and there are large, medium and small steelyards beside the counter. Behind the counter are rows of checkered drawers. Seasoned.

Perhaps the biggest difference from the pharmacy is that the drawers inside are very large, at least four or five times larger than the drawers containing medicinal materials in the pharmacy.

And from the moment he entered the condiment store, Mo Qianrui's eyes widened.

As a cook, in addition to loving all kinds of ingredients, these indispensable ingredients for cooking also have a fatal attraction.

Standing outside the counter and looking in, Mo Qianrui had good eyesight, and could easily see the name on the note on the drawer.

Coarse salt, fine salt, maltose, sucrose, brown sugar, rock sugar, chili, pepper, pepper, pepper, dried ginger...

Identify them one by one. Fortunately, although Mo Qianrui can't write traditional characters, he can barely recognize them.In addition to the name of the condiment, she knew it by heart, and after a while, she recognized everything in this condiment shop.

How should I put it, although it is not as complete as Mo Qianrui's supermarket in her previous life, she was a little surprised.

In this condiment shop, there are all the condiments that ordinary families can use, even some rare condiments such as fennel, star anise, cinnamon, and angelica dahurica.You know, even if Mo Qianrui wanted to find these condiments in his previous life, he had to go to a special large supermarket. Ordinary small supermarkets only sell the most basic condiments.

However, what surprised Mo Qianrui was that she didn't see any liquid condiments such as soy sauce or vegetable oil.

Could it be that this shop only sells dry goods?

"Little girl, what do you want to buy?"

It took Mo Qianrui a while to come in, but he kept staring at the note on the drawer, and Dad simply turned his face to the street, as if he was too lazy to look at the situation in the shop.

The shopkeeper behind the counter was very puzzled. Although his shop is small, it has a complete range of condiments.In addition, there are small food shops near his condiment shop, so most of the people who come to buy condiments are shop assistants, and very few women enter the shop, let alone a girl of Mo Qianrui's age.

However, the shopkeeper is also well-informed. Besides, there are no other customers in the shop except for the somewhat weird father and daughter, so he didn't interfere, but chose to watch from the sidelines. .

Looking at it this way, he saw the problem.

Originally, he thought that the little girl was just here to watch the excitement, but after some observation, he was surprised to find that the little girl in front of him was actually literate.

This look at the excitement is completely different from the look at the note on the drawer trying to identify the font.

The shopkeeper is of course literate, but he doesn't know many characters. He can barely recognize the names of all the condiments, and he can write the account book.He has no talent for reading, but it is precisely because he has suffered a lot from being able to read, so he has a good impression of people who are also able to read.

"I want to buy fine salt, pepper, and... why is there no oil here?"

"Hehe, little girl, stand on your tiptoes and take a closer look. The oil jar is on the bottom."

Mo Qianrui looked along the shopkeeper's fingers, and it turned out that under the rows of checkered drawers was an open cabinet with a row of large jars inside, and there were notes on the jars.

Looking along the jars one by one, Mo Qianrui quickly found the oil jars, but it was difficult to look carefully.

The first few jars are sauces, but the next twenty jars are all made of sauce.

For vegetable oil alone, there are soybean oil, peanut oil, red and blue flower seed oil, cocklebur seed oil and so on.Animal oil is even more exaggerated. There is nothing rare about lard, but there is sheep oil, butter, dog oil, and even fish oil.

Mo Qianrui was dizzy from the huge pile of oil jars, and didn't know how to choose.

In her previous life, the standard for her to choose oil was the brand.Basically, if she is used to one brand, she will choose that series of oils, unless there is a serious problem, otherwise she will not change it for more than ten years.

And now...

"I want peanut oil."

Animal oil must be very expensive. Mo Qianrui doesn't dare to be too extravagant for the time being. Among vegetable oils, although peanut oil is not necessarily the best, it is the most fragrant.

Now she wants to do business. Although delicious food is important, fragrance is even more important.

The shopkeeper smiled knowingly, he pointed at the soy sauce on purpose just now, if the little girl in front of him is illiterate, he should stare at the soy sauce.In fact, the little girl actually read one by one, and then fixed her eyes on several oil jars, as if hesitating which oil to choose.Finally, when she said "peanut oil", her gaze fell on the jar containing peanut oil.

Interestingly, this little girl doesn't look like a child of a wealthy family, but she is really literate, and her speed of recognition is not slow.

"A can of the best peanut oil is eighty cents a catty, and a can is only two catties. I will give you a jar as a gift. If you don't need a jar, I will give you two cents a catty cheaper. Fine salt is twenty cents a catty, pepper...it should be pepper powder , this is an imported product, three hundred Wen a catty."

Mo Qianrui gasped, the price of peanut oil and fine salt was within her expectation.But the price of pepper frightened her.

Dad also came back to his senses at this moment, subconsciously exclaimed, and then suddenly said: "Big girl, this pepper...things with the word mustache are very expensive, you can change it to something else."

Hearing what Dad said, Mo Qianrui also reacted.

Hu, Yang, Fan, and Xi represent all imported products. Simply put, they are non-native things.

As the saying goes, foreign monks like to chant scriptures, so the price of this imported product is naturally quite expensive.It's just that these imported products have become common goods in the previous life, so Mo Qianrui didn't notice that what she ordered just now were imported products.

"Pepper is too expensive, I'd better have pepper."

The shopkeeper wasn't impatient at all, instead he said with a smile: "The peppers were shipped from Chuanyun County, and they cost [-] Wen a catty."

Seeing that Mo Qianrui was dumbfounded again, the shopkeeper kindly pointed out: "Chinese prickly ash is cheaper, seventy yuan a catty. Chili is the cheapest. I am chili powder and it costs thirty yuan. If you go to the vegetable market, little girl You can buy fresh peppers for only ten cents a catty."

Fresh chili has moisture in it, so it is not easy to preserve, so it is naturally cheaper than chili powder.

After being reminded by the shopkeeper, Mo Qianrui hurriedly said, "Then I'll buy a jar of peanut oil, and I want the jar. I also want a catty of fine salt."

"Success." The shopkeeper was still smiling, took a small jar full of it, weighed a catty of fine salt, wrapped it three layers in rough paper, and put it on the counter.

Mo Qianrui had already counted the money at this moment, it happened to be one hundred Wen.

Dad was afraid that Mo Qianrui would drop the oil jar, so he quickly took it, and conveniently put the salt bag under his arm.

"Thank you shopkeeper, I will definitely come to your place next time."

"Okay, come back next time, I'll give you a little bit cheaper, little girl."

Mo Qianrui still has a good impression of this kind-hearted shopkeeper.The so-called coming back next time is naturally not a casual perfunctory talk, but that she really intends to come here to make a big purchase.

In fact, she has been thinking about it ever since the young man from Qiao's family mentioned that there are money houses, gold and silver shops and pawnshops in Sanchuan.

Well, it's not that she doesn't have money, but that she has money and can't spend it.

As long as she waits for a chance to get rid of her father, and picks out any unremarkable gold ornaments from cousin Tang Yanxiu's dowry box, it will be enough for her to buy condiments.Fearing that he would forget about this condiment shop, Mo Qianrui took a special look back when he was about to leave.

Zeng Kee Condiment Shop.

Well, remember.

"Father, let's go to the fork in the road to buy some ingredients." Earlier, Mo Qianrui had already inquired that at the fork in Sanchuan Road, occasionally someone set up a stall to sell ingredients.Although this place is not Caishikou, but because there are so many people coming and going, the business is still good.

It's just that the ingredients at Chadaokou are definitely not as fresh as those at Caishikou.The problem is that in this era, Caishikou opened very early, and it was late in the evening, and there were no vegetable leaves left.It's better to go to the fork and try your luck, anyway, she doesn't have many ingredients to buy.

Hundreds of eggs, a bunch of shallots, and a few big red peppers.

You're done, just waiting for a moment to open!
(End of this chapter)