Chapter 27: Buying seeds

After getting up, she hurriedly served her daughter. This time she didn't put her on the bed.

A few days ago, she bought a large mat outside, spread it directly on the ground, and spread a mattress on it. From now on, she and the child would sleep on the ground.

She directly put the bed away and placed it in a place that didn't get in the way.

The child was getting bigger and bigger, and she was really afraid that if she wasn't careful, Ling'er would fall off.

After setting this up, she coaxed Ling'er to sleep on the large mat on the ground.

This time she didn't go out of the space directly, but went to the edge of the land to take a look. In one night, almost all the strawberry seedlings had sprouted.

The seedling rate reached over ninety percent. Thinking that she would be able to sell strawberries in a few days, and there would be another project to earn money, she smiled honestly.

The premise is that there are people selling this thing here. It seems that she can't always set up a stall, she must find time to go to the prefecture city to understand.

It's a bit shameful to say, she still doesn't know which dynasty this is. It's like a frog at the bottom of a well, only seeing this piece. Even when others were talking, it seemed that they didn't involve the issue of the dynasty.

Coming out of the space, looking at the weather outside, although the sky was still a bit cloudy, it wasn't so gloomy anymore, thinking that it wouldn't rain today.

She ate breakfast casually and went to the embroidery workshop. She didn't plan to set up the stall today.

Without the big sun, there would be fewer people eating melon and buying ice. Taking advantage of the coolness, she had to handle her own affairs.

"Sister Lu, I'm going to the prefecture city to take a look. If it's late, I won't come back today. I'm telling you, lest you worry."

"Do you need me to go with you?"

"No need, I'll go by myself. Do you need me to bring anything back?"

"Nothing to bring back. You must put more heart into the embroidery, otherwise what will I use to hand over to others?"

"Got it, I won't be short of yours, leaving now."

"Protect yourself."

"Got it."

After speaking, she walked to the official road. Shortly after, she caught a carriage going to the prefecture city in the south.

Although it was expensive, the carriage was fast. If it went smoothly, she could make a round trip on the same day.

Sitting in the carriage, she didn't say a word, silently listening to the conversations of others in the carriage.

Going south, she would pass a town, a county town, and then two towns before reaching the prefecture city.

The small town north of Tianshui Town was called Tianhe Town, the small town south was called Tiannan Town, the county town was called Yi County, and the names of those two towns wouldn't be mentioned, there was no intersection, and the prefecture city was called Wei City.

These place names were all auspicious and relatively smooth. She remembered them in her heart.

The carriage ran on the road for two full hours. When she arrived at Wei City, she was almost vomiting.

The wooden wheels were really bumpy when they turned. It was fine if the road was flat, but if she encountered a bad road section, her whole body would fall apart.

Qiao Mai jumped out of the carriage and gave the driver fifty wen.

"This big brother, may I ask, which dynasty is it now?"

The driver glanced at her and smiled.

"I see you are a woman who stays at home all year round and doesn't go out, you don't know anything. Let me tell you, it's the Great Ming Dynasty now. The current Emperor's surname is Liu, he is only in his thirties this year, in his prime. The national title is Kang, he hopes for the country to be prosperous and the people to be at peace. Now you know, right?"

"Uh, uh, I know, thank you, big brother."

"Are you still going back to Tianshui Town?"

"I probably can't go back today, if I go back, it will be tomorrow."

"I wait for passengers outside the North City Gate every day at this time. If you take the carriage, come here to find me."

Qiao Mai bowed to him, paid one copper coin for the city entry fee, and followed the crowd into the city.

She walked slowly on the side of the road, looking around from time to time. Whatever was sold at the small stalls, she would go over to take a look.

This time was exactly the time for peddlers to unload goods, there were many people on the road, and the shouting was constant.

It's not the prefecture city, it's much more complete than the small town.

Since she saw it, buy some?

So, leeks, green peppers, red peppers, loofah, etc., all bought some, and bought a bamboo basket to carry on her back to cover herself.

There were many types of shops in the prefecture city. Walking all the way, she even saw a seed shop.

A shop specializing in selling seeds. Oh my god, she almost screamed, and ran into the shop.

Looking at the shelves, every cloth bag was open, and the seeds revealed were recognized by her. Inside were vegetable seeds, grain seeds, and medicinal herb seeds, which looked very complete.

She stood in front of the counter, grinning at those seeds, her eyes weren't enough, feeling that this seed shop was opened for her.

This time she didn't need to use tweezers to pick strawberry seeds anymore. With so many seeds, planting one of each on four fen of land would be enough for her to plant for a few years.

"Little lady, buying seeds?"

The clerk's sentence made Qiao Mai wake up.

"Yes, your seeds are very complete."

"It's okay, there are seeds from the north and south. What kind of seeds do you want?"

"I want them all, I want all of these."

The clerk's forehead clearly had two black lines. "Our shop has expensive ones, cheap ones, and ones sold by the grain. How do you want to buy them?"

"Give me a small bag of each of the cheap ones, and give me a hundred grains of each of the expensive ones."

The clerk swallowed his saliva and confirmed again. "You want each one?"

"Right, I want each one!"

The clerk sized her up. "All the seeds in our shop, if you buy them all, it will cost at least ten or twenty taels of silver."

Qiao Mai rolled her eyes. "I'm not crazy, and I don't have a grudge against your shop. Buying seeds is buying seeds. What, is it interesting for me to run here to lie to you?"

Hearing this, the clerk confirmed that this little woman was indeed here to buy seeds.

So he greeted her enthusiastically. "Hehe, please wait a moment, little lady, I'll weigh them for you."

The clerk quickly placed a stack of paper on the counter, took down the bags in a certain order, weighed the seeds inside, placed them on the paper, wrote the price outside the paper, and then wrapped them up, just like a pharmacy grabbing medicine.

Qiao Mai found a chair and sat down, moved the things in the back basket into the space, and used it to cover herself.

Without knowing it, after taking a nap on the chair, the clerk had already wrapped the seeds.

The shopkeeper took the abacus and calculated, then looked deeply at Qiao Mai, who was dressed plainly.

"Little lady, there are more than three hundred bags of seeds here. Two hundred bags at fifty wen, totaling ten taels. One hundred bags at one hundred wen, ten taels. Twenty bags at two hundred wen, four taels. Ten bags at five hundred wen, five taels. Totaling twenty-nine taels."

Qiao Mai took out a cloth bag from the back basket, took out three ten-tael silver ingots from it, and placed them on the table.

The shopkeeper silently returned one tael to her, and the clerk diligently put the seeds into her back basket, counting them in front of her while putting them in.

Qiao Mai covered the back basket with a piece of cloth, carried the back basket on her back, and was about to turn and leave.

The shopkeeper stopped her. "Little lady, excuse me for being presumptuous, what are you doing buying so many seeds?"

"The family is preparing to buy land, and I want to try planting each one to see what kind of seeds are suitable for the soil in my land."

"So that's it."

The shopkeeper thought to himself, trying with more than twenty taels of seeds, that's really generous. Looking at her dress, she doesn't look like a very rich family.

Coming out of the seed shop, Qiao Mai was in a particularly good mood. It was almost past noon, and she hadn't eaten yet. She casually took an apple from the space and gnawed on it, quenching her thirst and hunger.

It's rare to come once to the prefecture city, she couldn't delay time, she must have a good stroll around the ancient prefecture city.

Where did she know that she was so casual, and almost caused trouble.

Just when she was concentrating on strolling, a little tail followed behind her. At first, she thought it was a pedestrian, but after walking for a long time, she felt that this tail was indeed following her.

So she turned around and stared at the little tail that was only three or four meters away from her.

"Why are you following me?"

The little tail was about ten years old, a little boy, dressed quite well, with a delicate appearance.

He looked at the apple core in her hand, and tears immediately surged in his eyes, looking very aggrieved.

"Aunt, I want to eat fruit."

A ten-year-old boy, according to ancient times, should be sensible, and wouldn't follow others just because he saw a fruit.

Qiao Mai judged that there was something wrong with his head!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 28 =====