Chapter 476: Kr-Gold Palace Intrigue System (11)

Another change is: she has grown quite a bit taller!

The children's ready-to-wear clothes bought in Linzhou Fu were actually too short in the legs, and the sleeves were also a segment shorter than when they were first bought.

She had originally thought the winter and autumn clothes purchased along the way would be enough for her to change and wash, and that she would buy new clothes for the New Year once she reached Jiaozhou Fu.

Now it seems she must make another trip out of the mountains.

Unexpectedly, plans cannot keep up with how fast things change.

It started snowing in the mountains!

Goose-feather-sized snowflakes covered the mountain forest in a thick layer of snow in less than half a day.

With one step down, her whole person sank into the snowdrift.

Because of this, the plan to hunt for treasures in the deep mountains had to be suspended.

Xie Yang regretfully bid farewell to the vast, white mountain forest and prepared to go to Jiaozhou Fu.

However, before leaving, Xie—the little expert at wool-gathering who would pluck a hair from a wild goose passing by—took out two large jars and had the Robot Bodyguard help her collect two jars of the first snow.

The snow in ancient times is undoubtedly clean, completely white, flawless, and pure; wouldn't it be wonderful to keep it to boil tea in the Modern Plane?

Main System: 【...】

Should it be glad that the Host didn't just fixate on plucking from it?

At the rate the Host is plucking, no matter how much wool it has, it will sooner or later be plucked bald.

Besides, its little treasury is really not well-stocked anymore!

When will the Host spend points?

Oh my, can't think about it!

The CPU is about to burn out again!

Jiaozhou Fu, the southernmost Fucheng of the Great Ye Dynasty.

It is also the only Fucheng in this dynasty that is like spring all year round, where one can get through the four seasons in a single layer of clothing.

Jiaozhou Fu is by the sea, and the people under its jurisdiction almost all make a living by fishing.

There is farmland, but not much; fortunately, by adapting to local conditions, the sorghum and rice produced are not necessarily lower in yield than the northern Wheat, and the people's lives are better than the worst, though not as good as the best.

Xie Yang settled down in Jiaozhou Fu.

Although influenced by the idea of buying houses and land that is engraved in the bones of the people of this country, Xie Yang had thought about whether to buy a small courtyard or a Farm here, but considering her Task is in Jingcheng, it is fine to come out and play for a period of time, but living here long-term is unrealistic.

Thus, she took a Tianzi Yihao Fang in the most luxurious Fu Lai Inn in the Fucheng, from which one could see the sea level in the distance, and prepared to stay until the beginning of spring.

Once spring warms up and flowers bloom, she will naturally go to the deep mountains of various places to hunt for treasures again.

Coming to Jiaozhou Fu in winter was the right choice!

As the end of the year approaches, not to mention the north, even the Jiangnan region is covered in heavy snow and freezing cold, while in Jiaozhou Fu, wearing only a single layer of clothing, one still feels hot at noon.

Xie Yang likes this kind of climate very much.

Especially since she is now a little shorty, wearing too many clothes is not only cumbersome, but her two short legs cannot even take a step.

It is much easier to go shopping wearing thin, single-layered clothes.

Xie Yang, accompanied by a burly and sturdy "female bodyguard with a saber," happily strolled through the bustling streets of the Fucheng.

Perhaps because the New Year is approaching and there is no work in the fields, there are many more small stalls and shops selling goods on the street than usual, and both sides of the street are crowded with stalls.

Because most of the stalls sell either fresh seafood or dried seafood, the air is filled with a strong fishy smell of the sea.

Fortunately, for the two of them, one is a Robot with no sense of smell, and the other likes seafood and thus loves the house and its crow, making her insensitive to this kind of odor.

On the contrary, when she saw seafood that made her eyes light up, she would take the initiative to go up and buy, buy, buy.

One can borrow a stove and a pot to cook for oneself at the inn by spending a little Silver, so Xie Yang not only bought dried seafood that looked very good, but also picked out quite a few fresh sea Fish and sea Shrimp, and even picked out a few large, whole-legged live sea Crabs, the first time she had seen them since arriving in this plane half a year ago.

Take them back to the inn to taste first; if they are delicious, she will come back tomorrow.

The aunt selling the crabs took a few straws to nimbly tie the crab legs, put them into the bamboo basket held by the Robot Bodyguard, and said with a kind smile:

"Young lady, if you like eating crab claws, my fishing boat will dock tomorrow, and there will be fresher ones than these."

Xie Yang's eyes lit up when she heard this.

That's right!

Not far outside the city is the pier; to hoard a large amount of seafood, she must go to the pier!

Not only is the quantity large there, but the freshness is also better.

"Many thanks, auntie!"

Since she decided to go to the pier early the next morning, she wouldn't buy much today.

Carrying the newly bought seafood back to the inn, she asked the manager to rent a stove, entered instructions for the Robot Bodyguard, and watched it get busy around the stove.

No matter how she inputs instructions, it may not be able to replicate complex dishes; after all, its main function is as a bodyguard. Cooking and preparing meals are the duties of life-service robots.

But simply steaming them is no problem.

The steamed seafood platter was delivered to the Tianzi Yihao Fang, and Xie Yang sat down to enjoy a beautiful meal.

This was the first time she had tasted such fresh seafood since she transmigrated to this plane.

Sure enough, "fresh ingredients often only require the simplest cooking methods"; whether it was the small yellow croaker, the small pomfret, the sea Shrimp, sea Crab, or the shellfish whose names she couldn't name, they were all truly delicious!

But come to think of it, she was living in retirement on a southern island when the last plane ended, where seafood was the least lacking, so why is she like someone who hasn't touched seafood in N years?

Could it be that because she is younger, her taste bud requirements have also lowered accordingly?

Regardless, Xie Yang fell in love with the local seafood of the Great Ye Dynasty and decided to focus on hoarding seafood during her winter stay in Jiaozhou Fu.

Afterwards, she took the Robot Bodyguard to the pier every morning.

Whenever a fishing boat docked, she would nimbly squeeze to the front of the crowd and, before the purchasing managers of those restaurants and eateries could place their orders, nimbly secure a batch of good-quality seafood.

Yellow croaker, pomfret, black sea bream, and sea bass were bought the most.

Next were sea shrimp, sea crab, starfish, squid, and various types of shellfish.

She didn't buy a small amount of dried goods either: dried Abalone, dried sea cucumber, dried cuttlefish, dried sea fish, dried scallops, fish maw, Dried Shrimp, Seaweed, and so on.

Among them, the fish maw, which has the reputation of being one of the "Eight Treasures of the Sea," was the most worthwhile purchase.

The premium fish maw that would cost several hundred per jin in later generations wasn't even as expensive as dried salted fish here; naturally, she had to hoard as much as possible.

Within a few days, the owners of every fishing boat, including the stewards of various families coming and going from the pier, all recognized her.

They wondered whose little mistress this was, coming out to shop with a maid at only three or four years old.

Not only were her movements nimble and her mouth sweet, but her eyes were also sharp; she picked accurately every time, and the key was that she was generous with her money—as long as they didn't ask for an exorbitant price, she never haggled with them, and when she encountered rare seafood that they couldn't usually catch, she even gave them Silver as a reward.

With such a little buyer, who wouldn't welcome her?

After a few times, Xie Yang didn't even need to give them a heads-up; they would proactively keep the best batch on the boat and only bring it out when she arrived.

Meanwhile, the stewards responsible for purchasing for various families became annoyed.

They had wanted to suppress the prices to skim a little off the top, but now, let alone skimming, they couldn't even get their hands on the good-looking seafood.

How were they supposed to answer to their masters when they went back?

Consequently, some stewards brought along hired guards, wanting to teach Xie Yang and her servant a lesson.

"I don't know where this wild girl came from, daring to snatch ingredients from our Dexing Restaurant! Guard Zhang, have your men teach them a good lesson!"

Before the steward's voice had even faded, and before the sticks in the guards' hands could even swing close, they were knocked flat by the Robot Bodyguard.

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