The daily struggles of divorced women in ancient times

After eating the river noodles, Xia Mianwan and Zheng Xiaocheng went shopping separately. Zheng Xiaocheng came to the county and wanted to buy some necessities for his family that were not available in the town.

The two agreed to meet at the county gate in the evening and then went their separate ways.

There are obviously many more shops in the county than in the town, and there are more or less kinds of food, but there are still not many fresh foods, and there are also very few fruits.

There happened to be a fruit stall in the market, which said that its fruits were shipped from the provincial capital. Its stall was filled with apples, pears, and peaches, but nothing else.

“How much is this fruit?”

"All three cents a pound."

"How much more weight do you have?"

The stall owner estimated the number and reported, "There are probably about 300 kilograms left."

Xia Mianwan thought for a moment and said, "I'll take care of it all. Can you deliver it to my donkey cart and give me a few more baskets?"

When the stall owner heard that it was a big customer, he was delighted and said, "Okay, okay, young lady, just show me the way and I'll deliver it to you."

The Zheng family's donkey cart was parked outside the market. After paying two cents, the stall owner packed all the fruits and put them on the donkey cart. The Zheng family's donkey cart was equipped with a canopy, so Xia Mianwan could easily use the canopy to store the fruits in the space.

After harvesting the fruits, Xia Mianwan bought some fresh mushrooms, fungus, and asparagus at the market...

After visiting the market, Xia Mianwan visited the shops on both sides of the market. She felt that there was not much she could buy, but there were few varieties of food in the town, so she went to the county grain shop and bought 500 kilograms of various kinds of coarse grains and fine grains.

Xia Mianwan spent nearly eighty taels of silver at the grain shop. This was a big customer, and the grain shop owner took the initiative and gave Xia Mianwan a lot of grain seeds.

Xia Mianwan walked around and collected things as he went, and by the evening, he had spent three hundred taels of silver.

Money is really hard to spend!

When Xia Mianwan met Zheng Xiaocheng, she found that Zheng Xiaocheng had also bought a lot and the donkey cart was already full.

"Xiao Cheng, why did you buy so many things?" Xia Mianwan was amazed.

Zheng Xiaocheng took out a few pages of paper with a bitter face, "I bought everything according to the list my mother and grandmother gave me."

Xia Mianwan was almost laughing to death when she saw Zheng Xiaocheng's strange look.

It takes about two and a half hours to get from the county to the village. Looking at the sky, we must travel in the dark.

"Xiao Cheng, let's be careful on the road and hurry up!"

"it is good!"

……

It was already late at night when Xia Mianwan and Zheng Xiaocheng arrived home.

Zhu and Zheng Lingwan were still waiting for the two of them. When they saw them coming back, they hurried over to greet them.

"Are you tired? I've heated up the pot for you and will bring it out to you right away," said Zhu.

"Sister-in-law, how is it?" Zheng Lingwan asked excitedly.

Xia Mianwan smiled and tapped Zheng Lingwan's forehead and said, "It's going pretty smoothly, but I really like opening a shop. Are you really not afraid?"

Zheng Lingwan said solemnly, "Sister-in-law, I am very serious."

Xia Mianwan laughed, "Then sister-in-law will give you a task."

Zheng Lingwan's big watery eyes kept blinking, as if urging Xia Mianwan to say something quickly.

"I bought a lot of rags and some cloth in the county. I want you and your sister-in-law to make some hair flowers and silk flowers these days. And also make three more sets of clothes for me, yourself and your mother, so we can wear them when we go to town."

Zheng Lingwan thought this should not be difficult, so she agreed.

"Sister-in-law, don't worry!"

……

When Xia Mianwan packed up and returned to the house, Chen Ge'er and Yu Jie'er had already been coaxed to sleep. She took a closer look at the two of them, and seeing that they were indeed fast asleep, she entered the supermarket space.

The supplies purchased today were still placed in a mess at the entrance of the supermarket. Xia Mianwan thought of placing the supplies that Cui'er had purchased at the entrance as well.

Xia Mianwan took a notebook and began to record the things he had purchased from ancient times.

The cooked food was dormant late at night and was not moved here. I will eat it when I have the chance. It won’t go bad anyway.

Xia Mianwan was planning to turn the grocery store into a modern comprehensive supermarket, so the main focus should be on selling a full range of items.

Especially after the opening of the barter trade, there will definitely be more merchants coming and going, and the grocery store may then become a group buying point.

When she went to the county town, Xia Mianwan went to a jewelry store. She took the most expensive jade bracelet in the supermarket to let the owner of the jewelry store take a look. The owner said that this jade could be sold for about three hundred taels of silver. As for the crystal, the owner was very interested, but it was a rare thing. Although it was very beautiful, the owner could not tell how much it could be sold for.

With this in mind, Xia Mianwan's grocery store listed the cheapest jade bracelets, rings, jade pendants and ten strings of crystal bracelets in the jewelry section.

Hair bands and ancient-style hairpins from the boutique jewelry store were also written down in the notebook.

By then, with the addition of the handkerchiefs, silk flowers, purses and hairbands made by Zheng Lingwan, Xia Mianwan felt that the jewelry alone would be enough.

If she really wanted to sell them, there were a lot of jewelry in the public warehouse and in Xia Mianwan's dowry, and they were all very valuable, but she didn't want to sell them.

The main reason is that there is really no need for it, and people in the north don’t have relatively much demand for it.

Living is difficult enough, so who would care about beautiful clothes and jewelry?