After coming out of the courtyard, Qi Lingheng walked back to the busy street without looking back.

"Huh? Qi Lingheng?" Su Tang had just come out of a restaurant. She wrote down a few recipes and sold them at a high price in the restaurant.

She made a net profit of forty taels from the buyout recipe, but she also had to personally demonstrate to the restaurant's chef how the dish was made. After all, when cooking, the heat, the order in which the seasonings were put into the pot, and the amount of seasonings used were all very important.

Fortunately, this restaurant did not look down on her right away because she was a farmer's daughter, otherwise she would not have sold the recipe to this restaurant.

Taking the money for the menu from the restaurant, Su Tang came out of the restaurant in a good mood, but unexpectedly saw a familiar figure.

She did not call out to Qi Lingheng directly, but followed him for a short distance.

Su Tang stopped at the alley where Qi Lingheng came out, turned around and looked inside. It was deserted and there was not a single pedestrian in the alley.

Su Tang stood there and watched for a long time, but there was no one coming in or out.

Su Tang did not rush into the alley. The alley was deep and dark, and no one knew what was going on inside.

When I turned around and looked in the direction where Qi Lingheng left, he was no longer on the crowded street.

Forget it, let’s do our own thing first.

Su Tang also didn't want to interfere too much in Qi Lingheng's affairs. He must be no simple man. Su Tang didn't want to involve the Su family in Qi Lingheng's life.

Maybe it's time to talk to Qi Lingheng, give him freedom and let him go.

Su Tang had a huge amount of money in her pocket and started shopping in the city.

She paid the tax for her donkey cart entering the city today, so she would park the cart outside each shop when she bought something.

When she bought rice this time, she specifically asked the restaurant that had just sold the recipe, and found a rice shop whose owner was not the Qian family.

She only wanted to maintain the doctor-patient relationship with Master Qian, and Su Tang didn't want to have anything else to do with him.

"What do you want to buy, young lady? The brown rice here..."

Su Tang asked in the shop and found that the prices were almost the same as those at Qian's rice shop.

However, the car Su Tang bought before was actually paid at the purchase price of the Qian family, so this time it will definitely not be that cheap.

Su Tang had already calculated the amount of food the Su family would need for the winter and prepared some extra.

When the waiter learned that Su Tang wanted to buy so much fine rice and noodles, he couldn't suppress the smile on his face.

Finally, he even took the initiative to find the owner of the rice shop to help Su Tang get the remainder off.

"You are going back now." The waiter enthusiastically carried all the rice and flour that Su Tang bought onto the donkey cart parked at the door and filled the cart full.

"Yeah." Su Tang lowered the curtain to cover the inside of the donkey cart and handed Xiao Wai twenty cents as a reward. She would need to come back to buy food in the future, so it would be more convenient to give Xiao Wai some reward so that she could come back later.

Sometimes it is easier to take care of the people below you than to deal directly with the big shots above you.

The waiter took the copper coin from Su Tang and put it into his lapel skillfully. "Next time you come to buy, I will ask the shopkeeper for a more suitable price for you."

"Okay." Su Tang smiled, walked to the front and led the donkey forward.

The moment the donkey cart started, Su Tang held the donkey cart with her hand and quietly put the food in the donkey cart into the space.

As if feeling that the donkey cart suddenly became lighter, Su Tang's little donkey neighed happily.

"Okay, stop barking. You might scare others if you do that. I'll chase you out." Su Tang took out a piece of candy from the space and quietly handed it to the little donkey's mouth.

The little donkey stuck out its tongue and licked it. Finding that it had the flavor it liked, it happily rolled up the candy and ate it.

The little donkey became more obedient. Su Tang patted it gently on the neck and said, "Let's go to the next one."

The donkey's hooves made a "clacking" sound as they stepped on the bluestone road.

Su Tang went to the grocery store in the same way and bought some bowls and large and small clay pots that could be used in daily life. She also bought two large vegetable jars to pickle sauerkraut.

"Boss, what spices do you have here?"

Although there are various seasonings in Su Tang's space, they are not inexhaustible after all. Su Tang is afraid that the spices will run out.

It would be nice to find some alternatives now.

"Yes, we have chili peppers, Sichuan peppercorns, pepper, aniseed..." Su Tang heard the grocery store owner mention several kinds.

Wow, are there so many spices here?

It seems that this dynasty did trade with Westerners.

After buying all these, Su Tang went to the stall where she bought pork last time.

But she came a little late this time, and there was not much pork left on the butcher's counter.

"Young lady, are you going to buy some more pork?"

Butcher Zhang recognized Su Tang at first sight.

It's really hard for him not to remember a big customer like Su Tang.

"Yeah, but you don't have much pork here."

Su Tang looked at the strips of pork belly, pork bones, and offal on the chopping board and shook her head.

"You're late. I kill a pig early in the morning and only sell one a day. If there are more, the leftovers will easily go bad." Butcher Zhang swept the pork with a branch to drive away the flies.

Although winter is approaching, flies and insects are more annoying now.

Especially their bloody meat stalls attracted these people, and he always had to flash by with branches from time to time.

"Then do you know any family that's slaughtering pigs again?" Su Tang was really not interested in the scattered pork.

In fact, she wanted to buy some piglets and raise them in the space. When she had the chance, she would take the pigs out and ask someone in the village who knew how to slaughter pigs to help her slaughter them. That way the pork would be fresher.

"Give me a pound of pork belly." An auntie walked to the pork stall and pointed to one side of the pork. "Pull from this side. I want this side."

"Haha, you're the smartest. Just take the side with more fat." After saying that, Zhang the Butcher put down the branch in his hand, took the meat-cutting knife, rubbed it on the chopping board twice, and cut a piece of pork.

"It's exactly one pound." After weighing the pork for the aunt, Zhang the butcher tied a straw rope in the middle of the pork.

"Oh, then you must buy the fat ones. The lean meat has no oil at all and is nothing to eat." After the aunt said this, she took her piece of pork and left.

"If you can buy a whole pig, I can kill one for you." Butcher Zhang put the meat knife on the chopping board and picked up a branch to continue driving away the flies.

Nowadays, unless there is a big event at home, no one would want a whole pig. Butcher Zhang just said it casually.

"Okay, but how long will it take to slaughter a pig?" Su Tang didn't mind buying a whole one. She could make smoked meat at home anyway. Winter is a good time to fatten up.

Think about the children of the Su family. They don’t have much flesh on their bodies, especially Daya, who looks like bones when you touch her. This has a great impact on the physical development of the children.

"I promise to clean it up for you in one hour." Butcher Zhang didn't expect Su Tang to agree, and immediately patted his chest and promised.

His family has been butchering pigs for several generations, and there are few people in the entire city who are better than him in this skill.

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