Don't worry about traveling through time, she has an all-powerful senior sister to help her

Shen Lingzhu didn't expect the embroidery shop owner to be so generous. When he heard that this secret recipe could beautify the face and she didn't need to prepare it on the spot, he immediately asked for thirty kilograms of good peaches.

A large basket of peaches weighed only fifty or sixty kilograms, and most of them were gone in an instant.

Unfortunately, the other party was not interested in her method of making ice. People said that it is better for women to eat less ice to maintain their health.

Shen Lingzhu...

However, with this good start, she worked even harder to find customers, but after running around all the shops on a street, no one wanted the recipe.

Instead, she sold all the good quality peaches to every store.

Few people want raw peaches with rotten spots. After all, people who can afford fresh fruit will not buy rotten ones.

Old Man Niu thought the child was very dedicated, and she was sweating and looked dusty, so he stopped her from running: "Little girl, eat a peach. People in town are not as generous as those in the county. Usually, a basket of peaches will take half a day to sell.

If someone in this town can sell your recipe in the county town, my family can make it and sell it in the city.

Go home later and ask my wife to pack you a few pounds of coarse flour."

"Grandpa Niu, I feel like I haven't done anything to help you." They naturally got to know each other by exchanging names and chatting on the way. Shen Lingzhu didn't refuse politely. She washed the peaches with the water she brought and gave them to her eldest brother first, and asked the old man if the inferior peaches were half the price of the good ones.

The old man smiled bitterly and said that no one wanted even this. Then he saw the child borrow a large piece of oil paper from the owner of the embroidery shop, rolled it into a pointed tube, and stood on the shaft of the cart shouting.

"Come and take a look! Xiantao is having a huge sale! Buy one pound, get one free."

"I'll give them away one or two at a time. Don't miss out if you're passing by. If you don't buy it today, you won't be able to buy it next year."

Shen Xianzhu, who was holding the peach in his pocket, was shocked by her series of actions. When he found that people on the street were looking at him, he threw the peach back, hugged his sister's legs and lifted her up out of the car.

Old Man Niu also hurriedly said: "If you don't give it to me, you will lose money." People are kind-hearted, and when they want to find a bargain, they always pick the big ones. The smaller ones will not be sold in the end.

Shen Lingzhu, who was forcibly carried down, quickly told him that the items had to be weighed in piles and he was not allowed to pick and choose.

Fortunately, there were not many people who wanted to buy at the beginning, and they acted quickly. Just as they had divided the goods into more than ten piles on the truck, someone came to ask.

Selling things also depends on popularity. The more people buy, the more people will come.

Although Shen Lingzhu was forbidden by his elder brother to stand on the bus, he walked around in circles and kept shouting with a paper loudspeaker, something like:

"If you want to buy or bring it, hurry up. Opportunities don't come every day, so you should act now."

“If you don’t ask the price, you won’t know. Once you do, you’ll be shocked. It’s so cheap that it’ll make you laugh.”

"Clearance sale, huge discounts, grab a bargain quickly."

Shen Xianzhu couldn't stop her, and he wasn't as agile as her to catch her. He felt so helpless that he wanted to cry.

But the people on the street were delighted to hear it. They had never heard such new words before, and in order to hear a few more sentences, they squeezed over to watch the fun and ask the price.

For a while, Old Man Niu was very busy. In just over a quarter of an hour, he sold out all the peaches in the basket.

When he happily went to buy big meat buns for the two of them, the two siblings turned around and saw their uncle standing not far away with an expressionless face.

"Uncle, my brother and I earned some rice and flour." Shen Lingzhu was not afraid of him and came forward to claim his contribution.

Seeing her expression of wanting to take credit, Shen Huai couldn't help but relax and nodded slightly, "Xiao Zhuzi is capable."

But the look he gave his son was full of reproach, asking him to let his sister work for others in his place.

Shen Xianzhu was almost driven into the dilapidated temple by such stares, especially after Old Man Niu's family sent salt, flour and a basket of peaches that did not look good.

While his two sisters were busy kneading dough, he apologized to his father and said that he had been looking for a way for two days but had not earned a penny.

Shen Huai sighed. He was not much better off. Without the halo of being a Jinshi, no one wanted his calligraphy.

The half bushel of rice he got in exchange was obtained by the doctor at the medicine shop who introduced him to the rice shop to check the accounts. "The sky is clear now, we will leave tomorrow morning."

……

Without going into details about how the family members were pushing each other for the fish soup at lunch, and how they were busy washing up in the afternoon, let’s just say that the next day at dawn, the Shen family had already set off on the official road.

Shen Huai and his son were pulling the cart in front, while Shen Lingzhu and her sister were pushing it on both sides.

Mrs. Hu in the car asked the two children to get in several times, but they both shook their heads and refused.

Even if her uncle forced Shen Lingzhu into the car, she would jump out.

Just kidding, the flatbed carts in ancient times were made entirely of wood, and the axle wheels rolled on the uneven dirt road. The fenders on both sides only had sticks but no boards. If you were not careful, you would get rubbed against the wheels. Riding in a cart was really not as comfortable as walking.

Because they were walking, the road was soaked by rain and had too many ruts and mud, making it very difficult to walk. After two hours of walking, when the sun became scorching, they had only traveled about twenty miles.

"Uncle, how far is it to the county town?" The number of vehicles and people on the road increased, and Shen Lingzhu felt that they were almost there. She wiped the sweat from her eyelids and felt that she could hardly walk.

It's not that she is being pretentious, she just has short legs and only ate vegetable porridge this morning, which she had already eaten up.

"Master, let's find some shade to rest." Mrs. Hu was also uncomfortable riding in the car. Although the sky was clear, it was still humid and made people feel uncomfortable all over.

Shen Huai chose a shady spot by the roadside. "Ansu is just over ten miles away, and Baozhou Prefecture is sixty miles away."

As soon as the car stopped, Shen Lingzhu and her senior sister quickly filled the bottle with warm water and handed it to him. "Uncle, drink some water. Second sister added salt to it to replenish your strength. Don't vomit."

She said it in time, and Shen Huai swallowed it in one gulp, but Shen Xianzhu on the other side, who didn't get the reminder from his second sister, turned his head and sprayed it behind him as soon as he entered the mouth.

He wiped the corner of his mouth awkwardly: "Salt water, so bitter."

Mrs. Hu: "Farmers only have coarse salt, and the government has a fixed quota for buying it, so it's usually not enough to eat.

Old Man Niu was kind enough to give us a small packet.”

When the senior sister silently handed him a peach, Shen Lingzhu snatched it away and said, "Brother, we had it in the pickled vegetable rice porridge this morning, and you ate two big bowls."

Her eyes were fixed on the wooden bowl in his hand, as if to say, "If you don't drink it, you can't eat the peach."

Her uncle and aunt cooperated with her and looked at the bowl of salt water together.

Shen Xianzhu's eyes watered, he swallowed the bitterness in his mouth, and drank it all in one gulp like a hero, which made everyone laugh.

After cooling down for a while, the elder sister looked at the sky and suggested, "Uncle, aunt, it's almost noon now. It will definitely be very hot at noon today. Why not have lunch early before leaving?"

They had prepared lunch in the morning, but if they ate it in the county town, it would be the hottest time of the afternoon and the food might go bad.

Mrs. Hu thought about this and agreed. But after the steamed rice was served, her uncle Shen Huai asked hesitantly, "Is there enough rice to last until tomorrow?"

Just as Shen Lingzhu was about to open her mouth, her senior sister stepped on her foot and she heard her say, "That's enough."

It was not enough at all. My uncle said the broken rice he brought back was half a dou, but in fact it was only about six or seven pounds in total.

My senior sister said that the grains in ancient times varied greatly, and the weight of each stone was different in different periods. Ten dou equaled one dan, and basically one dou of broken rice was about 12.5 jin, which was equivalent to a little over 14 jin in their time.

In order to give everyone enough energy to walk to the county town, my senior sister cooked very thick rice for several meals in a row. Today's lunch was steamed white rice, which consumed four pounds for one person.

Shen Huai did not notice the two people's little movements, but as he used to be the head of the Ministry of Works, how could he not know the quantity?

Forget it, I’ll think of a solution when I get to the county town today. He first picked up some mushrooms and black fungus for his wife.

Shen Lingzhu ate while curiously looking at the people passing by on the road. Some were riding horses, some were in carriages, and some were walking. They wore fine cloth official boots, silk, satin and linen clothes. One could tell their backgrounds from their clothes.

She was just saying that one of the great things about rain is that there is less dust when a group of people who had just ridden past suddenly turned around and surrounded them.

The leader, dressed in brocade, reined in his horse and sneered, "Look who I see! Director Shen from the Ministry of Works' Construction Department, squatting on the side of the road eating? Oh no, eating wild vegetables."

Is this what you often call hunting for food?"

His words immediately caused exaggerated laughter from his followers.

Who is this guy who suddenly appeared to be trying to make his presence felt? When Shen Lingzhu looked at her senior sister, her uncle had already put down his bowl and stood up.