Space Farming: Traveling through Ancient Times to Do Business

"Pork. We just slaughtered the pig this morning. Do you want some?" the butcher shouted.

Jiang Xue just walked to the meat stall. Looking at the meat in front of her, she couldn't help swallowing her saliva and pointed at the meat and asked, "How much is this pork?"

"Fat meat is fifty cents a pound, fat and lean meat is forty-five cents a pound, lean meat is forty cents a pound, and spare ribs are thirty-five a pound. Which one do you want, girl?" When Butcher Zhang saw someone asking the price, he immediately quoted the price.

Jiang Xue thought that there was no oil at home, so she decided to buy more fat meat, so she said: "Give me ten catties of fat meat, ten catties of fat and lean meat, five catties of lean meat, and ten catties of spareribs!"

Butcher Zhang didn't expect the little girl to buy so much at once, so he quickly packed all the meat for Jiang Xue.

"Miss, the total is one tael and five hundred coins. I'm giving these bones to you. Miss, you must come back to take care of the business next time." Butcher Zhang said as he handed the bones to Jiang Xue.

Jiang Xue took the bone and looked at the offal next to it eagerly, her mind full of pig intestines and smoked pig liver. So she asked tentatively: "Boss, can you give me the offal?"

Butcher Zhang was a little hesitant, not because he was reluctant to give it to her, but because the offal was usually fed to dogs. He was embarrassed to ask Jiang Xue what she was going to do with it, but he also guessed that she might have a dog at home and planned to feed it to the dog. Despite this, he nodded and handed the offal to Jiang Xue.

Jiang Xue happily took the soup and started planning how to make delicious dishes with these ingredients. After thanking Butcher Zhang, she took Jiang Feng and a full basket of ingredients to the next stall.

"Boss, can you help me deliver all this to the outside of the city later?" Jiang Xue considered that she had to purchase many things in the future and it was impossible for her to carry all the meat all the time.

Butcher Zhang saw that there was not much meat left on the stall, and Jiang Xue had bought so much, so he thought it was not a big deal to give it away as a gift, so he agreed to Jiang Xue's request.

After Jiang Xue and Butcher Zhang finished explaining their affairs, they hurried to the next house.

"Third sister, you've bought so much, do you want to keep buying?" Jiang Feng couldn't help feeling distressed as he watched Jiang Xue paying non-stop.

Hearing Jiang Feng's words, Jiang Xue smiled. She was planning to buy some cloth. She didn't want to wear this worn-out dress anymore. Whoever wanted to wear it could wear it.

"Of course we have to buy. There are still many things we haven't bought yet! How can I not buy? Let's go to the next store." Jiang Xue said.

"Brother, where can I buy cloth in this town? Take me to have a look." Jiang Xue planned to buy cloth to make new clothes for the whole family.

When Jiang Feng heard that he wanted to buy cloth, he hesitated for a moment, then said, "There is a very good cloth shop in the middle of the town, called Jiang's Cloth Shop. Usually everyone buys there."

After that, Jiang Feng took Jiang Xue to Jiang's Cloth Shop in the center of the town.

Yunwu Town Jiang's Cloth Shop

Jiang Wanrou, the daughter of the Jiang family, was dissatisfied with her family's marriage arrangement and resolutely chose to flee from Shangjing.

At this moment, she was sitting in front of the counter of the cloth shop, frowning, as if thinking about her future. Her beauty was like a lotus emerging from the water, fresh and refined, making people unforgettable at first sight.

As soon as Jiang Feng walked into the cloth shop, he was attracted by Jiang Wanrou's face.

He felt that she was just like the poem "a lotus flower emerging from clear water, naturally without any decoration", so beautiful that it made people's heart beat faster. He stood there, completely mesmerized by Jiang Wanrou's beauty, and even forgot to respond to Jiang Xue's call.

Jiang Xue couldn't help but laugh when she saw Jiang Feng standing blankly at the door.

She walked over and gently patted Jiang Feng's back a few times, trying to wake him up. Jiang Feng came back to his senses and realized that he had lost control, and his face turned red.

Jiang Wanrou heard some noise at the door, looked up, and saw a young woman beating a young man.

She was curious, so she stood up and walked to the door and asked enthusiastically: "What kind of cloth do you want to buy? We have linen, cotton, brocade, satin and other fabrics in our store. If you need better fabrics, you can go to the branch store in the state capital to have a look."

Jiang Wanrou did not treat Jiang Feng and Jiang Xue coldly because of their attire. Instead, she introduced them to each other very enthusiastically.

After listening to Jiang Wanrou's introduction, Jiang Xue thought about it carefully.

Jiang Xue thought that living in the countryside, she would need to work in the fields frequently, so buying fabrics like silk and satin might not be practical. She didn't like linen very much, so she decided to buy some cotton.

Seeing that the other party was a little confused, Jiang Wanrou immediately introduced enthusiastically: "Miss, our cloth shop has ready-made clothes for sale, and each set only costs 400 coins. Of course, if you want to choose the cloth yourself, we also have a variety of high-quality cotton cloth for you to choose from. The price of a piece of cotton cloth is 300 coins. Usually, a piece of cloth can make two sets of adult clothes. If you make clothes for children, one piece of cloth can make three sets. This year we have a new batch of cotton cloth, with more than ten colors, you can choose whatever you like."

After hearing this, Jiang Xue silently calculated that there were eleven people in the family. If each person made two sets of clothes, then eleven pieces of cloth would be needed. She weighed the pros and cons in her mind and began to consider which colors of cloth to choose.

"Two cyan horses, two blue horses, one white horse, one pink horse, one orange horse, one light blue horse, one dark red horse with patterns, one dark purple horse, and one light yellow horse." Jiang Xue listed the colors she needed one by one.

She already had a plan in her mind: cyan was for grandfather and father, blue was for her eldest and second brothers, white was for her fourth brother, pink was for her fifth sister, she wanted orange, light blue was for her mother, the dark red patterned fabric was for her grandmother, and light yellow was planned for her lovely sixth brother.

However, when choosing the fabric for Jiang Chen, Jiang Xue hesitated. She suddenly noticed the purple fabric at the bottom and thought that this color was very suitable for Jiang Chen. So she decided to choose this purple fabric for Jiang Chen.

"Yang San, take the cloth according to the color the girl said." Jiang Wanrou immediately ordered the waiter to get the cloth.

"Yang San, take the cloth according to the color the girl said." After hearing the color Jiang Xue reported, Jiang Wanrou immediately arranged for the waiter to take it.

"By the way, boss, I also need to buy some materials for making shoes." Jiang Xue added that she thought that since she had bought the fabric to make clothes, she should also make the shoes herself so that they could be better matched.

Jiang Wanrou immediately understood Jiang Xue's intention. She thought for a moment, and then made her own suggestion: "If you have some extra money, I suggest you consider buying some ready-made shoes. Recently, as the weather has gradually turned cold, more people have been making shoes. Our store has also purchased a lot of finely crafted finished shoes, and the price is quite affordable. A pair of adult shoes costs only 20 cents, and a pair of children's shoes costs 16 cents. If you choose to buy finished products, the price is actually not much different from making them yourself, and it can also save a lot of time and energy."

Jiang Xue listened to Jiang Wanrou's suggestion and thought it made sense. Buying ready-made shoes can indeed save a lot of trouble, and the price is also reasonable. So, she asked Jiang Feng to report according to everyone's size, and then decided to buy shoes according to the standard of two pairs per person. According to the color matching of the fabric, she selected a total of 22 pairs of shoes.

Jiang Wanrou quickly calculated the total price: "Eleven pieces of cloth total 3 liang 300 wen, 18 pairs of adult shoes 360 wen, 6 pairs of children's shoes 96 wen, the total is 3 liang 756 wen. I can remove the remaining 6 wen and give you a small bag of cloth as a gift. Do you think this is okay?"

Jiang Xue nodded in agreement: "Okay, let's do this."

However, when she walked out of the cloth shop, she found that her brother did not follow her. She turned around in confusion and found that Jiang Feng was smiling foolishly, staring at the owner of the cloth shop.

Jiang Xue felt a little embarrassed, so she quickly walked into the cloth shop and pulled Jiang Feng out. Only then did Jiang Feng come to his senses and realize his own gaffe. He lowered his head, his face flushed, and followed Jiang Xue out of the cloth shop.

"Brother, what happened to you just now? Why did you suddenly smile foolishly? If someone doesn't know you, they would think you are a fool." Jiang Xue asked jokingly.

Jiang Feng was embarrassed to say that he lost his mind because of looking at the boss of the cloth shop, so he made an excuse and said, "No, I just suddenly thought of something."

Jiang Xue did not continue to ask, she looked at the sky and found that it was already late, so she took Jiang Feng to buy the remaining things.

In a short while, they spent twenty taels of silver to buy snacks and the book that the fourth brother had been talking about.

The two men walked quickly toward the outside of the city. As soon as they arrived, they saw that all the things had been delivered to the designated location, and the coachman was busy sorting the goods.

Looking at the clean carriage in front of him, Jiang Feng hesitated for a moment, and finally hung the bamboo baskets filled with chickens, ducks, geese and pigs behind the carriage. He did this to avoid dirtying other people's carriages, but he couldn't help feeling a little uneasy in his heart, thinking that he might cause trouble to others.

After a while, everything was packed up and the servant drove off in the carriage.

In the home of the headman of Jiangjia Village, Jiang Chen was anxiously waiting for Jiang Xue's return.

She looked at the old man Jiang who had already arrived, and she felt more and more uneasy. She began to wonder if she had given Jiang Xue too little money in the morning, and she was worried that Jiang Xue would encounter difficulties on the road.

Old Master Jiang was also worried about Jiang Xue's safety. The decision made at the clan meeting yesterday made all the villagers devote themselves to the work of building the barn. Except for those who went to dig yams, most of the people came.

With the joint efforts of more than 700 people, it took only one day to build an 800-square-meter barn with bamboo around the ancestral temple. Even the shelves that Jiang Xue had agreed to with Mr. Jiang had been completed and placed in the barn.

Mr. Jiang had arranged for all the grains to be moved into the barn, and a small bamboo house was built next to it for the people who were responsible for taking care of the barn to rest. However, although the barn had been built, Jiang Xue and Jiang Feng had not returned yet, which made Mr. Jiang and Mrs. Jiang Chen very worried.

"She should be back soon." Old Master Jiang tried to comfort Jiang Chen who was standing beside him, "Our third girl is very smart, she will be fine." Although he said this, the worry in his heart did not decrease in the slightest.