Chapter 376: The Creeping Figs
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
Manager Qin laughed and thanked her.
He was not going to steal the fruits from Young Master Xie and Young Master Yuezheng.
They had a small chat and after that Qiao Xuan went shopping.
She went to the cloth shop first, and bought a lot of fabrics suitable for cutting clothes in autumn and winter. The ones she had bought in the province were not meant for winters.
After that, she paid pageboys to deliver them to Mingren Tang, which the pageboys agreed to.
She also bought some skin care products at the cosmetics store.
Lipsticks were already very popular, and Qiao Xuan overheard some rich ladies and madams talking about lipsticks at the store.
The women were greedy for the lipsticks, and they kept urging the manager to see if she could get some samples from the province.
Even paying seven liang for one lipstick was okay for them!
Their housekeepers had been to the province many times but they all failed to buy even one!
The manager smiled helplessly. She would very much like to buy the lipsticks which were famous everywhere by now, but it was the Third Young Master of the Yuezheng Family who ran the business. Moreover, they always ran out of stock as soon as they were placed on the shelf. Where was the chance for finding spare ones for the outsiders?
The lipsticks were precious and extremely short in supply. The manager just could not get the chance to get even one.
Qiao Xuan was quite surprised. She had not expected that such highly-priced lipsticks could be sold in this small town, but the truth was that all women loved to look pretty.
Her lipsticks were the only existing products in the whole world and no one would be able to resist the charm.
They still had many spices prepared at home, and those things did not go bad so quickly. She had bought them from the province
She walked around the market and decided to take some pork home.
Fresh pork would last a few days under such weather.
She bought ribs, pork ribs, pork belly, hind legs, pork knuckles, as well as pork liver, pork belly, spending nearly 300 wen at one go. The butcher sold her the meat with an enthusiastic smile and gave her a pig heart as a present.
Qiao Xuan thanked the butcher with a smile, and began to think about what to cook in her heart. She thought about making stewed pork ribs, deep-fried pork ribs this evening, sweet and sour braised pork the next day, and half of the pork belly would be made of twice-cooked pork and half steamed with noodles. She decided to make stir-fried hind legs, and salted pork knuckles for the day after tomorrow.
Pork belly, pork liver, and pork heart were all prepared for tonight. After processing the remaining ones, she could fry the hot and sour pork belly, pork heart, and pork liver with pickled vegetables. Ginger slices would be used to remove the strange smell from the meat.
Scallops and eels would be added to make it more delicious…
She was drooling for pork which she had not eaten in a long time!
After delivering the meat back to the pharmacy, Qiao Xuan went to the market and bought a few more things. Then she went into a restaurant, ate one bowl of noodles before heading back to Mingren Tang, where she waited for Shao Yunduan.
Shao Yunduan met her at the scheduled time. They went to fetch the agent, rented a wagon and headed straight to Zhang Village.
The agent did not turn down such a huge business deal, though he was very curious about what they wanted to do with so much land. But he knew that he should not ask them about this.
The Land Officer of the Zhang Village did not hesitate to sell them the mountain land which was not that valuable anyways.
Shao Yunduan expressed that he would like to hire someone to clear up the land, which pleased the Land Officer as well. He promised that as long as the staff were properly paid, they would work hard and well.
The villagers had run out of farm work after the autumn harvest. They could do some extra work and save a little money for the New Year. No one would turn such an offer down..