Chapter 46: Entering Fang Market at Night
After pondering for a moment, Tang Ning suggested going to the market.
There is a curfew in the Great Zhou Dynasty, but every city will open a night market for brothel theaters and casinos to do business, so that rich people can enjoy it. This market is also the most profitable place.
Du Chunyue didn't understand these things, so she just followed Tang Ning's wishes.
When the two arrived at the market, they found that this place was much more lively than they thought. In addition to the shops on both sides of the streets being lighted like day, there were also many small stalls selling food, each with equal distances, orderly and without any trouble. It seemed that someone was in charge of the stalls here.
I thought that most of the people who appeared here at this time were men, and the appearance of the two would be very abrupt, but this was not the case at all. Many of the people who came and went on the street were women, and there were girls wearing light dresses, walking in groups of three or two, laughing and laughing. There were even miserable girls walking around the streets just to get some silver rewards. Many of the vendors setting up stalls were women.
Not to mention Du Chunyue, who was already stunned, even Tang Ning was stunned.
The two of them seemed to break into an alien world, and they were novel in everything they saw and were alert to everything they saw. An old lady next to them warmly greeted them to eat wontons.
Tang Ning then realized that she was so hungry that her chest was pressed against her back. The fragrance of wontons seduced her. She found that her feet could not move, so she simply gritted her teeth and pulled Du Chunyue over.
Du Chunyue whispered worriedly: "Tangning, we are not that thick, so we have to save some effort."
She didn't know how much it would cost to rent the sheepskin raft tomorrow. She felt unsure and became more and more uneasy.
Tang Ning shook his head expressionlessly, "I'll treat you to eat, let's talk about it first. There are many rich people here, so I'll just find a way to make money."
"How do you make it?" Du Chunyue was anxious.
At this moment, the aunt asked enthusiastically: "What stuff do the two girls want to eat? The aunt has wontons with vegetable filling, wontons with pure meat filling, and wontons with meat filling, a bowl of vegan costs two cents, a bowl of meat and vegetables costs five cents, a bowl of pure meat costs five cents."
"Five cents!"
When Du Chunyue heard that pure meat wontons were so expensive, she instantly widened her eyes and pulled Tang Ning and wanted to leave.
The aunt hurriedly said, "This price is not expensive, I'm not hiding it from you. The aunt used to sell pure mutton wontons. Rich people like to eat this. I sell a bowl of pure mutton for ten cents. But now the mutton has increased to nearly a hundred cents. The cost is too heavy, so I didn't dare to make it.
Not to mention lamb, even pork has risen to 60 cents. I don’t make much money even if I sell a bowl of pure pork wontons for 5 cents.”
"But..." Du Chunyue was about to speak, and Tang Ning spoke out and stopped him, "It's okay, the aunt gave us a bowl of pure meat wontons and a bowl of vegetable and meat wontons. The pure meat and vegetable and meat fillet are equally divided. Is it?"
"Finish!" The old lady smiled on her face, as if she was afraid that the two of them would regret it, so she quickly put the wontons into the pot.
Because there was no one in the stall and it was deserted, Tang Ning asked, "Auntie, is it not easy to make money to set up stalls here?"
While lowering his head to cook wontons, the old lady replied, "It used to be pretty good, but now it's not possible. As long as a man is a man, he dare not go out casually, for fear of being arrested and serving in the military. You didn't see the girl in the flower building has no business and she even came out to wander around in the middle of the night."
Tang Ning choked with saliva, looked at the girls dressed up on the road, and nodded slowly, "It's really..."
"Hey! I heard that the court has assigned tasks to each prefecture, and our Ganzhou Prefecture has not completed the task yet! But all the people who can serve in the military have taken away, and there is only one male left in every household, and some are children with no hair. The prefect dares not force them too much, otherwise the public will be overwhelmed.
The aunt has been setting up stalls on this street for so many years, and has heard a lot of rumors. I heard that many people in Liangzhou were forced to survive and went up the mountain to become bandits. Many caravans were robbed in Liangzhou. However, those people only need things but don’t live, which is not extremely vicious..." The aunt talked a lot. Maybe because of the bad business, she directly treated Tang Ning as the target of complaints, and said a lot of things.
Tang Ning also learned from her about the situation in this market and the crossing of the river.
The two of them slowly finished eating wontons and saw that the guests came to the aunt's stall before leaving.
Walking away from the aunt's stall, Du Chunyue asked with a gaze: "Tangning, what will we do next?"
"Are you full?" Tang Ning answered the question irrelevantly.
"What?" Du Chunyue couldn't come back to her senses.
"I'll ask if you're full."
Du Chunyue nodded honestly, "It's okay, although the wontons are a little expensive, the aunt gave them enough ingredients."
Tang Ning: "It's okay, but I'm not fully fed. Come on, I'll invite you to have another bowl of noodles. I heard that the sauce noodles in Suzhou are good, so I'll give you a bowl of them."
Before Du Chunyue could refuse, Tang Ning had already pressed her on the seat of a stall next to her and quickly ordered a large bowl of vegan noodles with the boss. After Du Chunyue was confused, she carefully gave her a few words and ran away.
Du Chunyue was so anxious that she jumped straight away. She looked at the boss who had already left the sticks, and then looked at Tang Ning who had disappeared without a trace. She was almost crying.
Tang Ning, who had left Du Chunyue, could finally put things in the backpack. She placed an order in the system like before, and then went to the back door of the restaurant.
There are many guests at this restaurant, with a wide back door and many coachmen are guarding their master's carriage.
Tang Ning approached them with a basket on his back and said, "Do you want fresh and delicious Wenlin fruit?"
Several coachmen were talking nonsense to each other or closing their eyes to rest, and suddenly heard Tang Ning's voice and looked over.
Tang Ning was not afraid, so he put down his back basket, took out the apples inside, and said, "There are many planted by oneself, outside. Does anyone want them?"
Several coachmen have seen many worlds with their masters. When they saw these apples, they instantly stared at the boss. They were a little clever and ran to the restaurant without thinking. While running, they turned around and said to Tang Ning: "Miss, wait a moment, I'll ask the master, don't leave, don't sell it to others."
When the others finally came to their senses after hearing this, they rushed in and reported to their master that they had to report it regardless of whether the master bought it or not.
But in a moment, the bustling backyard was running so hard that there was no one else to see.
Tang Ning looked around and immediately bought two more baskets of apples from the system, the amount was the same as the ones sold last time.
After a while, the coachman came out with a few extraordinary men. It seemed that these were their masters.
Before Tang Ning could see their appearance clearly, one of them exclaimed: "It's you! The girl who sells Wenlin Fruit!"
Chapter completed!