HCB Chapter 249: Ancient Version of Old Cow Eating Young Grass
Chapter 249: Ancient Version of Old Cow Eating Young Grass
But even if you get angry, you can't not eat salt.
As for the oil, they still have some left. After eating it, we can buy some soybeans and squeeze the oil ourselves when we are settled.
I followed Xiaowu to the next store, which was not far from the grain store. This time it was called an oil and salt store. Unlike the previous life, the grain and oil were separated.
In fact, the life of ordinary people is nothing more than seven things: firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea.
Oil, salt, sauce and vinegar can be bought at the oil and salt shop.
Isn't there a saying that "there is no oil and salt shop that is not open"? Maybe this is where it comes from.
Although Shen Zhiqiu wanted to sell sesame paste, it did not stop him from looking at other things.
Especially Shen Youyou, she is curious about everything she sees.
Although it is not like shopping in a modern supermarket, there are many places where you can choose vinegar.
But compared to ancient times, there are many varieties to choose from, such as oil, salt, sauce, and vinegar. Sesame oil, radish seed oil, peanut oil, and cabbage seed oil are the best.
The next best are sesame oil and rapeseed oil, the third is tea seed oil, the fourth is amaranth oil, and finally hemp seed oil is the worst.
It can be seen that the types of vegetable oils in this dynasty were more diverse, and peanuts, radish seeds, cabbage seeds, etc. became the main oil crops.
Of course there is also animal oil, but it is not sold in oil and salt shops. People buy pork and fry it themselves at home, and they can get pork fat residue to eat.
But "there is a difference between meat and vegetable oils."
The Daqing Dynasty emphasized using vegetable oil for frying meat dishes, and using animal oil for frying vegetarian dishes, so that they could complement each other and be properly matched.
Therefore, many people went to the grain store to buy vegetable oil, especially restaurants, inns, post stations, restaurants, food stalls, and even many people in the county town.
However, due to production and immature processing conditions, oil prices are relatively high.
For example, sesame oil costs 60 wen per pound, and the cheapest oil is 24 wen. Oils like rapeseed oil and peanut oil generally cost around 40 or 50 wen.
Salt comes in two types: coarse-grain salt and fine salt. Fine salt is also called processed salt.
The price is really shocking. Coarse salt is 40 wen per jin, and fine salt is 125 wen per jin. The key point is that the fine salt is not very white.
Shen Youyou said something more: "Little Second Brother, your salt is not white. It has a bit of gray-green color."
As a result, the waiter looked at her and said, "We have white salt, can you afford it? It's not that we look down on you, just buy some fine salt. The snow salt is sold to the rich, and it costs half a tael of silver per catty."
Okay, Shen Youyou can't afford it, but she can buy large grains of salt and make it into your snow salt. Maybe it's whiter than yours, and it doesn't cost you half a tael of silver, just three cents will be enough. Will you buy it back?
Of course she didn't dare say this, because if she said it she might be arrested.
Shen Youyou followed her father and continued to look at the sesame paste, so she didn't notice the waiter pouting behind her. In fact, even if she saw it, what could she do? She couldn't really buy the half tael of silver for the snow salt.
The commonly eaten sauces are divided into two types: dry and thin yellow sauces, and there are also sweet noodle sauce, sesame sauce, bean paste, and braised shrimp paste.
There are quite a lot of varieties, and the prices are even more shocking. Of course, bean paste is the cheapest, which is the kind of paste that ordinary people can make at home. Sweet bean paste is a little more expensive because it contains sugar.
There is no need to ask about the braised shrimp paste, it is of the same grade as snow salt, and only rich families can afford it.
So Shen Zhiqiu finally bought three kilograms of sesame oil, five kilograms of sesame paste, and ten kilograms of vinegar. In the end, it turned out that vinegar was the cheapest at seven cents per kilogram.
Yes, it’s the cheapest one sold. They didn’t ask about the more expensive ones. The price of sesame paste is about the same as that of sesame oil, both are sixty cents.
What Shen Youyou couldn't accept the most was the price of soy sauce, which was two coins per pound.
Oh my god, she decided to make her own soy sauce. Well, after shopping around, she wanted to make everything.
They also bought 200 kilograms of salt. There was no other way. They couldn't collect soil to make salt in the future.
When the waiter saw that Shen Zhiqiu and his friends wanted 200 kilograms of large-grain salt, he rolled his eyes again, letting Shen Youyou see it, and told the shopkeeper who came out to pay the bill:
"Boss, your little brother's eyesight may be a bit uncomfortable. Why does he keep flipping up? If it doesn't work, go and have a look. Otherwise, when the time comes to weigh the customer, you might end up giving him less."
This sentence attracted several customers in the oil and salt shop to look over.
The shopkeeper was no fool. He understood what was going on after hearing this and immediately apologized with a smile: "Excuse me, young guest. I'll ask him to check it out later."
Shen Youyou didn't mean to make things difficult for him, she just wanted to tease him a little to make him look down on others.
"Okay, we have to hurry up. If it gets serious, the medicine will be expensive."
When Shen Zhiqiu came out, he glanced at the waiter and said, "You are the one rolling your eyes at my daughter, right? If you are angry, we will try our best to sell oil, salt, sauce and vinegar across from you."
Next we have to go to South City, which is a bit far from here, but fortunately they have horse carriages and the streets are relatively spacious.
Shen Youyou and Shen Zhiqiu got on the carriage. Xiaowu was still the driver, waving the whip and saying, "Go!"
Not far from the carriage, Xiao Wu's smiling voice came: "Shen's brother is really smart. He made the waiter speechless. The waiter has always been like this. I have disliked him for a long time."
Shen Youyou was curious: "He has been like this for a long time, why doesn't the shopkeeper fire him? Wouldn't keeping him like this affect the business?"
Xiao Wu deliberately leaned back and whispered, "The shopkeeper married a young wife two years ago, and Xiao Wai is the young wife's younger brother, so he dared to act arrogantly in the oil and salt shop."
Hearing this, Shen Youyou blinked her eyes: "The little wife you are talking about is a concubine?"
This was the first time she heard of the word "concubine" after traveling through ancient times, and her little eyes sparkled.
Xiao Wu shook his head and said, "She is not a concubine, but a step-wife. The wife of the owner of the oil and salt shop died of illness a few years ago. The owner's family has a son. At first, he was afraid that his son would have a hard time under the care of his step-mother, so he never married.
Now that my son has married and moved out, I have started thinking about remarrying. I am in my forties and I am marrying an 18-year-old. "
Shen Youyou complained in her heart: "Emma, this is the ancient version of an old cow eating young grass. This little brother must be so naughty that the shopkeeper dared not fire him in order to please his young wife."
Chatting did not delay the business, and the carriage was moving slowly.
Although the Daqing Dynasty did not prohibit vehicles from entering, they had to strictly follow the regulations and drive slowly. If someone was accidentally injured, they could report it to the government.
There are rows of shops on both sides of the street, with signs of various kinds, some selling silk, some selling porcelain, some selling medicinal herbs, and various snack stalls, exuding tempting aromas.
Behind the shop are residential houses. As far as Shen Youyou can see, they are all made of blue bricks and gray tiles, simple and elegant.
Maybe this county is relatively wealthy. After all, there is a temple for the ancestors of the people here. It is like a tourist attraction in the previous life. It is richer than ordinary places.
Rich people who believe in something would make several trips a year, for example, to celebrate the ancestor's birthday or various sacrificial activities, which could boost the local economy.
They also passed the Xinle County Government Office on the way, and not far away was the Renzu Temple where a sacrificial ceremony would be held tomorrow, so they had surveyed the terrain in advance.