LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 234 This Is Not Right
Xue Ting and his party did not know these things. Even someone as sensitive as Xue Ting didn't notice it, because more and more people were looking at him along the way, and he became a little numb.
I thought to myself that I might as well find a mask or something and wear it.
These people are no better than those in the capital. They only look at beautiful men a few times.
Looking at the people here, it feels like looking at a monkey.
There were indeed too many people on the street today. Xue Ting and Long Baoer chatted for a while and then went to find the two Taoists.
The two Taoist masters were chatting in the carriage. When they heard Xue Ting ask, they immediately smiled, "Can the Dragon Boat Festival not be lively in May?"
"That's it." Xue Ting suddenly realized.
This kind of festival is very lively even in the capital.
They had been on their way for the past few days, but they had forgotten about this matter.
Everyone was going to stay in this city today, so they found a very nice-looking inn to stay in.
As soon as they entered, Long Baoer, who was being held in his arms, started to make a fuss, saying that he didn't want to live here.
Several people looked at each other, but without any hesitation, they came out again with the excuse of looking for someone but to no avail.
We turned around and went to another inn not far away.
There were four adults and two children in their group.
I simply asked for four rooms.
Two of them are suites with inside and outside rooms, for Xue Ting and Long Baoer to live in, and the other one is for Ma Daoye and his apprentice Chang Yi to live in. After all, they are both children.
Finally, I was able to have a good meal today and take a good rest at the inn. When everyone entered the inn, they needed hot water immediately and washed up first.
After coming out, they asked for another table, and they all sat together and had a good meal in the room outside Long Baoer and Xue Ting's suite.
Because it was the Dragon Boat Festival, the inn also brought a plate of rice dumplings made in the store.
There are not many varieties of rice dumplings in the world. Poor people just have ordinary glutinous rice and white rice dumplings. It would be nice to have this.
If the conditions are better, some jujubes picked from the mountains, or some red beans and mung beans will be added.
If the conditions are better, you can also come up with other tricks.
For example, the rice dumplings that the Chang family eats every year are made by the cooks with great effort, and some are even made by the royal chef in the palace and are rewarded by the emperor.
Even those with meat inside can be eaten.
But in this remote state capital, ordinary people eat white rice dumplings.
The inn they stayed in was not bad. There was a restaurant in the front and an inn in the back. It was considered one of the top three good inns in this place.
So the rice dumplings are filled with red bean filling, and the store also provides a small dish of white sugar.
The rice dumplings were served first, almost one per person.
Long Baoer had never eaten rice dumplings before, so he looked at them eagerly, as if he wanted to eat them.
Xue Ting smiled and peeled one off for his sister, then looked at the waiter who served them, "Isn't there too little candy? There won't be enough for us people."
The waiter carried the tray, put several dishes on it, and said with a smile, "Okay, Sir, I will bring you another plate. Don't dislike it, this sugar is expensive. If it weren't for these distinguished guests, our shopkeeper wouldn't be willing to take it out."
Xue Ting smiled slightly and said nothing.
In the past, sugar was indeed an expensive commodity and very rare, so only princes and nobles could afford it.
Ordinary people cannot eat brown sugar whenever they want, even if it is brown sugar that has not been decolorized.
This is no longer the case.
This is also due to his grandmother.
On the surface, my grandmother is the wife of Zhenyuan Bofu, but in fact she is a wealthy businessman who controls half of the business of the Yujin Dynasty.
What's great about her is that she doesn't compete with the people for profit, but has a group of talented people and strangers under her command to study various things.
These people decolorize brown sugar, mass-produce colored glaze, breed beef cattle, open chicken farms, pig farms...
She also has a group of traders who specialize in business. These people went to other countries, even overseas, and returned many animals and plants that were not found in the Yujin Dynasty.
For example, how can ordinary people eat rice and white noodles every day? In the past, they only had sweet potatoes, potatoes, etc. to satisfy their hunger. Nowadays, there are more potatoes, corn and other grains, and these grains can be grown coarsely and finely. Even when they are fresh, they can be sold at a good price, allowing ordinary people to have enough to eat.
There are countless other imported vegetables, fruits, etc.
For some crops that were not suitable for cultivation by the Yujin Dynasty, they directly purchased land overseas or in other countries and hired people to plant them, and then shipped them back when they were mature.
For this reason, my grandmother also has her own caravan. In addition to transporting home-grown ingredients, it can also accept protection or escort business from other traveling merchants.
These various businesses turned my grandmother's business into a huge trading network.
In the past, my grandmother sent someone to take charge of it, but later it was handed over to Chen Yan, the steward who they also called uncle.
Chen Yan has been doing business abroad for eighteen years, bringing all business routes to maturity and deploying supervision teams to manage his business like an iron bucket without leaks.
Now there is no need for him to go there in person, as long as he reconciles the accounts every month and listens to the monitoring team's secret reports every month.
Not to mention the Yujin Dynasty, even the business of other countries is closely related to my grandmother, let alone a small Yanzhou.
So when the waiter said that sugar was expensive, Xue Ting just smiled, thinking that the waiter was saying it on purpose.
Unlike Xue Lei and Chang Xuan who went out to practice martial arts, he was always at home and took charge of everything in the Xue family when his parents were not at home, so his grandmother's business was never hidden from him.
He knew that there was the Chang family's sugar cane garden in Yanzhou.
It's so close, how can it be expensive?