kvmb Chapter 251 Garlic Bottle
Chapter 251 Garlic Bottle
"The shopkeeper told us to leave like this, it's a waste of food."
The two walked on the street, and An Yue looked around at the streets and alleys.
Looking back, I found Gu Mingchuan still walking slowly behind me, thinking with his head down.
An Yue stopped walking forward, turned around and said to Gu Mingchuan: "Sir, there is no need to worry if you can't figure it out. Just go to the front and lead the way!"
Gu Mingchuan trotted forward and asked: "Are you really planning to eat and drink for free?"
An Yue tilted her head and asked, "What about that?"
Gu Mingchuan scratched the back of his head and kept his head down like a stupid goose.
An Yue had no choice but to whisper to Gu Mingchuan: "Actually, I sold the recipe for braised fish to Boss Wang of the restaurant."
After An Yue finished speaking, she grabbed the backpack straps with both hands and continued walking forward.
After hearing this, Gu Mingchuan suddenly understood.
He quickly caught up with her and said with a smile: "So this time, it's the girl who's treating us?"
An Yue turned around and walked backwards, smiling coquettishly, "If you think so, then it is!"
The two smiled at each other and kept walking forward, and before they knew it, they came to a street selling ceramic antiques.
Gu Mingchuan led An Yue into a shop called "Cibaofang".
As soon as I entered the shop, a waiter came to greet me warmly.
"What kind of porcelain do you want to buy? Our store has all kinds of porcelain."
An Yue got straight to the point and asked, "Does the shop have any exquisite and small bottles and jars like the glass snuff bottles?"
The waiter smiled and nodded, "Yes, yes, yes. Please follow me this way."
He led An Yue and Gu Mingchuan to a display cabinet, which contained several exquisite glass snuff bottles.
The clerk took an exquisite glass snuff bottle from the shelf and handed it to An Yue.
"Girl, this 'Powdered Glass Snuff Bottle' is the best glass product in the shop."
An Yue carefully took the snuff bottle and looked at it carefully.
It looks warm in color, exquisite in craftsmanship, and small and exquisite.
Gu Mingchuan, who was standing nearby, looked at it and nodded to indicate that it was good looking.
An Yue asked, "How much is this snuff bottle?"
"Fifty taels of silver."
After hearing this, An Yue was so scared that she almost dropped the glass snuff bottle in her hand.
She sighed inwardly: "It's ridiculously expensive!" But she still kept a smile on her face.
An Yue gently placed the pink and blue glass snuff bottle on the table and said to the waiter, "My dear waiter, this is too expensive. I was talking about a delicate and small bottle like this."
An Yue turned to Gu Mingchuan and whispered, "What I want is a bottle similar to this one, used to store floral water and honey, small, beautiful and practical."
Gu Mingchuan heard what An Yue was thinking, so he walked up to the waiter and asked, "Hey, buddy, can you buy a snuff bottle at a reasonable price?"
While Gu Mingchuan was talking to the clerk, An Yue took a quick look around the shop.
I moved my eyes to the wall and finally saw a ceramic garlic bottle.
The bottle was only about as tall as An Yue's palm and looked quite delicate.
An Yue pointed at the garlic bottle and asked the waiter, "Hey, how much is that white garlic bottle?"
"Miss, that garlic bottle is a medicine bottle, twenty cents each."
"Hey, buddy, how many garlic bottles like this do you have?" An Yue asked.
"This medicine bottle has many uses. We have a lot of it in the shop. How many would you like, young lady?"
An Yue raised her hand and spread out her five fingers, then said to the waiter, "Eighty, do you have them?"
"Yes, yes, yes. The goods just arrived yesterday." The clerk nodded and pointed to the corner.
An Yue and Gu Mingchuan walked to the corner pointed by the waiter.
She picked it up and took a look. The bottle was relatively smooth and flat, and the color was not exquisite, but overall, it was practical and affordable.
The waiter confirmed again: "Miss, are you sure you want eighty bottles of this type?"
"Yes, please count out the eighty and put them in this basket."
"Okay, okay, young lady and young master, please wait for a moment at the counter." The waiter took the backpack from An Yue's hand and began to count it.
A quarter of an hour later, the waiter counted the eighty garlic medicine bottles that An Yue wanted.
After An Yue paid the money, she turned around and found that Gu Mingchuan had already carried the basket full of bottles.
After the two of them walked out of the shop, An Yue looked at Gu Mingchuan who took the initiative to carry the backpack for her. She thanked him sincerely, "Thank you very much."
An Yue has always been very polite to Gu Mingchuan.
An Yue's "thank you" made the two of them awkward for a while.
As they walked, Gu Mingchuan asked, "Do you want to buy anything else?"
An Yue shook her head and responded: "No, it's getting late now, we should go back."
Afterwards, An Yue and Gu Mingchuan walked all the way to the carriage station at the stone arch bridge.
As the two men arrived at the post station, they happened to see two people sitting on a mule cart.
The driver asked, "Where are you two going?"
An Yue responded: "Uncle, let's go to Shijing Town."
"What a coincidence! The two guests sitting in this car are also going to Shijing Town. Please get in the car!"
An Yue asked the driver about the fare, and found it reasonable, so An Yue and Gu Mingchuan got on the mule cart.
After the two men sat on the mule cart, the driver drove the mule cart all the way towards Shijing Town.
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Staggering all the way, An Yue felt as if all the bones in her body were about to be shaken apart.
Half an hour later, the mule cart finally arrived at Shijing Town.
After getting off the mule cart, the two men walked towards the entrance of the town.
Seeing that Li Wu's ox cart was parked at the entrance of the town, the two men walked up to Li Wu, and Li Wu, as usual, hurried forward to help take the backpack.
Li Wu noticed that the backpack was quite heavy, so he asked jokingly, "What did you buy, girl? It's quite heavy!"
An Yue said with a smile: "I bought some bottles and cans."
While chatting and laughing, she and Gu Mingchuan both got on the ox cart.
After a while, two women, one tall and one short, came from the main street. Li Wu greeted them from a distance.
Judging from their conversation with Li Wu, they are also acquainted with each other from the same village.
After the two women got on the ox cart, Li Wu drove the cart towards Baili Village.
On the way back to the village, An Yue saw that the weeds on both sides of the road had dried up and withered.
The wheat in the field has begun to grow ears, but unfortunately the weather is not good and the wheat leaves have dried up and curled up.
The paddy fields had long dried up and cracked, and the rice was only surviving on the scarce dew at night.
The other two women on the ox cart looked at the scene. The taller woman said sadly, "Oh my God! Look at all these crops. Large tracts of them have died of drought!"
The short woman slapped her thigh and quickly responded, "Hey! This really doesn't leave us any chance to survive!"
An Yue turned around and asked, "How is the deep well dug in our village going?"
Gu Mingchuan, who was sitting next to him, looked at An Yue and asked in confusion: "Dig a deep well?"
An Yue nodded at him.