“Xiao Feng promised Mama he would help Mama eat all the delicious food, right? Later, Xiao Feng can help Mama taste it, okay?”
Xiao Feng’s eyes lit up, and he asked expectantly, “Can I?”
Tao Lengshuang nodded heavily and promised, “We’ll go to the pharmacy right now. Once we sell the money, I’ll buy Xiao Feng candied hawthorn.”
Mo Lingxi, walking ahead, curved his thin lips: “There’s a pharmacy ahead, and their prices are fair.”
The three arrived at the entrance of the pharmacy.
“This pharmacy belongs to the Sheng family,” Mo Lingxi introduced.
Tao Lengshuang didn’t know which family the Sheng family was, but judging by his tone, she could tell they were not ordinary people.
She held her head high and walked in without any inferiority, asking with a smile, “Excuse me, do you buy medicinal herbs here?”
Mo Lingxi led Xiao Feng to a corner to wait while Tao Lengshuang sold the herbs.
The shopkeeper was a middle-aged man with a kind face and a pair of shrewd eyes.
Upon hearing her, he nodded with a smile, “We do, depending on the quality of the herbs.”
Tao Lengshuang gently took out the herbs from her basket and placed them on the counter: “Here is a small ginseng.”
On the way, she had secretly moved some of the Sanqi from her spatial dimension into the basket.
With the weeds providing cover, the quantity was small, and she didn’t think Mo Lingxi had noticed.
The shopkeeper carefully examined the herbs and then looked at the ginseng, extending five fingers: “A lump sum, three taels of silver, will you sell it?”
Tao Lengshuang wasn’t very familiar with the prices in this era. After considering history, she felt it was about right: “Okay.”
“Shopkeeper, may I borrow some paper and a brush? I want to write something.”
She wanted to write a slimming recipe to sell to ladies of wealthy families, which she thought could fetch a good price.
The shopkeeper gave her the money, paper, and brush, and then put away the herbs.
Tao Lengshuang quickly wrote the slimming recipe and thanked the shopkeeper profusely.
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The shopkeeper glanced at it inadvertently and asked excitedly.
Tao Lengshuang thought it was for the shopkeeper’s wife or child who wanted to lose weight and put on a professional smile: “Yes, it’s specifically for slimming.”
“I obtained this unintentionally. As a villager, I don’t need to slim down, so I thought I’d exchange it for some money to buy some good things for my family.”
Saying this, she handed the recipe to the shopkeeper.
The shopkeeper looked at it carefully and said with a smile, “Auntie, would you be willing to sell this recipe to me?”
His young lady would definitely find this useful.
Over the years, his young lady had tried many methods to lose weight, and even to maintain her figure, she had refused to have children for many years after marriage.
If the Sheng family weren’t powerful enough, her husband’s family would have divorced her long ago, yet the young lady was still ungrateful.
Tao Lengshuang was naturally willing, her smile deepening: “May I ask how much silver the shopkeeper is willing to offer?”
Her bottom line was three taels of silver.
The shopkeeper directly gave her five taels of silver and also told Tao Lengshuang that if she had any more good recipes in the future, she should bring them here.
This made Tao Lengshuang look at the shopkeeper as if he were a god of wealth, promising that if she had any good slimming methods in the future, she would come to the pharmacy first.
She had struck it rich, she had really struck it rich.
She asked the shopkeeper to exchange the silver for smaller denominations and change, and with a bright smile, she left the pharmacy with Mo Lingxi and his son, heading straight for the candied hawthorn vendor.
“Xiao Feng, Mama will buy you big meat buns… Oh dear, I’m so sorry.”
She apologized first, then looked up.
What met her eyes was a lady dressed in light blue brocade, with a charming and elegant appearance, exuding the dignified and noble aura of a noble lady from a prominent family.
“Sorry, did I hurt you?” She was well aware of her own weight.
The lady waved her hand, and suddenly her vision went black, and she collapsed onto her maid.
“Madam!” the maid screamed.
While helping to pinch the lady’s philtrum, Tao Lengshuang thought about asking Mo Lingxi to lead Xiao Feng to wait nearby, but she didn’t see the father and son.
Where had this father and son gone?
At this moment, Tao Lengshuang couldn’t think too much about it. She quickly helped the lady to a nearby tea stall to sit down and check her pulse.
“It’s nothing. It’s due to travel fatigue and the hot weather. Drink more water and rest well, and you’ll be fine.”
She bought a bowl of herbal tea and held it to the lady’s lips: “However, your madam injured her body when she gave birth years ago, and she hasn’t fully recovered yet.”
The maid initially didn’t believe her.
But when she heard Tao Lengshuang mention this, her face showed surprise: “Do you have a way… Oh, I’m really desperate. Thank you so much this time.”
She took out one tael of silver as a thank-you gift.
Tao Lengshuang accepted the gift but did not rashly treat the noble lady.
Before leaving, she looked at the noble lady twice more, always feeling that she looked very familiar.
She didn’t think much of it and looked everywhere for Mo Lingxi and his son.
As a result, she found the father and son at the candied hawthorn vendor.
“Why did you two come here?”
Tao Lengshuang took out copper coins, bought two strings of candied hawthorn, and handed them to Mo Lingxi and Xiao Feng respectively: “You didn’t say anything, making me look for you.”
Mo Lingxi glanced in the direction of the noble lady, lowered his eyes, and looked at the bright red candied hawthorn in his hand, looking a little dazed: “For me?”
“Yes, quickly help me taste if it’s delicious.” Tao Lengshuang smiled and held Xiao Feng’s hand, walking towards the cloth shop.
Mo Lingxi’s eyes were complex as he gazed at her retreating figure, his hand holding the candied hawthorn slowly tightening, a indescribable emotion overflowing in his heart.
For the first time, someone had bought him candied hawthorn.
When he was young, he had also longed for candied hawthorn, but no one had ever bought it for him.
Now that he had grown up, someone had bought him a string of candied hawthorn.
He took a gentle bite of the candied hawthorn. It was sour and sweet, not the taste he liked, but he ate it slowly.
“Daddy, is the candied hawthorn delicious?”
Xiao Feng’s first bite of candied hawthorn was for Tao Lengshuang; she had only tasted its flavor.
Mo Lingxi’s eyebrows softened, and he hummed softly, saying the candied hawthorn was indeed delicious.
Xiao Feng chuckled, took a bite of the candied hawthorn with a “wow,” and squinted happily, thinking how delicious the candied hawthorn was.
The three arrived at the entrance of the cloth shop.
Tao Lengshuang looked at the various colored fabrics inside, then finally turned and entered the ready-made garment shop opposite.
It wasn’t that she didn’t want to save money, but she didn’t know how to sew!
Asking someone to help make clothes not only cost money but also incurred a debt of gratitude. It was better to spend a little more money to buy ready-made clothes.
This was a small shop, with mostly coarse hemp and cotton-linen clothes inside. Most of the customers here were ordinary families.
The shopkeeper was a slightly plump middle-aged woman with a kind face. She smiled and greeted Tao Lengshuang and the two: “What can I get for you three?”
Tao Lengshuang thought about the money she had and their situation, then held up two fingers: “Please, give us two sets of coarse hemp clothes for each of us.”