After breakfast, Zhao Hao helped Zhao Shouzheng make tea, grind the ink, and put on a hard posture.

Only then did he earnestly instruct: "Father, please concentrate on reading at home recently, we poor families, don't go out if you have nothing to do." ”

Zhao Shouzheng sat on a rickety broken chair, scratching his head with a copy of the Analects.

"There's really something, I have to go to Guozijian tomorrow to go through the formalities for resuming school...... I haven't been in prison for the past two years, but I'm afraid that my student status has been suspended. ”

"Of course I have something to do, so let's read with peace of mind today."

Zhao Hao explained a few words to Zhao Shouzheng like a heartbroken old parent, and left him money for lunch, then said that he was going to go shopping on the street, and went out.

"Let me study at home, but you go out for a walk!" Zhao Shouzheng protested, but unfortunately the protest was ineffective.

~~

Zhao Hao went out, of course, not to hang out.

As long as he thought that now the whole family only had two taels of silver left, and the slightest wind and grass would face the dilemma of not being able to open the pot, he didn't dare to delay for a moment.

He wanted to find out if he could find any way to get money so that he could solve the urgent needs of the father and son.

He originally planned to go to the most prosperous area of the Confucius Temple on the Qinhuai River, but when he asked the carriage carrying passengers, it took twenty wen to pass.

"So expensive?" Zhao Hao couldn't help but feel pain.

"This little brother, twenty miles away, if there are no guests on the return trip, I will have to die on this trip." The coachman with the hat did not have a good airway.

"How can you lose money?" Zhao Hao smiled, put the purse back into his sleeve and said, "I won't go." ”

"Stinky boy, entertainer!" When he was gone, the coachman was still cursing and swearing.

Zhao Hao pursed his lips, but he didn't hear it.

But to rely on two legs to travel forty miles back, he didn't have the ability. Remembering that there were many bustling markets in the area around the Bell and Drum Tower that day, he identified the direction and changed his destination.

The further south you go, the more prosperous it becomes, and when you cross the Lion Bridge and go to the street outside the Drum Tower, the prosperous scene you saw yesterday reappeared in front of Zhao Hao's eyes.

He didn't have any rules in mind at the moment, so he walked carefully through one shop after another.

That day, I just watched the flowers and flowers, and I had a rough taste of the prosperity of the southern capital of the Ming Dynasty. Looking at it carefully today, he was really shocked by the development of commerce and the abundance of materials in Nanjing......

Zhao Hao roughly counted, just in front of his eyes, less than a mile long, on the wide street, there are either erected or hung more than 100 eye-catching shop signs of different styles.

In addition to the most common restaurants and teahouses, there are also such as 'Liu Xiaoping Chuanguang Groceries', 'Zhou Ji Fa Hui Guanyan', 'Chongming Seafood Food', 'Northwest Two Leather Goods Dispatcher', 'Ruixiang Silk Village', 'Nanwa Zi Cloth Shop', 'Tang Ji South Goods Store' and so on, there are no less than dozens of businesses.

Moreover, the wide supply and complete range of goods in these stores were also unimaginable to him before. Zhao Hao entered the Nanwazi cloth shop and saw that there were hundreds of various kinds of cloth on the counter.

Zhao Hao was deeply curious, so he hypothetically said that he wanted to buy cloth, and the guy in the store came to a crisp and fluent mouth.

"We have Jiaxing Xitang cloth, Suzhou green, Songjiang green, Nanjing green, Guazhou green, red cloth, green cloth; Songjiang large shuttle cloth, small and medium-sized shuttle cloth; Huguang Xiaogan cloth, Linjiang cloth, Xinyang cloth; Fixing pottery cloth; Fujian raw cloth, Anhai raw cloth, Jiyang cloth, burlap cloth, Shufang raw cloth, lacquer cloth......"

Zhao Hao listened to it very happily and couldn't help but applaud. The guy in the shop became more and more proud, and he worked hard to report dozens of fabrics, and then he gasped and asked, "May I ask which one the guest officer wants?" ”

"Uh, I'd like to see it." Zhao Hao hugged his arms, pretended to think for a moment, and said secretly: "The loom and printing and dyeing technology seem to have the possibility of improvement. ’

But it's still that problem, far water can't quench the thirst of the near. Faced with a room full of cloth, he couldn't find any way to make quick money.

"I'm sorry, I'll go shopping again......" Zhao Hao smiled apologetically at the guy, couldn't bear to look at his complaining gaze, and slipped out of the cloth village as if he had fled.

Zhao Hao is like this, going from house to house, almost every one of them will amaze him. He even found a fish shop that specialized in seafood. In addition to selling marine fish, the store also uses seawater to raise crabs, eels, shrimps, snails, mussels, clams, whitebait, cockles, yellow nails, etc., and the categories are not much less than the seafood market in later generations. I don't know how they got these seafood from hundreds of miles away, which is difficult to keep fresh and not easy to traffick.

Looking at these seafood, Zhao Hao felt hungry and hurried out of this aquatic product shop that was full of seafood in Chongming.

Unexpectedly, the street was also filled with all kinds of tempting food aromas, and Zhao Hao suddenly noticed that it was already lunch time. Not only are the food in those restaurants fragrant, but there are also a dazzling variety of food on the various food stalls on the roadside, which makes people salivate.

''It's boiled dried shreds, osmanthus duck, raw fried buns, braised pig's trotters...... There's also fried saury, croquettes, grilled chicken, and stinky tofu...... Why is even stinky tofu so fragrant? ’

Zhao Hao couldn't control his nose, swallowing his saliva, but when he touched the only two taels of silver left in his arms, he felt extremely cruel at the moment.

"I just ate a basket of steamed buns in the morning, and I won't be hungry." Zhao Hao repeatedly hinted to himself: "This is all an illusion, it's gluttony, not hunger!" ”

But it was inevitable that he secretly swore that when Young Master Ben made a fortune in the future, he would definitely take revenge and come back.

Well, boil dried shreds and eat a bowl and pour a bowl......

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Zhao Hao endured the hunger in his stomach, and after visiting a few more shops, he entered a store with a black sign on a yellow background of 'Tang Ji South Goods Store' at noon.

The so-called southern goods are naturally the specialties of the south. The shop is full of Jinhua ham, Shaoxing rice wine, dried seafood, Lingnan dried fruits and other foods from southern Jiangsu, Ningshao, Fujian and Guangdong.

'It's ......a food seller again,' Zhao Hao muttered, and wanted to retreat, but he accidentally caught a glimpse of dozens of coarse porcelain bowls neatly stacked on the shelves at the door of the store, and the bowls were filled with black-brown or reddish-brown paste.

"What is this?" Zhao Hao asked with some curiosity.

"Childe doesn't even know brown sugar and brown sugar?" The shopkeeper asked amusedly.

"I've never seen it in a bowl." Zhao Hao shook his head, picked up a bowl of brown sugar and looked at it carefully, only to see that its surface was rough like sand, and there were snowflake-like patterns, which were very beautiful.

"How do you sell this?"

"A bowl of brown sugar is thirty yuan, and brown sugar is a bowl of silver." The guy smiled and asked, "Childe, come on?" ”

"What is the price of sugar?" Zhao Hao asked casually.

"White Sugar ......" guy was stunned, he didn't seem to have heard of this title.

Zhao Hao clearly remembered that he had drunk sugar water when he first came. And in his memory, Xiao Zhao Hao didn't eat less sugar, so there would never be no such thing.

"The guest officer is talking about frosting, right?" The guy asked tentatively.

"I guess so." Zhao Haoxin said, it seems that the name is different, so he nodded and said, "Do you have it at home?" ”

"Yes, yes and ......" The guy took out a delicate small wooden box from the counter, opened it and showed Zhao Hao that it was white sugar.

Zhao Hao subconsciously stretched out his hand, wanting to twist a little and taste it.

Who knew that the guy was like a big enemy, and immediately snapped the lid shut, almost pinching Zhao Hao's fingers.

"You guest officer is so ignorant, how can you taste such a valuable thing?"

"Isn't it just sugar? Where can it be expensive? Zhao Hao said a little unhappily.

"A tael of silver and a tael of sugar, is it a joke?" The man's eyes widened.

"What? A tael of silver and a tael of sugar?! Zhao Hao was stunned.

ps. Add a more chapter, to express gratitude, ask for recommendation votes, ask for chapter comments~~~~

ps2.Uh, there's another alliance leader, so there's one more at eight o'clock......