"Do you still have to go to the tile shop to buy cat food?" Li Yanqing asked with a puzzled smile.

"Of course, I want to go to the tile shop, or I don't go to the Xiaozhang cat restaurant in the south of the city, which is too far away."

In Li Yanqing's memory, buying cat food is generally to go to a small farmer's market, and the kind of sun-dried small fish is bought in a bunch, and there are still cat food stores in the Song Dynasty?

The Song Dynasty was a businessman, the commodity economy was very developed, as long as there was a need, there was a supply, many large families and nobles had pet cats, which gave birth to a developed pet economy, cat food, beauty, lice, hair removal, manicure, all kinds of small shops for pets abounded, but the pets of the Song Dynasty were mainly cats, but dogs did not have this kind of treatment, but Li Yanqing usually did not notice, so he heard of it for the first time today.

Li Yanqing looked at this cat-loving lady again, and asked with a smile, "What's your name?" ”

"My name is Cao Jiaojiao, what about you?" Cao Jiaojiao saw that Li Yanqing was willing to accompany her to buy cat food, and she had a good impression of him.

"My name is Li Yanqing....."

"I know you!"

Cao Jiaojiao suddenly clapped her hands and smiled: "You wrote two couplets to my sister, didn't you?" ”

"I know, your sister is a little scholar, her name is... Called....."

Li Yanqing forgot her name a little suddenly, Cao Jiaojiao smiled: "Her name is Cao Yun, I call her Da Shuniang, and she died when she saw the book." ”

"That's right! Her name is Cao Yun, and I almost forgot about it. ”

Li Yanqing was a little embarrassed and said, "Does your sister like the couplet I wrote?" ”

"Of course she likes it, she's still waiting for you to write her a long couplet! She said that your handwriting is very good, Brother Li, why don't you write me a couplet too! ”

"What are you going to do with the couplet?"

"I'm sticking it to the cattery! Wait for the Chinese New Year. ”

Li Yanqing couldn't help but laugh dumbly, and pasted the couplet written by the dignified imperial history on the cattery, I'm afraid only this little lady can think of it.

His promise also became vague, "Okay! Wait for the New Year......"

Cao Jiaojiao slapped her face with joy, "My cattery also has a couplet, and I'm angry with that big scholar." ”

Li Yanqing saw that she was innocent, but he also liked her very much, and asked her with a smile: "How old is Jiaojiao today?" ”

"I'm going to be seven years old, are you going to ask me if I'm going to study? Tell you, I'm already in school. ”

"How do you know I'm going to ask if you're reading?"

"Adults ask, how old are you? Did you go to school? Listen to disobedience at home? Got naughty or mischievous? ”

Cao Jiaojiao pointed to her ears, "Look here, it's all calluses!" ”

Li Yanqing laughed when he heard this, and hurriedly waved his hand and said, "I don't ask you." ”

Gaofu is very close to Sangjia Wazi, only two miles away, and after a while, the ox cart stopped in front of the gate of the tile shop, "Li Guanren, it has arrived!" The coachman said outside.

Li Yanqing pushed the car door, Cao Jiaojiao jumped impatiently, Li Yanqing saw that she was going to run, and hurriedly grabbed her, "Wait a minute, don't run!" ”

"Li Guanren, I'll park the car opposite, and you can just come back to me." The coachman pointed to the alley opposite, where several ox carts were parked.

"Got it, we'll be back soon."

"Brother Li, let's hurry up!" Cao Jiaojiao took Li Yanqing's hand and ran towards the gate of the Sang family.

Today is the tenth day off, which is equivalent to the weekend, the crowds in the tile shop are surging, especially lively, selling all kinds of gadgets and all kinds of food stalls are next to each other, the guys are shouting one after another, Li Yanqing grabbed Cao Jiaojiao and asked, "Do you know where the cat food shop is?" ”

Cao Jiaojiao looked dazed, "I don't know!" Brother Li doesn't know? ”

The two of them suddenly stared at each other, neither of them knew where the cat food shop was?

At this time, Li Yanqing saw a little brother carrying a food box to deliver takeaways, and hurriedly stepped forward to ask him, "This little brother, where is the cat restaurant?" ”

The takeaway brother turned around and pointed ahead: "You keep walking, turn left at the second intersection, and go to the end, there are two families!" ”

"Thank you!"

Only then did Li Yanqing pull Cao Jiaojiao and walk forward, "Sugar gourd!" White jade sugar gourd! "A vendor selling sugar gourds came up to me.

"Brother Li, I want to eat sugar gourd!" Cao Jiaojiao suddenly couldn't walk.

Li Yanqing then remembered that he was holding a little lady who was less than seven years old, and the actual age was less than six years old, which was equivalent to a kindergarten class, he hurriedly touched his money bag, fortunately, the bag was rich, Li Yanqing was suddenly excited, "Brother Li will buy it for you, I will buy it for you whatever you like." ”

Soon Li Yanqing knew why Cao Xing refused to bring Cao Jiaojiao to buy cat food, the various snacks in the tile shop were so rich that the little lady's eyes were straight, and she begged Li Yanqing to buy her some snacks, and after a while, Li Yanqing had to hire two people to help him get things.

The little lady is greedy, the family is strictly controlled, what she usually can't see, what she can't eat, she has to buy a copy, what to spin fried ginkgo, chestnuts, Hebei goose pear, pear strips, dried pears, rubber dates, jujube rings, Haihong Jiaqingzi, Lin Xuanxuan Wu Li, fried Xijing Sydney pear, Xichuan lactose, lion candy, frost bee and so on.

"Sugar cakes, meat cakes, victory cakes!"

"Soft mooncakes! Pork pancreatic cake, delicious Hu cake! ”

A bread seller with a burden shouted on the side of the road, "Little lady, sell a piece of pig pancreatic cake!" It's still hot! ”

Cao Jiaojiao had just finished nibbling on a string of sugar gourds, so she pulled Li Yanqing's hand, "Brother Li, I want to eat pig pancreatic cakes!" ”

The pork pancreatic cake is actually the pizza of later generations, and the thin scones are covered with various fillings, which is very delicious.

"Alright! Go pick a piece yourself. ”

"Little lady, buy a few pieces of other cakes! You certainly haven't eaten it. ”

The bread seller is very good at business, he saw that Li Yanqing was generous, and he didn't ask the price, and there was a porter behind him with all kinds of gadgets and food, so he knew that he met a high roller today.

The cake man hurriedly took out all kinds of baked cakes from the pick, such as mille-feuille cakes, moon cakes, scorched golden flower cakes, quiches, vegetable cakes, hu cakes, peony cakes, hibiscus cakes, cooked meat cakes, chrysanthemum cakes, plum blossom cakes, sugar cakes........ Seeing Cao Jiaojiao's dazzle, she couldn't help but smile and said, "So much!" Then I'll buy three copies of each, one for me, one for Da Shuniang, and one for Yun Yatou. ”

Li Yanqing glanced back at the burden of the two porters, fortunately, he could barely put it down, so he said to the cake man: "Three portions of each, wrap it up for her!" ”

"Don't worry, official, I have a bag of bread, it's clean and convenient, and it's still hot when I go back."

Li Yanqing saw that the cake Dalang quickly sorted all kinds of cakes into bags, and he suddenly understood a thousand-year-old public case, why Wu Dalang could afford to buy a house and raise a wife by selling cakes, it was not for no reason, Wu Dalang didn't just sell a kind of cooking cake!

"With so many varieties, are you busy?" Li Yanqing asked puzzled.

"Don't hide it from the officials, except for the meat filling that I bought the best pork chopped fine filling, other pie fillings can only be bought ready-made outside, and there are special pie fillings, but they are all genuine and good materials, although the officials can rest assured."

Li Yanqing nodded, these cakes looked pretty good, and they were cleaned up.

After buying the cake, Cao Jiaojiao was finally a little satisfied, and then she realized that she had actually bought two large loads of food, and couldn't help scratching the back of her head, and looked at Li Yanqing a little embarrassed, "Brother Li, I seem to have bought too much!" ”

"It's okay, Brother Li is rich, you can just like it!"

"Not this, I mean.... How do I get it back? It's miserable to be seen by my mother! ”

Li Yanqing almost spurted out a mouthful of blood, it turned out that he was self-inflicted, and the little lady didn't care about money at all.

He thought for a moment and smiled, "So be it! When we buy cat food, we need a few more big boxes of cat food, and your mother thinks it's cat food! ”

"This is a good idea!" Cao Jiaojiao jumped up for joy.

"I can eat cakes with the little flower cat."

In a blink of an eye, I forgot about my sister.

.........

It was a maximum of one hundred and fifty steps from the gate of the tile shop to the shop selling cat food, but they walked for most of the hour, and the two porters were also sweating profusely, Li Yanqing added fifty yuan to each of them to stabilize their mood.

There are two cat food shops, and the façade is not too big, one is called 'General Cat', and the other is called Xiao Zhang's cat food shop, Li Yanqing likes the name 'General Cat', so he took Cao Jiaojiao to push the door and walked in.

There are a variety of products in the store, such as cat toys, bags for cats, cat kennels, cat houses, cat litter, etc., and there are more than a dozen kinds of cat food alone, which are carefully cooked with fish or minced meat.

At this time, Cao Jiaojiao pulled Li Yanqing aside and whispered: "I want to buy everything here, but.... But I only have a tael of silver......."

"Shall I lend it to you?" Li Yanqing teased her with a smile.

"But... I can't afford to pay it back! The little lady looked at Li Yanqing expectantly.

Li Yanqing pulled her pigtails and smiled: "Brother Li teased you, you can take whatever you want, I'll buy it for you!" ”

Cao Jiaojiao cheered, and immediately started her big purchase, she had to buy ten copies of everything, because she raised ten kittens, the shopkeeper saw that the big customers came, simply closed the store door, concentrated on their business, and spent half an hour, the sweep was finally over, filled with five large boxes, Li Yanqing bought a few more large wooden boxes, and put the food she bought into it, and pasted the words cat food on the outside, so that it could be hidden from the world and transported back to Cao's house.

"Official, a total of forty-nine taels of silver!"

Li Yanqing gave the shopkeeper fifty taels of silver and smiled at him: "Please send the shopkeeper back to Caofu by car!" ”

"Is it General Cao's mansion?"

"Exactly! Send it to the side door and hand it over to their butler. ”

"The villain understands, the villain will generally deliver to the door, and the credibility is guaranteed!"

Li Yanqing used a pen to write Cao Jiaojiao's name on the big box, so that the housekeeper of the Cao Mansion would not be mistaken.

.......

Li Yanqing kept sending Cao Jiaojiao back to Cao's mansion.

"This one for you!"

Li Yanqing squatted down in front of the steps, smiled and stuffed one or two small silver ingots to Cao Jiaojiao, "Buy sugar to eat yourself in the future!" ”

Cao Jiaojiao was very moved in her heart, she pulled Li Yanqing's neck down, and whispered in his ear: "Brother Li, let me tell my sister, you will be my brother-in-law!" ”

Li Yanqing laughed and patted her red and cute little face, "Go back!" When the cat food is finished, Brother Li will buy it for you. ”

Cao Jiaojiao waved goodbye to him, and at this time, she suddenly remembered something again, and hurriedly shouted: "Brother Li, don't forget to write couplets for my cattery!" ”