Chapter 459 - Chapter 459: Chapter 446 Severe Illness (1/2)

Chapter 459: Chapter 446 Severe Illness

The weather is gradually getting colder, and it is the time to busy with wheat sowing. Although there are not many people putting up stalls in the county town, it is still quite lively with people coming and going.

Zhuang Qingning saw a busy pastry shop nearby, where she bought some sesame candies, crispy twists, chestnut cakes, water chestnut cakes, and so on. She also bought a few candy paintings sold by a man next to her.

As she walked on, she saw all sorts of fresh and beautiful hairpins, as well as bamboo balls and bamboo dragonflies…

By the time she got to the spice shop, her hands were full, hardly able to pick anything else up.

Helpless, she found a grocery shop and bought a delicately woven bamboo basket with a lid to hold all her items, before going into Cheng’s spice shop.

As soon as she stepped into the spice shop, Zhuang Qingning smelled a strong fragrance.

The subtle fragrances emitted by various spices, blended together, were originally weird to smell, but the lingering scent from the incense burner at the entrance of the shop completely covered the other tastes.

In a word, the overall atmosphere is quite pleasing.

She couldn’t help but slightly lift the corners of her mouth.

A smart clerk approached her, “Miss, are you here to buy loose spices or prepared incense?”

“Are you planning to use it yourself or give it as a gift, and where do you plan to use it?”

Zhuang Qingning smiled and said, “I’m planning to buy some loose spices to make myself.”

“If you’re planning to make the spice yourself, please come this way.” The clerk led her to a table, pulled a chair for her and poured a cup of tea, “Do you have a recipe? If you have a recipe, just tell me the names of the spices and the required amounts, and the quality of the spices you want, I’ll give you a quote. If there’s no problem, I’ll help you prepare the spices.”

“Thank you, young man.” Zhuang Qingning smiled, “I have already listed the spices and quantities I want. Take a look.”

“Hmm… I want slightly better quality spices.”

Since she plans to make money with this Moon Incense recipe, the final product has to be impressive, so naturally, she needs to use better spices to make a good Moon Incense.

The list given to the clerk had many spice quantities that did not match the recipe. In case she fails at the first attempt, she asked for extras. Apart from that, she also ordered a few more spices, which she could practice and experiment with in her spare time.

“Alright.” The clerk smiled and said after looking at the list, “With this amount ordered by you, Miss, it will cost nearly twenty taels of silver.”

“Well, the rest are actually quite affordable, only this agarwood costs slightly more.”

Spices like these are luxury items only affordable by the wealthy.

These items cost twenty taels of silver. Even though her workshop is very profitable now because of output and profit ratios, these thirty taels of silver are no small sum.

Zhuang Qingning suddenly thought of the saying about “wealthy people wasting food while the poor freeze on the streets.”