ch 15.2 - Back to the Marke (1/2)

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Mrs. Cheng tallied up all the goods from the dimension: 80 jin1 of white rice, 20 chickens, 30 rabbits, 15 jin of Chinese cabbage. These items were probably quite difficult for the two of them to bring to the market by themselves.

“Xiao Xiao, I think we will need to borrow a cow-drawn carriage. There is no way we can carry all these ourselves all the way to the market!” Mrs. Cheng realized that it was quite troublesome to have too much items for sale.

Although Cheng Xiao Xiao wanted to produce these items after they have go to the market, but she knew that would draw too much unwanted attention, so she had to agree to her mother’s suggestion.

Even though Mrs. Cheng weren’t close to the residents of Willow Village, but they have been in their current place for over three years. She has some connections with the villagers. After finding out that Mrs. Cheng wanted to borrow a cow-draw carriage and looking at the two Chinese cabbage, the patriarch of Willow Village agreed to let them borrow his carriage.

It was much easier to get to the market place with a carriage. Plus, since they didn’t need to get there on foot, it also saved them quite a bit of time.

More importantly, with the carriage, the three young ones also climbed inside and also wanted to go to the market.

Since it’d only take about half a day to and from the marketplace, Mrs. Cheng finally decided to take all four kids with her, leaving her injured husband at home by himself.

“So this is the marketplace?!”

“There are so many things for sale here! Big sister, look! They have tanghulu!2”

Tanghulu

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“They are selling steamed buns! Mom, I want a steamed bun!”

The three young ones all talking at the same time while looking around excitedly at everything on the street. Mrs. Cheng was too focused on looking for an empty spot to pay them any attention.

Cheng Xiao Xiao weren’t paying them too much attention either. She was more concerned about how to sell all their merchandises. Honestly, if they were trying to sell these items one by one on the street, she didn’t think they would be able to sell them all off in a day. It’d be great if she could find a place who’d buy all their stuff in one go.

Even though the cow-drawn carriage along with a few kids did get some attention from the passersby, but nothing too out of the norm. After all, most of the folks in the marketplace came from villages all over, it wasn’t too unusual to see a cow-drawn carriage as a mode of transportation.