Chapter 24
Chu Xiuming looked at his easily satisfied little wife and said nothing. He held her hand to the stall specializing in selling leather goods and asked, "Do you have white fox skin?"
The owner of the stall is a man who looks black and strong. There is a petite woman standing beside him. The woman's facial features are not delicate and her skin is not white enough, but it has an indescribable charm, like a flower blooming in full bloom, beautiful and hot, and when she smiles, she has a cheerful smell, "Is it for the little lady around you? Is there a white fox skin, I wonder how many pictures the guests want?"
"How many pictures are there?" Chu Xiuming asked.
"Let's take a look first." The woman gave the man behind her a look, and the man bent down and took out a complete white fox fur from below. "It's a fox hunted in winter, with dense and good fur."
Chu Xiuming also realized that his fox fur is really good, and it was well tidied up. Chen Jin looked at the fluffy skin all over the stall and his eyes were lit. He wanted to touch it a few times but was embarrassed. When the white fox fur was taken out, he couldn't help but use his fingers to snatch Chu Xiuming's palm. Seeing that Chu Xiuming had no reaction, he snuggled a few more times. She hadn't seen so many skins before.
The Rui Palace is divided into skins every year, but they are given according to the rules. It is not like Concubine Xu is favored. King Rui always gives more to Xu in private. Chen Jin also gets extras around Princess Rui, but Princess Rui also has to give her daughter and two sons. Chu Xiuming looked down at Chen Jin, and Chen Jin said, "Will it be very expensive?"
"No." Chu Xiuming said, "I like these very much?"
"Yeah." Chen Jin said, "I've given all the skin my mother saved."
Chu Xiuming responded, "Then buy more and send them to his mother-in-law." In fact, there were a lot of warehouses in the house, but they were taken out and used up when they were besieged. Now the rest are all the new ones he brought back. Because he was going to fight, not all the skins were brought back, leaving only the precious ones.
However, Chen Jin didn't know that there was a warehouse in his home. Chu Xiuming realized that the key to the warehouse in his home had not been handed over to Chen Jin. In fact, the most important thing in the border town was leather. On the contrary, the fabric was more expensive than leather. He just wanted to get a whole set of white fox fur clothes for Chen Jin, so he needed to buy it outside. Since Chen Jin liked skin so much, when it was cold next year, I would like to save a lot of skin. She would definitely like it if she covered the room with thick skin. However, Chu Xiuming did not say that he would just give her a surprise when it was cold. "How many white fox furs are there in total?"
"Si Zhang." The woman said, "This thing is so cunning that it's hard to catch."
Chu Xiuming said, "How much does it cost?"
"No money, I need tea and salt." The woman had long seen that these two people were extraordinary. Tea and salt were controlled by the imperial court. If they bought it, they could only buy it from the government. If they could not buy official salt, they could only buy private salt or wait for the exchange.
Chu Xiuming was not surprised, but just nodded and said, "How many?"
The woman said a number, and Chu Xiuming frowned and said, "It's high, the weather is getting warmer, and I can't use it this year." This is the truth, but it's not the truth. As long as you clean up your skin, it's okay to keep it for two more years, especially those like the white fox skin.
"You can discuss it." The woman said. She looked at Chen Jin with an innocent face, then looked at Chu Xiuming, and thought to herself, it turns out that the little guy is unreliable. Didn't it mean that the man of Tianqi loves face and likes to show off in front of women?
Chu Xiuming then responded, "Get some out and choose."
When the woman heard this, she asked the man to take out the good skins she had put out. Chu Xiuming looked down at Chen Jin and said, "You can choose the one you give to your mother-in-law by yourself."
"Okay." Chen Jin's voice was soft and glutinous. She just listened to Chu Xiuming communicating with people with confused expressions. The woman had a very heavy accent. She understood the initial sentence, but since Chu Xiuming didn't know where to say something, the woman and Chu Xiuming communicated with words she didn't understand. However, when Chu Xiuming talked to Shen Jin, she changed it back, so she could understand it again.
Chen Jin not only chose it for her mother, but also for King Rui and Princess Rui. Because her mother still stayed in Princess Rui's mansion, she was inseparable from Princess Rui's care. She did not ask King Rui to take care of her mother, and she couldn't say that her mother was not uncommon.
After Chen Jin finished choosing, Chu Xiuming chose some more, then communicated with the two people for a few words, then took Chen Jin away. Chen Jin followed him obediently, and said softly, "There are still many places that sell bad things, let's just choose slowly." She thought the deal had not been negotiated, so Chu Xiuming wanted it.
Chu Xiuming paused and smiled, "Don't worry, those skins are all yours. I'll ask them to send the things directly to the General's Mansion in the Border City."
Chen Jin responded and stopped asking more questions. Chu Xiuming bought a lot of things one after another, some of them used silver directly, and some were sent to the general's mansion like those skins. Later, when Chen Jin was tired, he sat down on his shoulder again. After having an experience, Chen Jin sat even more comforted and shaking his legs leisurely.
Soon Chu Xiuming bought all the things he wanted to buy and went to the area where he traveled. Not only did he sell horses, but also all kinds of living small animals. Gao Laoyuan, who was sitting in Chen Jin, saw Chu Xiuyuan, and lowered his head and pointed at Chu Xiuming. Chu Xiuming took her over.
Chu Xiuyuan, who saw Chu Xiuming and Shen Jin, was stunned. He first looked up at his sister-in-law, then at his brother, and finally looked at the two guards behind him. His brother was ridden on his head, right?
Chu Xiuming's face was too calm, and Chen Jin's expression was very natural. Chu Xiuyuan felt that he shouldn't be so fussy. When Chu Xiuming carried Chen Jin down, he took the initiative to speak, "Brother, there is a mare that has already taken a cub, but the price is high and I don't know what kind of stallion is, come and take a look."
"Okay." Although Chu Xiuming put down Chen Jin, his hands had not yet been released. The mare with a cub was tied alone, and her belly was already showing signs of pregnancy. It seemed like she was about to give birth. This was the first time Chen Jin saw it, but the smell around him was very bad, so no wonder Chu Xiuming brought her over in the end.
There was nothing in the distance. Chu Xiuming thought for a while before letting go of Chen Jin's hand and said, "Don't you want to buy a small thing? Let Xiuyuan take you somewhere else to take a look."
"I'm waiting for you here." Chen Jin said very well.
Chu Xiuming felt warm when he heard this. He was about to say something when he heard Chu Xiuyuan say, "Sister-in-law, there is a snow rabbit seller over there. I just saw a nest of rabbits. The little rabbit is not as big as my hands."
Chen Jin's eyes lit up and she said more obediently and sensiblely, "Husband, please be busy. You are easily distracted by me here. Remember to come to me and Xiuyuan after finishing your work."
Chu Xiuming looked at Chen Jin's innocent appearance and felt speechless. He paused before saying, "Go."
"Don't worry, brother, I will be optimistic about my sister-in-law." Chu Xiuyuan promised.
Chu Xiuming waved his hand, and when Chen Jin happily left Chu Xiu, he kept urging, "Go away quickly, what if someone buys it."
"Don't worry, sister-in-law, that thing is not as good as two taels of meat, no one wants it." Chu Xiuyuan said.
Chu Xiuming's expression remained unchanged and said, "Let's go."
The two guards left behind looked at the general's back with special sympathy, then turned to look at the general's wife who was not nostalgic. It turned out that in the wife's heart, the general's status was not as good as a bunch of rabbits. She looked at each other and then followed the general in.
Because the people sold here are all living things, there are inevitably some animal feces on the ground. When he walked with Chu Xiuming, he would always choose a clean place or just pick up Chen Jin. Chu Xiuyuan would not pay attention to these things. Chen Jin stepped on the soft things in the soles of his feet and dared not think about what it was.
However, all these discomforts disappeared when they saw the bunny that Chu Xiuyuan mentioned. The rabbit was very cute. Its ears were shorter than usual, its tail was shorter, its eyes were big and round, its furry body was not solid color, it was dark and light, and it seemed that it was changing hair. The abdomen was white, the tips of the ears and circles were dark brown, and the soles of the feet were light yellow. Two slightly larger rabbits were squatting, and four or five little rabbits were right beside them. Chu Xiuyuan said, "Don't look at their fur color now, it will turn white in winter, and these little rabbits should be born less than twenty days."
"I know so much, little brother." The rabbit seller said, "I wanted to sell skin, but who knew that the rabbit would be unable to kill it if it had a cub. My family didn't want to raise it, so they just brought it straight away. The female rabbit was born on the road, and the little cub was only eleven days today."
"How do you know that they are less than twenty days?" Chen Jin asked curiously.
"Because of the rabbits that have been in their 20-day period, the big rabbits will not be so close to them." Chu Xiuyuan said, "Do you want it?"
The rabbit seller heard Chu Xiuyuan's name and realized that the girl was married. He thought that these two were just a joke.
"Can I touch them?" Chen Jin asked looking at the rabbit seller.
"Just don't be hurt by them." The rabbit seller said, I'm afraid no one can bear to refuse such a cute girl, but it's a pity that she got married too early. But I think she married a wealthy family, otherwise she wouldn't be able to raise such a cute baby.
Chen Jin nodded, his eyes wide open. Chu Xiuyuan almost laughed because the two big rabbits in the cage were also looking at Chen Jin with their big eyes open. They were like communicating between the cage, and their eyes were round and bright. Chen Jin stretched out his fingers to poke the rabbit through the gap in the cage, and immediately took his hand back and stared at the rabbit. Seeing that the rabbit had no reaction, he reached in and poked it again. The rabbit reacted this time. The poked rabbit moved slowly, and then pointed it at Chen Jin with its short tail.
"How much?" Chen Jin looked full of love. She decided to go back to a separate place to plant a lot of grass for the rabbit to eat, and the rabbit that would change color!
She remembers that there are two lines in "Yin Xi's House" in Weizhuang, former Shu, "The rooster sings in the evening rain, and the rooster sings in the cold and snow rabbit." This is exactly the same rabbit.
The rabbit seller didn't ask for it much, so he said a number. Chen Jin looked at Chu Xiuyuan, and Chu Xiuyuan nodded and said, "We bought it."
Before Chu Xiuyuan could pay, Chen Jin paid the money, and Chu Xiuyuan didn't fight. However, after Shen Jin paid the money, he took the initiative to pick up the rabbit. So many rabbits of all sizes were not light enough to make Chen Jin see him when he was taken back. He had to deal with him when he went back.
Chapter completed!