Shen Rong scanned everything, and her eyes finally fell on the pearl flowers made of rice-grain-sized pearls.

She thought of her nieces from her mother's side. The oldest twin sisters were almost ten years old, and Yier was seven or eight years old and could dress up. These pearl flowers could be just the right size for her nieces to wear for fun.

Shen Rong reached out her hand towards the delicate pearl flowers. A hint of disappointment flashed in the eyes of the stall owner. These pearl flowers were for young girls to wear. It seemed that the young lady didn't like the jewelry on her stall!

Pity.

"Boss, how much are these?"

When the old lady saw that she picked up three pearl flowers at once, her face immediately broke into smiles.

"One flower is thirty cents, three flowers are ninety cents."

Although the pearls used in these pearl flowers are very small, they are real pearls. The outer petals are made of silk gauze. The cost is here, and the price of each flower is not low. If you sell three flowers at once, the profit will be considerable.

When Mrs. Shen saw Shen Rong holding three pearl flowers, she guessed that they were bought for the maids in the family. She wanted to refuse, but Sanniang did not explicitly say that they were bought for her daughter.

Therefore, when she heard the stall owner's reply, she shouted, "Why, so expensive?"

The old lady was not angry, she just smiled and said, "This young lady has a good taste. This is made of silk gauze, and the pearls in the middle are pearls. Although they are small, they are still pearls, right? I went to the county to find connections to get this little bit. You can't get it anywhere else."

Shen Rong quickly picked out three wooden hairpins that were considered exquisitely crafted and said, "Give me three wooden hairpins!"

This kind of peach wood hairpin only costs three or five cents each, and the cost is negligible.

How could the stall owner not agree? The peach wood hairpins were made by the men in the family. The peach wood was cut in the mountains. Apart from a little time, there was no cost at all.

As for spending time, for country people, the most abundant and least valuable thing is time.

After buying the pearl flowers, Shen Rong decided to go to the silver shop. Li Fenglian also wanted to look at the jewelry, so the two of them left the stall arm in arm.

"Sister-in-law, we'll each have one hairpin, you can choose first." Shen Rong took out the wooden hairpin given by the stall owner.

"Okay." Li Fenglian picked up a peach blossom pattern at random and pulled Shen Rong into the jewelry store.

As for the two brothers Shen Chunsheng, they ran away when Shen Rong and her sister-in-law squeezed into the jewelry stall.

I have to say that the things in the shop are indeed more exquisite than those sold in the stalls outside, and the ingredients used are real, not fake.

Shen Rong was standing outside the counter and immediately fell in love with one of the hollow carved hairpins. It was exquisite in appearance and well made. The key point was that Shen Rong felt at first sight that this hairpin was very suitable for her mother.

"How much is this hairpin?" Shen Rong asked the waiter who served him.

When the waiter saw that Shen Rong wanted to buy something, the smile on his face deepened.

"Sir, this hairpin costs five taels of silver. It was made by a master craftsman in the shop. The craftsmanship is very good!"

Guangyuan Silver Shop is an old shop with a good reputation, but the jewelry there is never bargained for.

The hairpin in her hand was not light, but the price was not too high.

Shen Rong only thought about it for a moment before deciding to buy it.

Li Fenglian didn't say anything this time.

Because as soon as she came in, her eyes were attracted by the beautiful jewelry. At this moment, she was looking at the jewelry on the other side and didn't notice the situation on Shen Rong's side at all.

If he knew that Shen Rong spent five taels of silver to buy a hairpin, he would probably be shocked.

Li Fenglian looked around at the jewelry and liked them all. But when she thought of the children at home, she remembered the peach wood hairpin her sister-in-law gave her, and her restless heart finally calmed down.

In the end, Li Fenglian didn't buy anything, and the aunt and sister-in-law went to the cloth shop again.

As the weather was getting colder, the aunt and sister-in-law bought some thick materials.

As they walked along the way, Shen Rong bought a lot of things, but neither of them felt tired.

It was not until Shen Dongting found them and asked them to have dinner that Shen Rong realized that the entire morning had passed.

The place where they ate was a wonton stall, not far from Ma Xiuxiu's sister's house. As soon as Shen Rong and the others sat down, Ma Xiuxiu came over with a few packets of braised meat wrapped in lotus leaves in her hands.

By the afternoon, there were obviously fewer people in the town.

The two sisters-in-law were also tired from shopping. Although they seemed not to have bought anything, they actually spent some money.

Even Shen Chunsheng bought rouge at some point and spent half a tael of silver!

Shen Dongting was much simpler. He didn't buy anything except food.

However, he did not forget to buy some snacks for his nephews and nieces.

After selling the medicine, the sister-in-law thought that there was another market day today, so she gave twenty copper coins to Shen Dongting, who never took money.

Shen Dongting relied on those twenty copper coins to eat at all the snack stands in the town.

By the time they arrived at the wonton stall to eat, Shen Dongting was already full, but he was stunned and ate another bowl of wontons.

When Shen Rong and her companions returned to the village, they did not ride on Old Man Shen's ox cart.

There were a lot of people going to the market today and oxcarts were in short supply. Shen Rong and her friends were unable to find an oxcart to take them back to the village.

The cow in Old Man Shen's family is an old cow. It pulled two more trips in the morning. Seeing that the old cow was very tired, Old Man Shen did not go out in the afternoon and let the cow rest at home.

Shen Rong and her companions had no ox cart to return to the village, so they could only walk back on foot.

They had already been strolling for the entire morning, and now they had to walk such a long way back to the village. Not to mention, even Shen Rong, who often went up the mountain, found it a little too much to handle.

What's more, they carried a lot of things.

Shen Dongting looked at the wobbly ox cart in front of him and said with envy: "There are still too few cows in our village. If there was one more cow in the village, we wouldn't have to walk back today."

Several people immediately thought of what Shen Rong had mentioned before about asking the family to buy a cow.

"I don't know what Dad is thinking. If our family really had a cow, it would be convenient for us to go out."

"With the bullock cart, it will be convenient to deliver medicinal materials in the future."

Although everyone was very tired after shopping for most of the day, they were still in high spirits.

As they walked and talked, they couldn't help but imagine what life would be like if they had a cow at home.

Taohua Village goes all the way west and passes through several villages along the way. When Shen Rong and her companions were passing by a forest, they seemed to hear some strange noises.

Shen Chunsheng was older after all, and when he heard something strange in the woods beside the road, he hurriedly urged the others to quickly pass through the woods and leave.

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