The aquatic meat area of the vegetable market place is a bit smaller than the vegetable area, but there are at least twenty to thirty meat shop stalls of different sizes in it, the strong ones rented a shop, and the ones that are not strong enough rented a stall.
Meat shop sells meat is very complete, stalls have mutton, fish, pork, chicken, duck, goose, pigeon meat and so on, basically in addition to beef, can call the name of the meat can be bought here.
There were even a few stalls that even sold shark fins, one of the eight treasures.
“What kind of meat is this? It’s as long as a handful of gor.”
Liu Dagger followed Zhu Pingan around and was interested in shark fins, he had seen bear meat and deer meat, this shark fin he had not seen before and could not help but ask curiously.
Liu Dahammer was similarly curious.
“This is the shark’s fin, one of the eight treasures.”Zhu Pingan explained to the two, “There is a fish in the sea called shark that is as big as a house, and this shark fin is dried from its fins.”
“A fish as big as a house? Your Excellency is not calling out to us.”
Liu Da Dao and Liu Da Hammer both had their mouths open, full of incredulity, as well as I’m less well read you can’t lie to me expressions.
“Really, some sharks are a bit bigger than a house, some are a bit smaller, I’ll have the chance to show you guys later.”Zhu Pingan nodded with a serious face.
“This gentleman is really knowledgeable, the shark fins I have here are the famous good shark fins in our capital, would you like to have a few pounds to taste at home.”The shop’s owner greeted Zhu Pingan with a smile and complimented him, then spared no effort to encourage Zhu Pingan to buy a few catties of shark’s fin to taste at home.
The clothes that Li Shu customised for Zhu Ping An were of the low-key luxury type, Zhu Ping An liked low-key and Li Shu liked luxury, so the point that the two of them agreed on was low-key luxury.
So if you look at Zhu Ping An’s clothes, you will think that Zhu Ping An is the son of a certain big family.
In the vegetable market selling shark’s fin boss, naturally, has long developed a pair of discerning eyes, a glance to see Zhu Pingan’s clothes material is the capital’s most expensive floating light wide damask, this damask is the fabric in the famous “soft gold”, a foot of floating light wide mausoleum at least a few taels of silver.
Eurycoma is made from the finest Eurycoma japonica, which is dyed with special herbal juice, then mashed with a variety of precious herbs and mixed with iron-rich mineral mud from the river bottom, then exposed to the scorching summer sun for a few days before being dipped into the herbal juice, which is a time-consuming cycle that takes months to complete, and is made through more than thirty processes.
This kind of floating light wide damask cloth because of the attachment of the mineral mud, wear after the feeling of cool, fast drying in water, and not easy to draw silk wrinkles. At the same time, due to the infiltration of a variety of Chinese herbs, this damask cloth has the effect of clearing heat and removing blood stasis, as well as de-worming, anti-mould, de-fungus, deodorant and other multiple effects, which is known as the best of green fabrics.
The people who can wear the wide damask are after the government officials and the powerful families who have very, very, very thick family backgrounds.
Shark’s fin is sold to this kind of family.
Most rich people love face, the shop owner is still very confident in the way of doing business, and he feels that Zhu Pingan, who is not poor in money, under his own words, even if he can’t buy a few pounds, he has to buy half a pound of it.
However, it was a pity.
“Forget it, it’s too expensive.”
Zhu Pingan raised his head at the first moment the shop owner’s words fell, smiled and shook his head, a mouthful of white teeth glistening in the sunlight.
Just kidding, he couldn’t even afford to buy shark fins before he went bankrupt, let alone now that he was all broke.
Zhu Pingan so dry and decisive and a face of natural refusal, let the shop owner a moment of consternation, rich people will be so natural to say too expensive this kind of words …….Don’t you want to lose face?……
Only when Zhu Pingan refused, Liu Dazhou’s voice sounded beside him.
“How much is a catty? The young lady has asked the steward to give us our monthly payment, a full two taels of silver.”Liu Dazhou asked the boss at this time with a bold face, a gesture of I’ve just been paid today and I’m not short of money.
It was no secret in the Linhuai Marquis’ residence that Zhu Pingan had his wages docked for a year or two and was fined a hundred taels of silver by the Emperor. Liu Dazhou they often follow Zhu Pingan, naturally even more informed, know that recently Zhu Pingan shy in the bag, ahem, but also rely on the daughter-in-law to succour ……
So Liu Dazhou had the intention to buy two jin of shark’s fin, let Zhu Pingan take it back to taste with the young lady, which is also regarded as some of their intentions.
The shop owner stretched out two fingers and gestured in front of Liu Dazhou.
“Twenty Wen a catty? Well, it’s a little more expensive than pork, but it’s not that expensive… Give me ten catties and eight catties.”Liu Dazhou thought that the two fingers that the boss was gesturing meant twenty Wen a catty, he couldn’t help but smile and bashfully asked the boss to weigh a ten catty eight catty for him.
The shop owner sniffed as if he was petrified, looked at Liu Dazhu with a face of an idiot, then slowly shook his head.
“Oh, that’s two hundred Wen a catty, well, it’s indeed a bit expensive, let’s have a five catty then.”Seeing this, Liu Dabao couldn’t help but gulp, the price was out of his expectation, and his tone wasn’t as bold as it was just now.
The shop owner shook his head once again, returning Liu Dagger an expression that was the same as just now, the same look.
“That’s two taels of silver a catty?”
Not two hundred wen a catty? Liu Dazhu took a deep breath and raised his head to ask with a surprised look.
“It’s not a catty, it’s a penny.”The shop owner was speechless and didn’t give Liu Dagger a chance to guess anymore, directly quoting the price out.
“What? Two taels of silver for a penny?……That’s not enough to stuff your teeth.”
Liu Dabao’s eyes went straight after hearing this, his jaw dropped, he couldn’t believe his own ears, he took a deep breath and spat it out after a long while!
Well, another “poverty limits my imagination” vivid case ……In fact, when Zhu Pingan first heard about the price of shark fins, his expression was no better than Liu Dazhou’s, and he was also eating one to two pounds.
“Cough cough, I now realise what Gongzi’s phrase too expensive means, this is simply too expensive. Forget it, it’s better to have the chance to hunt a whale with my own hands in the future and cut its fins before honouring the Gongzi and Young Lady.”Liu Dazhou coughed and scratched his head somewhat unfavourably.
“Mmmmm.”Liu Dahammer nodded approvingly, he and Liu Dahabao’s two people’s monthly money combined, also not to purchase a shark’s fin of ……
“Well, good ah, I can write it down. Let’s go, let’s go check out the pork.”Zhu Pingan nodded with a slight smile.
“Don’t worry gongzi, I will definitely hunt a big whale in the future ……”Liu Dazhou and Liu Dahammer followed Zhu Pingan while patting their chests in assurance.
The shop owner behind them, with an expression of watching a fool bragging, watched them leave.
