Chapter 244: Chapter 244: Going to the Market Chapter 244: Chapter 244: Going to the Market The pharmacy assistant continued to prepare Gu Ya’s medicine.
Within a short moment, Gu Ya’s medicine was also ready.
“Here you go, young madam, your medicines are all prepared!” The assistant said with a smile, handing over the two prescriptions to Su Yunjin.
Taking the herbs, Su Yunjin asked, “How much?”
The assistant roughly calculated the cost, then after fiddling with the abacus on the counter, he looked up at Su Yunjin with a smile, “Young madam, the first prescription consists of premium herbs and is quite expensive, totaling half a silver coin. The second prescription is cheaper, costing fifty copper coins.”
Upon hearing the price, Su Yunjin took out the silver and paid, then left the pharmacy with her medicine in hand. The assistant accepted the silver with a smile, bidding Su Yunjin to take care, “Young Madam, have a safe journey.”
Leaving the pharmacy, Su Yunjin tossed both prescriptions into the basket on her back and decided to head to the marketplace to buy other things.
Su Yunjin needed to stock up on some household essentials at the market, as there were not many condiments at home, only oil and salt, which made cooking rather tasteless.
Su Yunjin planned to buy some essential condiments at the marketplace to make the food tastier. After wandering around the small stands at the market, she bought Sichuan peppercorns, chili peppers, fennel, and various other condiments used in cooking. When she passed by the butcher’s shop, Su Yunjin also bought two pounds of meat. People in ancient times liked fatty meat, thinking it was more succulent, but Su Yunjin preferred lean meat. In the modern day, fatty meat is cheap while lean meat is expensive, but in this place, it was the opposite, with lean meat being cheaper.
With just about ten copper coins, Su Yunjin got herself two pounds of lean meat, and since she wanted to render fat, she also bought a piece of pork fat from the butcher’s shop.
Boiling it with water, she could render about half a basin of lard.
Lard could be used for both stir-frying and noodle dishes. Especially with noodles, adding a spoonful of lard to the soup made it exceptionally flavorful.
After purchasing these items, Su Yunjin went on to buy flour, which could be used to make pancakes or steamed buns, offering an especially convenient meal option.
At the flour seller’s shop, Su Yunjin, considering she couldn’t carry too much by herself, didn’t buy a lot, just twenty pounds of flour.
For now, she would take twenty pounds home to use, and when it ran out, she would return to the market to buy more.
After all, now that the family had split, she and Gu Ya wouldn’t eat much flour in a day; the twenty pounds she bought today would probably last them about ten days to half a month.
Having bought these items, Su Yunjin originally wanted to buy some pots and pans and the like, but seeing that it was nearly time to meet Mrs. Chu, as they had agreed, Su Yunjin reconsidered and decided not to buy them now.
The rest of the items, like pots and pans, Su Yunjin also planned to purchase the next time she came to the market, as it was already late, and she had already bought quite a bit. If she were to buy more, she wouldn’t be able to carry all of it. Next time, she would hire a carriage and buy everything she needed all at once.
That way, there would be no worry about not being able to carry everything.
Su Yunjin and her younger brother’s wife, Mrs. Chu, had agreed to meet at the spot where they got off the bullock cart in the morning. So, with her basket on her back, Su Yunjin went directly to the place where they had disembarked earlier to wait for Mrs. Chu.
Su Yunjin arrived a bit earlier than Mrs. Chu, and when she got there, Mrs. Chu had not yet arrived. Shortly after her arrival, Mrs. Chu hurried over.
“Sister-in-law, you haven’t been waiting too long, have you?”