flstandardbreds Chapter 159
Chapter 159
"Guest, these are freshly picked, guaranteed to be sweet! Sweet and crispy! Five copper coins each is already very cheap! If you don't believe me, try one!"
The maid in the light blue skirt took the peach handed to her by Feng Lan and wiped it with her handkerchief. Normally, she would look down on these, but she happened to smell Feng Lan eating peaches, and the smell was even better than the peaches that the mansion had specially bought at a high price.
After taking a bite, the crispy peach flesh enters your mouth. It is juicy and smells sweet, but it does not taste too sweet. It has a light sweet taste. The more you eat, the more fragrant it becomes. Your mouth and hands are filled with the fragrance of peaches.
The maid in the light blue skirt looked very satisfied. She wiped the peach juice off her hands and handed Feng Lan a small ingot of silver with satisfaction.
"Your peaches are indeed good. Five copper coins are short, but I won't take advantage of you. I'll give you this tael of silver and buy them all. Send them to Cui's house in front, enter through the back door, and say Aunt Lan bought them."
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"Okay! Aunt Lan."
Farmer Feng Lan happily took the ingot of silver, touched it again and again with care before putting it in her arms. The maid who called herself Aunt Lan had seen her happy look after getting the money many times.
Perhaps it was because the young man in front of her was too simple and honest, or perhaps his peaches were really good, so she rarely spoke up to give him advice.
"These peaches are great. If you have peaches this good in the future, you can bring them to Cui's house. You can buy them."
Only after the young man grinned and nodded happily did Aunt Lan leave with satisfaction. She still had some things to buy!
In front of everyone else, Feng Lan happily finished the peach in her hand, eating it cleanly, leaving only a peach pit. She wiped her mouth, asked a passerby while carrying her backpack, and walked towards Cui's house.
[Main Quest - Exploration: Earn 10,000 taels of gold in the Great Yan Dynasty. (Quest Progress: 0.00001%)]
Feng Lan's eyes flashed, but the simple smile on his face remained unchanged. He calculated in his mind that the ratio of gold to silver should be 1 gold equals 10 silvers.
"thank you!"
After thanking the person who showed him the way, Feng Lan walked to the tall gate with the plaque of Cui Mansion hanging on it.
The thick vermilion gate was wide open, and you could see the long corridor and large courtyard inside. There were two stone lions in front of the gate, two strong servants guarding the gate, and a courtyard wall more than three meters high. It was obvious that this was a wealthy family.
Feng Lan sighed and walked along the high wall to the back door. The back door was a small door opened on the courtyard wall, half open. Feng Lan pushed it lightly and it opened. There was also someone guarding the door.
Seeing Feng Lan pushing the door, he stood up in dark brown clothes and asked, "Who? What are you doing?"
Feng Lan withdrew her hand nervously and quickly replied, "Aunt Lan bought a basket of peaches and asked me to deliver it here."
When he heard Aunt Lan's name, the man's alert expression relaxed, and he sat down as well. He pointed in a direction and said to Feng Lan, "The kitchen is over there. Go there by yourself. Don't wander around."
Feng Lan nodded repeatedly and went in carrying Taozi on her back.
After entering a courtyard wall, there was another courtyard wall inside, a half-open round archway, rockery and strange rocks, flower pavilions and trees, and occasionally a few maids and servants passing by in a hurry. Feng Lan guessed that even if the Cui Mansion was not the richest in the city, it was not far behind.
"Hurry up, hurry up! The prefect is coming today, we need to entertain him well!"
"Sir, the prefect, oh, I heard that he is worried about this year's tribute! Is that why he came to see me?"
"The master just came back from outside. I heard he went to the far west. There are a lot of good things there!"
"You guys still don't know enough. The ladies have already received a reward today. It's the carpets and essential oils that the master brought back from Persia... something else. It's so beautiful!"
Several maids chattered as they passed by Feng Lan, telling each other the news they had gathered. Feng Lan slowed down her pace until she knew that these maids had turned a corner and entered another archway and could no longer hear her, then she quickened her pace again.