After walking in the mall, I saw that there were all kinds of cloth sold on both sides, and all kinds of products were shipped from all directions. Mr. Kang said, "There are all kinds of goods here, and there are no special features. Although it is cheaper and more convenient, the crowded crowds are not a good place to go."

Mr. Jiang said: "Don't say that, it's amazing to have complete goods. There is no place in the world, and the fabric is so complete. Not only are common silk, but also people sell cotton cloth there. I heard that the field business has been successful in planting grass and cotton in Tangzhou. Although the cotton cloth is not very good, the jacket made of cotton is very warm. It is heavier than silk cotton, but it is much cheaper. Look, there are those sold there."

Mr. Kang saw it and said, "Let's go and buy two pieces for the supervisors to wear. They don't have a jacket in winter, which is a bit pitiful."

At this time, the jackets that keep warm in winter are mostly filled with silk cotton, that is, by-products of silk. The silk quilts from later generations are similar to this. Silk cotton is light and warm, but it is expensive and not something that ordinary people can afford. At Mr. Kang's house, several supervisors in charge cannot afford it. Fortunately, the winter in Xiangzhou is not very cold, so it is better to wear a few more clothes. As for those poor families, those who can't even afford to buy more clothes, they need hay, reeds and other stuffs, which can barely be considered a jacket. The current technical cotton cloth is not well woven, but it is very suitable to make a cotton jacket.

When I got closer, I saw a large row of green robes hanging on the shelf, which was very simple in shape. The middle opening and a few buttons were just to bend toward the body. The opening was a typical right lapel, retaining the most important features of Chinese clothing.

Walking forward, Mr. Kang said to the young man selling goods: "Get one with me. It's heavy, and the price is a little expensive."

The salesperson said: "Mr.com, our coats are marked with clear marks, each with a price. The number is divided into five types: extremely small, small, medium, large and extremely large. It depends on each person's figure. If you wear it with a medium size, a medium size is just right."

Mr. Kang: "If the price is the same, who wouldn't choose a thick one for the clothes you buy?"

The seller laughed: "I'm sure the cotton robes we have made are all praised when they are made, but they are actually the same."

Mr. Kang asked someone else and said to Mr. Jiang beside him: "It turns out that this is how you do business here, I have never seen it."

The robe was put on his body, and Kang Yuanwai felt it was very heavy and said, "This robe is a little heavier, is there any thinner?"

"No. It's because it's very cold weather to wear it. If you wear it on weekdays, there is a small jacket over there, and the outsider can go over and see it."

Mr. Kang took off his robe, held it in his hand for a while, and said, "It's better to buy two. In the cold, the servants will patrol the night to protect the cold. I'll ask you, how much does this robe really cost?"

The salesperson said: "In addition to the official, we have clearly marked prices here. Look at the signs hanging there. If the price does not match, you can go to the mall and yamen to make a first announcement. This cotton robe, with a medium-sized number, is always priced at 050 yuan."

Mr. Kang nodded and said to Mr. Jiang beside him: "It's not expensive. It costs three or five chunks of money to buy a cotton robe in the market. This one is more than half cheaper, and it is extremely thick. It is no worse than fur when you wear it to keep warm."

Mr. Jiang smiled and said, "It takes dozens of scoops of fur, how can it be compared? One or two scoops of money can be afforded by ordinary people."

Mr. Kang took out the money, bought two cotton robes, and asked his entourage to take them, and continued to walk forward together.

The cotton grown in Tangzhou is really of poor quality, and it is used to spin and weave cloth. It is not of high quality. Du Zhongxiao ordered the field management to continue to improve the varieties while making this cotton robe on the other hand, and then make some money first. This is actually the military coat of later generations. Du Zhongxiao was the most common winter clothes for winter protection in rural areas when he was a child. It is simple to cut and does not pick up the figure, and is suitable for mass production. One piece is roughly the price of a constant amount of money. If you take out various costs, you can earn 10 to 20% of acre of cotton, which is much more cost-effective than growing grain.

After walking through the place where cloth, clothes, shoes and socks, I arrived at an intersection and looked around and sold all kinds of daily necessities, pastries, grain and fruits. Mr. Kang said, "I don't know how many of these things are in the family. Since this place is a department store, there should be some food that is not locally produced. Where can I sell fruits and so on? Let's go and take a look. Eating oranges every day, the people at home are really tired of it."

Mr. Jiang pointed to a sign on the side of the road and said, "It's not written on it, but not far ahead, it's a place to sell fruits."

Following the street sign, the few people walked forward not long before they arrived at the fruit stall. Looking at the street stalls, there were a wide variety of fruits, full of them. Mr. Kang happily said, "This is interesting! There are so many fruits that cannot be compared with outside."

Following the past, the most common ones were local citrus, papaya, sugarcane, etc. At this time, the local atmosphere was relatively warm, and many fruits produced in Lingnan were produced in the Jinghu and Jiangnan area in Jinghu. It was like papaya, not only many in Xiangzhou, but also famous products in Luoyang. Even lychees can be planted in Xiangzhou, but the quality is not good, and they cannot be compared with Sichuan and Shu areas and Fujian Road. However, the quality in Guangdong was the worst, but the yield was the most.

One of the most famous poems about lychees in later generations, Su Shi's "Eat 300 lychees a day and never refuses to be a Lingnan person", often makes people misunderstand that the lychees in Lingnan are good at this time, but in fact they are too many and cheap. Su Shi was demoted and his income was not high, so he often enjoyed this poor and happy. Just like eating pork in Huangzhou, he was most often used to prove that pork in the Song Dynasty was cheap. In fact, in Huangzhou, everything was cheap in this era, fish and other things were even pounds, but were sold in piles. A few dozen cents could make several families eat it. It was also the main production place of cattle in the Song Dynasty. A cow could be slaughtered and sold for one or two cents. Beef would be cheaper than pork. The swamps in the rivers and lakes were everywhere, and it was not suitable for raising sheep, and mutton was expensive.

Transportation is underdeveloped and commercial circulation is inconvenient. At this time, local prices vary greatly. Kaifeng Prefecture is undoubtedly expensive in everything, so officials often ask for extra-job jobs. Some people say it bluntly, because of the same salary, the living standards can rise a lot in other places.

Several of the officials were wealthy families. After eating too many local fruits, they wanted to change their tastes. Walking forward by several stalls, Kang's eyes lit up: "It's here! You see, what you sell from the north on this side, and what you come from the south on that side, and there are all kinds of varieties."

When you walk to the northern fruit stall, you will see small signs standing on it, with the name and origin of the fruit. At this time, the most developed fruit planting in the northern part is Hebei Road and the other is Jingxi Road. With trains, the ones sold here are mainly from Jingxi Road, and various famous products.

Mr. Kang pointed to a big pear and said, "Zhengzhou Yuer pear is the best in the world, and the largest one can reach more than one pound. I ate it by chance when I was in Kaifeng Prefecture, and it was extremely sweet. Are the Yuer pears you here really produced in Zhengzhou?"

The servant smiled and said, "Mr. I understand that it is produced in Zhengzhou, why is it wrong? This kind of big pear cannot be grown in other places. If you like to eat pears, we still have several varieties here. Look, we sell them here in the snow pears, Fengqi pears in Luoyang, and Qingsha Rotten in Chenzhou. There are also goose pears from Daming Mansion on Hebei Road, which are very sweet and delicious, and they are all tributes."

Mr. Kang: "Take ten pieces with me and wrap them together, and calculate the price together."

The servant said, "When I go back to the office, we are different from the vendors outside. We are not sold by pellet, but by pound. The varieties are different and the prices are different. Since each ten pieces are weighed for you, I will remember it here first."

While talking, he took various pears and asked another servant to call them. At this time, the fruits in winter were mainly citrus and various pears. The most common apples in later generations were primitive species and small ones. The names were also somewhat different. Later generations called most pears in the north as duck pears, but at this time they were called goose pears, which were the most produced by Hebei Road.

After wrapping the pear, the servant pointed to a peach and said, "Zhengwai, this type is a winter peach, produced in Mi County. Unlike other peaches, it is only ripe in winter, and it is the right time to make it. This peach is sweet and delicious, and has no seeds in the middle, which is a treasure in the world."

It is not easy to eat peaches at this time. Mr. Kang took ten of them and said they were good to eat. This winter peach is famous in Zhongyuan Ji, and Du Zhongxiao also bought them to eat them. It is said that when this peach matures, it will crack itself, and the peach pits fall out of the inside, and then grow well, so it has no seeds. Du Zhongxiao always felt that this statement was unreliable and too magical. He always suspected that the fruit farmers there used some special method to remove the kernels inside. It was just that the method was not passed on, and outsiders did not know it, and the more they passed on it, it became more outrageous.

I bought some common northern fruits such as chestnuts, persimmon cakes, walnuts and ginkgo. Kang Yuanwai and others arrived at the southern fruit stall.

The oranges in Liangzhe, lychees and sugarcane in Fujian are both famous fruits that are famous all over the world at this time. After selection and processing, they spread all over the world. However, it was difficult to eat fresh ones in the past, so Kang Yuanwai bought more. Although there was no way to buy lychees, there were no fresh fruits to buy, the others were Shuiling.

What was really rare in the past were kumquats produced on Jiangxi Road. This fruit was very famous at this time. It was sold by chance in Xiangzhou, but it was available here. There were also coconuts and olives produced on Guangdong Road, which were not seen before, so Kang Yuanwai bought a lot.

Seeing that the few followers were full of all, Mr. Kang said, "If I had known that the goods were so complete, I would bring a few baskets, otherwise I would have bought them too much and brought them back like this? Let's do this today, and I will buy them in a few days."

The servant said, "Mr.com, if you turn around here, you will have a specialty basket. You can buy a few of them."
Chapter completed!