Chapter 35 Buying Jade, Her Fairyland Changed Again!
The shopkeeper nodded immediately and asked the clerk to change the banknotes to Shen Ningning.
Then she asked: "Will the account for this aconite be settled next time?"
The shopkeeper smiled: "Yes, I will take it to the palace later. After I get the money from the palace, I can split it in half with the young lady."
Shen Ningning's face was round and white, with a curious look.
"Who are you trying to save? Why do you keep eating this aconite?"
"It's the most noble nobleman in the world except the emperor," the shopkeeper laughed: "Aconite is the nobleman's life-saving medicine, but young lady, you can't talk about it outside, you have to keep it secret."
Shen Ningning nodded in understanding, raised her little finger to her lips, and made a "hush" gesture.
"I understand." She said sweetly: "Then I hope the nobleman will get better soon after eating the aconite I gave him!"
The shopkeeper smiled and shook his head while packing up the account book.
"It's difficult! The nobleman's illness is very strange. I heard that his illness will not be cured unless the drought disappears."
Is there such a strange thing?
Shen Ningning couldn't figure out the relationship between drought and illness.
She thought about it for a while, and her little brain was about to explode.
She simply stopped thinking about it.
All she could do was provide medicinal materials.
So she made an agreement with the shopkeeper: "Six days later, you still come to Langshan to pick me up."
Shen Ningning left the shop.
She walked to the corner where no one was, and took out the two hundred taels that Madam Meng had given her before from the space.
Then, she went straight to the jade shop.
Before coming, she made up her mind to buy a piece of jade today and feed it to her fairyland.
She still had four hundred and eighty taels of money left from the last time she spent, and she didn't need to move it in the fairyland.
This time, the money for selling the aconite medicine, plus the money given by Madam Meng, was nearly one thousand taels.
The little guy believed that he could buy a good piece of jade.
She entered the jade shop and was noticed by the shopkeeper instantly.
Shen Ningning was born with red lips, white teeth and delicate skin. Today, she was wearing a light green dress, with two small balls on her head and a small lotus flower.
Her sparkling eyes kept scanning the various beautiful jades on the shelf.
"Little girl, you are here again." The shopkeeper recognized her.
It was because this little girl, who was four or five years old, was beautiful and looked like a child from a wealthy family.
But she always came alone, without a servant around her.
Shen Ningning's eyes were clear and bright.
She stood on tiptoe and took the initiative to put the banknotes and two hundred taels of silver on the counter.
"Shopkeeper uncle, I want to buy jade. You can pick a good one for me if it is worth the price."
Her tone was as calm as buying a bunch of green onions.
When Shen Ningning took out nearly a thousand taels of silver, the shopkeeper was already stunned.
He counted the silver, more than nine hundred taels!
It really is a child from a wealthy family!
The shopkeeper had just wanted to tease Shen Ningning, but now he didn't dare to fool around.
He hurriedly took out a palm-sized piece of violet jade.
"This pink-purple piece is the most suitable one at the same price. If you like it, you can make it into a hairpin, or a jade pendant or fan pendant."
Shen Ningning didn't understand, so she took it in her little hand to observe.
Her skin was white, and the purple jade looked very large in her palm, and the color was even brighter.
The little girl took a look and said, "That's it. No need to polish it. I'll take it away directly."
The shopkeeper hurriedly took out a box and said, "Put it in and take it away. Be careful not to drop it on the road."
Shen Ningning shook her head and felt it was troublesome.
She just grabbed it in her hand and said, "That's good."
Anyway, we'll put it in the fairyland later.
As soon as she reached the door, the shopkeeper chased her out again, "Little lady, please wait."
"This jade costs nine hundred taels. You paid twenty taels more. I'll give it back to you." He handed over the silver.
After Shen Ningning received it, she put it in her waist pouch.
Then she waved her hand holding the jade, said goodbye, and left happily.
Looking at her back, the shopkeeper was afraid that such an expensive jade would fall and break.
Children from rich families are different.
In her eyes, good jade is like an ordinary stone.
Sitting in the carriage on the way home, Shen Ningning entered the fairyland as soon as possible and put the jade she bought on a shelf casually.
Then she left the fairyland.
Just wait to go in later to see if the jade will really be eaten by the fairyland.
As soon as she got home, the black wolf king and the wolf pack immediately surrounded them.
They howled.
Shen Ningning was confused: "What? Who do you say is here?"
The wolves all wanted to answer.
The black wolf king roared, and the wolf pack fell silent.
Finally, the black wolf king howled twice.
Shen Ningning finally understood.
"You mean, the little monkey that came to steal food before has brought me something again?"
The Black Wolf King nodded back and forth.
Shen Ningning ran back to her room.
Her desk was next to the open window, and at this moment, there was a beautiful sapphire on the windowsill.
"Wow... the little monkey gave me something beautiful this time." Shen Ningning's eyes widened in surprise.
Ever since she asked the wolves to keep the monkey in their mouths last time.
This little monkey would put something on Shen Ningning's windowsill every morning.
Last time it was a ruby ring, and this time it became a whole sapphire, the size of a thumb.
"Squeak..." The little monkey saw her coming back, and then he dared to jump in from outside, sitting on the windowsill, carefully looking at the wolves around Shen Ningning.
The little guy reached out and touched the monkey's head: "Where did you get these things from?"
The little monkey squeaked back and forth and pointed outside, but Shen Ningning didn't understand what it said.
She could only take it as its good intention and put the things away.
Afterwards, Shen Ningning took out a red fruit and handed it over.
The little monkey immediately took it, jumped out of the window holding the fruit, and disappeared.
The black wolf king snorted.
It was complaining that the monkey was smart and greedy.
Every time he took something to exchange for a bite of food, he was afraid that he would rely on her.
Shen Ningning smiled sweetly and threw herself on the black wolf king and hugged him.
"Okay, wolf, the little monkey is just hungry, and it doesn't want much. Don't be mean to it when you see it in the future."
The black wolf king licked Shen Ningning's little hand to agree.
The little guy went to see grandma and found that grandma was busy in the kitchen.
Wolf Four and three wolves followed Grandma Qin and waited for feeding.
"Grandma, what are you busy with?"
"Ningning is back. You will go to class again in a few days. The weather is hot. I will make you some cool cakes and take them to eat with your classmates."
The chubby Wolf Four ran over and rubbed Shen Ningning, then returned to Grandma Qin.
It sat on the ground, howling from time to time.
Grandma Qin was amused by it: "You greedy wolf, I just gave you four egg yolks, haven't you eaten enough?"
As she said, Grandma Qin picked up the freshly made emerald green cool cake and handed it to Wolf Four for him to smell.
Wolf Four smelled it with joy, and found that it was not meat, so he turned his face away silently.
The Black Wolf King poked his head in at the kitchen door and roared.
It disliked Wolf Four always following Grandma Qin to ask for food.
The scolded Wolf Four ran past Shen Ningning in disgrace and ran through the crack of the door.
He was afraid that he would be beaten up by the Black Wolf King if he was a little later.
Seeing this, Shen Ningning held her belly and chuckled.
"I'll go to the fairyland to get some meat and put it in the cellar. Grandma and the wolves can eat it slowly."
After that, she flashed into the fairyland.
As soon as she entered, the scene in front of her made Shen Ningning stunned.
I saw several readers say that Yuanwailang is not an official. In fact, in ancient times, Yuanwailang was really an official, but most of them donated an official position with money. They had no real power and were usually local gentry.
[Quoted from Baidu explanation]: Yuanwailang is one of the ancient Chinese official positions. It originally refers to the Langguan set up outside the regular quota. In the Sui Dynasty, each of the 24 departments of the Shangshu Province had a Yuanwailang, who was the second official of each department, equivalent to the deputy director, and the Langzhong was the regular director.
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