Plane Supermarket

Chapter 109

The sun was shining, and Zhang Zilan staggered when he stepped out of the house called the supermarket. He almost fell, but fortunately, the "shopping guide" next to him gave him a hand, so that he had no face to land first.

The crowd outside the door still didn't disperse. He just went out when he heard the crowd shouting: "Young Lord! How's it going inside? Are there any ghosts?"

Zhang Zilan knew that this person was teasing him, so he snorted, didn't answer carefully, just took the shopping basket from Feng Ling, and shouted to the person under the steps: "The shopkeeper said, don't come here if you don't have a lot of money." There is a door, you are jealous that I can go in, if you want to know what's inside, you might as well go in and have a look yourself."

After finishing speaking, he carried the shopping basket that was falling down his arms, and swayed down the steps.

The onlookers also knew that he was the son of the Zhang family, so they were not angry at his words. After all, it seemed normal for a son of a family to be arrogant and mad.

Zhang Zilan squeezed out from the crowd and muttered softly, "I would have brought Ah Shan with me if I knew it earlier."

He didn't remember until he finished muttering - his family didn't allow him to come out, and Ashan stopped the other servants when he came out this time.

With so many things, it's not easy to go back over the wall, and there was such a big commotion when he came out, even if his parents were blind and deaf, they should know after so long.

Zhang Zilan sighed, looked at the wine bottles in the basket, and felt that he would not be beaten if he brought so many things home.

Even if he gets beaten, he shouldn't be unable to land tomorrow.

He was carrying a basket of wine, and he was about to take a rest after walking a few steps, and it was not easy to reach the front of his house, so he put the basket on the ground, and shouted at the door: "Uncle Li! Open the door! Your son is back !"

After shouting, Zhang Zilan sat down on the steps, and he took another look at the basket.

In addition to wine, he also bought some things he had never seen before, such as luminous beads - the shopping guide said that as long as the luminous beads are placed in the sun during the day, they will glow by themselves at night, faintly fluorescent, although they cannot illuminate the room Like daytime, but with a different flavor.

He will buy almost whatever the shopping guide recommends.

Just in case his parents scolded him, he bought a "workbook" and a pen holding his nose.

What Zhang Zilan hated the most in his life was reading and engraving. As a child of an aristocratic family, he could slack off in everything except reading. His hands were injured many times since he was young because of engraving on bamboo slips and wooden boards, and there were often small wounds.

Besides, regardless of bamboo slips or wooden boards, you need to work hard to carve characters. His two fingers that often carve characters are callused, and even deformed. Group jade and so on must be matched.

Both men and women admire beauty, and the advocacy of beauty is varied.

What Zhang Zilan advocates is the beauty of frailty, the body should not be thick and thick, but should be slender, the skin should be white, must not be tanned, and the posture of walking should be beautiful.

Their family is all of this aesthetic, parents, brothers and sisters, almost always open an umbrella when going out, his little sister even covered her snow-white skin, her hair is well-groomed, jet-black hair, snow-white skin, bright red lips, even She is less than ten years old, and countless families have come to her door to propose marriage.

Zhang Zilan looked at the pen and thought it was also an engraved pen. Although the engraved pen was also a pen, it was actually a knife.

Although they also use a brush to write, but the brush can only be preserved for a long time on the silk cloth. If it is on the bamboo slips, the ink color will soon fade due to the action of rolling and spreading. Engraved again.

It's just that he can't read the book.

The "shopping guide" didn't allow him to ask, so he didn't ask, and he still doesn't know what a book is and what paper is.

There was a sound of opening the door behind him, Zhang Zilan stood up, turned his head and said impatiently: "Why so slow?! Uncle Li, did you go to the kitchen to steal food again?"

When he finished speaking, he just turned his head, and what caught his eyes was not Uncle Li's old and kind face, but an angry and straight face.

Zhang Zilan immediately raised his shoulders and whispered, "Father..."

"You still know that I'm your father?!" Zhang Shen looked at his son, suppressed his emotions, and said to Zhang Zilan, "Come in."

Zhang Zilan knew that he was doomed, so he could only carefully lift the basket and follow his father inside.

Uncle Li, who was guarding the door, opened his mouth when Zhang Zilan passed by, and said silently, "Please beg for mercy."

Zhang Zilan nodded with a mournful face.

"Go to the ancestral hall." Zhang Shen's face was so dark that water dripped out.

Zhang Zilan could only obediently go to the ancestral hall. He dared to display the Zhao family's money outside, but when he returned home, he, the Zhao family's son, was worthless.

"You're still carrying things!" Zhang Shen finally couldn't help cursing, "Do you know what happened yesterday?! Do you know that Your Majesty is currently rectifying government affairs, and Zhang Rong was arrested!"

Zhang Zilan was stunned, he knew Zhang Rong, but in fact the kinship was far away.

His family is a branch of the Zhang family. A hundred years ago, he could only live a miserable life at the border. It was after generations of hard work that he returned to the capital from the border.

The family never claimed to be Zheng's surname and Zhang's when they went out, they only said it was Zhang's.

They don't want to get involved with the main branch. Once they get involved, the main branch will become their master again.

Zhang Zilan forgot what was in her hand, and immediately said: "No one knows that we are with them. Even if we know, after so many years, can we still get back together? It's not our business when it's good. Of course it has nothing to do with us.”

"Besides, Your Majesty is a good man." Zhang Zilan said, "Zhang Rong is his good friend, so I'm afraid he won't be punished."

Zhang Shen looked at his son, and he smiled angrily: "If one day, when you are away from home, your elder brother helps outsiders seize your property and imprison your wife and children, what will you do?"

Zhang Zilan was taken aback, and he immediately said: "Then he is not my elder brother! Between me and him, one must die!"

If an ordinary person betrays him, he betrays him.

But his elder brother betrayed him, that is absolutely unforgivable.

Zhang Shen sneered: "You're not stupid, so now you say, Your Majesty will not punish Zhang Rong?!"

"Your Majesty not only wants to punish him for his crime! He also wants to execute him in front of the palace gate! The punishment of the owl's head!"

Zhang Zilan opened his mouth wide: "...how... how could it be so? No one to persuade?! Father! Didn't you persuade the king? You can't punish the doctor, father!"

Courtesy is not inferior to ordinary people, and punishment is not superior to senior officials.

It's not that ordinary people have no etiquette, and doctors don't have to accept punishment.

It's just that common people's lives are difficult, and they cannot be required to understand etiquette and act like children of aristocratic families.

A doctor commits a crime. In order to take care of his dignity, he cannot be allowed to accept the same criminal law as a commoner, and he is told to commit suicide, so as to save some face for him and his family.

"Your Majesty... is this trying to break face with the aristocratic family?" Zhang Zilan looked at his father.

He is unruly, but not stupid.

Zhang Shen nodded, with a serious expression on his face: "Your Majesty just said that Zhang Rongxiao was going to be decapitated during the meeting this morning, and all the officials of the aristocratic family have retreated."

Zhang Zilan thought about it: "This is a good thing!"

Zhang Shen glared at his son: "What's the matter!"

Zhang Zilan: "No one knows that we are in the same family as the Zhang family with the Zheng surname, and my father didn't rely on Zhang's recommendation to become an official. Now that the emperor wants to suppress the family, he must promote his father."

"This is a disaster for the aristocratic family, but a blessing for us." Zhang Zilan said with a smile, "What's more, it would be better if the Zhang family is gone. One radish and one hole. Eldest brother and second elder brother haven't been able to find work yet."

After being said by his son, Zhang Shen's expression also calmed down. After thinking about it for a while, he also felt that what Zhang Zilan said was not unreasonable.

He was able to become an official because of his father's recommendation, and his family came to the capital from the border, but they kept their identities incognito, pretending that they were Wei's surname Chen.

If not, the family would never allow these branches to enter the royal city later.

For a family, the more branches it has, the more it will be weakened. Therefore, in the new generation of a family, only two or three people will be kept in the main branch, and the rest will be driven out of the capital.

This is to preserve the power of the family to the greatest extent.

But what about the evicted?Obviously you are all Zhao's children, why can you stay in the capital and be an official and prime minister, while I can only go to the bitter and cold border to live a hard life?Not even allowed to return to the capital?

If anyone in this world hates the Zhang family the most, it is the children of the Zhang family that are branched out from them.

Zhang Shen, who originally wanted his son to kneel in the ancestral hall, patted his son on the shoulder: "Okay, there is no need to go to the ancestral hall. Tell me, what did you do when you went out?"

Zhang Zilan immediately said with a smile, "I went to watch the excitement. It was so lively. You know the burned house in the south of the city, right? The new house built on the land is so novel."

Zhang Shen: "What's so special about the house?"

Zhang Zilan beamed with joy: "It is said that it was built overnight, but it is different from the other ones. The house does not have as many pillars as our house. It is square and big inside. There are countless shelves full of goods..."

He talked on and on, but Zhang Shen didn't listen at all—his son used to exaggerate, and a small pond could be called a big pond. If he listened, he would look like a fool.

"By the way, I bought these things from the supermarket." Zhang Zilan, "I didn't bring any money when I went out, so I had to sell the group of jade."

Zhang Shen, who had just calmed down, was furious again: "Do you know that your mother put so much effort into buying that set of jade for you! You prodigal son!"

Zhang Zilan saw that Lao Tzu's slap was about to come up, and immediately put the basket in front of Zhang Shen: "I didn't buy it for myself, look, all I bought was wine, so that you and your mother can accompany your meal. "

Zhang Shen still wanted to scold, what kind of wine can be worth such a good group of jade?

But he looked down and couldn't say the words.

Although he couldn't tell whether these wines were good or bad, he could tell at a glance that these bottles must be worth a lot.

"Where did this come from?!" Zhang Shen's voice became louder, and his eyes widened.

Zhang Zilan finally felt complacent: "I bought them in that supermarket. There are a lot of these things there. There are so many of them, but the price is high, but as long as you have money, you can buy them. Now only we have them here."

"After you and your mother finish drinking, let's give this bottle to the merchant and sell it outside."

Zhang Zilan has learned to buy and sell without a teacher.

Zhang Shen picked up a bottle of wine. The bottle was transparent and colorless. He lifted the bottle up and looked at it against the light. He found that the wine inside was clear and bright without any turbidity. No matter how good the wine is today, Will be a little cloudy.

"It looks like..." Zhang Shen murmured.

Zhang Zilan hurriedly said: "I bought something else. This luminous bead can glow at night. The shopping guide said that the light is not bright, but the luminous bead is amazing. How can it be expected to be as bright as a torch? If this thing can Take out..."

Zhang Shen frowned: "Did the family treat you badly? You are obviously a son of a family, how can you be so philistine?"

Zhang Zilan whispered: "Then we don't spend money on food, clothing, housing and transportation? You don't make money..."

Zhang Shen kicked his son in the past: "I am your father!"

Zhang Zilan covered her butt and muttered: "I know you are my father, if you weren't my father, I would have fought back!"

Their family is not attached to the main branch, so there are not many ways to get money, and now the family relies on the wealth accumulated by their ancestors, and he confiscates the money that is not bad for the son-in-law outside, just because he is afraid that others will look down on them.

A wealthy family does not necessarily have status, but a poor family certainly does not.

If the aristocratic family is poor, it is no different from ordinary people, and no one will look at them again.

Many people think that poor people have no morals and must be thieves.

People in their family are outside, usually with swollen faces to pretend to be fat, no matter how much suffering they can only swallow, the family's surplus money is running out, even if they want to cut expenses, there is nowhere to reduce it.

The servants of their family are all servants. They are not so much servants as they are family members. You can't drive them out, right?

Then so many people always need to eat, always need to wear clothes, spend money every day, and spend money everywhere.

But the collections at home can't be sold either, the aristocratic families in Wangcheng know who has what, and if they sell things today, the people in the aristocratic families all over the city will know that they can't do it tomorrow.

Zhang Zilan knew the family's predicament, so she spared no effort to persuade Zhang Shen: "The hairpin on my mother's hair was three years ago. I think she won't go out for many days, just because I'm afraid that the wives will find out that my father is too. Think about it for your mother, is it possible that your mother has not gone out to meet people?"

"And elder brother, there is no money in the family, you can't dredge the relationship, no one recommends, elder brother has no official position so far."

Zhang Zilan: "Second brother is now 24 and has not married a wife yet. He said that he wants to find a lover. Who knows that it is because the family has no money. He is afraid that people will find out when discussing marriage."

The previous Zhang Shen didn't refute. After hearing this sentence, he couldn't help but retort: ​​"Your second brother really wants to find someone he loves."

The aristocratic family has no obsession with inheriting offspring, and the men of the aristocratic family also pursue love more-it is normal not to marry at thirty or forty.

It's not that there are no unmarried people all their lives, it's just that common people and common people get married early.

Because the aristocratic family does not need children to serve as labor force, their family has permanent property, not to mention raising children for old age.

Zhang Zilan said "Oh", but still persuaded: "Even if the second brother doesn't get married, I will, right?"

Zhang Shen glanced at his son: "You? You don't have all your hair, why are you getting married?!"

However, Zhang Shen finally agreed to Zhang Zilan's proposal. He also felt that the family needed some income, and they couldn't keep beating their face swollen.

That afternoon, Zhang Shen drank the wine his son poured for himself.

In addition to wine, Zhang Zilan also bought wine sets, a set of glass wine glasses, the yellowish wine was poured into it, and it could be clearly seen through the glass, making people reluctant to drink it down.

The whole family sits in the same room, and there is a lacquer table in front of each person, with food and a glass of wine on it.

But everyone's attention is no longer on the wine, but on the glass and bottle.

The family was amazed.

"It seems that we have to go to the supermarket to have a look."

"Yes, even if you don't buy it, you have to broaden your horizons."

"I don't know which country's craftsmen made it. If it was made by my craftsman from Chen country, it would be the best. It would be the best to invite that man and his apprentice to our home."

"Exactly, it's best to become a domestic slave in the family, and we will be our Zhang family in the future."

They have all thought of monopoly.

Zhang Zilan: "Those people are not like Chen people, nor are they like people from other countries. They are all different from us."

"What's the difference?"

"Aren't all people the same?"

Zhang Zilan rolled her eyes: "They both have two eyes and two ears, so are you similar to a commoner slave? Are you the same?"

"The woman who led me to buy things has a scar on her face. She treats people differently from ordinary men and women. She doesn't look like a maid, but like a master."

"Maybe she is the master?"

"Exactly, there are not a few women in business nowadays."

"If you don't get tougher, how can a weak woman go into business?"

Zhang Zilan's eldest sister said: "Then I'll go and have a look, I also want to open a shop!"

The family looked at her, and the eldest sister said, "I'm bored at home every day, and I'm going to get bored! I can't be an official after studying, so can't I open a shop to enjoy myself?"

Zhang Zilan's mother smiled and said, "Okay, my mother will pay you, so you can open it."

The eldest sister quickly acted like a baby: "Daughter knows, mother is the best."

Zhang Zilan's mother said: "The supermarket, does your lord know about it? If you don't know, you should let your lord know."

Zhang Zilan said: "When I went there in the morning, someone told me that those people were brought back by Your Majesty."

The family discussed it, and went to the supermarket together after dinner to have a look again. This time they brought almost all the valuable things in the family. The jewelry you carry is money.

However, when they stepped out of the house, they found that the whole city of Linzi seemed to be in motion. The aristocratic families who closed their doors like them in the morning all rushed towards the supermarket with a large number of servants. Then you have to watch the excitement!

"Brother Zhang! Are you going to that supermarket too?" said the head of a family not far from Zhang's, "My wife and I are going there too!"

Zhang Shen was a little surprised: "Madam Zun came out too?"

Did he know that his neighbor had been shutting himself out since his wife became pregnant. Hearing that his wife's pregnancy was extremely unstable, almost everyone felt that his wife would not be able to pass this threshold.

The neighbor shouted: "That's right! Niang Rong was very sick, she said she wanted to come out and see what's new."

"Brother Zhang, let's go ahead, and hurry up, I heard that many people are heading that way."

After speaking, the neighbor asked the servant to drive to the south of the city.

Due to the large number of people in their family, there was no way to squeeze into a carriage, so they had to ask their wives and daughters to get into the carriage, and all the men in the family rode there.

Before reaching the place, they were blocked on the road.

Although the city of Linzi is not too big and the streets are not too wide, but fortunately there are not many people with horses and carriages. Usually, even if two carriages collide, one of them will pass by a little.

But now I don’t want to, there are cars in the front, back, left, and right. If they get stuck, they will be blocked, and no one will let anyone in. No one will be able to enter.

"How can this be done!" The servant driving the carriage was a little anxious, "My lord, I really can't make it through!"

"There are more and more carriages."

Zhang Shen could only ride to the side of the car and ask, "Madam, if not, let's go over there?"

Mrs. Zhang nodded: "Then let's go over there. That's good. I don't come to the south of the city very often."

There are several large cities in the south of the city. The people who live in this area are merchants and common people, and the aristocratic families live in the center of the city.

They got off the horse and carriage, leaving only a few servants watching, and the family walked towards the supermarket together.

With them as an example, other people who rode horses and chariots also got down and walked.

But the further they walked, the more frightened they were. The streets were full of people, including peddlers, people from aristocratic families, old and young, and everyone was heading in the same direction.

"I heard someone bought a crystal ball!"

"That crystal ball is powered by a fairy! Twist something, and it will emit light and sound."

"The sound is quite pleasant, but the young man refused to play it one more time, saying that listening to it once would consume some electricity, and when the electricity ran out, he would have to buy another battery."

"Dianli? Isn't it immortal?"

"Maybe it's a new name for the fairy art by those outsiders."

"And cloth! Those cloths are really strange. They come in all kinds of colors. When exposed to sunlight, they appear in seven colors."

"Hey! The owner here is such a fool!"

Everyone was puzzled: "Why do you say that? How is the master here so stupid?"

It was an old man who spoke, and he shook his head and sighed: "These things are so rare, any one of them can make him rich, but he actually sells them so easily, and the price is so low."

"Old man, are you deaf? How expensive is it to buy a crystal ball?"

The old man blew his beard and stared: "These things can be bought with money? In the past, it took seventeen cities to exchange the moonlight cups. Look at the moonlight cups in this store, how much do they sell? Is it worth a thousand dollars or seventeen? How many cities?"

"...If you say so, it's true."

"Yes, although it is expensive, if it is not available in other countries, it is still priceless!"

"Hurry up! Go home and get the money!"

"My family can make some money! I'll go back and get it now!"

"You can't ask the master here to think about this matter, you all have to keep silent, such a stupid businessman is not common nowadays!"

"Yes, yes, shut up, don't say anything!"

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In the lounge, silly Ye Zhouzi sneezed.

Zou Ming: "Have a cold?"

Ye Zhou shook his head, a little confused: "Why do I feel that someone is scolding me?"