Chapter 186: This White-Eyed Goat

Making soy sauce, sauces, and snacks also requires jars or pottery jars. Xingnong planned to go to Lower Kiln Village to find Zhang Zheng.

There are many kilns in Upper Kiln Village and Lower Kiln Village, all firing various kinds of porcelain.

Xingnong tied a rope around the little mountain goat’s neck and said, “Let’s go! Let’s go buy jars.”

That day, the little mountain goat was unwilling to follow Zhang Zheng, but this goat was ultimately Zhang Zheng’s, so she had to return it to him.

The little mountain goat happily ran to Xingnong’s side, and Xingnong took the opportunity to feed it a strawberry.

The wild bull snorted heavily, its bull eyes wide open, looking at Xingnong: What do you mean? Only taking this little one? Have you forgotten your old love after finding a new one?

Xingnong glanced at it: “Do you want to go too? Then follow along!”

The wild bull turned its head away and snorted.

Xingnong amusedly touched its head: “Alright, let’s go!”

Then she pulled the little mountain goat out the door.

The wild bull angrily took large strides and followed.

To get to Lower Kiln Village, you just need to follow the official road all the way and cross a mountain.

The little mountain goat ran happily, occasionally lowering its head to eat the weeds by the roadside. As it was about to cross the two mountains, it suddenly stretched its four legs straight on the dirt road and refused to go any further!

Xingnong gently tugged on the rope: “Go! I’ll take you to find your little master.”

The little mountain goat lowered its body, wishing it could nail its four feet to the ground: It didn’t want to go back! There was no delicious food back there!

Xingnong: “. . .”

Walking in front, with the air of a king surveying his realm, the wild bull turned its head.

The little mountain goat bleated at it several times.

（Don’t go any further, master is going to give us away!）

Wild Bull: “. . .”

Xingnong could hear the urgency in the little mountain goat’s bleating. She remembered that when Zhang Zheng tried to take it away that day, it refused to go no matter what!

It recognized the way back, so it wouldn’t go?

She said, both amused and exasperated, “You ungrateful little thing! I’m taking you to buy things, and we’ll come back after we’re done. If you don’t want to go back, you don’t have to go back, alright? Let’s go!”

Xingnong tugged on the rope, but the little mountain goat acted like a child throwing a tantrum, lying on the ground, shaking its head, refusing to budge!

Xingnong was really helpless. Going back would waste time, and leaving them by the roadside wouldn’t be safe.

In the end, the wild bull snorted at the little mountain goat, and only then did it move forward with teary eyes, reluctantly.

Upper Kiln Village mainly fires high-quality porcelain, while Lower Kiln Village mostly fires blue tiles, blue bricks, and the like.

Lower Kiln Village is behind Upper Kiln Village, and you need to pass through Upper Kiln Village to get there.

Entering the village, she didn’t see any kilns, only a bustling street. The shops on both sides of the street all sold porcelain. Many shops came here to pick up goods and take them back to their shops in the city to sell.

The street was very spacious, with many people pulling flatbed carts. The carts were piled high with wooden boxes, and the boxes were filled with thick straw, all for transporting goods back.

Xingnong already knew that whether it was Upper Kiln Village or Lower Kiln Village, all the large porcelain shops in the two villages were actually owned by the Zhang family. This was the Zhang family’s backup plan, which only the head of the family knew about.

She walked directly into the first shop, Jingde Porcelain Kiln.

The shopkeeper greeted her warmly: “Miss? What do you want to buy?”

He glanced outside. A bull and a goat were standing outside the shop.

The goat even hid when it saw him.

Huh, why does that goat look a bit like the one Young Master Zheng picked up from the mountain? No, Young Master Zheng’s goat isn’t that fat!

After all, Young Master Zheng always forgets to feed it.

He thought to himself: This bull and goat are really fat! What do they eat?

Xingnong: “I want to find Young Master Zhang Zheng.”

Hearing this, the shopkeeper withdrew his gaze and glanced at Xingnong. A sense of vigilance arose in his heart, but it didn’t show on his face: “Who is Zhang Zheng? Miss, are you mistaken? I don’t know him.”

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Xingnong took out a jade token.

The shopkeeper’s expression immediately changed. This jade token, it was her!

The girl who developed several kinds of glazes and glass?

Recently, the entire Zhang clan has gone crazy!

Everyone almost wished there were twelve more hours in a day to produce those new colored porcelain and glass.

They were just waiting to make a splash at the annual porcelain auction and catch the Song Dynasty Porcelain Kiln off guard, reclaiming the title of the world’s best porcelain.

The shopkeeper immediately switched from enthusiasm to respect: “Please wait a moment, miss. I’ll send someone to invite Young Master Zheng.”

Xingnong nodded.

“Miss, please follow me to the backyard for tea? Young Master is not here, it will probably take a while for him to come.”

Xingnong shook her head: “No need, I happen to have some things to buy, I’ll just look around.”

“What do you want to buy, miss? Tell me, and I’ll prepare it for you.”

“I need some wide-mouthed jars and jars of various sizes. Are there any samples I can see?”

Hearing Xingnong say that she wanted “some,” the shopkeeper immediately asked professionally: “Miss, are you going to use them for storing water, grain, brewing wine, or what?”

Xingnong said, “For brewing soy sauce and sauces, and also for brewing wine. I plan to open a snack workshop and a brewing workshop. Shopkeeper, please prepare them for me according to the specifications of other workshops.”

The shopkeeper was even more surprised. This girl could make glass and also brew soy sauce and sauces?

She was too amazing, wasn’t she?

“Don’t worry, miss, I’ll prepare them for you right away. First, I’ll need a hundred of the largest jars, and I’ll match the number of other sizes to those used by other workshops. Is that enough?”

“Yes. If it’s not enough, I’ll add more later. Do you have stock?”

“Yes! If you need them, miss, just send someone to tell me, and I can have them delivered tomorrow.”

The Zhang Family Porcelain Kiln had actually been prosperous since the previous dynasty, for over two hundred years. They had done business with countless workshops.

And his ancestors had all been servants born into the Zhang family, so he was very familiar with the requirements of various workshops for utensils.

He knew exactly what a soy sauce workshop needed, and he immediately made a list and had someone prepare it.

Xingnong glanced at the list and saw that it included conical bamboo lids, winnowing baskets for drying, and strainers for filtering. All the necessary tools were prepared, saving her the time of going to other places to buy them.

Zhang Zheng soon arrived.

When he arrived outside the shop, the little mountain goat subconsciously hid under the wild bull’s belly, its head tucked under the bull’s left foreleg: He didn’t see me! He didn’t see me!……

Zhang Zheng: “. . .”

This white-eyed goat!

Wild Bull: “. . .”

It looked down at the little mountain goat hiding under its belly, lifted its hoof, and gently kicked it out!

Get lost!

It was a bull with a wife!

And its calf was about to be born, it wouldn’t be good if its wife misunderstood!

Ignoring the bull and the goat, Zhang Zheng quickly ran into the shop: “Sister Xingnong, you’re finally back!”

Xingnong smiled and nodded: “Have you found the raw materials for the glass and made it?”

This time she came because she also needed him to help her make a set of laboratory glassware.

“I made it! I just made it two days ago! Sister Xingnong, come on! I’ll take you to see it!”