A Guide to Shopping in Ancient Times

Blurb:

There are many shops in Lingjiang Prefecture, and the Song Family Dry Goods Shop is well known. It sells everything from dried goods and seafood to oil, wax, and cloth. Everything is top quality, and even the government offices shop there.

But after the old proprietor passed away and the new owner took over, the business quickly declined. The new owner had a poor eye for quality and couldn't tell good products from bad. The old buyers all left, the supply of goods dried up, and the promised summer and winter cotton cloth could not be delivered on time.

The eldest Song son only knows how to eat, drink, and have fun. The eldest daughter loves writing poetry and painting. The second son is studious and ambitious, while the youngest daughter has been strange and eccentric since childhood. For a time, it seems the Song family has no one to carry on the business.

Just as the Song family is about to close the shop, the youngest daughter, Song Suying, takes charge and sets off by boat to buy cloth.

The cloth she brings back is better than any batch before it. Even the Procurement Office can't find fault with it.

When Master Song wants to hand the shop over to Song Suying, she says, "I want to be a buyer."

What's the point of staying cooped up in a shop after transmigrating to ancient times? Of course she wants to travel around, see the world, and enjoy good food and drink.

Song Suying goes to Songzhou to buy floral gauze, brocade, and silk. Along the way, she samples duck stewed with bamboo shoots, chicken soaked in shrimp oil, lamb cake, crab roe with pork, and more. She also picks up a few popular goods to take home, and ends up helping several small workshops get back on their feet.

Next she heads to Sujiang Prefecture to buy dried goods and salted fish, enjoying boat meals and canal banquets along the way... Then she goes to Mingcheng...

While she is out buying goods, everyone worries about her safety. Little do they know that she hired a bodyguard to stay by her side from the start. He's handsome and highly skilled, so she has nothing to fear wherever she goes.

The female lead, a "buyer," x the male lead, a bodyguard.

[Reader's Guide]

1. This is a fictional setting, and an extremely fictional one at that.

2. The story focuses on business, with little romance.

3. The title and blurb may be revised to some extent before the novel begins, but the core will remain unchanged.

Theme: If you want to do business, travel far and wide.