After selling all the goods and buying sundries, the trip into the city was almost done.
Lu Yuan looked at the sky. The sun was high in the sky at this time, and it was the time when the sun was strongest at noon.
There is no need to say that you are in a hurry at this time. You will definitely lose two pounds of sweat.
It is not a wonderful thing to go back to the mountain with a heavy backpack weighing dozens of kilograms under the poisonous sun.
It happened that he had been busy all morning, and his stomach was growling, so he did not hesitate and followed his usual example and went to a simple tea stall in the south of the city.
The name of the tea stall is Chen Kee Tea Shop, which is written on a white cloth banner and hung outside as a signboard.
Lu Yuan stared at the canvas for a long time and wrote down the words "Chen Ji Tea Shop" over and over in his mind.
After traveling through time, he didn't realize it at first, but after entering the city and seeing the shop signs, he suddenly realized that he didn't even know the characters of this world.
Although this world looks similar to the ancient times in the previous life, the various social systems and local customs are very similar, but they are only similar.
If nothing else, just using words, this life is very different from the previous life.
Although the characters in this world are the same as the Chinese characters in the previous life and look quite similar, the radicals and pronunciation are completely different from the Chinese characters in the previous life.
The appearance is similar, but the various meanings there are quite different.
This is not the difference between simplified characters and traditional characters, but more equivalent to the difference between Chinese and Japanese, but this difference is larger.
Just like the "Chen Ji Tea Shop" in front of him, if Lu Yuan hadn't asked the store owner and knew these four words, even if he tried hard, he wouldn't have been able to recognize what they meant.
By analogy, that is to say, the characters Lu Yuan knew in his previous life will no longer be used in this life.
If he wants to read, he has to learn it all over again.
"It seems that if I have a chance, I have to find a private school to teach me how to read." Lu Yuan thought to himself, and then he felt a headache.
Reading is not a simple thing.
The apprenticeship fee, pen, ink, paper and inkstone, as well as various costs that cannot be produced while studying, add up to a large amount of expenses.
Although he has some savings now, whether he can afford eight taels of silver is a question.
But if you are illiterate, you will not be able to have in-depth contact with the world, which is absolutely impossible.
"The Chinese New Year will be here in three or four months. At that time, the mountains will be blocked by heavy snow and I won't be able to go hunting. Then I'll come to the city and ask how much it will cost to go to a private school and learn how to read. I hope I have enough money by then." "Lu Yuan was worried about this in his heart.
After looking at the words "Chen Ji Tea Shop" again to make sure he would not forget it, he walked into the tea stall.
This stall has a simple kitchen, where the owner serves tea and snacks, and a large shed is set up outside. There were seven or eight wooden tables placed under the shed, but the tables and chairs were very old and worn, with stains and ravines all over them, and they looked old at first glance.
This kind of street stall has always been popular with the lower class.
The porters working in the city and the farmers and hunters entering the city cannot afford to go to those big restaurants and teahouses, but they still want to eat and quench their thirst, so they can only come to this kind of street shop.
Because it specializes in serving the lower class, the food and water here at Chadan are also very cheap.
The store's homemade rice wine, mixed half with water and wine, costs three pennies a bowl.
Three bowls of crude tea made with various tea foams mixed together cost one penny.
Yangchun plain noodles cost three pennies a bowl. If you want to add some sliced meat, it costs ten cents a bowl. There are also broad beans, peanuts, melon seeds and other side dishes to go with wine, which cost a penny for a small plate.
There are also noodle cakes, meat cakes, plain meat, etc., and the prices vary.
Lu Yuan has always been a man who enjoys all things meat, and there are still dozens of miles of mountain road to go back to the mountains. He will not have enough energy if he is not full.
So after entering the tea stall, he immediately shouted: "Old Chen, please bring two meat pies, a bowl of Yangchun noodles, a plate of braised pork, and a bowl of rice wine."
With that said, he took out fifty coins and handed it over.
A meatloaf costs 7 cents, and a plate of braised pork costs 30 cents. Including Yangchun noodles and rice wine, the total is exactly 50 cents.
With just such a meal, the daily expenses of an ordinary family are gone.
Business people always pay attention to knowing someone. Every time I went to the city, I would come to Chenji Tea Soup to eat. Although there was a gap of one or two months between each time I came to the city, it would be nearly ten times a year.
Within a few years, Lao Chen knew that he had such a regular customer.
So when he saw Lu Yuan, he immediately responded with a smile: "Okay, Da Lang, you sit down first, the food will be served shortly."
The food was served very quickly.
After all, the food ordered is all cooked food. The meatloaf and braised pork have already been prepared, and the rice wine is just served. Blanch the Yangchun noodles for a few minutes and sprinkle some salt with chopped green onions. It's all simple food.
After being busy for a long time, Lu Yuan was already very hungry, so when the food came up, he wolfed it down immediately. In just a few moments, the food in front of them was all gone.
After his stomach was full, he picked up the wine bowl and took a sip. Then he perked up his ears contentedly and began to listen to the chatter of the people next to him.
Of course, choosing a tea stall like this to eat is not just for the sake of cheapness.
There is a mix of people in the tea stall, including hard workers in the city, farmers outside the city, businessmen traveling from various places, and even occasionally a few down-and-out warriors wearing strong clothes. It can be said that people from all over the world gather here.
Therefore, news from everywhere circulates here.
If there is something going on in someone's house in the city, or if something big happens somewhere else, you can basically hear it at a place like a tea stall.
"I heard that member Liu from the east of the city has taken a concubine into his wife's family. She has an outstanding appearance and looks like a fairy." A man who looked like a coolie said.
"Mr. Liu is already in his early sixties, so I don't know if it's okay, but at this age, he has such a lovely wife. It's really enviable."
"More than envious, his concubine is the Tofu Xishi in the east of the city. She is only fourteen now. When I went to her house to buy tofu, I saw that her skin was as tender as tofu, white and tender, which made people look at it. I can't help but want to touch it." The person who said this was a gangster with a sharp mouth and a slutty look on his face.
"Hey, I don't want to take a look at your virtue, but you still want to touch it. Why don't you do more good deeds in this life and try to get a good child in the next life?"
As soon as these words came out, there was a burst of laughter in the stall.
Everyone looked at the wretched gangster and started teasing him happily. As they laughed and laughed, the fatigue of the day seemed to be swept away.
Lu Yuan couldn't help but smile.
Topics like old husbands and young wives have always been the focus of gossip, and they have endured over time.
The atmosphere in the tea stall gradually became warmer.
"ah--"
Suddenly, a scream was suddenly heard on the street, and then there was a crowd of people in chaos, chickens flying, dogs jumping, and the sound of smashing.
This kind of movement immediately attracted people in the tea stall.
Lu Yuan also turned his head to look, and then his pupils shrank.
But at this moment, he saw a swordsman in green on the street. He jumped up and waved his long sword in his hand. A man in black in front of him spurted out blood and fell to the ground.
In broad daylight, someone actually killed someone on the street!
