The slovenly man wandered out of the nunnery and walked eastward unsteadily. The capital is no better than the capital. The rules are so complicated that even stalls are not allowed to be set up on the Suzaku Avenue. However, with the influx of a large number of people, this city, which was originally intended to station troops, has no shackles of those rules and regulations. To be honest, here It is much more than the capital city.
Even compared to the two eastern and western cities, the prosperity of Beijing is not much worse than that of Xibo Chang'an, which has a thousand years of history and culture.
Xuanwu Avenue, which is similar to Zhuque Avenue and runs through the north and south of Beijing, which is less than half the size of the capital, coincides with a monthly gathering. The entire street, which can drive two five-horse carriages side by side, is bustling with people, shoulder to shoulder. So lively.
Along the road there were shouts and shouts of hawkers, there were also entertainers shouting to earn a living, and there were also sellers of imported goods selling goods that were not commonly seen in the Zhou Dynasty using fluent Dazhou Mandarin.
People of all kinds gather together, people come and go, and the market is full of cars and horses. This is the prosperous age. Naturally, he did not sigh at the lively scene that only belonged to the Kingdom of Heaven. He was already staggering like a drunken and slovenly man, but he could always quickly avoid the pedestrians before bumping into them, which made the people around him dodge.
He took another sip of wine, tilted his head up and turned the wine bottle almost upside down. He was still reluctant to part with the last drop, looked around, and walked towards a wine rack not far away.
There were no less than three or five groups of people sitting in the wine bar. Judging by their dress and accent, they were all businessmen who had traveled all over the world, and there were also a few blond and blue-eyed people from the Western Regions among them. Most of the businessmen couldn't bear the coldness of the morning, so they drank a few sips to warm their bodies, drank a few glasses of wine, and talked loudly about rare news from all over the world.
Wandering around the Zhou Dynasty all year round, traveling thousands of miles from east to west, these merchants may have seen and heard more than enough to write a book.
In the previous dynasty, there was a scholar who was born into a wealthy family. He was successful in his studies and did not seek fame. He followed the caravans near his hometown and traveled around for decades. He crossed the Guge Dynasty in the far west and wandered in the sea for nearly a year without being able to land. The most noteworthy thing is that he visited the family three times and never came back to his hometown. His parents passed away without seeing him return home. It can be said that he has only been looked down upon by others throughout his life.
"make a sightseeing tour". Returning to his hometown in the year of destiny, he spent ten years compiling a travel diary covering all over the world at the age of 60. He named it "Jinjin", which means relishing it. It is full of anecdotes from various places and covers all directions. For a time, paper in Luoyang was expensive, and interesting stories about people chatting about it have been passed down to this day.
It's just that there aren't many ink merchants in this group who are not so particular, and all of them speak very vulgarly.
They were all talking about some new things that would spread throughout the streets after the New Year, and they were chatting after tea and dinner. Talking about the one-hundred-and-eight most influential figures in the world that have been dormant for three years, talking about the changing position of the leader of Wudang, talking about someone on the watershed using the power of heaven to show off his power, and the kidnapping of the Lord of Phoenix City that happened just a few days ago. At the end of the day, she couldn't leave Yejia.
It seemed to be a very taboo topic, but in the end the topic was settled with a smile and a new idea came up.
"Did you hear that in the first few months, several bandits appeared in Luyu and Licheng, and the Bamin garrison arrested a few of them. Who do you think they were?" The speaker was a lean man, originally He wanted to whet the appetite of others, but seeing the lack of interest among them, he added: "Fu Ying Japanese!" These words caught the attention of everyone in the wine bar, including several people on the low tables around him. The diners turned their heads in attraction.
Naturally, for this group of rough guys, they are definitely not concerned about the political affairs of the two countries. Sure enough, it was still the lean man with dark brown skin tanned by the wind and sun all year round. He gave a look that every man knew, and said with a smile: "Japanese children are best trained. I have heard people say that young Japanese children only need to be trained properly." , What we ordinary people can't do is easy for them." A younger man at the table next to him echoed: "To the extreme, I have seen a 180-pound Japanese monkey get into the chimney. That Kung Fu is even more powerful than the Shaolin Temple's Bone Shrinking Kung Fu." Someone at his table immediately took over and said, "What's that Kung Fu called? As the old saying goes, street acrobatics make people laugh, but it's not as good as Waifen to make people laugh. Yell. You can just let him use a big chest and smash big rocks to be a hairy monkey and have fun. What kind of bone-shrinking skills are you doing?" A few men who were traveling in martial arts burst into laughter, but it attracted the sloppy man who was watching the waiter weighing the wine. He frowned.
This Fuying has already declared itself a vassal and paid tribute to Zhou Nasui, so how could it come to the coast to cause trouble again? Thinking about what I heard from my brother a few days ago, Fuying will not pay tribute this year, so there must be something weird if something goes wrong.
It's just that a sloppy man who has family matters at heart won't worry too much about such state affairs. The lean man who spoke first looked at each other with an impatient expression, waved his hand and said: "Go, go, you little brat has only been eating for a few years, and you know nothing about it. Does that mean that the Japanese are juggling? Their hair hasn't grown yet." What are you talking about?" There was another foreign man with a golden beard at the next table. He must have been traveling between the East and the West all year round. He spoke extremely fluent Zhou Mandarin and laughed and said: "What the hell are you talking about acrobatics? The Japanese girls are in good shape, and just the sound on the bed makes people happy." These two businessmen, who must be old people in the world, laughed at each other, making the younger boy at the table blush with shame, and his neck was thick with shame, thinking about it The tablemate who was my eldest son glared at me.
"Shut up when you are talking, don't talk nonsense if you don't understand." The big bearded man continued: "If you have time, I will go to Zhifu Island in the east. To tell you the truth, there are some purchased products on the island. You little bitches, you are so capable that the guards will never leave." This caused several people in the room to burst into laughter.
For these businessmen who travel all over the country and live without a home all year round, what interests them is nothing more than the pretty girls from certain regions who have pretty looks, curvy figures, and good kung fu. All of them suddenly smile brightly and start shouting outrageous and explicit naughty words.
The sloppy man was amused in his heart. He took a sip from the jug handed to him by the store, and shamelessly asked for it to be filled up. He just gave him a few coins. He was so fussy about taking advantage of small things, which really made the bartender roll his eyes and curse a few times. sentence.
The slovenly man didn't care at all about the disgusted look. He took the wine pot out of the wine rack and stopped when he passed by the candy seller's stall. Several more children with their hair tied up were chattering, holding up a copper plate and talking to the candy seller. The boss shouted his own demands.
Some children who had gotten their favorite candy cheered and were not willing to eat it, jumping up and down with their hands held high.
The sloppy man squatted down and leaned against the boss, who was about the same age as him. He quietly watched him skillfully light a fire to boil sugar, spread out a piece of oil paper, and move with his hands, lifelike.
The boss had already passed the time of tea, and had earned four or five coppers by working as a candy man for several times before he spoke. He was still focused on the work at hand, and said, "Sir, don't you want to buy one?" The man said: "Two."
"do what?"
"mandarin duck."
"A pair?"
"A pair." After asking and answering, the slovenly man did not bargain. He reached into his pocket and took out a piece of broken silver, which made the candy boss look up. It was not that he smiled like a child just because he saw money. , on the contrary, it is the joy of meeting an old friend in a foreign land.
"Fourth Master." He no longer cared about the children in front of the stall who were taking care of his business and allowing him to drink an extra 20 ounces of wine during his next meal. The boss with a simple and honest smile hurriedly got up and asked the man he called Fourth Master. The sloppy man held his shoulders.
"Business about your work first." This time, he lost his previous attentiveness. Under the reluctant and helpless eyes of several children, the candy man boss finished the last few pieces in a hurry, and carefully took away the piece of broken silver. He put it aside and quickly closed the stall, but was held down by the sloppy man again.
He smiled,
"There's still a pair of mandarin ducks." The owner of Tangren was in a hurry.
"Do you know what the test stone means?" the slovenly man asked as he watched the candy man's boss cooking candy. The candy boss shook his hand and the fire became more intense.
The sloppy man blew, and the flames died down.
"It needs to be sweet, not bitter." The owner of Sugar Man had to start the fire again. This time he didn't speak deliberately. As he watched the two sugar cakes gradually taking shape, the sloppy man stretched out his hands, one in each hand, and blew gently towards Yuanyang, who still had a warm breath.
"It's only been three years, why can't you sit still? How much money was given to you one by one? How did these 108 people come out? I just asked you to look at the newcomers, I didn't say you had this ability. "The candy man boss was frightened.
"Is someone trying to fish in troubled waters or just trying to make up for it?" Boss Tangren's eyes dodge.
"I wanted to clear up the name of the third young master, but those people in front couldn't move, so I queued up to fourteen." The sloppy man sneered,
"Do you need to show your face here?" As he spoke, the sloppy man wrapped the candy and stood up.
"Release the news and tidy up the list again." He took a step forward and dropped a sentence.
“The messier the better.”
