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Chapter 40, Still Pretending to Be Noble! (Please follow up!!)
Zhao Chuanliang returned to the entrance of the gymnasium and watched the people coming in and out, but he didn't go in either.

It doesn't belong to him yet.

Look at the sign on the platform of the public station, and look for the bus in the direction of Dongdan Vegetable Market there.

Three cars, one of which was going to Dongdan Vegetable Market.

But at this point, he is not going to Dongdan vegetable market.

Instead, go to Chengdong District (if you don't transfer over, you will be harmonized).

For a long time, there has been a saying in Kyoto: the east is rich, the west is rich, the south is poor, and the north is cheap.

The other two understand without explanation.

In the Qing Dynasty, Manchu and Han were separated, Han people lived in the outer city, and banner people lived in the inner city, but the inner city was also divided into districts.

There are more palaces and the like in the west, but there are fewer in the east. It's not that there are no, but the east is relatively rich and rich.

And the number of people who died in the west city and those who went abroad were much less than those who stayed in the east.

Of course, this is only relative.

Another factor is that he has traded in the pigeon market near the Dongdan Vegetable Market.

Meet an old bannerman.

Thinking that these people have money and antiques in their hands, maybe they can get some benefits in the future.

After all, he knew something about those ten years.

After waiting for the car to arrive, I followed the crowd into the car, paid 7 cents for the ticket, and stood in the car watching the scene outside.

In the past, every time I came here, I basically acted at night, and rarely appeared during the day.

Just afraid of being arrested.

Even if I bring a certificate, I am worried, mainly because I have something on hand, which is not suitable.

There are only seven or eight stations in total, and the road is four to five kilometers. Even if you stop for more than ten minutes in the middle, you will arrive at the place.

Wangfujing was the penultimate stop, but he didn't go down, and he had to sit until the final stop.

Near Wangfujing Commercial Street, it can be said to be the most prosperous place in the entire imperial capital.

To the west is the Forbidden City, and to the east is Jianguomen, where most of the foreign embassies and important departments are located.

Therefore, except for a few courtyard houses that have not been demolished, most of them have been demolished.

But that's down the street.

There are still many courtyard houses in the alley.

This is the place with the most modern buildings and the densest density.

After getting off at the South Station of Dongdan Intersection, he searched for a direction and walked towards the east.

In fact, this time in the past was a bit inappropriate.

At that time, I only inadvertently knew where the other party lived after the transaction.

After walking for three miles, he came to a tall courtyard. After looking around, he still knocked on the door.

After knocking for a while, an old man came out from inside.

The other party was thin and thin, wearing a light blue round hat and a blue worsted cotton padded jacket.

Seeing him, the old man frowned and looked at him.

"Who are you looking for?"

"Master! I'm looking for you."

"Find me?"

Hearing his words, the old man was surprised for a while, looked around and confirmed that he didn't know him.

"Then, the Pigeon Market over Dongdan Vegetable Market? Have you always forgotten?"

Zhao Chuanliang reminded with a smile.

The intention is not to let the other party know me, and I definitely don't know him, the main point is to order the pigeon market.

Hearing his words, the old man's expression changed.

Looked around, "Come in and say!"

Seeing this, Zhao Chuanliang smiled and went in.

He just knew it was.

The other party was a child of the Eight Banners back then, a prominent family, who had no worries about food and clothing since childhood.

After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, these people ran out if they wanted to go out.

Some older people didn't want to die outside, so they stayed and lived in their ancestral houses.

But most of them, who had no worries about food and clothing since childhood, were unwilling to let them go to work in factories again.

The money at home can also live.

But when the money is always used up, so during the period of the Republic of China, bannermen began to cover their faces and quietly pawned their own things.

Since I couldn't sell my face to acquaintances, I quietly sold it to strangers.

Go to sell in the early morning and come back at dawn.

Slowly, a mysterious ghost market was formed. Later, more people joined, and some people from the countryside came to sell things quietly, and gradually a pigeon market was formed.

It is also because of these people that Pigeon City has the current scale.

These people have one characteristic, being arrested is minor, if people know that they are pawning things from their ancestors, it would be a shameful thing.

That's why the old man let him in so anxiously.

Zhao Chuanliang followed into the gate, and the front was a dusty hollow screen wall, which had not been destroyed.

Next to it are 7 inverted rooms.

You don't need to look inside, at least they are all courtyards with three entrances.

Sure enough, after entering through the vertical flower gate, the main courtyard faces south, with east and west wing rooms on both sides, and a corridor leading to the back cover room in the northeast corner.

The whole house is covered with verandahs.

And the entire compound is well preserved.

Standing in the middle of the compound, the old man did not go in again.

Instead, he turned to look at him: "Young man, what do you mean?"

Zhao Chuanliang withdrew his eyes from looking at the courtyard, smiled at him and said, "Master, do you want food or meat?"

He was going to arrange another nail here, and asked the old man to help collect some things, so he went back.

After all, in the black market, not everyone would bring jade articles to sell.

Moreover, it is not suitable for people who sell jade with grain and so on.

Still have to have a circle.

Kyoto is very large and densely populated, but the circle is actually quite small.

Not to mention anything else, just the children have various circles, and it is difficult for those who are not in the same circle to integrate into one.

Military compound, government compound, ordinary compound.

After all, those are the people that children come into contact with.

With his hands behind his back, the old man said calmly, "Sell grain and go to the pigeon market. Why are you here? You picked the wrong place, right?"

Zhao Chuanliang looked at the other party's eyes so swollen that he could hardly see them.

Let's put on this pretending to be high-spirited!
Then he said with a smile: "Old man, you go to the Pigeon Market to exchange things. If people know about it, isn't that more troublesome? How safe is it for me to deliver it to your door? I basically have everything you always want."

The reason why Zhao Chuanliang was at ease in dealing with this old man.

The main reason is that the other party still has his last trace of stubbornness and aloofness in his heart.

It's also a nostalgia for the past.

The possibility of reporting yourself is very small, and if you are not prepared to reveal your identity and tell the other party who you are, the other party will not be able to find you if you want to come.

Once he found that something was wrong, he immediately gave up this place.

Hearing what he said, the old man looked him up and down.

Finally, he nodded: "Let's talk about it first!"

After finishing speaking, he walked towards the main room with his hands behind his back.

Zhao Chuanliang saw that there was something going on, and followed in with a smile.

Looking at such a big courtyard house, I feel that the old man's temper is really stubborn, and now he is privately owned by the public.

The old man didn't know how to change to a smaller place and rent out the big house.

The head is really iron!
But think about it, it's useless to change it, and the result is still the same after a few years.

After coming in, he looked at the dark red furniture, and he was greedy for a while!
These are all good things!

The dark red surface is the old raw lacquer, which is not like chemical paint, which is extremely expensive.

This thing is made by cutting it from a sumac tree.

It's also on sale now.

The amount of ordinary paint is about 3 yuan per catty, and the price of raw lacquer is more than 17 yuan. It can be seen that raw lacquer is a good thing.

After the old man motioned him to sit down, he sat down himself.

Zhao Chuanliang sat on a dark red armchair, touched it, and then raised his head.

"Old man, what do you want, let's talk about how to change it!"

The old man looked him up and down, "Huo, is the little guy so loud? Can you get it?"

(End of this chapter)