swallow a dragon ball

Chapter 29 Seeing all Chang'an flowers in one day【For further reading】

Quarry City is indeed an area rich in stone. The foundations of most houses are made of stone, but the houses are really low and the walls are made of various types of wood.

There are not even many houses with earthen walls made of rammed loess, giving the overall feeling of being dark, depressed and dilapidated.

This made Yu Youquan, a countryman who saw the county town for the first time in his life, a little disappointed!
But it just so happens that there is a market today, and the market as a whole is still very lively.

In just a short while, Yu Youquan saw a large number of people carrying their burdens to the market, some selling eggs, some selling vegetables and game, and occasionally seeing various mountain products.

Most of these people dress simply and plainly, wearing short brown clothes. The styles are similar, mostly made of linen, and almost all have patches.

Most of the shoes are straw sandals, but there are also those who wear them, and there are also many barefoot ones, and very few of them are really well-dressed and wide-sleeved.

In this day and age, clothes are not clothes, they are money worn on the body!
It is almost equivalent to showing off your wealth nakedly, telling everyone clearly that I am rich, a diamond king!

Therefore, no matter where Yu Youquan and his master Zheng Xuancheng go, they can attract great attention.

The method of transaction involves money, but more often it is barter.

Even if the money is used, it is basically copper coins, and the purchasing power of a copper coin is also very high.

Yu Youquan saw an old woman buying an old hen with more than 30 copper coins. Although there are reasons why the old woman is amazing at bargaining, the money is indeed valuable.

As for the money maker, I almost didn’t see it!
Especially eggs, Yu Youquan did not expect that the value is much higher than expected.

He even saw a woman who exchanged an egg for half a can of soy sauce, which opened his eyes.

As for the happiest thing, there are many children who go to the market with their parents, and they want to eat all kinds of weird food.

The average parent is absolutely reluctant to buy these flashy things, but some adults who dote on their children still reluctantly buy some for their children.

For a while, some quarrels could always be heard in the ears.

Or blame the peddler for taking care of the child, or one spouse blames the other for spoiling the child too much. Often at this time, the blamed party can only be embarrassing and dare not refute.

Or when there are too many people and it is lively, there will be all kinds of people going to the market to join in the fun.

In Yu Youquan's eyes, this kind of lively and extravagant gathering is extremely crude, but it has to be said that this kind of fireworks in the world is indeed the most gratifying!
In just a short period of time, his long-term loneliness in the deep mountains and old forests and the fierceness of his continuous battles with wild beasts were greatly diluted.

It's just that what Yu Youquan didn't expect was the performance of his master Zheng Xuancheng!

Seeing caramel, he couldn't help but ask him if he wanted to eat it. Yu Youquan said no, and soon he had various pastries made with caramel in his hands.

Seeing candied fruit, he would also politely ask him if he wanted to eat it, Yu Youquan said no, and then the master and apprentice had all kinds of candied fruit in their hands.

There are even various toys!

Yu Youquan was unable to complain for a moment.

Does this really treat him like a child?
Toys such as tile dogs and puppets, he really can't arouse any interest, they are too crude!
However, Yu Youquan suspected that his master was just greedy, and then used his name to eat all kinds of things, performing "I don't want you to think, I want me to feel" to the fullest!

but.

He quite likes this kind of master. He has all the qualities of a traditional scholar-bureaucrat, but also has some cynicism in his heart.

Quite a bit of an old naughty boy!

The location of the market is relatively scattered. Although it is not as exaggerated as "buying horses in the east market, saddles in the west market, bridles in the south market, and long whips in the north market", various goods transactions are indeed divided into specific areas.

After exiting the daily goods trading area, the master and apprentice plunged into the high-end consumption area.

Here Yu Youquan successively saw jewelry stores, makeup stores, silk stores, and bookstores, and the people who came here to shop were relatively wealthy.

Of course, there are more beggars in ragged clothes!

From time to time, you can hear the servants around the nobleman yelling and cursing, and national quintessence such as "blind your dog's eyes" and "salted talent" spew out.

Of course, occasionally you can meet some kind-hearted people who will scold you but still reward you with some copper coins.

Some aristocrats who like to have fun would occasionally throw out copper coins, causing a crowd of beggars to snatch them up and even fight.

If the nobleman feels comfortable, he will even reward another copper coin!
Of course, this move will inevitably cause some criticism, and many people show their eyes.

"Aren't you angry?"

Zheng Xuancheng asked unexpectedly.

Yu Youquan smiled and said, "Only when a person is full can he talk about dignity. That noble man spent money to buy a good time, and those beggars also got real benefits, and maybe they saved a few lives because of it!"

Canglin knows etiquette well, and Yu Youquan, who has rich experience in going hungry, understands this very well.

Zheng Xuancheng nodded.

The apprentice's outlook on cognition was indeed somewhat beyond his expectation, and his thoughts were very different from those of a man from a wealthy family like him.

To be precise, Yu Youquan's experience has created his lower-level vision and cognition!
Shopping continues.

Later, Yu Youquan met some jugglers again, surrounded by audiences, who heard cheers from time to time.

There are also men and women who sold their bodies to bury their fathers, and saw a beautiful woman being picked away in the street.

It is said that a family was on the run. Due to various accidents, their relatives passed away one after another, and they only wanted a small amount of land so that their loved ones could be buried in peace.

There were even warriors with swords who met in the street to duel due to conflicts, and everyone applauded, even the government didn't care.

It has to be said that Jin people still advocate force!

The most outrageous thing was that a group of strong and sharp soldiers rode through the market. Yu Youquan didn't know what happened, but after these soldiers left, some passers-by said meaningfully, "Probably there is another reason. He slandered the emperor and talked about government affairs and was sent to prison."

This confused him!
Is this a literal inquisition?
Never heard of Da Jin being convicted for his words? !
Of course, these are just small episodes. Once you really enter the most prosperous area, everything will become better.

The colors of the world seem to start to become brighter!
It is still a stone house, but there are more carved beams and painted buildings.

It is still a wooden door and wall, but it is more colorful with vermilion lacquer.

The biggest change is in the fabrics of people’s clothes in the street market.

There were more and more people wearing loose clothes and silk belts, and even the skin color of the men and women became fairer and more attractive.

It's like entering a whole new world!

What surprised him the most was the openness of these shopping men and women!
Perhaps because of Qiuhu, many women on the street are dressed very coolly. Not only are their arms exposed, some women wear light gauze that is even almost transparent.

The embroidered tube top inside the light gauze and the white and tender scenery on the chest are really eye-catching!

Even some men are wearing gauze clothes, the color of the clothes is also very bright, what's more, some men have flowers on their heads.

This made Yu Youquan speechless for a while!
In fact, he was not the only one who was speechless. Many of these men were very proud of being asked by passers-by. It is said that this is a new style from Jianye.

Of course, those who can really afford transparent gauze are basically either rich or expensive.

What's even more bizarre is that when they see this handsome uncle Zheng Xuancheng, some women boldly ogle him, and some even bolder women actually do something to him when they see how cute he is.

Yu Youquan was a little speechless.

Is this really the ancient man in his impression?

This is too open!

Moreover, those women who touched him and kept praising him for his good looks actually wanted to use him as a springboard to become his mistress!

What the hell is that Master is unexpectedly able to deal with these things with ease!

How could he be so skilled?

A small shopping trip made Yu Youquan realize that his master was far from what he imagined!

Later, Yu Youquan saw many stone carving shops.

It is truly a famous stone-producing area. The various stone carvings in the stone carving shops are so beautiful and dazzling.

for example.

The carp leaps over the dragon gate, talks about Ruicong's governance, the dragon and the phoenix appear auspicious, the formation of Yuhou slays the barbarian chiefs, thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, swallows return to their nests.
Seeing these stone carvings is really eye-opening.

Here Yu Youquan saw money trading for the first time, and the money he spent was quite generous.

And haggling for a while for a few pennies are really two worlds.

Especially when I heard that it was the work of Master Lichai, it became very popular. One of them, a carp leaping over the dragon gate, was sold for more than 500 taels!
At this moment, an extremely surprised voice sounded, "Master, are you back?"

In a short time, the stone carving shop became a sensation!
It was only then that Yu Youquan was dumbfounded to discover that this stone carving shop, which is getting more and more money every day, is actually Zheng's property!
What made him even more speechless was that his master had obviously forgotten that there was such a stone carving shop in his house!

In my previous life, I saw some people bought a house on the Internet and forgot about it, and I still felt incredible, thinking that the person’s head was abnormal.

The current scene made Yu Youquan begin to understand a little bit!

It’s not that the rich are careless, nor that they are pretentious, but that they really have too many properties, and they really can’t remember which properties they have!
Poverty limits his imagination!

　PS: In the first round of recommendation process, the competition is fierce, follow-up is the most important parameter, I hope everyone can try their best to follow-up and not keep books, thank you!

　　


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