Late Tang

A night of carnival, until the end of the song until dawn.

On the streets of Penglai, the mess left by last night can be seen everywhere.In the early Tang Dynasty, the two capitals and the prefectures and counties implemented a curfew system, and the curfew was implemented after the second watch every night. The "Palace Guard Order" stipulates that every night when the missing "day time" of the yamen is exhausted, the "closed door drum" will be played [-] times; every morning after [-] o'clock in the morning, the "open door drum" will be played [-] times.Anyone who walks on the streets of the city without reason after the "closed door drum" and before the "open door drum" will commit the crime of "criminal night" and will be beaten twenty times.If it is for official business such as delivering letters for the government, or for private matters such as buying medicines for weddings, funerals, and illnesses, you can walk with the consent of street patrols, but you are not allowed to go out of the city.

The people of Tang Dynasty can play all night during the Lantern Festival every year.However, this situation gradually began to relax in the late Tang Dynasty.

Although the curfew is still strictly enforced in the capital, port cities such as Dengzhou and Guangzhou do not strictly enforce the curfew except in wartime or emergency situations.Like Dengzhou City, there is even a preliminary night market, but the night market is not open all night, generally only open until the middle of the night.

Last night, Penglai lifted the curfew and had a carnival all night, which made the people of Penglai, who are used to staying at home at night, have a good time.

Stretching, Li Jing left Wangxian Tower and stood intoxicated on the street full of ocean atmosphere.

Close your eyes and take a deep breath, a unique seaside breath blows your face.In the middle, there was also a smell mixed with chopped green onion, sesame, butter, and mutton. Li Jing closed his eyes, sniffed his nose, and slowly searched for that scent.Like an innocent child, it seems that he has returned to the past all of a sudden.

It was still early in the morning, and there were not many pedestrians on the street. Li Jing smelled the fragrance and found the flax cake stand after a while.

Under a locust tree, there is a small wooden shop with a simple pergola outside and four or five simple long tables and benches underneath.At this early morning, seven or eight guests were already seated.The small shop didn't sell many breakfasts. Li Jing looked at them, and found that the main ones were the fragrant sesame seed cakes, and then there were hoto or porridge.Hoto is actually noodle soup, also known as soup cake.In addition, there are pancakes and cooking cakes.This cooking cake is actually a steamed bun similar to steamed buns, steamed buns without stuffing, steamed stuffed buns with stuffing.There is also a kind of cooking cake with cross cracks and wonton.

In addition to these, there are delicious mutton soup and haggis soup.

Since arriving in Datang, Li Jing has really wronged her stomach.In Wangli Village, they either eat bran-swallowed wild vegetables or sorghum vegetable porridge.Finally, someone gave him a few fish, but he didn't eat the fish, but he went to prison and ate half a month's food.After enlisting in the army, they had to sleep and march in the open air along the way, not to mention.Yesterday, he managed to enter a big restaurant like Wangxian Tower, but he ended up eating all the wine, and he didn't eat a few mouthfuls of the delicious dishes.

After drinking so much wine yesterday, Li Jing's stomach was already rumbling when he saw that there were so many delicious breakfasts in this small shop.

"Shopkeeper, two sesame seed pancakes, two more pancakes, four more flowering pancakes, one bowl of Hutou. Also, another bowl of Lengtao. Well, two more bowls of mutton soup!" Li Jing looked Looking at all kinds of delicacies, I really couldn't bear to part with any of them, so I finally ordered almost everything.

After Li Jing finished ordering, the front of the breakfast shop was suddenly very quiet.It attracted everyone's attention, and there was even a table where two young men in green shirts with round collars and veiled heads couldn't help laughing. "He's a good-looking person, but he's such an idiot!"

Li Jing's face darkened, and he turned his head to look, another young man in green shirt quickly pulled back the first one.

"Guest officer, this is a small shop with a small budget, but the portions are full of breakfast. The young master ordered so many at once, I'm afraid I can't finish it." The shop owner is a bearded man with a high nose and deep eyes, but he speaks in official Chinese Doubly authentic, Tang Yun's reading is even better than Li Jing's.

Li Jing was ridiculed by those two young people first, and now he was treated like this by the boss, feeling a little upset.Secretly thought that the boss must be afraid that he would have no money to pay after eating, so he put his hand into his bosom, ready to pay first before eating, now he has nothing to say.

But after digging in his arms for a long time, he realized that he didn't have copper coins with him.Earlier, he bought clothes with the money he had on his body, and tipped all the remaining ten coins to the buddy.At this time, after groping for a long time, I realized that he was indeed rich. There were 50 coins in the Wangxianlou cabinet, a piece of [-] taels of flying money on his body, and two [-] taels of pigs in his pockets. Silver collar around the waist.But unfortunately, there is no half a penny.

The barbarian boss kept looking at Li Jing, waiting for him to find the money.In the end, after waiting for a long time, but seeing that Li Jing didn't find anything in the end, he couldn't help laughing and said: "If you don't have money, don't pretend, but you still have to order so much in one go. Have you eaten? Do you have money to pay?" ? Go, go, thanks to your good looks, you are still wearing such a green shirt. You can't even pay for the cake, go, don't hinder my business."

While talking, the Hu people pretended to drive them away.This Hu talent doesn't care how Li Jing is dressed, as long as he has no money, he can't even think about eating the overlord's meal.

Li Jing was driven away by the barbarians, and this scene caused the diners in the shed to laugh again, especially the two young men in blue shirts who laughed so hard that they couldn't breathe, and one of them even lay on the long The laughing shoulders on the table arched and arched.

Li Jing's face turned pale with anger, and at this moment, without caring about his face, he untied the money bag from his waist, and smashed a dazzling white pig's waist silver collar on the table.

"See clearly, here is 50 taels of silver collar, not to mention a breakfast, it is enough to buy your small shop."

The real gold and silver were placed there, which made everyone stunned for a moment.No one could see that Li Jing was able to take out a pig's waist.This does not only represent 50 yuan, you must know that silver collars are not accessible to ordinary people, this silver is not popular, it is basically used by the court to reward officials, or the government pays tribute to the court.The young man in front of him suddenly took a [-] taels of silver collar, which made the barbarian boss and the diners present change their colors slightly, secretly guessing Li Jing's identity.

"My guest officer, I'm really sorry. We operate on a small scale and only accept copper coins, not cash collars. You can go to Dongcheng Wang's Gold Store to exchange copper coins first, and then come again!" One sentence.

"You..." Li Jing felt that he was still in a hangover, otherwise, how could he have done this so early in the morning.He didn't speak at the moment, turned around and planned to look back at Xianlou.

"Wait a minute, my lord!" Suddenly, a crisp voice came from behind.Li Jing turned around, only to see that it was one of the ones who couldn't help themselves by laughing before, and the one who didn't let the one say that he was a fool.

"Brother, what's the matter?" Li Jing said indifferently.

"Young master is not a story to make fun of, he must have forgotten to bring money for a while, some small things, it is inevitable to be careless. If you don't mind, you can come with us, how about I invite you for breakfast?" The green shirt The young master has beautiful features, red lips and fair skin, and his voice is clear and crisp, which makes Li Jing stunned for a moment.His heart moved, and he looked over carefully, but saw that the person was indeed too fair, and he didn't have an Adam's apple, so he was amazed that it was a woman disguised as a man.

Li Jing was a little confused. Although Tang Dai was open, it was the first time he saw a woman disguised as a man, and the other party actually flirted with him openly.This woman must be very beautiful if she was dressed as a woman, and the one next to her who scolded him just now is also a woman.

Although the two of them were only dressed in green shirts with hooded heads, they could tell that the material of the clothes was of extraordinary quality, and they were all silk.It must not be easy for Li Jing to judge the identities of these two people. When he first arrived in Dengzhou, he didn't want to mess with anyone who shouldn't be messed with.

He cupped his hands and said, "Thank you, brothers, for your kindness. I just remembered that I have something to do, so I can't stay long, so I'm leaving!" The face of the person changed color slightly.

The two of them also hugged Li Jing awkwardly, and Li Jing turned and left.

"Food bucket, what a nuisance!" The younger woman picked up the cold pottery in the bowl with the chopsticks in her hands, and picked it up a few times like Li Jing.

The one who invited me just now was holding a flax cake in his hand, looking at the direction Li Jing was going away in a daze.

"Sister, what are you thinking? Have you taken a fancy to that idiot?"

The girl came back to her senses, and patted her: "It's just a little strange, that man came to eat breakfast, he didn't have half a penny on him, but he could take out a silver collar of 50 taels all at once, and I saw his money bag There is also a silver collar in it. And you know, isn’t it a bit strange that he later recognized our daughter as our daughter, but left in a hurry instead?”

"Yes, ordinary young men, when they see the beauty of the princess and this girl, even if they see through our identities, they will definitely pretend to be ignorant and take the opportunity to get close. But this person is so strange, the princess invited him, He actually ran away like a ghost."

"Yu Youniang, how many times have I told you that you are not allowed to be called a princess outside. Remember, we are young scholars, if you talk nonsense again, I will never take you out to play again."

"My good sister, please don't. You don't know. When I stay at home every day, my father will tell me to read and practice handwriting or embroider and weave. I'm so bored."

"Then you can no longer be polite to others like today, and you are not allowed to reveal our identities casually."

"Okay, it's all up to you."

"Okay then, let's eat quickly, and after we're done, we'll go to the Unity Camp and take a good look at how amazing Li Jing is who Cui Shibo and our two fathers praised so much."

"Okay, I'm done, shopkeeper, pay the bill!"