Landlord of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 53 Going to the Market
Hongshan Township goes to the market every nine days, that is, on the ninth, nineteenth, and 29th of every month, there will be a grass market in Hongshan Township. Hongshan Town.

The regular merchant in Hongshan Town is the artisan household that now belongs to Xu Qing.There is a blacksmith shop, and he can make all kinds of farm tools and so on. He is skilled in craftsmanship, and he also hunts in his free time.There is a tailor shop, which also sells cloth, and also accepts the purses embroidered by older girls and younger daughter-in-laws under the night light.There is a carpenter's shop, Xu Qing's chairs are made by him, and of course there are Xu Qing's pictures.In addition, there are dry goods stores, selling chicken cubs and so on, seven or eight.

Although it is much worse than the pedestrian street and commercial street in later generations, it is a street after all.A street is mine, Xu Qing thought intoxicated.

When the ninth day of the lunar new year arrived, Xu Qing took Xu Qi's little girl out to the market. He wanted to see what his street looked like.As for the other women, alas, Xu Qing can't handle them anymore.It turned out that after Xun Xue'er got married, she couldn't bear the sight of a group of maidservants in Xu Qing's backyard doing nothing, so she organized them to make shoes, weave cloth and other female celebrities every day, and she became more and more bold as a hostess.Xu Qing didn't care about it either, and became more and more nourished as the hands-off shopkeeper.

Early in the morning, crowds gathered, most of them came to buy things, pick onions and garlic, write and tell fortunes, and all kinds of small businesses also came to the market.Xu Qing and Xu Qi changed into linen clothes and mixed in the crowd in order to avoid everyone being intimidated.

There is a table at the entrance of the market. There are bowls on the table. Those who enter the market pay a penny. Meat.Slaughtering on the spot is not for the sake of showing the truth like later generations, but for the sake of freshness because of poor fresh-keeping techniques in ancient times.

For Xu Qi, who has visited the metropolis of Luoyang, this kind of small market full of practical items is naturally not attractive to her. Looking left and right, she is only interested in a fortune-telling magic stick.

"On the sixth day of the lunar new year, let's go and see that person?" Xu Qi pulled Xu Qing's clothes, Xu Qing lowered her head and asked in doubt, "What about that?" As a result, Xu Qi pointed her finger in the crowd and told Xu Qing that it was A middle-aged man with the appearance of a Taoist priest: "The one with the bull's nose on top of his head."

Xu Qi didn't know the status of a scholar, but he said that the hairpin on his head was like a bull's nose, which is really good, and the source of the old way's name of the bull's nose seems to have said so.

"That's called a Taoist priest, but this kind of stall fortune-telling is mostly fake." Xu Qing likes Taoism's innocence and inaction, and is free and easy. Later, Taoism gradually deified and became Taoism with religious characteristics. Xu Qing still likes it. It's because of Mr. Jin, Mr. Gu's book.

"I want to go and have a look..." Xu Qi dragged Xu Qing along with her small body, regardless of 21.

"Okay..." Xu Qing was also busy thinking about what kind of economic model to set up, so he let Xu Qing drag him along.

"Girl, I've figured out that you're coming..." The Taoist said to Xu Qi mysteriously, and Xu Qi looked at the Taoist and then at Xu Qing.Xu Qing tilted his head and didn't speak, and Xu Qi didn't speak, just smiled and watched the Taoist priest spit and fly.

"This girl has extraordinary spiritual roots. Her face is rich and noble. If she was not born into a wealthy family, she must have married into a wealthy family." Xu Qi continued to look at the Taoist priest curiously, and Xu Qing continued to return to heaven.

"It's just that there seems to be a catastrophe in your life, and you need the help of a nobleman, and this nobleman... Chenghui Chenghui." The Taoist stopped talking, saying that Chenghui was asking for money.

Xu Qing was thinking in his heart: "Ordinarily the reason why this market exists is because everyone's necessities are collected and distributed here, so it is full of practical items, except for some housewives who come to shop, like Xu Qi. No one will come..."

"On the sixth day, Niubi stopped talking..." Xu Qi pouted.

"That tailor shop's method of collecting purses and then selling them to the county town seems to be a good idea. You can add a few items. I remember that in the countryside, women who were idle at home would weave mats at home. It seems that the answer is relatively simple. You can try it. Try. There are reservations and so on, you can come, those blacksmiths are busy going to the market now, and when they don’t go to the market tomorrow, they will be free to go up the mountain to hunt rabbits.” Xu Qing didn’t pay attention, and continued to think.

"The sixth day." Xu Qi kicked and stepped on Xu Qing.

"Ah, why are you stepping on me?" Xu Qing finally noticed Xu Qi, and lowered his head to ask her.

"Who told you to ignore me... still miss sister Xun?" Xu Qi complained.

"Oh, what did the Taoist say? He said that you are rich and powerful, and you are destined to die?" Xu Qing said softly, with disdain in his tone.

"Huh? This little brother is not bad. I watched you just now and didn't listen to me, but now I'm telling you my prophecy. Could it be that you also know how to read?" The Taoist said in surprise without waiting for Xu Qi to speak.

"Uh uh..." Xu Qing touched his nose, thinking that this Taoist priest was really speechless, so he pulled Xu Qi to leave.

"Huh? Your fate is so strange~ unexpectedly, it is the appearance of no life!" The Taoist priest muttered something in his mouth, but Xu Qing didn't notice it when he left.The Taoist priest held the gossip in his hand, with a look of disbelief, and said in his heart: There is no life!There are more than 6000 faces in the world, and there is another kind of detachment, whose fate is unpredictable, and once this kind of person enters the hall, he will do great things.

Zhuangzi is one of the two known people who have no appearance of life, and the other is Wang Mang.

The emperor sent me to look for the person who saved Datang, could it be... Could it be that I found it in this small mountain village?Daoist not only admired himself, but his hexagrams were accurate, and it was right to follow the hexagrams.After making up his mind, the Taoist followed Xu Qing, secretly thinking: enter the village quietly, don't shoot anyone!
This Taoist priest is not the charlatan that Xu Qing thinks, but Yuan Tiangang Yuan Zhenren, who is well-known in later generations. It is said that the "Tui Bei Tu" co-authored by him and Li Chunfeng is supposed to be 2000 years later. It must be called miraculous!

Xu Qing didn't know Daoist Yuan, nor did he know that Daoist Yuan was interested in him.He and Yang Wen carefully discussed the future business, and then talked about the sale of packages, such as 120 renminbi for a shovel, 270 renminbi for a two-toothed hoe, and [-] renminbi for a hoe, and then [-] renminbi can be customized. One set, plus a bucket of rice or something.

At first, Yang Wen didn't understand why the price was lowered, but after a few touches from Xu Qing, he instantly understood the reason for the so-called bundled sales.Yang Wen also made several packages by himself, Xu Qing approved a few, and then asked Yang Wen to cancel the entry tax, and Yang Wen did as well.The entrance tax is not much, and it is not worthwhile to have two people to guard it...

Outside the gate of Xu Mansion:

Yuan Tiangang followed Xu Qing all the way outside Xu's mansion, and then he saw the door and saluted Xu Qing, so he understood that Xu Qing was the owner of the county man's mansion, but there were too many men in the county, and he didn't remember such a person with the surname Xu .

"County man? Surnamed Xu? Okay, I will remember..."

After a while, Yuan Tiangang set off quickly and returned to Chang'an.

(End of this chapter)