The beautiful pastoral field of Jiangmen girl

Chapter 23

After hearing this, Qingyang hugged Qingshu tightly with a lonely face, and didn't speak.

Qing Shu's heart softened, "My sister promised you that I will take you out to play in a few days, okay?"

Qingyang reluctantly retracted his thin arms, lowered his head, and did not speak.

Qing Shu stretched out her hand, patted his head, thought for a while, then glanced at Gu Yuanbao, who was being repeatedly scolded by Su's mother, and secretly sighed that no matter whether she was in modern times or Da'an, she couldn't change the fact that she cared about him Because of the child's soft-heartedness, she smiled slightly, "It's fine for sister to take you out, but..." She deliberately pulled out her voice.

Qingyang raised his small face quickly, and the joyful light in his eyes dazzled everyone.

A quarter of an hour later, Li Dalang, who had harnessed his carriage and waited at the back door of the ancient mansion, flicked his whip and set off.

The location of the ancient mansion is Jixian Lane where the residences of officials and officials gather.An alley in the capital does not refer to a small alley, but a large area where people of the same class live together.

The general pattern of the capital city is: the northern half of the city, with the magnificent imperial palace in the center, and the left and right sides of the imperial palace are the school yard and the guard camp.The southern half of the city, from west to east, West Market, Anju Lane (common area), Fugui Lane (the area where royal family and nobles gather, and high-ranking official residences), rich and luxurious commercial centers, Jixian Lane (the area where official residences gather) , Jicai Lane (a gathering area for small officials, merchants and wealthy households), Ping'an Lane (civilian area), and Dongshi.

The location in the commercial center is naturally the most luxurious commercial district in Beijing.There are restaurants, teahouses, embroidery workshops, silk and satin shops, cloth shops, bookstores, gold and silver jewelry shops, porcelain shops, etc. here, and the wealth and luxury are the first in Da'an.

There are also many high-end shops in the West Market, but most of the shops are aimed at the middle class and the general class in the capital. There are many shops of different sizes, but the number is far greater than that in the central business district. There are not a few small merchants and hawkers who set up stalls and carry burdens.In the morning, the closer you get to the city gate, the more small vendors you see setting up stalls and carrying burdens.

The East Market is generally similar to the West Market, but there is one special feature. There is a fireworks alley deep in the capital, which is the only alley in the capital where brothels are allowed to exist.It means that the government allows brothels to exist, but strictly controls and suppresses brothels.

Qingshu's destination today is the West Market. The object of investigation is the types and prices of common people's necessities, especially rice, flour, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, vegetables and meat.

As expected of the emperor's feet, the commercial area where common people gather is also very lively and prosperous.

Li Dalang is in charge of watching the carriage.

Qing Shu took his younger brother's hand, went to rice shops, vegetable shops, meat stalls, furniture shops... don't miss any of them, even if you don't buy, you have to look.

Xiaojuan was holding some small things that Qingshu bought on a whim in her hand, and her eyes were fixed on Qingshu's sister and brother.

Ding Jiabao and Gu Yuanbao followed closely behind them, holding something more or less in their hands.

After seeing one or two shops, they wanted to go back to the carriage. Qing Shu took out the paper and charcoal strips that he had prepared in advance, and recorded something.

At noon, Qing Shu took everyone to sit in front of a small noodle stall, and ordered six bowls of noodles and four steamed buns made of miscellaneous grains, costing forty renminbi.

At three o'clock, Qingshu and his brother couldn't move anymore, so they drove back home in a carriage.

On the second day, Qingshu went out again, this time the destination was Dongshi.The siblings were dressed the same as yesterday, with freckles all over their faces, and they called each other loudly.

Going out on the third day, the destination is the commercial center most favored by nobles in Beijing.Qing Shu held Qing Yang's hand, and when she stepped into the Jinxiu Book Pavilion, she almost collided with a maid in light yellow dress who rushed out of the door suddenly.

Qingshu turned sideways, protecting Qingyang from the reckless servant girl, took a few steps back, and stood still.

The maid was twelve or thirteen years old, with her hips crossed, staring fiercely at Qing Shu, "Hey, what family are you from? Don't you have eyes when you walk? You are lucky if you bump into me. The master of which house, are you alive? You have been beaten to death long ago."

Qing Shu felt baffled, and slandered: I didn't hit it at all, okay, and you bumped into it by not looking at the road.

Xiaojuan stepped forward, standing in front of Qingshu sister and brother, "You rushed out and almost bumped into someone, so my young master is easy to talk to, so I don't care about you. You don't know what to do, but you have taught others a lesson. Reasonable."

The little maid quit, her eyes widened even more fiercely, "What did you say? Have the guts to say it again."

Xiaojuan was about to step forward with her chest upright, but Qingshu was afraid that something would happen and her own people would suffer, so she hurriedly stopped her, "Xiaojuan, step back."

Xiaojuan was obedient, she gave the arrogant little maid a hard look, and retreated behind Qingshu sister and brother.

Qing Shu said with a smile: "This elder sister's lesson is that we will be careful in the future, and I hope that elder sister will hold her hand high and don't be as knowledgeable as us."

The little maid snorted, gave Qing Shu a sensible look, and walked away.

Qing Shu thought that the alarm had been lifted, shook his head, took Qing Yang's hand and was about to enter the bookstore.

"Wait." Following this sound, the little servant girl went back and forth, holding Qing Shu's hand, "You, you..."

Xiaojuan pushed her away, "What are you doing?"

But the little servant girl pointed to her nose with an inexplicable green face, "It's a girl, it's a girl." Then she shouted, "Miss, miss, I finally found someone who has the same interests as miss."

Qingshu's head suddenly grew bigger, what's going on.

A quarter of an hour later, the Qingshu siblings were invited to the private room on the third floor of the Tanhua Tea House next to the Jinxiu Book Pavilion.Tanhua Teahouse, as the name suggests, used to have Tanhualang here, so the owner of the teahouse decisively changed the name of the shop, one is to be happy with Tanhualang, and the other is to attract customers.

A young girl dressed in short clothes, full of heroic spirit and picturesque eyebrows stared closely at Qing Shu's face, showing a pensive look for a while, pouting her lips in annoyance and touching her face for a while, and then she was in high spirits again.

Qingyang restlessly leaned against Qingshu.

Qingshu observed for a while, and found that the eyes of the girl opposite were sparkling, revealing curiosity and innocence, and she relaxed her heart a little.Realizing that her nervousness had affected her younger brother, she generously reached out and took a piece of rose cake from the plate in front of her, and handed it to him to eat.

Qingyang shook his head first, then under the insistence of Qingshu's gaze, he took it, took a small bite, then his eyes lit up, he raised his head and brought it to Qingshu's mouth, "It's delicious, sister." There are cakes to eat, but the cook will make some for him every now and then, but the taste is much worse.

Qing Shu smiled, "Xiaoyang eats, sister takes it by herself."

Qingyang let out an oh, then smiled and began to eat in small bites.

Qingshu admitted that she was so cute, took a sip from the teacup, silently said good tea, put down the teacup, reached out and took two pieces of rose cake and handed it to Xiaojuan who was standing behind, "Take it to eat with Yuanbao." Yuanbao He was not very old, but because he was a boy, he was left outside the door to guard him.

(End of this chapter)