Bianshanhan [farming]

The next day, they sent Qin Dongmeng to the small town and saw her aunt hugging her tightly and weeping. After Li Qingwen and the others explained the matter, they didn't stay here and immediately went back home.

On the way back, you can take a car. The official road is well-built, and you can walk freely. Several people leaned against the carriage and fell asleep. When they returned to the south gate of the capital, they cheered up one by one and took the Zhou family's gift. tooth card and entered the city gate.

The capital is divided into the imperial city, the inner city, and the outer city. There is a royal road in the middle that divides the capital into east and west.

The royal road is spacious and grand, and can accommodate multiple carriages and sedan chairs to drive towards each other. There are royal corridors on both sides, but this magnificent road is only for royal travel, and the wooden fence outside the royal corridor can allow ordinary people to walk around.

Wenzheng Academy is located in the outer city, closer to the imperial road, so Li Qingwen and the others only entered and exited through the middle one of the three gates of the outer city.

The carriage and horses were hired in Wisteria Alley, and the coachman knew where to go without them giving directions.

I don't know how the markets and squares in the capital are divided. The roadsides are full of shops, tall restaurants, spacious medicine shops, and cloth shops where the flow of people almost reaches the threshold. These shops facing the street are all hung with red lanterns and colored rugs. The guise, blowing with the wind, is full of joy.

There are still stalls outside the shop. The stalls are already on the side of the road, but there are still people selling things on the road carrying loads and pushing small carts.

When it was busy outside, the windows of the carriage could not be closed. Li Qingwen looked out, and saw preserved fruits of various colors placed in front of the load, and the peddler yelled, "A small bag for three Wen, and a big bag for eight Wen".

The wandering peddler was also clever, and when he saw someone in the carriage looking over, he yelled hard at the inside: "Dried apricots, preserved peaches, plums, pears, dates, come here for a bag, and take it back to the little ones at home." Taste it, my lady, it's sweet in your mouth and sweet in your heart!"

Although there was no young lady in the family, there was a sister-in-law who was probably busy at the moment. Li Qingwen thought about it and took out a few copper coins from his pocket.

As soon as Li Qingwen took out the money, the candied fruit wrapped in oil paper had already been delivered to him. I don't know how long he has been doing it. His eyesight is really good.

Li Qingwen admired it from the bottom of his heart.

Walking all the way, seeing all the way, obviously this road has been passed before, but being crowded by this turbulent flow of people, I can't see it completely every time.

Looking at the prosperous and prosperous appearance outside, Li Qingwen couldn't help but think of Bingzhou, hoping that those people who suffered from the famine, like the villagers, would find a place to stay and be reunited in a warm house.

The two grooms clearly knew the terrain here better than the servants of the Zhou family. They avoided crowded places and wandered around the streets and alleys. After stopping, Li Qingwen couldn't tell the difference between east, west, and north.

After being on the ground for a long time, counting the trees inside the small gate, Li Qingwen realized that they had arrived home...

In addition to the two carriages that brought them back, there were two other carriages parked at the door. Li Qingwen was still wondering if his second brother's classmates were visiting, and then he saw the word "Zhou" on the carriage.

After paying the fare and thanking the driver, when they returned home, they saw Zhou Congxin sitting inside talking to Li Qingzhuo.

Seeing them, Zhou Congxin got up and said, "I reckon, you should come back too."

Zhou Congxin came to give New Year's gifts, thanks to Mrs. Fang, he was reluctant to buy this, and he was also reluctant to buy that. If they didn't bring these two carts, it would take them a while to finish eating.

Not only did they give New Year's gifts, but knowing that Li Qingwen and the others were going to sell all kinds of goods, they were afraid that they would be bullied if they didn't know the place where they lived, so they came here to show them the way.

The Fang family was a little dazed. They are not the sons of the capital, but the generals of the border towns. Why did they take care of them so meticulously?

There are two main reasons for this. One is that the ancestors of the Zhou family were honored, but later the glory faded away.

The second is that they have been neighbors in the border town for three years. They planted the land together, harvested the autumn together, and ate together.

Zhou Congxin was Zhou Fengnian's personal bodyguard, and he was also someone Li Qingwen and the others knew well. He appeared here, and it was naturally because of the latter that he gained the upper hand.

Since he came here on purpose to lead the way, Zhou Congxin did not leave in a hurry. He had dinner with Li Qingrui and the others, loaded the things in the car, and the group set off slowly to the west.

After passing the back wall of Wenzheng Academy, passing a lake, and walking through a short section of streets, when walking on the long arch bridge in the river, you can see a square market in the distance, with many shops, The street is bustling, and before you can see it clearly, the lively shouts reach your ears.

The boats in the river shuttled, and most of the people on the shore were carrying goods. In such weather, I saw some people carrying goods with their upper body bare.

Zhou Congxin explained to them that this is a temple market, where many medicinal materials are traded, and most of the things they bring can be sold here.

There are many medicine gardens and gardens in Daliang, which were planted by hermits and monks at the beginning. Over the years, they summed up many methods of planting medicinal materials.As more and more people seek medicine and ask for medicine, the medicinal gardens of temples are also getting bigger and bigger. Over time, there will be people asking for medicine and selling medicine outside every temple, and a market is gradually formed.

They followed the flow of people to a time-honored pharmacy. Li Qingrui and the others took out the medicinal materials and asked about the price. Zhou Congxin just stood aside and didn't say much.

The people here carefully inspected the medicinal materials and quoted prices one by one. It was indeed two cents more expensive than in Fan Yangcheng.

The people here may have seen too many good things. Seeing that they have so many medicinal materials, they did not lose their composure. They clearly started to calculate the accounts one by one. Li Qingwen listened and copied it with the pen and paper borrowed from the shop. , His first-hand regular script is correct and neat, black and white, neat and tidy.

The medicinal materials here were collected by many people, and he remembered them all, so he couldn't be careless when he went back to score money.

When they came out of the pharmacy, they lost several burdens and gained two pockets of money.

Since it was a temple market, there were quite a lot of shops and stalls selling candles. They didn't go far, and they exchanged the heavy candles for money. This time, they became much lighter.

There was nothing on their shoulders, so they were not in a hurry, Zhou Congxin led them around the market, Li Qingwen bought a bag of old books in the shed outside Juxian Pavilion, any travel notes, any essays, just take a look Interesting ones were collected.

There are still many paintings and antiques hanging here, but unfortunately he doesn't understand this and doesn't want to waste money.

Adjacent to the book shed are various stalls of fragrant medicines. Different fragrances are mixed together. People who smell them feel dizzy, and those who feel unwell even sneezed several times.

Turning back, there are local products from various places on a long table. Among these local products, there are many seeds, tree seeds, fruit seeds, and more medicinal seeds. Li Qingwen's round eyes are located on this half of the street. Long roadside, rolling around.

Wherever his eyes rolled, Li Qingrui and Li Qinghong would buy them there, and the peddlers in this area almost had their mouths crooked.

After leaving here, Li Qingrui and the others were full of burdens again. They first carried them back to the car, and then bought some hair flowers, hair ropes, wooden hairpins and so on. Jiang's sister-in-law looked at it, she nodded, and then looked back.

Unexpectedly, there were sellers of bacon and birds and animals outside this temple market. They thought that these things were not allowed to appear in the pure place of Buddhism.

Of course, there are also fur buyers and sellers here, and the prices they offer are reasonable, so they sell what they bring.

After receiving the money, he suddenly heard a bell ringing in the distance. Only then did Li Qingwen know that the ancient temple was still several miles away from the market.

Except for pearls and agates who only asked the price, most of the things they brought were sold, and this was only a short period of time...

This temple market is really well-equipped, not inferior to the huge Fanyang City.

Even if they were overwhelmed by all kinds of things in the capital and distracted, the crowd still watched the gold and silver in their pockets.

When I turned back, I was still walking. At this time, the sky was getting late, and a ray of sunlight in the distance had not dissipated, and the lights in the distance were lit up. The small food stalls on the street looked like mushrooms that emerged after the rain. Ants gather together.

By the lights of Wanjia, the group returned home. Zhou Congxin was going back to the inner city, so Li Qingwen and the others did not force him to keep him for dinner.

When sending them off, a group of people wished him and the Zhou family an early New Year's greetings in advance, so that he would not have to go back and forth and spend the festival in the inner city well.

Even though he came back a bit late, Li Qingwen went to the stove, cut the fat and thin pork that Fang bought back into square pieces, and cooked it with white wine and sliced ​​ginger.

When the chopsticks can be easily inserted into the meat, turn off the heat and put it in cold water to cool down quickly.

Fang's was tearing up dried vegetables and soaking them.

Drain the cooled pork, put it in an oil pan and deep-fry until the surface is golden brown, then let it cool, cut into slices, spread oil on the fried dried vegetables and start steaming.

When the food was served, everyone washed their faces and hands, and the pickled meat with pickled vegetables was almost ready. The brown-red color, the trembling slices of meat and the oily dried vegetables made people swallow their mouths when they saw it. With chopsticks, a mouthful is delicious, fat but not greasy.

Li Qingwen has never made this dish before, but he probably knows how to make it. It is also the first time he has tried it. The people at the table expressed their love for it by "sweeping it all away". Even Li Qingzhuo, who always likes light food, couldn't help but eat more A few mouthfuls.

Watching his second brother eat two bowls of rice slowly, Li Qingwen thought, he doesn't know if he can reach the ten catties in the end.

When walking towards the inn where he was staying, the moonlight was shining brightly. Li Qingwen looked up at the cold moon, thinking of Jiang Cong on the pier and his relatives far away in the border town.

On the same night, Jiang Cong, who was sitting cross-legged on the deck, looked at the same moon and thought about the same things.