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Chapter 16 Ghost City

The drizzle of water and lightly descended on Kaifeng City without any breath.

No one could tell when the drizzle began. When the sky was a little brighter in the early morning, the rain was already covered with misty rain. The soft drizzle fell on the pedestrians who were rushing to the morning, but it was a little cool.

Most of the calligraphy and painting camps on Panlou Street have lights, and some even opened shops. The early owners or managers were dressed neatly, and everyone was holding a veil that was only worn by women in their hands and came out of the shop. Seeing it was drizzling outside, some people went back to get umbrellas, and some simply put on the veil and left.

All of them walked east, and their destination was not far away. They were just at the East Cross Street at the east end of Panlou Street, which was Guishizi.

The so-called "Guishizi" is actually some tea shops opened at the intersection of the East Cross Street. These tea shops are run by experts in calligraphy, painting, and cultural relics. Those who usually gather here to drink tea to inquire about news. Most calligraphy, painting, and cultural relics collectors or official businessmen. Over time, they have become a circle attached to the calligraphy, painting, and cultural relics stores on Panlou Street.

I don’t know when there were collectors and merchants in calligraphy, painting, and arts stores, who used the time before dawn in the morning to conduct private transactions at the intersection of East Cross Street. Later, some tomb robbers and grave digging masters also knew about this place, so they also came to East Cross Street to sell the good things they dug out from the ground. As a result, the East Cross Street Guishi became more and more prosperous and became a common place for people who do calligraphy, painting, and arts stores in Kaifeng Prefecture.

Every morning when it is dawn, there are always many big experts on Panlou Street to go to Panlou Street to work morning shifts.

Before the Wu family was in trouble, Wu Haogu often went to "Taobao" with his father on the East Cross Street Guishizi, which was also a place where he practiced his eyesight.

On March 15th, Wu Haogu was also heading towards the east crossroads, but he was not wearing the same clothes as the young master, but dressed in a vertical brown dress, dressed as a child servant, holding a hat that could cover his head and face in one hand, and holding a paper umbrella in the other hand. However, the umbrella cover was not on his head, but was covering Guo Jing who was swaying in front of him.

Monk Fu also dressed exactly like Wu Haogu, but with a wig, he also held an umbrella for Liu Wuji who was walking in front of him.

Guo and Liu are the protagonists today, and of course they are not the same as they often see. Guo Banxian, who tells fortune, wore a green brocade shirt that officials often wore, with a blue scarf on his head, but a wide and long handle on his waist, slightly narrow at the top, a round handguard, and a "Xia Ren Sword" wrapped in a decorative belt wrapped around the handle.

The "Xia Renjian" is a military weapon produced in the Western Xia Dynasty. It is extremely sharp and is more sophisticated than the swords provided to the generals of the Song Dynasty. Therefore, it is deeply loved by the generals and officers of the Western Army. Almost everyone in the Western Army who often fights with the Western thieves have a "Xia Renjian" to defend themselves.

Although Guo Jing's household registration is in Kaifeng Prefecture, his ancestral home is in Yanzhou (Yan'an). His father was a young general of the Western Army of the Song Dynasty. Later, he was transferred to Kaifeng Imperial Army as the coach of the horse army. That's why he has the Xia Renjian, which is his ancestors, and his horse skills are still acceptable.

Walking side by side with Guo Jing was the gentle and elegant young Liu Wuji. Although he was a fake Taoist priest, he had studied it. So he had a little ink in his belly and looked like a scholar. Now he was wearing a Confucian uniform and wearing a scholar's scarf on his head, carrying a large bundle of paintings on his shoulders, and holding an unfolded folding fan in one hand, slapping himself while walking.

The four of them all have new identities. Needless to say, Wu Dalang and Fu Monk are servants from which family they are.

Guo Jing acted as a general of the Western Army and called "a general" - the general was an institution in the army and appeared after the implementation of the "General's Art of War" and was located under the "main general" and "deputy general".

Liu Wuji acted as an aide and called "a certain Jiyi". Jiyi means writing Jiyi's words, which is a slander job, and many yamen have such slander jobs.

Behind the "some general" and "some Jiyi", there is also a non-existent "some Yanei" who went to Beijing to study and his father "some Observer" - the meaning of the second generation of officials. The Observer is a martial arts master, a fifth rank, and a very large official in the Northern Song Dynasty. However, the "some Yanei" is divided into two situations, one is the chief official and the other is the Yaojun.

The meaning of Zhengren is that the martial rank official is "Some Observer", while Yaojun is an official of similar reputation. The formal martial rank official is usually "Some Doctor". Before the martial rank official gets "Some Office", he usually gets "Yao County" first, and then "falls the rank", that is, he falls from the original rank official and turns Yaojun into Zhengren.

Therefore, the military officers respected as "observation" also have two situations: "zhengren" and "yaojun", and there are a lot of "observation" in the Western Army.

"Jiyi," when the group walked to the East Crossroads, Guo Jing, who had already put on the hat, suddenly spoke Guanxi dialect, "Which should I go to when I see many tea shops here at Sa's house?"

Liu Wuji shook his fan and said, "The biggest thing I want is."

Guo Jing lifted up the gauze cover of the curtain, revealing a black face with a big beard. When he looked around, he pointed to the teahouse called Sujia Shop and said, "That's it."

"Okay, go to that one."

Hearing Liu Wuji's instructions, Guo Jing took a big step and quickly walked towards the Su family shop.

It was also considered after careful consideration when choosing Sujia Shop to sell fakes. Because Sujia Shop was newly opened, it turned out that there was another tea shop there. Somehow it was a mess a year ago (probably the same as Wujia Huazhai). He was forced to give the shop to Sulida Su Dalang, the famous old jealous young owner of the Su family in Kaifeng Prefecture, and then it became Sujia Shop.

Although Sulida loves calligraphy, painting, and literature, she is not an expert after all, and she has been engaged in the East Crossing for a short time, so naturally there are not many people familiar with her.

Wu Haogu and others will not be easily recognized by others when they go to his place.

Now that the fifth update has passed, the Sujia Shop is also lighted up like other tea shops at the East Cross Street, and it is dim and mysterious.

Liu Wuji searched for the table in the corner, first tied the scrolls on his back into bundles, and then sat down. Wu Haogu and Monk Fu could only stand. Guo Jing also sat down, untied a scary Xia Renjian and placed it on the table, and then started yelling.

"Shop, please bring good wine and good food to the Sajia!"

His shouting did not attract wine and food, but it caused a lot of laughter. Su Lida, the owner of the Su family shop, greeted the distinguished guests in the elegant seat on the second floor of the tea shop. He heard the laughter and went downstairs. A waiter had already told him that Su Dalang, who was born big and fat, always with a smile on his face, hurriedly walked to Liu Wuji and Guo Jing's table, glanced at the "scary sword" and explained with a smile: "This guest official, the shop is a tea shop, and does not sell wine and food..."

"Then let's serve a few bowls of thirsty water first, then dozens of buns, and you need mutton stuffing!"

"This..." Su Erlang seemed a little embarrassed.

"What? Are you afraid that the family will have no money to pay the bill?"

"No, no, no, just..." Su Erlang looked at the hats worn by the four of them, "Does the guest officer know the rules of East Cross?"

"I know." Liu Wuji took out a coin of copper and threw it on the table, "Put a few cakes for my friend to make a cube, and then two bowls of tea."

The teahouse on East Cross Street also had a unique charging method when making Guishizi. It was charged by a table (Yashi Private Room). A table was a scattered money, and it had to be paid first instead of checking out after use. The Yashi Private Room charged three scattered money, and it also had to be paid first.

This sausage or three-color money is not the money for tea and snacks. The tea and snacks in Guishizi are free, but there is nothing good, just ordering tea and cooking cakes. This sausage or three-color money is actually the rent for the stall.

Because those who came to Dongshijiekou teahouses at the fifth day of the fifth day were not for drinking tea and eating snacks, but for buying or selling things. Those who wanted to buy naturally would not sit in the teahouses, but for shopping and selling things. They wanted to shop around the teahouses. The teahouse asked them that they could not charge money. Those who wanted to sell had to rent a table or a private room.

Those who come to the Eastern Cross Street Ghost Market are all big deals, and they are often hundreds or thousands, even tens of thousands or tens of thousands of yuan. Naturally, they will no longer have enough money for this or three yuan.

Su Dalang didn't say anything more after taking the money, but bowed his hands and turned around and left. This is also the rule of Guishizi. The person who came was hiding his head and tail, and wearing a hat covered his face. What else can I talk about?
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