Chapter 37 Meeting the Princess
There was a night of carnival, and it was not until dawn that everyone had finished.
The streets of Penglai can be seen everywhere. In the early Tang Dynasty, both capitals and prefectures and counties implemented a curfew system, and curfew was imposed after two updates every night. The "Prefecture Order" stipulates that every night when the "day engraving" of the yamen has finished, 600 "closed-door drums" will be beaten; after five o'clock in the morning, 400 "open door drums" will be beaten. Anyone who walks on the streets of the city without reason after the "closed-door drums" will be guilty of "conviction of night" and will be beaten twenty times. If it is a public service such as sending letters to the government, or private matters of buying medicine for marriage and funerals and illnesses, you can get the consent of the street patrolmen and walk, but you cannot leave the city.
The people of the Tang Dynasty could only have a night out during the Lantern Festival every year. However, in this situation, it gradually began to relax in the late Tang Dynasty.
Although the capital city still strictly implements curfews, port cities such as Dengzhou and Guangzhou do not strictly implement curfews except during wartime or emergency situations. For example, Dengzhou City has even initially had night markets, but night markets are not open all night and can only be opened until the third day of the day.
Last night, Penglai released the curfew and had a party all night, which made the Penglai people who were used to staying at home all night have fun.
After stretching, Li Jing left Wangxian Tower and stood intoxicated on the street full of ocean atmosphere.
After closing his eyes and taking a deep breath, a unique scent of the seashore came to his face. In the meantime, there was a smell of mixed green onions, sesame, butter, and mutton. Li Jing closed his eyes, sucked his nose, and slowly searched for it along the fragrance. He seemed to be a childlike child, who suddenly came back to the past.
It was early in the morning, and there were not many pedestrians on the street. Li Jing smelled the fragrance for a while and found the Hushicai stall.
Beneath a locust tree, there is a small wooden house shop, with a simple pergola outside the shop, with four or five simple long tables and long benches under it. Early in the morning, there were already seven or eight customers sitting there. The shop didn’t sell much breakfast. Li Jing looked at it and found that the main thing was the fragrant sesame cake, and then the stewed or porridge. The stewed is actually the noodle soup, also called soup cake. In addition, there are pancakes and stewed cakes. This stewed cake is actually similar to steamed buns. The one that has no filling is steamed buns, and the one that has stuffed is buns. There are also a kind of stewed cakes that steamed cracks and wontons.
In addition to these, there are also delicious mutton soup and mutton soup.
Since the Tang Dynasty, Li Jing has really wronged his stomach. In Wangli Village, he either ate wild vegetables or sorghum vegetable porridge. After finally giving him a few fish, he didn't eat them, but he went to prison for half a month of meals. After enlisting in the army, he marches in the open again, let alone. Yesterday he finally entered a big restaurant like Wangxianlou, but he had a drink. He didn't eat a few bites of delicious dishes.
I drank so much wine yesterday, and at this time, I saw that there were so many delicious breakfasts in this small shop, Li Jing's stomach had already been rumbling.
"Shopkeeper, two sesame cakes, two pancakes, four other tea cakes, and one bowl of pineapple. In addition, one bowl of cold pottery. Well, two bowls of mutton soup!" Li Jing looked at all kinds of delicious food, but he couldn't bear to let go of the same thing, so he ordered almost every one.
After Li Jing finished ordering, the breakfast shop was suddenly quiet. It attracted everyone's attention. There were even two young men with round necklaces and green shirts and shag in a table, and couldn't help laughing. "I'm so handsome, but why is it really a bucket of food!"
Li Jing's face turned black and he turned around and another young man in blue quickly pulled the first one back.
"Customer, I'm a small shop and a small shop, but every breakfast is full of weight. The young master ordered so much at once, but I'm afraid I can't finish it." The owner of the shop is a bearded man with a high nose and deep beard, but he speaks very authentically in one mouthful of official words. Tang Yunnian is better than Li Jing.
Li Jing was first ridiculed by the two young men, and now he was treated like this by the boss, and he felt a little unhappy. He thought that the boss must be afraid that he would not have money to pay the bill after eating, so he immediately took his arms and planned to pay first and then eat. Now he had nothing to say.
However, after taking it in his arms for a long time, he remembered that he did not carry copper coins. He had bought clothes on his body and rewarded all the ten cents of money to his servant. After touching it for a long time, he remembered that he was indeed rich. There was 10,000 yuan in the Wangxian Tower cabinet, a flying money of 500 jin on his body, and two 50 taels of pork waist silver tins in the middle of his waist. But there was no copper coins at half a million.
The Hu boss kept looking at Li Jing and waited for him to find the money. After waiting for a long time, he saw that Li Jing didn't find anything in the end. He couldn't help but laughed: "If you don't have money, don't pretend, but you have to order so much at once. Have you eaten? Do you have money to pay? Let's go, you have a good talent and are wearing such a blue shirt. You can't even get a piece of cake. Go quickly, don't interfere with my business."
While talking, the Hu people pretended to drive away. No matter how Li Jing was dressed, he would not want to eat a tycoon meal as long as he had no money.
Li Jing was driven away by the Hu people, and this scene caused the diners in the shed to laugh, especially the two young men in blue shirts who were laughing so hard that they could not breathe. One of them lay directly on the long table and smiled, arching his shoulders.
Li Jing turned pale with anger. At this time, he didn't care about his face. He untied the purse from his waist and smashed a dazzling white pork waist on the table.
"I see clearly. Here are fifty taels of silver yokes. Not to mention a breakfast, it's enough to buy your small shop."
The real money and silver were placed there, which made everyone stunned. No one could see that Li Jing could actually take out a pork waist silver. This does not only represent 80,000 yuan. You know, silver jewels are not accessible to ordinary people. This silver is not used by ordinary people. It is basically used by the court to reward officials or to pay tribute to the court. The young man in front of him took out a silver jewel of fifty taels at once, which made the boss of the Hu people and the diners present slightly discolored, and secretly guessed Li Jing's identity.
"I'm so sorry, this customer, I'm a small business. I only charge copper coins, not cashiers. You can go to the Dongcheng Wangjia Gold Store to exchange copper coins first, and then come!" The boss of the Hu people was tough and said something irritating.
"You..." Li Jing felt that he was still in a hangover, otherwise, how could he have done this early in the morning? He didn't speak at the moment, turned around and planned to look back at the fairy building.
"Young man, please wait!" Suddenly a crisp voice came from behind. Li Jing turned around and saw that it was one of the ones who could not laugh before, that was the one who had not told him to say that he had made a living.
"Brother, what's wrong with me?" Li Jing said calmly.
"It's not a story to joke about it. I must have forgotten to bring the money for a while. Some trivial matters will inevitably be careless. If the young master doesn't dislike it, I can go with us. What should I do for this breakfast?" The young master in green clothes looked beautiful, his lips were red and white, and his words were crisp and crisp, which made Li Jing stunned. He felt a little moved in his heart and looked over carefully, but saw that the man was indeed a bit too white and had no Adam's apple. He was amazed that he was actually a woman dressed in a man.
Li Jing was a little confused. Although the Tang Dynasty was open, it was the first time he saw a woman disguised as a man, and the other party even openly spoke to him. If this woman changed into women's clothing, she would definitely be very beautiful. Look at the one beside her who scolded him just now, she was also a woman.
Although the two were dressed in green shirts and hair, they could see that the texture of the clothes was extraordinary and they were all silk. Li Jing judged that the identities of these two were definitely not simple. He just arrived in Dengzhou but didn't want to mess with any person he shouldn't mess with. He was cautious, but he was unwilling to get involved with these two women who didn't know their identities.
He bowed and said, "Thank you, two brothers, for your kindness. I just remembered that you have something to do and can't stay for a long time. I'll say goodbye!" When talking about the words "two brothers", Li Jing deliberately increased his tone a little, and indeed saw that the faces of the two men changed color slightly.
The two of them also attacked Li Jing in awkward manner, and Li Jing turned around and left.
"Rice bucket, I'm so annoying!" The younger woman picked up the cold pottery from the bowl in her hand and took it as Li Jing Yinyin for a few seconds.
The one who just invited me to grab a matador, looked at Li Jing's direction away and was stunned.
"Sister, what are you thinking? Are you interested in that bucket?"
The girl came to her senses and patted her lightly: "It's just a little strange. The man came to have breakfast. He didn't have half a penny of copper coins on his body, but he could take out a fifty tael silver jewel at once. And I saw that there was a silver jewel in his purse. And you know, he later recognized our daughter, but left in a hurry. Isn't that strange?"
"Yes, 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 to each other. This person is so strange that the princess invites him and actually escapes like a ghost."
"Yu Youniang, I have told you many times that I am not allowed to be called a princess outside. Remember, we are young scholars, if you want to talk nonsense, I will not take you out to play in the future."
"Good sister, don't. You don't know that when you stay at home every day, my father either asked me to read and practice calligraphy or embroider and weaving cloth. He was so bored."
"Then you can't treat others like you do today, and you are not allowed to disclose our identities casually."
"Okay, it's up to you."
"Okay, let's eat quickly. After we finish eating, we will go to Tuanjie Camp and take a good look at how amazing Li Jing, who was praised by Cui Shibo and our fathers, is."
Chapter completed!