?The sky is clear and the breeze blows. In the bustling western city of Yecheng, Yuwen Wen walked absent-mindedly among the shops. Yesterday, the Shannan delegation set off for Anlu. The court sent angels to Shannan to announce the imperial edict, and he had to stay in Yecheng three щww{]lā}

A grand farewell ceremony was held at Shili Pavilion in the south of the city. Deputy envoy Zheng Wanqing took the war horses (parts) assigned by the court, as well as the war horses, books, goods purchased by Yuwen Wen and others, and set out south under the escort of cavalry.

"My horse, don't have any accidents on the road..." Yuwen Wen murmured to himself. The more than 2,000 horses he bought were worth 140,000 guan. Although Zheng Wanqing solemnly promised that he would never lose money along the way, but he failed to escort him personally, and always felt uneasy.

The wealthy merchants in Yecheng were going to Bazhou to buy glass mirrors. Yuwen Wen and shopkeeper Liu finalized the details and asked them to go back to Shannan with the delegation to prepare in advance. They also brought the purchase list and escorted horses and goods with the team. If they wanted to have their own people to guard them, they were not afraid of anyone who dared to take advantage of the situation.

"Brother-in-law~~~"

A shout like a singing oriole brought Yuwen Wen back to reality. He looked helplessly at someone in front of him and asked with a smile: "What do Mingyue want to buy?"

"This golden hairpin looks very good, will it be very expensive?" Yuchi Mingyue asked. She stood in front of a Western Region Hu shop, choosing a wide range of jewelry, and her eyes looking at Yuwen Wen were full of expectations.

‘Is there any difference?’ Yuwen Wen had no choice but to complain, but he couldn’t say it out loud. He could only ask with a smile: “Does Mingyue like it?”

"like."

"Shopkeeper, how much is this... what kind of hairpin is worth?"

"Ah, a beautiful girl like a flower, you have a good vision. This is a golden hairpin from Persia, made of pure gold, decorated with red sapphires, not a phoenix, but a divine bird..." A big bearded Hu Shang said, speaking with a trace of foreign accent that he could not hear. Seeing Yuwen Wen squinted at him, he immediately stopped the introduction and turned to the topic:

"This golden hairpin is worth 300 coins, and it is just right with a beautiful girl. What do you think?"

"Fifty taels, if not, forget it!"

"Langjun, this is not possible. The golden hairpins of Persia are well-made..." Hu Shang did not expect that this young man was so "brutal". He pushed the price to the bottom line as soon as he came up and began to 'dispute' in tears.

"Mingyue, there are a lot of jewelry over there. My brother-in-law has bought some for your sister before, so go and have a look."

Yuwen Wen was about to leave after he said that. Yuchi Mingyue looked at the jewelry in front of him reluctantly, but heard from his brother-in-law that there was something better on the other side, and his attitude was a little loose. Seeing that the young man was not easy to fool, Hu Shang gritted his teeth and said heartbroken: "My man, you have to be fifty-five silos!"

“Fifty-one constellations.”

"Oh, my heart is bleeding...then it's fifty-one."

Yuwen Wen nodded, and waited for his sister-in-law to look at the golden hairpin happily, and asked Hu Shang to carefully install it in a wooden box, and then looked at the person behind him: "Liang Tongshi?"

The man came forward to talk to Hu Shang when he heard this. The two sides should have known each other, so he quickly ended the conversation. The man took out a piece of yellow paper the size of a palm, wrote the content on it, and then stamped it with his own seal. Hu Shang smiled and held up the wooden box containing the golden hairpin.

"A fairy-like girl, I wish you always be beautiful."

Yuchi Mingyue took the wooden box, opened it and closed it, happily handed it to the maid carrying the basket, then turned around and walked forward. There were shops on both sides of the road, with all kinds of novel things.

Yuwen Wen followed his sister-in-law, while Zhang Yu and others were guarding each other, especially the maids carrying baskets. There were always people following him, just because they were afraid that some thieves would go away.

"Brother-in-law, I want this jewelry."

"purchase!"

"Brother-in-law, I want this night pearl."

"purchase!"

"Brother-in-law, I want this..."

"Buy, buy, buy!"

Just like in Chang'an three years ago and later Anlu, Yuwen Wen accompanied his sister-in-law to go shopping and shopping. Of course, he didn't have to do the job of carrying a bag. He just had to accompany him throughout the journey and then be responsible for "swiping the card to pay the bill".

This is his fate. If you are a brother-in-law, you have to accept your fate. Yuchi Mingyue knew that he, the brother-in-law, was rich, and was particularly rich, so after coming to Yecheng, he "make an appointment" early and set a date to go shopping.

‘Buy it, buy it, and after you develop the habit of being big-handed, you will harm your future husband.’ Yuwen Wen thought maliciously.

My sister-in-law is his wife's sister. At first glance, she looks like she is carved from a mold, which means the details are slightly different. Then she is a little younger. When she sees Yuchi Mingyue, she thinks of Yuchi Chifan, so she can't refuse.

When my sister was happy, then my sister was happy. Who made him love his wife? He could only take care of his sister-in-law.

"Mingyue, why don't you go back first? Think about what else you lack. Go out for a walk another day. You can't buy everything now, right?" Yuwen Wen tentatively communicated. His sister-in-law's pocket money was controlled by her family. Now she saw him, she was "remained".

"Brother-in-law~~" my sister-in-law began to shake her arms again.

"Buy, buy, buy, buy!" Yuwen Wen was extremely helpless. Seeing the maid carrying a bamboo basket with a bitter look on his face, he asked the guard to take the heavy basket and lamented in his heart when he saw the fruitful "trophy" in the basket.

It takes money to buy things or to offset the price, but in any case, it is very troublesome to reach a certain level, because the weight problem is difficult to solve: the weight of the consistent money ranges from three to five kilograms (kilograms) according to the weight unit of later generations.

In other words, the weight of a copper coin ranges from three to five grams. Yizheng coins is one thousand copper coins. The weight is four kilograms in the middle. The gold hairpin I bought just now is fifty-one jin, and the copper coin you have to pay is two hundred orders of four kilograms (kilograms).

To buy a gold hairpin, you will need three copper coins of the weight of an adult man or cloth that is worth the price. If you buy it along the way, you can only use a few carriages to pull the money and silk. The picture is so beautiful, so Yuwen Wen thought of another way.

Liang Tongshi, who was following him, had already "cooperated" with Yuwen Wen. All the things Yuwen Wen bought were kept by their accounts, and the sellers came to them to settle the payment for the goods.

After a while, Yuwen Wen checked the bill again. The other party has a good status in the Yecheng "business district" and has great face, so all merchants are willing to "sign the contract" first and then check the bill.

I don’t know how long it took, Yuwen Wen accompanied his sister-in-law to walk around the West Market. In addition to the original basket, there was one more, and the two baskets were heavy. Yuwen Wen felt relieved: After all, he finished shopping!

There was a carriage from Yuchi Mingyue's mansion parked near the city gate. He was about to call the carriage to pick up people and sent his sister-in-law back to the mansion. Unexpectedly, Yuchi Mingyue was still very excited: "Brother-in-law, I'm so bored in the mansion all day long. I've finally come out once. Let's go somewhere else?"

"Let's go to East City tomorrow!" Yuwen Wen was so anxious that his forehead was sweating. It was so hard for a woman to walk around, and it was even more miserable as a "shopping".

"East city is full of horse markets, bull markets, and sheep markets. There is nothing to go to. Let's go somewhere else to see the scenery or something."

Yuchi Mingyue was very excited. Since she arrived in Yecheng, her grandfather arranged a mansion for her family to live in. There were all living things in the mansion, and even many servants were there, but no one spoke to her when she was just a newcomer.

My father is busy with official duties every day, and my mother is busy sorting out housework. Although there are people in the house to talk, it is not easy to go out for a walk. Now that she has her brother-in-law accompanying her, she naturally has to walk more.

"What scenery does Mingyue want to see?"

"I don't know, do my brother-in-law know where there is a good view?"

Yuwen Wen felt a little embarrassed when he heard this. He was not familiar with Yecheng. He had no parks or other open landscapes these days, and there seemed to be no particularly beautiful natural scenery outside the city.

‘Unless you go to Xianduyuan in the western suburbs, it will be inconvenient…’ Yuwen Wen was thinking in his mind that he was wondering if there were any 'famous places' in Yecheng,' and after a moment he really thought of it.

"Tongquetai, can we go to Tongquetai to have a look?"

"Bronze Chop Platform? It's Jinfeng Platform. I've been there. It's so boring..." Yuchi Mingyue said with a pout.

Yuwen Wen was quite disappointed when he heard this: Don’t you want to go? But I want to go!

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Outside Yecheng, beside the Zhang River, a carriage was parked on the grass beside the official road, guarding several guards around. Several more people watched their dozens of mounts drinking water by the river, and Yuwen Wen accompanied his sister-in-law to watch the scenery by the river not far away.

"Brother-in-law, look over there!" Yuchi Mingyue pointed to a place and shouted excitedly. Yuwen Wen looked in the direction, but saw a group of geese startled from the reed marsh by the river and flew towards the distance.

"That's a geese."

"Are the geese flying south?"

"Then we have to wait for autumn, and the geese will fly south to spend the winter."

Yuwen Wen accompanied his sister-in-law to see the scenery. Not far away, there was another person watching a few horses drinking water by the river. In terms of safety, Yuwen Wen originally wanted to change to a place without outsiders, but Yuchi Mingyue felt that the scenery here was good and insisted on getting off here.

After all, we arrived later, and Yuwen Wen was not too arrogant to drive the horse-walker to leave. They were just passing by here and temporarily got off the bus. It was impossible for anyone with bad intentions to ambush in advance.

In fact, what Yuwen Wen wanted to visit was the Tongquetai "Famous Sites and Historic Sites". This building that he had long admired was on the city wall on the northwest side of Yebei City. However, Yuchi Mingyue had been there and felt it was too boring, so he failed to make a trip.

"The east wind does not go with Zhou Lang, and the bronze croaker spring locks the two Qiao..." Reciting the famous quote gently, Yuwen Wen's thoughts flew to the north of Yecheng, and to the famous bronze croaker platform.

The Tongquetai was built by Cao Cao at the end of the Three Kingdoms. In the 15th year of Jian'an in the Han Dynasty, Cao Cao built three platforms in the northwest corner of Yecheng (the city of Yebei at this time). The middle was the Tongquetai. It was ten feet high and there was a hundred houses and a bronze bird stood on the roof.

The south side of Tongquetai is the Golden Tiger Platform, which is eight zhang high and has 19 houses; the north side of Tongquetai is the ice well platform, which is also eight zhang high and has 145 houses, with ice rooms on it, and several wells in the inner room, which are fifteen zhang deep and are hidden in the ice.

The bronze bird, golden tiger, and ice well three platforms have undergone more than 300 years of changes in the times, and the Later Zhao, Former Yan, Eastern Wei, Northern Qi, and all dynasties have been renovating the three platforms. Over the years, they have become much more majestic than the three platforms at the time.

During the time of Qi Wenxuan, Ding Jiang collected 300,000 yuan and repaired three platforms. The former bronze bird, golden tiger, and ice well three platforms are now called Golden Phoenix, Shengying, and Chongguang. Of course, they still belong to the palace buildings, and ordinary people cannot enter.

‘No matter what, I have to find an opportunity to see it.’ Yuwen Wen thought that he felt that it was very easy to come to Yecheng and must go and see the genuine Tongque Santai.

"Brother-in-law!!" Yuchi Mingyue suddenly shouted, which scared Yuwen Wen so much that his sister-in-law was quite familiar with him, so when they got along, the reserve of the ladies from a family could not be seen in this person.

Yuchi Mingyue pointed at a purple-red field by the river, full of joy, and kept asking her brother-in-law what kind of flower it was. Yuwen Wen looked closely and found that it was a large plant about two feet upright on the ground, with many purple-red flowers blooming.

Looking up, a large purple-red flower sways in the wind, which is quite beautiful.

"Uh, this flower..." Yuwen Wen pondered. He was not a botanist or an agronomist. To be honest, I really didn't understand what kind of flower this is, but he always felt that the leaves of these plants looked familiar.

‘The leaves look so familiar… It seems like this is the alfalfa in my horse farm… but the flowers are purple-red…’

Yuwen Wen was thinking and suddenly had an inspiration. He felt that this might be alfalfa, the so-called "king of forage" and the forage he was looking for.

He sent people to Chang'an and bought back many crop seeds, including alfalfa seeds, but the one planted yellow alfalfa, which means he was deceived by a profiteer.

Since Zhang Qian opened up the Western Regions, alfalfa has entered the Central Plains. Common ones include yellow alfalfa and alfalfa. The nutritional content of alfalfa is higher than that of yellow alfalfa. Yuwen Wen wanted to plant it on a large scale and feed it to war horses.

This time I came to Yecheng, there were also alfalfa seeds in the seeds I purchased. Although the seller promised that it would be alfalfa, Yuwen Wen still felt that he was not sure. Now that he saw it outside Yecheng, he was quite happy.

"Brother-in-law, do you know what kind of flower this is, right?" Yuchi Mingyue asked, her big eyes blinking, which looked very beautiful.

As the saying goes: Don’t show off, you will be struck by lightning. Yuwen Wen looked around and looked at the sky again. He felt that the sky was clear now, and he would not be struck by lightning if he pretended to be small.

Anyway, there are only two of them, and if they really say it wrong, there will be no ungrateful person to errata.

Thinking of this, he coughed dryly and said, "Well, this is alfalfa. You know, Dayuan Country in the Western Regions, Dayuan Country has a sweat-blooded BMW, and it is this alfalfa that you eat."

"Really?"

"Really, even more true than pearls."

"Can ordinary horses eat it?"

"Yes." Yuwen Wen replied, bent down and pulled a few handfuls of alfalfa, turned around and went to feed the horses so that he could prove to his sister-in-law that he was not false.

"This man, did you pick grass and want to feed the horses?"
Chapter completed!