Chapter 012: Inside and Outside the City
The next day!
The red sun rises, the sun rises, and the warm sun shines on the Chang'an imperial capital, covering the entire world with a layer of gorgeous gauze.
The main entrance of the palace
Outside the Gate of Chengtian!
Chai Lingwu stood guard with a team of heroic guards.
This was Chai Lingwu's first "date", so he deliberately "dressed up". He wore a black warrior suit that was easy to fight, a short sword with a gem inlaid with a short sword on his waist, and a Ding Tang sword on his back. Combined with his handsome and handsome face, he showed his great momentum and a chivalrous style.
What the guards were speechless was that this guy was playing with a cold dagger in his hand.
A person brings three sharp tools: one long, two short, and three sharp objects.
What are you going to do?
After going out, he actually armed himself like this.
When did the public security in Chang'an become so chaotic?
And even if something happens, your five fierce guards will take action. You young master will be very useful.
After waiting for a long time, a team of palace maids with fluttering colorful skirts finally came out.
At the front, a girl in white dress stood pretty, revealing a small face as beautiful as a flower under the rising sun.
With big lively eyes, delicate little nose, plump and warm red lips, and happy smile, they look indescribable cute and noble.
Although he is about 1.34 meters tall, he is just a little too young. No matter how bright his eyes and white teeth and beautiful he is, he cannot hide his childishness.
"Meet Your Highness the Princess!" The guards saluted with fists.
"Uncle Guards are exempted from gifts!" The little loli asked the guards to give up gifts first, and then happily said to Chai Lingwu: "Cousin! Have you been waiting for a long time?"
Public first and then private, polite and concise.
"It's not long, I've just practiced a set of sword techniques!" Chai Lingwu waved his hand and the dagger disappeared.
The guards stared at him were stunned.
For their duties, they have been staring at Chai Lingwu since Princess Changle came out, but no one could see where Chai Lingwu put the dagger.
The little loli opened her eyes in shock and said in admiration: "Cousin, how did you do it?"
Chai Lingwu smiled and said, "Do you want to learn? I will teach you if I have time. Let's go."
The little loli nodded happily.
Under the escort of the Chai Mansion Warrior, the two walked through the imperial city diagonally and left Jingfeng Gate.
"Cousin, where are we going?" the little loli asked excitedly.
Chai Lingwu said: "Go to Dongshi."
In addition to the imperial palace and imperial city, Chang'an City was cut into two cities with eleven east-south directions, fourteen east-west streets.
The two cities in the east and west occupy two fangs, with 220 rows inside, which are the economic center and commercial center of Chang'an. It is said that the word "buy things" first appeared in the Tang Dynasty, and it refers to the two cities in the east and west of Chang'an. However, because the residences of the royal kings, officials and powerful officials, the institutions in Beijing or the Jinzhaoyuan were distributed near the Dongcheng City, and literati and poets were also active nearby. Therefore, the Dongcheng City mostly sells luxury goods and high-end literary and artistic products.
The goods in the East City are taking the high-end route, so the daily passenger flow is several times less than that in the West City where people are crowded and people are plagued by people.
When passing by Chongrenfang, which owns two yards, the little loli blinked Shui Lingling's big eyes and said, "Why go and worship the Emperor Pingyang first?"
The little loli knew that the Duke Qiao Mansion was here, and remembered the excuse of leaving the palace, and felt that she should go to worship Princess Pingyang.
"Next time, if you have this filial piety, your princess will be very happy."
Chai Lingwu Nuannuan smiled and said casually: "The mansion is now in a mess and smoky way."
"Why are you messing around?" the little loli asked curiously.
Chai Lingwu smiled bitterly and said, "Your uncle asked someone to make drastic changes to the mansion. He was idle and had nothing to do, and he was troublesome!"
After Li Tang occupied Chang'an, Li Yuan occupied all the mansions of the nobles of the Sui Dynasty and rewarded them to his subordinates. Since Chai Shao and Princess Pingyang were both great men and royal relatives, they were obtained two mansions connected together.
As the second son, Chai Lingwu had no qualifications to inherit his title and family business. The day of marriage was when he left the Duke of Qiao State's Mansion. Therefore, the empty "Princess Mansion" was where he settled in the future.
Since Chai Lingwu's marriage partner was the current eldest princess of the Tang Dynasty, after the marriage was made, Chai Shao immediately asked Jiang Xingben, the craftsman in charge of the construction of the palace, to re-plan the "Princess Mansion".
Chai Lingwu is not a teenager who longs for perfect love. He has no resistance to arranged marriages and political marriages at all, and is also sure that he will not be dissatisfied with his wife after marriage.
There is nothing wrong with getting married first and falling in love.
Love may not necessarily be vigorous and earth-shaking, and it is plain and calm to support each other, which is more in line with Chai Lingwu's temperament.
Just thinking that when the nine and a half-year-old little loli was the one who got married two years later, his head was about to explode.
A little girl of eleven or twelve years old! How could Chai Lingwu be able to speak and do it?
If you don’t talk, don’t take action! The little loli and Li Shimin behind her would be strange if Empress Changsun didn’t think he would be.
It's really hard for him to die.
The little loli didn't know what Chai Lingwu was worried about, she was already attracted by the strange things on the road.
Since leaving the palace and walking on the street, the smile on my face has never stopped.
As a royal princess, the little loli rarely goes out of the palace to play. She occasionally goes out of the palace and sits in a carriage and has never had the experience of walking on the streets. Therefore, she seems particularly curious about everything.
I was very interested in everything, so I walked around here and looked there. Everything was interesting and I was so happy.
Chai Lingwu acted as her guide without bothering.
Passing by a small stall selling tea eggs, the little loli smelled the fragrance and whispered in a fascination: "Cousin, what is this? Is it delicious?"
The little loli looked at the tea eggs with two shiny big eyes, and she didn't blink, and even sucked her mouth a few times, obviously she was very hungry.
"This is called tea egg!"
When Chai Lingwu saw that the dealer was gray-haired and stupid, he bought twenty-four tea eggs with a Tongbao!
A Tongbao, commonly known as one qian and one qian.
During the Zhenguan period, the world was rich, and the prices were very low. A dou of rice was only sold for three or four cents. Even if it happened to be a disaster, it would be at most five or six cents.
Usually one thousand ci is a one-month ci. If you calculate four cents per dou of rice, you can buy two hundred and fifty ci.
A bucket of thirty kilograms can be bought for 7,500 kilograms of rice for a lifetime.
Calculated based on two yuan per kilogram of rice, one-percent silver is equivalent to RMB 18,750.
What about a essay? It's about 19 yuan
In other words, an old man only sells a tea egg for 100 cents.
Tongbao is the lowest value currency in the Tang Dynasty. If you want to find it, you can only barter it, which is extremely inconvenient.
Fortunately, there were five warriors around him, otherwise Chai Lingwu would have to generously use most of the value of a Tongbao as a tip.
After giving twenty tea eggs to the warrior, Chai Lingwu stripped the eggshell for the little loli and handed her the cooked egg!
The little loli was both happy and moved, and her big eyes were bent into crescents, looking at the tea eggs in her hand.
Tea eggs are very common, but the more ordinary things are, the less there are in the palace. She took a light bite, and the tenderness of the egg and the fragrance of the tea filled her mouth. The taste was no less than those abalone shark fins, and it had a unique taste.
"It's so delicious! I've never eaten anything so delicious." The little loli smiled happily.
Chai Lingwu sighed in his heart, and looked at the tall red wall not far away, and couldn't help but think of a classic sentence written by Mr. Qian Zhongshu in "The Siege": "Marriage is a Siege. People outside the city want to go in, and people in the city want to come out."
Chapter completed!