Chapter 263: The Wooden Hairpin and the Bell
"Bring me three courgettes."
Lu Bu swallowed his dry throat, and after handing the stall owner one hundred and twenty yuan, he picked up three courgettes and handed them to Chen Wei and Wei Musheng behind him.
Before leaving, he still didn't forget to glance at the pao on the eyeboard.
Don't look at Lu Bu is a general now, compared to ordinary people, it is indeed a lot more, but if you want to buy Pu Tao to try it, it will really be a success or failure.
What's more, he really doesn't have any spare money on his hands.
Under the running of Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping, the business of selling horses has made a lot of money, and the sale of smuggled salt has not yet been carried out on a large scale, but according to the meaning of his father-in-law, Old Man Yan, the profit must be higher than that of selling horses.
With so much money in hand, Lu Bu is still very poor.
Training, armouring, weapons, food, pensions, ......
None of them cost nothing, and everything is a big expense, and more often than not, they are still making ends meet.
"General, you said that they are all thirst-quenching melons and fruits, why is the price so much?" Wei Musheng looked at the green courgette in his hand, remembering that he had just been looked down upon by the stall owner, and his heart was slightly unhappy.
The Han Dynasty suppressed commerce, resulting in an extremely low status of merchants.
Wei Musheng is also a lieutenant now, and his status is higher than that vendor. He took a bite hard, and the courgette swirled in his mouth, making a crunchy sound.
"Maybe it's like the good and bad of a war horse, there are good and bad." Lu Bu also took a bite of the courgette, and while chewing, he gave a reasonable answer.
Both of them ate deliciously, but Chen Wei, who was Lu Bu's personal guard, was not in a hurry to move. Because there were a lot of tiny burrs on the surface of the courgette, he first used his hands to cover them up and down, perhaps because his left hand had used the gun, and this set of actions was very familiar.
Only when those burrs were removed did he open his mouth wide, and at the moment when he bit down suddenly, Wei Musheng, who he glimpsed in the afterglow, shivered all over his body, and only felt a chill in his crotch.
After going around for half a circle, Lu Bu went out of the East Market, and he didn't bother to visit the rest of the stalls, and the things in them were basically not suitable for him.
I wanted to buy a jade hairpin for Wei Niang, but the merchant asked for 130,000 yuan......
It seems that there is no net worth of 100,000,000 yuan, so don't come to this East Market.
Out of the East and into the West.
Compared with the luxury of the East Market, the West Market is obviously closer to the daily life of the people. All kinds of daily necessities, vegetables, foodstuffs, clothes, shoes and socks can always be obtained here at a very low price.
The vendors crouched on the roadside and shouted, boasting about their goods, and the buyers haggled over a copper coin or two......
Everything seemed so real and natural.
Lu Bu was in the crowd, moving slowly.
His tall stature allowed him to see the crowd in front of him, bustling with people. At the same time, he also had a headache for this, even if he had strong force, he was like a quagmire at the moment, and he couldn't do it. I can only go with the flow, move my steps, and walk slowly forward.
Soon, Lu Bu squatted down in front of a jewelry stall.
The stall owner was an elderly woman, wrapped in a ragged ragged jacket, with a wrinkled face and drooping eyelids, as if she was about to fall asleep.
At the end of those wooden hairpins, different flowers and leaves are carved with flying birds, which are lifelike.
Wei Niang will like it when she sees it.
Lu Bu had a plan in his heart, so he asked out loud: "Old man, how much is your wooden hairpin worth?" ”
"Ten dollars a piece."
The old woman's lips squirmed, and in her open mouth, there were only two or three old teeth that had not yet fallen off.
It's cheap.
Lu Bu carefully selected, and selected a total of five wooden hairpins before and after.
Just as he was about to pay, the old woman asked, "Hou Sheng, but buy it for the lady?" ”
Lu Bu nodded and handed over the copper coin in his hand.
"Take it back, don't need money, treat your lady better." The old woman pushed back Lu Bu's palm to hand over the money, her smile was full of kindness, anyway, she had nothing to do, carved some gadgets, and didn't expect to rely on this to support her family.
However, seeing the life in front of him and his wife thinking about buying jewelry for his wife at home also reminded the old man of many past events when he was a girl.
But her wife's wife has been in the ground for many years.
"Old man, I have accepted your wishes. Still, the money has to be given. ”
Lu Bu put the fifty coins into the old woman's hand, and when he got up, he heard a crisp and pleasant ringtone.
Jingle bell~~
There are many small bells hanging on the bamboo poles that stand horizontally. As soon as the wind blew, it sounded softly and non-stop, like the wind calling softly and warmly inside.
Lu Bu walked sideways, and the bells hanging on the horizontal pole were twenty, all of which were the size of knuckles. He chose for a long time, looking at and shaking them one by one, and when there were only two left, one was a fiery red bell with a red flame tattoo, and the other was a silver-white moonlight.
Lu Bu struggled for a long time, and finally simply bought both, and he asked for a red rope to pass through the thin hole and tie the knot.
I wonder if the little things will like it?
Lu Bu looked at the tiny bell in his palm, and a smile unconsciously appeared on his face. I haven't been back for so long, and I don't know if the little thing misses him, and whether he will talk and shout Daddy.
After the purpose of shopping was completed, Lu Bu glanced at the sky and estimated that it was time to eat noon.
It happened that there was a wine house not far ahead, and Lu Bu took Chen and Wei to walk over there, and then they had their stomachs full.
The three of them were walking towards the winery, but the crowd in front of them suddenly dispersed and surrounded them, blocking their way.
Lu Bu frowned slightly, with the advantage of his height, he could vaguely see the situation inside.
Five or six ruffian-looking thugs, with arrogant faces, clasping hands and forking their waists, stepped on the bundled firewood with their feet, and shouted at the man who set up the stall: "Either pay the money and pay taxes honestly, or take your firewood and get out of here!" ”
The man who set up the stall stared at these local snakes, without the slightest fear on his face, and his attitude was also very strong: "I will pay what should be paid, and I will not give any points if I should not pay." ”
"Yo, I actually ran into a hard bone today. Lao Tzu didn't do it for a few days, and I was a sick cat? ”
When the gangster leader heard this, he waved his hand and shouted: "Brother, hit me!" ”
Several thugs behind him listened to the order and immediately stepped forward to start fighting, but before the people watching the play could see enough excitement, these thugs were all knocked to the ground by three or two.
The firewood seller who stood up straight was nearly nine feet tall, with a strong and large body, a majestic face and nose, and a little eyesight strength could be seen that he was not an ordinary person.
"Get out!"
The firewood seller yelled at the gangsters who fell to the ground and screamed in pain, and sat back down in front of the stall.
However, before the crowd had dispersed, two messengers approached a young man.