Nowadays, Huangzhou belongs to Huainan West Road, so the first day of the month belongs to the capital Shouzhou (now Lu'an, Hubei), the second is Luzhou (now Hefei, Anhui), the third is Huangzhou (now Huanggang, Hubei), and the fourth is Qizhou (now Qichun County, Hubei), and all places are arranged in order of the administrative level of each county.

For example, Luzhou and Huangzhou are separated by more than 600 miles, and Huangzhou is only 100 miles away from Qi County, 120 miles by land, even if the markets in the three places are staggered by one day, no one will rush to Luzhou on the second day of the first year, and then they will run 600 miles overnight to catch Huangzhou, and then run more than 100 miles to catch Qi County.

Having said so much, in fact, it means that the big bazaar in Huangzhou mainly covers an area with Huangzhou as the center and a radius of up to 100 miles. However, since crossing the river is Ezhou, the capital of Jinghu North Road, the large set of Huangzhou Mansion is also considered large within a radius of 100 miles.

Among them, the first set on the third day of each month is the most lively, this is because of the inconvenient transportation, many merchants come hundreds of miles away, they will stay from the first set of the third day of the first month to the end of the eighteenth, and then return home or go to other places.

Of course, the first set on the third day of the seventh month naturally has nothing to do with scalpers, after all, the authority of his uncle Yao Zheng still has to be respected, and the official opening day is the sixth day of the first month, and now it is just a trial operation, and there is no need for the uncle and nephew to go to the station. On this day, except for a grandmother Jia who was too old, the Huang family stayed to guard the house, which can be said to be pouring out.

I don't know if the scene on the street is ten thousand empty alleys, and I didn't know if it was a scalper in the empty alley, and at noon, I instigated my cousin to go and visit, but I was driven back by Yao Erniang stuffed a basket of various foods, and the only description was: "Cousin, Yu'er just glanced at the door, there were too many people to enter the food street, and hundreds of people surrounded the door of the old store, all looking at the third brother of the Zhu family and the ramen of the Luo family......"

"Nonsense! Hundreds of people still haven't blocked the official road? The scalper was happy to hear it in her heart, but she still couldn't help but uncover her cousin's cowhide, and thought for a while: "My old store is six and a half steps away from the road, and the place that can be seen clearly on the left and right is only twenty steps away. ”

My cousin nodded hurriedly and said, "What my cousin said is that anyway, Yu'er can't count them, but I think there are a lot of people." ”

The scalper shook his head, and then took out the food in the basket and divided it with his cousin, which contained four steamed buns with enough mutton, a large bowl of barbecued meatballs, a plate of wrapped silk vegetables, and a jar of chicken soup with a thick layer of chicken fat...... It's too cold to only use chicken bones to make soup, and the old Huang family really can't do this kind of thing.

After dealing with lunch simply, the scalper held the book and felt hairy in his heart, and he fidgeted all afternoon.

It wasn't until after four o'clock in the evening that I saw the old man leading three mule carts to bring the family back, Yao Erniang and the children actually sat on the mule cart and fell asleep, Aunt Qi, Kong Bo, Kong Yun and Chen Si Although they were still carrying lanterns and following the mule cart, they all looked at the feet and played straight away.

The scalper, who had been accompanying Granny Jia to guard the door, hurriedly opened the middle door and led the mule cart in, only then did he see that the old lady and thirteen children plus Fushou and Yuemei were all sitting on their mule carts and dozing, but the two mule carts that followed were rented, and the carts were covered with cloth curtains, so I didn't know what the cart was carrying.

"Niu'er, go to the storeroom and get some mats!" The old man drank at the yellow beef, then shook his head and patted the rim of the car and shouted, "Wake up, it's home!" ”

The scalper went to the treasury to get a mat according to his words, and spread the mat in the courtyard of the main courtyard after listening to the old man's words, and then the old man asked Kong Bo and Kong Yun, who were driving the mule cart, to take the fence after reversing, and then heard a loud noise, and poured out a large number of copper coins from the car.

"Dad, is it the city of these two days?" The scalper looked at the small hill made of copper coins, although his eyes were not straight, but his eyes were full of little stars.

The old man untied a small cloth bag from his waist and said with a smile: "The big head is here, you try!" ”

The scalper took a try, and the weight of the cloth bag was afraid that there was a look of four or five catties, and if it was filled with silver, there must be no seventy or eighty taels (Song Jin was sixteen taels), and he was immediately stunned.

The old man carried the cloth bag and said with a smile: "The money is all earned from trading, but these are the rewards of the guest officials, and an old official who came down the river made a pair of miles for my family's food exchange street!" What is it called, a river rich in water, gathered in Chibi Baiweihui. Ten sides of the mountains, full of delicacies. ”

When the scalper heard it, he thought it was good, but he still provoked: "It's okay to fight, but this 'come' should be the right to 'go', but the upper link 'gathers', and the lower link 'shengjin' is barely harmonious." ”

The old man smiled and said, "That cow thinks, should you make a plaque and hang it at the entrance of Shihui Street?" ”

The scalper thought for a while, but asked: "I don't know who this official's surname is, what official rank it is, and whether it is a official or not." ”

The old man shook his head and said: "I didn't ask it, this old official said that his nickname was 'Yingbin Relic Elder', and I also asked for special advice, it is the Yingchuan of Yingchuan, the shore of the lake!" ”

"Grandpa! But it's wrong! The scalper was immediately shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly clapped his hands and shouted, he has been held by his uncle in the past few days, but he has finished reading the county government records of Huangzhou, if he still doesn't know who the old man of Yingbin is, wouldn't this book really read into the tripe?

This Yingbin widow is none other than Su Shi, Su Dongpo, and Su Che, the younger brother of Su Lao, who was demoted to Huangzhou and wrote the famous "Cold Food Post".

As mentioned above, at the beginning of this year, there was an official sent by the bureau to Huangzhou, and he actually used his brain on the steles and monuments left by the literati and ink writers of the past dynasties on Chibi Mountain, although he was suppressed by Cao Zhizhou, but the rich families in Huangzhou City were inevitably hung up, but it was thanks to the care of the people of the court that Mr. Su was not turned upside down, and the ins and outs of this matter Yao Zheng of course told the scalper, since the protégé of Mr. Su was mentioned, it was impossible not to mention Mr. Su himself, and his younger brother Su Zhe.

said that this Su Zhe Su Lao, in the first year of Shaosheng (1094), because of the letter against the current politics, was demoted to Ruzhou, Yuanzhou, and assigned Huazhou to drive, Leizhou resettlement, and later degraded to Xunzhou and other places. In the third year of Chongning (1104), Su Zhe settled in Yingchuan after the Shi, and built a room called "the old man Zhai", called "Yingbin old man", and it was rumored that he was reading and writing, sitting silently and participating in Zen.

Moreover, he also came to Huangzhou in the past, and also wrote a famous post of "Huangzhou Kuaizai Pavilion".

Now, this pair of hiding the tail of the "food exchange" is not bad, if this "Yingbin Relics" is not counterfeited by others, then this old official must be Su Che.