The weather was a little hotter again, and the clothes outside had been changed into single shirts, Xia Hongsheng looked at the package prepared by his sister-in-law, and suddenly missed his big backpack. In ancient times, when students traveled, they needed to bring a change of clothes, books and other things, and it was too troublesome to wrap them, so there was a bamboo row, which was a square bamboo basket made of bamboo, which was carried behind the back, and there were things to be used on the road such as clothes and books for a change of clothes. Poor scholars can only carry their own backs, while some families will raise a scholar, who carries a bamboo row along the way and is responsible for taking care of the students. Xia Hongsheng has no scholars at home, and he doesn't want to carry the bamboo row, and his hard and heavy back hurts. The package is even more unwanted, it is extremely inconvenient to carry on the back, and it is easy to loosen.

"Sister-in-law, where is the tailor's shop?" Xia Hongsheng scratched his head and decided to go to the tailor to make a backpack by himself, not to mention the backpack, even the shoulder bag that straddles is also excellent.

"Huh? My sister-in-law just sewed new clothes for you, what are you going to do at the tailor's shop? If it's not suitable, my sister-in-law will change it for you. As the woman spoke, she turned around and took out the sewing basket, and was about to go over to untie Xia Hongsheng's clothes, but the frightened Xia Hongsheng hurriedly jumped back.

"What's the blame!" Xia Hongsheng's reaction was too great, and when he jumped away, he almost fell down with his sister-in-law, and the woman glared at Xia Hongsheng with some disgust.

Xia Hongsheng scratched his head a little embarrassed and said, "Sister-in-law, I don't want to sew clothes, I want to sew a backpack...... I'll draw it for you to see! ”

As soon as she heard that Xia Hongsheng was going to paint again, the woman's face hurt, because it meant that Xia Hongsheng was going to waste paper again.

Xia Hongsheng took out the paper and quill, and drew the pattern of the backpack on the paper with a few strokes, and showed it to the woman, and the woman's eyes brightened.

"How nice this object is, it can hold things, and it is easy to carry! Hongsheng, how did you come up with the idea? The woman looked at Xia Hongsheng in surprise, rolled her eyes again, and said, "Hongsheng, no one else has seen this thing yet, right?" Shall we just make it and sell it? Men don't know, women's homes, these things can be practical! ”

Xia Hongsheng looked at his sister-in-law with some surprise, it seems that her sister-in-law has tasted the sweetness of doing business, and this first reaction immediately thought of selling for money! Haha, well, that's a good sign!

"There are many different styles of these bags, and they can be used in different styles for men and women. Well, sister-in-law is ingenious, if you add some patterns to the backpack or something, you can also improve the aesthetics, the more complex the pattern, the better it looks, the more expensive we sell. The better the material for making bags, the higher the price, linen can be used to make bags, brocade can also be, leather can also be, all fine...... These, well, let the sister-in-law think about it! Xia Hongsheng decided to exercise his sister-in-law's business acumen to see if a woman could find a way to do business on it. Bags are a big market in the future, from high-end luxury goods to ordinary people's homes on the streets and alleys, who doesn't buy a few bags? This is especially true of women, a woman who is not a bag of countless bags, this is a piece of fat!

The woman ran to the side to study the pattern given by Xia Hongsheng in high spirits, and began to use her brains to do it, while doing it, she also came up with a lot of tricks, and Xia Hongsheng continued to draw on the side, drawing a pattern of the appearance of the bag that she could remember. Think about it, Datang is full of business opportunities! It's not too easy for this lazy back bamboo row, and he can occasionally think of a way to make money.

The woman asked Xia Hongsheng to rest earlier, and she stayed up late under the oil lamp to sew the backpack, striving to make the bag before Xia Hongsheng set off, so that Xia Hongsheng could set off on his back, the bamboo row was heavy and big, if Xia Hongsheng was really carrying the bamboo row, the woman would be distressed!

When Xia Hongsheng got up in the morning, he found that his sister-in-law was half-leaning on the bed and fell asleep, and her backpack was half completed and was resting aside. Xia Hongsheng took a blanket from the side to put it on his sister-in-law, and then walked out lightly.

From Luanzhou City to Luoyang City, if you ride a horse on the official road, you will arrive at the beginning of a day, if you gallop on a horse, you can arrive in less than a day, but if you walk, it will take two days to walk fast. Fortunately, there is a carriage in the academy, and although the speed is slower than riding a horse, it is better than walking.

Several of the students who had been selected to participate in the poetry club used this day to make their own preparations in the academy, and gathered together to discuss possible topics, and the day passed like this, and the next morning, when the sky was still gray, everyone had already gathered at the gate of the academy.

Yan Shigu didn't say a few words, just looked at a few energetic students and nodded, and then looked at Xia Hongsheng, who looked listless and didn't wake up, shook his head, said "go", and got into a carriage in front with Mr. Liu and Lord Xu of the Xu Yan clan. Yan Shigu's attendant leader Liu Fang drove the carriage in front, and several students in the back also hurriedly got into the carriage, and as soon as he got up, Xia Hongsheng leaned on the carriage and took a nap.

Only then did Yan Shigu be there, and several students didn't dare to speak, but now that they got into the carriage, they weren't afraid that Yan Shigu would hear it. So someone asked: "Senior Brother Xia, why are you here, you are also going to participate in the Luoyang Poetry Club?" ”

Xia Hongsheng opened his eyes and shook his head: "Don't participate, the younger brother has other things to do when he goes to Luoyang City, just follow the brothers to participate in the poetry meeting, Master Yan gave the younger brother a convenience, and let the younger brother take advantage of the carriage of the elder brothers to go over together." ”

The other students nodded clearly, and seeing that Xia Hongsheng had closed his eyes and looked drowsy, they didn't ask him anymore, but just took out their books and read them, but no one spoke.

About an hour later, Xia Hongsheng opened his eyes faintly again, and saw that the sky outside was already bright. Xia Hongsheng dragged the backpack from behind, pulled the backpack in front of him, opened the backpack and took out a wooden box, opened the wooden box, there were a few tea eggs in it, took it out and divided one for a few students, and the other students saw Xia Hongsheng's move, so they also took out the food they were carrying and released it, and several people gathered in the carriage, and the middle was opened, which looked quite rich.

"Senior Brother Xia, you ......" Xu Qixian grabbed Xia Hongsheng's backpack and looked left and right, opened and closed it for a long time, and then said: "This cloth bag is convenient, it is labor-saving to carry, and it contains a lot of things, but it is much better than the bamboo row!" ”

"Oh, my sister-in-law was worried that my little brother wouldn't be able to carry a bamboo chop, so I made such a backpack for my little brother." Xia Hongsheng said casually.

Everyone took out the food and ate together, the atmosphere was much looser, and they began to talk and laugh, but most of the discussions were still about the poetry meeting, and after listening to them for a while, Xia Hongsheng had a better understanding of the Luoyang Poetry Society.

It turns out that the threshold of this Luoyang poetry club is not high, as long as you think you are a scholar, you can go to participate, and the academy that holds the poetry club will also invite other academies to participate, and several famous Confucian masters will be judged to select the best poems. The title of the poem cannot be guessed in advance, it is all set by the predecessors of those judges, and they will not give much time to think. Hearing this, Xia Hongsheng was glad in his heart, fortunately he didn't participate, otherwise he would have been embarrassed. Although I was born in Chinese and memorized a lot of things, it was difficult to guarantee that if I happened to not remember the relevant poems, it would be a shame.

"The first class of the poetry club must be published together with the articles of those old-timers, and when the time comes, the reputation will spread, which will be of great benefit!" One of the students who participated in the poetry meeting said.

"What Brother Wan said is, what's more, if the poems in the poetry meeting are favored by which Oiran wants to be used for fighting Oiran, haha, that's the romantic and elegant thing!" Bai Jianzhi nodded, and said to the student again.

"In a few pounds and a few taels, I know in my heart that I don't have that ability. If it really can be favored by which Oiran is in the poem, it is really an unexpected surprise. It's Brother Bai, why not try it, if you can win the favor of the Oiran, the hibiscus tent is warm, and the Spring Festival is once there, which is also a good story. The student surnamed Wan was neither humble nor arrogant, and replied with a light smile.

Several students laughed in the carriage without a stubble, and imagined that one day they would win the championship in poetry and be favored by the Oiran, and then laughed.

There are a lot of passers-by on the official road, and those who come and go do not seem lonely, and sometimes you can see vendors setting up stalls on the roadside, some cakes and tea, etc. The road surface is a compacted dirt road, which is paved with a layer of fine crushed sand and gravel drainage, and it is fairly smooth. The wooden wheels of the carriage were not elastic at all, and the beams in the wheels were directly connected to the board and the carriage above, so the bumps could only be transmitted directly to the top. Xia Hongsheng is not used to making carriages, especially carriages without shock absorption, and the internal organs of his stomach are displaced, so he has no intention of participating in laughing at all. Later, I couldn't stand it, so I confessed, saying that my butt hurt from upside down, and I went out of the carriage next to the guy driving in front, which made me feel a little better.

"Childe, you better sit back. Looking at this day, I'm afraid it's going to rain later. The attendant who was driving on the side turned his head and said very respectfully to Xia Hongsheng. These attendants were very respectful to the students in the academy.

"It's okay, this big brother, I see that you often go to Luoyang City, this is the first time for the younger brother to go to Luoyang City, can you tell the younger brother what Luoyang City is like?" Xia Hongsheng was naturally familiar, and said to the attendant with a smile.

Seeing that Xia Hongsheng spoke politely and politely, the attendant was a little frightened, and opened a hand to wave: "Don't dare to be!" Childe can call me Wang Er. If you say this Luoyang City, it is a prosperous place like Chang'an, there are one hundred and twenty squares, each square is three hundred steps wide in the southeast and northwest, among which there is Fengdu, the place where the east and west, the north and south live in two squares, and three doors are opened on each side. Difan 312 districts, 100 lines of goods......"

Xia Hongsheng was a little excited while listening to the attendant talk about the prosperity of Luoyang City.

The eastern capital of the Tang Dynasty, the thousand-year-old prosperous Los Angeles, I'm here!