Chapter 51: The West Market
"Fourth uncle, it's about to be two o'clock, you better get in the car quickly, I'll take you to the East Market and the West Market to have a good time!"
looked at the half-pillar incense that had stopped in front of the carriage, and his face was unexpectedly obscene. Li Yuanba, who was smiling, Li Chengqian struggled in his heart for a long time, and finally decided to pull this unreliable fourth uncle out of the infinite YY world.
"Ahh Is it so late? Let's go! ”
Ren is Li Yuanba's cheek is as thick as the city wall, and it is inevitable that he will be a little embarrassed at this moment.
He patted his head a little disguised, and continued: "Do you want to go to the Fang Market first or go back to the palace first?" ”
"I won't follow the fourth uncle next time I am killed, this attitude is simply too sadistic!" Li Chengqian secretly scolded himself in his heart, forcibly squeezed out a smile on his face that was more ugly than crying, and said astringently:
"Fourth uncle, our Chang'an City is divided into two cities, east and west. Because the people around the East Market are all princes and nobles, there are many merchants in the East Market that deal in luxury goods such as gold and silver jewelry. The West Market deals mostly with livelihood items that ordinary people can afford, so its commerce and trade are much more prosperous than those in the East Market. By the way, the 'Wuwang Mansion' given to you by my father is not far from the East Market, I think we might as well go to the West Market first, and then go back to the East Market! ”
Li Chengqian's remarks made the general situation of Chang'an City's commerce and trade very clear and clear at a glance.
Li Yuanba was also interested for a while, patted Li Chengqian's shoulder and said, "Okay, just listen to you!" ”
Li Yuanba's shot didn't matter, it made Li Chengqian's feet soft, and his whole body was crispy, and he thought that he was going to follow in the footsteps of General Hou Junjihou.
It's okay, it's okay to just pat it lightly.
The prince of the Tang Dynasty, who was embarrassed in his heart, quietly wiped the sweat that did not exist on his forehead, and followed Li Yuanba into the carriage.
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The carriage was very stable, and the coachman's driving skills were good, at least the mountain. Graduates of Donglanxiang leather whip driving carriage major.
Li Yuanba deliberately slowed down the coachman, he sat in the carriage and opened a curtain and looked out through the boxy window.
The road was full of traffic, including foreign travelers and merchants in fancy costumes, and even people leading camels, carrying goods, and talking in different languages and dialects, making Li Yuanba feel as if he was walking through a thriving international trading market.
After about ten minutes on this main road, the carriage entered the West Market.
As soon as he entered the West Market, Li Yuanba's eyes suddenly lit up, because he felt that there was an aura that was not inferior to the modern metropolis at all.
I saw that there were many shops on both sides of the street in the west market, and there was an endless stream of customers coming in and out.
On the wide blue brick street in the middle, passers-by are like carp, and Hu merchants in different costumes come and go, from time to time entering the shops on both sides of the street, bargaining with the boss, and the roadside, which should have been relatively empty, is also full of stalls, and the shouts of selling things are even more up.
Li Yuanba looked interesting, and simply walked down from the carriage, considering that Li Chengqian's legs and feet were inconvenient, so he didn't ask Li Chengqian to get off, so he walked in front of the carriage and walked around.
He stopped for a while, looked curiously left and right in front of the fat powder stall, and then ran to the clay man vendor, staring at the old craftsman kneading the clay figure there...... And just like that, in the blink of an eye, he had disappeared in front of the carriage.
"Young master, young master, it's not good, it's not good! The fourth master is gone! ”
The coachman was dumbfounded all of a sudden, Nima, isn't this a cheat? A good big living person, the effort is lost in the blink of an eye, no way, let's hurry up and report!
"Oh, throw it away...... Yes? What did you say? The fourth uncle is gone? ”
Originally, Li Chengqian was a little upset when he listened to the shouting outside the carriage in the carriage, but after hearing the coachman's words, he didn't pay much attention to it at first, but when he thought about the back, he suddenly woke up.
"Find it, find it for me right away! I can't find it, I've skinned you! Li Chengqian didn't care about anything else, jumped out of the carriage and ran into the crowd, and at the same time shouted in his heart: "Uncle, can you not play like this, you are going to kill your eldest nephew!" ”
Nonsense, can you not pit?
Based on the glorious deeds he heard from his father, Emperor Li Shimin, about Li Yuanba, can Li Chengqian not be in a hurry? This troublemaker, after nineteen years, if there is really something wrong, then Chang'an City will not be turned upside down?
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So, at this moment, what are our Li University historians doing?
It turned out that this goods were walking, and I didn't know that I had come to the middle of the most lively place in the West Market.
This is like the wholesale market that Li Yuanba was familiar with in his previous life, everything is piled up and batched, and there are even some people selling martial arts there on the edge of the market, so as to win the applause and rewards of the merchants.
Li Yuanba was now standing in the crowd of a stall that threw throwing knives, looking at the bearded strong man, and with his eyes closed, he shot the apple on top of a beautiful soft girl's paper head.
In fact, where this product is looking at art, it is clearly looking at people.
I saw that the beautiful soft girl paper was wearing men's clothes, about one meter six tall, the eyebrows and eyes on the melon seed face were delicate, and the hands were whiter and more tender than the skin on the face, if it weren't for Li Yuanba accidentally noticed that there was no Adam's apple on her slender neck, and her chest was slightly raised, I am afraid that she would really miss such a beautiful soft girl paper.
Just for the courage and beauty of this soft girl's paper, Li Yuanba was about to give a reward, and suddenly found that he was shy. Because when he left the palace, his brother didn't give him any money at all, so this goods are now a typical 'spectator'.
At this moment, Li Yuanba remembered Li Chengqian's eldest nephew, but his eldest nephew was gone!
It's over, I caught a cold at the critical moment!
Just when Li Yuanba was secretly annoyed in his heart, an arrogant voice came from outside the crowd:
"Get out of the way, get out of the way for Lao Tzu, don't you know that the second young master of my family is the brother of Song Shiling in Xishi? Get out of the way! ”
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"Look, it's Song Er!"
"This villain who deceives the good and fears the evil, and the soft and the hard is here again!"
"Alas, it seems that the two little brothers who are performing are going to be unlucky!"
With the noise coming from the crowd, Li Yuanba secretly frowned, and said in his heart: "A small official who manages the commerce and trade of the West Market dares to connive at his relatives and harm the township? What kind of world is this, why did all the bad things happen to Lao Tzu? ”
From the Warring States period to the Tang Dynasty, there were specific commercial districts in the city, called 'shi' (fangshi), and the 'city' was directly managed by officials sent by the imperial court, and its prefect was called 'shi ling'.
The arrogant voice from this crowd should be the dog leg of the Song City Ling brothers.