Chapter 37: A Chance Encounter with the County Lord
A night of carnival until dawn is over.
On the streets of Penglai, you can see everywhere the wolf left by last night. In the early days of the Tang Dynasty, a curfew system was implemented in both the capital and the county of Zhou, and a curfew was imposed after two watches every night. The "Palace Guard Order" stipulates that every night when the "daytime" of the yamen has been exhausted, 600 "closed-door drums" will be sounded; Every morning after five or three o'clock, 400 "open door drums" are sounded. Anyone who walks on the streets of the city without reason behind the "closed door drum" or in front of the "open door drum" is guilty of "committing a night crime" and is to be given 20 lashes. If it is an official business such as delivering a letter to the government, or a private matter such as buying medicine or a doctor for a wedding, funeral, or illness, you can walk with the permission of the street patrolman, but you are not allowed to leave the city.
The people of Datang can play all night on the Shangyuan Festival every year. However, in this situation, in the late Tang Dynasty, it gradually began to relax.
Although the capital still strictly enforces a curfew, port cities such as Dengzhou and Guangzhou do not strictly enforce curfews except in wartime or emergency situations. Like Dengzhou City, there is even a preliminary existence of a night market, but the night market is not open overnight, and it can only be opened until three watches.
Last night, Penglai released the curfew and carnivaled all night, which made the people of Penglai, who are used to staying at home at night, have a good time.
Stretching his waist, Li Jing walked out of Wangxian Tower and stood on the street full of ocean atmosphere and indulged.
Take a deep breath with your eyes closed, and a unique seaside smell will come to your face. Occasionally, there was also a smell mixed with chopped green onions, sesame seeds, ghee, and mutton, Li Jing closed his eyes, sniffed his nose, and slowly followed the fragrance. Like an innocent child, it seems to have gone back to the past all of a sudden.
At this time, it was still early in the morning, and there were not many pedestrians on the street, and Li Jing smelled the fragrance and found the flax cake stall after a while.
Under a locust tree, there was a small wooden hut shop, and outside the shop was a simple pergola, under which four or five simple long tables and benches were placed. Early in the morning, there were already seven or eight guests. The small shop didn't sell much breakfast, Li Jing looked at it, and the main thing was the fragrant sesame Hu cake, and then the gluton or porridge. Dumplings are actually noodle soup, also known as soup cakes. In addition, there are pancakes, cooking cakes. This cookcake is actually a steamed bun similar to a steamed bun, the stuffing is the steamed bun, and the stuffing is the bun. There is also a type of cookcake that is steamed with cross cracks, as well as ravioli.
In addition to these, there is also delicious mutton soup and haggis soup.
Since arriving in the Tang Dynasty, Li Jing has really wronged his stomach. In Wangli Village, either bran and wild vegetables are eaten, or sorghum vegetable porridge is eaten. Finally, someone else gave him a few fish, but he didn't eat the fish, but went to prison and ate for half a month. After enlisting in the army, there was a camping march along the way, not to mention. Yesterday, I finally entered a big restaurant like Wangxian Tower, but I ate a lot of wine, and he didn't eat a few bites of delicious dishes.
After drinking so much wine yesterday, seeing that there were so many delicious breakfasts in this small store at this time, Li Jing's stomach was already rumbling.
"Shop, two sesame hu cakes, two more pancakes, four more flowering cakes, and one bowl of dumplings. In addition, the cold pottery will give another bowl. Well, two more bowls of mutton soup! Li Jing looked at all kinds of delicacies, and he was really reluctant to do the same, and finally ordered almost everything.
After Li Jing finished ordering, it was suddenly quiet in front of the breakfast shop. attracted everyone's attention, and even a table of two young men with round necks, green shirts, and gauze heads couldn't help laughing. "It's a talent, how can it be a rice bucket!"
Li Jing's face darkened, and when he turned his head to look, another boy in a green shirt hurriedly pulled the first one back.
"Guest officer, the small shop is a small business, but every breakfast is full of portions. Childe screamed so much at once, I'm afraid I won't be able to finish it. "The shopkeeper is a bearded man with a high nose and deep eyes, but he speaks more authentic in official language, and Tang Yun reads it better than Li Jing.
Li Jing was first ridiculed by the two young people, and now he is treated like this by the boss, and he is a little unhappy. Secretly said that the boss must be afraid that he would eat but have no money to pay the bill, so he took out his hand and was ready to pay first before eating, and now he had nothing to say.
However, after digging in his arms for a long time, he remembered that he did not have copper coins with him. Previously, he used the money on his body to buy clothes, and the remaining ten cents were all rewarded to the buddy. At this time, after touching it for a long time, he remembered that he did have money, there were 10,000 coins stored on the Wangxian cabinet, and there was a 500 yuan flying money on his body, and there were two 50 taels of pig kidneys and silver collars in the money bag in his waist. But on the contrary, there is no half-penny copper coin.
The boss of the Hu people kept looking at Li Jing, waiting for him to find out the money. As a result, I waited for a long time, but when I saw that Li Jing didn't touch anything after being the worst, I couldn't help but sneer: "Don't pretend if you don't have money, you still have to order so much in one go, have you eaten, do you have the money to pay?" Take a walk, you are a talented person, and you are still wearing such a green shirt. I can't even get a piece of cake money, so let's go, don't get in the way of my business." ”
Hu Ren said as he pretended to drive away. No matter what Li Jing wears, as long as he has no money, he doesn't want to eat overlord meals.
Li Jing was driven by the Hu people, and this scene caused the diners in the pergola to laugh, especially the two young men in green shirts before, who were almost out of breath with laughter, and one of them even lay directly on the long table and arched his shoulders laughing.
Li Jing's face turned a little angry, and he didn't care about his face at this time, so he untied the money bag from his waist and smashed a white dazzling pig's waist silver collar on the table.
"See clearly, here are fifty taels of silver collars, not to mention a breakfast, it's enough to buy your little shop."
This real money was placed there, and everyone was stunned for a moment. No one saw that Li Jing could actually take out a pig's loin silver. This does not only represent 80,000 yuan, you must know that the silver collar is not accessible to ordinary people, this silver is not commonly used, basically the court is used to reward officials, or the government to pay tribute to the court. The young man in front of him suddenly shot a fifty taels of silver collar, which couldn't help but make the boss of the Hu man and the diners present change color slightly, and secretly guessed Li Jing's identity.
"This guest officer, I'm really sorry, our store operates on a small budget, only accepts copper coins, not cashiers. You can go to the Dongcheng Wangjia Gold Store first to exchange the copper coins, and then come! "Boss Hu Ren is also tough, and he actually came to a sentence without yin or yang.
"You" Li Jing felt that he was still in a hangover, otherwise, how could he have made such a show early in the morning. He didn't speak at the moment, and turned around and planned to look back at the fairy tower.
"This son is slow!" Suddenly, a crisp voice came from behind. Li Jing turned around, but saw that it was one of the people who couldn't laugh before, that is, the one who didn't let him talk about his rice bucket before.
"Brother, what's the matter?" Li Jing said without being salty or light.
"It's not a joke to watch the story, it must be a time when you forget to bring money, some small things, and it is inevitable that you will be careless. If Childe doesn't dislike it, you can join us, how about I come for this breakfast? The young man in the green shirt had clear eyebrows, red lips and white skin, and his words were crisp and crisp, which made Li Jing stunned. His heart moved, and he looked carefully at the past, but saw that the man's skin was indeed a little too white, and there was no Adam's apple, and he was amazed that this was actually a woman dressed as a man.
Li Jing was a little confused, although the Tang Dynasty was open, it was the first time he saw a woman dressed as a man, and the other party actually openly accosted him. This woman must be very beautiful if she changes into women's clothes, and then look at the one next to her who scolded him just now, she is also a woman.
Although the two of them were dressed in green shirts, they could see that the texture of the clothes was extraordinary, and they were all silk. Li Jing judged in his heart that the identities of these two people must not be simple, he just arrived in Dengzhou, he didn't want to provoke any people who shouldn't be provoked, he was cautious, but he didn't want to have anything to do with these two women who didn't know their identities.
At that moment, he arched his hand and said: "Thank you two brothers for your kindness, but I just remembered that there was something to do, and I couldn't stay for a long time, so I said goodbye!" When he said the words of the two brothers, Li Jing deliberately accentuated his tone a little, and sure enough, he saw that the faces of the two changed color slightly.
The two of them also arched their hands to Li Jing, and Li Jing turned around and left.
"Rice bucket, it's so annoying!" The slightly smaller woman picked up the cold pottery in the bowl with the chopsticks in her hand, and picked it up a few times as Li Jingyin.
The one who was invited at the exit just now was holding a flax cake in his hand, and looked at the direction where Li Jing was going, and he was a little stunned.
"Sister, what are you thinking? Do you have a crush on that rice bucket? ”
The girl came back to her senses and patted her: "It's just a little strange, that man came to breakfast, and he didn't have half a copper coin on him, but he was able to take out a silver collar of fifty taels at once, and I saw that there was a silver collar in his money bag." And you know, isn't it strange that he later recognized our daughter's identity, but instead left in a hurry? ”
"Yes, ordinary young men, seeing the beauty of the county lord and this girl, even if they see through our identity, they will definitely pretend not to know and take the opportunity to get close. It's strange that this person is so strange, the county lord invited him, and he actually escaped like a ghost. ”
"Yu Youniang, how many times have I told you, you are not allowed to be called the county lord outside. Remember, we are young men, and if you talk nonsense, I won't take you out to play anymore. ”
"Good sister, don't. You don't know how to do it, every day I stay at home, my father either asks me to read and practice calligraphy or embroider and weave, and I am bored to death. ”
"Then you can't be courteous to others like you are today, and you are not allowed to reveal our identities casually."
"Okay, it's up to you."
"Okay, let's eat quickly, let's go to the unity camp after eating, and take a good look at how amazing Li Jing is, who has been praised by Cui Shibo and our two fathers."
"Okay, I'm done, shopkeeper, check out!"