Volume 2 Chapter 1 Prosperous Jincheng
Jincheng, as the provincial capital of the two rivers and Shu land, is of course magnificent.
When he came here, Xing Shengbin really had the sense of prosperity of a big city.
Living in the downtown area, pedestrians are constantly coming and going, and the neighing of passing horses is endless, and the sound of selling comes and goes.
The six people are just like Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden, the snacks sold on the street, the colorful shops, the girl in a simple Qinglou, the towel on her arm, the restaurant Xiaoer, and the teahouse running hall with a big teapot in her hand.
This scene is the real embodiment of the prosperity of a provincial city.
In the hands of the six people, each of them held a snack wrapped in small square paper.
Yang Hongda said while eating:
"This thing is really good, what is it called. ”
Yin Deming beside him said:
"Oily lion's head. ”
Yang Hongda hurriedly responded:
"Oh yes, I should have bought a few more skewers, this thing tastes good. ”
Xing Shengbin on the other side also spoke:
"Brother Yang, don't worry, this street is long, eat the same thing little by little, don't eat too much, lest you get enough to eat when you are full, and there is no place to put other snacks." ”
Kunlun Qian Daozi, who was walking on the very edge, heard this and said:
"Hey~ Little brother, this is true, this street is long, there are countless such street snacks, and it is a little unbeautiful to eat enough at one time. Why don't you taste them all, so that you can live up to our coming here!"
Zhou Zilong finished eating the boiling oil lion head in his hand and said:
"That's right, when you come to this Jincheng, you have to eat all the food here, then it's worthy of ourselves, hey, sister, everyone, let's have this." ”
As he spoke, he directed everyone's attention to the food stall on the side.
Several people surrounded one after another, only to see an uncle, in a wooden box, from time to time the small wooden stick, flicked twice, and then directly turned around and took it up. On the small wooden stick, there will be an extra mass of viscous golden liquid.
Yang Hongda asked suspiciously:
"Uncle, you slimy, what is this!"
The uncle, who was guarding the wooden box, said with a smile:
"A few young heroes, I have maltose, it's sweet, two pennies a piece, do you want to come and try a few. ”
Hearing this, Xing Shengbin couldn't help but tilt his head and look over, sugar is too common, but this kind of sugar, Xing Shengbin has seen it for the first time, and he used it in such a way.
Said with a smile:
"Uncle, give one to each of us. ”
Uncle Buye happily took a small wooden stick and began to make lollipops made of maltose.
This is probably the predecessor of lollipop.
After counting out the twelve cents, everyone continued to move forward, and along the way, everyone had already eaten more than a dozen kinds of snacks. Sweets, in addition to sugar gourds, this is the first one.
However, there doesn't seem to be a candy man or sugar painting seller in this world, so it may not have appeared yet! Xing Shengbin is already thinking that if he retires in the future, he can go to the market and make a living selling candy man and sugar painting, and this thing will definitely be very popular.
Just as a few people were wandering, a deserted store attracted Xing Shengbin's attention.
Xing Shengbin hurriedly shouted:
"Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know if you have any letters to bring home, there is a post house here, when you are away from home for a long time, you have to send a letter back to your home, report your safety, and have you gone together. ”
The post office, also known as the post office of this era, was a special service station for letters established by the state.
Because in this era, there is no such a fast way as the telephone, and the communication between the two places can only be through the post house.
Every month, the post office will sort out the letters sent to various places, except for urgent letters that need to be delivered in time on the same day, most of the letters will be distributed on the first day of each month.
Each large provincial-level city and city-level city will have a special post office, and then send these letters to the lower-level cities.
If a letter is fast, it will probably be delivered to the location within two or three months, and a few farther places may be longer, depending on the time of sending and receiving each post office.
It's been half a year since I left home, so I should write back to my family, and at the same time mention to my family about the affairs of the Zeng family and the issue of the spies sent by the seventeenth prince.
The latter may be nothing, it must just be surveillance, and now the two should still be in the honeymoon period, and the seventeenth prince should not do anything to the criminal family.
But the former is not necessarily, after all, at that time in Sixteen Miles Pavilion, but there were five people who escaped, and the feud between Xing Shengbin and the Zeng family can be said to have been concluded.
If you want to resolve it, it is basically impossible, and if you can't protect the Zeng family, you will extend your claws to Xing Shengbin's family. However, this depends on whether the six major families in Fancheng are willing or not.
After all, the criminal family is a person from Fancheng, in order to stabilize the status of the six major families, the six major families will definitely not give up the criminal family easily, which is related to the authority of the six major families in the entire Fancheng.
But there are no absolutes, and it is safest to send a letter to the family to explain the current situation.
With Xing Shengbin's words, the other five people also nodded yes.
This one said that he wanted to report safety to his master, and that one said that he wanted to report safety to his parents, but only Qian Daozi, who was helpless, only knew after asking.
Although the Kunlun faction where Qian Daozi is located belongs to the five authentic sects of Hengguo, the boundary where it is located is not within Hengguo.
Although the post house's capacity is strong, it is not enough to cover the outside of Hengguo.
In the end, Qian Daozi could only watch everyone send letters home one by one, and he watched dryly.
There have been a lot of things that have happened in the past six months, but they can't be written down on the letter one by one, Xing Shengbin just briefly described the affairs of the Zeng family, and wrote a letter to Xiaomei alone, and by the way, he also brought one to the master.
Although it is said that the master only taught the basic knowledge of the sage, as well as a set of not very important qi cultivation decisions, but since he kowtowed, then the title of master and apprentice is there, and it is also appropriate to write a letter to the master to greet him.
In the end, he wrote another letter to Chen Qingying, describing how he missed and how he couldn't sleep all night, exaggerating several times.
In fact, for Chen Qingying, Xing Shengbin only has a kind of love that is close to that of the elders, he misses it, but it is not so serious, and it is almost the same as missing his little sister Xing Shengping, after all, these relatives are actually airborne relatives, and they don't get along for so long.
As for security, this is not to be considered, Fancheng is the root of the six major families, unless the six major families are killed. Otherwise, Chen Qingying would not be in any danger, even if the criminal family was killed, he Chen Qingying would not have any safety problems.
A letter from home is worth 10,000 gold, and finally Xing Shengbin paid two taels of silver postage, and marked the letter with the seal of 'family letter', but when he left his name, it was Chen Qingying's name that was left.
The name Xing Shengbin is too hateful, in case the Zeng family intercepts this letter, it will be troublesome, since Chen Qingying has exchanged Geng posts with Xing Shengbin, theoretically it is already considered a criminal family, and it is more appropriate to use Chen Qingying's name.
It's just that in the end in his own address column, Xing Shengbin is worried, he has just arrived in Jincheng today, and he hasn't had time to stay in the hotel! In desperation, he can only use the post house as the receiving address, and then come to pick it up.