Chapter 48: The East City Longs for the West City
After another two days, the weather was sunny again, not very cool, but not as hot as summer. Master An finally cleaned up the shop, and was about to bring his two granddaughters out, but was stopped by his eldest daughter-in-law on the grounds that his granddaughters still had to attend classes, so he had to postpone it for another day before bringing his granddaughter out.
Leaving home, only the grandfather and his long-term follower followed, and the two girls were very happy, especially Siniang, like letting go of the wind, it was interesting to see everything, and pulled her sister to pick a lively place to drill.
Today is the West Market, if the East Market is a retail area for high-end goods, more refined and elegant, the West Market is a hodgepodge, where merchants gather, Di shops are lined up, the goods are dazzling, very lively.
But it is precisely because it is too lively, the nobles who are self-respecting will not come to visit in person, but the little sons and ladies in the house often come to be greedy.
Knowing that the granddaughters love to be lively, Mr. An has always liked to take them to the West Market to shop, and a juggling on the street can make the little girls happy for a long time, and rewarding those servants with a few big sums of money can be exchanged for a bunch of flattering good words from the granddaughters, Mr. An smiled and thought, this business is the best.
Good luck today - it should be said that there is no shortage of these in the West Market every day, and it was not long before the two girls saw a monkey trickster.
Siniang pulled Liuniang tightly with one hand, and squeezed into it with her small size, provoking Shouye to shout behind the crowd.
The two monkeys, one big and one small, are quite mental, especially the small one, with big black eyes and a small head, which is very cute.
The two monkeys walked in a circle, and performed pole climbing, somersaults, catching the ball, and finally drilling into the fire ring.
The big master couldn't stand the intimidation of the master's whip and squeaked and drilled, the small one refused, the big eyes were very pitiful, the master was anxious to scold, the whip snapped, and everyone was afraid that he would really hit the monkey as soon as he let go, and the little monkey was in a hurry to run, and the master chased all over the field, and raised the whip to see it, and the onlookers and young people couldn't stand it, and they stopped it.
The owner of the monkey shed tears, saying that no matter how hard his family worked, the child could not be fed and clothed, and he relied on these two monkeys to earn some rice money, how could he not be ruthless?
He was dressed in rags, black and black, and he couldn't tell his age with furrows on his face, and he said pitifully Siniang's eyes were red, and he turned his head to find Shouye: "Give him some money and let him stop fighting, right?" ”
Liu Niang couldn't help laughing, although the two monkeys squeaked and jumped all over the field, but since they could climb up and down on the master in front of them, it can be seen that they are not really afraid of the master. And although the fur was not oily and slippery, it was also abundant, and it was not thin.
Thinking about it, the monkey owner pointed to these two monkeys to make money for him, so naturally he would not be disadvantaged. Monkey play, monkey play, isn't it also a play in front of you?
However, it is not easy to come out to do things, and there is no shortage of these small amounts of money at home, so it doesn't hurt to give it. So Liuniang just laughed in her heart and didn't stop Siniang.
Shouye took out a few copper coins and came out, but Siniang was few, but unfortunately Grandpa would not squeeze in, and reluctantly took out a penny of silver from his purse, and looked at Liuniang.
Liuniang originally wanted to give, but she didn't want to give so much, but Siniang couldn't help it, so she opened her purse and slowly took out a penny of silver, Siniang grabbed it, and threw it into the basin together with a few copper coins that Shouye took out, and said loudly: "Give you money to buy rice, don't beat it." ”
Others also lost some of them in that pot, and I think it would be enough to buy a small bag of rice.
The monkey owner bowed his hand in a circle, and when he heard the words, he just said: "Thank you little lady for your charity." ”
But he didn't say whether he would fight or not. Siniang only said that he would not fight again, and he was satisfied with Liuniang and pulled Liuniang out, since the beginning of someone gave money to the crowd has dispersed a lot, and it is easy to come out.
Master An was waiting outside with a smile: "Is it good-looking?"
"It's good-looking," Siniang grinned: "It's just that it's not good for him to beat the little monkey, so I gave him money to stop fighting." ”
Master An looked at Liuniang: "Did Bao'er give it too?"
Liu Niang nodded, but said, "I don't look at him in vain." ”
Master An touched his granddaughter's head, and he was amused in his heart.
The two granddaughters are different, the eldest granddaughter is innocent, and she was detained by the eldest daughter-in-law, and no one stared at her and let out the fun. The little granddaughter also loves to play, but she is not greedy for excitement, and her personality is even more different. Just like Fang Cai, the eldest granddaughter gave money to pity the little monkey for being beaten, but the little granddaughter clearly watched your play and gave you the money she deserved, but there is a kind of respect and cheerfulness for doing business "with money and goods".
There is still a lot of excitement, since she has to have enough fun when she goes out, Siniang quickly pounced on the noodle stall......
At noon, when I sat down in a restaurant, there were already a bunch of gadgets in Shouye's arms, and the two little ladies were happily circling around Mr. An, and sure enough, I bought my granddaughter like it without spending a few dollars.
Siniang's eyes were sharp, and she pointed to the signs hanging on the wall and asked, "Hey, what is that?"
When Liuniang entered the door, she also glanced at some wooden signs with lettering, and thought it was the name of the dish, so Siniang said that she looked at the words on it carefully.
How do you look like odds?
Mr. An was a frequent customer of this store when he was in Beijing, of course he understood what it was, but he hadn't been in Kyoto for more than half a year, and he didn't know what he was gambling on, so he was curious and recruited a guy to come and ask.
When the guy heard it, he laughed: "It's a bet on Princess Xinrui's birth!"
Old Man An laughed and laughed, why do you want to bet on this?
The man's eyebrows fluttered and he spoke eloquently about the affair between King Rui and the new princess, and Master An frowned, only regretting that he shouldn't have asked, this matter didn't sound good to his granddaughter - he didn't know that this matter had become a sensation in Kyoto, there were a bunch of gossipy servants in the family, and the An family did not have the rules of the deep house compound, Siniang was detained more ruthlessly in the east courtyard, and he also knew a fur, not to mention Liuniang, it was not new at all.
Siniang didn't know that she could still gamble on this, and looked at it very strangely, but because of Tong'er's fast mouth, Liuniang knew that the cook in the West Courtyard, Zhiniang, had been born for seven months.
Master An regretted that he called the guy out of curiosity for a while, and without waiting for the guy to ask if he wanted to bet some gambling money, he waved his hand and let people go down.
Liuniang is funny, this King Rui is also strange, and he is also a prince, and he used him as gambling money in Kyoto, but he didn't move?
She didn't know how many years ago Ruiwang robbed the singer with the same people, and someone opened a bet on who could grab it, and I don't know how many times she was gambled on for so many years, and it was no longer a good thing.
The business of this restaurant is booming, fortunately, a few people came early and occupied a seat by the window, a few people have a meal with peace of mind, suddenly there was a commotion outside, they were curious to see, but they were in the street, the crowd was surrounded by the street, and they couldn't see anything clearly.
But the guy is clever, and not long after that, a guy runs back out of breath to report: "The prince of the Lianguo family and the prince of the Liangguo family are fighting!"
Lian Guogong Wei Gongzi?