Walk from Shuncheng Gate, Shuncheng Gate is the Xuanwu Gate of later generations, all the way are criss-crossed streets and alleys, unevenly arranged, there is no gap; take a closer look, there are silk shops, silk shops, satin shops, cotton shops, shuttle cloth shops, garment shops, dyeing shops, tailor shops in the left circle; there are leather bureaus, wool shops, felt goods workshops, and western velvet goods shops in the right circle; there are countless painting shops, bookstores, treasure shops, antique shops, lock shops, lacquer shops, gold and silver workshops.

These shops opened early, greeting customers at the door, clearing the snow, and unloading the goods, and it was really prosperous. The distribution of shops is not completely confined to a closed market like Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty, but according to people's needs, scattered and reasonably distributed in different streets and alleys, just facing the street, and similar shops are relatively concentrated. Although the market has a fixed time, there is no limit to the opening hours of these shops, which are usually done at sunrise, but there are also night markets, which are also more prosperous.

Before, because of Li Jinglong's siege of the city, the market was sluggish, and now the king of Yan returned victoriously, and he returned to the prosperity of the past, Zhang Zhaohua and Pu Cha traveled east and west, and arrived in the center of the city's restaurants, at a glance, the sheds were densely packed - although this kind of street vendor trade has little capital and small scale, but it is convenient for the masses to trade, there is everything in it, there is a slip all selling snacks, there are fried chestnuts, Poria cakes, roast chicken, melon seeds, and cart push of cattle, mutton and donkey meat and so on.

Zhang Zhaohua peeled two chestnuts and fed them to Brother Chun'er, ate them in his mouth, and when he fed them again, he spit them out, he had to follow Zhang Zhaohua out today, holding Zhang Zhaohua's legs was the same as grinding floor tiles, so he had to take him out. It's not honest to bring it out, the two nurses can barely drag him, and they drill when they see the cracks.

Zhang Zhaohua still had to take Pu Cha with him, he couldn't take care of him for a while, he didn't pay attention to him a little, he didn't find anyone when he turned around, and he was suddenly scared into a cold sweat, and thought that he was abducted by human traffickers - in fact, he was just carried by a nurse to pee.

"Although it was under the rule of Taizu," Zhang Zhaohua explained to Pucha, who didn't quite understand: "Among the punishments, the punishment for human trafficking is quite heavy, but in broad daylight, there are still such wicked people, and Beiping is a little better, I heard that there are black markets for human trafficking in several big cities in the south." ”

Of course, Pu Cha didn't understand that all the people bought and sold on the grassland were slaves, a rope pulled a row of people, and the big slaves gave birth to small slaves, and they had to be slaves, not saying that they were tied up and sold by others.

A few people found a stall and sat down to eat wontons. Zhang Zhaohua was specially instructed to come out and not give Brother Chun to eat the things on the stall outside, so the two nurses let Brother Chun be very noisy and didn't dare to feed a mouthful of wontons.

Brother Tsubaki drooled uncontrollably because of the aroma, his eyes blinked, his saliva was dripping, and he almost swept down the bowl of wontons in front of the nurse. He couldn't eat, so he twisted left and right, and grabbed the nurse's arm and bit it.

"What kind of person is this," a person eating stew at the stall next to him couldn't stand it: "Didn't you see that the child wanted to eat?

Zhang Zhaohua didn't hear it, the nurses Chen and Liu smelled a little bit of noise, and were busy checking whether Brother Chun'er was wetting his pants, and he didn't speak, so he saw that this person picked a piece of pig lung with chopsticks and shook it in front of Brother Chun'er: "Give you a bite, what are you hungry for!"

Brother Chun'er opened his mouth wide and "whined", then he ate a piece of pig lung, swallowed it without chewing carefully, and stared at the man, wanting to eat the stew in his bowl.

When Liu found out, Brother Chun'er had already been fed two pieces of offal, and Zhang Zhaohua also found out, but he didn't scold the man, so he only held Brother Chun'er in his arms and avoided the person's sight.

Brother Chun'er was honest when he arrived in Zhang Zhaohua's arms, but his eyes still looked at the chaos in Zhang Zhaohua's bowl one by one, Zhang Zhaohua saw that he couldn't say it and pretended to be pitiful, and he was angry and funny: "It's all the food at home that is not delicious, and I am greedy when I go outside!"

After all, I still didn't feed him, but I bought him a small windmill and two mud dolls, and dragged them away, so I was happy.

After that, Zhang Zhaohua also took Pu Cha to the silver building, which is the shop opened by Zhang Sheng, and the lower floor sells rhombic copper mirrors, gouache rouge, grate head oil and other things, and the second floor is customized gold and silver jewelry. When the two of them entered, they saw that there was a bright grid frame in the middle of it, on which there were fan bags, sachets, sweat towels, velvet flowers, pearls, and all kinds of sara cloud brocade, which were specially used for the daughter of the boudoir to make champas, and there seemed to be new bags, and the styles were very new and ingenious.

Zhang Zhaohua didn't meet the Zheng family today, this silver building is usually taken care of by the Zheng family, the shopkeeper in this silver building knows Zhang Zhaohua, and he doesn't ask much when he sees Pu Cha, and he looks at things with each other.

Pu Cha looked around, only felt dazzled, just looking at one color of the handkerchief, but there were seventeen different embroidery patterns, as well as white, white, red and red powder, more than a dozen colors, each of which she felt similar, but in fact it was not the same at all. It's rare that the shopkeeper can distinguish clearly, and the different fragrances of Huilan and Peilan are introduced, which really makes her head bigger.

Pu Cha has also seen these things in Daning City, and he loves them very much, but he found that Daning City is not as prosperous as Beiping City, and there are many kinds of things in the east and west. When she said this, Zhang Zhaohua said: "Daning is just in a dangerous location, and the border trade should be stronger than Beiping, and the others are far inferior." ”

Pu noticed that Beiping was too good, but Zhang Zhaohua told her that people from the south came here and looked down on Beiping - especially from Suzhou and Hangzhou, they did have the capital to look down on people.

"I don't know how good the capital of Suzhou, Hangzhou, and the Ming Dynasty you are talking about," Pu Cha said: "I look at Beiping, it is already a blessed land, not like the world!"

Zhang Zhaohua pointed out the style to the south, and the two of them were talking and laughing, when they suddenly saw a person coming in in a panic, looking left and right, not knowing what was going on.

When I looked closely, Zhang Zhaohua actually knew her, she was Shi Shi, the wife of Meng Chun of the hundred households under the command of King Yan, and the two were taken aback when they met. Before Zhang Zhaohua could ask what was wrong, he heard a sound of footsteps at the door, and a person jumped in, and Shi Shi didn't have time to say a word, so he hurriedly walked inside.

Zhang Zhaohua took the first step to stop this person and said, "What are you doing? This is a place to do business for women, and foreign men are not allowed to enter!"

The man who chased Shi Shi in was also about forty years old, and he was not too embarrassed to break in after being stopped, so he asked, "Excuse me, was there a lady in a red dress here just now?" I came to find her. ”

Since Shi Shi was avoiding him, he just didn't want to see him, so Zhang Zhaohua said: "Mrs. in the red dress, I look like I entered the Guixiu Pavilion next door just now, you go over there to look for it." ”

The man didn't doubt it, and left in a hurry, Zhang Zhaohua went up to the second floor, and told the shopkeeper to pay attention to the person just now, and he must not let him in if he came again.

When she saw Shi, she saw Shi's trembling, and for a while she said with tears in her eyes: "How could you meet here!"

Zhang Zhaohua wondered if that person was her old lover or something, but she heard Shi's strengths say in one breath: "Princess Shi, tell the princess to go, that person just now, you can't let him go from Beiping!"

Zhang Zhaohua sent someone back to the palace to report the news, sat down to comfort Shi's - in her intermittent narration, she learned a long-hidden story.

When Emperor Gao set the world, there was a general under his command, named Yang Jing, who surrendered to Emperor Gao in the early years of Jiqing, and later captured Changzhou, and served as the deputy commander of the pro-army. Later, he went to Wuzhou and other places to guard Jiangling. After attacking Hunan, he pacified Guangxi with Zhou Dexing, Zhang Bin and other generals, and was awarded the title of Marquis of Yingyang and the World Bond for his outstanding military exploits.

Later, with Xu Da's Northern Expedition, Xu Da returned to the dynasty, and Yang Jing stayed in Beiping to guard - in the thirteenth year of Hongwu, Hu Weiyong, who was then the prime minister of Zuo, was sentenced to the crime of forming a party and plotting rebellion, and the same case was a duke and a 21 marquis, and more than 30,000 people were killed successively. At that time, Yang Jing, who was far away in Beiping, was also listed as a Hu party, and Emperor Gao secretly ordered Zhu Di, the king of Yan, to kill Yang Jing and exterminate his three clans. After King Yan received the will of his father, he knew that Yang Jing was a loyal and brave man, and now he was guilty of rebellion, and he was really innocent, so he conspired with Yao Guangxiao, and secretly let his personal guard Fan Ran take poison and die for the master, trying to survive all of them.

Therefore, Yang Jing Hongwu for fifteen years, posthumously crowned Rui Guogong, and believed in Wuxin, which was really a fraud to death. He changed his identity and became King Yan's personal guard, and he didn't dare to go up to a thousand households if he reached a hundred households—because if he went up, he would have to review the household posts, which would arouse suspicion. Yang Jing even changed his name to Meng Chun, and those who knew about him, in addition to King Yan and Princess Yan and Yao Guangxiao, now there is one more Zhang Zhaohua.

And the person Shi sees today is his cousin. Shi was also from a big family back then, and was promised to be married to Yang Jing, who was widowed at the time, and after Yang Jing died, Shi cut off half of his ear and swore not to marry. Yang Jing sent someone to see Shi quietly and told her that her husband was not dead, and Shi eloped with someone to Beiping without hesitation.

Shi ran out of the house privately, the whole family was shocked, presumably also searched for many years, Shi's cousin and her have not seen her for more than ten years, but today they suddenly met in the market in Beiping, and called out her name.

"If my brother knew that Rui Guogong was not dead," Shi Shi was so anxious that tears flowed: "After he goes back, he will definitely explain to the clan, I still have relatives in my family, and I am now a member of the third rank in the court." If the imperial court knew about this, everything that King Yan had done for his grandson at the risk of dying back then would have been in vain! The imperial court could still use this as a handle to publicize King Yan's crimes!"