Under the ancient city walls stood two soldiers, spears in their hands, checking the common people who entered and exited the city gates. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Wusu Town is also considered a top-ranked prosperous town among the many villages and towns under the jurisdiction of Wujiang County, the capital of Guinan. Guinan City belongs to the south of Daqi, and the southwest is close to the Western Xia Dynasty, which is a military defense line on the southwest border of Daqi; Further east, it is close to Jinling and close to the prosperous and wealthy Jiangnan.

Wusu Town is located on the border of Guinan City and Jinling City, and there are merchants passing by at ordinary times, which is regarded as a supply station leading to Jinling. The population is highly mobile, so when entering the city, it is necessary to strictly investigate to avoid bad incidents.

As soon as Xia Cao entered the city, a wide avenue lined with rows of houses, some small vendors in front of the houses, and the streets were full of people.

"Rock sugar gourd, sweet and sour sugar gourd."

"Steamed buns, big and fragrant meat buns only cost five cents a piece."

"A bowl of hot noodles?"

All kinds of cries of selling also came roaring.

Xia Muhan took his three children to a restaurant in the taste hall and walked in. The Taste Hall has two floors, with a lobby on the first floor for regular diners and a private room on the second floor, dedicated to the town's nobles. It may be that it is not lunch time, and there are not many customers in the store, and a few shop juniors are cleaning.

"Yo, Master Xia, you're here." A sharp-eyed junior immediately greeted him, with a flattering smile on his face.

"Why isn't your shopkeeper here?" Xia Muhan saw that the place where he was supposed to be tapping on the abacus at the counter to keep accounts was empty.

"The shopkeeper is busy in the back kitchen, Xia Ye, wait a minute, I'll call the shopkeeper." The shopkeeper replied sloppily.

At half a cup of tea, a middle-aged man about forty years old wearing a gray coat walked out with the shopkeeper. Before he walked in, he saw the wild boar that Xia Muhan had placed on the ground, and his eyes were shining with golden light.

The whole person smiled, his two eyes were almost connected, and he said excitedly: "Brother Xia, you can do me a great favor." I want this wild boar, and today we will weigh the pounds, and I will give ten taels of silver. ”

Wild boars are not a rare thing in Wusu Town, they are usually worth five or six taels, and selling them for seven or eight taels is considered to be the sky. This time, the ten taels of silver were far beyond its value, but Xia Muhan was a little uneasy.

"Brother Zhou, isn't this inappropriate?" Usually Xia Muhan and Zhou have a good relationship, and they are also called brothers and sisters in private.

"Brother Xia, you don't know! Ming'er is our old lady's 60th birthday, and this old lady suddenly wants to eat wild boar. Although the proprietor was afraid that the wild boar meat would be too tough and break the old lady's teeth, he could not withstand the old lady's plea in the end. Now let's come out and look for wild boar. This will be the beginning of spring, everyone is busy tidying up the work in the field, no one comes out to hunt, and I am in a hurry. This wild boar is worth ten taels of silver," the shopkeeper Zhou explained.

Xia Muhan gave the pheasant and rabbit he caught yesterday to the shopkeeper Zhou as a rao. Shopkeeper Zhou postponed it at first, but he couldn't resist Xia Muhan's insistence, but finally accepted it, and asked the shopkeeper to take out some small pastries and give them to Xia Cao as snacks.

Xia Cao felt that this ancient man was very righteous in doing business, you respect me a foot, and I will pay you back. There are not so many rules and regulations in modern times, and if everything is clearly priced, it loses a meaning.

After finishing his business, with silver taels in his arms, Xia Muhan was not in a hurry to buy things, he decided to take Xia Cao and Xia Maihe, who had never seen the world, to go shopping first.

Xia Cao walked on the street and looked at the goods on sale, although there were many of them, but the varieties were single, and there were no new patterns. Take food as an example, because as a foodie, she is of course most concerned about eating, in addition to big restaurants, snacks outside, except for buns, steamed buns, noodles, chaos, and dumplings from the north. The rice noodles in the south are nowhere to be seen, probably because in ancient times, eating a bowl of rice was already extremely luxurious, and there was no spare money to develop rice noodles.

As an authentic southerner, Xia Cao misses those delicate rice noodles with rich flavors and various forms. Such as rice rolls, snail noodles, old friend noodles, fried rice noodles, rice noodles.

Xia Muhan saw Xia Cao staring blankly ahead, not knowing what to think. Following her line of sight, a large group of children gathered around a candy painter. He thought that Xia Cao also wanted to eat it, but he was too embarrassed to speak, but he didn't know that his baby daughter was drooling over the food in her previous life.

Xia Muhan took out a dozen pennies from his arms, handed it to Xia Qiaomu, and sent him to buy sugar paintings. He was reluctant to let his baby girl squeeze together with so many people, what if he accidentally broke it. Son, it's okay to be beaten by Pishido.

When Xia Cao returned to his soul, Xia Qiaomu also walked out of the pile, and came back with a small candy man with the loot in his hand.

"Sister, you eat, take it." Xia Qiaomu handed the sugar in his hand to Xia Cao.

Xia Cao took it and took a bite gently, and her whole mouth was filled with a sweet smell. When I raised my head, I found that the two brothers didn't have a sugar man, thinking about it, it was already a luxury for the Xia family to buy a sugar man for Xia Cao now, and it was impossible for everyone to have it. And the person who bought it was Xia Qiaomu, so it was impossible for him to do such a ruined thing.

"Big brother, you eat too." Xia Cao handed the sugar man in his hand to Xia Qiaomu.

Xia Qiaomu just shook his head: "Brother, I don't like to eat, sister, you can just eat." ”

Xia Cao turned to Xia Maihe and said, "Second brother, you see that you are drooling, don't say you don't like it." Take a bite. ”

Xia Maihe didn't eat either, looking at Xia Cao blankly, not knowing what to do.

Xia Cao had no choice but to face the cheap dad and cried: "Daddy, my brother is bullying me, and if others see it, they will say that Xiaocao is ignorant and eats alone, and Xiaocao wants to be a good child." After saying that, his eyes were red like rabbits.

"It's hard to eat a piece of candy, so why don't you come and eat it quickly." The cheap dad scolded the two brothers, but the love for the three children to be so united and friendly had already blossomed, and it was not realized.

Xia Cao saw that Xia Qiaomu and Xia Maihe also took a small bite, and secretly wanted to fight with me, but they didn't listen to their sister obediently.

A piece of candy is just like this, you and I ate it one bite at a time, and Xia Muhan was also fed a few mouthfuls of summer grass in the middle.

Xia Cao was worried about the market of kudzu powder in the pharmacy, so she said to Xia Muhan: "Daddy, let's go to the pharmacy, I want to buy some herbs for the little fox, and some mosquito proof, we can also bring some when we go into the mountains." By the way, Daddy, you also have to buy some hemostatic medicine, how dangerous it is for you to enter the mountains, so you should bring some medicine with you. ”

Listening to Xia Cao's chatter, Xia Muhan couldn't help but feel a little funny, and now her daughter can always tell a lot of big truths.

Now that he has money, he also wants to replace the Su family with better medicinal materials, and bring Xia Cao to the town's Baicaotang to check again, the doctor in the town is always more reliable than Lang Zhong in the village.

They didn't know that there was a large group of people surrounding the entrance of Baicaotang now, and the sounds of crying, scolding, and scolding were mixed together.