Chapter 166: Visiting the Temple Fair
Without a group of troublemakers, Shuyun had a good night's sleep. The space was also taken care of and organized again.
Shuyun got up early the next morning and washed up. I went to the courtyard and practiced the five poultry plays. With a few delicious pickles, I drank two bowls of two-rice porridge and three fried buns. patted the applauding belly and burped beautifully.
Then he changed into a light coarse cloth dress and put his hair in a simple bun. Bringing the little palace maid Orange and Buer, He Yong's two guards, and the light car Jane went straight to the capital.
So-woon hasn't been shopping for a long time, which is very cruel for a shopaholic.
But there is no way, after all, this is not an open modern age, when women want to go shopping, they can dress up and walk around the street without any scruples. Especially the emperor's woman, let alone go to the street, she doesn't even have the right to go back to her parents' house at will.
Relatively speaking, Shuyun's situation is much better, at least she doesn't have to be confined to the harem, and she can occasionally go shopping on the street with Kangxi on her back. Even if Kangxi knows the truth, as long as he doesn't cause any trouble, most of the time he will open one eye and close one eye.
And when Kangxi is happy, he will also take the initiative to take Shuyun to the capital for a walk. It's just that there aren't many opportunities like that. But since she was pregnant with triplets, Shuyun has been completely insulated from the outside world, and she stays in Xiangxue Sea all day long around the buns, and almost all the space is occupied by the buns.
Taking advantage of such a good opportunity now, how can Shuyun still be able to bear it, if she doesn't leave at this time, when will she stay?
The city of Beijing is the land of the five dynasties and has a history of thousands of years.
The capital of the five feudal dynasties of Liao, Jin, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties in Chinese history is located. It has been built and perfected from generation to generation. Finally with its magnificent scale. Strict planning, perfect facilities. It has been called "the greatest individual project of mankind on the surface of the earth". It carries the painstaking efforts and wisdom of countless people, and embodies the highest achievement of ancient Chinese urban planning.
At the same time, this thousand-year-old city has also accumulated an incomparably rich cultural heritage.
Legend has it that the Yellow Emperor and the Yan Emperor defeated the Jiuli tribe in Zhuolu, near Beijing, killing their chieftain Chiyou, and establishing a tribe. In the third generation of the Yellow Emperor, he went to the Youling Sacrifice Center and established the Youdu in the Emperor Yao era, which was ancient Beijing.
After King Wu of Zhou destroyed Shang, he was named Emperor Yao's descendant Yu Ji. Feng Zhou's clan summoned the duke to Beiyan; Later, Yan Hou annexed thistle, and established his own country with thistle as the center. From the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn Period, Beijing has always been called Jicheng. From the Jin Dynasty onwards, Beijing was renamed Youzhou. Beijing is definitely the most important town in the north of China in history.
The red leaves of Xiangshan, the lotus flowers of Beihai, the twists and turns of the deep alleys, and the warm and friendly courtyards. Old Beijing is inexhaustible and talented. There is a unique Beijing charm everywhere. Beijing flavor. It's intoxicating, it's fascinating.
Shuyun's frame went straight to the protector of the country in western Beijing. Huguo Temple is a famous temple in Beijing, which was built in the Yuan Dynasty and has a grand scale. Behind the temple there are vineyards covering several acres. There are temple fairs here every seventh and eighth day of the lunar calendar. Sister-in-law Tian Daniu, the son-in-law of Osmanthus Sister-in-law, used to set up a food stall here. Shuyun used to come here when she was a child.
Today is August 18, just in time for the temple fair. Although Shuyun came early, the area around Huguo Temple was already very lively. The cries of selling came and went. There is an endless stream of people coming and going from the south to the north.
Stalls of all kinds fill the streets.
There are grilled cakes, cold noodles, Aiwowo, and bean flour cakes. Sesame rice cakes, fried sausages, boiled meatballs and other Beijing-style snack stalls. All are delicious and inexpensive. Affordable.
There are also a variety of daily necessities such as pots and pans, baskets, and dustpans. There are also cloth, shoes and socks, purse ornaments, rouge gouache, spices, silk flowers, wooden combs and grates, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, flowers, birds, fish and insects, as long as you can tell them, you can find them here.
On the southwest side is a slippery theater shed, and some of the more elaborate ones are circled with ropes and white cloths. Some of them are simply open air.
Storytellers, drummers, and opera singers sing every paragraph or fold, the guy will take a small basket to the audience and ask for money, giving one or two articles, and it's okay not to give it. But it's up to the audience to appreciate. The quality of the play is not high, but it is cheap. In fact, everyone is just watching a lively, just this is not a seedling, standing far away, and the ear power is a little worse really can't hear clearly, so I often listen to strings.
There are too many people in the studio who are performing acrobatics, and there are two groups who peddle strong pills. There were also a lot of people around, some applauding and some cheering.
There are also those who tell fortunes, read palmistry, all dressed like fairy-like bones, squinting their eyes, and brushing their beards to make a fool of themselves. It's like a mother gave birth. Seeing Shuyun couldn't help but laugh. But there are those who believe, and there are many of them. There were seven or eight stalls lined up, and none of them had a bad business, and there were many people lined up in front of them.
I have to say that under the governance of Kangxi, the city of Beijing is now becoming more and more lively and prosperous. It can be seen from the temple fair of Huguo Temple that the scale of the small fights in the past is simply different from the present.
Shuyun wore a thin gauze hat on her head, which covered her face and only exposed her eyes. On this hot day, Shuyun didn't want to cover it like this, not to mention that it was uncomfortable, and it also affected her vision. But after all, she is the imperial concubine, so she still has to be more scruples, at least she has to do some superficial work, don't you?
Shuyun walked all the way with the flow of people, watched all the way, and bought some gadgets from time to time. Little Orange followed closely behind Shuyun, her eyes wide with curiosity, looking left and right. After all, the little girl is young, and it is the time to be playful, and her curiosity is also strong. Before entering the palace, I was locked up at home to learn the rules, and there were not many opportunities to go out. Shuyun has always been generous to the people around her. So as long as she doesn't cause trouble, Shuyun will be left to her.
And Bole and He Yong have always been dutifully vigilant in Shuyun, and they also act as porters, they have done this job before, and now they are familiar with it.
At this time, many things have basically disappeared in modern times, or have been eliminated.
For example, sticky porcelain medicine and copper rubbing medicine. Sticky porcelain is a small reddish-yellow stick thicker than a matchstick, each five or six centimeters long. If the porcelain bowl or porcelain plate is broken, the broken part is heated with fire, and then smeared with sticks, and the two places are glued, and after cooling, they can be glued firmly and can be used again. In these years, the people were reluctant to throw away the broken dishes and put them on for reuse. Rubbing copper medicine is yellow medicine noodles, specially rubbing copper utensils, such as the copper pieces of furniture, with this medicine surface dipped in vinegar, rubbed out of the copper live shine tile. Porcelain and copper rubbing are quite cheap and economical.
There are also two such stalls in Huguo Temple, and the two stalls are connected. The stall owners are all middle-aged people in their thirties, both of whom are very thin, with a yellow face and a black face. The mouth kept shouting "sticky porcelain, rubbing copper". The voices of the two of them were louder than the other, comparing the voices of the race. They will also stare at each other when they shout twice. It is said that peers are enemies, look at these two, this is really not false at all.
Shuyun and the others' lunch was settled on the spot. There is a stall selling sheep cream sausages on the south side, which has just been set up. Sheep cream sausages are generally sold in the afternoon. Because the sheep are killed in the morning, the vendors have to go to the butcher to buy the sheep's blood, fill two wicker baskets with blood, and then go home and then enema the blood. One by one, the sheep frost sausage is stacked in the cauldron, boiled with water, the sheep blood coagulates in the intestine, which is white-gray, such as frost wrapped blood sausage, which is also the origin of its name.
This thing is purely poor food, you can buy it at will, and children and adults can also buy half a bowl. When selling, first take out the frosted sausage from the hot pot, put it on the wooden board and chop it into small pieces, put it in a bowl, use the mutton soup to shabu-shabu several times, and then fill it with the mutton soup, and then use an iron spoon to fill out a large spoon of sesame paste and red pepper oil from the cooking jar, grab the green coriander, and hand it to the diners hotly, the red and green ingredients and umami are tangy, and the deliciousness is extraordinary.
The stall owner, an old man in his fifties, shouted "Lamb belly boiling!" while neatly arranging various seasoning utensils! ”。
This person Shuyun knows, surnamed Li, everyone calls him Li Datou, he is very kind and righteous. He set up a stall at Huguo Temple more than ten years ago, when he was not yet forty years old. His stall was next to Tian Daniu's. Every time Shuyun came, he would touch Shuyun's head with a smile, and then invite Shuyun to eat a big bowl of sheep cream sausage. The sheep frost intestines of the entire Huguo Temple are the most authentic in his family, and it is said that the craftsmanship was passed down by his grandfather.
On a hot day, eat a big bowl of steaming sheep cream sausage. Sweating all over the body, the pores are open, not to mention the comfort.
Oranges, neither Bole nor Heyong had eaten this before. Seeing Shuyun eating sweetly, they couldn't help but snort and eat it. Bole and Heyong ate three bowls in a row. After eating, all three of them had a satisfied look on their faces.
Before leaving, Shuyun asked the orange to quietly hand Li Datou a hundred taels of silver, saying that her wife was very satisfied with the food, which was considered a reward. Li Datou was stunned, and he didn't even care about the silver from the orange field. The orange girl is clever. With a smile, he stuffed a bag of silver into Li Datou's hand, and then turned around and followed Shuyun away.
One hundred taels of silver is definitely a huge amount of money for low-level people like Li Datou. Whether it's a small storefront under the plate, or a small yard in the outer city, it's enough. With a childhood relationship, with Shuyun's current ability, it would be easy to give Li Datou some more money or help him.
But Shuyun doesn't want to reveal her true life experience, so it's better to have less contact with the people she knew before. Besides, for ordinary people, one step to the sky is not necessarily a good thing. is involved with a person of Shuyun's status, and in the absence of any power in itself, it is better not to know it.
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