In the last few days of the wax moon, Wuyi completely fell into a realm of carnival.

The Chinese New Year is still the most important day of the year for the common people, whether they have money or not, they always have to prepare well, not to mention, the current people of Wuyi are really not bad for money in their hands.

Gone are the days of scarcity of cash. If you don't have money, you have to cut a few catties of meat, weigh a few catties of noodles, wrap a meal of dumplings, and tear a few feet of cloth to make a new dress.

Now that life is better, it is natural to have a beautiful New Year.

Even the inner city, which was quiet in the past, became unusually lively after entering the wax moon. As the major yamen closed one after another to prepare for the festival, the high-end restaurants and shops in the inner city were also crowded.

Of course, the most down-to-earth is the outer city.

The outer city is the real life of the people.

Li Ze hugged his son Li Tang, held his wife Liu Ruyan's hand, and walked on the street outside the city.

Li Ze likes this kind of real fireworks in the outer city.

Because of this kind of fireworks, he has a sense of joy and accomplishment from the bottom of his heart. Whenever he saw those most ordinary people with smiles on their faces, took out strings of copper coins from their bags, and happily paid the bills and exchanged them for New Year's materials from the merchants, Li Ze felt that this was the greatest praise for him.

It wasn't like that before.

Today's Li Ze is wearing a green satin jacket, the jacket is filled with fine duck down, and the woman who specializes in tailoring in the house sews the inner liner into small lattices with fine stitches, so that the duck down is evenly distributed in these small lattices, which not only keeps warm, but also does not look bloated. Silk, even in today's Wuyi, still belongs to the ranks of luxury goods, and more people still rely on cotton cloth and linen. Not to mention this kind of clothing that Li Ze called a down jacket.

In Li Ze's view, the current Wuyi can barely be called well-off, and in most places under his rule, it is probably barely enough to provide food and clothing, of course, there are still some places, and there are still many poor people who are busy with three meals a day.

It takes one step at a time.

At least, now I have provided them with a hopeful environment in which they can fight for this hope.

Liu Ruyan beside him is much more low-key than Li Ze today, with a thorn cloth skirt, a green silk hair held by a copper hairpin, most of the time, his eyes always fall on the son Li Ze is holding, and his expression is slightly nervous.

There are too many people out of the city.

Even if it is a well-ordered Wuyi, it is inevitable that there will be a mixture of fish and dragons. Especially during the imperial examination not long ago, the pseudo-Liang side sent a lot of assassins to set off a storm in Wuyi. Is there still such a person in Wuyi?

Of course there will be.

But Li Ze didn't care.

Ordinary people, how many of them have seen the true faces of Li Ze and Liu Ruyan? Not to mention his son Li Tang. Now they are no different from those little couples on the street.

If you insist on saying that there is, it probably means that the men are quite tall, and the women are indeed beautiful.

Li Ze never felt that he was handsome.

It can only be said that it is not ugly.

The son Li Tang in his arms was tightly wrapped, and the age of more than a year made him have a lot of curiosity about this world, twisting around in Li Ze's arms, looking at this novel world with big eyes.

This was the first time he had walked out of the door of the Li Mansion in earnest.

Or lively, is the first image left to him by this world. Compared to the door of the mansion, it is a completely different scene.

Li Tang, who is more than a year old, can now clearly call out words such as daddy and aunt, but he can't say a sentence completely to show what he means, more often, it is a word by word, which makes Liu Ruyan a little frustrated, she has always thought that her son should be the smartest one in the world.

Li Ze, of course, disagreed.

However, Li Tang in Li Ze's arms still attracted the attention of many people, mainly thanks to the tiger hat on his head. Two long cloth ropes hung in front, Li Tang's small hands pulled the rope, every time he pulled down, the tiger's two ears were propped up, if the two hands alternately pulled, the two cloth ears will go up and down, this is definitely the first one in the outer city today.

Many couples who were also holding the child and holding the child were looking at this strange hat curiously, and those children were even more green in their eyes, looking like that, they couldn't wait to grab it and buckle it on their heads.

Actually, it's quite simple to make. Li Ze explained a few words to his tailor, and after a day's work, he did it.

"This brother, please stay." A middle-aged man stopped in front of Li Ze.

Liu Ruyan subconsciously took a step, half of her body stopped in front of Li Ze, in terms of force value, Li Ze was far inferior to hers.

The middle-aged man glanced at Liu Ruyan in some surprise.

Liu Ruyan's state of wanting to take care of things is undoubtedly at a glance, under normal circumstances, it is always a man who will stop in front of a woman, and it is not common for a woman to come forward.

Of course, most of the women in the Tang Dynasty are still very strong, and the middle-aged people are only slightly surprised.

"What?" Li Ze quietly pulled Liu Ruyan aside.

"Can you show me this hat of your son?" The middle-aged man was a little embarrassed.

"Consistent money!" Li Ze stretched out a finger and shook it in front of the middle-aged man, but Liu Ruyan was taken aback, just take a look, and ask for money?

"No problem!" The middle-aged man was extremely refreshed, turned around and shouted, and immediately a person who looked like a small man walked over with a copper coin that had always been yellow and clear: "A thousand Wen, a lot of one." ”

Reaching out to take the copper coin, Li Ze grinned, and without hesitation, he picked up his son's hat and handed it to the man, Li Tang had no hat, the cold wind was swishing, his two little hands held his head, and his mouth was about to cry, Li Ze immediately took off his dogskin hat and buckled it on his head, but covered most of Li Tang's head.

Trying to lift the hat half with his little hand, the little one broke into a smile again in an instant.

After looking at it carefully for a long time, the middle-aged man praised it repeatedly: "The design is ingenious." This brother, do you care if I copy it? How much more do I have to pay? ”

Li Ze checked the copper money in his hand: "You have already paid." ”

The middle-aged man couldn't help but be overjoyed, and said again and again: "Thank you for this brother." ”

Li Ze laughed and took the tiger hat, hugged the doll, and led his wife away.

"Just look at these few glances, it's always money, and it's very easy for you to make money." Liu Ruyan carefully put on his son's hat again, but Li Tang seemed to like Li Ze's dogskin hat, and tried his best to pull his father's hat off again. Seeing Li Ze shaking his head to tease the child, and the child's small mouth showed signs of flattening again, Liu Ruyan did not hesitate to take off the dogskin hat from Li Ze's head and stuffed it into the child's hand.

"So you found a good man, and I can't be hungry for you at any time." Li Ze said proudly: "This businessman is very good, when he finds a business opportunity, he does not hesitate, he has always taken the money happily, and afterwards he asked if he needed to pay again, this person will make a fortune in the future." Qiao'er, believe it or not, tomorrow, we will start buying such a hat on our head in the outer city immediately. It's not a good idea to make money. Maybe in just a few days, he can earn dozens or hundreds of dollars. ”

"Then you should charge more." Liu Ruyan said with a smile.

Li Ze laughed and threw the copper coin in his hand, "Let's go, I'll invite you to eat." ”

Half a pot of rapeseed medicine was churning in the iron pot, the best white flour was kneaded, a little bit was cut, rolled into thin strips, and then it was pulled in the hand, becoming thinner and thinner, magically turning into a fan-like thing, throwing it into the oil pot, and in an instant, the golden finished product was out of the pot. This is a snack that only emerged in Wuyi this year, and it is called Sanzi.

Five pennies a piece.

Li Ze tore off Wuwen from the money he had just earned, bought a handful of loose seeds, broke half of them and handed them to Liu Ruyan, but he pulled a little bit and stuffed them into his son's mouth, and when he heard him chew it to pieces, he smiled happily.

A piece of dough, with a few knives in the middle, crossed and pulled, thrown into the pot, when it comes out, it becomes a unique pasta, called a horn.

Since the iron pot and vegetable oil began to be popularized, it is also due to the suffering of food again, all kinds of novel snacks have sprung up on the streets.

Ten cents, such a horn can buy a small scoop.

In comparison, maltose is much more expensive. For ten cents, the old man who sold maltose used a small hammer to knock on the iron hammer, knocked a small piece from a whole piece of maltose, and watched his son tilt his head and pull it hard, pulling the maltose to the old man but still not biting off a piece, Li Ze laughed happily.

Sweets, even in Wuyi, are still very rare.

Maltose is considered the cheapest and the most popular. The frosting candy from the south of the Yangtze River, ordinary people are still reluctant to spend this money.

After shopping for a long time, Li Tang, who was finally tired, fell asleep in Li Ze's arms, and Liu Ruyan's hands also brought all kinds of snacks and gadgets, basically as long as Li Tang showed a little interest, the two of them would buy them.

"Let's go back!" Li Zedao.

The sound of horses' hooves was heard in the streets, and a slightly hoarse but still loud voice rang out in the streets.

"Pingzhou victory, Pingzhou victory! The right Xiaowei, the left Jin Wuwei annihilated 50,000 Lu Long's army in Pingzhou. ”

The sound of shouting over and over again was getting closer and closer, but the people on the street reacted very flatly. What Li Ze heard the most was "Won again?" "Of course we won, but we will lose!"

This made Li Ze very happy.

Victory has become a habit.

This is a good thing.

"Looks like my business is here again!" He smiled at Liu Ruyan.