No one would pay attention to everything that happened in the courtyard in the north of the city, let alone Xu Liang, who had just received a new name at this moment. In the eyes of others, although he entered the palace without roots in order to make a family survive, he was an unscrupulous descendant who gave up his ancestral surname after all. In the eyes of his colleagues in the East Factory, it is not necessarily the case, since his father-in-law, the factory governor, has never seen him accept any righteous sons and grandsons, and I don't know what happened today, and accepted a little eunuch who had just entered the palace as a righteous grandson.

Although they were not given an actual position, they had to pay more attention to the surname Xu, who knows if the now inconspicuous little father-in-law Xu would take over after the death of the factory supervisor.

In any case, everyone in the factory will not scold Xu Liang at will as before, and they will be respectful, so as not to regret it in the future.

The huge Jingshi City has not changed much, Xu Liang, who has changed his surname, is just one of the millions of people in the city, the high-ranking officials will not pay attention to it, and the low-ranking ones are not qualified to be involved in the Dongchang Factory, as for the ordinary people, they live as always and are as busy as ever. This prosperous city is also as prosperous as ever in their busyness.

Everything has been set, there seems to be nothing to change, and at will, people on the street come and go, and it is still peaceful.

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After separating from the scholars, Li Xiao naturally didn't know what happened in Dongchang. Taking advantage of the fact that it was still early, he led Chu Chu to the downtown of the city in a hurry. Although Haoguo does not have a curfew policy, no one knows if the shop owner, who is a freelancer, will close his door early and have fun with his family.

There are not many downtown areas in the city, scattered and scattered, and there are seven or eight in detail. Originally, there were two markets in the west and east of the city, but in response to the policy of the common development of industry, agriculture and commerce in Haoguo, a few more were added. As expected, the economic development of the city is very fast, all kinds of shops are vying to appear, and merchants and artists from all over the world have also joined, but in a few years, the Jingshi City has the current lively scene.

It is also thanks to His Majesty's policy, otherwise Li Xiao would have to walk a long way and detour a few streets to reach the old market in the west of the city.

The newly opened downtown is not far from Wan'an Temple, and it is not far from the empty street at the back door of the temple. Smelling the fragrance coming from the downtown area, Li Xiao and the others soon arrived at the long street full of people.

Stepping into the street, what catches your eye is a juggling troupe surrounded by several people, the artists don't know where they come from, they know that the show they perform is very exciting, and the plain show has a different feeling in their hands.

Li Xiao also wanted to take a look, but unfortunately he was surrounded by people and couldn't see anything. Shrugged his shoulders and pulled the frustrated little girl inside.

Inside, there are fewer jugglers, and there are more stalls selling rouge gouache and hanging folding fans. These are things that Li Xiao is not interested in, and Chu Chu is still young, so he doesn't need Yingying Yanyan's things. However, the girls who laughed and picked up the ornaments on the street are a little good-looking, unlike the women in the south of the Yangtze River, the women of Jingshi are less gentle, but they have a lot more heroism, and they seem to be extremely capable in their gestures.

For these girls, Li Xiao will not look at them excessively, maybe because she has seen too much of the sister in the family, and she is immune, or she may not want to ruin the wise and martial appearance in the eyes of the little girl, pretending to be 13, of course, it may be both. However, he preferred to go inside rather than worry about this, it was not very early, and the shop selling dried fruits did not know if it would be closed. What's more, he felt hungry after walking for so long.

In previous years, Haoguo at that time had not yet implemented the new policy, and there was an extremely strict curfew policy in the city. After the promulgation of the new policy, the merchants who had no restrictions were very active at first, wishing to open all day, but gradually, the businessmen who had a better life began to let themselves go, move as they pleased, and open the door at will. When you're in a good mood, you can open for a longer time, and when you're in a bad mood, you close the door early and go to rest.

For this point, Li Xiao was most impressed when he was in Suzhou, at that time he liked a small shop selling cakes on the side of the city gate, at first he could eat a fragrant meatloaf every day, but then the cake seller began to be willful, and then often when he got there, the small shop had closed.

After many years, Li Xiao almost forgot the sense of loss of not being able to buy meatloaf, and at first he thought that the shopkeeper was just an exception in Quanhao China, and everyone was busy running around for a living. Until he got to the dried fruit shop.

Coincidentally, he met such a wayward shopkeeper again, and the closed door of the store made him very disappointed. I heard the grandmother who set up a stall on the other side of the door say that just now, the shopkeeper of this family got the news and closed the door and went to a relative's house to attend a banquet.

It was very uncomfortable and helpless, he was hungry and didn't have the mood to care why he wanted to talk to the scholar he didn't know for so long, so he asked Grandma for two bowls of chaos and sat down.

Grandma's stall is located in the center of this downtown street, and people on both sides who are tired of shopping for a long time will sit here for a while, ask for a bowl of hot wontons, or a cup of herbal tea, and rest for a while. Grandma is good, smiling, and never scolds those who are "white prostitutes".

Holding the wonton, the taste is very fragrant, steaming a little, a few slices of green onions floating on the top, accompanied by the bulging wonton, there is a kind of temptation for no reason.

The little girl took a heavy breath of the aroma and ate it non-stop.

Looking at the cute appearance of the little girl, Li Xiao smiled and was ready to start.

At this moment, he noticed a man who looked like a scholar sitting not far away, plain and unremarkable. But this man is very strange, sitting in the middle of the city, eating wontons, but holding a book in his hand.

"Why doesn't Childe eat it, is the old body not doing well?" Grandma came over with a side dish.

Shaking his head, Li Xiao said, "I just saw a strange person." ”

As Li Xiao looked in the direction, Grandma also saw the scholar sitting in his stall. "Childe is talking about Zhang Gongzi?"

"Grandma, do you know?" Also, it seems that the scholar is often a guest here, and it is not surprising that he knows him.

"Everyone knows the big guys on the street." Grandma sat down, wiped her watery hands, and said, "Zhang Gongzi is the only lawyer on this street. Zhang Gongzi is also very good, he helps the big guy deal with conflicts on weekdays, and whoever is involved in a lawsuit, he will also come forward, although it is generally a draw, but it is also a heart. The most important thing is that his expenses are very small, and it should be estimated that the harvest of the big guys is not high. It's a pity that it's been so long, and I've only passed the junior lawyer exam. ”

A lawyer is a lawyer who helps people handle litigation affairs, and a person who makes ideas and writes pleadings for people who fight lawsuits. He has also heard of the lawyer in this world, and he has to go through several exams like the examination of Xiucai, and there is also a profession of lawyer in Suzhou City, but it is mostly a side job of Mr. Teaching, after all, today's Haoguo has already opened many lawsuits dedicated to lawsuits.

And the Zhang Gongzi in front of him is obviously a freelance lawyer and has no organization. If such a lawyer does not find another way out, it will generally be difficult for him to survive. Listening to Grandma's meaning, Zhang Lawyer should have been like this for a long time, but it was not easy to survive like this.

"Grandma knows where Gongzi Zhang is from." Li Xiao asked.

"I don't know, when the old man came, Zhang Gongzi was here, but he should be a person from Beijing, I haven't seen him out of the city for so many years, and I haven't seen his family." Grandma sighed, as if she was feeling sorry for what happened to Zhang Lawyer, "It's a pity that such a good person has no money, and he hasn't asked for a daughter-in-law yet." ”

Listening to Grandma's words, Li Xiao smiled, he was quite old in his two lives combined, and he was still a single dog, so he was not qualified to comment on anything, so he lowered his head and ate. Chu Chu on the side saw the young master's deflated appearance, puffing out his mouth and smiling.

"By the way, Grandma, what's the full name of Lawyer Zhang." Li Xiao raised his head and asked.

"Zhang Wei." Grandma said: "A good name, a man should be self-reliant and do a great career." ”

"Zhang Wei?" Li Xiao was surprised when he heard this name, once upon a time, this name accompanied him for several years and gave him countless pleasures. Of course, he also has a resounding name, the legal pioneer, at this time, this Zhang Wei Zhang Gongzi is a very ingenious lawyer, and he is inextricably linked with the legal pioneer.

"Childe has heard of it? How can you be so surprised. Grandma was frightened by Li Xiao's performance, she didn't know why this name gave such a big reaction to the handsome son in front of her.

Zhang Wei, who was looking at the book not far away, seemed to hear who was calling his name, and also turned to look.

Li Xiao glanced at Zhang Wei apologetically, and then said, "I've only heard it occasionally, but I'm not familiar with it, I was rude just now." ”

"I thought that Gongzi knew something, but he was pitiful to Zhang Songshi, he often had no meal, he was pitiful and didn't want to accept his money, but he always had to give, why did you say this person was so stubborn." Grandma shook her head, very helpless.

Li Xiao has nothing to say, since ancient times, scholars have been temperamental, and they have the courage not to bend their waists for half a bucket of rice. They have their own principles, and although they are poor, they are not poor in integrity. Li Xiao admires such readers, but at the same time regrets them.

It was getting dark, and there were fewer people on the streets, but there were more people on Grandma. Seeing that the little girl had almost eaten, she didn't grab other people's places, got up and walked to Grandma, took fifty taels of silver from Chu Chu, and handed it to Grandma.

"These are the money I paid to that Zhang Gongzi, and Grandma collects it, maybe I will ask him for something in the future, and it can be regarded as paying in advance." Li Xiao said.

He didn't know if he would ask Zhang Wei for the truth in the future and pay for Zhang Wei, and there was no reason, probably this name, and probably this similar profession, this little money, just thinking about contacting the place where he couldn't go back. Of course, Li Xiao himself would laugh at this ridiculous idea.