Jing Xiang only took Wu Jian alone, and walked out of the inner city leisurely, all the way to the outer city.

After arriving in Wuyi and handing over the official letter of Xuanwu to the Jiezhen Mansion, they stayed in the post house and waited for the news, Li Ze was a busy man, especially now, it was impossible to see him when he saw him, so he could only wait slowly. Of course, it is also possible that Li Ze will dry them for a few days first, for these, Jing Xiang has already been mentally prepared, but he is not in a hurry.

"Strategist, there's really no one following us, it looks like we're very generous!" Wu Jian carefully checked all the way, but he didn't find anyone following them.

Jing Xiang smiled and said, "Why don't you follow?" But this is the inner city, and the people living in it are all powerful people, and the people who come and go are all officials, so they don't need to do this at all, but now that we are out of the inner city, the news must be sent out, and when we get to the outer city, someone will definitely follow us. ”

"The military advisor is so sure?"

"It's conventional." Jing Xiang said: "Even if it is for our safety, they will send someone to follow, in case something happens to us, they can't tell, right?" But don't worry about these subsections. ”

"If the military advisor wants to taste the food of this Wuyi, why not eat it in the inner city? Didn't the postman say that? There are several good restaurants in the inner city, and as long as we want to eat, they can make all of them! Wu Jian said.

"Eating is a trivial matter, I want to take a look at this Wuyi, what can I see in this inner city, most of the people living in the outer city are ordinary people, everything there can best reflect the real situation of a place!" Jing Xiang said with a smile: "Look at the general direction from a small place, and know the autumn by peeking at a leaf." "The military advisor is high."

After entering the outer city, compared with the quiet of the inner city, a lively atmosphere immediately hit the face. In the inner city, if you walk a mile or two in Xingli, you can only see a few people in Liao Liao, but in the outer city, it is crowded and crowded.

The street is very wide, and on both sides of the street, there are quite a few hawkers and food stalls, compared to those who have shopfronts, these people, these people, are pushing a car, the car looks custom-made, there are special brackets at the four corners to fix the car, there are lower baffles in three directions, in front of the baffles are some long benches, and in the other direction, there are vendors' operating stations.

Jing Xiang's eyes fell on a sturdy woman, who sold hand-rolled noodles, a large wooden basin, containing most of the kneaded noodles, it seemed that the business was very good, not only the front of the baffle was full of diners, but there were also some waiting in line at the back.

The woman rolled up her sleeves, her face covered with sweat, and a towel on her shoulder, which she would pick up from time to time to wipe the sweat, and whenever a new guest sat down, she would pull a section of dough from the wooden basin, and with a neat hand of the rolling pin, she would roll out the dough into thin slices, and then fold it, and with a few clicks of the knife, she would cut it into a uniform length of noodles and throw them into a pot of boiling water. After a few moments, it is scooped up and put into a large porcelain bowl, then a large spoonful of white soup is scooped from a nearby soup pot, and finally sprinkled with some coriander and shallots, and a bowl of fragrant hand-rolled noodles is complete. Sometimes, at the request of diners, a thick slice of meat the size of a child's palm is taken out from another covered clay basin and placed on the noodles, or a peeled egg.

"Military advisor, a bowl of somen noodles costs five cents, and a bowl of noodles with sliced meat or eggs costs ten cents." Wu Jian watched some diners give money on the side, and then whispered: "In just this short time, this woman has sold twenty bowls of meat, all of which are vegetarian meat, and her income is one hundred and eighty yuan, and sixteen of them are meat noodles." This woman is afraid that she will be able to earn more than the same amount of money a day. ”

Jing Xiang nodded.

Looking at the big place from a small place, these diners who can only sit on the stall and eat noodles are basically ordinary people, but it seems that everyone is not short of money, in fact, a bowl of noodle soup for five cents is not bad, because the pot of white soup is also boiled out of large bones, and the meat is not bad, but more people still choose meat noodles.

After walking forward for a while, Jing Xiang's eyes fell on a man who sold scones, this person only had one leg, standing on crutches, and there were several obvious scars on his face, which looked extremely vicious, but in front of the stall, there were actually a lot of people standing.

The man's baking technique was different from what Jing Xiang had seen before, using a very deep stove to roll out the dough very thinly, and then, at the request of the diners, adding leeks, plum vegetables, and even meat sauce to it, and then sticking it to the stove with a bang, and a moment later, a browned scone on both sides was baked.

A vegetarian cake costs three cents, and a scone with meat sauce costs five cents. Next to the oven, there is also a large bucket of herbal tea, add a penny, and the herbal tea tube is full.

"He lame, you have so much disability pension, you can still receive a subsidy of 500 wen every month, and there are dozens of acres of land at home that are not subject to tax, even if you sit and eat at home, why are you working so hard?" The person who spoke was obviously an acquaintance of the peddler, and said with a smile while nibbling on bread and drinking herbal tea. "This is all in exchange for your life, and your brother and brother-in-law dare to give you a look? If you really want to treat you badly, you will split up and go out alone, didn't you tell me last time that the official family has already told you a family affair? ”

was called lame, and the vendor was not annoyed, but said while skillfully baking the cake: "Look at what you said, my brother is very good to me, and I serve me every day, but I am a cheap bone, such a lord has a sore and soft life, so I went to learn this craft, how much can I earn some subsidies for the family, although life is better now, but my brother and daughter-in-law are already pregnant, and in a few days, I will also have a Hun family, and I will add some more population, and there will be more inputs, Life is just going to be easy! Separation? Don't talk nonsense, Lao Tzu Niang said when he was alive that we were not allowed to split up. ”

"Your brother is stained with your light!" The man said with emotion. "But He Cripple, it's worth it, one leg, in exchange for dozens of acres of Yongye field."

"These fields can only be planted until I die, and when I die, I have to take them back, so I have to do more work, save more, and buy some more land."

"Don't talk about our Wuyi now, even if it's the entire Yizhou, the price of land is rising rapidly, and if you buy it here, you can't afford to come to Luo!" The man sighed, "Those outsiders are so hateful, they all flock here when they see that our days are better." ”

"You can buy it elsewhere!" He lame smiled: "A few days ago, my former comrades-in-arms came to see me and said one thing, now in the north, there is a large amount of ownerless land for sale, the price is too low, but a person is only allowed to buy a hundred acres, I have asked my brother to go over there to take a look, if it works, buy some." ”

"I heard that the north side is not very peaceful!"

"I'm afraid of a fart!" He lame laughed: "Let's follow the festival commander, when did you lose the battle?" That Zhang Ziwu, I heard that it was very powerful, and it was not driven away by us, I said Lao Luo, you have to have spare money in your hand, hurry up and go over there to take a look, and when there are more people in the future, the price will definitely rise again. ”

"Take a look first, take a look first." Lao Luo, who ate the cake, nodded vaguely.

"With your temperament, you can't keep up with the heat when you eat." He lame said disdainfully: "When you understand, I'm afraid you won't be able to catch it." ”

"He lame, Lao Tzu is eating cakes!" The man said in annoyance.

He crippled laughed, handed a baked cake to another person, neatly collected the money, and threw it into the wooden box next to him, with a jingling sound. "Luo Mazi, it's only been a few good days, so it's so exquisite, we used to stand by the pit, and if we have such cakes to eat, it is also devoured."

"Life is better, of course you have to pay attention." Luo Mazi said dissatisfiedly: "The north side is very big, and there is so much land, I don't have to worry about not being able to buy it when I go." ”

"You just have your spring and autumn dreams!" He lame sneered: "Do you know where my comrades-in-arms came back?" Pingzhou, they are now on an errand under General Liu, and I heard that over there, they have begun to naturalize those miscellaneous beards and savages. As long as you have a house and land, you can enter our Wuwei, you haven't been to that realm, I don't know, I know, it looks like there are no people, but those miscellaneous beards, after a while, I don't know where to come out, just like leeks. In the past, these people couldn't get in, but now they can enter my Wuwei as long as they spend a small amount of money and enjoy the same rights as our Wuwei people, they can't wait for it! ”

"Do these miscellaneous savages have the money to buy land and build houses?" Luo Mazi was dismissive.

"Just sit in the well and watch the sky! Those savages are not short of money now, they raise sheep, just wool, they can't buy money every year, anyway, what they raise, we Wuwei will buy, do you say they can lack money? My comrades-in-arms watched one village after another pop up, where they all bought land, and two of them came back this time and were ready to move their families there, a family of five people could buy 500 acres, anyway, no more than 5,000 acres, no one cared. It's also cheap for big animals over there. ”

"Is there such a thing?" Luo Mazi panicked when he heard this, "So, I'm going to take a look soon." ”

"Hurry up, this news will spread in a short time, and the price will definitely rise by then." He lame looked at him and said, "It's not because you often come to patronize my business, so I don't bother to tell you." ”

Looking at the back of Luo Mazi hurrying away, Jing Xiang and Wu Jian glanced at each other with some horror, they really didn't expect that they could hear such big news in the market when they wandered around like this. Looking at the appearance of the lame man, he is definitely not lying.