Chapter 689: The Sound of Cannons in the West Garden
After lunch, Zhu Ping'an checked out, and the shopkeeper came over with a smile, "Hehehe, I originally wanted to erase it for you, but it was exactly two hundred yuan, and I couldn't erase it if I wanted to." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info”
Hearing this, the little Lori Niuniu rolled her eyes.
"Hypocrisy!" The bear child shook his fat face and despised the shopkeeper.
"It's simple, I just haven't eaten yet, bring me two more buns, and you can erase it."
Zhu Ping'an rubbed the bear child's head, looked up at the shopkeeper, hooked the corners of his lips slightly, and smiled, showing the innocent smile of the sunny boy.
Ahem......
The shopkeeper seemed to be choked when he heard this, and with a dark face, he ordered the shopkeeper to go to the back kitchen and get two meat buns.
After a while, Zhu Ping'an led two small ones out of the restaurant with two meat buns packed in mulberry leaf paper.
In the back restaurant, the shopkeeper's face is black.
After leaving the restaurant, the bear child couldn't worship Zhu Ping'an, and the little Loli Niuniu's eyes were also shining when she looked at Zhu Ping'an.
"It was they who first used the chicken rack to pretend to be chicken, and the store bullied customers, so I gave him a small lesson. We can't learn from them when we do things, we must pay attention to integrity, people can't stand without trust, and the store can't prosper without trust, and their store will lose on the dishonesty sooner or later. Zhu Ping'an touched the two small heads and instilled in them the importance of integrity.
Unclear.
The two little ones nodded ignorantly.
After walking for a while, Zhu Ping'an gave two meat buns to a child held by Lifu, and chatted with Lifu by the way.
It was learned that Lifu was from a village ten miles outside the capital, named Zhang Dazhu, and when Altan Khan besieged the capital in August last year, he destroyed the crops in their village, causing them to lose their autumn harvest. In order to make a living, the strong laborers in their village came to Qihuamen Wharf to move goods and beg for a living.
I'm tired, but on weekdays, I can earn almost 100 wen a day, and when I catch up with the grain, I can earn dozens of wen more, which is more than what they used to earn when they farmed.
So since last year, the strong laborers in their village have come to Qihuamen Wharf to earn some extra money during the slack time.
When talking about food, Zhang Dazhu was a little distressed.
They all had dinner at home early in the morning and then came to work at the docks, and only had lunch here. But even if it's just a lunch, it makes them feel a little distressed. The prices of the restaurants here are not cheap, and in order to work more time, they don't have time to eat far away, so they can only eat here.
If they work hard, they must eat enough, but if they are full, they must eat at least four or five cakes to be full, and they can't eat dry, just a dish and a bowl of soup, and they have to eat about 20 wen after a meal.
As for meat and vegetables, they are generally reluctant to order them. You can only suffer a lot of physical loss, or you can't bear to work too much and need to supplement nutrition, so you have to grit your teeth and order a meat dish to replenish your body.
When Zhang Dazhu mentioned the restaurant, he complained a lot, such as the money for everything in the store, the money for tea, even the garlic, and the lack of cakes...... It's just expensive, the dishes are not very delicious, and the dog looks down on people, and eats a meal as if he is in a hurry to beg them...... The table is not clean, and the floor is not clean......
After saying goodbye to Zhang Dazhu, Zhu Ping'an observed other restaurants nearby and listened to other people's comments on the restaurants.
In general, the restaurants here do not seem to be very popular, and there are more or less some problems: the price is expensive, the taste is not good, the service attitude is problematic, the environment is not good, and so on.
That's a lot of questions.
Zhu Ping'an glanced at the rows of restaurants and sighed.
Near the gate of Qihua Gate, there is a small stall of a candy blower, surrounded by a lot of people, after the bear child saw it, his little eyes lit up, and the little Lori also lit up his eyes.
"Let's go, we'll see."
Zhu Ping'an picked up the little Lori with one hand and led the bear child to the candy man stall.
The candy man is a white-bearded old man, the stall is a rectangular cabinet with a shelf, the cabinet has several drawers, respectively, there are malt sugar cubes and reed rods, there is a half-meter round hole under the cabinet, a small charcoal stove is placed in the round hole, there is a shelf above the cabinet, there are all kinds of sugar people blown by the old man on the shelf, there are chickens, piglets, rabbits, etc., it is very cute and gratifying.
There were a number of children around the stall, and some adults were leading them.
The children passing by are basically like bear children, and they can't walk when they see them.
Even if they didn't have the money to buy it, they didn't go around the candy man's stall, and when they didn't see the old man blow out a candy man, the children cheered in amazement. And the children who spend money to buy the candy man, when they take over the sugar man from the old man, it is like getting a certificate, majestic and high-spirited, accepting the envy of the children around them.
Zhu Ping'an gave the money to the bear child, and the bear child took the money and squeezed away the onlookers, dragged it in, and shouted in the envious eyes of the children: "Bring me the two most expensive sugar people, a boy and a girl." ”
The old man took the money with a smile, took a piece of warm maltose next to the charcoal stove with a fire, and skillfully pinched it with both hands, and the maltose turned into a round ball, and then the old man pressed a small hole in the round ball, and pulled out a long tube airway with his hand. Then he came to his lips and blew, the warm maltose puffed up, and while blowing, he skillfully grasped it with both hands, and soon the third prince of Nezha, who was riding a dragon and making trouble, appeared vividly......
"Sister, give."
The bear child took over the third prince of Nezha and Magu from the old man's hand, and in the envious eyes of many children, he dragged out and put the Magu birthday and treasure in the hands of the little Lori Niuniu.
"Thank you, brother-in-law."
After the little Lori Niuniu took the sugar man, she squinted her big round eyes and thanked Zhu Ping'an sweetly, the money to buy the sugar man was from her brother-in-law......
The bear child looked at Zhu Ping'an with a resentful expression......
"Thank you, Brother Rui."
However, in the next second, after hearing the next thank you from the little Lori Niuniu, the bear child's little fat face suddenly turned clear, and he couldn't find his little eyes when he smiled, and then played happily.
The world of children is so simple...... Zhu Ping'an couldn't help but smile.
"Boom ......"
While the two little ones were enjoying the candy man, they suddenly heard a dull thunderclap in the distance, and the sound came from the west, which startled the two little ones.
Zhu Ping'an also subconsciously looked up to the west.
However, the people around seemed to be surprised, and someone explained: "This is the Holy Lord practicing his inner servants in the teaching field in the West Garden, and he has been firing cannons for several days. Last year, Altan Khan invaded the capital, which stimulated the saints, and the Japanese in the south did not stop. The Holy Lord trained the inner servants, and when the Beijing soldiers were insufficient, the inner servants defended the capital against the enemy......"
Zhu Ping'an remembered that when he first arrived in the capital, Zhang Siwei said about it.
But the practice of the chamberlain...... Emperor Jiajing is really insecure, Zhu Ping'an shook his head slightly. Even if these servants are well-trained, how can they be enough to guard the capital, they can only add a sense of security to Emperor Jiajing's heart, oh, they can also deter the ministers. However, the inner servants train the soldiers, and they will be in trouble in the future......