Chapter 2: The First Snow (Six Ups)

"It's going to change the sky!" Yu Laosi, the worshipper of Chen Ji Jewelry Store, beat his waist and yawned.

The sky outside is still blue, and the autumn breeze is a little cooler, but it is far from the point of penetrating the bones. But the guys in the entire store turned a blind eye to the clear sky outside, nodded their heads one after another, and echoed Yu Laosi's statement, "Yes, yes, the goods have been going very slowly recently!" ”

"Yes, yes, many families have gone to the Weihe River to harvest in the autumn, isn't the goods going slowly?"

"Blind toss!"

"No problem, who let us live at the feet of the Son of Heaven!"

The people in the capital have been influenced by the same since they were able to speak. Therefore, they are much more sensitive to the wind and grass overhead. At this moment, the changing sky in their mouths refers not only to the real weather, but to the north of Suzaku Street, inside Zhaoyang Gate. (Note 1)

You can't blame the people at the feet of the Son of Heaven for being poor. There is a way that the dragon king fights, and the fish and shrimp suffer. Whenever there are some major changes in the imperial court, the first to be affected must be these grass people in the capital. Not to mention that when the queen of heaven was in power, she had to kill people every three years and five years. Take the changes in the current situation in recent years, any redivision of power, the market will be depressed for a long time. Often the gods have not yet decided the winner, but the grass people below have no rice at home.

The recent signs are not very good. Those princesses, county lords, grandfathers, and marquis ran to the Wei River in groups, saying that they were going to Zhuangzi to inspect the autumn harvest, but they loaded the family cages on the carriage, and it seemed that they didn't plan to come back at all after a year and a half. Immediately afterwards, the sons and daughters of the nobles who usually swaggered through the market also disappeared, and it is said that they were locked up at home by the older generation and thought about it behind closed doors, and it is unknown when they will come out again.

These two types of people are usually important customers of jewelry stores. Without them, the whole shop was immediately crowded. It's no wonder that Yu Da remembered his old waist again, beating and beating all day long, complaining non-stop.

If all the shops on the whole street were in the same depression, everyone might feel better. People do not suffer from poverty, but only from inequality. When you see others as unlucky as yourself, you naturally don't feel that God is unfair. On the diagonal opposite of Chen Ji Jewelry Store, all kinds of carriages were always parked in front of the Zhu Ji South Goods Store, as if the changes in the capital had nothing to do with his family.

"People are more angry than people, no way!" Yu Laosi narrowed his eyes and stared at Zhu Ji who was leaning at the other party, his eyes were full of jealousy, "If the moon is full, it will be lost, and when the water is full, there will be a ......day sooner or later."

Suddenly, he stopped cursing, his eyes instantly widening. The guys who were enduring Yu Laosi's chatter suddenly lost the noise in their ears, and they were all slightly stunned, and immediately, they all stuck their heads to the window, and their eyes were fixed on the same position that Yu Laosi was staring at.

That person definitely didn't go to Zhu Ji Nan Goods Store to buy things, just looking at his simple clothes that had reached the point of shabby, Yu Laosi believed that there was a random thing in Zhu Ji Nan's store opposite, and this person could not afford it. But that person, with indescribable pride and confidence, as if the disdainful gaze in the eyes of the guests at the door of Zhu Ji did not exist, he walked inside.

"It's lively!" With intuition, Yu Laosi thought gloatingly. There is a kind of gangster in the capital who specializes in extorting merchants as a means of making a living. As long as you fancy someone, either shouting in the shop that you have lost the purse containing the money, or saying that you have broken your feet and necks by the floor tiles, in short, the merchant will never end the matter if he does not come up with some money to avoid the disaster in the end.

However, in the past ten years, those who dared to go to Zhu Ji Nan's store to knock on bamboo and bargain, Yu Laosi saw it for the first time today. In the Beijing Division, who doesn't know that Zhu Qiye, the shopkeeper of Zhu Ji Nan's store, was a good brother who played with his concubine brother Yang Jiedu from childhood to old age? The so-called Zhu Ji is actually Yang Ji. It's just that he was afraid of Gaozu's legacy that high-ranking officials and dignitaries were not allowed to do business, and a "pig's head" was hung at the door.

More than ten years ago, Yang Guozhong had not yet become an envoy of the festival with his sister's relationship, so he dared to break the legs of a few ruffians who did not have long eyes to blackmail Zhu Ji and threw them into Qujiang Pond to feed Wang Ba. Now that the status of the Yang family is in full swing in Beijing, there are still people who dare to fight Zhu Ji's idea, either this person is tired of being crooked, or this person is a hillbilly from other places, and he doesn't understand the depth and shallowness of the water in Beijing.

The guy who greeted the guest at the door of Zhu Ji probably thought the same way, thinking that God has the virtue of a good life, stretched out his arm, and stopped the uninvited guest before he entered the door, "What are you doing?" Look at the signboard at the door before you come in! ”

"Oh!" The plainly dressed but very neat guest took a few steps back, looked up at Zhu Ji's golden plaque, and walked back at the same speed, "Isn't this Zhu Ji?" Am I in the wrong place? ”

"That's right, this is indeed Zhu Ji, the only one in the capital!" The janitor sticks out his toes and blocks the way of the guests. Pressing his fingers on his chin and the corners of his mouth, he scratched back and forth with his index finger on the corners of his mouth, and said with a sneer: "Listen to the accent, my brother is from out of town, right?" Our Zhu Ji specializes in selling objects from various countries on the sea from the port of Guangzhou, but the gold is very expensive! ”

"Oh! This, I know. I've already inquired before I came! The plainly dressed guest nodded, not in the slightest sign of contempt from the men's eyes. I'm not here to buy anything, please take your feet off. Be careful, don't trip yourself! ”

With that, continue to walk slowly inward. The two men guarding the door were so angry that their noses were crooked, and they reached out to push the customer's shoulder, "Don't buy anything, what are you doing, ....... oops, ah......"

I don't know what the guest used, the two guys' hands didn't even touch the corners of each other's clothes, and the people fell out like gourds. However, the direction of the fall is still very peculiar, one person to the house, one person to the outside of the house, "plop" and "plop", as if rehearsed in advance.

"Who is spreading wild here!" In an instant, four big men rushed out from behind the counter together, stretched out a fan-like slap, and at the same time pulled the hands and feet of the guests. It was too late, it was too fast, but I saw that the guest turned around slightly, and the four big men fell to the ground with a brush. Each person left a dirt-covered footprint in the crook of their knee, as clear as if they had been printed beforehand.

"Oh my God. Close the door and get the window down! Yu Lao Si snorted and rushed to the door with some agility that was not commensurate with his age. Don't look at it, don't look at it, be careful of the disaster of the pond fish! ”

"Bang bang bang!" Half the street saw the same action in an instant. No one who can open a shop on this street is a fool, and they can see that people are definitely not as simple as ruffians. And those who dare to blatantly find trouble with Zhu Ji in broad daylight, there are only two or three at most in the entire Jingshi.

Note 1: Zhaoyang Gate, the inner gate of the imperial city of the Tang Dynasty.