For the whole day after this, Shen Gui had no interest in this flowery Chang'an City. Because in his heart, he has always been troubled by one thing: what will the old woman who was called 'Red Bell' and now incarnated as the shopkeeper in 'Huang Jia Mash' be?

In fact, when she was in Julu County, Yan Shuqing and Chi Zhong also had a 'half-faced' relationship; and she was also firmly 'locked' in a small black house by a short stick thrown out by others, and finally escaped by 'jumping out of the window'; but at that time, there was no difference between Di Tingchi Zhong and Fang Cai's 'Huang Lady' in terms of facial features; but the rebellious and grotesque aura that permeated the body before was gone; even if you looked carefully face to face, it was no different from an ordinary woman who was an ordinary woman.

And in the face of the fragrant oily noodles and the joint temptation of the three gourd chickens, if Yan Shuqing can still recognize her, it will really be hell!

As the saying goes, 'chicken is spiritual, wine is immortal', and now this fairy-like delicacy, no matter what is important, it is always better than the word 'eat'

If the most prosperous and lively place in Chang'an City is near Dongshifang, where Shen Gui and others live; Then the entire Chang'an City, and even the entire Northern Yan Dynasty, the market with the largest commercial throughput is the 'gold market' described by Taibai Shixian in "Youth Xing II".

Located within the Jinguang Gate in the west of the city, this Xishifang is an 'exclusive market for foreign merchants'. Because it is very close to the West City Gate, it is the starting point of the 'Silk Road' opened up by Dayan in the former dynasty, and until today, merchants from all over the world still gather here, trade and trade with each other; It also gathered a lot of wealth, so it was called the 'gold market' by the world.

However, although the verses of this 'Taibai Shixian' are extremely romantic to read, if this 'Golden Market Square' is only seen from the outside, it is more like the 'flea market' in Shen Gui's heart. In addition to the shops that are open to customers, even the richly dressed merchants can only rent a 'bamboo shed', while most of the other small traders can only sit on the floor, and at most they can only spread a beautiful 'Yeni carpet' as a stall, half to display their goods, and usually to occupy a place for themselves.

On top of this gold market, in addition to the most common black, white, and green food merchants on the Huayu continent, there are also the Lits who are all businessmen, the Roma people, who are born wandering people, and those who live next to each other with a strip of water, the Silla people, the Fuso people, and so on......

As for the various goods they sold, it was enough to dazzle the eyes of Shen Gui and others: colorful spices and herbs, fist-sized gemstone agate, flowery 'handmade carpets', fat and strong Western Regions BMW ...... It can be said that in this gold market, no matter how much silver you have in your pocket, you don't have to worry about how to spend it!

However, because Shen Gui is now thinking about the 'Red Bell', he has no intention of shopping at all. So he stretched out his hand and beckoned a few tooth people who gathered under the archway to 'lie down', and after whispering a few words to Qi Yan, he walked back alone.

He wants to find out the details of this mysterious woman!

In this Chang'an city, from the ministers and doctors to the people in the market, they are all addicted to the things in the cup, and they especially love sweet wine; Although the grape wine in the hands of those Hu merchants tasted wonderful, the price was a little too high, and it was out of the 'people'; it tasted a lot more exquisite, and there was also a sense of stereotyped constraints; so the yellow cinnamon thick wine produced in the land of Sanqin became a 'popular drink' suitable for all ages.

Due to the abundant sunshine in the land of Sanqin, even if it is still the season of 'warm and cold', the most famous 'Changle Huangjia Mash' in Chang'an City is now overcrowded. Shen Gui returned to his guest room, called a pot of 'mint tangerine peel tea' prepared by Hu Shang, and carefully observed the shopkeeper who was busy shuttling among the drinkers through the four open windows...

Shen Gui watched it for more than an hour, and he still couldn't believe that this virtuous woman with sharp hands and feet and a spring breeze on her face was still a martial arts predecessor with peerless martial arts; Even when she chased away a few 'Roma thieves', she still had a smile on her face, and even the kicks she kicked at the legs of the three-and-a-half-grown children looked extremely clumsy, and even more provoked the drunkards to laugh unbridled when they saw them......

a pot of tea, a glass of wine; an overcrowded tavern, a mottled and cramped tavern; A thin shopkeeper who is not good at words, a woman with quick hands and feet and a soft temperament; This picture is both lively and quiet, which makes Shen Gui unconsciously indulge in it......

He was a little homesick.

When the sky was just dark, the bell and drum tower of Chang'an City sounded in unison; At this time, the city patrollers patrolling the streets also struck the gongs in their hands in unison, and shouted at the top of their voices: "Those who want to go out of the city should be tight, and in a quarter of an hour, the city gates will be closed!" ”

At this time, several Silla merchants who were sitting by the wall drinking alcohol heard that the city gate was about to close, and they all hugged each other and staggered to their feet. One of the older ones said 'hey' to the inner shopkeeper, then raised his hand, threw out a small silver horn, and then staggered towards the direction of Tonghua Gate.

In the upper class society of Chang'an City, there is such a kind of 'exquisiteness': Kunlun Nu, Silla Maiden, Persian Ji, and Bodhisattva Man. These four 'proper nouns' refer to the most popular 'slaves' of the four countries among the wealthy classes in Chang'an City: Kunlun slaves, which refer to foreign male servants with darker complexions than Huayu people. These people are not only strong and strong, but also have a strong personality and a simple mind; Coupled with the 'advantage' of language barrier, it is most suitable for use as a wrestler or a follower;

The remaining three types of 'equipment' refer to the maidservants or maiko who have been trafficked from all over the world.

Among them, the 'Silla maids' were actually the 'main commodities' of these Silla merchants, who bought or abducted some strong women or maidens to be married from their own countries, transported them thousands of miles to the Northern Yan Dynasty and sold them, and then exchanged them for large quantities of silk, tea, handicrafts, luxury goods, etc., and then shipped back to their home countries to sell, seeking a huge difference in the price of goods between the two places.

However, although this 'Silla maid' is very valuable, after all, she is also a big living person with hands and feet; as the saying goes, 'there are thousands of families, but those with hair do not count', and the distance between Silla and Chang'an City is not more than a thousand miles? Along the way, the loss of these women's 'death and flight' is not counted, and the food rations for them and the 'training expenses' after arriving in Beiyan have already occupied a large part of the capital, so the profits from human trafficking are far less lucrative than those from trafficking in 'dead goods and specialties'.

Therefore, these Silla merchants did not have any extra silver at all, so they could live in the inns in the inner city of Chang'an. Now that the drums were closing the city gates, even though the Silla people were already crumbling drunk, they still had to force themselves to stand up and return to the cheap inns outside the city to rest.

As soon as the drum of this city gate sounded, it naturally announced that the two markets in the east and west ushered in the time of 'closing the door and clearing the field'. It didn't take long for the four young ladies and young masters who had been shopping around the street all afternoon, and one of them sat in a sedan chair with bells and whistles, and returned to the front of the inn; Behind the sedan chair, there were also four tooth men with excited looks, and eight Kunlun slaves with dark bodies and curly hair. Each of them carried a large pile of merchandise with them......

Shen Guiguang looked at the expressions on the faces of those tooth men, and knew that these four 'living ancestors' must have no less 'consumption'......

That's not right! Where did they get the money?

Shen Gui hurriedly ran downstairs, only to see those tooth men shouting and drinking, and commanding Kunlun Nu to 'unload' in the front hall of the inn, and Qi Yan also took out a silver ingot weighing twenty taels from his arms and threw it to the oldest tooth man:

"You four tooth men, and those eight 'little black men', take them back and divide them yourself."

Shen Gui couldn't help but tremble when he looked at Qi Yan, who was generous, and quickly backhanded his inner pocket and the silver bag on his waist......

Strange thing, a copper plate is a lot! Shen Gui's eyes rolled, and he immediately frowned and said to Qi Yan:

"I said wild geese...... If you take two 'cousins' (women) out to 'eat and save' (go to temple fairs, markets and other lively places to steal), are you not afraid that the ancestor will blame? ”

Qi Yan shook his head and smiled, stretched out his two flush fingers, and whispered to Shen Gui:

"Do you know what it means to be 'a thief eats a thief, and the more you eat, the fatter you get'? I am also giving my colleagues in Chang'an City a long ability! Did you see that? If I hadn't followed, the three of them would have to let the family go with the shoes on their feet! ”

After finishing speaking, Qi Yan slapped Qi Hui's broad back casually, and no less than twenty colorful silver purses were placed on the table......

Shen Gui looked at these 'trophies', and his head was already sweating:

"I asked you to protect them, and I didn't let you provoke the local 'rivers and lakes'! When you walk, you just hide your right hand in your sleeve and tell them that you are a 'doorman'. As the so-called strong dragon does not suppress the head snake, we have just entered Chang'an City, and we have no intention of 'poking the pole and reporting the number' (breaking into the territory) here, so why bother to provoke them? ”

Qi Yan backhanded out two 'black copper strips' from his sleeve and shook them in front of Shen Gui:

"Do you still need to teach this? I haven't touched any of the local rivers and lakes! As for these purses, they all belong to the Roma! These Fanbang people are not particular about their work, and they actually use this 'thing' to drag down in broad daylight! You say, isn't this the same as 'open robbery'? If I don't stretch out my hand, I will be blamed by the grandfather! ”

As soon as Qi Yan's words fell, there was a knock on the door of 'three long and two short'......