The next day, as soon as it was dawn, I heard the sound of people walking in the courtyard. I sat up and looked out of the window, only to see the old man, dressed in white, boxing in the courtyard, the punching was whirring and windy, and I didn't know the punching method, the old man was fighting faster and faster, and finally saw a white shadow, moving in the courtyard.

I also have the habit of waking up early, and since I woke up, I also got up and came to the courtyard to watch the old man box.

The punch was really good, as fast as lightning, like a meteor, and the fist wind carried the residual leaves under the tree, flying all over the sky, attracting several guys who got up early to clean up in the inn, and also stopped the house in their hands and looked at it.

After a punch, the old man regained his momentum, and I shouted, "Good boxing." ”

The old man picked up the sweat towel on the stone bench and wiped the sweat off his face. said to me: "You got up quite early, I see that you are also a practitioner, why don't we try it." ”

I hurriedly said: "Senior, don't scold me, I've practiced for a few days, compared to your old that's far behind, when I get to the capital, I'm going to ask you for advice, you can teach me a few sets of good boxing techniques." ”

The old man laughed and said, "The children can be taught, the children can be taught, if you want to learn, the old man will teach you." ”

At this time, the sun has just emerged from the horizon, and most families have just gotten up to make breakfast, and the smell of cooking smoke wafts from time to time, mixed with the smell of millet porridge.

At this time, the door of the room where I lived opened, and Wang Jinhuai, who had slept all night and half an afternoon, staggered and walked out, with a haggard look on his face. Wiping his confused eyes with his hand, seeing the two of us standing and talking here, he also walked over, and said to the old man with both hands: "Senior, I drank too much yesterday, which made you smile, I didn't expect the seniors to drink so well." I've been sleeping for a long time, and I'm weak. I want to go fetch water and wash up. ”

The old man also said: "Yes, you drink a lot of alcohol, it's rare to drink the old man, I haven't been so drunk for a long time, and I'll get drunk with you again when I get to the capital." ”

After everyone finished washing, Wei Zihan and Xiaoyu also got up, I told Wei Zihan what the old man said, and Wei Zihan also said: "Okay, I also want to go to Jinan to see, I heard that the spring water there is very beautiful." Brother Lei, you can stay for a few days if you want, and I will listen to your arrangement in the future. "After all, it's a girl's heart, I heard that I can go to Jinan on the road to play for a few days, and I went to wash up.

After breakfast at the inn, Shunzi and the others put the carriage in place, and the group left the inn, Wei Zihan and Xiaoyu sat in the carriage, because the Wei family did not have enough horses, and we all walked.

In the Ming Dynasty, because of the hostility with the surrounding nomads, so there were relatively few horses, such as Wei Zihan's family, there were very few four or five horses in the family, this is still an ordinary horse, if the good horses are hundreds of taels of silver.

Seeing so many of us walking on two legs, the old man came up to me and said, "Boy, it's too slow to walk like this, you can walk on two legs." Look at that scholar, his body is weak, how can he endure the pain of a long journey. The old man has an idea, I will fund, we will go to the market to buy a few donkeys, and then the old man will sell them when we arrive in the capital, so that we can save the pain of trekking, and the speed will be accelerated. ”

When I think about it, it's true, ginger is still old and spicy. I bought a donkey to go to the capital, the speed on the road was faster, and the people were not tired, and I didn't lose money when I got to the capital and sold it.

Came to Wei Zihan's carriage and told her what the old man said, Wei Zihan also felt reasonable when she heard it, she was sitting in the carriage, so many of us walked, and we couldn't walk fast, if we had a donkey, it would be different, so I agreed.

I arranged for Wang Jinhuai to take a few family members to drive the carriage, and first went to wait for us outside the city, and asked the innkeeper about the location of the mule and horse market. The old man and I, as well as Junzi, and the three of us went to the mule and horse market.

The mule and horse market of Qingzhou Mansion is here at the north gate, and it is not very far, the three of them arrived in a while, it is lively here, people come and go, donkeys neighing and horses are singing, cows, horses, donkeys and mules are available. We have a total of seven people, except for a family to catch the car does not need, to buy six donkeys, there are a lot of donkeys sold here, after a while to pick five heads, negotiated the price, five taels of silver a head, the old man paid the silver. I asked the old man: "Senior, there is still one missing." ”

"Do you see if these donkeys can move me and crush him to death? I went to buy a mule to ride. So saying, he went to the place where the mules were sold.

Also, the old man is more than one meter and eight meters tall, tall and burly, and can weigh one hundred and eighty pounds, these short donkeys really can't move him.

The old man came to a horse and mule, looked at it, negotiated the price with the seller, paid ten taels of silver, and went to buy a saddle, and we led the donkeys together to the west gate.

Many people have never seen a mule in modern times, in fact, a mule is also an animal, which is the offspring born after the cross between a donkey and a horse, and the male and female donkeys are called horse mules, and the male horses and female donkeys are called donkeys and mules. The mules born by the mare are large, and the characteristics of the horse are more obvious, so the old man buys the horse mule. Just like the United States in later generations, white women who crossed with blacks gave birth to more white characteristics, and conversely, black women and whites gave birth to more black genes. There are also a few countries that do not have a good race, they all invite white men to crossbreed, such as Vietnamese monkeys, Japanese devils, Korean sticks, their genes are too poor, people are getting shorter and shorter, and they have been asking Americans to station troops in the country, not only for security reasons, but also for the sake of improving the human race, I heard that the Japanese emperor has the intention of asking the Americans to improve their royal race.

It's far away, let's come back, a few of us came to the West Gate, distributed the donkeys one by one, and went to Jinan Mansion along the official road.

This has the benefits of the means of transportation can be seen at once, from Qingzhou Mansion to Jinan, usually it takes three days to walk, now it is two days, we have seen the tall city gate tower of Jinan City, Qingzhou Mansion and Shouguang's city gate compared to the city gate of Jinan, that is really a small thing.

We come from the east, we have to enter the city through the east gate of Jinan, the east gate is also called the Qichuan gate, there are four city gates in Jinan at this time. If you want to enter the city from the east, you must pass through the Qichuan Gate.

Because of the large number of people, the city gate was bustling with traffic, and it took a while to enter the city, in addition to the soldiers guarding the city gate, there were also a few people wearing official clothes, looking at a huge money box, to enter the city to pay the city fee, two copper plates for a person, one donkey, five horses, and the same as the mule. It seems that the collection of road and bridge tolls in later generations is not original, and the ancestors have accumulated experience for them.

The street of Jinan is paved with bluestone, in addition to the unevenness of the potholes, but there is less dust in the small city, the street is a ditch on both sides, there is clear water flowing in the ditch, the ditch is planted with willow trees, it is not very tall as if it has just been planted for a few years, but it is also shaded by green trees, Jinan is famous for its many springs and beautiful scenery, it seems to be true.

A short distance along the street, there is an inn's wine flag, and the flag reads, Quancheng Inn.

I discussed with the old man, ready to stay here, I sent Shunzi over first, asked the price, there was a room, Shunzi walked in front, and our group slowly went to the inn in the back.