Li Zicheng and Song Xiance left the harvester and walked along the road to the town. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Li Zicheng brought more than 100 guards with him to Shandong this time, and these guards were all dressed as businessmen and hung far behind Li Zicheng. Li Zicheng didn't want to be seen as abnormal, so he asked these people not to get too close, and only follow him from a distance.

As soon as he arrived in the town, Li Zicheng was shocked by the prosperous scene.

The bazaar is obviously a township, not even a county seat, but it has a dignity that cannot be compared with the county seat of Shaanxi and Henan. The market is paved with concrete roads, with drainage ditches on both sides of the road, and garbage cans every dozen feet. There are various shops on both sides of the concrete street, and the eaves of the shops are covered with various signboard flags, and it is very beautiful to see the various signboards waving in the wind from a distance.

Among those shops were rice shops, cloth shops, salt shops, cattle shops, farm tool shops, and butcher shops. These shops Li Zicheng understands that there must be these shops in a township. But Li Zicheng couldn't understand the tea shops, tobacco shops, molasses shops, porcelain shops, silk shops, gold and silver shops with endless customers.

What makes Li Zicheng even more incomprehensible is that there is more than one of these stores, and there are three or four of each store, competing with each other.

You must know that in Shaanxi, where the gentry were killed, no one could afford to use these tea, tobacco, porcelain, gold and silverware, and silk. That is, the soldiers who had just ransacked the gentry may have searched some of them when they robbed the mansions of wealthy families. But it quickly ran out and wore out, and no one used these high-end goods anymore.

Even Li Zicheng himself eats brown rice and drinks cold water, and he doesn't have these things.

As for the two-story teahouses, the richly decorated restaurants, the three-story brothels and the theater with a large façade in the bazaar, Li Zicheng couldn't react a little.

In the restaurant, the transparent glass windows on the windows of the brothel shone dazzlingly under the reflection of the sun, and Li Zicheng's eyes were dazzled.

Even the county seat of Shaanxi does not have such gorgeous entertainment facilities.

Li Zicheng knew that the gentry in Li Zhi's territory did not have tax exemptions, and the gentry were all very poor. It can be said that this rural town is for the peasants. But why does a country market that serves the peasants have shops with these high-end goods, and so many entertainment facilities, and all of them seem to be doing very well.

From time to time, peasant women dressed in ordinary cotton clothes were seen walking into the store, bargaining, and then coming out with various goods wrapped in cardboard. And the faces of these people who bought these high-end goods were very calm, as if they were buying daily necessities, and their faces were not shocked, and there was no excitement about buying good things.

There was a big curtain hanging in front of the theater building, so that people could not see the scene inside. But the loud cheers that came out from time to time at that time still made people understand how lively it was.

The old bustard in front of the brothel saw a single man on the street and went up to talk to him, not disliking the man who was obviously a farmer.

If it weren't for the big flagpole in the middle of the township with several big red lanterns hanging on it, and the four big characters "Liu Lou Town" clearly written on them, Li Zicheng would not believe that this was a rural town anyway.

There were even three horse shops selling horses in the market, and Li Zicheng stood in front of the horse shop for a while, and saw that there was really a man in simple peasant clothes leading a pack horse out. The man was very happy with the horse, and apparently bought a new horse and went home.

Li Zicheng looked at Song Xiance in surprise and asked, "The people of Shandong are so rich?" ”

Song Xiance didn't dare to call Li Zicheng the king of Chuang in the town, for fear of revealing his identity, so he only replied in a low voice: "Dongjia, isn't this bazaar the largest town in this county?" Don't be deceived. Why don't we take a look at a different market? ”

Li Zicheng also suspected that the bazaar, called the township bazaar, was actually the main bazaar in the county. After listening to Song Xiance's words, he strode towards Dongming Town, thirty miles to the east.

Li Zicheng's guards pretended to be traveling merchants and followed them to Dongming Market Town.

After walking for an hour and a half, Li Zicheng and Song Xiance arrived at Dongming Town.

However, what Li Zicheng didn't expect was that Dongming Town was bigger and more lively than Liulou Town.

Passing through a tall three-story archway, Li Zicheng saw rows of shops crowded on both sides of the crossroads. The shop signs float like a cloud on the street, constantly fluttering with the early summer breeze. Horse-drawn carriages laden with goods shuttled back and forth on the concrete road, and all of them drove on the right, lively and orderly.

Wealthy peasant women wore cotton clothes dyed in various colors to buy things on the road. From time to time, children frolicked on the road, all of them with ruddy and healthy faces, and they were obviously eating well.

There is a school in the town, which is written in block letters "Dongmingji Primary School", which occupies a large area. The roads of the town are patrolled back and forth by "policemen" in black uniforms, and those policemen have short guns pinned to their waists, which are very powerful.

Li Zicheng stood at the gate of the town market and looked at it for a long time, shook his head, and then believed that the people of Shandong were so rich, and any small township had such prosperity.

The four of them were really tired of walking, so they walked into a luxuriously decorated restaurant to rest. As soon as the four of them sat down at the table, one of them served four bowls of tea with quick hands and feet.

Song Xiance took a sip and scolded: "Delusion, this tea that doesn't cost money is actually a good oolong tea." ”

Li Zicheng shook his head, already a little speechless about what he had seen along the way. Shandong's prosperity and prosperity and the well-off people have surpassed Li Zicheng's imagination.

Li Zicheng took a sip of tea and walked into the toilet of the restaurant. The two guards did not dare to slack off, and quickly followed, guarding the door of the toilet.

However, as soon as Li Zicheng walked into the toilet, he was dumbfounded.

Unlike all the toilets Li Zicheng has seen in his life, the toilet in the restaurant is not dirty at all. Entering the door is a large sink with a large glass mirror on it. The toilet is equipped with a transparent glass window at the top of the room, which is located very high, so that people outside cannot see the privacy in the toilet.

The walls and floors were covered with white tiles, like ivory, which made Li Zicheng a little disgusted with the dirty uppers of his shoes.

There is a flush toilet in the innermost part of the toilet, which is also ivory and cleaned. Of course, in Li Zicheng's eyes, this is a strange round pier, I don't know what it is for.

Li Zicheng looked around the toilet, but he really didn't know where to pee, so he reluctantly walked out of the toilet door.

"Little Er, you're coming!"

The little second was a little surprised when he saw the two big men standing at the door of the toilet and turned on the wind, but he still walked over. When he entered the toilet, Xiao Er heard Li Zicheng ask with some annoyance: "How do you use this toilet?" ”

Li Zicheng deliberately changed his Henan accent to speak, so that people could not hear that he was from Shaanxi.

The little two laughed and said, "You merchants are from Henan, right?" ”

Xiao Er lifted the iron lid on the flush toilet and said, "Merchant, urinate in this." ”

Then Xiao Er pressed the iron button on the toilet bowl, drained the water in the pool with a bang, and said, "After urinating, press here to flush the water." ”

Then the little two turned on the faucet above the sink again, and said with a smile: "Merchant, wash your hands here after using the toilet." ”

The well water gurgling from the tap made Li Zicheng stunned.

The two guards beside Li Zicheng were even more startled, and leaned towards Li Zicheng's side suddenly, as if they felt that things were too strange and wanted to protect Li Zicheng.