Chapter 979: The Lord is here

Mu San gets up very early every day, and the place he rents is quite remote, and it takes half an hour to buy some vegetables and meat. However, since half a year ago, meat has not been available in Chang'an City, and as for vegetables, they can be bought, but the price of a Chinese cabbage is enough to be staggering.

If it were another city and trapped for several years, I am afraid that the city would have already begun to eat people. Chang'an City is big enough, with a radius of 100 miles, and you can always find a place to grow some grain and vegetables. It's not funny to say at all, scenes that you would never see in the past are happening naturally in Chang'an City.

For example, a person who has a vegetable field in Chang'an City will hire more than a dozen bodyguards with good skills. And the cost of these bodyguards is not too high, as long as they are full every day. If it weren't for the fact that the army in Chang'an City could still ensure law and order, the bodyguard would not have killed the employer and took the vegetable garden for himself.

Because there is more than one granary in Chang'an City, the supply of grain is not too stretched. No matter who is in power in the court, as long as there is no stupidity at this time, he will not do stupid things such as not giving food to the common people as long as he is not stupid - forced to the extreme. The enemy outside has the unparalleled high wall of Chang'an City to block the entrance, if the people in the city are annoyed, the enemy outside is estimated to be happy.

The granaries in Chang'an City have always been abundant, even if the number of people in the city is so large, the two granaries in the city plus the official warehouses of the household department add up, which is enough for the people to eat every day for twenty or thirty years.

However, the abundance of food only dispelled some people's panic, and did not allow the people to live as quietly and steadily as before. After all, there are almost cries of siege outside the city every day, and people who are casual on the surface will occasionally be afraid of the destruction of the city in fantasy.

Kizo hadn't eaten out since a long, long time ago, and to be honest, he didn't know if he had any companions by his side now. Every day he would hope that someone would suddenly come out of nowhere and tell him that he was here to pick him up, thinking like this day after day, so that he was mentally a little abnormal now.

He walked down the street and always looked around the corner to see if anyone had left a mark. In the past, what he was most afraid of was traveling at night, but now he is used to wandering the streets like a ghost every night, and he has been able to accurately avoid the officers and soldiers patrolling the streets, and even bored to count the differences in the number of officers and soldiers in each team.

He thought that someone would appear in the dark night and grab him and say a secret word to him.

pity

It's been two years.

Nothing.

He lived such a plain but oppressive life, and he didn't even dare to look in the mirror, because he knew that his aging speed in the past two years must be terrifying. He doesn't go out to eat because he knows that his voice and walking posture will attract the attention of others sooner or later, and he doesn't dare to let people get familiar with him.

He was now able to cook a bowl of noodle soup deliciously, and sometimes he even wondered if one day when he was running out of money, he would go out and set up a food stall on the street, and the business would be good.

When a person has been alone for a long time, the mind is the only companion.

When he was lying in bed, he would construct stories in his head. Sometimes when he thinks of a particularly wonderful plot, he will laugh and even cry. Every boring day and night, all he didn't dare to do was stare at the ground, he was afraid that the ground would suddenly crack open a big hole and swallow himself in.

He had thought more than once that it might be a relief for someone to catch him.

He would look at the sky and giggle, look at the birds in the trees, and giggle at the insects on the walls.

Every morning when he woke up, he would giggle.

And then say to yourself, I'm not driven crazy yet, it's good.

He was almost out of 100 noodles, and he had to go out and buy some. He hadn't been to the place where the government distributed grain to pick it up, and he didn't dare. Fortunately, the silver given to him by Fang Xie was abundant enough, and the silver tickets could be exchanged in Chang'an City, but he had to go to a money village with the backing of the government, and the silver tickets of one thousand taels of silver were only cashed out for four hundred taels of silver.

He still didn't dare to go, he only dared to take the jewelry to the pawnshop pawn. A while ago, he took an East Pearl worth 10,000 gold in the Taiping Period and exchanged it for 1,200 taels of silver in the pawnshop, which was already a sky-high price. At that time, the pawnshop owner looked at him wrongly, and he must have suspected that he had stolen it. So Mu San didn't stay for even a second, and left quickly after carrying the silver on his back.

If he wasn't clever enough, he would have been killed by the pawnshop man on the way back.

Every time he pawned, he didn't dare to go to the same shop, and even didn't hesitate to pawn on the other side of the city as a carriage through the city. Even if he buys noodles and oil, he won't be in a nearby shop.

When he woke up in the morning, the star that had fallen last in the west and was the brightest in the dawn was still there, Mu San got up, cleaned himself up quickly, washed up and punched in the yard. He fought in a haphazard manner, and he didn't seem to have much power. This punch was figured out by himself, he knew it didn't work, but he forced himself to practice every day, and he had to run around the yard for half an hour, he had to make himself able to run at any time, and he had to run fast, so he needed a good body.

When he went out, it had just dawned, and Mu San wanted to travel while there was no one. In the past two years, he has felt more and more that his body is very troublesome, if someone looks at him carefully, he can see his flaws.

He is no longer the little eunuch who talked to Lord Xiao Fang for the first time when he was looking for a way for himself in the Taiji Palace, he is almost twenty years old. At this age, he should have had a beard and an Adam's apple, but he didn't. He didn't even have coarse pores on his smooth chin, and no one believed him when he lied to people.

Only people can be avoided.

Try not to see anyone.

He doesn't need a map, although Chang'an City is very large, but he has traveled too many places in the past two years, and he has a map of Chang'an City in his mind.

The price of the carriage through the city is already ten times that of the original, and there are not many people who can afford it. But the people who drove the car did not dare to reduce the price, because the silver now is far less than the silver of a few years ago. In the past, a tael of silver could order a table of noodles in the best restaurant, but now a tael of silver is only enough for his mule to eat a few full meals.

People are listless, and so are mules.

Mu San handed over the silver and got into the car, said an address and squinted his eyes to sleep. The carriage moved slowly, and he was not in a hurry, so he did not rush.

After a full hour, Kisan opened his eyes. Calculating the time, it has reached the East 23rd Street. The carriage really stopped, almost at the same time as Mu San's eyes.

He is used to coming here every day to see if there is a catch, and if it is not for the sake of buying rice and noodles, he will not take the carriage. Because he carried a bag of silver, the security in Chang'an City was now only controlled by the military to the point that there would be no riots. As for the hour of robbery on the street, Chang'an Mansion, which has long been unable to pay money, will not take care of it, and the people in the military are even more lazy to take care of it.

He was actually prepared when he got out of the car, and he didn't get anything today.

However, he was wrong.

At the door of the shop in East 23, there is an extra stall selling snacks today. That's two couples, it seems that the man is honest and honest, and the woman is a little profitable but kind.

When Mu San saw the man smiling at him as if he were nothing, he suddenly wanted to cry.

I want to cry very much.

……

……

"I thought I was starting to stink."

Mu San sat down and asked for a basket of steamed buns.

"Not a bowl of hot noodle soup?"

The boss asked.

Mu San shook his head: "Don't say eating noodles, now I want to vomit even when I mention the word noodles." In the past two years, I have eaten all the noodles that other people have eaten all their lives, sometimes they are cooked and eaten without oil and salt, and sometimes I can't help but think that maybe eating will taste better than eating noodles like that. ”

The vendor owner smiled: "I don't need you to say it, I know how you live every day." Just because you can't see it doesn't mean you don't, and you've never had fewer people around you in the past two years. I can tell you that you feel that the life you have lived in the past two years is worse than death, so those who have protected you in the shadows for two years have worked much harder than you. ”

Mu Sanyi was stunned, he really didn't expect that he had been protected by someone in the past two years.

"At least you still have noodles to eat."

The boss sighed very lightly: "But what about my brothers...... Do you know what one of my brothers said about you, he said that when he saw the way you were so nervous every day, he wanted to go down and slap you seventeen or eighteen. ”

"If he comes to slap me, I'll thank him......"

Mu San sent a bun to his mouth, and found that it was only a piece of meat the size of a finger.

"You're getting worse and worse in this business."

He said.

"Phew"

The boss took a sip: "You go to eat at other houses, my meat filling is twice the size of other people's houses, and I receive the same amount of silver." ”

"How much does a steamed bun like this cost now?"

Mu San asked.

"Three taels of silver"

The boss was a little dissatisfied: "There are fewer and fewer people who can afford to eat, even the middle families in the past are already poor now, and if it weren't for the government's fixed amount of food, I don't know how many people would have starved to death." A few days ago, I saw a businessman who used to be well-known in Chang'an City, lined up with the people to receive food, and it is said that his previous house has been sold. ”

"Sometimes this fate is unimaginable, those who do big business can't go out of the city and don't do business, but we do this small business, and live better."

Mu San sighed: "You appeared in front of me, it wasn't just to get a little bit of a nourishing life." ”

"There is a key in the cage drawer in front of you, which is the shop behind me, digging under the second floor tile at the door, there are a lot of silver tickets, although now Chang'an City goes to the money village to cash out more than half of the discount, but it is no problem to get out tens of thousands of taels of silver, I will arrange for someone to go with you, go a few more money to exchange. Then go to the rich man's house to collect jewelry......"

"Doing business?"

Mu San couldn't help but ask: "I've been waiting for this for a long time, is this what I've been waiting for?" ”

"Why haven't you calmed down yet?"

The boss gave him a blank look: "From tomorrow onwards, you will be the envoy of the Black Flag Army in Chang'an City." You don't need to bring gifts to the houses of the courtiers, they wish they would treat you well. But when you go to the forbidden army or other armies to meet the powerful generals, you still have to bring some gifts. ”

Mu San's eyes lit up: "The lord is here?" ”

The boss smiled: "It's here, and now it's been hit to Gyeonggi Province." Gao Kaitai's soldiers can't stop the lord's hero, and it won't be long before the lord will be in the city. How much credit you have at that time depends on your performance during this period. ”

The boss sat down and ate with Mu San.

"You've eaten it all yourself, what else are you selling?"

Mu San asked.

"Sell a fart!"

The boss stretched his body and looked back at his wife: "Let's go to the ready-to-wear store to buy a few good clothes to wear in a while, and the two of us will be your personal guards in the future." You don't have to hide your eyes to meet those people, the big guys don't dare to expose you. Just dodge the ironclad people...... After so many years, I finally boiled it out, you want to vomit when you smell the noodle soup, why don't I cook the noodles until I want to vomit? ”