Zhao Xing raised his hand slightly and made a stretching motion on the horse. He was tall and rode on a rare tall horse, and although his movements were natural, he still attracted the attention of certain idlers.

"What a tall horse," shouted an idler.

This shout seemed to be a switch, and several of the Japanese people present immediately turned on the faucet of language, and they shouted one after another, recalling their own experience of eating this kind of Jiao, and some people talked about their old father who ate this kind of Jiao and lived to be 92 years old, and his teeth were sound.

The group of Japanese people kept shouting around the wooden box, as if they had eaten it before, or had heard that people had eaten this extra-long congray eel, and their figures blocked the view of others, and the men hurriedly carried the box to the store.

The audience was still stunned, and out of nowhere, a group of feudal clansmen, some of them dressed in Goryeo costumes, some of them dressed in the costumes of the natives of the South China Sea region, shouted that they would also participate in the sea monster feast. The group of people also squeezed into the store in the footsteps of the man carrying the box, leaving a group of stunned spectators.

It took a long time for the audience to come back to their senses. An old voice seemed to say to his companions: "Do you hear, this is not me, the great-great-grandfather of the Japanese people once ate this kind of Jiao in the Tang Dynasty, and his teeth will not fall out at the age of 92." ”

A man who looked like a petty official also touched his short beard and echoed: "Yes, I work in the Imperial Court, and I know that Japanese man, who is a big businessman in the Nagato of the Japanese Kingdom, and his family is rich...... This shows that after eating this kind of thing, there is no disaster or disease...... If you don't lose your teeth at the age of 92, you may have the effect of prolonging life......"

This speech caused a chorus of approval, and the noise in front of the music building became louder. And when everyone's eyes turned to Hele Lou again, Zhao Xing urged him to step off the horse and leave quietly without attracting attention.

Return to the yard where he rented. The servants were carrying Ma Mengde's luggage endlessly, and Cheng Azhu was standing on the steps of the main room, and there were two waiting girls standing next to her. Chen Yiyi held the account book in one hand and a brush in the other. Those shipments are being counted.

There was also a group of widows standing along the wall. They all carried large luggage and watched the sturdy servants running back and forth in the courtyard.

Behind this pile of widows were five veiled orchids. That is, Arab slave girls, who also have large bags of luggage at their feet, but looking at the luggage, it seems that they are all kinds of musical instruments. This group of people was taller than the Japanese women, and they seemed unwilling to have more dealings with the Japanese women, so they stood far away, putting on a cold look that rejected people thousands of miles away.

Ma Mengde led Zhao Xing to the group of widows first, and he smiled awkwardly. Before he could speak, Zhao Xing preemptively introduced himself: "I am the master here." Nagato Fuji told you, I will take care of your life in the capital......"

As soon as Zhao Xing finished his introduction, the group of widows hurriedly turned their faces to the wall, and their bodies were tightly pressed against the wall. Long. Only then did a widow ask in a whisper: "Is it the Nagato Palace?" ”

The widow turned her face away from the wall. Refusing to show the slightest face to Zhao Xing - this is not an offense, but a kind of Japanese etiquette. Japanese customs think. A woman should show her husband or master the happiest countenance, the most neat dress, and the fullest spirit...... In short, show the most beautiful side of yourself to the man you serve.

These widows have traveled a long distance and are disheveled, and their current appearance can be said to be the most embarrassing time, and when they come to a new place and meet the new master, it should be carried out ceremoniously after they bathe and change their clothes, so they take an evasive attitude towards this unexpected encounter, and stick their faces to the wall, because they are afraid that Zhao Xing will see their embarrassed faces.

Zhao Xing knew their rules, he took a few steps back, turned around and shouted, "I turned my face." ”

Behind him, the widows still pressed their faces against the wall, motionless.

Zhao Xing's eyes searched the crowd, and he saw Li Ying standing at the door from a distance, he beckoned Li Ying to come over, and ordered: "Go and invite Liao Xiaoxiao to come over, just say that I have a group of women here, and I hope she will teach makeup." ”

Cheng Shuang shook his head, he didn't seem to be satisfied with the image of the eagle, he raised his leg to go with Li Ying, Ma Mengde hurriedly stopped: "Don't, he went to Goolan Washe, this kind of local petty officials are not suitable for entering and leaving, it's better for him to go up and down." ”

Chen Yiyi pouted, ran over with a pen in her hand, she looked at the group of widows lying on the wall with a critical gaze, asked Zhao Xing a few words in a low voice, and immediately raised her throat and shouted: "Hey, a few of you, your man's face is gone, now listen: go with my maid, hurry up and wash it." ”

Zhao Xing added after Chen Yiyi's words: "Invite a few tailors to come, make a few clothes for them, and look at their clothes...... They also have to buy silk materials, and there are several boxes of four-color silk and colored satin in the house, and each of them will be given a horse. Tell them that the kind of Tang makeup they wear is too terrifying, and their faces are painted white like ghosts, and I will immediately ask the most famous leader of Jingshi to teach them to wear Song makeup, and don't let them do it themselves. ”

The Japanese girls left, and the five Arab slave girls stood there motionless, Zhao Xing walked up to them and shouted a few words of Arabic that no one could understand, and the female slaves immediately knelt on the ground and saluted Zhao Xing.

The Arabian slave girl salute was a bit strange to the Song people, they did not bow their heads to the ground, but knelt on their legs, their faces were facing upwards and backwards, and they deliberately raised their breasts and posed as if they were tasting the king, and they also seemed to deliberately show off the delicate figure. The pair of red nails dyed with impatiens also fluttered on the chest, intentionally or unintentionally, attracting people's eyes to ......

This posture was full of temptation, Chen Yiyi was angry, rushed over, lifted the brush and swiped it at the face of an Arab slave girl, the Arab slave girl twisted her waist, like the wind swinging willows, and like a water snake, she flexibly avoided Chen Yiyi's brush, and still knelt there, but there were a few more drops of ink on the veil.

Chen Yiyi missed, but he was not annoyed, and asked Zhao Xing with a pen: "Why don't they remove the veil?" What kind of weird etiquette is this? It's so annoying! ”

Zhao Xing smiled: "Here, I am the only one who is qualified to remove their veils, if you remove their veils, they will commit suicide." As for this ritual, this is the orchid ceremony, which is an Arab slave ceremony, which means that one's body belongs to the master and is waiting to be consecrated...... And the big eater man can't do this kind of ceremony. The "servant ceremony" performed by the big food men is no different from that of the Song people, they all kneel and kowtow to the ground, bowing their heads to the ground. ”

What Zhao Xing didn't explain was that this kind of etiquette was popular in Arab harems. It is the etiquette of the concubine to flatter the master.

Chen Yiyi kind of hated the coquettishness of these five orchids. With a wave of her hand, she ordered the orchids to be taken away. But Hu Ji ignored her greeting, and it wasn't until Zhao Xing also beckoned that they left with the female envoy who led the way. Behind them, Chen Yiyi bit the pen and asked, "After Liao Xingshou comes, do you want to teach them makeup...... I'd love to see how they take off their veils. ”

Zhao Xing shook his head, smiled and changed the topic: "Have you sent the pet cat and pet dog from the land, let them send it quickly." ”

"What. Cats and dogs, sent to the ...... early Are you sure orchids don't need makeup? …… That's it. I'm not interested in watching the widows make up", Chen Yiyi jumped over and began to count the boxes in the courtyard, and instructed them to be stored by category. In this era, we have to talk about **. No one can compare to the Arabs. In this era, they wrote a vast amount of Haitian harem literature. The "Book of Love", "** Treasure Book", etc., which specifically teach women how to please men, are all products of this era. With these professional educations, Arab women don't need to be taught how to wear makeup. But the Japanese women are different, the makeup skills they learned from the Jin Dynasty are terrifying.

When Liao Xiaoxiao arrived, the busyness in Zhao Xing's yard had come to an end, and a fifty or sixty-year-old bustard accompanied Liao Xiaoxiao, seeing Zhao Xing, Liao Xiaoxiao gave a reserved salute, and before he could speak, the old bustard had already waved a silk handkerchief and sang: "Zhao Daguan, your ground is really big, as soon as my little family heard that it was you who invited, he immediately pushed down all the singing remuneration and ran to you specially to ......"

Zhao Xing waved his hand, and Chen Yiyi handed over a bundle of silver coins. He threw it backhanded, threw the paper bundle into the old bustard's arms, and then said a few polite words to Liao Xiaoxiao, inviting her into the backyard: "It's a group of widows, my friend sent them to the Great Song Dynasty to see it, but their makeup is very scary, and the little girl bothered."

I couldn't follow up because they didn't have makeup and didn't dare to see me, so I asked the little girl to go by herself...... Well, the orchids brought some unique cosmetics, and if the little girl is interested, she can talk to them a few words. Among the orchids, the woman with a impatiens embroidered on her veil is named Kasli, who knows a little Song Chinese, and the little girl can ask her to translate if she has something. ”

Liao Xiaoxiao saw that the yard was busy, she didn't say anything, made a gesture, and followed the female envoy to the backyard. Taking advantage of this, the old bustard tore a corner of the bundle of paper in his hand and looked at the value of the bundle.

In the paper bundle is the "Wa Kingdom minted" ground half a tael of silver dollars, which is made of full snowflake silver, each weighing half a tael. Now the Bianliang Chengdi store very much recognizes this kind of "Japanese system" silver dollar, and does not fold the color and depreciate the weight at all. Fifty silver dollars were tied in a bundle, and the sheave was worth twenty-five taels of silver, or twenty-five pieces of copper.

It's a sky-high price.

The price of an emperor superstar in the Song Dynasty was about fifteen taels to twenty taels of silver in the Yuan Dynasty, and the first-line singer was capped at ten taels, and the second-tier singer was about five taels.

After the old bustard counted the money he earned, he glanced at Li Ying, who was watching from the sidelines. Zhao Xing knew what she meant, and added: "Brother Li, I'll give you another share!" ”

The old bustard was overjoyed. This means that the whole bundle of paper in her hand belongs to the bustard, and she is so happy that she gives her hand and thanks.

In the Song Dynasty, whether it was an official or private banquet or a banquet for the wealthy, some fan-headed kabuki had to be accompanied. If you want to be "popular" at any time, you must hook up with people who have a wide range of connections to the industry. These people are called "pimps" and "managers" in modern times, and "slices" in the Song Dynasty.

When the pink-headed kabuki appeared, the bustard's share of the money was called "tea money", and the "tour guide fee" from the "slices" was called "sedan chair money".

Originally, after the bustard got the money, he needed to share it with others, even if the "hands in the room" and "downstairs help" were not present, at least he had to share it with Li Ying, but Zhao Xing exempted the redistribution of the money in one sentence.

When the fan-headed kabuki appeared, the money received by the fantou was called "tang-tou", and this money was given separately, which was equivalent to the fan-headed kabuki's own "labor" bonus. For example, the South China Sea walking bead that Chen Yiniang got. is her "entanglement", because it is skin and flesh money, and the rest of the people covet it and have no share (only in the Song Dynasty), so the harvest of this bead allows her to "redeem herself".

Thinking of Chen Yiniang. Only then did Zhao Xing remember. Why did Chen Gongchuan unconsciously see the bird in the past few days, and he asked Chen Yiyi curiously: "Where has your brother gone?" Why didn't you see it? ”

Chen Yiyi pursed his lips, shook his head and replied: "Don't argue, I'm counting the boxes, you are arguing, I have to start all over again...... My brother went to Chen Yiniang. Yi Niang redeemed herself today, and her mother opened a sky-high price - 800 guan! ...... who are still pestering"

Zhao Xing opened his mouth, and wanted to ask Chen Yiyi, does his brother have enough money? But I saw that Chen Yiyi was very focused on calculating the number of boxes. He immediately walked up the steps.

On the steps stood Cheng Azhu. Cheng Azhu is illiterate, or she only knows a few simple words. She couldn't do the work of settling accounts, so Chen Yiyi had always helped the housekeeper, and in this regard, she didn't argue with Chen Yiyi, so she acquiesced to Chen Yiyi's existence.

At this time, Cheng Azhu's face was full of happy smiles. Zhao Xing walked over and took her hand. Cheng Azhu snuggled into Zhao Xing's arms, watching Chen Yiyi waving a brush in the courtyard to reprimand those servants.

Ma Mengde stood at the foot of the steps. also watched the servants busy with his hands behind his back, and waited for Cheng Xia to take the two students to ask Zhao Xing for placement, and then went back to the room to freshen up. The courtyard was quiet, and Chen Yiyi ran over, waving the ledger and communicating with Ma Mengde: "That's right, the numbers on the account are all right." ”

Zhao Xing stood on the steps and smiled, before he could speak, the group of Japanese people, Korean people, and Jiaozhi people who appeared in Hele Building just now...... There was also the little official who claimed to be in the courtyard, and each of them carried a large wooden barrel for bathing, chattering to Zhao Xing to congratulate him on the housewarming.

"Give each of them a gold coin", Zhao Xing instructed Chen Yiyi: "Well, Li Ying should give three gold coins!" ”

Chen Yiyi casually took out a paper bundle from his waist bag, quickly broke the paper bundle, and took out the gold coins to distribute to the people who brought the wooden barrels. Ma Meng opened his mouth to stop: "Wait, a gold coin is worth ten yuan, and a barrel of gold coins is only eight hundred wen, this money is ......."

Halfway through his words, Ma Mengde was suddenly stunned, he recalled the performance of the group of feudal people in front of Hele Building, and suddenly realized.

The feudal lords received the gold coins and evacuated the courtyard in the blink of an eye. The gate of the compound was closed, and several servants who were scheduled to guard the gate were given a wooden stick similar to a baseball bat, and began to patrol around under the leadership of the Xiao brothers. Ma Mengde arched his hand to Zhao Xing: "Dong Weng, should I go to visit Su Weng first?" ”

"Let's settle it", Zhao Xing replied: "The family teacher has entered the Tribute Academy, and the spring school will be opened immediately, Brother Ma will familiarize himself with this place in the past few days, and then the affairs of the Beijing Division, please." ”

"As it should be", Ma Mengde arched his hand, asked for a settlement, and then led the servant down to his own courtyard.

The so-called "placement" is a farewell ceremony in the Song Dynasty, similar to "good afternoon" and "good night" and other local etiquette, when saluting, the mouth should say "please settle", and then break up and say goodbye.

Zhao Xing's yard is very large, it is divided into front yard and back yard. The huge backyard is distributed along the small lake, and Ma Mengde lives in a small courtyard with a separate gate and a front and back yard, and the rest of the courtyard needs to go through a special inner courtyard gate to get to the front yard or the back yard.

The front yard is not small, and Zhao Xing's students and servants live in the front yard. In the backyard, Zhao Xing's cross-courtyard is the largest, the cross-courtyard where Su Dun and Chaoyun live is adjacent to him, Chen's father and son also have a separate courtyard, and Qin Guan occupies the lakeside elegant residence alone.

Chen Yiyi's brother and sister originally had their own separate courtyard, but Chen Yiyi never lived with her brother, she relied on the power of the housekeeper to occupy a room next to Zhao Xing for herself - nominally, she left the courtyard to her brother, so that she could live in it after Chen Yiniang ransomed. After the kabuki widows finished dressing up, the five orchids were first placed in Zhao Xing's courtyard, and then Chen Yiyi picked out three beautiful and quiet widows to serve as his female envoys. As the wife, the number of Cheng Azhu's female envoys can of course only be more than less, so Zhao Xing was too lazy to redistribute, and the remaining widows became Cheng Azhu's female envoys.

After the distribution, several widows dressed up, Yingying Yanyan knelt on the ground, and they simply thanked Zhao Xing for taking care of him: "Nagato Palace, everything the slave maid is in Tokyo, please." ”

Song women like to tie their hair and coil their hair into various buns, and the Japanese women do not have the habit of tying their hair, their hair is scattered, which is the modern "shawl hair". The clothes worn by the Japanese women in the Heian period were called "Fourteen Singles", which consisted of fourteen pieces of clothing. These fourteen clothes were also the quilts for them when they slept, and when they went to sleep, they all slept with their clothes and did not cover them.

Japanese women are very hardy animals, and Japanese aristocrats build houses not to keep out the cold in winter, but to escape the heat in summer. Zhao Xing once saw some women sweeping snow with bare legs in northern Japan. He was smacking his tongue at the endurance of Japanese women. At this moment, the weather in Bianliang City, Tokyo, is slightly cold, and these Japanese women are kneeling on the ground, their round and smooth calves exposed, and their calves are very white, which makes people think of the end of those legs......

There was no one else in the room, Zhao Xing, Cheng Azhu, Chen Yiyi only, Liao Xiaoxiao stood by the door, looking at his group of works with satisfaction, under the corridor were Zhao Xing's students, they freshened up, and waited to listen to Zhao Xing's words.

"Okay, I'll tell you the rules first, if you live in my house, you must abide by the rules of my house......"