Chapter 19 It feels good to eat meat, it's been a long time since I've had it
"Hey, this is a hassle to boil water." , Touching the cold water, Li Chen gritted his teeth, lifted the basin of water, and poured it on his head, "I'm freezing to death." drenched in cold water, Li Chen hurriedly took a dry cloth to dry his body and put on clothes.
In the blink of an eye, Li Chen is now November. The weather is getting colder and colder. Li Chen came back from exercise every morning, sweating, and always got a basin of water to rinse it, but the weather was cold, and he had to boil hot water, which was also troublesome. Li Chen boiled water a few times ago, but Li Chen was lazy a few times. Rinse simply with cold water. Although it was very cold, Li Chen knew that cold water was good for his body, so he gritted his teeth and endured it.
"Thirteen Lang, aren't you cold like this?" , when Li Fan came, he saw Li Chen rubbing his body violently with a dry cloth, and wondered. "It's not cold, rubbing it like this, the body will heat up, and it's good for the body." Of course, this is the theory that Li Chen brought from the 21st century. It is said that Wang Yongqing, the founder of Formosa Plastics, rubs his body like this every day to stimulate the body's immunity, which is good for the body.
"Thirteen Lang, what are you looking for me?" , Fan didn't ask much, and the purpose of asking was actually Li Chen's way of looking for him."
"I say, is little novice free today?" Li 13 will take you down the mountain and go to the town for a walk." , Li Chen said in a tone that the big gray lang abducted Little Red Riding Hood. But don't get me wrong, Li Chen is not a strange lady, if you attack a child, I am afraid that the author of this book will be the first to kill him. It's just that if you want to say that he has good intentions, that's a bit of a hanging.
"Down the mountain? No, I can't.'" If he refuses, the abbot will not agree. The poor road is not yet enough to descend the mountain.'" "It's okay, I'll talk to the abbot. I can't go down the mountain casually, because I'm afraid that someone will run away because of the inappropriate monk."
"And we don't go down the mountain to play, winter is coming, we have to make winter clothes for the monks in the temple, you are the youngest, I have to measure it for you." , Hearing that there was something serious to do and he could go down the mountain, Lifan immediately agreed.
Li Chen had breakfast, and as usual, he had to prepare lunch with the monks who had to cook in the hall, and then he went back to the room, took out a pocket, and then went to the foot of the bed, reached out and took out something, he took out a big bag, and reached out to take out a large handful of coins from it.
Li Chen complained again, the Tang Dynasty was inconvenient, and he had to bring a lot of coins wherever he went. Otherwise, you won't have to buy anything. It's so inconvenient.
"Huhu, I'm going to have a good time today." , Li Chen stuffed the front into the money bag, and stuffed the big mouth back to the foot of the bed. The money was his monthly income, not his own embezzlement. He kicked the money today, and he wanted to go down the mountain and have a good time.
After changing his clothes, Li Chen felt in front of the mountain gate. In front of the mountain gate, an ox cart was parked, and it was covered with cloth, which was to be brought to the town, and then the tailor of the town was asked to make winter clothes for each monk in the monastery. Li Fan was ready, and waved to Li Chen on the ox cart.
In addition to Li Chen and Lifan, there is also a monk who is also going to the town together. As soon as Li Chen arrived, the four of them immediately hit the road. This time I have to walk farther, so if I don't hurry up and get on the road, I'm afraid I won't be able to arrive in the evening.
"Thirteen Lang, let's tell me some stories I haven't heard." Lifan was on the ox cart, he was very excited at first, and he could go down the mountain again, but as soon as this excitement passed, he became bored, so he pestered Li Chen and asked Li Chen to tell some stories.
"And tell a story. Well, if a certain family has a story, they are not afraid of others listening to it. Today I'm going to tell you one, the story of the Ten Brothers.'" Speaking of which, Li Chen has no other skills, when he was a child in middle school, he read a lot of stories and novels, and he twisted them casually, which is a story that many Tang people have never heard.
"There is a god who descends to the mortal world to transform mortals. He wants to give a reward to those who are not greedy for winning people. He used his mana to turn a stone into gold. As a result, the man quickly accepted it. … The fairy was very happy, this little beggar was not greedy at all, although he was a beggar. So the gods asked, "What do you want if you don't want such a big piece of gold?" The little beggar said, "I want your fingers of gold."
"O Buddha, greed is not good, and many disputes in the world arise because of this." Lifan recited the Buddha's name very deeply, "You can't learn anything from your abbot." , Li Chen complained. "Thirteen Lang, the immortals are Taoists. If you keep telling the story of the family, the abbot will be angry." "I just heard it very high, and you didn't say it earlier." , Li Chen knocked Fan on the head.
In this way, after walking for a long time, I borrowed some water from them in the house, and ate the food I had brought from the dining hall for lunch. Finally arrived in the town.
As mentioned earlier, this town was originally used as a temporary granary and a town for hoarding building materials when Changshou Temple was built. In fact, it is only a few tens of kilometers away. But the ox cart is slow, and one ox cart can carry about 400 kilograms. The weight of five or six stones. But the speed was outrageously slow.
"Why don't you keep a horse, you can walk faster than him." "Horses are not easy to raise. Cattle are easy to raise.'" , The monk who led the ox cart, Wukong, had to answer as a matter of course.
The horsepower is high, there are many things that can be pulled, and the speed is also fast. But horses are more delicate and difficult to raise. Unlike cattle, light grass and fields can be eaten, and grains can also be eaten, otherwise the rice stalks will be gone, and it will not be delicious. So the farmer naturally raised cattle.
The most important thing is that horses are in China, but they are valuable strategic materials, raising horses... If one day you are favored by others and recruited, you will be empty of horses and money.
In Chinese history, there have been repeated hopes or demands for a policy of private horse breeding, and if horses were as easy to raise as some time-traveling novels are written, there would not have been such a policy.
"Yay!" When he finally arrived in town, he was so happy that he looked around. Li Chen felt bored, in this town, there was nothing, only a wine shop that sold wine.
Some people ask, isn't there a kind of liquor that specializes in the skin and meat business? Of course, there are also gains. This town is not small, but it is located on the main traffic road, close to the Danjiang River. The water and land transportation is convenient, otherwise it would not have chosen this place as a temporary grain storage place.
Therefore, to be the only important place for transportation, all kinds of people and so on, how can there be no restaurant in the leather and meat business. It's just that you don't see it easily. After all, people come and go here, and many people come for the incense.
In addition, the prostitutes in the Tang Dynasty were not as everyone imagined, just on the lively streets, with red lights hanging at the door, and the brothels of several floors were as bright as day as soon as it was dark. There will also be turtle slaves soliciting customers at the door, women dressed in fancy clothes, waving champas at the door, and beckoning guests to enter.
So you think that Li Chen and they will see a brothel when they walk along the road, which is impossible. Mainly, Li Chen's goal today is not this.
The ox cart enters the town, and Ruo, who is familiar with the ox cart, walks to a tailor's shop. "Doctor, where are your shopkeepers?" , Goku took the lead and walked into the tailor's shop. "What is the matter with this master, who is looking for our shopkeeper?"
"New to you?" "I'll ask your shopkeeper to make clothes." Master Wukong, please sit inside, and the servant will go to the shopkeeper." At this time, a man dressed as a guy walked out, saw Wukong, and immediately walked over and asked Wukong, Li Chen, and Lifan to go in and serve tea.
"Wukong, this shop, you often come to it?" "Yes, the clothes in the temple are all made by this tailor's shop." The two walked into the inner room, followed them impatiently, and then looked casually outside. The guy served tea, naturally it would not be a good tea, but he also followed Lu Yu's tea scripture, that is, the time when Wuming brewed, without adding some strange condiments, it was still acceptable.
After a while, the shopkeeper came out, "Master Wukong, I'm here to take care of our business again." , Wukong is very familiar with this shopkeeper, and he is not polite, he negotiated the delivery time and quantity with the shopkeeper, and called Fan in, and asked the store guy to measure the size of Fande.
"Where are we staying at night?" I won't rush back overnight." Li Chen asked Wukong, "That's not going to happen, we'll stay here at night." The shopkeeper will ask the shopkeeper to move a house for us to live in." , After knowing where to stay at night, at that moment, Li Chen pulled Fan out, "Wukong, I took Fan out for a walk."
"Thirteen Lang, where are we going?" , Li Fan was very excited when he first came, and now that Li Chen wants to take him to the town, he is a little overwhelmed.
"Just come along." , Li Chenshen mysteriously took Fan to a shop. The Tang Dynasty basically followed the Lifang system. However, that was Chang'an. In a town like this, there is no special planning for such a new market.
I saw that this shop had a pole in front of it, and it set up a flag move. This made Li Chen feel very cordial. Basically, the style of this flag has not changed, and it is still the same after a thousand years.
The shop is not big, but it has two floors. This is the usual appearance of the shops in the Tang Dynasty, and some of them live in the front store. Do business in the front, and live in the back. This two-story building is similar, except that there are people living upstairs, and there is a yard downstairs, where the production work is usually carried out.
There was a curtain hanging at the door of the shop, Li Chen took Fan to push the curtain in, found a table and sat down, "Thirteen Lang, where is this?" "You haven't been here?" "Nope." Lifan shook his head blankly, "You'll know in a while." , Li Chen pretended to be mysterious.
"This Langjun, what do you want?" Soon, a guy came over to say hello. "Doctor, first bring me a pound of sake, two pounds of mutton, and give this little novice a little snack to eat." , sake, not any kind of sake in Japan, but filtered sake.
"Haole, come right away." , the Doctor (Primary 2) answered, "Ten... Thirteen Lang, you bring me to the wine shop.'" Lifan was shocked, "Why, come here." The abbot didn't forbid you not to come to the restaurant. Anyway, if you don't drink it.'" "But... But... Thou shalt not have come, and thou hast eaten meat.'"
"I'm not a novice, why can't I come, I can't eat meat." Li Chen disagreed, since he got his monthly salary, he had been yearning to come to the town for too long. If it hadn't been a little farther, he would have rushed over a long time ago.
"Hmm~~, oh my God, it's been a long time since I've eaten a plate of meat." When the doctor delivered the meat, Li Chen was so drunk that he bit a piece of meat, and said dizzily, he was so happy.