Chapter 280: Street Vignette
Yang Yi 'recuperated' in his own grange for ten days before returning to the city.
Ming'er's complexion looks so good, the ruddy skin on her face seems to be able to pinch out the water, and the flowers still need to be watered often!
Lin Miao was just the opposite, and his spirit was a little sluggish; The small courtyard in Zhuangzi is not big, and the sound insulation effect of the wooden structure house is not very good, and she is almost awake from the sound of Ming'er's singing every night.
It was useless to plug her ears and recite the mantra, and the more she didn't want to hear it, the more the wild cat-like cry drilled into her ears, making her impetuous, and her body like an ant; In the middle of the night, others slept beautifully, but she didn't feel sleepy at all...... On the surface, she naturally doesn't have a good face for Yang Daguanren, the initiator, but when she secretly looks at him behind her back, she sometimes blushes and her heart beats...... The boat slowly entered the capital, hundreds of boats competed on the water, the hustle and bustle on both sides of the strait came to the face, the sorghum houses rose in the clouds, and the fragrant cars and BMWs were clustered in front of and back, Yang Yi felt like he had returned to the world from a paradise.
He asked Qingniang and the others to go home first, and went to Mochou Nunnery to visit Princess Kang, who was much more emotional, and the group of palace maids sent by Liu Qingjing still followed her inch by inch; Yang Yi didn't stay long in Mochou Nunnery, he didn't know what to say to the eldest princess of Kang Guo, and left with a cup of tea.
A tall stage has been erected by the Huimin River, the imperial examination of the imperial court has just ended, and the folk Oiran Contest is about to start again, no matter how many joys and sorrows there are for individuals, time always passes at a fixed speed, and the disturbance in the city of Tokyo seems to never change.
Yang Yi walked alone, passing by Pig Killing Alley, eating two meatloaf at Sun's meatloaf shop, and walking aimlessly on the street, passing by an alley full of apricot blossoms, a leather ball flew out of a courtyard wall and smashed on his back just now.
He had just picked up the ball when the backyard door creaked open, and a green skirt floated out of the door, bringing out a faint fragrance.
"Little lady, your ball smashed me, and you have to pay me for my medical expenses...... Belch! It's you ......."
Yang Daguan was about to knock back the bamboo shoulder casually, but found that the beauty that came out was actually Thirteen Niang's best best friend Wei Jing, she was wearing a green Luo skirt on her lower body, and a purple narrow-sleeved jacket on her upper body.
Yang Daguan handed the ball over in embarrassment, Wei Jing snorted, and her smile bloomed like a flower, beauty is beautiful, but the knife mouth made Yang Daguan almost run away.
I saw her say naughtily: "It's terrible, brother-in-law, let me see, where is the smash?" Brother-in-law, don't worry, I'll send the medical expenses to Thirteen Niang later! ”
"Don't, don't, I was just joking, don't talk about this matter."
Wei Jing, the pretty girl, obviously didn't plan to let him go so easily, she said with a smile on her face: "Then what's the matter, I smashed my brother-in-law, if I just forget it, Thirteen Niang will take my life, by the way, brother-in-law, how much do you want for medical expenses?" I can't afford to pay for too many words, so I can only make a promise. ”
No, he was so ridiculous, Yang Daguan was very hurt, really hurt.
He was about to fight back, when two pretty red faces poked out of the back door, and he laughed and said, "Who does Erniang want to promise to her?" Hee-hee...... Erniangchun's heart was moved, no wonder she started embroidering mandarin duck pillows......"
"You two stinky girls, what are you talking about? See that I don't tear your foul mouths. ”
Wei Jing teased Yang Yi for not changing his face, but after the sisters heard this, they were so ashamed that they couldn't do it, and with a twist of their waist, they ran into the door, and there was a burst of cheerful noise in the courtyard.
Yang Yi took the opportunity to put the ball to the side of the goal and hurriedly slipped away.
As soon as he ran out of the alley, he heard a rapid sound of bells, and saw a car and boat rushing down the slope quickly, and the people in the street avoided it, and the merchant on the car and boat waved his whip and whipped the donkey tied to the back of the car, hoping that it would go backwards, so as to slow down the speed of the car and boat.
As a result, as soon as the scammer tied to the back struggled, the rope broke, and the car and ship no longer "braked", and rushed down the slope with a hula la.
Suddenly there was a lot of chickens and dogs jumping down the slope, screaming and scolding, Yang Yi rushed out, grabbed the rope of the donkey in front of the car and boat, and strangled the donkey hard.
A traffic accident subsided, and there was a burst of cheers in the street, and the vendors with carts, the farmers selling vegetables, and the citizens loitering around filled the middle of the street again.
The city of Tokyo is uneven and the streets are narrow, and this kind of traffic accident is not uncommon for many people. Different from the overall plan of Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty, the city of Tokyo in the Great Song Dynasty was expanded on the basis of the Later Zhou Dynasty; After the Great Song Dynasty unified the whole country, Gao Jichong of Jingnan, Zhou Baoquan of Hunan, Li Yu of the Southern Tang Dynasty, Liu of the Southern Han Dynasty, Qian Yu of Wu Yue, and Meng Chang of Xishu resigned from the palace and came to the new dynasty.
They brought their concubines and young children, and their families migrated, and Tokyo was booming for a while.
In addition, Zhao Boss persuaded senior generals to buy fields and build houses, and to live for a long time, and it became a fashion to have a wide area of grandeur, and the capital in the political and economic center was the first choice for residential construction.
Take this kind of residence in Tokyo as an example: Li Zunmiao Mansion in the north of Jinglongmen during the period of Dazhong Xiangfu, there are more than 100 acres of land in the east of his house alone, and it is sparse as a pool, and the hall is constructed to divert water, and the different stones and precious trees are crowned in the capital.
Of course, not only others, the Yang family's mansion is nearly 100 acres wide, and it takes half a day to walk from the front door to the back door, and you will get lost if you are not careful.
From such examples, it is not difficult to imagine the congestion of urban space, which is not enough in the city. "The first star is more than the house; There is no wide lane, and the city is not ridden. These words in "Huangji Fu" are not alarmist. The phenomenon of bureaucrats "encroaching on the streets" and "encroaching on the roads" is not uncommon.
In the fifth year of Xianping (1002), Zhenzong issued an edict ordering the right servant of the forbidden gate, Xie Dequan, to expand the roads in Tokyo and demolish the "noble mansions" built along the streets, but it attracted a lot of opposition.
Although this time we have also set up signs and erected them on both sides of the street, and we are not allowed to build them privately, it is still difficult to implement them.
Those who can build mansions in the capital are high-ranking officials and nobles, and unless you can abandon the ruling foundation on which you depend, it is impossible to fold their houses and expand the streets.
In addition, the city of Tokyo is lined with shops, which makes the traffic jam in Tokyo even worse, and the imperial court also ordered the street market to be changed to a fang market like the Tang Dynasty, but it died before this plan could be implemented.
Now the business of Tokyo citizens is under the back window of the Zhongshu Province, and when they are hungry at work, when the window roars, the takeaway can be directly delivered to the prime minister's desk.
Yang Yi didn't think there was anything wrong with this, every city has the characteristics of each city, there are always two sides to things in the world, the congested city of Tokyo has created unprecedented prosperity, and a poor family can barely feed the whole family by setting up a stall along the street, which is not a bad thing.
Yang Yi took a car and boat home, the shape of the car and boat is like a boat, the top of the grid is full of goods, with cattle or donkeys pulled along the street peddling, usually the back of the car and boat will be tied to one or two donkeys, when going downhill, use a whip to hit the back of the donkey to make it backwards, can play the role of 'brake'.
This form of brake is full of creativity and is very fun, Yang Yi sat on it, followed the merchant along the street all the way, during which he also helped people sell a lot of needles and threads, and he felt quite a sense of achievement.
On a whim, he tore away the noise and helped sell: "Look at it! Take a look! The big bowl of Jingzhou, the water tank of Yixing, the red dates of Jeju, the agate of the Western Regions, the mother-in-law of rice fat, the hero of Suide, the aphrodisiac of Liao, the treasure knife of great food, the maidservant of Goryeo, and the av ...... of Japan"
"Big officials, we don't have these!" The merchant heard the black line on his face and hurriedly stopped it.
"You stupid! If you don't call it that, can you attract customers? As soon as someone asks, you say that it is sold out, and then recommend other things to him, in the art of war, this is called avoiding the real and the false, and the sound is attacking the west, you tick, understand? ”
"I don't understand."
"Let me tell you this, the monkey who also sells dog skin plasters, there is an abyss in this......" Yang Daguan was bragging about his marketing concept, and a carriage next to him suddenly stopped; Immediately, the curtain of the car was lifted, and Yang Daguan's eyes suddenly widened, and the cowhide in his mouth stopped abruptly.
In the car, the old father-in-law Su Song had a straight face, his beard trembled with anger, and his mother-in-law Mo Shi covered her mouth with a handkerchief, feeling like she was snickering.
"Ah...... Which one...... Father-in-law, mother-in-law, what are you...... Belch...... I'm just hitchhiking, what's that...... I didn't help sell it just now, don't ...... Don't get me wrong......"
This is clearly three hundred taels of silver here, and Ah San has not stolen it! It's okay if you don't explain, Su Song stammered after listening to his explanation, and he was even more angry, and scolded angrily: "Bastard thing, don't you get down quickly, look at your ghostly appearance, you are not afraid of being embarrassed, the old man still wants to see people." ”
Yang Daguan explained while climbing and jumping off the car and boat: "Father-in-law is angry, isn't the son-in-law sick?" I was a little dizzy halfway through, but fortunately, this merchant brother was enthusiastic and gave me a ride, this ......"
"Are you sick? You screamed so loudly just now, are you sick? Okay, okay, the old man wants to see if you are really sick or fake, you honestly follow me behind the car, ah letter, give me the car and hurry up. ”
The angry Su Song stretched out his hand, the curtain fell, and the carriage started immediately, galloping towards the Ming Palace.
The merchant on the car and ship shouted in the back: "Guest officer! Sir! You haven't finished talking about why the monkey also sells dog skin plasters......"
Yang Yi was following closely behind Su Song's car, but fortunately, Tokyo City supported it, and the carriage was not very fast, and he could barely keep up with his strength.
Hearing the merchant's cry, he almost fell, and really wanted to turn back and beat the unknown fellow to death; I don't look at what time it is, I can't figure out if I'm going to have a dog skin plaster waiting for me, woohoo! The monkey is sent this time!
(To be continued)