Chapter Thirty-Six: Stealing Half a Day's Leisure
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In the morning, the sun had already hung high, and Geng Jingzhong got up from bed satisfied. If this is in the barracks, it will be just after dawn in the morning, and it will be up at five o'clock. Looking at the sun now, it is estimated that it is nine o'clock.
Huan Xi got up early, and when he got up, he saw that Geng Jingzhong was still sleeping soundly, and he also knew that he was tired outside, so he didn't wake him up.
"Master, get up! Chunzhu, hurry up and get some water to wash your master! Geng Jingzhong got dressed, and Han Xi just came in and instructed Chunzhudao. Behind him, a few maidservants carried several plates, all filled with some pastries. The time for breakfast had already passed, and Huan Xi specially went to prepare these pastries to prevent Geng Jingzhong from being hungry and having nothing to eat.
"Well, Yu Xi, what time is it?"
"When I first arrived at this time, I didn't make any noise when I saw that my grandfather was sleeping fragrantly, by the way, is my grandfather hungry, wash up and eat some snacks!"
Geng Jingzhong waved his hand, sat down and said to Huan Xi with a smile, "I'm not hungry yet, if I'm hungry, we'll go to the street and buy something to eat later." ”
"Are you going shopping?" Huan Xi's eyes widened, looking at Geng Jingzhong, listening to these words as if she was going to take her to the street with her.
"yes, not just me, but the two of us going together. It's boring enough for you to stay in the house all day, so I'll take you out for a good walk, and now hurry up and change your clothes, now it's not suitable for going on the street. Geng Jingzhong hung up his nose and smiled at him.
Huan Xi happily hugged Geng Jingzhong's arm and kissed him on the face: "Thank you, I'll go change my clothes." ”
After a while, Geng Jingzhong finished washing, and Huan Xi also changed his clothes and appeared in front of him. I saw that she had shaved shoulders and a thin waist, a long figure, a duck egg face, handsome eyes and eyebrows, and looked forward to Shenfei, but she was dressed as a maid.
"What are you?"
"Master, every time people go to the temple to worship incense, they pass by the street, either sitting in a sedan chair or staying in the carriage, anyway, they haven't walked around by themselves. Today, with the master by my side, I will pretend to be a little maid to accompany me! As she spoke, she showed off her dress: "Master, I don't look good in this!" ”
"Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful! My Han Xi looks good in whatever she wears. This is not Geng Jingzhong's casual remark, it is indeed very good-looking.
"Hmph, I'm used to saying nice things."
There are two large temples in Fuzhou City, Xichan Temple and Hualin Temple, which are located in the north and south of Fuzhou City. On the fifteenth day of every lunar month, there will be a temple fair. Both temples have a thriving street nearby, which is lively even when it is not a temple fair. Today is October 16, just when the Hualin Temple in the north opened the temple market, Geng Jingzhong took a few guards such as Huanxi Chunzhu and Yang Jian to go shopping.
Due to the fact that it is in the temple fair period today, there are many department stores on Huaping Street, and this street has formed a commercial pedestrian street after long-term development. On both sides of the street, tea shops, wine shops, and shops stand side by side, which is very lively. The worship ceremony has long since ended early in the morning, and now the streets are crowded with people, all of whom are visiting the temple market. Geng Jingzhong didn't eat breakfast in the morning, but he was a little hungry at the moment, and when he saw that the stalls selling breakfast were still there, he pulled a group of people to sit down in a stall with a small side and ate a beautiful breakfast, of course, he ate the most, after all, the others had already eaten breakfast.
After eating, several people continued to wander around the temple market, the lively scene in the temple market not only fascinated Huan Xi, Geng Jingzhong himself is also very novel, he has been studying in his previous life, and he will look for a job directly after he finishes, this kind of scene in the temple market has never been seen at all, which is still quite different from the pedestrian street in later generations. Of course, Yang Jian and a few other guards would not be uninteresting to be big bulbs, but they followed carefully behind, because there were too many people in the temple market, they didn't dare to go too far.
The temple market on Wah Ping Street is very long and divided into several parts. After the ceremony, several different areas are opened, such as local products, snacks, and juggling. At the moment, they are in an area full of snacks. Dozens of snacks such as fish balls, meat swallows, pot side batter, taro paste, lychee meat, bangbang chicken, fried meat cakes and so on fill the streets. Not only are there food stalls, but there are also many restaurants on both sides. Many local and foreign businessmen take advantage of this time to negotiate business in the restaurant.
To say that the most lively is the juggling area, not long on the street, groups of people are watching all kinds of juggling, there are those who play the flag, those who draw bows and pull foreign films, those who perform burlesque, those who shake bamboos, those who climb poles, and those who perform hard qigong, each of which makes the audience applaud loudly. Around juggling shows, all kinds of toys are also very popular. What is the iron chain empty bamboo, fluttering, marquee, mane, blowing candy, painting candy man, plastic candy man, face molding, nine rings, rattle all kinds of toys not only attract many children, even adults can't help but buy to play.
In fact, the most important of these three areas is the local product area. The buying and selling of local products is the main market for the temple fair trade. Because the temple fair is not only held to worship the gods, but also to provide a place for collective trading for the people, especially the farmers outside the city. Most of the local products markets are for the sale of agricultural tools and daily necessities, and there are also separate poultry and livestock markets. It was not easy for the peasants to make a trip to the city, to sell the goods they produced, and to buy back the goods they needed. If the products produced in a place are famous, others will say that the quality of the wooden shovel in a certain village is very good, and the bamboo sieve in a certain place is good, and then they come to buy it directly, and the price will be better.
Geng Jingzhong took Huan Xi to finish shopping on the snack street, and then came to the juggling street to watch juggling. These are nothing to Geng Jingzhong, who often watched circus performances in later generations, but they have a fatal attraction to Huan Xi. Growing up in Shengjing in Northeast China, he was married to Geng Jingzhong when he entered the city of Beijing, and he has never seen these acrobatic performances. Huan Xi watched others shake the bamboo, climb the pole, and couldn't move their feet. Until the end of a performance, he also gave someone a large piece of silver, and he was so shocked that the person who received the money thanked him again and again. By the time they finished shopping, it was already noon, and Geng Jingzhong's tired feet were weak, but looking at this happy appearance, there was a little tired feeling. I have to say that women have a natural fondness for shopping, and Geng Jingzhong in his previous life didn't like to go shopping with his girlfriend very much, because he didn't have fun as soon as he started shopping, and he really couldn't stand it. This time, Huan Xi finally came out for a trip, and she couldn't spoil her interest.
When Geng Jingzhong walked out of the juggling area with Huan Xi, the hands of the two were already full of all kinds of gadgets. What horse lanterns, mane man, candy blowing man, dough sculpture, nine rings, rattle almost all bought a copy on the street. Not long after the two walked out, Jiang Jian, Chunzhu and a few guards came up and took the things in Geng Jingzhong's hand.
"Alright, by noon the street has dispersed a lot, let's find a place to eat. It's really tiring to come down this lap! ”
Geng Jingzhong led a few people to find the largest restaurant on the street and walked in. This restaurant looks the most magnificent, the door face is also wide, the gate is full of people, and the business is very prosperous. As soon as Xiao Er saw a few people coming in, he immediately greeted: "Is the guest officer in the lobby or in the private room?" ”
"There are women here, of course it's a private room! Take us upstairs! ”
When I went up to the second floor, there were a few tables in front of me, which was similar to downstairs, but it was obviously much quieter upstairs. There is also a window view of the street below. A little further inside is the private room, the door of the private room is written on the word Tianzi No. 2, it seems that this is a better private room here. As soon as he entered the private room, Geng Jingzhong nodded, the environment was really good. It is worthy of being the best restaurant in the bustling temple market, and the decoration in the private room is no less than that of the palace, and even this small private room is more than many places in the palace.
A few people sat down, ordered a few specialties, and slowly ate them. Yang Jian and the others had already received Geng Jingzhong's orders, and they were casual outside, and they didn't distinguish between dignity and humility when eating, and they sat down to eat together. While a few people were eating, Geng Jingzhong was talking to Yu Xi. Suddenly, "Bang! With a bang, the door of the private room was kicked open from the outside, and the loud noise frightened Xi Chunzhu into an exclamation. And Yang Jian and the other four guards immediately jumped up and rushed to the front, protecting Geng Jingzhong and the three behind them.
A few people raised their eyes and saw that seven or eight people walked in from the door, all dressed in civilian clothes, and the two in the center were dressed in brocade robes, both of whom were only about twenty years old, about the same age as Geng Jingzhong. At first glance, it is the son of a family who looks very handsome, but the anger on his face is strong, which destroys the original handsome face.
"Where did the miscellaneous dare to rob Lao Tzu's private room, don't you know that this is my private room? Hurry up, come over and kowtow to the lord to make amends, and then vacate the table, the lord wants to use it! One of them shook the folding fan in his hand and said with a big grin.
Geng Jingzhong and the others were furious when they heard this, and Yang Jian and other guards shouted: "Bold!" ”。 And Huan Xi is a princess, where has she received such anger, before Geng Jingzhong can speak, she is already frowning, and said coldly, "Where did this group of mad dogs come from and bark here?" Although her voice was not loud, it was crisp and pleasant, and it was particularly eye-catching in this small private room, and for a while the whole room was quiet and looked at her in unison.
The two sons in Chinese clothes are also from a family, as soon as they heard someone scolding them for being dogs, their faces were pulled down, and when they saw that they were scolded by a fairy-like beauty, they couldn't help but have their eyes lit up, and the pig brother on their faces was almost drooling at the corner of their mouths. The young man in the back reacted faster, coughed lightly twice, and then said: "We have already chartered this private room, I don't want to be broken in by you today, and you don't want other compensation, leave this maidservant behind, and the others get out!" ”
"Yes, yes, leave this servant girl, and everyone else will get out of here!" The person holding the folding fan in his hand immediately echoed, and his two eyes never left the sun at all.
The angry willow eyebrows of Huan Xi were upside down, and he couldn't say a word. Geng Jingzhong was speechless until they finished speaking, and then said coldly to Yang Jian and the others: "Break each of their legs, and throw them all down for me." ”
"Yes!" There is a saying that 'the lord humiliates the ministers to death', Yang Jian and the four of them have long been unable to hold back, and when they heard Geng Jingzhong's order at this moment, they immediately rushed up. Four elites of the Tiger Army, who were chosen by thousands of people, dealt with seven or eight scoundrels in the market, and it was really handy. A burst of ping-pong, accompanied by a scream, Yang Jian's four people swept them like leaves in the autumn wind, and then threw a few people downstairs according to Geng Jingzhong's instructions. Fortunately, the floor of this restaurant is not high, otherwise these people would fall down and die.
"Master, let's go home!" Yang Jian was worried that the people below would recruit people to retaliate, although they were not afraid, they were worried about the safety of the princess.
"Master is waiting here, I want to see which one is so arrogant." A good meal was stirred up, and the original interest was gone, Geng Jingzhong was really angry.