Chapter 62: Into the City

didn't let everyone wait for a long time, and she came back after a while, followed by a little girl about the same size as Erya, who was Tong Niang.

The moment she heard that people went to the city to play, she smiled directly, and she didn't need Aunt Zhang to tell too much, she rushed over in a hurry.

After packing up their luggage and equipment, and getting into a few carriages that came out of nowhere, Li Cheng and the others were ready to set off.

It's been almost a month since he came to this world, and Li Cheng also wants to see what kind of world this is, to see what the legendary Tang Dynasty is so attractive.

Pedal ......"

The sound of horses' hooves is undulating.

A convoy came on the mountain road, and at the front of the team was Li Cheng, and his family members were Caiyi them.

Li Cheng looked at the surrounding grass and trees, and couldn't help but smile, on the other side of the earth, he was an orphan, and he had also planted in the field, and he was still very kind when he saw the fields.

"How's that, Irro? The style of the city is okay, right? Li Dayou came to the side at some point and asked proudly.

He happened to enter the city this time to have something, and happened to run into Li Cheng and his party, so he went along the way.

Li Cheng smiled, compared to the situation on the other side of the earth, it is not much better here.

"Let's go! After seeing the scenery in the city, it is estimated that you will not want to go back to the countryside again, the city is a place that makes people obsessed, and it is easy for people to sink. Li Dayou said with the same kind smile as an elder.

"Hmm!" Li Cheng nodded, followed behind, and observed the surrounding situation from time to time, and he found that the situation was not as good as Li Dayou said, that is, the land was poorly governed and the residents were very poor.

"The Tang Dynasty is nothing more than that, it seems that what is depicted in the book is only a few words, and all the situations are not actually expressed, and there is no appearance." Li Cheng came to this conclusion in his heart, and he couldn't help but be a little disappointed.

In the end, Li Cheng is a modern person, and his vision is a little high, but anyone who has lived in that beautiful world will not be fascinated by these scenes.

Different from Li Cheng, Erya and Tongniang are curious about Grandma Liu's entry into the Grand View Garden, looking east and west, jumping for a while, and jumping away for a while.

Compared with Xiaohe Village, Picheng is still much more prosperous, and the paths on the lanes are also bright and beautiful, unlike Xiaohe Village, which is full of mud and judgment.

drive

The carriage continued.

After advancing for more than ten minutes, I came to the so-called city, which was a low earthen wall, with a height of only three meters, and the estimated size of the city, which was the size of a high school on the earth.

Above the gate hung a wooden plank, on which were engraved two desolate and desolate words - Picheng.

This?

Li Cheng was completely desperate, do you call this thing a city? Saying that it is a village and town makes me feel a little chilly.

Yes, Li Da's admired city is like this, a few simple small wooden pipes are piled up, this is the city wall, there are two or three soldiers with sallow faces standing in the face, and the feeling of weakness all over his body looks like a weak man who has worked too hard at night.

In their other ways, if there is really a strong enemy attacking, it will definitely not be able to stop.

However, there is a reason for this, to be honest, this place in Bicheng, let alone an enemy, even bandits are unwilling to patronize, it is too poor.

After entering the city, it was even more chaotic, Li Cheng thought that he had come to the pigsty, but when he saw that Li Dayou and them were nothing unusual, he knew that such a situation might be the norm in the world here.

There is an avenue in the middle, five or six meters wide, and on both sides of it are houses made of wood and stone, crooked, and I suspect that if the wind is stronger, it will be blown down.

"Uncle Li, are there any inns or anything like that in this city? I want to take them over to rest."

Walking here, Caiyi and the others were exhausted, so they quickly found a place to rest.

Li Da nodded a little and said, "Yes, where the shopkeeper Wang is." ”

"Uncle Li took us over."

It didn't take much effort, the group came to Yuelai Restaurant, looking at the small building with only three floors in front of him, Li Cheng fell into contemplation again, he really doubted that this small restaurant could accommodate so many people?

"How many of you are sharpening or staying in the hotel?" When Wang Gui saw a guest coming, he ran out of the door and greeted him with a smile.

Li Chengdao: "Shopkeeper, I don't know if you still have a guest room here?" A few of me are going to stay in the hotel, can you see if you can arrange it? ”

"Yes, yes" Li Chengcheng knew that he was a big customer, dressed differently from them, and was golden.

"That's good,"

Handing the reins of the horse to Xiao Er, Li Cheng and the others entered inside.

"Guest officer, our store is small, but there are also three kinds of guest rooms, such as the sky number, the ground number, and the person number, among them, there is one room in the sky number, there are five room rooms, and there are 15 rooms in the person number. Wang Gui led everyone into the door and asked.

Li Cheng was curious. "Oh? Shopkeeper, what do you pay attention to in this room with three types of characters: heaven, earth, and people? Why is there such a distinction? ”

"The guest officer doesn't know, although the small shop is small, but it is also a business in the capital, this heaven and earth people three kinds of rooms, is derived from this, the human room is this floor, the ground room is the second floor, the sky room is the highest roof, the higher the floor, the farther you see, to say that this configuration is not unusual, almost the same, just to cater to some literati Yaxing, in the lower district is not talented, for this kind of thing is also admired, so it is retained." Wang Gui said, I didn't expect that he used to do business in the capital, and people can't be good-looking.

"The shopkeeper doesn't look like an ordinary person, the scholar is elegant, respectable and respectable." Li Cheng is still relatively close to the scholars of this era, in his opinion, the status of the scholars at that time is almost the same as that of the giant pandas in later generations, and the existence of national treasures is incomprehensible.

Wang Gui smiled bitterly, "The guest official has praised it falsely, but now he is just a down-and-out scholar, and he has no possibility in the future when he falls into this place of exile." ”

"The shopkeeper is really modest, go out and laugh and look up to the sky, my generation is all Penglai people, and there is such a mind here, and it is a shopkeeper throughout the ages."

"Don't talk about this, objectively you see which rooms you need, I'll let someone prepare them for you." Wang Gui diverted the topic.

"Is it okay to have a room in the sky?" Li Cheng was a little curious about the third layer.

"I'm disappointed by the guest officer, I'm afraid this won't work, the Tianzi room has been booked, and it's a long-term one." Wang Gui shook his head, his face ashamed.

"Oh? How does this mean? Presumably, it's worth a lot of money to charter this sky-sized room, right? Who has so much money? Li Cheng was puzzled.

Wang Gui said: "It is Her Royal Highness the Princess. ”

"Which princess?" Li Cheng was puzzled, although he didn't read history books very well, but at least he knew that there was no such thing as a princess being exiled in this era of the Tang Dynasty, and he couldn't help but be a little curious at the moment.

"Princess Pingyang now" Wang Changgui was full of admiration when he said this, like an iron fan.

Pingyang princess Li Xiuning?!

Li Cheng was directly shocked.

How so? How could Li Xiuning be exiled as a big person? Is her Girl Scout vegetarian? Li Yuan, he doesn't dare, right?!

Wang Gui looked at Li Cheng's expression, faintly guessed, and said with a smile: "The guest officer doesn't know, the princess, she came here voluntarily, she said that she was tired of the disputes in the court and wanted to live a quiet life in a different place, so she came here." ”

"Oh, it seems that Wang Changgui also came with the princess, if I guessed correctly." Li Chengdao.

The shopkeeper only smiled, but did not speak.

"Then give me all the floor rooms!" Li Chengdao.

Wang Gui nodded, took the account book to remember, and asked, "But do you need any wine and food?" Seeing that you are tired of traveling and driving, it is also quite hard, you must have an empty stomach in your stomach, I still have more than ten jars of wine here, if the guest officer doesn't mind, I will go and bring it to you. ”

"Not now, it's troublesome." Li Cheng said.

"Okay, three dollars of silver for one room in the number of places, and if there are five rooms, I will count it as one or two silver, Chenghui, one or two silver."

"Thank you shopkeeper for free price, but you get what you pay for, the money that should be paid still has to be paid, but you can't let the shopkeeper suffer, I have two taels of silver here, you will accept the shopkeeper, and you don't have to find the excess again, and please ask the shopkeeper to introduce me to a clever guy, let him take us to the city for a while, I want to buy some maids this time." Li Cheng took out two taels of silver from his arms and put them in front of Wang Gui and said.

"It's me Meng Lang" Wang Gui blushed, but still accepted the silver taels, and shouted outside the door: "Xiao Liuzi, this guest officer will be handed over to you in a while, and I will be rewarded when I come back." ”

"Okay, shopkeeper, it's on me." Not long after, a young man and a half years old came, about one meter five or six in appearance, his clothes were tattered, his face was quite clean, and he was also a master of hygiene.

No matter what his ability is, Li Cheng is still quite satisfied with Xiao Liuzi, a person who knows how to take care of his own life, he will not be far worse if he wants to, although his clothes are tattered, but it can be seen that it is difficult to do so, and he still has some ambition.

"Let's go upstairs first." Li Cheng said to everyone.

"Brother Haoli ~ I'm happy to have a new house to live in soon, thank you, brother, I'll go first, bye-bye, poof" Erya jumped up excitedly, ran and kissed Li Cheng's face, and then ran upstairs to choose a house with Tong Niang and Xi Xi.

The guest rooms are really good, although the facilities seem a little simple, but on the second floor, you can overlook the whole city, and it is a good place to live.