Murong Yingcai came out this time, so naturally he didn't bring any money.

Xie Baoshu still has a lot of immortal jade on his body, but now he still owes a lot of money, and he is a little irritable. Li Bai has a poem: "Sauvignon Blanc, in Chang'an." ”

For thousands of years, Chang'an has been our hometown of dreams. Everyone has a Chang'an in their hearts, outlining their own imaginary prosperity and prosperity. Chang'an should be the atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty, and Tang poetry should be the soul of Chang'an.

Xie Baoshu now feels that Chang'an's soul is too expensive.

The price of the inn, he just looked, for one night, he needs fifty orange fairy jade. You know, this is just an ordinary inn. He went to the Demon Suppression Tower just now, and the two of them spent only twenty orange immortal jades.

With Murong Yingcai, and then walking forward, Xie Baoshu wanted to see if there was a cheaper inn.

The whole Chang'an City is like a chessboard, well organized. Chang'an City is divided into three parts: the Imperial City, the Palace City, and the Outer Guo City. Later, because the terrain of the imperial city was low and wet, the Daming Palace was built on the Longshou Plain. Miyagi is in the north, and the imperial city is in the north of Miyagi.

The criss-crossing streets divided the city into one hundred and nine districts, two on the east and west, and the common people lived in each square. As Bai Juyi said: "Hundreds of thousands of homes are like a game of Go, and the twelfth street is like planting vegetables." ”

For those who come to Chang'an for the first time, the city walls are so high that people can look up, and the roads are so wide that people get lost. Pedestrians are weaving, laughing and laughing, and the lights are brilliant. The prosperity of the world is always fascinating. Chang'an has a proud backbone, and it is a proud bone that resolutely stands here no matter how the years change.

Chang'an, no matter where people are, if they have the same temperament, they can cherish each other. Different religious beliefs are spread and carried forward here.

The feminine beauty of Chang'an may be the plump beauty of "clouds want clothes, flowers want to look, and the spring breeze dawns Revlon", or it may be the exotic style of "curly hair and beard, green eyes, and high-rise buildings playing the flute quietly at night". They love beauty, understand beauty, and present their beauty calmly.

Xie Baoshu has seen many girls from Chang'an City along the way. They all have their own merits, Xie Baoshu didn't dare to look at it for a while.

Li Bai's "Youth Xing" wrote: "Wuling is young in the east of the golden city, and the silver saddle and white horse spend the spring breeze. Where do you go to the fallen flowers? Laugh into the orchid restaurant. It is about the young man who is proud of the spring breeze in the gold market, and walks into the wine shop where the girl from the Western Regions serves wine and sings and dances with a smile.

Orchids look like flowers, when they laugh at the spring breeze", I don't know how many people are drunk in the dream of green-eyed curly hair, drunk in this gentle and rich township and don't want to wake up.

Murong Yingcai saw his expression and said, "A gentleman has three precepts: when he is young, his blood is undecided, and his precepts are in color. and strong, the blood is strong, and the ring is fighting. and his old age, the flesh is declining, and the abstinence is in it. ”

Xie Baoshu knew what Elder Murong meant, and no longer looked at those girls in Chang'an City. He asked, "Haven't you ever read a book?" and why do you know these Confucian sayings? ”

Murong Yingcai glanced at him and said, "When we were young, the elders in the family warned us about this. At the time, it sounded like nothing, but in retrospect, it makes a lot of sense. I don't remember anything else, but I remember this sentence in my heart. ”

Xie Baoshu nodded, so it was.

Murong Yingcai also looked at Chang'an City with interest, this city has produced many capable people. In a few words, it is inexhaustible. They can only feel it slowly. In Chang'an City, there is still a lot to eat.

Hu Cake is probably the most famous delicacy. At that time, Chang'an cake stalls were everywhere. Prime Minister Liu Yan went to the early court, smelled the aroma of Hu cakes on the road, and couldn't help but ask someone to buy a few. It turned out to be too hot, so he wrapped it up with the sleeves of his robe and said to the rest of the ministers, "Beauty is indescribable, beauty is indescribable."

When Bai Juyi left Chang'an, he also specially learned to make a few flax cakes, "the noodles are crispy and fragrant and fragrant", and brought them to friends in other places to taste. There is also an official Zhang Heng, because the steamed cake is too delicious, he eats it directly on the side of the road, and was later dismissed as an official because he was considered to have lost the image of the court, which shows how delicious this cake is.

Xie Baoshu was a little unbelieving, so he bought a few, and began to eat cakes with Murong Yingcai in Chang'an City. I didn't expect the taste of this cake to be really, and it made people forget everything. Even Murong Yingcai, a monk who had been in the valley for many years, felt that his appetite was great.

There is also fine wine in Chang'an City, and there are countless types of fine wine. Even Tang Taizong personally supervised the production of eight kinds of wine, and he could also drink the fruit wine of the Lighthouse Country, Sanle Pulp, and the Dragon Paste Wine of the Western Regions...... No wonder Li Bai wanted "the Son of Heaven couldn't get on the boat, claiming that the minister was a fairy in wine".

Although Xie Baoshu didn't drink alcohol, he still bought some wine and poured it into the sword raiser.

On the rainy street, Xie Baoshu suddenly remembered the poems that Murong Jianxian had told him. Chang'an City is rich in poets, and the entire Tang Dynasty produces poets. Xie Baoshu stopped, the ancient poems of the Tang Dynasty were taken abroad, and they were also classics.

At the age of twenty-seven, Bai Juyi was admitted to the Jinshi and proudly inscribed in the Wild Goose Pagoda: "At the inscription under the Pagoda of Mercy, the youngest of the seventeen." ”

And Meng Jiao's forty-six-year-old gold list title is "The spring breeze is proud, and you can see all the Chang'an flowers in one day". On that day, it seemed that the world had been held in their hands, as long as they had poetic talents, fame and fortune would eventually come.

People linger in Chang'an's liquor mansions, sing here, parting here, and also record the spring, summer, autumn and winter of Chang'an. The spring reunion is Du Fu's "The weather is new on March 3, and the waterside of Chang'an is beautiful", and the parting is Wang Wei's "Weicheng is light and dusty, and the guest house is green and willow-colored".

When it rains, it is Han Yu's "Tianjie light rain is as moist as crisp, and the grass color is close but no", autumn, it is Jia Island's "autumn wind produces Weishui, and the fallen leaves are full of Chang'an", and in the autumn night, it is Li Bai's "Chang'an is a moon, and ten thousand households pound clothes"......

Chang'an is poetic, every poet has a dream to live here, and every scenery seems to be born for poetic beauty.

Under the eaves, Xie Baoshu finished eating the cake and finally realized what "the light rain in the heavenly street is as moist as a crisp." "But now it's approaching winter, and the rain is pouring on my body, and it's a little cold. Although Xie Baoshu is physically cultivated and does not catch a cold, he is very uncomfortable wearing wet clothes.

They walked forward and came to the most prosperous West Market. There are four bazaars in Chang'an City, but the most famous is the west

City.

The shops in the West Market are densely packed, set up on the street, and the size of the shop is not the same, the big one is more than ten meters, and the small one is only about three meters. Among the many shops, all the shops dealing in similar goods are relatively concentrated, and signs are established with the name of the line.

An earthen wall is built between each row to delineate the area of each row.

In addition, there are open ditches for drainage on both sides of each main road, and brick culverts in the alleys between the shops are connected to form a complete drainage system.

The West Market is open on all sides, and the eight city gates are just docking with the two ends of the main road. On the side of the street, there are many small songs, that is, alleys, which are directly connected and very convenient to come and go. It constitutes a pattern of "chess cloth is lined up, and the streets are horizontal".

There is a lonely big willow tree in the West City, called "Duliu", which is the place where the prisoners of the Tang Dynasty were executed. At that time, the execution of death row prisoners was openly carried out here, so it was also called "abandoned market".

The architecture of the West City is gorgeous. Some of the large restaurants and residences are buildings, and there are also pavilions by the release pond.

When Murong Yingcai saw the release pool, he was very disdainful, and said: "This is all to deceive those palace nobles, people who are really merciful, and they are definitely not merciful on the surface." "

Xie Baoshu nodded, this release pool is really hypocritical. How many people are eating fasting and reciting Buddha in their mouths, but they are engaged in murderous deeds? Xie Baoshu knows that this Chang'an City must be darker than outside, but he doesn't see it now.

Since ancient times, where there are people, there have been fights.

Chang'an City is extremely rich, and there are so many powerful people, how can it be bright?

But he was here to play now, and he didn't want to think about anything else at all, so he went to the West Market. Although it was raining and there were not many people on the road, the shop was still thriving. Since the Zhenguan period of Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, the prosperity of the West Market has been faintly above that of the East Market.

Three years after Tang Gaozong Longshuo, Gaozong listened to the political reform in the Daming Palace in the northeast of the city, and the dignitaries and nobles built houses in the east of Zhuque Street for the convenience of the upper court, so the merchants and ordinary people with relatively low social status were often squeezed to the west of Zhuque Street.

This makes the commercial activities of the West Market far exceed that of the East Market, with more than 40,000 fixed merchants alone, and it is even more difficult to count the mobile merchants, especially the Hu merchants who gather here, becoming the economic activity center of Chang'an City, known as the "Gold Market".

The variety of goods operated in the West Market covers all aspects of daily life, from daily necessities to high-end luxury goods imported from abroad such as silk, clothing, jewelry, medicinal materials, leather goods, lacquerware, bamboo, ceramics, calligraphy and painting, charcoal, etc.

Precious spices, gold, silver and jewelry, and Hu customs from afar were introduced to the Central Plains, adding a bit of exotic atmosphere to the market in Chang'an.

Because from the time of Taizong, Chang'an City implemented a late-night snack system, so the imperial court also had specific regulations on the opening hours of the market. Every day, 300 drums are beaten at noon as the opening of the market, and 7 minutes before sunset is struck with 300 cymbals to remind the public to close the market and prohibit trading in the morning and after the evening. However, this system was repeatedly broken by the people, and the night market was repeatedly banned.

Xie Baoshu was about to find a place to live, when suddenly, an oil-paper umbrella reached out to him, for him

Shelter from the wind and rain.

Under the oil-paper umbrella, there was a little girl with red lips and white teeth, and she looked at Xie Baoshu with a smile. This little girl does not look like a child of a rich family, but her clothes are not luxurious, but they are very clean.

Xie Baoshu was stunned for a moment and asked, "Do you know me?"

The little girl shook her head and said, "I don't know." ”

Xie Baoshu asked again: "Then why are you holding an umbrella for me?"

The little girl said, "If you don't know, can't I hold an umbrella for you?"

Xie Baoshu smiled: "You're not afraid, am I a bad person?"

The little girl shook her head and said, "I don't know you, but I know the sword behind your back." How can someone who can possess this Qingyun Sword be a bad person?"

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