Located in the north of Kaifeng, the Great Song Imperial City is much smaller than the Daming Palace of the Tang Dynasty.

There are six gates to the east, south, west, and north of the imperial city.

In the middle of the south is the Xuande Gate, and in front of the door is a wide royal street leading straight to the south to the Bianhe River. On both sides of the Xuande Gate, there are left and right doors.

The other three gates are: Gongchen Gate in the north, Donghua Gate in the east, and Xihua Gate in the west.

The imperial city surrounded by six doors is what the people of the Great Song Dynasty called "Da Nei".

However, the name Ouchi really doesn't see how "big" it is. In such a place, it is necessary to house all kinds of "palaces" where the monarchs and ministers hold meetings, and there are also so many concubines and concubines of the Zhao family, so there is not much space left to house various yamen of "provinces, governments, temples, and prisons".

Therefore, in addition to the three divisions of the Second Mansion (Zhongshu and the Privy Council), all the ministries of Shangshu Province have moved to various squares outside the imperial city.

The Xuande Gate in the south is only opened when the Lantern Festival is watching, the festival is given, the prisoner ceremony and other large-scale ceremonial activities, usually the officials go to the court, the flow of people inside and outside the palace, are the Donghua Gate, the imperial examination is released and the roll call is also in the Donghua Gate.

Therefore, the outside of Donghua Gate is the most lively.

At the beginning of Mao, when the sky was still not even a faint white fish, Shen Fuzhi had hired a mule cart and accompanied Yao Huan to the vicinity of Donghua Gate.

When Yao Huan came to Donghuamen to deliver food to Zhao Ji's banquet before, it was the beginning of the afternoon when the sun was shining.

On that day, she only felt that as far as the eye could see, all kinds of shops were shopped, from fish, shrimp, turtles, crabs to birds and animals, from vegetable sauce to melons, fruits and flowers, from silk and satin to pen, ink, paper, inkstone, everything was sold.

Today, however, she stepped out of the car with her aunt and was even more stunned by the sight in front of her.

But under the night sky where the stars were shining, there were all the Great Song Dynasty officials in fluttering robes and carrying white lanterns.

The lantern is made of white paper, and if it is a wilderness with a gust of wind, it is quite terrible. But it appeared outside the noisy Donghua Gate, and everyone's names and departments were written on it, looking like moving a business card, with the official uniforms that could vaguely distinguish the blue and red, and the black gauze official hat with two feet of wings, which was quite bureaucratic and beautiful.

However, the bureaucrats, who were hungry, soon lost their sense of beauty.

They gathered at a long breakfast stall with white smoke and steam.

"Shop, a bowl of liver noodles."

"Lamb soup with two cookcakes, and more coriander in the soup."

"What? Cooking cakes are selling out soon? I don't eat it, I don't eat it, I get on the fire. If you get it, give it back, and I'll buy it from there. ”

"Hey, uncle, there are a little few cakes in your soup cakes, and after eating such a bowl, the old man is afraid that he will not survive in the vertical arch hall until the end of the hour. In the past few days, the ministers have quarreled again, and the court has dragged the hall again and again, and the old man has been bothered to add two or two more cakes to enter. ”

"Yo, Yang Siji, beard, your beard is full of mutton fat, wipe it quickly."

All of a sudden, there was a lot of noise, and the officials temporarily forgot about the color of their official uniforms.

Anyway, the princes in the purple robe have to wait for the courtyard to rest, and the officials who are waiting in the open air don't look down on each other, they squeeze in front of the breakfast stall with each other, chew on cakes and chat with each other, how harmonious.

Just be careful not to get poked by the wings.

Perhaps, at this time, the officials who were still enthusiastically discussing whether to put more pepper or more coriander in the mutton soup were about to start a saber-rattling quarrel in the court half an hour later.

But the luck of the cadres who love food will not be too bad, they will eat a little more, and they will be full of energy and anger when they quarrel, maybe because of the quarrel and quarrel, they will get the blue eyes of the officials.

Of course, there will be Mr. Daoist everywhere who will come out and complain.

When Yao Huan stared intently at the scene in front of her, a red-robed official walked past her and Shen Fuzhi, shook his head and sighed: "Vulgar and noisy, Sven sweeps the floor, what kind of system!" It's like the cattle and horse market in the outskirts of Nasai. ”

sighed, took out a cake from his arms, found a clean place, put down the lantern, raised his sleeves to cover it, and gnawed silently.

Shen Fuzhi glanced at the man and whispered to Yao Huan: "This old man, what he said is really a bit similar, it is indeed more chaotic than the Bianhe Wharf in Dongshuimen." Huan'er, thanks to you, it is also the first time I have seen this great wonder of Kaifeng City, the Fire City. ”

"Fire City?"

"Haven't you heard? When the officials went to court, it was still dark, and they rode horses with lanterns, coming from all directions, surrounding the imperial city like a city of fire. ”

Yao Huan said "oh", took over the conversation and said: "It's not easy to be an official, get up earlier than the chicken, and now the weather is still good at this time, if it is a cold winter and heavy snow, they will just crowd in the open air and wait for the palace to be banned?" ”

Shen Fuzhi said: "If you don't want to be offended, you want to change your robe to purple." The prime minister and deputy prime ministers were all waiting in the courtyard, and they heard that there were not only snacks made by the imperial kitchen, but also sake. ”

Yao Huan's heart moved.

She looked around, and not far away, on the street, she could already see the shops on the front of the table ten-pong, ready to open the market.

If you rent a two-story shop for breakfast, and if you can really find coffee beans, you can open the Starbucks in the Northern Song Dynasty, so that these officials who haven't slept enough and need to cheer up each of them can drink a cup of coffee to refresh themselves......

Yao Huan daydreamed silently but firmly, pursed his lips and smiled in the night, took Shen Fuzhi's arm on his shoulder, and walked towards the city gate guarded by the guards.

Yao Huan today, wrapped in a brocade indigo crown, wearing the purple gown with baby incense sent by Zeng Fu, and wearing a six-piece skirt with autumn fragrance, although the dress is still a little old-fashioned and in line with her widow status, but the texture of the clothes from head to toe is very passable.

When packing up the burden before going to bed yesterday, Shen Fu said: "Choose a concubine, dress so that others can't see luxury." To do things, you have to dress so that others can't see the poor appearance. First, the people in the Mojiao Palace looked down on them, and secondly, the common people did not look depressed, and the Son of Heaven was happy at home, which was like praising them for governing the world and the peace of the country. ”

Yao Huan knew that her aunt was not a snob, she just saw through people's hearts.

However, even if her aunt is not in charge, she has to wear this gown given by the Zeng family, because - Zeng Wei.

In the past few months, even if he has a place to live by chance, a way to make a living, and a few times of luck to turn danger into a disaster, Yao Huan, a traverser, still feels that he is just a relatively bold outsider with some plans for the future.

It wasn't until the night of the willow tops on the moon that Zeng Wei said those words to her in the car, and she felt for the first time that she seemed to have a chemical reaction with this time and space.

Shen Fuzhi treats her as her daughter, Meituan treats her as a little master, and Yao Ruzhou treats her as a dependent, because they don't know that there is another soul in the body of the Yao girl.

Zeng Wei is different.

When they met for the first time, the every move of the "Yao family girl" that Zeng Wei saw was the every move of Yao Huan, who was a traverser.

If this man had love for this because of this, Yao Huan would not feel awkward.

There is no leading edge, and there is no misunderstanding, what this man likes is his true self.

So, are you tempted by him?

It's not easy to say about the same amount of love, but there must be love.

Thinking that in this strange time and space, there was a man from Zhilan Yushu, pretending to be himself in his heart, Yao Huan finally touched a kind of emotion of "willing to take another country as his hometown".

It's nice not to be alone.

She put on the gown that Zeng Wei had smoked with baby incense, and although the fragrance had faded a lot, it was still enough for her to feel that Zeng Wei was by her side.