Chapter 606: Mule and Horse City

Zhen Shiyuan's words really scared the officials, and after a while, the officials who were idle in front of him and teasing the cat left, leaving only one person and one cat to look at him.

"It's already past noon," the girl looked at the sun overhead, and said to Zhen Shiyuan, "Your Excellency, today's morning has been in full bloom for a long time. ”

Zhen Shiyuan glanced at her and snorted coldly: "Can the matter of the Criminal Department be explained clearly in a few words?" ”

The girl is no stranger to this matter, after all, after yesterday's incident, she still entertained Ji Nan and others for him, and Zhen Shiyuan's casual sentence has actually revealed the result of this incident - the reorganization of the Criminal Department.

"It seems that Lord Zhou suspects that there is an internal ghost in the yamen of the Criminal Department." The girl picked up the flower cat and smoothed it for a while, the flower cat squinted comfortably, and from time to time "meowed", looking very happy.

Zhen Shiyuan's eyes involuntarily fell on the flower cat in her hand, and while looking at the cat, he talked about the things in the court, and after repeating the matter almost as it was, he said: "In short, the criminal department was designed, but Zhou Dong is also an old fox, just take this opportunity to reorganize the criminal department openly, no matter whether you can find out the inner ghost or not, it is really no problem to pull out the conspicuous nails that some people have put in." ”

It is not easy to do this matter, but it has nothing to do with his Dali Temple, Zhen Shiyuan said and touched the wound on his face: except for this scratch.

When the girl heard him, she said "oh" and said, "My lord, if there is nothing wrong, I want to take a leave of absence in the past two days." ”

"What are you going to do?" Zhen Shiyuan asked her.

The girl said, "It's nothing, I just want to go to the city." Besides, although Dr. Feng said that he was still having fun with them with red beans, I can't be the master without accompanying me for a day! ”

Zhen Shiyuan thought about it, nodded and waved his hand to drive people away: "Then you go, if this period of time is stopped in the city, my Dali Temple should be idle for a period of time until the end of the year." ”

Although the words of scaring the bunnies who were idleness and teasing cats were not lies, even if Dali Temple was idle, it was not the Criminal Department that would transfer officials if they wanted to, it was so easy at all.

Zhen Shiyuan took the cat handed back by the girl, watched the girl turn away, and followed the cat's hair in her hand one by one, probably she was hugged today, this cat is very well-behaved.

The moment she walked out of the yamen of Dali Temple, the girl stood at the door and walked towards the city.

When I went out this morning, I listened to the red beans and they shouted that they were going to the mule and horse market today, she might as well go to the mule and horse market, if it was a coincidence, she could still meet the red beans and Doctor Feng, if not, it was rare to visit Chang'an City alone.

To be honest, the two cases of Que Lou and Xue Huai are connected, if it is a simple case, it is just a case, but these two cases are not just cases, they involve a lot, she is really tired, and she also wants to walk alone.

The girls in the official robes of Dali Temple are actually quite eye-catching when they walk on the street, after all, there are many girls in beautiful skirts walking on the street, but there are not many female officials wearing official robes.

However, this eye-catching only attracted passers-by to look back at her twice, and after seeing it, they withdrew their gaze.

Growing up in Chang'an City, the people here are also "used to" the world, whether it is a beautiful and moving lady or a graceful and powerful son, they have long been raised by all kinds of beauties, even if it is an extremely good-looking girl, it can only attract everyone to look here twice.

Qiao Ran looked at the shops on the side of the road as she walked, as well as the hawkers who carried their burdens and carefully avoided the patrol officers of the Five Cities Terracotta Division. In fact, these can be seen every day on the way to Dali Temple on duty in the past, but it is probably a different mood, and then looking at it at this time, she suddenly has a few different kinds of interest.

This is probably the difference that can be seen in modern society when it takes the same path, whether it is "on the way to work" or "on the way to leisure".

Approaching the end of the year, the flavor of the New Year in Chang'an City is already very strong, and the farmers who carry the burden on the side of the road can be seen everywhere with their own chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, beef and mutton to sell, and the endless stream of guests in the dried fruit dim sum shop is needless to say, after all, not everyone is like Pei Qingqing all year round dried fruit dim sum does not leave his hand, for many ordinary people, this is the food that will be bought to satisfy their hunger at the end of the year.

Cloth shops, ready-to-wear shops are also constantly coming and going, until the New Year, tailor-made, put on new clothes is also a custom since ancient times.

Qiao Ran watched with interest, and there were skillful paper-cutting dealers, cutting the word "Fu" and all kinds of flowers, birds, fish and beasts with good meanings on the street to sell.

Such a rich and simple New Year's atmosphere, she had only seen it on TV, Qiao Ran stopped and stopped, watched all the way, and unconsciously walked to the city of mules and horses.

The smell of pigs, cows, sheep, horses, and livestock was mixed with Hu Shang's spices and all kinds of miscellaneous small things, which made Qiao Ran, who had a bright nose, feel uncomfortable for a moment, but quickly got used to the taste and walked in.

Walking through Hu Shang's spice shop, Qiao Ran picked up a few packets of Hu Shang's spices to take back, even if he has been in Chang'an City for more than half a year, for red beans, Hu Shang's spices are still unfamiliar, and Zhang Jie, who is most familiar with these spices, can't come to her all day long to eat. In fact, it's not that she doesn't know how to cook, she can still try one or two simple and easy-to-use dishes, Qiao Ran thought about the dishes in her heart in the past two days, picked up enough spices and continued to visit the mule and horse market.

A small vendor next to the spice stall sells miscellaneous small things, and the owner of the vendor is a blue-eyed bearded man who introduces small things in a broken and not fluent Chinese.

"This is a pony, this is a cow, a sheep, a rabbit...... these small things seem to be bought for children to play with, look very beautiful, there are children in the family to see this and come to ask, heard the price, startled, turned around and left.

After all, the more sophisticated powerful and wealthy prefer such really exquisite things to buy home for their children to play, and those who are not particular care about money.

This seemingly beautiful but can't be looked at in the middle of the two, so I didn't sell a single one for most of the day.

Qiao Ran glanced at the things that were about to leave, but when she saw something piled up in the corner by the vendor, she suddenly stopped, she squatted down, and reached out to take out the things in the pile of small things "horses, cows, and sheep" mixed in the corner.

This is a rattle, which is roughly round, simple in shape, and does not require much craftsmanship from the craftsman, but it is extraordinarily fine in a bunch of animals that lack noses and eyes.

Cool to start, the material of this rattle is different from the general wooden rattle, and the group of carved "horses, cows, sheep" are the same, it is made of copper, the girl's fingers are gently knocked on the rattle surface, and the sound of the empty inside comes, the bronze sound is low and melodious, and the crispness of the general rattle is far from the crisp.

She shook the rattle in her hand, and the two copper balls hit the rattle, making one dull sound after another.

Hu Shang, who hadn't sold a single one after shouting for a long time, saw that she seemed to be very interested in this copper rattle, so he hurriedly came up and used his not fluent Chinese to compare "the price is negotiable", and asked her enthusiastically if she wanted to see anything else.

Qiao Ran snorted, picked out a copper sugar gourd among a pile of small copper objects, and asked Hu Shang to wrap it. The sugar gourd and rattle were all brought to Pei Qingqing.

Qiao Ran, who was carrying spices and copper small things, continued to stroll, and along the way, he saw a lot of things that were rare in Da Chu. For example, the blue-eyed cat, although the coat color is mixed, is not as pure as the little white at home, but it should also come from Hu Di. In addition to the cats and dogs in Hudi, there are actually peacocks, but they were probably taken all the way by people on a long journey, and the peacocks are a little lacking in spirit, but they also cooperated with the peddlers who sold peacocks to perform a show, attracting many onlookers.

From the dead to the living, the first is the living. There are slave traffickers in Luoma City, but the servants here are different from the slave servants bought by ordinary people, and the servants here are very different from ordinary Han Chinese in appearance. There are Kunlun Nu with black skin and curly hair and a body as strong as an ox, and there are also tall orchids with white skin and blue eyes.

Of course, the price of Kunlun Nu is not the same as that of Orchid. Although Qiao Ran was still not used to such people being bought and sold at a price, she also knew that it was inappropriate to talk about these things in Da Chu, and all she could do was not to buy and sell.

Kunlun slaves were bought to do manual work, and orchids were mostly bought by places such as the Qinglou Dance Workshop in the city, after all, many powerful people still favored beautiful orchids.

When she walked to the place where she sold Kunlun Nu Orchids, there were already a lot of people around, Qiao Ran glanced past the crowd and looked at the row of Kunlun Nu and Orchids standing there, originally just a casual glance and about to withdraw her gaze, but this glance made Qiao Ran can't help but look at it for a while.

Generally speaking, there are only two kinds of slaves in Luoma City, Kunlun slaves and orchids, the male ones are bought back to do manual work, and the orchids are sold to Fengyue places, but there are more than Kunlun slaves and orchids in that row of slaves, and at the end of that row, there is actually a white-skinned and blue-eyed boy next to Orchid.

The people who often come to watch in the crowd are obviously used to this: "Some orchids will bring their younger siblings with them, not to mention, these orchid siblings are also very good, but they are ...... Huh! It's a pity. ”

This fair-skinned and blue-eyed boy is so beautiful, those who buy Kunlun slaves to go back to do manual work obviously won't buy him, and the only people who will pay for it are naturally people from places like the Qinglou Dance Workshop or even the Xiaoqi Pavilion, and it is self-evident what will happen to this beautiful Huren boy.

It is true that there are those who are born to like men, but many of them are forced to sell to small restaurants.

Of course, the people only sighed that the price of an orchid is already worth a lot, and it seems that such a beautiful bearded boy who has not grown up is even rarer, and one is worth several orchids.

Qiao Ran naturally knew what was wrong, but she only watched in the crowd, not to mention whether she was such a "warm and narrow" person, that is, she really wanted to be "righteous" once, and she didn't have so much money on her. The rules here in Luoma City have been set for hundreds of years, but she can't mess around with a "chivalrous spirit".

This time there was a beautiful Hu Ren boy, the man Yazi was obviously very happy, and he also knew that the good things should be put at the end, starting with the Kunlun Nu with the lowest price, all the way to the orchid, the price was getting higher and higher, and there were more and more people in gorgeous clothes visible to the naked eye in the crowd of onlookers who were originally dressed in good and bad clothes.

After the last orchid was photographed away, it was finally the turn of the beautiful bearded boy. As soon as the price was opened, it was twice as much as the orchid that had been auctioned away before, and the people who watched the excitement were naturally happy and pointed to a few people who offered the price and pointed out their identities.

"That bearded man is the steward of the Water Sleeve Pavilion, and the thin bamboo pole is a person from Qingfeng Garden...... "Whether it is the Water Sleeve Pavilion or the Qingfeng Garden, it is a small pavilion in the city, and it is self-evident what to do when you shoot this young man back."

Every time she sees this kind of thing, Qiao Ran can't help but rejoice that although her identity is more troublesome, at least she is not a slave, in Da Chu, although there is a law that stipulates that slaves cannot be treated indiscriminately, who knows what is behind closed doors? Moreover, the servants of the slave are equivalent to goods with a clear price, and these people who opened the small house and let the young man be a small man are not considered to be among the "ill treatment" according to the law.

It seems that if you take it back well, you can stay in the museum for more than ten years, and you can naturally return to the capital, so these small pavilions are willing to pay a high price, and there are a few rich people in gorgeous robes who seem to have some broken sleeves and want to shoot, but in the end they are not as willing to spend money as the people in the small pavilion.

Seeing that the others were defeated one by one, only two small pavilions were filming, it seemed that the young man's fate could not escape, and the people who watched the excitement were ready to disperse.

At this moment, someone suddenly shouted from behind the crowd: "Don't use the bid, my young lady will pay a thousand gold!" Which one else wants to shoot? ”

It's a thousand gold! There are only two small pavilions that have only been called one thousand taels, and the difference between one thousand taels and one thousand taels of gold is self-evident.

Sure enough, after the other party shouted this price, the two small restaurants stopped.

The people who were about to leave stopped and looked at the crowd, a pink soft sedan chair with tassels appeared in everyone's field of vision, in front of the soft sedan chair was an ordinary but not worse than ordinary young ladies The maid snorted coldly, raised her head and shouted: "What do you see?" ”

The voice...... Sure enough, she was the one who shouted a thousand gold! In a down-to-earth place like Luoma City, there was suddenly such a "noble" soft sedan chair, which seemed incompatible with here.

The audience was silent for a moment, and a voice came from the soft sedan chair: "If no one bids, he will be mine." ”

As soon as this voice came out, the audience immediately resounded with several exclamations. The voice of the young lady in this soft sedan can be described as heartstrings, even if Qiao Ran is a woman, she feels a little soft under her feet at this moment.

After the exclamation, there was a pause in the chatter.

"Listening to the voice, she is a beauty, and she is so generous when she makes a move, this bearded boy is really a blessing!"