The coachman drove the horse into the city gate, and the people in the carriage dispersed.

Mixed in the crowd, Jiang Banxia and others looked around, it was incredible, there was a smell of fireworks everywhere, the air was mixed with the fragrance of melons and fruits, the smell of fried vegetables and the smell of beef and mutton, the Han people wearing shirts, the Honghua people wearing hair, bright clothes, all kinds of colored lanterns, different from the desert style of the south of the Yangtze River at a glance.

Hezhou is not as bitter cold as imagined, but a prosperous paradise.

"What are you doing with us?" He Qiaoyi bumped into Ao Ji as soon as he turned around, this person shouldn't have followed them all the way, right?

Ao Ji raised his face and said, "There is only one road here, how can you walk, but I can't go?" ”

He Qiaoyi was so stunned that he couldn't speak, he gave Ao Ji a fierce warning with his eyes, and then turned around and left.

There must be something wrong with this person, He Qiao thought to himself.

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In order to show the importance of Yang Yiqing, the Tea and Horse Division sent people to wait at the gate of the city early, but they never expected that Yang Yiqing and his party would follow the carriage of the Zhejiang Chamber of Commerce into the city.

"Don't be in a hurry to meet the people of the Tea Horse Division first." Zhu Tan said, "If it's late today, let's rest first and make plans tomorrow." ”

Zhu Tan's idea was very simple, since Banzai sent them to the northwest to inspect tea, then he must have wanted them to find out something.

These other officials are not clear, but the two brothers are clear, on the surface, they will whitewash the peace, and what they want you to see is always the good side.

Only by overt and covert visits can we get closer to the truth.

"That's fine." Yang Yiqing echoed and said, he had the same idea as the two officials surnamed Zhu.

Gai is because his father is a Tongzhi of Huazhou, although he is not an official in a high position, but he can also see the doorways of these officials from his father's official affairs.

For the sake of the black gauze hat on their heads, they whitewashed the peace on the official face, and even suppressed public opinion for the sake of political achievements.

Yang Yiqing hated this kind of behavior very much.

After discussing with the two Shangguan surnamed Zhu about when to go to the Tea and Horse Division tomorrow, he turned around and found that Jiang Banxia and He Qiaoyi were missing.

Crowded in the lively crowd, Yang Yiqing looked around, he tried to find the traces of these two people.

On weekdays, He Qiaoyi is not reliable, why is Little Brother Jiang messing around with him?

Hezhou City is neither big nor small, but it is very lively, especially when someone in the city marries, and the lively blowing sound comes all the way from the end of the long street.

Jiang Banxia was pushed to the front by the crowd, and a large group of children were crowded around, all of them smiling, stretching their necks, waiting for the bride's sedan chair to come.

If you meet a rich man, you will sprinkle sugar in front of you.

"Boss...!" He Qiaoyi was squeezed to the opposite side, he was shouting at the top of the street, and his voice was all muffled by the sound of blowing and the noise of the crowd.

Jiang Banxia only saw him move his mouth, but he couldn't hear what he was saying.

She turned to walk out, but the crowd was so crowded that she couldn't move.

Jiang Banxia was forced to stand at the front, she looked at the lively crowd in front of her, the lights of the cannonball, the suona and the shy girls covering their faces.

It is undeniable that she has dreamed of the same as them before.

However, that too is in the past.

She took a deep breath, and the emotion in her eyes faded slightly.

Time does not treat man, and so does man,

"What a coincidence, I met my little benefactor again." Ogie emerged from the crowd, grinning and holding two pieces of cookbread.

What's the coincidence?

Jiang Banxia sneered in his heart, this person had been following behind them, like a dog skin plaster, and he couldn't shake it off.

"The little benefactor also likes to see the bride married?" Ao Ji stuffed the bread in his hand into his mouth, and he said as he ate, "I heard that this bride is married back to Chongxi." ”

"You're pretty well-informed." Jiang Banxia was crowded in the crowd, she couldn't get out, so she had to deal with two sentences.

"It's not that I'm well-informed, it's that everyone in the city is talking about it." Ao Ji ate the cake and said, "Otherwise, how could there be so many people on the street today?" There are not so many people who hold temple fairs on weekdays. ”

"On weekdays?" Jiang Banxia grasped the details of Ao Ji's words: "Have you lived in Hezhou?" ”

"Uh......" Ao Ji, who said that he leaked his mouth, immediately covered up, "I used to have some small businesses in Hezhou, and then I returned to my hometown at a loss." ”

After speaking, he saw Jiang Banxia staring at him suspiciously, his eyes like glass beads, Qing Lingling's glow, and he saw that his heart was abnormal.

Ao Ji laughed twice, "Didn't you lose your capital, I went back to my hometown and made some money, thinking about doing some small business, places like Hezhou are full of gold, as long as you are willing to work hard, you should be able to make a little money......"

The more he speaks, the more holes in his words.

When she was saving this person before, she didn't pay much attention to it, and then she met this person in a carriage, and she only noticed this person's face, but now when she got closer, this man named Ao Ji revealed a sense of disobedience all over her body.

You say that he is a foot trader, but it can be seen that he spends money lavishly, and a piece of broken silver takes a ride, and he does not look like a thrifty foot merchant at all.

You say that he has money, but he refuses to buy himself a new coat, and follows them all the way in wet clothes covered with loess, trying to get close to them while deliberately keeping his distance.

Disobedience and contradiction are embodied in him alone.

Jiang Banxia suspected that this person had already recognized their identities.

She focused all her attention on Ao Ji, a person who somehow didn't know if he was friend or foe.

As the marriage team approached, the candy bride came in front, and the caramel wrapped in red paper was thrown out, and the children went crazy, and the adults went crazy.

Sugar is a very luxurious condiment in Daming, and the middle family may be able to taste one or two during the New Year's Festival, but it is not easy for the poor to say.

One pound of sugar is two taels of silver, and the better frosting sugar on the market is at least three or four taels, according to the amount of loose sugar in this family, it will cost forty or fifty pounds, so it will cost nearly one hundred taels of silver!

This way of grabbing sugar is very lively, there is a saying that the more you grab, the more blessings you get, and people are still willing to do things that are festive.

Ao Ji was also infected by the lively atmosphere, he relied on his tall height, and with his big hand, he grabbed most of the sugar around him, causing the children in the neighborhood to cry and call their mothers.

Not only was he not ashamed, but he was even happier with it.

After the sprinkling of sugar, there was an umbrella cover again, and the bride's palanquin was behind the umbrella cover.

The crowd was noisy, and they were all stretching their necks to look over, as if they could see the bride's appearance through the sedan curtain.

Talk about the bride was everywhere.

Unless it's a pity, the widow is widowed, and the children of good families suffer from sin.

It's a pity, but they still like to watch the excitement as a topic of small talk.

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