Extra: The Snow of Yanbei (5)

During this time, Zhou Yu lived very comfortably. The border is calm, the eldest sister is virtuous and sensible, the younger sister is delicate and cute, A-Niang followed her sister to Xi'an, I heard that I liked my brother-in-law's horse farm in Xianyang, so I simply lived there.

This year's Yanbei is also different from previous years, and the Jiangshang Daji, which has disappeared for many years, has reopened today.

The so-called river market is a market built on ice, stretching for more than ten miles, prosperous and lively.

When the old Yan King was still there, every year in November, this river market will be opened, and the merchants outside the customs will also hear the news, selling seafood, skins, medicinal herbs, and all kinds of strange gadgets, doing business here, and even the Koreans and red-haired people.

Later, Yang Qin became the governor of the capital, and under the heavy tax, this large gathering on the river also disappeared. Every winter, the old Yanbei people look at the empty ice surface, and they will talk to the children about the lively scene of the big market on the river in the past.

This year, Zhou Yu defeated the Tartars at the border pass, the Tartar army retreated three hundred miles, Zhou Tong got married, the two small county lords came back to the province, and the emperor exempted Yanbei from paying taxes for three years, which can be described as a happy event.

Zhou Yu ordered someone to post a notice early, and took out three thousand taels of silver from the Yanwang Mansion to re-establish the Jiangshang Daji.

As soon as he entered Layue, the river was already crowded with people, and after Yikuan and Yirong heard about it, they ran over and pestered him to go to the market.

On this day, Zhou Yu took his two younger sisters to the market, and Yun Buhua and Ke Yi'er followed.

Although they are all Han land, the customs and habits outside the customs are different from those inside the Guan. Yi Kuan and Yi Rong are no longer children, if they are in the customs, they will either change into men's clothes, or they will also wear a fence on their heads and cover them tightly. But in Yanbei, they can wear women's clothes, dress up beautifully and go shopping with their brothers, and no one will accuse them of showing up and breaking the rules.

This is also one of the reasons why Yikuan wants to return to Yanbei.

In the capital, except for her sister Zhou Tong, no woman can ride a horse on the street, and a woman like her sister, in the entire Great Qi Dynasty, I am afraid that there are only Mrs. Yun and General Fan who is far away in Yulin.

Yikuan knew that she would never be like her sister, but she was very lucky, glad that she was her sister's sister, and that she could live happily under the wings of her brother and sister.

People are more valuable in self-knowledge, and more valuable are in contentment. Yikuan is such a person, just like now, she can be with her sister, in Yanbei, far away in the capital, wandering around the downtown as happy as she wants, which is already very content for her.

She was born a noble daughter, and she will be more delicate under the protection of her brothers and sisters in the future, and there will be fewer and fewer times when she can enjoy with the people, so she cherishes the happiness in front of her.

"Third sister, look, that little hub is so beautiful." Yirong pointed to a stall and said, but the other hand held Yun Buhua tightly, it was the first time she walked on the ice, and she was careful with every step, for fear that she would slip.

Yi Kuan looked in the direction of her finger, and sure enough, she saw a stall full of colorful small flower drums, those small flower drums were strangely shaped, if it weren't for the young man who beat the drum, she wouldn't even think it was a drum.

"Hey, that's a lot of fun." Yikuan also came to be interested.

Zhou Yu was actually not interested in any of this, he was absent-minded, because he found that although this big set looked lively, in fact, looking at it, all the people who did business were Yanbei people, and even the things sold were unique to Yanbei. Looking at the passers-by, dressed up, they look like Yanbei people, not Guannei people.

Zhou Yu was a little frustrated, although Yanbei was too peaceful and there were no heavy taxes, there were still no merchants from outside the customs to do business.

In the long run, this is not a good thing.

When he was in the capital, he went shopping every day, and he hoped that one day, in Yanbei City, there would be at least one street as prosperous as the capital.

"Second brother, look at it, have you ever seen such a strange little drum before?" Yi Kuan, who was beside him, asked.

Zhou Yu came back to his senses, he looked ahead, he saw the boy selling drums, the boy hung the drum on his waist, shouting and beating the drum, although the drum sound was ordinary, but those drums were colorful, even beautiful.

And the boy who beat the drum......

Zhou Yu narrowed his eyes, his black face, and his bright eyes, especially those eyes, were like obsidian soaked in white mercury, as bright as the morning star.

"Second brother, did you see it?" Yi Kuan on the side asked again.

"See, see, buy!" Zhou Yu said.

Yi Kuan glanced at him, how stupid is the second brother, you don't even ask what the price of the drum is, just say buy it, people will treat us as stupid people with a lot of money.

"Huh? Childe, that's not that isn't ......"

Ke Yi'er, who was following behind, also saw the young man selling drums, he stretched out his fingers, Zhou Yu's eyes were quick, he slapped his hand away, and said, "Ning family, be quiet." ”

Yes, this is the Ning family.

Although Li Yongji also said that the Ning family has not had a female baby for two consecutive generations, who knows if it was picked up or robbed.

Yes, it is likely to be robbed, this kind of thing has never happened, as powerful as Zhou Tong, wasn't he robbed when he was a child?

At this point, Zhou Yu and Ke Yier have a rare tacit understanding.

"Childe, isn't Old Man Yu already retired in the capital? What is the Ning family doing in our Yanbei? ”

Also, it is possible if the Ning family goes to Xi'an, after all, Xiao Ren is in Xi'an, and the Xiao family and the Ning family are like a family.

But what happened to Yanbei's Guantaning family?

Seventeen or eighteen thoughts flashed through Zhou Yu's mind.

Is it because you are not well-behaved enough? Aroused the displeasure of the emperor's uncle?

Or does the Dingguo Mansion have any crooked thoughts, sending Ning's family to fight the front station?

Or, what court felons have fled to Yanbei, and the Ning family has come to hunt down the fugitives?

After all, behind the Ning family, in addition to the Xiao family of the Dingguo Mansion, there is also Long Huwei.

Dragon Tiger Guard is the same as Flying Fish Guard, but all the pickled things that can't be seen can be related to them.

Zhou Yu muttered in his heart, Yun Buhua had already taken the two little county lords over to pick up the small drum.

"Buy one more, bring it to my sister, and buy another one for Sister Ruyang." Yi Kuan and Yi Rong were picking it up, and they were chirping and cooing.

After a while, Yun Buhua carried a few colorful small drums in his hand.

Yirong said to Zhou Yu: "The little brother who sells small drums just now said that this drum is a Goryeo drum, not something from our Daqi, and it can only be bought in Daqi, that is, in Yanbei, but second brother, I have seen it for the first time in Yanbei, is there a shop opened by Koreans in Yanbei?" ”