Pang Ran next to him immediately poured wine, "This is the best jade ice roast, Brother Xu taste it, tell us about it, what happened?" How did this poison come about? ”

The whole person floated a little, and as soon as he picked up the wine glass, there was a cough from the master's back.

"I won't drink this wine anymore, but I will receive it, and the story is told correctly."

Pang Ran and the others hurriedly added food to Xu Yu, "Then Brother Xu eat more." ”

When it was almost done, Jiang Lan walked to the counter alone to check out, and the proprietress happily made calculations. "Eight mutton pots, as well as two pots to take, eighty-nine pots of jade ice roast, plus those added dishes, a total of two hundred and fifty-three taels and four dollars, today's guest officer is so bold, so he wiped the three taels and four dollars of silver."

Jiang Lan took out the two hundred and fifty taels of silver tickets from her purse, "Two hundred and fifty taels are collected, those two pots, I will come over to get them later, when will your shop usually close." ”

The proprietress said, "The night market will open tonight, and the merchants will not close until the market closes. ”

"Okay, I'll get it later."

Jiang Lan turned around and walked among everyone, "Brothers, do you want to go back or take a stroll?" ”

"Of course, it's a walk!" Mammoth took the lead.

Then Jiang Lan and his party walked towards Huai City, the largest city in the West City.

"The hustle and bustle is for profit, and the hustle and bustle is for profit." Mammotha couldn't help but look at this rich city.

Jiang Lan was also shocked by the scene of the imperial capital Huai City, compared to the bustle in the east of the city, it was more of a punishment for people

Seeing a pack team on the main road next to the stream, far away from the northeast to the west of the city, five mules and horses were burdened, the groom in front drove the leading livestock to the bridge at the bend, and the pack man behind drove the pack team forward with a horse whip, and the destination was about to arrive, from the look of the pack man skillfully driving the pack team e799bee5baa6ee69d knew that they were old horse gangs who had been walking for many years.

"Where did these caravans come from?" Jiang Lan couldn't help asking.

The behemoth on the side hurriedly said, "My country has only been trading with Nanliang recently, and this horse gang is naturally coming from Nanliang." ”

Zhu Mingyan shook his head, "I don't think it looks like it, many of the people in this horse gang are tall and mighty, although they wear white scarves on their faces, they can vaguely see their rugged appearance, I look at it, they look like people from the north." But it is not known whether it was the Northern Zhou or the Northern Qi. ”

"Brother Mingyan's analysis is reasonable, but didn't our Da Chen prohibit trade with the north more than ten years ago, how did these people get involved?" Mammoth wondered.

Zhu Mingyan took two steps, looked at it a few more times, and then said, "Thinking about it, they should have gone to Nanliang and then came to us, and it was Nanliang's herbs on their carriage that were properly used, so they must have been like a big Chen." ”

"Brother Mingyan, you are really too smart. Are you really not going to participate in the imperial examination this year? Pang Ran lamented.

Zhu Mingyan sighed, "It's not time to be at home, wait." ”

Chen Qing glanced at the student called "Mingyan", turned his head and promised, "Check it carefully, and the caravan." ”

"No."

Jiang Lan behind her saw everything in her eyes, and she knew the distress of these students since she entered the Guozi Prison, so she really hoped that her cousin Chen Qing could stand up and end this dispute in the imperial court.

"There's a bridge, let's go over it." Jiang Lan suggested.

A sampan is tied to the tree next to the bridge, and several farmhouse yards are scattered and orderly among the trees, and there are four crow's nests on the branches of several tall trees, which look no different from the way crows build their nests and the height of their nests.

There are several stone mills in the threshing field, which are used for threshing during the autumn harvest, and are still idle there. There are a few sheep in the sheepfold, and next to the sheepfold seems to be a chicken and duck pen, as if a large group of chickens and ducks are raised in the pen, a good picture of a quiet countryside, not to be amazed that Da Chen is so rich and attracts neighboring countries to fight, such as the developed agriculture and breeding industry, no wonder.

Look at the right side but come to face is a team to pick up relatives and marry the wife, slowly turn from the north, the groom behind the official riding a jujube red horse, behind the horse is a porter carrying the bride's dowry, a person in front of the horse holding the bride's dressing box, in front of a sedan chair should be the bride sitting, because the sedan chair is decorated with a variety of plants and flowers, behind the sedan chair a porter carries a load of fish.

Jiang Lan wondered: "It's so strange, where is there a big night to get married?" ”

Pang Ran walked over, pulled Jiang Lan's clothes, and said, "This is **." ”

“**？” Jiang Lan was puzzled, and glanced at the sedan chair again, and sure enough, there was yin qi wrapped around it.

"This is a custom, after many unmarried men and women die early, relatives and friends of the two parties are afraid that they will be lonely under the spring, so they will pull a ** for them within the first seven days, so as to have a companionship under the whole spring." Chen Qing looked at Jiang Lan with contempt on his face.

Jiang Lan turned her head, ignored the situation, and asked again, "What is the husband behind the dumplings and carrying a load of fish?" ”

"That means that the woman's mother's family wishes her husband to be rich and rich." Chen Qing said again.

Jiang Lan ignored the argument and turned her head to look at Zhu Mingyan.

Zhu Mingyan glanced at Chen Qing and then at Jiang Lan, and said, "It's indeed as Jiang Qigongzi said." ”

"It's boring." Jiang Lan kicked her feet in boredom.

The greeting procession gradually entered the market, and the artists in front immediately sang and danced to attract people's attention, and the scene was even more lively.

The geisha stood on the floats of the parade in light gauze clothes, and the graceful dancing posture was inevitably attracted by Jiang Lan's daughter.

Suddenly, a towel was handed over to him, and Jiang Lan looked up at it.

"What are you doing?" Jiang Lan wondered.

"You have fallen off, don't you know?"

Jiang Lan subconsciously wiped it, and provoked Chen Qing to laugh.

"You've gone too far!"

Chen Qing shook his head, and almost stuck out his tongue to play Jiang Lan.

It was because of the interruption of Chen Qing, and the exquisite acrobatic performances were perfectly missed by Jiang Lan, and she couldn't help but regret it when she came back to her senses. Suddenly, Jiang Lan found that the people around him were all looking at each other with wide eyes.

It turned out that not far from the opposite side, a donkey who had just unloaded the goods saw the donkey tied in front of the teahouse opposite, and then immediately made a courtship cry, and the donkey in front of the teahouse immediately responded, twisted the front hooves of the donkey, jumped into the air, and tried to respond, but the reins were tied too firmly and could not break free.

This donkey also tried to run to the donkey in the direction of the teahouse, at this time a child in the direction of the donkey is not far away, a danger is in front of the eyes, at this critical moment, the coachman next to the car wants to run forward and pick up the child, but how can people run so fast? At this time, suddenly a black figure stepped forward and grabbed the reins of the donkey, and a serious traffic accident was avoided, and people sighed.

"Shen Qi?" Jiang Lan was surprised.