Chapter 2 Shopping with my sister in another world
I don't know why there is a saying in the earth world that men are afraid of accompanying women to go shopping, but Yu Youzi is different, he likes to go shopping, especially in various markets and commercial streets in different places and eras, he is very interested. The "I" in my memory is also a person who likes to drill into these places, and I will not leave until the store closes. The commercial street reflects the economic life of a place, and is one of the best places to study the culture and living customs of the place. Although I have regained my memory, I already know that I was not a folklorist in my previous life, but I have always been very interested in culture and customs.
"This is the biggest market in downtown Roderick?"
"Yes, young master. The coachman affirmed Yu Youzi.
The way Yu Youzi and Tahi Yuan left Talan City was by taking an intercity train, and the station was very turbulent, and there were a lot of passengers getting on and off the train. Every time a train comes to a stop, the exit of the station is like an open faucet. Buying tickets at the ticket office is a lot of work.
Fortunately, passenger and freight are two separate stations, let alone Yu Youzi, and even Tahi couldn't imagine squeezing the car with the livestock.
It's just that there were two incidents during the period, one was to encounter a pickpocket, at first Yu Youzi thought it was a pervert who wanted to squeeze Tahi from behind to take advantage, so he secretly paid attention to it, but he didn't expect that the man's purpose was actually the wallet in Tahi Dai's trouser pocket, and Yu Youzi used hand-to-hand combat skills to put it down and handed it over to the city guards patrolling the station, and kept Tahi Dai's beautiful little purse.
Later, on the way to the platform, Tahi was too attentive to the situation behind her, seeing that everyone was like pickpockets and thieves, and did not pay attention to the situation ahead, and knocked over a boiled food stall, although it did not cause much damage, but the stall owner insisted on spilling the sauce he had boiled. Yu Youzi didn't want to quarrel, after all, it was indeed this side that bumped into him first, grabbed Tahi Yuan, who wanted to theorize, and paid ten small pa.
All the way, Tahi was sulking, looking out the window without saying a word, and it was smooth sailing when she came, and she didn't expect to encounter so many unpleasant things when she went back. Yu Youzi didn't want to say anything, so he looked around and looked at the scenery outside the window.
The city of Taran was a slum in the old capital of Golden Mile, before the emergence of intercity trains and airports, and for various reasons, it was during the Paxi Dynasty that the upper echelons decided to build the first airport in Taran. People are instinctively conservative in their decision-making about new things, and as a result, after so many years, the original slum has now developed into a good comprehensive commodity distribution center.
If the use of portals for freight transportation is too expensive, and it is impossible to transport large quantities of goods, the safe, fast, and long-range airship has become the favorite way for merchants and long-distance travelers. After the development of the Taran district, even the ban on livestock entering the city was issued with the progress of civilization.
This area in the lower reaches of the Nasola River has been developing ever since, and even the first to have a train line in the city. The intercity train connecting the city of Roderick to the north is arguably one of the first train lines. Because not all international students can afford the cost of transportation, a large number of guests arrive in Tahran every year and then travel to Roderick. However, due to the establishment of two new airports, this seasonal wave of passenger flow has been greatly alleviated......
These are all seen in the free brochures, which are placed in hanging baskets near the front doors of the train cars. The basket was empty when I rode before, so I didn't care much about anything even if there was anything. But this time, because the female companion around me was in a temper, he looked around and wanted to move something to distract himself, so he took such a tourism brochure to watch.
The booklet and the pictures are actually only three or four pages, but the whole of them is more than ten pages, because it is repeated in a different language. It seems that there is such a concept of tourism in this world, and it is obviously aimed at first-time tourists, not international students who already know the city. Yu Youzi simply finished flipping through it, and it was regarded as reviewing the Kelan and Huai languages.
After getting off the bus in Roderick's city, it was still early, so he stopped a horse-drawn cab and asked the driver to take the two of them to the largest shopping street in the area.
After such a long time, Tahi seemed to have calmed down a lot. Yu Youzi, who paid the fare, smiled embarrassedly, and then walked into the commercial street......
"The food stall in Taran must have no customers. Tahiya commented.
Yu Youzi also looked at the small alley at hand, between the two buildings, there were cart vendors lined up inside, roughly looking, there were five or six in total, on the left hand was a half-person high stall selling all kinds of snacks, and on the right was a small table and small stool provided by the vendor for guests to sit down and eat.
Seeing Tahi humming and sniffing the smell, Yu Youzi said, "Why don't you go in and have a look?"
Two of the five food stalls sell fried leaves on small plates, which are very fragrant, and diners at the small table next to them use the seasoning jars on the table and sprinkle some fine brown powder on them before eating. Yu Youzi sat down with Tahi Yuan and asked for one.
Tahi only looked like she wanted to eat a little, she seemed to be familiar with this food, and Yu Youzi asked her to accompany her to eat in the name of making her a food guide. After paying five small pa, the boss cooked for a while, and then brought the fried leaves on a paper plate to the low table, and counted about ten of them.
"This is a fried Clolo dish, the outer layer is wheat flour, sprinkled with spice powder is another taste......" Tahi Xi picked up the top piece, shook the oil, and picked up the small seasoning jar on the table with the other hand, "In fact, you have to drain all the oil to make it more flavorful, and many shops will prepare a layer of draining paper." ”
"Isn't this paper plate greasy?"
"There's no special draining paper for the effect, right...... The oil makes the fried food soft and greasy and covers the flavor of the spicy powder. ”
Twist the position of the vegetable stalk, drain the oil until no oil drips, then sprinkle seasoning on the leaves, and then hand it to Yu Youzi: "You taste it." ”
Looking around, it seems that they are all eaten directly with their hands, I really hope that there are chopsticks to use, Yu Youzi sighed in his heart, and then took the fried leaves that Tahi Yuan enthusiastically handed over, and took a bite: "Well, yes, it's very fragrant and crispy, and it's just right." "I don't know what kind of oil I use, but it has an astringent taste, which is a characteristic.
After eating the fried lolo dish, three other vendors, one of which sells boiled goods, skipped. The other is a kebab seller, much like the charcoal-grilled lamb kebab stalls you used to see on the streets and alleys of China.
The last one sells sweets, with white slick marble slabs topped with long white blocks like rice cakes, which Tahi described as white sugar cakes. So two came for four small pa. I saw that the stall took the initiative to skillfully use a sharp bamboo slice on the end of the long object, drove the cut small strip to the middle of the stone cutting board, kneaded it round and flattened it with a bamboo slice, and then pinched out the content from the jar at hand, sprinkled it in the middle of the white thin slices, and carefully identified it as a variety of sweet powders, Tosesena's blessing, I have seen it in the sweet tea dish, there are osmanthus flowers, there is sugar, There are petals, and in the last plate, wrap the white wet flakes and roll them into a ball, insert a bamboo stick and hand it to Yu Youzi, which is still very weighty in his hand.
The same process was made and handed to Tahi Yuan, and the girl ate it sweetly: "How is it, it's not bad, this sweet and chewy sweet is very popular with children." ”
"Well, it's very fragrant. Yu Youzi bit the filling inside and said, because the white skin like glutinous rice on the outside is sticky, so there is no need to worry about the sweet powder and sweet particles inside falling out after biting into a gap.
Walking out of the alley, you can still see that there are still shops selling various goods on the left and right, and you can tell that most of the customers here are international students. Here, Yu Youzi and Tahijin each bought the daily necessities they needed.
Yu Youzi and Ta Xiyuan bought a dozen towels and handkerchiefs in a cloakshop, this cloakshop has no windows and is not a kind of home building like the Gray Rock Town Elaine clothing store, but a shop without walls in front and back, the store is not big, if it is not square, then there is a feeling of a bridge hole, the walls and ceilings on both sides are full of clothes and cloth, and many shops on the commercial street are in this style. Tahi liked the towels embroidered with abstract bird motifs at a glance, so she bought a lot of them at this store.
After that, I went to a ceramics shop, where the owner was kneading pottery rough embryos on the spot with a wheel at the door. Yu Youzi and Ta Xiyuan stood aside and watched for a while, feeling that the shopkeeper had good craftsmanship, so he bought teacups and kettles for the two of them, and plates and bowls that might be used. Then I picked a spoon in the cutlery shop next door, and the fist-sized wooden lattice of the store looked like a honeycomb, and all kinds of wooden spoons were stacked inside. The shop also sells toothbrushes and tablecloths, so I bought some casually.
Everything was packed in two medium-sized burlap bags, one of which Yu Youzi and Tahi were carrying on their backs or screwing. Many pedestrians on the road also use burlap bags to carry them. There are also people who have prepared in advance, using bags or baskets.
Eventually, Tahi bought some notebooks, pens and ink on the stationery street.
Due to Yu Youzi's relationship, Tahi also entered Gonzalez Academy to study. A few days ago, the two had a discussion, mainly to discuss when to return to the Tianmu Empire. Both of them felt that it was a bit too useless to go back like this, as Tahi would most likely need to confront the forces that destroyed her family's city. The forces that can destroy a city are not something that two twenty-fifth level people can fight against.
Yu Youzi remembers that he developed a full set of travel systems because of his curiosity about other universes and worlds, and now he is not a character who will stay honestly in one place, it is certain that he will leave the old capital in gold to continue the adventure, and teaching is only a short-term thing. In the future, I will definitely go to the Tower of Babel, which is unique to this world, and it has become a natural long-term plan to discuss with Tahi Yuan to go to the Tower of Babel to upgrade the level first, and then return to the Heavenly Mu Empire.
So now it was time to get ready, so I helped Tahi choose an intermediate Babel adventure course at Gonzalez Academy, and the teacher she found was the former teacher of Cinola and Panxi, Mr. Miletu. Tahijin's talent attribute is still eye-catching, so the classroom teacher didn't say anything and let her come to the class. Although I missed a few classes, fortunately, the adventure course is not a systematic subject, but more like listening to the older generation introduce tourist attractions.
The current arrangement is to let Tahi Yuan go to the class, record the content, bring it back to Yu Youzi, and tell Yu Youzi what he heard in class. This is due to the fact that a lot of Yu Youzi's substitute teaching time conflicts with Milaitu's class.
During this cycle, Yu Youzi's fame spread, and the fact that he could speak multiple foreign languages gradually spread in the academy. The academy is a big and small circle, and there is something new that will make everyone in the academy know about it all at once. And the fact that a person from another world came to be a substitute teacher is a big deal.
Suni arranged two temporary additional classes to increase in a cycle, and after the first class Yu Youzi finished teaching, the response was strong, and as a result, in the second class, not only a large number of trial students came, but also some other foreign language teachers came to audit. As a result, in the middle of the language class between Pasi and Sawep, Yu Youzi was asked to speak Klan to Sauyip, Pasi to Klan, etc., and the result was very well received, and two foreign language teachers invited Yu Youzi to add lessons to their language class. This kind of extra class is like the extracurricular tutoring class in China on the earth, which is a parallel additional course, and the class is taught according to interest.
This matter is good news for Yu Youzi, who needs a lot of income to pay off his debts, but Yu Youzi, who knows his identity, still came back and discussed with Sanfrey first, because becoming a substitute teacher for the Shaoyipu course can be said to be in order to get close to Xian Ruola, and enter the academy, it just so happens that Melvier is a student of her own course, which is very reasonable. At this time, it is a bit difficult to explain the addition of other courses, after all, his current first identity is a courtier of Karelian, not a teacher in the old capital of Gold.
Sanfrei didn't think about it that much, he just asked Yu Youzi not to forget the business. The so-called serious thing is to maintain communication with the armored warrior students on Karelian's side, and the secret is to mix in and touch the small team of immortals. In order to make time for these two things, Yu Youzi did some screening, only taking six classes in a cycle, and arranged the extra class time in the evening, so that there was plenty of time for activities during the day. There are more classes for six days than for some teachers, for example, Ms. Hu Yanna only has five classes in a cycle.