Chapter 17 Chang'an Commercial Street

The curious appearance was almost like the hillbilly who walked into Chang'an Chengfang City for the first time, and Wangcai, who was walking behind him, saw Li Mao showing such a humiliating behavior as a prince, and he endured it for a long time before he dared to open his mouth tentatively and persuade him.

"Xiao Langjun, these chaotic places, let's leave quickly, your noble status reluctantly offended them, if you like to see some novel and interesting things, then we have to go to Huaiyuan Fang for a walk, there are more novelty and good things, although the price is higher, but in terms of the food in front of you, it is the roasted leg of lamb in the drunken fairy building......"

"What? Grilled leg of lamb! Does it taste the same as the barbecue that Ben Langjun usually makes? Before Wangcai finished speaking, Li Mao immediately stopped, turned around and asked rhetorically, and then Wangcai scratched his ears and cheeks, and he couldn't answer for a while.

However, at this time, the big and small shuang'er who had been accompanying Li Mao couldn't help but smile and stood up to expose Wangcai's trick of wanting to brag.

"Lang Jun, don't listen to his nonsense and boasting, in his month, I'm afraid he doesn't even dare to step on the threshold of the Drunken Immortal Building, but when Xiaoshuang and his sister were in Ning Wangfu, they had the honor to go with the prince and his mother once, compared with the two, the roasted leg of lamb is really not as palatable as the food you made Your Highness! Compared with natural dwellings, it is even more superior......"

After Wangcai was ridiculed by Xiaoshuang like this, he immediately laughed a little embarrassed, and then pretended to scratch the itch, scratching the back of his head, and Li Mao patted him on the shoulder very understandingly after seeing his embarrassed appearance, and then comforted.

"Wangcai, Ben Langjun knows that you were born in hardship since you were a child, and you have been serving in the border army since your father's position, and it is normal for people to not save a few dollars in this bag. You don't have to hide it like this, and besides, didn't you just marry a bride last year? It shows that you are usually a diligent person, and you have never been to a high-end wine store, so it's not a shame, and I haven't been there like you, haha......"

After Li Mao said these words with a smile, as if to blame, he raised his hand and quietly pinched Xiao Shuang'er a few times, making Xiao Shuang'er babble and keep jumping and dodging.

What about this person? On the surface, snobbish, vulgar...... And he is very slippery, but in terms of mental fragility, he is actually such an extremely sensitive and good-looking person.

Although he was still standing dumbfounded at the moment, he didn't dare to look at everyone, but what Li Mao said and what he did, he was a non-stopper, he saw it all in his eyes, and he understood the deep meaning of Li Mao doing this in his heart.

So after a small psychological fluctuation, he immediately smiled and said to Xiao Shuang'er, "Your Highness...... Oh! No, Lang Jun, in fact, what the little sister said is right, I Wangcai has indeed never been to the drunken fairy building, but its name has long been passed on by the mouth of the people, and it was famous far and wide before our natural residence was opened, and Huaiyuan Fang specializes in first-class goods, which should be the place you want to go......"

"I see, how can I say it, Wangcai, you are very familiar with the 108 Fang City in Chang'an County!"

"It's too familiar to talk about it, but since you ask, Childe, Wangcai will definitely tell you everything in detail. In fact, before the little one was fortunate enough to serve as a servant in the Ning Wangfu (the Tang Dynasty had a slavery system), he had been begging for a living in the city of Chang'an. ”

"Okay, these beautiful words, you don't have to say them in front of Ben Langjun, let's talk about interesting things in the city, after today, I'm afraid you will have to walk around more in it!"

"Whoa! As far as the small knows, in the west market near our palace, there are Xiuzhen Fang, Anding Fang, Huaiyuan Fang, and Changle Fang...... There are as many as eighteen large and small visiting markets, and the name called inside, the name is actually wider than one hundred and eight, and the most mysterious and peculiar in Fanfang is the daily trip to Tibet, Persia, Turkic, Tianzhu, Fusang...... Waiting for the Fan clan, business travel, the number of people is no less than tens of thousands. ”

"Ah...... Is there so many people coming in and out of Fanfang every day, and if the two people visit the market together, wouldn't there be more than 100,000 people scattered in it? Can such a dense market really be managed in an orderly manner without mistakes and omissions? Ben Langjun used to go out at night, but he really ignored this......"

Li Mao sighed and couldn't help but look around in a circle in place, and turned around, and in the end, he actually pulled up the little pair and spun with some unfinished thoughts.

Wangcai and his entourage saw their little master playing so selflessly, and they couldn't help but laugh a few times, and then they consciously expanded their vigilance and blocked all the passers-by out of the circle.

However, Li Mao's casual behavior quickly attracted many curious people on both sides of the market to stop and look, and some even raised their fingers to point and discuss, but when they saw clearly the several guards standing next to Li Mao, all of them were carrying special short knives on their waists, and their faces were fierce, they all automatically dispersed and walked away, because as far as Li Mao and their group of people, judging from the gorgeous clothes alone, it is not difficult to deduce which wealthy son went to the street to play.

Wangcai, who was waiting on the side, saw Li Mao's excited mood and calmed down a little, so he continued to slowly introduce, "Lang Jun, do you know that the two cities of the east and west are very big together?" The city of Dongfang where we are now standing, there are 600 steps long and wide on the east and west, north and south, the city is narrow and small, there are 220 lines of goods and goods, it is lined up on all sides, it is strange on all sides, the opening of the market beats the drum 200 times, the sunset hits the cymbals 300 times scattered, most of the small shops in the square are in front of the shop and the back shop, and they live towards the street......"

The more Wangcai spoke, the more energetic he became, and Li Mao listened with relish, and kept nodding his head from time to time to ask about the important places inside, but just as the master and servant were talking while walking, there was a sudden large-scale commotion at the door of a dental shop on the corner of the street, which attracted hundreds of people to crowd in to join in the fun.

Then, in about ten seconds, dozens of bad people patrolling the streets came from all directions as if they had received an alarm, and they acted quickly, which was not much better than that of later generations.

Seeing such an amazing efficiency of the Tang patrol, Li Mao was shocked, but also immediately had the urge to rush over to join in the fun, but at this moment, what puzzled him the most was how these street patrols got the police information and quickly found the location of the incident in Datang, where there was no network monitoring, walkie-talkies and other means of communication.

"Wangcai, how did these bad people do it? Why are they in a dense crowd so that they can detect the accident in the first place, and even accurately determine the location of the incident? ”

After Li Mao asked such a question that he thought was very difficult to answer, he turned around and looked around, trying to find out the mystery himself, because as soon as he asked the question, he suddenly felt that he was a little illiterate in promoting Wangcai.

But what is surprising is that when he heard Li Mao ask such a question, not only did Wangcai not hesitate at all, but even the big and small shuang'er around him couldn't help but cover their mouths and laugh.

"Ah...... Lang Jun, you don't even know about visiting the watchtowers in the city, you look up and look around, the several watchtowers up to 100 meters high are the command posts of the bad people patrolling the streets, this is the same as our border army fighting on the battlefield, but the border army is using gongs and drums as a trumpet, and the watchtowers on the high places are replaced with flags to command, mobilizing the bad people walking in the market! ”

After Wangcai finished answering, he raised his hand in disbelief and pointed into the distance, and Li Mao immediately raised his head a little unconsciously to look in the direction he was pointing, and when he saw the four watchtowers in the east, west, north and south, which were almost towering into the sky, he almost screamed silently.

"Holy! No, there are flags in Datang, is it so advanced? Isn't it a TV series on the Twelve Hour Dog Day in Chang'an? This watchtower is really fucking there......"

Although Wangcai couldn't understand the trendy words and phrases that Li Mao spit out between his words at the moment, in line with the principle of being a good follower, he still opened the way very responsibly and chose the questions he could understand to answer.

"Childe, the watchtower has existed since ancient times, and the flag language was also a business trip in the early years, and the necessary skills for the fleet to travel far away are not very peculiar, but our Datang has been fighting in all directions for many years, and there are many strange people in the army.

"Bull wrench! In this way, the flag, gongs and drums and other devices are simple signal towers, no wonder it is always said that the war years are the flashpoint of scientific and technological inventions, Ben Langjun is considered to be a long knowledge today, go, let's hurry in and see, this king wants to see how the bad people in our Tang Dynasty dealt with this ordinary civil dispute......"

So under the desperate push of Wangcai and his entourage, Li Mao and Shuang'er quickly squeezed into the lively central seat.

But when a few people stood still, they saw that the scene in front of them was a huge iron cage, and inside were two living, unclothed, and scarred women.

The twin sisters, who have always been timid and soft-hearted, covered their faces in fright and screamed in an instant, Li Mao saw this situation, although she was also shocked, but under the instinctive reaction, he still quickly pulled the two girls behind him to dodge.

However, at this time, the spectators crowded around Li Mao seemed to have long been surprised by such a scene, in addition to laughing and pushing, they actually commented on the posture and the development of the limbs of the fannu, as if there were not two thinking people locked up in front of them, but ordinary domestic animals.

After hearing these words, although Li Mao was extremely unhappy in his heart, after thinking of the unwritten lowly status system of the Tang Dynasty, he had no choice but to let out a sigh, because even if he was strong now, he was afraid that he would still not be able to compete with the laws of this era, so after calming the emotions of the big and small shuang'er, Li Mao had extremely complex emotions in his heart, and once again cast his eyes into the iron cage to observe.

In addition to the scars on their bodies, the hands and feet were also locked with finger-thick chains, and the two of them except for a few loud scolds from time to time, the rest of the time they stared at the bloodshot eyes and the spectators outside the cage.

Li Mao's crowded crowd was getting closer and closer to the cage, so close that he seemed to be able to hear the heartbeat of the two women, but at this moment, the two women sneered at Li Mao a little inexplicably, and they didn't forget to spit on Li Mao one by one.