Li Siye nodded again in confirmation, the population density of Chang'an City cannot be compared with modern Xi'an, and the bottom of the society with a little economic strength has a courtyard house, and it cannot be said that the advantages and disadvantages of the courtyard house or the unit building are better, but those who have the ability to live alone in the courtyard in Xi'an are all fucking big money.

"Not bad."

Zhang Lu smiled and rubbed his hands: "Yes, just live first, as for the rent, you can give it at any time." ”

This was just a kind word, how could Li Siye not hear it, he took the initiative to take out the money from his arms, squatted on the stone under the eaves, and counted the money one by one, counting a total of five hundred and thirty copper coins.

"How about I pay a month's rent first, and then renew the rest when I have it?"

"Yes, you can." Zhang Lu stretched out his hand and copied the copper coin on the ground and put it into the blanket on his body.

After the two parties have paid the rent, they also need to find Fang Zheng and Li Zheng in Xinchangfang to check in, which can be regarded as a kind of management of Chang'an City for foreign population. However, Zhang Lu has already handled these things, and there is no need for Li Siye to worry about them.

Now he only has two hundred and seventy yuan left in his hand, and the price of rice in Chang'an City this year should be twenty yuan of rice, and two hundred yuan is enough for his brother and sister to eat rice for half a year, but they can't just eat white rice, and they should always have pickle gnocchi. Now that the east house has been cleaned up, there can't be four walls, and there is not even a roll of straw mats. How much money is left after buying felt, bedding, iron pots, cage drawers, and shovels?

The most important thing is that Zhang Xiaojing and the bad people under his command helped him find a place to live, and also helped him clean up the yard. Is this a faux pas? Not to mention that it was in the Tang Dynasty, even if it is put in modern times, do the new employees of the unit want to invite everyone to dinner? Is it to invite everyone to dinner when a colleague helps to move?

If you go to a restaurant outside to eat, you will definitely spend more money, and you will have one, two, or three ...... There are nine people in total, and if you want to invite these nine people to dinner, two hundred and seventy yuan is definitely not enough.

He thought that maybe he could go to the West Market to buy some cooked mutton and some wine, and come back here to entertain everyone, which should not cost much, so he decided.

Zhang Xiaojing saw that Li Siye's address had been settled, so he beckoned his bad people to prepare to leave, and said goodbye to him: "Siye, you clean up slowly, let's go first." ”

Li Siye stepped out of the courtyard and hurriedly said: "Wait, respect, and brothers, Siye is especially grateful for the help of the brothers, you stay first, I will go to the West Market to buy some household goods and wine and meat, and invite my brother to have a drink with the brothers." ”

Zhang Xiaojing looked at Li Siye in surprise, thought for a moment before raising his head, looked at the sun above his head and said, "Okay, it's only the sun falling, there are still two hours before the curfew, but it's time to drink it." So, heir, I'll go with you, and I'll take something for you. ”

He waved his hand at the unscrupulous people behind him: "If the brothers have something to do, go quickly, and after an hour the heirs will gather, and if there is nothing to do, go find something to do." ”

The bad people laughed and dispersed, Li Siye looked at the backs of these people and found that they were too far away from Zhang Xiaojing in terms of momentum, and this distance was like the gap between the criminal police and the chengguan.

Li Siye asked his sister to sit on his shoulder, followed Zhang Xiaojing, and walked through Zhuque Street to walk out of more than a dozen squares, which is equivalent to crossing more than half of Chang'an City. The atmosphere of the city also slowly unfolded in front of him like a picture scroll.

The Biluo shop in Changxingfang is steaming, the customers line up around the bamboo cage drawer, the owner wears a pointed hat, speaks incoherently and amiably, the plump mother-in-law stands in front of the desk to collect copper coins, and the waist-length skirt is covered with an apron with food stains.

Xinghuafang is high and wide, mostly mansions and courtyards, there are even one or two Gothic buildings in it, the floors and corridors are scattered, the green trees are densely dotted on the eaves, and there are lotus ponds in the courtyards of many people. Zhang Xiaojing said that the dishes and chopsticks used by the people who live here are all made of gold, and it is unimaginable that they are either rich or expensive. Most of the people living in Huaiyuan Fang are Hu people, and many countries can be distinguished from the color of their skin. Persia and the Great Food Merchants traveled between the two places like migratory birds, stationed in Chang'an in spring and summer, and returned to their hometown with camel caravans in autumn and winter.

The most prosperous is the West Market of Chang'an City, which is the distribution center of the Silk Road commodities of the East and West, the shops and warehouses are lined up, covering a wide area, according to the type of goods to be uniformly divided, the wine shop on the street is all kinds of restaurants and inns, the wine flags are like a banner waving in the wind, extending from the street to the end of the street. The pattern of various silk shops is roughly the same, except for the long flags and lanterns hanging outside the door, and the owner of the silk village tries his best to make them bright in color and in a variety of postures, and his intentions are no less than those of modern light box advertisements.

On the street, the Hu people and the Han people rubbed shoulders, just from the clothing, you can distinguish more than a dozen races, Zhang Xiaojing explained to him while walking: "The top of the head is wrapped in a white scarf, the one who likes to wear a white robe is the Nanzhao people, the head is wrapped in gold and silver, and the one who wraps silk without sleeves is the Tianzhu people, and the Silla and the Japanese have no characteristics, so it is difficult to distinguish." Those who like to cover their faces with scarves and curly hair are big cannibals, those who wear yarmullen hats and lapels are the Qiuzi people or Yuyi people of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, and those with blue eyes and golden hair are the Whisk people. ”

Li Siye looked around, but he didn't feel too curious, he participated in various kickboxing matches before he crossed over, and the opponents he met were all foreigners. It's just that what surprised him was that the history books said that Chang'an City was an international city at that time, and when I saw it today, I realized that it was really the case, and one of the ten people he met in the West Market was a Hu person.

Carrying the weight behind his master should be the legendary Kunlun Nu, with brown skin, but not as dark as the black Africans, and probably similar to the Filipino maids of today. The people Zhang Xiaojing is talking about are probably the Byzantines at that time, these people have yellow hair, blue eyes, wear silk round-necked robes often worn by Tang people, and wear a cross sign on their chests.

There shouldn't be a way to go back, if you live in the Tang Dynasty, this era is not bad.

The streets of the West Market are crisscrossed, and although there are banners in front of the shops, if you want to find a shop selling quilts in this street lined with shops, if you don't have the guidance of passers-by, you have to look for an afternoon.

Of course, the quilt was not called a quilt in the Tang Dynasty, but called a quilt, also known as a big quilt. Xu Shen said in "Shuo Wen Jie Zi": The bed clothes are small quilts, and the quilts are big quilts. At that time, cotton cultivation was not yet popular, and wealthy families filled their quilts with animal hair, or directly covered tiger skins and fox furs. Ordinary people fill it with rush grass or catkins.

Most of the fabric shops in Chang'an West City sell quilts, and the shops are wooden buildings with upper and lower floors, while the large silk village has three or four floors, with the top and second floors used for living and warehouses, and the ground floor for storefronts. In order to facilitate visitors, the shops are wide open, the doors can be moved and disassembled, and when the store closes at night, the clerk closes the entrance.

Zhang Xiaojing took Li Siye in, it was such a shop, most of the business in the store was silk, and there was also some Ge cloth. The shopkeeper knew Zhang Xiaojing and called him Jinglang, with a bit of respect in his expression, there may be an old relationship between the two, which he doesn't know.

"My brother has just arrived in Chang'an, and he has just settled down, and he wants to buy two rolls of quilts and a cloth sheet from you."

The shopkeeper was very discerning, knew what the guests needed, and led them directly to the kudzu cloth rack and asked, "Do you want to buy quilt noodles, or do you want to buy quilt cores together?" ”