"Senior sister, haven't you had enough fun? If we don't go back, we will stay overnight in the inner city, and the money I brought is all spent, and we have no money~ to sleep on the street. ”

The next evening.

Xu Zhou regretted a little that he promised Jiang Hongdou to take her to Confucius Temple to play and go shopping yesterday.

Early this morning, Xu Zhou found a hat to cover his face and put it on Jiang Hongdou to cover his identity, and the senior sister and brother locked the courtyard door and went straight to the Confucius Temple in the inner city.

The Confucius Temple is the most prosperous area in the capital, which is not like the north, but a bit like the charm of the southern water town, with white walls and gray tiles, splashed ink paintings, and strings of red lanterns hanging under the eaves of the high raised buildings, gently swaying with the evening breeze, exuding orange-red lights.

On the long street of bluestone, there are wine shops, rouge shops, tea houses, and restaurants...... There is everything, a meandering river flows quietly, not far away, there is a bluestone bridge across the river, wearing Confucian shirts, the scholar wearing a crown and a girl wearing a cool skirt stand on the bridge to express their hearts to each other, you and I are nong, the old man who holds the boat on the river passes under the bridge, and occasionally sings a minor tune that people can't understand.

This is the most prosperous commercial street in the capital, no matter day or night, there is never a shortage of pedestrians on the street, there are even more people in the night than in the day, due to the unique charm of the water town, over time, it has become a good place for young men and women to date, of course, there are many inns on the street, and also welcome the young men and girls who are in love with the depths to visit, sowing the seeds of life.

"No, I still have to play, junior brother, let's go!"

Jiang Hongdou, who was wearing a moire white dress and a hat on his head, grabbed Xu Zhou's wrist and dragged him back, with so much strength that Xu Zhou stumbled and had no chance to resist at all.

The two of them then disappeared into the surging crowd.

Because Jiang Hongdou's eyes couldn't see, Xu Zhou's mouth didn't stop all the way, like a machine gun, continued to output, and used not flowery words to describe the scenery on the street for the girl, as well as novelties that have only appeared on the market in recent years, such as moving eggs, and a fluffy fox tail, the fox tail also has a conical stopper, I don't know what it is for...... Xu Zhou observed for a long time and found that there were still many women who came to buy.

The girl walked around the street, the corners of her lips raised, and the pear vortex smiled.....

When she was a child, she often came here to play, and she had seen shirtless men spitting fire in their mouths, blonde and blue-eyed foreigners playing with snakes, and poor sour literati forming groups on the street to show off their skills...... Everything was interesting, and she couldn't get enough of it, but she hadn't been here since she couldn't see, and her ears had never been so noisy as they were today.

It's hard to come out today, she has to play for three days and three nights, and she will return after having fun.

"Senior brother, what's there?" Jiang Hongdou stopped and pointed in a direction. Xu Zhou now looks like life is worse than death, indeed, accompanying a woman to go shopping, ordinary men are really not good.

"As I said at noon, it was a teahouse, three stories high, with a long plaque and carved railings..."

"Oh..."Jiang Hongdou listened, nodded, and pointed in another direction: "There, it's very lively." ”

Xu Zhou looked over, it was a big man performing a scene of breaking a boulder on his chest, and he was inviting the audience to come on stage to pick up a sledgehammer.

"A big stone in the chest...... The man's pectoral muscles are a little ......"

……

The lights are like a dream, and the sparks are hazy.

"Sugar gourd—"

"I want it!"

The former is a vendor selling sugar gourds shouting, and the latter is Jiang Hongdou pulling Xu Zhou's sleeve and asking his junior brother to buy it for her.

The two stood in front of the small vendor selling sugar gourds, Xu Zhou subconsciously touched his deflated purse, with a bitter face: "Senior sister, I have no money." ”

His wallet had long been squeezed dry by ginger red beans.

Also, the prices in the inner city are very expensive, and the two cups of cold drink sour plum syrup bought at noon can be bought in two large barrels in Ping'an County.

The money he brought with him was not much, he had to eat and drink on this day, and he had to spend money everywhere, and now he couldn't take out a penny, Xu Zhou was still worried about where to sleep tonight.

The vendor selling sugar gourds looked at the people dressed by the two of them, and when he heard that the two had no money, his face immediately pulled down and turned around to leave.

"I don't have the money to make a lot of fun, it's really ......"

"Is this enough?"

As soon as the hawker stepped out with his front foot, Jiang Hongdou's back foot took out a pearl from the deerskin bag on his waist and handed it over.

When the vendor saw it, his eyes lit up, and he almost engraved the word "greed" on the door of his head.

"Enough ......"

The vendor took the pearl, looked at it carefully, and said three times in a row.

In the end, he simply inserted the straw handle full of sugar gourds and gave them to ginger red beans. Before Xu Zhou could stop it, the cheap vendor ran away, for fear that the two would regret it.

After the people left, Xu Zhou looked helplessly at Jiang Hongdou, who was generous, and said dissatisfiedly: "Senior sister, you are so rich, didn't you say it earlier?" ”

Jiang Hongdou held a string of sugar gourds in one hand, shook it gently, smiled with a small face, and crooked eyebrows: "You didn't ask me." ”

Xu Zhou covered his forehead and was helpless.

Knowing that he had suffered a loss, he turned his attention to the deerskin bag that Jiang Hongdou never left his body, which was bulging, and he didn't know what was inside.

"Still shopping?"

"Walk!"

Xu Zhou "snapped" and gave himself a mouth, what are you doing with this mouth, cheap!

The two continued to plunge into the crowd.

Xu Zhou carried the straw handle and swaggered into the market, holding Jiang Hongdou's wrist tightly with one hand, like a child, for fear that she would lose it. During this period, a few greedy children surrounded him, gave copper plates, and bought a string of sugar gourds with satisfaction.

The evening breeze is gentle on the streets, and the sky is full of stars.

The girl who followed behind her had a happy smile on her face, opened her small mouth from time to time, bit down a sweet and sour hawthorn fruit, and then asked Xu Zhou to tell her the scene on the street.

At this moment, she seemed to return to her childhood, the most lively days.

……

In the nameless alley.

The hawker selling sugar gourds was surrounded by several "strongmen", and the hawker shrank in the corner, just about to shout loudly, but he caught a glimpse of the strongman having pulled out his knife, and suddenly sighed in his heart and swallowed the words back.

"Who are you? This is the capital, at the foot of the Son of Heaven, there are patrolling officials on the street...... "The hawkers pretend to be calm."

Several strongmen were not afraid at all, and the big man at the head had a cold face, and at first glance he was a Lian family, he stretched out his palm and ordered:

"Bring the stuff!"

The peddler subconsciously clenched the pearl in his hand and shook his head: "What, I don't know what you're talking about?" ”

Hearing this, several big men took another half step forward and said fiercely: "Fang Cai, bring the pearls that the girl gave you!" ”

Without further ado, they held the peddler's hands, unwrenched his five fingers, and took the pearl out of it.

"You're robbing ...... Hmm~"

The man took out the pearl, wrapped it in a handkerchief, and then took out a piece of silver from his bosom and put it in the peddler's mouth.

"Shout again, your tongue will be cut off!"