The ordinary daily life of East Street in Ping'an Town
Ping'an Town is very small, far less than those county towns outside, let alone the central prosperous place of the Shenzhou Continent, where the permanent population is only a few dozen households, a few hundred people. But thanks to the geographical convenience here, there is no shortage of adventurers from all over the continent throughout the year, spring and autumn. So, although this is a small town, although the sparrows are small, they have all kinds of organs! But compared to other small villages, it is undoubtedly very large, and it has a different kind of liveliness.
There is a wide and neat street from the east end of the town to the town, and compared to the rest of the town, except for the Forget Worry Building in the center of the town, the east street of the town is quite lively from the early morning every day. On both sides of the street, there are Uncle Zhao's rice shop, Uncle Wang's pharmacy, Aunt Li's small tailor's shop, Uncle Blacksmith's blacksmith's blacksmith shop, and a pork shop opened by Xiaohu's father Wang butcher······
So, every day the townspeople come to East Street to take a walk and buy some daily necessities.
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It's another early morning, and there are already many residents and pedestrians in the town on the streets of East Street, coming and going, carrying baskets and baskets, but it is quite noisy. However, pedestrians on this street rarely see strange faces from outside. This is because most of the foreign business and trade are on the second floor of the Forget Worry Building, where there are all kinds of stalls set up by foreign merchants.
And this is also to try not to affect the lives of local residents.
After all, the place where trade and goods flow is mostly a place where three religions and nine streams, dragons and snakes live together!
And all the residents who come to settle in Ping'an Town, far away from the prosperity of the center of the mainland and come to this place, most of them have some unknown past, so they might as well have some thoughts of escapism! Therefore, they prefer a quiet and comfortable life. Therefore, if you are a first-time visitor to this place, you may feel that it is a little different from the outside when you come to East Street.
There are quite a few shops on East Street, which are enough to meet the daily needs of the residents of the town, and the owners of the shops here don't seem to be doing business like they are doing business! Because there is no chaos of selling like outside, at least, it is completely different from the stalls on the second floor of the Forget Worry Building.
If you say that the trade fair on Qingshuiping, it is a large business that brings together a number of people, it is not easy to organize, and it can only come a few times a year, but each time the liveliness is comparable to the time of the New Year's festival in Ping'an Town; When it comes to the stalls on the second floor of the Forget Worry Building, it is more like a perennial rental trade point in Ping'an Town by various shops outside. After all, there are adventurers from all over the world here, and they will always bring out countless resources from the primitive mountains, and most of the inconvenient ones will choose to deal with them nearby, and these merchants will receive goods from here and then transport them to other places, and they can get several times or even dozens of times the profit when they come and go! But, East Street, is more about serving the people in the town.
"Uncle Zhao, are you up, have you eaten?" "Uncle Wang, good morning!" ····· Zhou Chen walked on the streets of East Street, greeted the neighbors in the town politely, and the shops on both sides of the town's East Street also began to open their doors to welcome customers. But at the door of the rice shop and the medicine shop, there is an old-fashioned deck chair with unknown fur animal clothes on it, and a small table next to it, on which an old-fashioned teapot is placed.
"Boy Zhou is up!" "Boy Zhou, it's early!" "Boy Zhou is here!" Obviously, everyone is also very familiar with Zhou Chen, and they have responded kindly.
In each shop, some have apprentice helpers, while others have only the boss, and at this time, many residents of the town have come in and out to buy things. However, there is no common bargaining link for outsiders, and there is no shop owner's various fancy sales, shouting hard, and it is completely calm.
Well, everything here seems so laid-back and casual!
When the customer came to the store, he took a general look and didn't have anything to ask. If you fancy something, you can go directly to the counter, pay and leave, or say "Ah, I forgot to put the money on me when I went out today, and I will bring it over tomorrow!" Then Shi Shiran left, and the boss didn't keep accounts or anything, and roughly only replied, "Oh, okay!" "Yes, okay!" Even sometimes it makes people suspicious that you, the boss, can see what people are taking from you and agree. Well, it's so natural and plain here!
Of course, those who forgot to bring money will also come to pay the next day as promised. In this regard, the people in the town are still trustworthy. After all, everyone is a neighbor in the town, looking down and not looking up, living here for a few years, decades or even many years in the future, and will not find themselves unhappy in order to take advantage of some small advantages!
Naturally, this is in addition to the black-hearted profiteer in the inn next to the Forget Worry Building!
Here, shops open early in the morning and close at sunset. Sometimes, the shopkeeper just hangs a sign outside and rests rather casually.
Of course, people from outside may feel a little strange when they see the scene here. There will even be people who do irrational things out of curiosity.
Over the years, Zhou Chen has seen it once!
That time, there was a foreign guest who came to East Street, and when he saw the scene here, he immediately felt very curious, maybe he had a tentative mind, or maybe he simply wanted to take advantage of it, so he also specially picked Uncle Wang's pharmacy, walked in indifferently, and came out with a medicinal herb in his hand, what it was, Zhou Chen can't remember it now, put ten cents on the counter, and then specially said to Uncle Wang who was lying on the recliner at the door, "Boss, I put the money on the cabinet!" "Gone, just like that, he may still have pride and ridicule in his heart at this time! Of course, this is purely just Zhou Chen's guess in his heart. In fact, Zhou Chen just happened to be passing by at that time, and he didn't understand what was going on.
It's just that it didn't take long for Zhou Chen to see Uncle Wang, who was squinting on the deck chair and basking in the sun as usual, suddenly stood up and walked out of the town with an expressionless face. Well, look in the direction of the person just now when he left! After a while, Uncle Wang came back, still carrying a burden, only to hear Uncle Wang's scolding appearance along the way, "Bastard!" I'm! When am I a big boss or an idiot?! "How do you have brains?" "The medicinal herbs I finally received were given to me Huo Huo and left! I don't let go of the most valuable little Linzhi in the shop, or is it a person?! "I've got everything a little more valuable in my pocket, and I don't know how the I'll leave some?······!"
Next, Zhou Chen saw that Uncle Wang's pharmacy was closed, and Uncle Wang had a black face all day long. It is said that Uncle Wang was angry for several days, arresting and scolding whom, he was old and angry! They all quarreled with Uncle Zhao and Aunt Li next door. However, it is rumored that when I met Aunt Li, I was taught a lesson when I couldn't quarrel, but I shrank at home for several days, and I didn't dare to go out! In those days, the people in the town once thought that this was not Uncle Wang's old man and was sick!
Later, Zhou Chen slowly understood the beginning and end of the matter. It turned out that the outsider who went to Uncle Wang's pharmacy took a lot of medicinal materials in the pharmacy, and picked out some of them valuable, and even took the only Xiaolinzhi in the shop in his arms. He thought that he was doing things secretly and was not discovered, so he specially said hello to Uncle Wang when he left. There were nearly a dozen taels of medicinal materials up and down in the store, and the result was ten wen! This is to treat Uncle Wang as a big fat sheep to collect wool to death!
This can also imagine the mood of Uncle Wang, who saw everything in his eyes at that time!
As for what happened to that man??
It is said that that person has some strength, and he is still a little famous outside, maybe he wants to rely on his strength to take something and leave, but as soon as he walked out of the town, he met Uncle Wang, and the medicinal materials were naturally chased back, people? Broke off two hands and threw them into the primordial mountains with what he had bought for ten cents. The end, it's self-evident!
Therefore, this also tells us a truth: some seemingly random things in Ping'an Town, don't try to provoke the rules here! Of course, don't be overly curious, be careful, curiosity kills cats!