In addition to the old people at the door of the toilet room, Zhuge Liang also likes to enter the residential area and interact with the residents.

One of the areas that impressed him the most was called Deguanfang.

When he was visiting Deguanfang, he took a fancy to a wonton maker and was very interested in the food of wontons, so he entered the store and ate a bowl of wontons.

At that time, it was not a meal, there was no one in the store, and after the merchant finished making the wontons and serving them to Zhuge Liang, he saw that Zhuge Liang was pleasing to the eye, so he chatted with Zhuge Liang by the way.

At that time, Zhuge Liang heard that there was no such area before the expansion of Luoyang City, and before the Zhenguan Year, except for the small inner city of Luoyang, a large number of ordinary people outside lived outside Luoyang City.

There is no city wall shelter, there is no easy road to walk, it is difficult to have clean water and sufficient food, and it is improvised to endure sanitation or something, even if there are some violations of law and discipline, the officials and lords rarely take care of it, unless those thieves are not long-sighted, and spoil the interest of the big people in the city.

"Where were the houses, the streets, and the walls like that? No, no, no, nothing, all of them came after today's son ascended the throne, and it was he who built the wall, protected all of us, and built a lot of houses for us.

Just this house, as well as our whole street house, were repaired by Zhenguan for three years, and we lived in it, and each family paid more than a dozen copper coins, and they all lived in. ”

The shopkeeper sighed: "Seven or eight years ago, and the current days, completely two looks, seven or eight years ago, we were scared, ate the last meal, I don't know where the next meal is, if there is a military disaster, Luoyang fights, it is one more day to live."

It wasn't until after the Zhenguan Year that we had a good life, and we could think about how to live a good life, how to live a good life, and I won't tell you that this shop was opened after borrowing money from the court and learning the craftsmanship of the court, otherwise, it would not be opened. ”

Zhuge Liang was interested.

"Borrowed money from the imperial court? Learned the craft of the imperial court? ”

"Ah, when Zhenguan was four years old, the imperial court issued an order that people who want to open a shop can borrow some money from the imperial court, learn some crafts, and open a shop to make food, and they can't make a lot of money, but they can make a little money to live their own small life."

The shopkeeper smiled and said: "You are a foreigner, I don't know, this wonton, as well as buns, dumplings and other things, are all from the palace, at first there was no in Luoyang City, at the beginning there were only all kinds of cakes, soup cakes, Hu cakes, steamed cakes."

This wonton, I just heard, I don't know if it's true, it is said that this wonton was the first to be created today, and then first to those soldiers in the army to eat, the soldiers ate it and said okay, and put it in the court canteen for the officials to eat, and the officials said okay, and the court put these things to us.

At first, I didn't believe it, but then I heard my brother-in-law who was on an errand in the palace say that this is true, you can try it, I went to the government to register, and then I knew that these things are not difficult to do, I really want to learn to do them, and I will learn them in three or two months, and the trouble is that opening a store requires a lot of preparation.

As a result, do you know that the imperial court is all ready for us, as long as you go to learn, as long as you want to open a store, the imperial court will give you everything ready, lend you money, tools can be bought directly by asking the imperial court, and the raw materials The imperial court will help you match with the surrounding farms, and go directly to the collective farms to pull goods, which is convenient! ”

"Then the court borrowed money, but it needs interest?"

"Yes, why not?"

The shopkeeper smiled: "But the interest rate is very low, in the past, when we were desperate, we also borrowed money, it was 20%, 30%, 40% of the monthly interest, and even I heard of 50%, but you know how much interest the court wants?" ”

"Is it low?"

Zhuge Liang smiled: "Seeing that you are so happy, it is obviously not high." ”

"It's really not high, the monthly interest rate is one cent, the original one is twenty times higher than this!"

The shopkeeper raised two fingers: "Do you dare to believe it?" Who would have believed it seven or eight years ago? To put it mildly, the court has always asked us for money, when did we do good things? At first, everyone dared not believe it, but after more than a year, they gradually dared to believe it. ”

Zhuge Liang nodded slowly while eating the slippery wontons.

"So, it's all something that only happens after the year of Zhenguan?"

"That's not it, it's all after the year of Zhenguan."

The shopkeeper smiled: "So since then, every year during the New Year's Festival, we all get together and say that before and after the Zhenguan New Year, there are basically two appearances, and sometimes you can't believe it at all, these two completely different appearances are just two years before and after." ”

The shopkeeper came to be interested, chatted with Zhuge Liang, said that everyone's life has changed in recent years, Zhuge Liang ate slowly, listened carefully, after eating a bowl of wontons, the store was also busy, and greeted Zhuge Liang and asked him to eat wontons again.

Zhuge Liang took out a handkerchief and wiped his mouth, put down the three copper coins, left the store, and walked into the street of Deguanfang.

On the streets, as far as he could see, they were full of life.

The elderly, children, and adults are either walking around, or hawking along the street, or gossiping together, or busily soliciting customers in their own shops.

What he saw was a strong breath of life, a scene that he had rarely seen in Xuzhou and in his family's clan land before.

He knew that Luoyang, as the first good place at the feet of the Son of Heaven, was naturally the first place to change, and if even Luoyang could not change, then the world was so big, naturally there was no place that could change.

And if Luoyang really has a change that touches the bottom, then Zhuge Liang has reason to believe that the world is so big, sooner or later these changes will happen.

After traveling in Deguanfang, Zhuge Liang liked to wander around Luoyang City.

He likes to talk to the residents of those squares and talk about some things around them, and he feels that whether he is an official or a scholar in the future, he must draw strength from these places to move forward.

Whether it is studying or taking exams, his ambition and his dream are always peaceful in the world.

The war-torn life in his early years and the panicked appearance of his elders left an indelible impact on him, so from that time on, Zhuge Liang was determined to let this chaotic day go forever.

And now, Liu Bei helped him realize this wish in advance.

But he didn't think his ambitions needed to change.

He had read some history books in the past and knew that there were times of peace in the world, but more often than not, there was chaos and disorder, and a temporary peace could not mean eternal peace, and the peace of a place did not mean the overall peace.

Even the peace of the upper class does not mean the peace of the people at the bottom.

This kind of chaos and disorder is transmitted to places like Xuzhou, which is a connection of military disasters, there are dead people everywhere, there are wars everywhere, and the adults in the family and the older teenagers have to be armed, which is quite a sense of precariousness.

Such an imprint lingers in Zhuge Liang's heart, making Zhuge Liang's understanding and pursuit of the word Taiping different from others.

He believes that only the most ordinary peasant households can live a peaceful life, can talk, laugh and spend a leisurely life, that is the real peace, a small group of people's peace is not peace, everyone's peace is peace.

can see that these people who work hard to live have achieved peace, and Zhuge Liang can agree from the bottom of his heart that this is the real peace.

But that's not enough.

Walking on the streets of Luoyang, looking at the harmonious scene around him, Zhuge Liang was thinking, Luoyang is too peaceful, but what about other places?

It doesn't have to be too peaceful.

The mainland is too peaceful, the border land is not necessarily peaceful, the Central Plains is too peaceful, and the Western Regions is not necessarily too peaceful, so there is still a long way to go before the world is truly peaceful, and how to take this road well may be something that you need to consider.

In addition to such considerations, during the days when Luoyang was walking, Zhuge Liang had two happiest things.

First, I ate a lot of food that I can't eat in Xuzhou, and it is said that it is spread from the court, and the taste is really good, especially the fried chicken thigh, which is only sold in the food market of Beishi in the whole Luoyang, and it is limited every day.

The first time Zhuge Liang went to the queue and didn't get it, the second time he bought it, the price was really not cheap, but the taste was really good, fragrant and crispy, so Zhuge Liang didn't forget to bring one to the four people in the dormitory, and everyone enjoyed the delicious food together.

Should I say it or not, the delicious fried chicken thighs relieved the anxiety of the four people at that time in a certain sense.

The second happy thing is that Zhuge Liang met a few new friends when he visited Luoyang City.

For example, Pang Tong, a native of Nanjun County, Jingzhou, whom he met when he was eating steamed buns, Xu Fu and Shi Tao, who were from Yingchuan, Yuzhou, whom he met when he was eating dumplings, and Lu Yi, a native of Wu County, Yangzhou, whom he met when he was queuing up to buy fried chicken legs.

Speaking of which, Zhuge Liang never felt that he was a very good social person, but perhaps it was his helpful character that made him always able to know many people, and all the friends he met after coming to Luoyang were met by him after he helped.

For example, the acquaintance with Pang Tong was that Pang Tong found out that he forgot to bring money when he was buying steamed buns, and he was embarrassed over there, Zhuge Liang, who was queuing behind him, saw Pang Tong's embarrassment, so he stepped forward to help Pang Tong buy the buns.

The two met from this, learned each other's identity of the candidate, and when they reported their names, Pang Tong was very surprised.

"The next step is Zhuge Liang, the leader of Xuzhou?"

"Have you heard my name?"

"I know the names of the state leaders."

Pang Tong said with a smile: "In Xia Pang Tong, the cousin Shiyuan, a native of Jingzhou South County, is also the first place in the Jingzhou state examination this time, but he is not as good as the foot, I heard that the foot is a full score in the state examination, even if it is the fourteenth leader, the foot is also ranked first." ”

Zhuge Liang suddenly became a little more interested in such an ordinary-looking Pang Tong.

"It's because I'm lonely and unheard, and I don't know the names of the leaders of the other states."

So the two chatted about the previous state exam and this time the selection exam, as well as the cheating incident, etc., because they chatted very closely, the two talked from the afternoon to the evening and still felt that they hadn't talked enough, so they met for dinner, and chatted for a long time before returning to the student dormitory together.

Then Zhuge Liang reacted, and Pang Tong rubbed himself for dinner again.

As for Xu Fu and Shi Tao, when they were eating dumplings, Zhuge Liang heard that the two were arguing about a difficult math problem in the selection exam, and he really couldn't hold back the wrong ideas of these two people, so he interjected and said a word or two, and met these two people.

It's also interesting to say, mainly Xu Fu and Shi Tao are among the top students in Yuzhou State School, and they suddenly interjected to Zhuge Liang and said the solution ideas they didn't think of, and they were a little unconvinced at first, and they argued with Zhuge Liang.

They feel that there is nothing wrong with their solution.

Zhuge Liang was helpless, so he asked the store for paper and pencils, and restored the math problem to them on the table where he was eating dumplings, and analyzed the problem stem and solution ideas for them from beginning to end, and attracted three or four candidates who were also eating dumplings on the spot.

A group of people gathered around a table, unaware of what they thought was going on.

After Zhuge Liang completely restored and solved the math problem, everyone was convinced that they were wrong, and Zhuge Liang was right.

Then Xu Fu and Shi Tao apologized to Zhuge Liang with an embarrassed face, and worried about their selection results.

This big question is 15 points, and if it is wrong, that is, there are no 15 points, and it is not a good phenomenon to lose 15 points all of a sudden in such a competitive exam.

Zhuge Liang listened and smiled slightly.

"It doesn't matter, this question is one of the last three big questions, although the score is high, but the difficulty is so great, there may not be many people who can solve it correctly, yes, it is the icing on the cake, and if it is wrong, it will not lose all the games, so you don't need to worry."

Xu Fu and Shi Tao immediately thought that Zhuge Liang was a player with a higher rank than them, and hurriedly asked Zhuge Liang's name, and after asking, they learned that the guy in front of him who was suspected of being a coercive was actually a real scholar.

The leader of Xuzhou, the only full-scoring player in the national state examination, Zhuge Kongming.

So Xu Fu and Shi Tao determined that Zhuge Liang was by no means a pretending criminal, and he didn't need to pretend at all.

"Am I famous?"

Zhuge Liang learned from Pang Tong that Pang Tong knew his name before, and he didn't feel anything, he just thought that Pang Tong was more gossipy, but now Xu Fu and Shi Tao also knew it, and the surrounding candidates and students obviously knew it, which made him feel very strange.

He felt that he was just an ordinary leader in Xuzhou, even if he was famous, he was also in Xuzhou Prefecture, how did he get to Luoyang, so many people knew him?

(End of chapter)