Chapter 344: Listening to the News (Asking for a Subscription and Asking for a Monthly Pass)
After that, they went to the largest ready-to-wear shop in the east of the city, the shop was two-storey, the first floor was relatively large, in addition to the wooden counter, there were a lot of clothes hanging around, and there was a small room with a curtain, which was supposed to be for customers to try on clothes.
There are two tables of eight immortals in the west of the center, both of which are placed in a circle of stools, which should be for guests to rest and sit.
Then he saw several women sitting around one of the tables, on which were refreshments.
A few people didn't seem to be customers, but probably the owner of the shop and friends, and they were talking together.
A few people don't look like the wives of big families, nor are they the kind of poor people, and after listening to it, some of them call each other shopkeepers, and they should all be nearby merchants.
As soon as they came in, they were greeted warmly by the guys, and after asking them what they needed, they took them upstairs.
The better men's clothes are on the second floor, and the first floor is some of the more popular and cheaper clothes.
At first, she thought that those women were talking about the urgent gathering of mountain bandits and officers and soldiers, but she didn't expect them to say something else.
As she walked up with her fellows, she devoted half of her attention to the women, who were talking about strange things about an official in the city.
I only heard one of the women wearing a pale cyan jacket and skirt: "You said that Master Yu really doesn't know?" ”
Another woman in a dark green skirt replied, "I don't know, otherwise the concubine can stay until now?" When it was discovered, it was either killed or sold. ”
The woman in the light cyan skirt: "Then this is too unauthentic, send a pregnant person to the concubine room, but I don't care about my own heirs, and I can't let my family be the eighth king." ”
A woman in a dark gray dress to her left interjected: "Shh~ You be quiet, and then let people hear." ”
The woman in the pale blue skirt pursed her lips, but finally said nothing.
The woman in the dark green skirt continued in a low voice: "The problem is that the second young master Yu is now eighteen years old, and he has also obtained a meritorious name in the spring of this year, and I heard that he will be able to be awarded an official position soon."
Seeing that I can glorify my ancestors, the father found it, didn't this make Master Yu vomit blood angrily, I heard my niece say that she fainted at that time, and now I don't know if I woke up or not......"
Another woman in a brown dress looked curious: "Then this father is really a big official?" This kind of person can also ascend to a high position, God is really blind. ”
The woman in the pale blue skirt and the woman in the dark gray dress both nodded in agreement.
The woman in the dark green jacket skirt: "You don't understand this, sometimes it's this kind of person who can be a big official, people are good at drilling, isn't there a saying called something, by the way, those who become big things are not informal." ”
Woman in brown dress: "Anyway, I don't look down on this kind of person, fortunately it's not our parents, otherwise I would be scared every day." ”
The woman in the pale cyan skirt lowered her voice to the lowest and said, "I heard that that person is also responsible for preparing the money for this disaster relief, do you think he will collude with those mountain bandits?" ”
If it weren't for Qian Yan going upstairs and looking at them with her divine sense, I'm afraid she would have missed this sentence.
She had suspected that there should be ghosts on the side of the government, otherwise how could those mountain bandits be so accurate to get the time of changing the guards of the treasury, and they could still retreat without alarming the guards.
"Shhhh This can't be talked about. That's a big crime of killing heads, and they are already big officials, how can they risk for some money. ”
The woman in the dark green skirt reached out to cover her mouth, looked left and right, and whispered.
The woman in the brown dress said on the side: "I think what the shopkeeper Yang said is very likely, why did he arrive on the back foot as soon as the front foot came to the mountain bandits, and it happened when he was not on duty to recognize his son, to say that there is nothing greasy in this, I don't believe it." ”
"Shut up, this is outside, you dare to talk nonsense, and you are not allowed to mention this again when you go back, do you know!"
The woman in the dark gray dress looked at her and reprimanded, and it was obvious that the two men should be closer.
Sure enough, I heard the brown woman say, "I know, eldest sister." ”
It turned out to be two sisters.
What they said next was that some parents were short, and they didn't continue the topic.
She listened to it up and down, and it was very uncomfortable.
She also felt that the person was a little suspicious, but after listening to it for a long time, she didn't hear who the person was, she only knew that this person had a master surnamed Yu and asked the family to raise a son for him.
After a while, I will go out and inquire about the people surnamed Yu in the city, and there is a second young master who has obtained fame.
This recognition of relatives has been rumored, and many people should know about it, so it is estimated that it is very easy to inquire.
I bought four sets of clothes for Jinyang, two sets of muslin underwear, two sets of cotton clothes, I didn't buy them in the spring and autumn periods, and it's not too late to buy them when the season comes, and I can't wear them now anyway.
I also bought two pieces each for Gold and Ugly, plus they can be worn interchangeably, even if they dry quickly after washing in the space, they can't always wear one.
Tilt Yan didn't buy it herself, she has a lot of clothes, and the ones she bought and gave them to others already occupy the largest space in the storage bag.
When she went downstairs to settle the bill, one of the women came to collect the cashier, and she recognized that it was the woman in the pale blue jacket and skirt, and the other woman called her the shopkeeper Yang, who turned out to be the shopkeeper of the ready-to-wear shop.
Shopkeeper Yang calculated the silver, and when he saw that they bought so much, he also gave four pairs of socks worn by men.
He also said that he would give shoes when he came back, but he would be very good at attracting repeat customers.
The socks of this dynasty are not the elastic ones of later generations, they are all sewn with white coarse cloth or cotton cloth, and the socks must be tied with rope on the top of the socks, otherwise they will easily fall off.
Tilt Yan is wearing the two pairs she brought from the afterlife, to be honest, it should be changed, there is a pair of fronts that are broken, so she sewed them casually and continued to wear them.
She used to wear it a few times and throw it away, but she has never been so hard and simple since she was a child.
I thought that there was a lot of wool in the space, so I couldn't learn how to spin yarn, so I would spin wool or rabbit hair into thread and weave a pair by myself.
She learned how to knit sweaters from her grandmother, although she can knit flat needles and upper and lower needles, and knitting socks is enough.
As for the sweater needle, there are a lot of bamboos here, so you can get a pair when the time comes.
Speaking of bamboo, she remembered that she wanted to find an opportunity to collect some bamboo into the space, and the space in Jinyang only had plants and animals in the northwest, not in the south.
Now that I have the opportunity, I must collect more to go in, anyway, the four seasons inside are like spring, and the plants in the south can also live.
After leaving the ready-to-wear shop, they walked around the city again, and Tilt Yan and Jinyang Gold and Ugly passed on the news they had just heard.
Chou Chou also found a place where no one was and came out of the space, planning to go with them to inquire.
Where is the fastest place to find news?
Of course, it's restaurants, teahouses, and other places.
The time of the restaurant is relatively fixed, and they may not hear much news for a while, so they went directly to the largest teahouse-Linjiang Xuan.
Tilt Yan has seen it with her divine sense, and there are the most people here.
It is said that the teahouse is actually a teahouse, this is a four-story teahouse, it is a wooden structure, built a bit like Yueyang Tower, but it is not so exquisite, the stairs are inside, and there is no corridor outside.
The teahouse was built in the south of the city, and if you sit on the third or fourth floor, you can see the river view outside the city through the city wall and the opposite Xiangyang City across the water.
There are boats coming and going on the river, small boats fishing, and big boats are ferries coming and going.
This kind of ferry can carry horse-drawn carriages across the river together, so you don't have to worry about people passing by, and the carriages will be left here and cannot be accommodated.
They don't have this trouble, even if the carriage can't get on the boat, they can receive it in the space, cross the river and find a place where no one is around.
They are now sitting on the third floor, which is the most crowded floor, and very few who come here are on the first floor, unless they are really just here for tea and rest.
The third floor is also a hall, unlike the fourth floor is a private room, which costs another silver, since it costs the same money, of course, it is a place with a good view, so most of the guests sit on the third floor.
I asked for a pot of green tea, and ordered a few snacks, and the four of them chatted while eating, they mainly came to listen, so they were not very enthusiastic, for fear of missing any important information.
The ugly ugly is dual-minded, listening to this side, while staring at the Jiaotou Village, those officers and soldiers are almost there.
The officers and men did not know that the mountain bandits had been controlled, and they did not dare to go with great fanfare, but scattered like those mountain bandits, and went in batches and directions.
Although this is an extra move, it is indeed a good thing to be cautious, and it is better than being greedy for merit.
A few of them also paid attention upstairs and downstairs here, Qian Yan and Jin Yang stared at the second and fourth floors respectively, and Jin listened to the content of these people chatting on the third floor.
Let's see if we can hear the specific identity of the Yu family and the second young master Yu's father from the mouths of these people.
Qian Yan listened to the second floor, there are also a few private rooms on the second floor, there is no one in the lobby, but there are two groups of people talking about things in a private room.
It looked like it was supposed to be negotiating, talking about business, and Qian Yan was not interested after listening to it for a while.
As a result, she was just about to withdraw her consciousness and was about to go to see the fourth floor, when she heard one of the middle-aged fat men say: "Yu Dashao, my price is fair enough, if it is the Liu family, I am afraid I will give less."
What is the situation of your Yu family now, presumably Yu Dashao knows better than me, that Lord Huang is not a good stubble, no matter what the other party's intentions are, you have to shed your skin at the Yu family, it is better to plan early. ”
The young man known as Yu Da Shao chuckled, and there was a hint of coldness hidden in his smile, "This is not to bother the shopkeeper, no matter what my Yu family says, Lord Huang has an old relationship, since Lord Huang came openly, it is not to destroy my Yu family, I have a good relationship with my second brother, what will happen in the future, who can say for sure......"
Yo he! This is the meeting of the main owner's family!
Qian Yan involuntarily sat up straight, listening carefully to the conversation below, although they were all fighting each other later, she also listened with relish.
The ugly ugly knew her, and at a glance he knew that it was useful, and he also probed a ray of divine sense.
waited for the two waves of people to finish talking, but their divine consciousness was not withdrawn, and they even followed Yu Dashao directly.
If you want to follow the other party to see where the Yu family is, you can go to the Yu family to listen and listen, and maybe you can find the so-called big official.
Then they found out that the young master Yu did not go home, but went to some shops to inspect the industry, one after another, fully demonstrating the strength of the Yu family.
But the four of them couldn't wait in the teahouse all the time, and after drinking the tea in the pot and eating the snacks on the table, they simply settled the bill and left.
It's already half an afternoon, and it's not interesting to be outside, so I went back to the inn directly.
Let the guy not bother, as soon as the door is closed, they will all enter the space, and both Chou Chou and Jin Yang can be stared at with their divine senses outside.
Then Jin Yang talked about what he heard on the fourth floor of the teahouse, "I heard from the people in one of the private rooms that his cousin was on an errand in the yamen, and last night I don't know what happened, and the people on duty in the government were less energetic than usual, and some couldn't help but sleep for a while."
When the bandits came, they were awakened by the sound of gongs outside, but they also felt that they didn't seem to have any strength in their bodies.
But they asked each other, and they didn't eat anything wrong, they didn't drink water from unknown sources, and they didn't know if it was Chinese medicine. ”
Qian Yan looked at Chou Chou and said: "Chou Chou, you use your divine sense to look at the side of the government office, especially the windows, if there is any kind of place that has been stabbed, and see if someone is blowing incense."
or oil lamps and candles, it may also be put into the drug, and it will volatilize as soon as it is lit, and this Chinese medicine may not necessarily be eaten in the mouth. ”
The ugly nodded and probed his senses.
Jin Yang, Jin Jin, and the ingots that came over all looked at her with admiration, and felt that Yanyan was really well-informed.
Tilt Yan straightened her chest, with an expression that was all based on her face.
"Just let Chouchou and Jin Yang look outside, let's make dinner, we won't go out to eat at night, I haven't eaten mutton for a few days, let's roast mutton at night."
Tilt Yan said to gold and ingots.
Since passing through Henan Province, you can't eat mutton in the restaurants in the city, mostly some chickens, ducks and fish, and pork is also used for cured meat and bacon, which covers the fishy smell with a heavy taste.
They packed a lot of them before, so they also ate these on the road, and it was okay to eat a few meals, but they got a little tired of eating every day, and they began to think about the mutton that they were tired of eating before.
Both Yuan Bao and Jin were very happy, and Chou Chou took out the mutton that had been placed in the fresh-keeping area of its space, and the two of them went directly to deal with it.
The mutton should be marinated first, and then worn into skewers, just now there is bamboo in the space, you can use bamboo skewers to skewer, eat mutton or skewers have a feeling.
There are also mushrooms and leeks that can also be roasted, this is also available, there are kinds of leeks in the vegetable garden, and the mushrooms can be picked in the mountains.
Then the gold went to cut the mutton, the Yan Yan went to cut the leeks, and the ingots went to the mountains to pick mushrooms, everyone had something to do, and the division of labor and cooperation was just right.
When their meat was roasted, Chougou said that all the people had been arrested in Jiaotou Village and were preparing to escort them back.
Jin Yang said here that Yu Da Shao had gone home, and Yu Mansion was not far from here, just across the street.