Outside the city of Yundu, a roadside tea stall.

Jujube red horses stopped on the side of the road to graze.

The local black tea produced in the mountains is boiled with plums and green mandarins, and it has a little salt and sugar, but you can hardly taste the salty and sweet taste if you don't taste it carefully. It seems that the effect of salt is only to amplify the sweet and sour taste of plums and green mandarins in tea, and in the same way that salt is added to fruits in some places, sugar makes the taste of tea soft and not sour and irritating.

For just three pennies, you can buy a big bowl.

There was already a bowl in front of the Taoist.

"Hoo ......"

The Taoist picked up the bowl and took a sip.

The tea frying process is not particular enough, resulting in the color of the tea soup is not bright enough, but it doesn't matter if the tea is served in a thick bowl with a brown and black background, and it can't be seen no matter how bright it is. However, the smell of the tea is unusually strong, the fruity honey aroma in the tea soup and the plum mandarin are perfectly integrated, and the little sugar makes the taste of the tea fit the smell, so that Song You, a person who is used to drinking clear tea, also feels good to drink it.

Sanhua Niangniang, dressed in tricolored clothes, sat opposite him, but instead of drinking tea, she stared at him with a serious face, while her feet swayed under the table.

There are still people coming and going, and the bell is ringing constantly.

There are caravans going to Yundu City in front, and there are caravans coming from Yundu City in front, some will stop in front of this tea stall for a while, sit down to drink a bowl of tea, or pack some to take away, and some will just pass by the Taoist people, attracted by jujube red horses or extraordinarily beautiful girls, and cast their eyes at them.

Because the sun in Yunzhou is scorching, the merchants run outside all the year round, the wind blows and the sun is exposed, most of them are very black, the black is translucent red, the red is shiny, and the sun is slightly squinting.

People gather here, and Song You actually has a sense of prosperity when he is here.

"Hoo ......"

The sky is almost blue, only a few white clouds float above the head and in the sky, all of them are highly condensed, like cotton balls, the sun is so bright that the eyes are shining, and the grass and trees on the mountains and rivers on the ground are bright, the loess road and the merchants who come and go, the dwarf southwest horses and the big lumps of goods, the dust and sand between the walks, when the horse bell jingles, the Taoist who holds a bowl and drinks tea on the side of the road has a faint premonition -

The image of this moment will become a permanent memory for myself.

Because it's like a passage from history.

“……”

The Taoist turned his head to look at the pedestrians on the side of the road, and looked at the faces passing by, while breaking the cake and serving it with tea.

The filling inside of the cake is a mixture of flower petals and brown sugar, which is a fascinating mixture of colors, and you can see the shape of the petals that have not been steamed. It doesn't look delicious to eat, but with this sweet and sour and fruity tea soup, it has also become a rare delicacy for Taoists all the way.

The miscellaneous voices around me came to my ears.

"Is it still too peaceful on Wuchi Road this year?"

"This year? I don't know what to say this year, but this time, I heard that there are gods and spirits all the way, and many of the demons and monsters that were originally evil on the road have been eliminated, and even some rampant mountain bandits and horse thieves have also been eliminated. ”

"Really?"

"We've heard about it along the way, so we'll find out after a walk."

"If it's true, that's great." A voice came from behind Song You, "When I walked to Wujun last time, I met someone shouting hungry halfway, thinking it was a homeless beggar, but I kindly took the cake to ask him, but he asked me, can I cut his flesh and cut his feet for him to eat, it is really scary." ”

"And then?"

"There are a lot of us, we are also cautious, and we are protected by the talisman of Taoism, so naturally we can't get into its way, but this kind of thing always makes people's hearts hairy."

"Who's to say it isn't? What's more, there are many little demons and ghosts on the road, and if it takes a long time, it is hard to guarantee that it will not appear to become a climate! ”

"Alas......"

"It's a good heart."

"Alas, it is also the woman in the family who has just given birth, and it is not easy to raise the child, and I think it is good to be able to accumulate some blessings for my son, and I don't want to become a talent, I just want to grow up smoothly."

“……”

Song You ate cakes and drank tea, without saying a word.

The girl on the opposite side obviously heard it too, looked up at the two tables of people sitting behind the Taoist priest, and quickly withdrew her gaze, and did not say a word, staring at the Taoist priest seriously.

The last piece of cake entered the mouth, mixed with the last sip of tea, and went down together.

"Stallholder, check out."

"Okay!"

A short, dark, thin man walked over.

"A bowl of tea is three cents, brown sugar cakes are five cents each, and the gentleman eats two and receives thirteen cents."

"Buy four more and I'll take them."

"It's thirty-three."

“……”

The Taoist looked at the little girl opposite.

Sanhua Niangniang suddenly withdrew her serious gaze staring at him, lowered her head and took out the money from her blanket.

He took out two small strings of twenty wen, both of which were strung with delicate and clean small thin red strings, just the size of the girl's little hand, one string was placed on the table first, and the other string was untied, and thirteen copper plates were carefully counted from the inside, and they were also placed on the table.

"The boy in the gentleman's family is really well-behaved and clever, he is so young, he can actually count and manage money."

The stall owner looked at it with a smile and a compliment.

Just as he was about to reach out to receive the money, he saw that the girl had untied the whole small string, and poured out the copper coin with a red rope, and actually carried the rope back into his pocket, and then handed it to the stall owner with a handful of loose money.

"This ......"

The stall owner was stunned and took it: "Thank you, Mr. ......"

"Thank you, the stall owner."

The Taoist smiled with him, picked up the bamboo cane next to him, and walked out of this small tea stall.

Behind him came the whisper of the stall owner.

“……”

The Taoist shook his head and smiled, bowed his head and said to his child: "Look, Sanhua Niangniang is so stingy at a young age, others can't believe it, and they think I taught it." ”

The girl looked back at the tea stall, turned her head to look at him, still with a small face, and did not say a word.

The Taoist didn't say anything more, only looked up at the front, and then stepped on the loess road with a cane, staggered with the merchants, mules and horses, and listened to the bells ringing in the sun.

The sun in front of me is really dazzling.

The weather is good and the scenery is naturally bright.

This is the end of the five-foot road.

Yundu City is also getting closer and closer.

It was only when I left the range of the tea stall that the voice of my own child came from me: "We don't have much money anymore!" ”

"How much is not much?"

"There are more than two taels of silver, and there is a large string of copper coins, three medium strings, four small strings, and eight scattered ones."

"That's ......"

The copper coins of the Dayan people are generally strung into two kinds of sizes, and the big one is theoretically a thousand Wen, which is called a hanging, consistently, of course, it is often less than a thousand Wen. At the same time, for the sake of ease of use, people often string together a hundred texts, which is a small string.

As for the smaller skewers, they are often the change that they carry when they go out occasionally, or the pocket money they give to the younger generations of the family.

Children have small hands, small strength, and small hearts, and can't take too much money, and they can't use too much money, but children's hearts are also exquisite, and if they can get a string of money that is the same as adults' money, but the amount is smaller, they will be very happy.

Sanhua Niangniang added an extra 20 small strings, which is not only easy to take and use, but also feels cute.

So in her place, the money is divided into three kinds of strings: large, medium and small.

That is, there are still more than two taels of silver left, and the copper coins have always been three hundred and eighty-eight wen, but it is indeed the time when Song You has the least money since he went down the mountain.

It's normal to think about it—

The last large-scale income of his group was before the last time he left Changjing, and since then Yuezhou has been almost a deserted land, and then it is either a serious drought or a country with almost no language in the Western Regions, and after leaving the Western Regions, Xingzhou is also a large area of no man's land. Although Sanhua Niangniang occasionally catches some fish and mice for money, it is all small money, which can at most subsidize the food expenses of the day for a group, and it is not even enough, but every time she goes to a prosperous place, the cost of food and accommodation is not small.

Recently, I came from Yidu, although Sanhua Niangniang and Yan'an have subdued countless demons and eliminated demons, they are mostly in the mountains on the side of the road. Now that demons and evil spirits are frequent, the government has no financial resources to offer rewards, and the local villagers are not as wealthy as Taohua Village outside Yidu City, and most of the days are tight, how can Taoists go to them to ask for money.

Besides, the demon was eliminated all the way, and most of them were done easily, and Sanhua Niangniang and Yanzi didn't even leave their names and surnames, let alone ask for money.

There is no large amount of money, and after a few years, the wallet should almost bottom out.

When Song You left, he also took more than three taels from the Taoist temple......

It's just that Song You didn't care about it back then, and now he naturally doesn't care, he just walked forward with a bamboo cane, and said lightly: "It seems that I have to save some flowers." ”

"It's long overdue to save some flowers!" The brows of the boy next to him were already tightly wrinkled, and he was worried about the financial resources of his party, "If you don't go to live in the city, don't spend money to buy food and water, we sleep in the mountains, Sanhua Niangniang will catch rabbits for you to fish and eat, and scoop water in the river to drink, and you won't spend money." ”

"How can that work?"

"It works!"

"Sanhua Niangniang doesn't have to be in a hurry......"

“……”

Sanhua Niangniang turned her head to look at the city that was getting closer and closer, how could she not be anxious: "At that time, there were so many treasures in the mountains, if you don't take it, if you take it back, we will sell it in Yidu for money, it will be enough for you to use it in the city for a long time!" ”

"Sanhua Niangniang still can't forget it."

"Then you take that, use that gold cone, and tell it to fetch a piece of silver."

"Where do you get it?"

"Hmmm......"

This asked the Sanhua Niangniang.

Stealing other people's things is something that rats do, and Sanhua Niangniang is a cat god, so naturally she won't do this kind of thing.

But this is not difficult for Sanhua Niangniang.

"Take it from the grave of the dead."

"That's stealing, too."

"Then take the man and drop it in the river."

"It doesn't have to be ......"

"Oh yes! Sanhua Niangniang still has a piece of gold! ”

"That gold coin is related to Sanhua Niangniang, only that one, let's keep it, it's better to keep it as a souvenir."

"What then?"

"Cultivators, although the world is big, I can't die of hunger, I can't freeze to death, but it is a place where we can walk without spending a penny, and some merchants are difficult to walk through even if their arms are full of money and carrying goods of value, and they die of thirst halfway, can't they see clearly in the Western Regions Sanhua Niangniang? Why be so worried? The Taoist just wanted to laugh, "What's more, the world is getting more and more chaotic now, and demons and evil are frequent, with the ability of Sanhua Niangniang, when she entered the city, how much money she wants to earn may not be necessarily, and it is not easy to earn a full meal?" ”

As he spoke, the Taoist had already walked to the gate of the city.

Show the degree and go into the city.

……

Ask for a monthly pass at the beginning of the month~

(End of chapter)