Chapter Ninety-Seven: The City of Piety

The city of Qian is the destination of this trip.

The city is surrounded by mountains.

The surrounding mountains are undulating, the terrain is high and low in the periphery, high in the south and low in the north, and the water system is in a radiating shape to the center of the Meijiang River.

The pious city in autumn.

The wind is beautiful, the weather is crisp, and it is the most pleasant time.

The team is slowly getting closer to the city.

The half-month trip made Song Huan turn from being uncomfortable at the beginning to becoming accustomed to it.

Song Huan sighed that this trip really broadened his horizons and gained a lot of knowledge.

Thinking that she used to be in the past, even if she met with people in the rivers and lakes, she might not be able to tell the difference.

And now, on the streets of Qiancheng, looking at the pedestrians coming and going, she found many people in the rivers and lakes.

Just like she recognized wild vegetables, the wild vegetables she didn't know before passed by only as one of the many wild grasses, but after she got to know them, she found that they were all over the place.

After the delivery is made to the location, the headers they take care of the follow-up.

Song Huan and Lao Xu and other bidders only need to do one thing, unload the goods on the car and send them to the designated place for placement.

Fu Yuanzhi, who was waiting on the wheel, was attracted by a figure.

An old man over sixty years old, wearing a scarf on his head, wearing a cloth coat, and a bamboo cane, dragged his weak body to walk alone in the autumn wind.

At first glance, this old man is no different from an ordinary villager.

But under his unpretentious appearance, there is a kind of lofty and unearthly temperament.

He seemed to be hungry, as if he was sick, as if he was begging on the street, but he couldn't pull his face, and he was as embarrassed as a child, and he spoke clumsily.

A man who was selling his goods came to Fu Yuanzhi's side, saw him looking at the old man, and thought, he knows this person.

It's better to start with this topic, and when the time comes, his goods will not be sold?

The man said to Fu Yuanzhi familiarly, "I know that person." ”

Fu Yuanzhi looked at the merchant who came to him at some point in confusion, "? ”

The merchant sighed and regretted to himself, "This person used to be an official." ”

Hearing this, Fu Yuanzhi's back subconsciously straightened up a little, and he wondered, "Then why did he fall into such a situation?" ”

The merchant shook his head, "I don't know about this, I also heard that he came to Qiancheng six years ago, who knows the past!" Could it be a dereliction of duty? Or is it embezzlement? ”

If you hadn't made a big mistake, how could you have been removed from your official position?

Fu Yuanzhi looked at the old man and thought to himself, he was not like that kind of person.

The merchant then sighed again, "But when an official is mixed like this, he is also a talent." If it were me, I wouldn't have let myself be like him. ”

How can an official have no oil in his pocket?

"Where do you start?" Fu Yuanzhi looked at the merchant suspiciously, so that the merchant couldn't help but continue.

"In the past few years, his family has starved to death of four children, and it turns out that the five sons of Hao'er are as comfortable as their lives are, and others are enjoying their children's filial piety at this age, and he just mixes his life like this." The merchant lowered his voice.

"This former official, not only was he dismissed, but he also incompetently let his son be starved to death, and it is sad for his wife and children to think about it." The merchant was powerless to complain.

Ordinary people like him who walk the streets and alleys don't say that they let their wives and children eat delicacies from the mountains and seas, but they can also let them survive and not starve to death.

Fu Yuanzhi looked at the alley where there was no longer an old man, and was silent for a long time.

When the merchant saw that the set was almost complete, he took out the small things in his basket, which were all women's jewelry and their own handkerchiefs, and there were many kinds of embroidery samples, and the embroidery skills were also very good.

The merchant took out a handkerchief embroidered with orchids, "Childe, look at it, how is this handkerchief?" ”

Fu Yuanzhi remembered Song Huan's "unfinished purse" and asked, "Is there a purse?" ”

The merchant said happily, "Yes, yes, you wait." ”

The merchant turned out the purse, there are the purse embroidered with the buckle Ruyi, the honey color and the moon white satin plain purse, the silver and red embroidered white plum purse, the folded branch flower purse, these patterns can be much more than Yangjiang Mansion.

Fu Yuanzhi picked a purse with a broken branch flower and an orchid handkerchief just now.

These days, he is busy catching up with the car, and he has no time to prepare his purse, so he can only buy it for the time being.

Here, Song Huan got his first salary.

Four taels of silver.

Song Huan is a newcomer in the "probation period", and this trip is not as much as the "regular employee" Lao Xu and Lao Liu, they have five taels of silver.

After two more runs, you should be able to get the salary of a "regular employee".

Although this bet is hard, it also earns a lot.

After all, risking your life to run, if the salary is still low, then the first person not to do it is the bidder.

The bidder generally walks the standard twice or three times a year, and the header will have more, and the bidder has to look at the situation of the arrangement.

According to this calculation, if you go to the standard three times a year, you will earn fifteen taels, which is considered an annual salary.

After the goods were escorted, the head planned to turn back to Yangjiang Mansion.

Among them, if there are people in the team who want to stay and do errands, they can also go back without the team, and it is not mandatory to go back.

Everyone is a Jianghu person, and what they are talking about is casual righteousness.

What's more, if you have the opportunity to go back two to three times a year, you may not be able to get your turn to come out when you go back, where to stay or not?

There are also people attached to two standard lines, this one goes to the other one after walking, if it just happens to be arranged, you can continue to walk the standard.

If you go down four times a year, it will be double the annual salary, thirty taels, and a petty bourgeois life.

Song Huan wanted to stay for a few more days when she heard that it was not mandatory, anyway, she knew the way she came.

She hadn't forgotten the purpose of Fu Yuanzhi's coming out this time.

Lao Xu and Lao Liu also have their own plans.

Lao Liu definitely has to go home, there is a pregnant daughter-in-law at home, and a daughter who is waiting to be fed.

Lao Xu wanted to go back to Fucheng to meet his old friends, and everyone was separated.

Song Huan came to the mule cart, and only Fu Yuan was left.

The merchant has already gone looking for the next buyer.

Song Huan just got her salary, she was in a good mood, and said, "Let's find a place to settle down first, and then go out shopping." ”

See what is the difference between it and Yangjiang Mansion, feel the local customs, and special food.

Of course, the most intuitive difference at present is that there are more people here, more lively, and the economic development is much better than that of Yangjiang Mansion.

The two did not go to the "business down" to settle down, but found an ordinary inn to stay in.

There are many tea shops, and the buildings are lined up one after another.

Various small stalls on both sides of the bluestone street.

To get a quick overview of the city's food specialties, the snack street is a shortcut.

One of Song Huan's favorites is the fish cake, which is golden in color, not only has the fragrance of the fish after it is fried, but also has a large amount of soup wrapped in the fish cake, which is tender and delicious.

There is also a sour date cake.

Song Huan found the most sour dates every time she hunted, although she knew that sour dates could be made into cakes and cakes, but she didn't look up relevant information before, so she didn't know where to start, and she was reluctant to waste white noodles to try, so she just used it as a snack to eat.

But when she came here, she ate the sour jujube cake made of sour jujubes.

The color is transparent, beautiful like amber, sweet and sour, which is very in line with Song Huan's taste.