Volume 2 Dynasty Chapter 189 Qinhuai River
There was no inn near the city gate, and along the spacious street that could run more than ten carriages, Lu Xuan and the others followed Shopkeeper Li for more than half an hour, and finally arrived at the inn where they were staying.
"No wonder Suicheng is so rich, that horse has to be fined thirty copper coins for in the city!"
Ah Lai muttered quietly about what had just happened, obviously something beyond his understanding.
"Hehe, this Suicheng is a famous gold cave in our Great Jin." Shopkeeper Li, who was fined money, didn't care, and said with a smile: "Don't talk about, even if you want well water to drink in the inn, you have to charge your money." ”
"Shhhhh They're crazy. Ah Lai looked at the Yunlai Inn in front of him, and suddenly had a feeling of shock: "Why don't you feel that it is not as good as a poor country, at least people don't need money to drink water, it's just a mess." ”
"Since you are in a place, you have to abide by the rules of a place. Let's go in, I can sleep in bed tonight, have a good rest, there is still a lot of way to go from Fengyang City. After Lu Xuan finished speaking, he raised his feet and walked in.
Shopkeeper Li and they are only responsible for taking Lu Xuan and them to the interior of the Great Jin Dynasty, and the tea and rice money along the way are not under their control, Ah Lai took out two big silver ingots from the baggage as if they had been cut meat, and handed them to the shopkeeper, so that they could prepare some delicious food and drink, and then led Lu Xuan and them to the second floor of the inn.
"Ahh Comfortable, haven't slept in a big bed room for a long time. ”
Ah Lai lay on the soft bed in the room, stretching out for a long time, indescribably comfortable and lazy.
Lu Xuan took out a few cyan strips of meat from his baggage, which was the mountain ghost meat he had brought before, and after hanging it on the carriage at night and drying it, it looked a little like jerky:
"The store doesn't know when it will be ready to cook, so let's come over and eat something first."
Lu Xuan shouted twice, but found that Ah Lai did not move, and when he got closer, he saw that he was already asleep.
Although he was in a carriage on the way, he didn't have a good rest anyway, and he was still young, so it was normal for him to be drowsy.
Lu Xuan took a bite of the mountain ghost meat, which tasted a little like licorice, which was difficult to swallow, and handed it to Lu Zhaozhao casually: "Do we have enough money and food, if we don't have anything to eat on the way, the person surnamed Li may not slaughter us." ”
Lu Zhaozhao ate in small bites, as if he was already accustomed to this taste, lowered his head and thought about it, before he replied: "In terms of money, except for the shopkeeper Li, there is still a lot left, and it should be enough to save a little, but in order to lose weight before, we lost a lot of food in Shangyuan Village, and now we should not be able to hold on to the next city, so we have to buy some." ”
Lu Xuan also opened the baggage and looked at it: "Okay, after dinner, let's go to the street to buy some." ”
"Knock knock!"
Just as Lu Xuan and the others were chatting, a figure suddenly knocked on the door.
"Who?" Lu Xuan subconsciously held the black sword on his back.
"Is this Little Brother Lu's room?"
The voice outside the door was familiar, and Lu Xuan replied, "Is it Shopkeeper Li?" Can I help you? ”
"That's right, we plan to go to the city to buy some things, and we want to ask Little Brother Lu if there is anything to buy, let's go together." Shopkeeper Li added: "We have been traveling south and north for so many years, and there are some familiar merchants in Suicheng, and it is cheaper to buy things." ”
Lu Xuan looked at the sky outside, the afterglow of dusk swayed on the black tile roof, and it was probably two or three hours before it got dark, so he said to Lu Zhaozhao first: "You are just right, stay in the inn to rest after a long journey." ”
"Hmm." Lu Zhaozhao nodded and gave Lu Xuan the burden containing the silver.
Pushing open the door, Shopkeeper Li and his subordinates were in the corridor on the second floor, and when they saw Lu Xuan coming out, they said with a smile: "Then the sister and brother don't go together?" ”
"Let them rest in the house." Lu Xuan closed the door, just to buy some dry food for the road, he was enough alone.
"It's good, it's good."
Shopkeeper Li showed a meaningful smile and led a group of people towards the outside of the inn.
Lu Xuan was not afraid of him playing tricks, after all, he was a cultivator, and he had no problem dealing with this group of ordinary people, so he followed quickly.
The prices in Suicheng are much more expensive than in other places, which Lu Xuan had already expected, in line with the principle of not exposing his wealth, he just sold some dry food such as dry cakes, as well as persimmons that Lu Zhaozhao likes to eat.
After packing up the baggage, he walked out of the street, and after waiting outside for a while, the shopkeeper Li instructed his men to carry large bags of things and put them on the carriage.
Merchants come and go, and wherever they go, they follow the trade.
Lu Xuan originally wanted to follow the merchants back to the inn, but Shopkeeper Li grabbed him, and the smile on his face never seemed to have receded: "Little brother, give them something, just let them take it back, let's go around." ”
Lu Xuan looked up at the sun, frowned, and said, "It's getting late, I'm afraid it's inconvenient." ”
"Eh, little brother, you said before that you are from a poor country, you don't know, although this Sui City is not as good as Shengjing City, which is known as the city that never sleeps, but the bottom is here, there is not much difference between night and daytime, little brother, don't worry, there is something we Lao Li bears." Shopkeeper Li said a little smugly, as if he had a lot of connections in Suicheng, and without waiting for Lu Xuan to answer, he commanded the people under his command with a straight face: "Come and take the little brother's luggage together, if Lao Tzu goes back tomorrow and has something missing, be careful to eat the whip." ”
The people under Shopkeeper Li seemed to be very afraid of him, and in a panic, they took the dry food that Lu Xuan was carrying.
As for the burden of the money bag, Lu Xuan naturally didn't give it away, he also wanted to see the folk customs of the Great Jin Dynasty with his own eyes, and with the local shopkeeper Li leading the way, the situation would be much better.
Looking at the people under his hands walking away with the carriage, Shopkeeper Li came back to his senses, grabbed Lu Xuan's cuffs, and said impatiently: "Let's go, little brother, brother, I'll take you to have a good time." ”
Lu Xuan didn't think much about it, and followed Shopkeeper Li towards the west of the city.
As the sky grew darker, the merchants on both sides of the street lit lanterns in front of their doors, and the whole street was lit up by a dim light, which was indeed the same as Shopkeeper Li said, not much different from the daytime.
After walking for more than half an hour, Shopkeeper Li took Lu Xuan up to a high platform shaped like a pagoda and walked towards the top floor.
Lu Xuan thought that Shopkeeper Li wanted to take him to see the night view of Suicheng, but he didn't want to, on the top floor of this high platform, there were already men in brocade clothes, who were standing in front of the fence, looking ahead.
The lights on the top floor have not been lit yet, so I can't see them clearly.
The two of them squeezed through the crowd, and Lu Xuan saw that outside the fence, there was a long lake, under the light of the stars, with a faint cold light, looking up into the distance, the entire Jinling City was in full view, prosperous and magnificent, which made people amazed.
Lu Xuan, who was well-informed in later generations, didn't pay attention to this at all, and after seeing that there were no Taoist temples or temples in the city, he was a little lacking in interest.
As if sensing that Lu Xuan's mind was not on the beautiful scenery, Shopkeeper Li smiled: "Little brother, don't worry, the fun will come soon." ”
"Really?" Lu Xuan didn't think there would be anything interesting on this high platform.
But at this moment, an extremely excited voice suddenly came from the crowd, pointing to the end of the lake, and shouting: "Coming, coming!" ”