In the early morning, the market is bustling, and the air is filled with the smell of fresh vegetables and moisture......

Most of the vegetables are potatoes and cabbage, which are hardy and easy to store, as long as they are stored in the cellar, they will not rot for a few months.

Farming has always been the most important part of the feudal dynasty. The people must first eat enough to avoid making trouble. The farmer, also one of the hundred, specializes in studying the crops in the field and growing spiritual rice.

The imperial court has a Ministry of Agriculture, and two years ago invented a kind of greenhouse, which is a transparent film made of wheat straw as raw material, which can be used for winter vegetable breeding. However, this kind of thing is expensive to make, so it is only grown in Kyoto.

In the south, because of the warm weather, the climate is suitable for planting. As a result, many giant merchants spend huge sums of money to transport vegetables and fruits to Kyoto to sell in order to make a high profit difference.

The fruit of the south is a type of citrus, which is popular among the people because of its luscious taste. Every year, large quantities of citrus are delivered to the Royal Palace and the various ministers' palaces for enjoyment.

Citrus is also widely sold among the people, but due to the long transportation distance and the high capital cost, the price is ridiculously high.

There are citrus sellers in the Nancheng vegetable market, and the price is 130 big boards a catty. One hundred and thirty large plates are equivalent to forty-three bowls of meat noodles with large pieces, which is also equivalent to more than a dozen catties of fine lean meat, which shows its high price.

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Citrus is delicious, and orange peel also has the use of clearing heat and relieving cough, so it can also be sold for money.

After the orange peel is dried, a few large plates are a pound, which is not expensive, because there are many things that can stop coughing......

In the vegetable market, a noble lady was picking out citrus fruits in front of an orange stall, and her white fingers took aside the slightly frozen, scratched, unsightly, and small ones, and chose only the most perfect oranges.

No one is perfect, and even citrus is not perfect. So after picking for a long time, a few baskets of citrus were tossed over, and the lady only fell in love with three citrus......

The citrus vendor resisted his impatience and, with patience, took down the baskets of citrus from the ox cart and poured them on the mat on the ground for the lady to choose.

The hawker scolded in his heart, he didn't look at the yellow calendar when he went out, and he was unlucky, and the citrus was taken out and tossed, and it was glazed, and the flesh was not delicious. But he didn't dare to say anything, didn't he see five or six guards with steel knives behind this noble lady!

A cart of citrus, after picking for more than half an hour, finally picked seven or eight more perfect ones, and the lady finally paid and walked away......

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The peddler looked at the citrus on the ground, sighed, and prepared to take it back into the basket.

At this moment, the bad luck of the peddler came again, and several bullies who walked all over the place came over, squatted down, picked up a few large citrus fruits at random, and picked them up and tasted them.

A hideous man with a Chinese face may feel that oranges don't taste right, so he couldn't help but take a sip, spit out the flesh in his mouth, and scolded: "I said selling oranges, what are you selling." How does it taste like a cotton sleeve, it's called ...... What's coming ......?"

A skinny-skinned monkey-like gangster next to him hurriedly whispered in his ear: "Boss, it's the ...... of Jin Yuqi's defeat."

"Yes! How can you compensate for the stomach of the uncle?"

The peddler shook his head and smiled bitterly, took out a string of copper plates from his pocket, and sent them away, so that they would not make a fuss here.

When it was all done, the vendor lowered his head and began to collect the oranges in the basket.

"Huh?"

He felt movement in front of him, and couldn't help but raise his head to look, and this look, he immediately became angry.

In front of the stall, a beggar was squatting with his cuffs in his hands, and when he saw the peddler looking up, he immediately looked shocked.

The peddler looked at the little beggar's bulging cuffs and was furious: "This is worth it, a little beggar dares to come and steal my oranges, this is really cowardly." The first two groups of people can't afford to be provoked, and I'm afraid that you will be a little one to eat."

He was holding back his anger and didn't set off, and when he saw the person he could bully, he couldn't bully him vigorously.

Thinking of this, he shouted: "Where did the little beggar come from, dare to come and steal my oranges."

When the little beggar heard the hawker's voice, he was startled and immediately stood up and ran out.

The peddler screamed like a pig: "Catch him for me, that's a thief!"

The people around him were so crowded that he couldn't run out at all, and after a few steps, the little beggar was caught.

An aunt selling vegetables next to her sighed: "Hey! It's not a good boy to steal things at such a young age." If you want to eat, you can also support yourself, how can you become three hands?"

In Daqian, thieves are the most despised. The good talk of the gentleman on the beam will not work here. The thief, also known as the three hands, if caught, cut off the fingers. If the offense is big enough, then it will be served in prison.

Eating in prison does not mean that you are locked up in a prison and served all day. The life of this prisoner was the most miserable. There is no personal freedom, and you have to work every day, mining and so on. During the war years, it was these prisoners who rushed to the forefront.

There are also those who are assigned to Lingnan and go to those remote places to feed poisonous insects, which is miserable!

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The peddler stepped forward and saw the little beggar's bulging pocket, and slapped him in the face, which was very crisp.

The people around him didn't persuade him, but the word thief was too hateful, and he hated it so much.

The corners of the little beggar's mouth were bloodshot, his ears were buzzing, and he was a little blinded by a slap.

"I didn't steal your oranges".

The little beggar's voice was a little hoarse.

"Hmph, what did you run away from, what did you put in your pocket?"

After being reprimanded, the little beggar cried aggrievedly, and two lines of tears washed down the black ash on his face, revealing a rather delicate face. This is a little girl, five or six years old, but due to malnutrition, her body is as thin as a hemp stick, and it seems that a gust of wind can blow it down.

The little girl's hair was a little yellow, the linen clothes on her body were a little tattered, there were several crooked patches, her body was blue and purple, some were beaten and twisted, and some were knocked and frozen.

The hawker reprimanded: "If you don't learn well at a young age, you will definitely have no chance in the future." Let's go, I'll take you to the official office, and go to the official master to comment on the reasoning."

The peddler was righteous on his face, but he secretly said in his heart: "What a beautiful embryo, take it home and raise it, and let him match my stupid son in the future, which is also a good family." No matter how bad it is, it can be sold in the building, and now this kind of young prostitute is quite popular with many officials, at least it is a few dozen taels of snowflake silver, which can catch up with me selling several carts of oranges......"

The human heart is sinister and separates the belly, whether the heart is black or red, it needs to be removed to see clearly......

"I didn't steal!"

The little beggar struggled hard, but her little strength was not enough to see at all, and her little face was red, but she couldn't break free of the hand of this giant in front of her compared to her small body.

An old man selling cabbage next to him couldn't stand it, and sighed: "Don't be difficult for the child, it's not easy, this doll has no food to eat, let her go!"

The peddler snorted coldly: "This can't be done, this evil wind can't rise, otherwise a lot of children will come to me every day to steal oranges, so how can I deal with it?"

The peddler won't let a single step, joke, this is silver!!

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"Wow~~"

When pulled by the vendor, the bulging pocket also cracked, and a large handful of orange peels fell out.

When everyone saw the orange peel, they couldn't help but be stunned.

It turned out that the little beggar was taking the orange peel that the bullies had stripped off.

The aunt who sold vegetables smiled: "I'll just say, this doll doesn't look like stealing things, it turns out to be an orange peel ...... picked."

The faces of the people were relieved, the little beggar was not a thief, and the love of the people rose. For this kind of beggar, they are even more loving, their own identity is too pitiful, and it is easiest to touch the most sensitive nerve in people's hearts......

The old man who sold cabbage smiled, and the big smoke pot was smoking.

"Okay, let this baby go, just now you hit this baby, and your face is swollen. Buy her some hot buns to warm up......"

"It's ~~"

When the peddler saw this, his face was also ugly, and he admitted that he was wrong, and he really didn't steal his oranges. But if he is greedy, he can't be extinguished!

He said sharply: "The orange peel is also mine, take my orange peel, this is also a steal, go for a walk, follow me to the yamen to judge......"

The peddler grabbed his neck and tried to pull the little beggar away.

"Why are you like this~~"

"It's so dark!"

The surrounding people condemned one after another, but it was only verbal, and few did it for other people's business. Besides, looking at the size of the peddler, he weighed one hundred and eighty pounds, a tall man. If you are small, can you carry that basket of oranges?

The little beggar was anxious, showed his teeth with a few gaps, and bit down on the vendor's wrist.

"Ah~~, you're a dog?"

The peddler's wrist hurt, and he couldn't help but fan it with his other hand.

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"Smack"

There was a cooler sound, but it was not the hawker fanning the little beggar, but a scholar with an ordinary face, who flew the peddler fan out.

The little beggar didn't let go, and was taken away and flew out.

The people next to him praised one after another: "Okay, the scholar has a lot of strength!"

"The fan is good, the chivalrous and righteous!"

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Before the hawker landed, Zhou Sheng flashed, chased after him, and hugged the little beggar down.

Zhou Sheng smelled the sour smell of the little beggar, and sighed in his heart, no one cared about him when he was a child, and he went to the kitchen of the Zhou family all day to get some leftovers, and he also got this kind of smell!

The little beggar opened his big black grunt eyes, and he only felt that the people in front of him were the most haode people.

The peddler landed on the oranges on the mat, tumbling a few times, only to hear a few pops, and the citrus below were crushed with water.

"Ahem~~"

He sat up, coughed twice, three big teeth coughed out, and his face collapsed in misery.

Holding the big tooth in his hand, the peddler scolded: "Boy, you wait. Break my teeth, break my oranges, and Lao Tzu will break your legs. My uncle is from the Qi Family Chamber of Commerce, and these oranges are all transported from the south by the Qi Family Chamber of Commerce, boy, you're finished!"

Citrus, these rare things, it is true that only a few large chambers of commerce can ship back. This vendor can sell oranges in the vegetable market, which also has something to do with it.

The Qijia Chamber of Commerce is also one of the three major chambers of commerce in the country, and its business spreads all over the northern ice field, various small countries in the Southeast Sea, and even communicates with the Western Regions. Many snow wolf furs from the ice fields, spices, gold, and ivory from the Western Regions, as well as specialties from various countries on the sea, can all be bought in this chamber of commerce.

However, there must be a big unknown chamber of commerce secretly, and most of this kind of things that affect the country's economy are in the hands of the imperial court. Take the two imperial merchants attached to the imperial court, and the scale is not smaller than that of the Qi Family Chamber of Commerce.

The imperial court controls the most basic economy, mints coins, controls the transportation, transports official salt, etc., and will definitely not be faked to manpower, otherwise these chambers of commerce will strike and rebel, which will also be troublesome!

Zhou Sheng's eyes were cold, and what annoyed him the most was being threatened.

"Break my leg?"

Zhou Sheng took a few steps forward, grabbed the vendor's neck, and slammed his head into the ground, thumping.

The peddler had a swollen bag on his forehead, and then it was broken, and blood was pouring out.

"I'll let you break my legs......!

"Bang"

"Bang"

The brain is not as hard as the frozen soil, and the peddler's forehead was knocked into a big nest, and a stone was knocked into it.

"Ah, it hurts, help!"

The peddler screamed violently, and the people around him looked creepy, too ruthless, too bloody.

After a while, Zhou Sheng was angry, so he left with the little beggar. Before leaving, the money drove the ox cart away, and there were three or four baskets of oranges on it, which was enough for him to eat.

Zhou Sheng's appetite is very big now, not to mention eating a cow, but it is not a problem to eat a cow, and as for eating pasta, he doesn't care if he is full.

The old cow pulling the cart went back to eat it, and then ate a few baskets of oranges, with meat and vegetables, which is more suitable for good health.

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PS: Yes, this little beggar is the heroine, although she is a little smaller, but she is a cultivator, and she will grow up after a few years.

In the summer, at the train station, I met a little girl of five or six years old begging everywhere, calling her uncle and sister. She had a cloth bag in front of her, which contained a lot of tickets, and when she called my uncle and asked if there was a dollar, I didn't feel good.

No matter what kind of society develops, there is such a little beggar. What do children at what age do they understand? I don't understand anything, and there are adults in Kendong who follow not far behind. And I read the news about this, and there are often children who have lost their children, and some have been gouged out and their legs have been broken, which makes people feel pitiful......

When I was my age, I was still worried about whether I had to buy a dime ice pack or two cents ice cream after school. Now that I think about it, at such an age, I really don't understand anything at all, and my outlook on life and shijie are not mature at all.

Hey, the world is uneven, Shao Zhousheng should be a puppet like Shao Zhousheng, he should take a kitchen knife and chop up this kind of person......