Although it is late summer and early autumn, the alpine area is hot during the day and cold at night, and it is easy to feel cold if you are not careful.

When the female shopkeeper came out to deliver the food, she saw a little bead of sweat on the tip of Miss Bai's nose and smiled: "How is it?"

Miss Bai was curious: "You choke on this soup very much." "In the past, the Bai family's cooks also used pepper for cooking, how could they be so strong?

"It's not pepper seeds, it's pepper roots. The female shopkeeper smiled, "It's cold in the mountains, and you can't force it out if you don't drink it like this." ”

She handed out two more bowls of dishes, one was chestnut stewed meat, and the other was "a big bowl of fragrant".

As soon as the sealed meat was served, it was fragrant, and Miss Bai's stomach gurgled again. She blushed, and the female shopkeeper just didn't hear it, but just introduced her: "The new chestnuts that just came down are very glutinous." ”

The meat was made of a large piece of pork shoulder with the skin, the fat was two fingers wide, and after simmering for an hour, it looked red and bright in the dim light, shining with oil. Usually, Miss Bai may think it's too fat, but now she's so hungry that she will threaten it.

The flesh trembled, poking to the end. Even the belt meat is imported with a basket, fat but not greasy, how can the word "fragrant" be obtained?

And the "big bowl of fragrant" is really a large amount of affordable, the bowl mouth is bigger than Miss Bai's face plate, there is only a little bit of shredded meat in it, and the rest are all kinds of agricultural vegetables and miscellaneous vegetables fried quickly, and finally collected in a bowl, eaten with rice, slightly spicy, fragrant and appetizing.

Miss Bai ate happily, took out a silver ingot from her arms and handed it over: "Thank you." ”

The female shopkeeper waved her hand: "I don't need so much." But Miss Bai directly stuffed the silver into her hand.

Yan Saburo ate slowly, then looked at her and asked, "The shopkeeper's surname?"

"Don't have your surname Tu. ”

"You're the only one busy in this shop?" the regular questioning began.

"Hey, usually the front of the hall is greeted by a foreigner, but he has something to go out today and hasn't come back yet. Shopkeeper Tu looked at the rain outside the window and sighed, "The rain is so heavy, I'm afraid he won't be able to come back for a while." ”

Miss Bai looked at her kindly and couldn't help it: "Excuse me, what kind of place is this?"

"Dendrobium Town. Shopkeeper Liu smiled, "Where are the two of you from?"

Yan Saburo was stunned when he heard this, this woman didn't ask where they came from, but "which township" they came from? Miss Bai didn't think about it: "Township?"

"We are Pingxiang here, and there are Marsh Township and Qingli Township to the west...... Where are you from?"

Miss Bai's eyes widened: "No one comes from the countryside?" She understood, the "township" mentioned by the shopkeeper Tu probably refers to the human settlements on the plains, right?

"Outside the country?" said the shopkeeper Tu with a smile, "It's too little, it's almost isolated here." ”

Miss Bai gave her the silver taels, she looked at them a few times, and said strangely: "The style of this silver ingot is different from Pingxiang, and sure enough, you are a foreigner." ”

"What does the silver look like here?"

The shopkeeper Tu took out a small silver ingot from his waist: "Huh." ”

Silver taels are generally made in molds, and there are strict regulations on size and weight. The ingot given by Miss Bai is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, and the belly is round and boat-shaped, but the shopkeeper Tu took out it like a "mountain", with sharp ends and a sharp middle.

Silver is silver, only differing in fineness and shape. Yan Saburo glanced twice: "You all use this kind of silver?"

"yes. ”

He thought about it again: "There are very few outsiders in Pingxiang, right?"

"Isn't it?" said the shopkeeper Tu with a smile, "I'm a regular visitor to the town, and everyone looks down and doesn't look up, and I don't see a few new faces at the end of the year." Speaking of this, she was also curious, "We are a small place here, and there is no prosperity in Luan Town, how can the two of you come here?"

"Doing business. Yan Saburo pointed to the west, "Has anyone been behind the mountain?"

"You're joking, there are thousands of peaks in the west, who can get out?" Although it was dark outside, the shopkeeper Tu still subconsciously turned his head to the west, "I heard the medicine picker say that there are still mountains behind this mountain, and it is steep and straight, and no one can climb it." ”

Apparently she "heard" wrong, Yan Saburo and Miss Bai glanced at each other. They just came over the mountain, and the mountain was indeed very difficult to climb, and it took a lot of effort to use their strange methods, but when it came to "no one can climb it", it was not enough, right?

Shopkeeper Tu stood up and walked to the back kitchen.

When she came out again, she was holding a bowl of porridge in her hand, and the fish was fragrant.

Without her or Yan Saburo summoning her, the white cat came out of the corner and meowed around her.

Even Miss Bai could hear the eagerness in the scream, and she couldn't help but hey.

The shopkeeper Tu put the bowl on the ground and said to the cat, "Be careful of burning." ”

The white cat is not afraid of life, and plunges into the bowl and eats with a whining sound. The creek fish stewed with porridge is only finger long, and everyone loves to eat it, let alone cats?

Yan Saburo was relieved at a glance, the shopkeeper Tu was right, this fish only has a soft thorn, and it does not pierce people (cats).

Seeing that the cat was eating well, the shopkeeper couldn't help but stroke its head.

Qianqian was used to being arrogant by Chitose and Yan Saburo, and most of them were not allowed to be touched, but at this time, she did not avoid the shopkeeper Tu.

It instinctively knows who's good about it and who's just curious about it.

Miss Bai coughed lightly: "Shopkeeper Tu, have you ever been out of Pingxiang?"

"When I was young, I was out of town. Now that I'm older, I only go to other towns when I'm in the market. There were no other customers in the store, and the shopkeeper Tu had nothing else to do, so he simply moved a small basket to the adjacent table and sat down, took out the dried daylily in the basket, and knotted them one by one.

The daylily is knotted and stewed in soup, which has a crisp taste and a better taste.

Miss Bai tilted her head: "Why don't you walk more?"

"After being away for a long time, I know that my home is comfortable. The shopkeeper Tu said with a smile, "My grandson and I have walked a lot, and ninety percent of the villagers here have never taken a step out of Pingxiang in their lives." ”

"Have you never walked out of Pingxiang in your life?" Miss Bai was shocked and her beautiful eyes widened, "Don't you think it's very cramped to stay in one place all the time?"

"This is the norm in the countryside. This time, there was no need for the shopkeeper Tu to answer, Yan Saburo opened his mouth first, "Many places have never built official roads, water and land transportation is inconvenient, and many people have never left their hometowns in their lives, and we are the same." ”

"We are there" refers to the outside of Shoutong Mountain, Miss Bai can hear it, but her surprise has not diminished. It seemed to her that people were planted in one place like turnips and never moved, which was incredible.

But Yan Saburo traveled all over the world and knew that this was the norm in the world. At that time, people were confined to water and land transportation, and the vehicles and boats were inconvenient, and it would take more than half a year to get from Yicheng to Chunmingcheng, and eating and drinking on the road would be a problem, and there might be some natural and man-made disasters. People are most afraid of dying in a foreign land, and they can't return to their roots, so most ordinary people are born in Si, grow up in Si and die in Si, and never dare to leave easily.

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