When Lu Xihua entered the city gate, he changed his body back. Looking at the Song soldiers who were looking around with their eyes open and staring at them blankly, they smiled, "Why are you looking at me, I don't eat people?"

A little soldier, who looked like he was only fifteen or sixteen years old, looked at Lu Xihua's legs a little weak, "You are an immortal?"

Lu Xihua smiled, "Where did the immortal come from, I am a mountain man." Okay, that's over, I'll go first. After speaking, without waiting for Song Bing to react, he went into the alley, and disappeared from people's sight in a few clicks.

Song Qinzong's voice came from afar, "Where are the immortals? Where are the immortals? I want to thank the immortals in person!" After learning that Lu Xihua had left, Song Qinzong was remorseful, but he was also a little glad in his heart, at least the immortals were still in this Bianjing City, and the Great Song Dynasty was saved.

Tokyo Bianliang is divided into the outer city, the inner city and the imperial city, the outer city wall is boxy, the circumference is more than 30 kilometers, and the population is more than one million, making it the top city in the world.

The south gate of the outer city where Lu Xihua came in, the Nanxun Gate, is facing the Suzaku Gate of the inner city and the Xuande Gate of the Imperial City, so this street is called the Royal Street, which is wide and large, flat and straight. Trees and flowers are planted on both sides of the royal street, lotus, peach and plum, colorful, Lu Xihua can imagine, once it is between spring and summer, it is like embroidery.

The Tang Dynasty implemented the fangli system, dividing the city into a number of closed li as residential areas, and the commercial and handicraft areas were limited to a few regular opening and closing towns, and the whole city was subject to curfews. Regulations: 600 "closed-door drums" are sounded every night, and 400 "open-door drums" are sounded after 5 o'clock in the morning. Anyone who wanders on the streets of the city behind the "closed door drum" or in front of the "open door drum" is guilty of "committing a night crime" and will be beaten with 20 lashes.

In the Song Dynasty, with the development of commerce, the lifang system was broken, the curfew was lifted, and nightlife appeared, which had the characteristics of modern society. There is the Bianhe River in Kaifeng City, the Bianhe River goes around the inner city, and at the same time passes through the inner city from west to east, and passes through the imperial city in a T-shaped shape to the north in front of the royal street. It is precisely because of the Bianhe River that there is the Zhouqiao Night Market, which is scattered at both ends of the Shangzhou Bridge on the Bianhe River, mainly for all kinds of snacks, and the market is closed on the third watch (around 12 midnight).

Kaifeng's fire protection mechanism is sound, and Kaifeng is mainly responsible for it. At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, the city management still followed the Lifang system (later replaced by the street and lane system), each square and lane about 460 meters set up a patrol house, there are five patrol arresters, responsible for night security and fire work, and in the high brick fire tower, there are people on duty upstairs. All kinds of fire-fighting equipment are complete, once there is a fire in the house, the military owner Ma Bujun, the three yamen in front of the palace, and the leading military level of Kaifeng Mansion are all dispatched, and the people are not tired.

Walking through such a great city, Lu Xihua's mood is pleasant. Lu Xihua left the South Xuanmen and went east to the Xuanhua Gate, then turned to the north, traveled three kilometers, and came to the east gate of the inner city, Lijing Gate. Lu Xihua disguised his bald head, found a hat to put on, and after a simple inspection, entered the inner city in style.

The hustle and bustle of the soldiers and horses in the outer city did not affect the lives of the people in the inner city in the slightest. After entering the Lijing Gate, there is the Dingli Courtyard on the left-hand side. This majestic temple is built next to the Bianhe River, the temple is lush, many tall trees cover the temple platform, and many wild birds chirp, coming from the trees in the temple, alleviating the cold caused by the sword light.

After the Dingli Courtyard, walk on Bianhe Street. Lu Xihua walked in this ancient city, above the Bianhe River, smelling the aroma of food from the small shops around him, and felt a burst of hunger in his stomach. It seems that in Kaifeng City, there are a lot of delicious foods.

Walk through Sweet Water Lane, Sock Lane, come to the Victory Bridge, in front of which is the world-famous Daxiangguo Temple. Lu Xihua stood on the victory bridge and looked south, only to see more than 20 wisps of cooking smoke rising from a house in the south, and a sweet smell came from the air, so he hurriedly walked over.

It turned out to be an oil cake shop, called Zhengjia Oil Cake Shop, and it seemed that the business was very prosperous, and there were more than 20 stoves firing at the same time. There was a small servant at the door who was doing business, and Lu Xihua stepped forward to inquire. Originally, the Zhengjia oil cake shop had a total of 50 stoves, but now Kaifeng is in wartime, and only about 20 have been opened. Lu Xihua was surprised, it was really amazing.

Zheng Gas Cake Shop is a monopoly on oil cakes, and Lu Xihua looked at it from the outside, and he had already seen the division of labor and cooperation. There are three or five people on each board, some are responsible for rolling the skin (that is, rolling out the small dough for filling), some are responsible for making filling, some are responsible for making flowers (that is, decorating the pattern on the finished dough cake), and some are responsible for putting it on the plate and baking it in the oven, and the sound of the table can be heard from far and near.

These oil cakes are generally made of wheat flour, with water and noodles, warm water in winter, cold water in summer, and no fermentation, which is called dead noodles. Lu Xihua took a look, there were large oil cakes with green onions, rolled with dead noodles, made of oil, cut into pieces and sold by catties. There are small oil cakes with green onions, which are also rolled with dead noodles and made of clear oil, which is fragrant and soft.

There is also a kind of dough oil cake, which is very distinctive, charred on the outside and soft on the inside, layer after layer on the inside, although it is as thin as paper but very chewy. This kind of dough pancake is sweet and salty, the dough cake is very thin and does not add any seasoning, and the salty cake is slightly thicker and often served with green onion oil and salt. Place the rolled bread on a hot iron pan or frying pan and turn it over. The sweet cakes are cooked one by one, sandwiched with mung bean sprouts, cucumber shreds, spinach, vermicelli, vinegar and garlic juice, and small grinding oil mixed with Japanese vegetables to eat. Salty cakes pay attention to three turns and six turns, no need to cook another dish, a bowl of rice or millet porridge, noodle soup can be.

There is also an expensive lotus cake, the price is 800 Wen, a total of 15 grids, each grid has a folded branch lotus, a total of 15 colors.

Lu Xihua bought some scallion pancakes, ate them while walking, and came to the Great Xiangguo Temple, which happened to be holding a commodity exchange meeting in front of the Xiangguo Temple. Rare birds and beasts are sold at the front gate, furniture and daily necessities are sold at the second and third gates, and calligraphy, paintings, cultural and educational supplies are sold around the main hall. Nuns and monks are not idle, nuns sell embroidery, collar wipes, hats and other handmade products, monks sell Buddha teeth, bracelets, amulets, etc., may be a war, these Buddha blessed things sell very well.

There is another feature of Xiangguo Temple, which is that the monk sells meat. Some monks who have no talent for handicrafts have joined forces to run a pork business, which is called the Roast Pig Courtyard. There is even an advertisement: handmade by Huiming monk. It seems that it was done by a monk named Huiming. There are still a lot of people who buy, Lu Xihua asked the little guy again, it turned out that this monk named Huiming is not good at chanting, specializing in cooking and cooking, especially meat dishes, full of color, flavor and flavor, famous in the capital, a few years to become a food master known to women and children in Kaifeng.

To the north of Daxiangguo Temple is the famous Pan Tower, and the northwest side of the Pan Tower is the Imperial City, and Lu Xihua plans to find a store to live and rest nearby.