Chapter 44: To the capital
Half a month later......
"Whew, it's finally here, Made's old son is about to fall apart......"
Zhao Ming walked on the streets of the capital, looking at the flow of people in the car, and suddenly couldn't help but sigh. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
"It is worthy of being a first-class metropolis in this era, and the flow of people is not built, and the liveliness is almost catching up with the first-tier cities in the previous life. Zhao Ming led the horse and walked down the street, shuttling through the endless flow of people, looking curiously at the storefronts on both sides.
"It's worthy of being a metropolis, there are no stalls, it seems that the security here is very good, and the city management seems to be very powerful!" Zhao Ming sighed while visiting the prosperity here.
However, the prosperity of the capital is indeed not comparable to other cities, after all, it is at the foot of the Son of Heaven, and all the dignitaries and nobles are concentrated here.
"Let's try the food here, as the leading first-class city in this era, the food here should have its own characteristics, hehe, find a place to taste it first." ā
Zhao Ming thought of this and began to look for his inn, not to mention, there are quite a lot of inns in the capital, but unfortunately they are full of people, Zhao Ming came at the wrong time, now it is just a meal, the inn is full, Zhao Ming looked for a long time to find a vacant seat, but also thanks to the large inn, up and down three floors, otherwise there may not be a place.
Zhao Ming tied the horse in his hand to the manger next to the horse, not because he didn't want to hand it over to the shopkeeper, but because he didn't wait for the shadow of the shopkeeper for a long time.
Zhao Ming tied his horse and walked into the store.
"Guest, what are you doing?" The shopkeeper ran over after Zhao Ming walked in the door, and took Zhao Ming to an empty table, the little second brother took off the rag and wiped it twice on the table, looking at Zhao Ming with a smile.
"Come on, whatever specialties you have here. "Zhao Ming doesn't know what's special here, usually he looks at it and lets Xiao Er go on it himself, although this is very likely to be pitted by Xiao Er, but this time it saves a lot of trouble, not to mention that the low price is not necessarily delicious, but the high price must be delicious Zhao Ming still understands.
"We have a lot of specialties here, and of course, there are also a lot of light vegetarian dishes, which I am sure will satisfy you. When the shopkeeper heard Zhao Ming say this, his face suddenly seemed to be like a flower, every time a guest asked them to serve a special dish, they would order the most expensive one, so the boss would give them a commission.
But before the shopkeeper ran to the back kitchen, Zhao Ming called him to stop.
"Don't worry, although I ordered vegetarian dishes, I asked you to bring up all the specialties, didn't you hear clearly?" Zhao Ming looked at the shopkeeper with an unhappy face.
"But...... Okay, I'll be here right away!" The shopkeeper wanted to say something, but as soon as he saw Zhao Ming's face, he immediately choked back the words that came out of his mouth.
"Eh, it's so troublesome every time, and it seems to be swaggering. Zhao Ming looked back and forth and found that many people were looking at him.
"Should I bring a cook with me? No, that's too much trouble, well, by the way, I can buy a house here and have the inn deliver the food every day, so it won't be so troublesome, hehe!" Zhao Ming was very satisfied with his idea, and decided to do it after eating.
Soon the food was ready, and Zhao Ming ate it happily regardless of the strange eyes around him.
"Don't really say it, the dishes in this capital have gone up a notch in terms of color, flavor and flavor. Zhao Ming sighed while eating, he can also be regarded as having eaten all over the country, although it is exaggerated, but he has also eaten many places, but compared with this table, he can't keep up with it in terms of luxury or grade.
Zhao Ming ordered another pot of wine, sat there alone and drank alone, and it didn't take long for the whole table of dishes to enter his stomach under Zhao Ming's stormy clouds.
"Whew, finish eating and get down to business. Saying that, Zhao Ming drank the last sip of wine in the wine glass and shouted.
"Little second brother, it's time to settle the bill. ā
As soon as the shopkeeper heard that he was paying the bill, he hurriedly ran over.
"Hmm...... The guest officer, a total of fifty-seven taels of silver. ā
"What? Fifty-seven taels? You are robbing money, right?" Zhao Ming jumped when he heard this, this is simply robbing money, he has never eaten more than five taels before, but this meal is directly more than ten times.
"Guest officer, you can't say that, you see what materials you use at this table, shark fin, bird's nest, abalone, hump, this is not a bargain, and there are a lot of medicinal herbs added to it, if it weren't for our store, you might not be able to eat it!"
"I'm ......," Zhao Ming pointed to the already empty dishes on the table, but didn't say a word.
Looking at the expectant and suspicious eyes of the shopkeeper, Zhao Ming suddenly felt depressed to death.
"Made, next time, I won't let the shopkeeper serve the food by himself, this is simply a pit!" Zhao Ming reluctantly took out a silver ticket of one hundred taels from his arms and handed it to the little second brother.
The shopkeeper smiled crookedly when he took the silver ticket, and hurriedly ran to the counter to find the boss for change.
Zhao Ming looked at the silver ticket in his hand, it was not bad, there were still two hundred taels after such a long time, which could be regarded as thrifty and thrifty.
If the bandit leader heard Zhao Ming's words, he would probably have to crawl out of the grave, I have saved so much silver after so many years of hard work and robbery, and you have spent half of it in less than a year, or are you diligent and thrifty? This is not counting half a month in Swallow Dock, more than half a year in the Vulture Palace, and half a month in Tianlong Temple.
Soon the shopkeeper ran over and handed the change money to Zhao Ming, Zhao Ming counted it and picked up the baggage and walked out of this 'black shop'.
"Made, I'll never come to this place again, well, try not to come here......" Although Zhao Ming was very dissatisfied with the behavior of the shopkeeper, he was still very satisfied with the dishes in this shop.
Zhao Ming led the horse and walked on the street, more than half an hour had passed, and Zhao Ming was stunned that he couldn't find where to sell the house.
"Damn, no one in the capital sells houses?" Zhao Ming looked back and forth, but he couldn't see any house outside the house for sale.
Suddenly, Zhao Ming thought of a question.
"Damn, I'm really stupid, I used to watch TV, and the houses in ancient times were not all sold through the government and intermediaries, or they were abandoned there, and I haven't seen people label 'this house for sale'. Zhao Ming slapped his elm head fiercely, led the horse and walked towards the yamen.
Before coming to the yamen, it is a pity that the door can be crowded, although this is the capital, but this is the yamen, not in the market, is arranged in the residential area, he doesn't want those small towns to set up the yamen in the most conspicuous place, but here is not, in the capital can be said to be the most absent is the yamen, because any officials are bigger than their masters, so this yamen is about to become a housing management office.
Zhao Ming stood at the door, and before Zhao Ming could ask the official standing by the door, he spoke: "What are you doing? Don't you know that obstructing official business is a crime?"
Zhao Ming didn't react when he was told by this officer, what is this, this is hindering official business, no wonder there is no one at the door, it is strange that there can be someone like this.
Although Zhao Ming was very unimpressed, he still said with a smile: "Brother Ya, I'm here to sell the house!"
When the official heard this, okay, they all rely on selling houses to earn extra money, this yamen has no business, no one can do anything, the business has been robbed by six doors, of course, they can't rob six doors, usually they rely on this extra money to live.
"Oh, it turned out that I came to see the house, come on, come on, please come inside, I'm going to call the master out, you wait!" After saying that, the official ran inside, and before Zhao Ming could react from his change in attitude, the official ran away.
Zhao Ming turned his head to look at the other officer, only to see him blaming himself with a look of remorse Why was he a step too late.
Zhao Ming suddenly sweated profusely: "Where is this yamen, this is simply the sales office of the new house in the future, it is estimated that these officials will bring a commission to a customer, otherwise why would the officials who grabbed it be so happy!"
Zhao Ming couldn't help but shake his head when he thought of this, the yamen in the capital can already change the plaque, how convenient it is to call the sales office directly.
If Zhao Ming knew this idea to the magistrate, he would have met his bosom friend, if it weren't for the fact that this was at the foot of the imperial city, he would have changed it a long time ago.