Chapter 425: Wumei Town
Haikui licked his chapped lips slightly, "I've only heard of Wangmei quenching her thirst, but I'm a little thirsty now!"
"Wangmei quenches your thirst?" Lin Yu thoughtfully.
Lao Huang looked up at the big sun, it's hot, can you not be thirsty?
Haikui was a little anxious to go to Wumei Town to see if there was that kind of sour fruit, but it still hurt a little when he was kicked by Lao Huang, and he didn't dare to ride too fast, and it hurt to be upside down, especially on the inner thighs.
The three of them slowly approached like Ume Town.
Black and purple black plums had already appeared in Haikui's mind, and his mouth began to salivate.
Lao Huang's expression is still desireless and desireless, maybe he has more time to come here, anyway, he is very calm.
Lin Yu had a little yearning expression, and the expectation on his face was much better than Haikui's eager expression.
In a society like theirs where transportation is underdeveloped, people generally don't go out much, and they are busy with production behind closed doors, so merchants are very popular, and as soon as the goods from the south to the north are dumped, a sum of money will be in hand.
In a society with developed transportation and logistics, the price of anything has a standard in the industry, so the price can relatively achieve a kind of unity on the Cheng dΓΉ, if your home is too expensive, people search on the Internet and you will wait to sit on the cold bench, no customers buy your things.
And like Lin Yu, the transportation they are in is not too convenient, and most of the poor people almost rely on their own production except for necessities, so some businessmen are extremely rich.
In fact, the people's fat and people's ointment can also be scraped away in this way.
Haikui has not entered Wumei Town and thinks that it should be a tourist town with complete facilities to entertain tourists or something, since it is so distinctive, there should be such a way to make money, who knows that when Haikui entered the town, he was very disappointed, and then sighed, in the place where the people are busy filling their stomachs, who will spend money for tourism, not only will they treat themselves as brain-dead, but even others will think that you are brain-dead.
The three of them slowly entered Wumei Town, quietly, only the clatter of horses' hooves and the sound of horses' noses.
Lin Yu also came to this legendary place for the first time, and felt that it was novel and interesting.
The town is also surrounded by houses, but the colors are not as uniform as the inside.
It is said that the town does not have any walls, moats, and is a city of its own, but a series of houses connected together.
"Can you tell me about Wumei Town that you know?" asked Hae-kyu on the horse.
Lin Yu stuck out his tongue and made a very cute expression, "I'm just hearsay, why don't I ask the people in the town later." β
Wumei Town does not have the prosperity of Haikui's imagination, there is no traffic, there is no canopy boat in Haikui's imagination, in Haikui's imagination, it should be a Jiangnan town like Qin Muyang's hometown, and finally found that he took it out of context.
Sometimes a person's name is very elegant, but his appearance is very strong, which is the same reason. For example, Xiaofang can sometimes be a man.
The town also looked a bit out of the ordinary, and the people he met were not at all hostile to Haikui and the three strangers.
Because they promised Lao Huang to take him to eat meat and drink wine, they didn't go around first after entering Wumei Town, but first looked for a tavern.
The floor is paved with black bricks, rectangular and an inch wide, which looks quite distinctive.
Haikui has a feeling of coming to Miaojiang, and it seems that most of the people in Miaojiang are in this style.
The roads in the town are very narrow and twisting, and if two horses go side by side, they can get stuck on the road, so Haikui and the three of them have to follow this.
After walking for a while, I successfully found a sign with the word "wine", and when I saw that the tavern was very small outside, there were only two tables in the house, and there were no guests at this time, Haikui took a look, "Let's go find a bigger tavern, this tavern probably doesn't have any good food!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Lao Huang entered the small tavern with his baggage and threw the burden on the ground.
There was only a lean man in his forties in the tavern, and there was no counter or anything in it, and there were large wine vasks everywhere in the house, and he saw an old man coming to the store and said with a smile: "Some wine?"
Hai Kui looked at the tone, Lao Huang is estimated to be a frequent customer in this store, and he is helpless about Lao Huang's own assertions, and said to Lin Yu: "That's it, I don't know if there is meat!"
The tavernkeeper heard what Hai Kui said to Lin Yu and said, "There's meat, big pieces of meat!
When Hai Kui heard this, he said happily: "That's good, let's put a big piece of meat and a big bowl of wine!"
"All right!" said the tavernkeeper, took out a jar of wine, placed three bowls, and trotted out of the tavern with a puff of smoke and then disappeared.
Lao Huang picked up the wine jar and patted it and sealed it, poured all three bowls of wine, and then picked up one bowl and sat down to taste it slowly. He doesn't drink as violently as he beats people, and he drinks one bite at a time, as if he is tasting.
Hai Kui snorted, what kind of good taste can be drunk from this kind of low-quality packaged wine, and he also showed an intoxicated look. Haikui also picked up a bowl and took a sip, there was no pungent smell of wine when he smelled it, although there was also a smell of wine but it was very light, there was a faint spicy and sweet feeling in the mouth, it was very comfortable and soft when it flowed through the throat, and there was a faint fragrance left between the lips and teeth after swallowing it whole.
"It's delicious!" Haikui said in a low voice, staring at the clear and bright wine in the bowl, a little less like white wine, more like fruit wine.
Lin Yu also turned over and dismounted and walked into the store, looking at Hai Kui's expression with a look of anticipation, Hai Kui greeted her, "This wine is very delicious, you can taste it!" Lin Yu picked up the last remaining bowl on the table and took a sip, "This wine can't be made from black plum fruit, right?"
"Yes! Behind him came the tavernkeeper's voice.
Haikui looked up to see the tavern owner holding a tray with bowl-sized pieces of meat in it.
Hai Kui watched the boss put the meat on the table, Hai Kui had a feeling of entering the TV, sure enough, it was a large piece of meat, and then the three of them began to eat meat in a big bowl and drink, Lao Huang was not polite, after drinking one jar to the second jar, after eating a piece of meat to take the second piece.
The tavern owner looked at Haikui and the others, and it didn't look like he had been to Wumei Town, so he began to tell Haikui and Lin Yu about Wumei Town.
It turns out that Wumei Town is not called this name, it is called Fulong Town, because the sky is slightly red every morning, a hazy beauty, as if there is a dragon dormant, there is a big family surnamed Zhou in Wumei Town, and the name of this Wumei Town is related to the family of this week.
Wumei Town is blessed with a peculiar environment to create a sweet and sour fruit that grows here, it tastes very delicious, almost all the people who grow in Wumei Town are from snacks to big, this fruit quenches thirst and dispels internal fire, rich in nutrients, has a lot of medicinal effects, but the people in the town are self-sufficient and rarely go out of the town, so this fruit is generally only eaten by the people in the town, the town has been inherited for three generations, has a history of 100 years, to the current old lady of the Zhou family, from now it is forty years ago, the old lady of the Zhou family left the town forty years ago to see the outside world, and took away a basket of black plum fruits as meals and thirst-quenching food when leaving, Mrs. Zhou walked a long way to reach a very large city, which is now the state capital, very prosperous and has a lot of people, the food he brought with him has been eaten, only the black plum fruit is left, although the black plum fruit quenches his thirst, the more he eats, the more hungry he is, he wants to exchange the black plum fruit for anti-hunger food in the state capital, but he has been selling it all morning, and no one wants to buy or change it if he has a dry mouth, because people outside do not know the black plum fruit.
The old lady Zhou, who was already hungry and couldn't bear it, took the fruit and began to look for those who sold other food, just wanting to exchange a basket of black plum fruits for a bowl of noodles or a piece of cake. No one even wanted to change with him after finding more than a dozen street food stalls, and the black plum fruits in the basket looked very ugly because they had been stored for a long time.
When he ate a wrinkled black plum fruit without water, he found that the black plum fruit that had a slightly sour taste had become a little sweeter, with a little sourness, which was more delicious, and the old lady Zhou was overjoyed and more confident, and went directly to the largest tavern in the state capital to find the boss, and asked the boss to sell this fruit as a small point.
The tavern owner had never seen this kind of fruit and didn't want to ask for it, so Uncle Zhou let him taste it for free, and the boss tasted it and shouted directly: It's delicious. gave Mrs. Zhou a few taels of silver and bought a basket of plum berries that should be half a basket.
Mrs. Zhou was also overjoyed, and ate a full meal, knowing that only with money can he break outside, and he found that as long as the black plum fruit is not stained with water and stored for a long time, he plans to sell the black plum fruit all over the country.
Then Mrs. Zhou became the richest man in this Wumei Town, and people from the outside world only knew Wumei Guo and did not know the name of Fulong, and slowly called it Wumei Town, and the name of Fulong Town was only known to the local authentic old people.
The tavern owner said that the spitting stars were flying and seemed to be the legendary story of this old lady Zhou, which made him admire it very much, "The black plum fruits in our town are selling better and better, and the road to the outside world has also been opened, and the old lady Zhou has been buying things from outside to improve our town, and all the houses here are rebuilt by the old lady Zhou, and one of the people in the town is considered to be renovated for free!"
Haikui nodded when he heard this: "This week, the old lady can be regarded as accumulating virtue and doing good, a great good person!"
"Isn't it! The Zhou family has the highest prestige in our town!" said the tavern owner with a smile, but sighed after pouring another bowl of wine for Haikui and Lao Huang.
"Why is my brother sighing?" asked Haikui as he picked up the wine bowl.
Lao Huang seemed to ignore what was going on outside the window, and only cared about drinking and eating meat, while Lin Yu listened to the story very seriously, and didn't move the wine bowl in front of him for half a day.
"Master Zhou and Master Zhou are both good, but the current young master of the Zhou family is too unspeakable!" said the tavern owner and shook his head regretfully.