Chapter Eighty-Eight: Prosperous Streets, Breaking Wealth and Avoiding Disasters
"Granny Meng, hurry up! You see there are still a lot of delicious foods here. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info" said Min Tian as he pointed to the steaming soup in the cauldron. The shopkeeper walked up to Min Tian, bowed over and asked, "Shaoxia, do you want to taste a bowl of mutton soup?" Min Tian sat down, threw the sugar man on the table, and the jet-black steel knife behind him was thrown on the table with a cloth bag, and he picked up the chopsticks on the table and asked, "Is there anything delicious besides this mutton soup?" The shopkeeper then pointed to the sign hanging on the door and said: "This mutton soup in the small shop is the most authentic in Chang'an City, and this meat patty, Shaoxia might as well try it." Granny Meng finally caught up with this mercy, sat down breathlessly and said to the shopkeeper, "There is hot tea, let's have a pot first." The shopkeeper waved at the guy: "A pot of plum tea!" Min Tian shouted as the shopkeeper shouted, causing Granny Meng to laugh as she covered her mouth with her sleeves raised. The shopkeeper was angry: "It's been a long time, you two old and young are here to eat white food!" As he spoke, he threw the rag he was holding on the table, and just as he was about to get up, Granny Meng took out a tael of silver from her waist and said, "Can you buy you two bowls of mutton soup and this tea?" The shopkeeper immediately changed his face, and said with a smile: "Enough! Enough! Two heroes, please wait a moment!" Min Tian got up and quietly asked Granny Meng: "Why is this shopkeeper so happy to see this thing in your hand? Granny Meng laughed and put the broken silver hanging from her waist in Min Tian's hand: "This is the silver tael to buy these things, you will use them on the road in the future, and everything on this street will be bought." Min Tian pouted and said, "It's not good at all! In our snow-capped mountains, we can go hunting whatever we want, fly in the sky and run underground, and swim in the water, everything." The Central Plains is not fun at all, uncomfortable. Granny Meng took Min Tian's hand and said, "Look, if you don't give the store money for food, then he won't be able to earn a penny a day of hard work, and he won't be able to let his daughter study without money." ”
"Two bowls of hot mutton soup!" said the shopkeeper who had already brought the mutton soup to the table. Granny Meng said to Min Tian: "Hurry up and eat, after eating, we will go back to Mr. Chess Saint and them." Min Tian frowned unhappily: "They always control me and don't let me play." Granny Meng smiled and narrowed her eyes into a slit, looking at the childish compassion, her eyes showing pity and distress.
Granny Meng quietly called the shopkeeper to her side, and inquired about the shop: "I don't know who you are in the Chang'an prefect?" The shopkeeper squeaked and didn't speak for a long time, and was about to slap the table and stare at it, only to see Granny Meng take out a dozen dollars and hand it to the shopkeeper, and the shopkeeper put it into his sleeve: "Hero, our place has long been no longer called Chang'an, Hongwu changed to Xi'an Mansion in the second year, and now our Xi'an prefect is an official who is honest and honest, not a powerful person." He likes to read history, is good at appreciation, and is good at poetry and writing, and his name is Yin Shen. After saying that, the shopkeeper shook the rag in his hand and prepared to leave. Granny Meng pulled him back again: "Before you finish asking, why did you leave?" The shopkeeper immediately begged. Granny Meng said: "Why is the market so lively when there is no New Year's festival at the moment?" The shopkeeper rolled his eyes, looked around, and leaned into Granny Meng's ear and said: "Don't inquire, you just need to know that the prefect of Xi'an wants to choose a relative for the youngest daughter at this moment." Granny Meng glanced in the direction where the shopkeeper's eyes fell just now, and found that there were many more customers on the street.
"It's delicious!" Min Tian licked the large bowl clean, and the scraps of the meatloaf were still hanging from his mouth. Granny Meng pulled up Mintian and was about to leave, but was suddenly stopped by a strange man wearing a tattered robe, holding a dust whisk around his neck and wearing Vajra Bodhi, and with long hair on his head. Min Tian smiled and pointed at him and asked, "Are you a Taoist priest or a monk?" Seeing this strange man take out a red charm bag from his dirty hand and want to hand it to Mintian, Granny Meng said: "The child is still young, there is no need to get married, please don't embarrass the child with this master." I only heard this strange man say: "The Tao is not the Tao, the Buddha is not the Buddha, ask the immortals to ask the Buddha dust." When the shopkeeper saw that this strange man was coming again, he hurriedly stepped forward and drove away: "You beggar is here again, take your deceitful charm and hurry away! Don't delay my business!" When Granny Meng saw the two of them reasoning, she hurriedly pulled Min Tian and ran away. Min Tian smiled and asked: "Granny Meng, that haired weird man is really funny, he doesn't hold a wisdom battle in his hand, he actually holds a whisk, you say he is a monk or a Taoist priest!"
"Ahh This is all the silver taels on Granny Meng's body, and when she was blaming herself, she turned her head and saw a dirty little beggar stealing his money bag and grimacing at him. Min Tian shook off Granny Meng and turned around and chased after the little beggar. By the time Granny Meng reacted, Min Tian had already jumped on the roof and chased after the little beggar, who was also nimble, jumping up and down on the busiest street of the vegetable market without touching anyone passing by. Min Tian jumped back and forth on the roof, shouting as he chased after him: "Little thief, you come down for me! "This little thief is very good, in the face of the tiles kicked down from the roof, he couldn't dodge and hit himself, he easily overturned a melon and fruit stand, and then buckled the fruit basket on his head and ran desperately forward, Min Tian jumped up and turned over and blocked the thief who bowed his head and only cared about running for his life. Seeing that the thief had caught up, he quickly opened the money bag and threw a bag of money into the air, and many beggars around him rushed to rob the coins on the ground. Min Tian grabbed the little beggar's clothes by the collar and lifted him up, ready to fall out, when suddenly a dirty big hand grabbed Min Tian's waist: "Young man, can you let this little brother compensate me for the melons and fruits scattered all over the ground first?" Min Tian helped the panting old man up: "Okay!" Just as he spoke, the little beggar was about to slip away with oil on the soles of his feet, but he was grabbed by Min Tian by the back, and his feet kicked back and forth on the ground. Min Tian laughed, and the people around him also applauded one by one.
"Let him go!" Granny Meng also pushed away the crowd and walked in at this time, and said with compassion: "It's hard to catch up with this little thief, how can you let this guy run away, besides, he is too arrogant." Granny Meng took out the last few pennies from her waist and handed them to the vegetable farmer: "Old man, you go back first, and the money will be compensated to you as this little beggar." Granny Meng let go of Min Tian's hand and put the little beggar down. The little beggar walked up to the vegetable farmer, bent down and saluted respectfully, and said, "Fang is the junior, and I will apologize to you here." Granny Meng saw that the little beggar looked like a rich son, so she had to turn around and educate Mintian: "You are still bullying the children of poor families, let's go back!" When Min Tian turned back again, the little beggar grimaced at himself again.
At this time, I saw a group of soldiers rushing out from behind the little beggar to surround the little beggar, and when Min Tian saw that the situation was not good, he immediately broke free from Granny Meng's palm, and turned around and ran towards the little beggar. When he jumped up and was about to kick at the soldiers who were running towards the little beggar, suddenly the group of soldiers knelt neatly on one knee, and one of the soldiers led by the soldier said: "Little..." The little beggar took several steps back before he stood firm, and the soldiers suddenly stood up, drew their swords from their waists, and pointed at Min Tian together. The little beggar hurriedly ran and glanced at the leader of the soldiers, only to see that this person waved his hand, and these soldiers were standing behind him, and Min Tian stood on the ground and looked at the little beggar blankly and asked: "Why do you still have a grudge against the official family? Is it because you stole my money just now?" The little beggar saw that Min Tian still remembered what had just happened, so he said to the leader of the soldiers: "Give me some silver for this young man!"
Granny Meng pushed back the money in the soldier's hand: "You can't ask for this money! This son is also kind enough to help the beggars, and we don't understand the rules of this place when we first come here." The soldier drew his sword and pointed at Granny Meng: "Our little master said that it was rewarded to you, how can you not be reasonable." Min Tian blinked, and looked at the dirty little boy in front of him blankly: "You are actually a little young master!" Suddenly, a little girl dressed in tatters and patches ran out of the crowd, dragging Min Tian's clothes and said: "Brother, this little boy is very good, every time he gives us all steamed buns to eat, he is a good person, you can't beat him." Min Tian looked at everything that had happened in a split second. was originally happily strolling around the city, but now he provoked the official family, and inexplicably got involved with the beggars. Seeing that the official was aggressive, Granny Meng insisted on stuffing the silver taels to herself, so she only took one or two pieces of silver and put them on her waist to thank the little boy and the official.
Min Tian was dragged out of the crowd by Granny Meng again, and the little beggar became the little master of the official family in an instant. This made Min Tian really unacceptable, but for the sake of this person's heart, Min Tian also turned around and greeted him, shouting: "There will be a period later." The little young master didn't make a grimace like just now, but politely bent down and clenched his fists in saying goodbye. The little beggar kept following Min Tian, and Min Tian asked, "What are you doing with us?" The little beggar whispered to Min Tian: "Would you like to go to a fun place with me?" Min Tian thought to himself, he had just come out for a while, and now he was under the control of Brother Le Lai, and he was inevitably a little uncomfortable. The little beggar quietly followed Min Tian, pointed to a dog hole under a high wall, and dodged himself into it.
Seeing that Granny Meng was in a hurry, Min Tian slipped her hand and slipped away. Granny Meng turned back to Min Tian and shouted, "Don't be greedy, I'll wait for you under the big tree that just entered the city." After he climbed for a while, he saw a ruined temple in front of him, which was overgrown with weeds, and many beggars with broken bowls sat together, not knowing what to do in their mouths. The little girl in the patch covered her mouth: "Brother, don't speak. Min Tian nodded, and the little girl let go of her hands.