When I invited Xu Shuangyi to visit Chang'an. She happily agreed. It seems to be a woman's nature to like shopping, and the reason why women like to go shopping is because they are curious, and women's shopping and men's adventures are actually caused by curiosity.

Chang'an is the capital of the country, years of construction and recuperation have made Chang'an extremely prosperous, we walked to the street when it was noon, the snow on the street has already been cleared, although the road is still a little slippery, but this does not affect the business to open the door on all sides to welcome wealth and hawkers through the streets and alleys shouting goods to sell.

If in modern times, I will take Xu Shuangyi to the mall to buy clothes for the first time, but at this time there is no ready-to-wear on the street, only clothes are sold in the store, and the clothes at this time will naturally not have any chemical composite materials, and the clothes at this time are roughly divided into three categories, the most expensive is silk products, this kind of soft and luxurious silk cloth is the main clothing of famous nobles. The second is cotton cloth, which is not cheap for this kind of material, because cotton has just been planted in China's border area at this time, and the yield is very low. The most common is linen, this kind of cloth is rough and durable, it is the main material for the public to make clothes, pure linen is less common for the public, but most people have seen sacks, linen is similar to the fabric of the sack material, but it is finer than that.

Xu Shuangyi lingered in the cloth shop for a long time, and finally chose a cotton cloth and a linen cloth, silk she didn't like, in her opinion it was flashy, and easy to scratch the hair, for people like her who lived in the wilderness all year round. Since she likes it, then I will buy it for her, in fact these things are not of the best, I can now allocate tribute cloth for her, but the pleasure of shopping is to buy things, and after the war I will give her some more tribute for royal use.

Boots are finished, but those boots are worn by people at the bottom of society, and high-end boots are not. The reason for this situation is that the purchase of boots to measure the feet, and the big women will not take off their shoes at will to measure the feet to buy, in ancient times, a woman's feet are second only to the front chest and back of the buttocks of the private parts, not easy to show.

Hairpin jewelry and other women's items are also sold on the street, Xu Shuangyi does not apply powder and does not like useless jewelry, but under the psychological prompting of women to please themselves, she still tried a few pieces of jewelry, and after I praised it, she took it off, she just wanted me to see how she wore jewelry, in fact, she didn't like these things.

In fact, a person's psychological age is not directly related to her biological age, although Xu Shuangyi is still in her forties, but because she lives in the wilderness all the year round, she rarely has contact with outsiders, and she has no personnel, so the girl's heart is still retained in her body, and she is very curious about the dazzling and strange things in Chang'an, any shop will make her stay for a long time, and the melancholy on her face is also swept away, replaced by joy and curiosity.

Xu Shuangyi's appearance is superior, walking on the street will inevitably attract a lot of side eyes and peeps, this scene makes me very funny, if those disciples know that this woman can drive a peng volley thousands of miles a day, pull a bow and shoot the enemy a thousand steps, do they dare to look at her with such obscene eyes.

Xu Shuangyi is most interested in those jade antiques for sale on the street, these historical precipitation items with a strong cultural atmosphere, because the war is approaching, everyone wants to settle gold and silver to prepare for the famine, so these jade antiques are very cheap, Xu Shuangyi since he likes it, then buy them all, there are few fakes in antiques and jade at this time, unlike the current society is full of fakes, go to Panjiayuan to turn around all the antiques can find the sister face. I once made a bet with King Kong Cannon in modern times that I didn't need to look at qi, but simply relied on my eyesight to distinguish the real from the fake, and as a result, I bought a bronze sword that had been aged with urine, and King Kong Cannon bought a 502 adhesion blue and white porcelain.

Women are tireless in shopping, and from noon to evening they buy so many things that I have to cast spells to carry them.

"I'll take you to dinner. "I looked up at the sky and determined the time, Chang'an also has a curfew at night, and if it's too late, the merchants will close their stalls.

Xu Shuangyi heard the words and agreed, I took her to the most luxurious restaurant in Chang'an, Xu Shuangyi walked to the door and retreated, she didn't like this kind of occasion, she wanted to see what ordinary people eat.

Xu Shuangyi's wish was naturally fulfilled by me, so I took her to a lantern food street in Dongcheng.

In this era, there is a big gap between people's diets, not only the quality of the gap, but also the number of times, the emperor and important ministers generally eat four meals, morning, noon and evening plus supper. Ordinary courtiers and everyone eat three meals a day, and the peddler pawn only has two meals a day, two meals and one night, and the idiom describes the hardships of the ancients' life.

During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, there were almost all basic cooking methods, frying, cooking, stewing, roasting and steaming. At this time, people living in the upper echelons of society did not like to eat meat, and the reason why they did not like it was not because they did not want to eat it, but because in their opinion, meat would rot people's bodies. Those who live at the bottom of the society are very eager to eat meat, but unfortunately they can't afford to eat it, so they can only eat six animals, which are horses, cows, sheep, pigs, dogs, and chickens. These animals were available in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and the main vegetables were cabbage, spinach, taro, radish, leeks, cucumbers, gourds, lotus roots, beans, and many modern vegetables did not appear at this time.

Modern women like to pretend that they are vegetarians, pretending to be 'I don't eat meat' in front of people, and secretly gnawing on pig's trotters behind their backs. In fact, the reason why they did this was to show their elegance, but unfortunately the elegance was not shown, and the falsehood was revealed. In fact, the natural one is the best, and it is also the most beautiful, I don't feel that the image of Xu Shuangyi eating meat and drinking porridge is indecent, on the contrary, I feel that she is very real, abstaining from meat is a matter of people in the Tao, mortals don't follow the fun, people who don't eat meat not only have no strength, but also have little energy.

Sashimi is considered to be the food of Japanese devils, but in fact its birthplace is China, but at this time there is no wasabi, and the condiment is mainly ginger.

Since it is winter, shellfish from the coastal areas can also be transported, but people at this time are not good at eating this, and the seafood is mainly umami, and people at this time have a soft spot for fragrance.

The barbecue of Korean sticks was also passed down from China, but now the barbecue is a bit like a meat bun, with pickled melon lettuce and fatty meat between the dough cakes, which was a delicacy of poor families at this time, and the high-end people disdained to eat it.

Caviar is also available at this time, but it is not the roe of sturgeon, but the roe of ordinary freshwater fish, which belongs to a kind of food accompaniment material at this time, in addition to the condiments and seasonings at this time are mainly salt, vinegar, sauce, sugar, green onions, ginger, peppercorns, meat sauce, garlic. Sugar came from where Ah San lived, and it was a valuable spice at this time. As for chili peppers, which have a slightly masochistic tendency, they did not appear in China at this time.

Xu Shuangyi's favorite is sweet rice, at this time people like to eat sticky rice, yellow rice in the north and glutinous rice in the south are like this, this kind of food will be put on top of red dates after it is done, this situation is somewhat similar to the current eating habits of the Hui people in China.

In the evening, the curfew began, and the two walked back to the camp, after returning to the camp, Xu Shuangyi happily sorted out the things she had purchased during the day, while I looked at her with great interest......