Our whole class has traveled through time

Guan Miao and the others came back soon, bringing back dozens of berries.

Qian Xiaoxiao took a bite: "Ah, so sour?" She raised her head and frowned at Guan Miao.

"I only found this, so let's make do with it."

"Let's go into the city now. We won't be looking for the bus for now."

"Huh?" Everyone looked confused.

"I mean we won't look for it now, and I didn't say we won't look for it in the future. We need to understand the surrounding environment first and find out what's going on here, otherwise things like the storm like this morning will happen again."

"We don't have much money anymore. What will we do if we go to the city?" said a male classmate who went to buy buns together in the morning.

"Look." Qian Xiaoxiao stood up. What caught everyone's eyes was a small handful of silver coins.

Even Guan Miao looked at Qian Xiaoxiao in surprise.

"The silver is because I was bored in this room just now, so I saw something exposed in the corner, so I went over to take a look. Unexpectedly, there was a bag of silver buried underneath. It should have been left by the previous owner, but they I forgot. Judging from the dilapidation of this house, it must have been unoccupied for several years."

The classmates all looked at each other and didn't know what to do. Everyone was anxious to go home. If the car could take everyone home, they still hoped to find it earlier.

"I understand everyone's concerns, but have you ever thought about it? We are not familiar with this place, and we don't know anyone. Do you know where to look? Do you know which places are dangerous? Which places no one should go to? I just want to reduce everyone's casualties."

"I agree with Teacher Qian." Guan Miao said.

"What about you?" Qian Xiaoxiao asked.

"Well, agree."

"agree."

"agree."

"Okay, let's go into the city now. I don't know how far it is from there yet, so get there as soon as possible."

So Guan Miao and a stronger boy each supported Qian Xiaoxiao.

After walking for nearly two hours, everyone finally reached the city gate.

But when they entered the city, they found that it was not the gate they entered yesterday.

Later they learned that there were four city gates in a city, so it was also divided into four markets.

The East Market generally sells horses, cattle, sheep and other large livestock.

The West Market generally sells daily necessities such as firewood, rice, oil, salt, and clothing.

Beishi generally sells antiques, calligraphy and paintings, ghostwritten letters, medical drugs, etc.

Nanshi generally sells ironware, farm tools and other production supplies.

They are now at Xishikou.

Most of the items sold on this street are daily necessities.

On both sides of the street are teahouses, taverns, pawnshops and workshops.

There are many vendors setting up stalls in the open spaces on both sides of the street.

The streets extend to the east and west, and there are always people carrying burdens and donkeys pulling goods, which is very lively.

They found a stall selling noodles on the roadside. More than thirty people sat down, and there were not enough tables.

The stall owner was very happy to have such a big business.

The boys took the initiative to give up their positions to the girls. These behaviors were very conscious and did not require anyone to teach them.

Qian Xiaoxiao was very satisfied with the children's performance. Although girls do not necessarily need men to give in, no one owes anyone anything.

But it's two different things if a boy gives up on his own initiative and if a girl asks for it.

Giving in is a matter of affection, but not giving in is also a duty.

Qian Xiaoxiao also hopes that girls can understand this truth.

After sitting down, each of us ordered a bowl of egg noodles.

Five cents a bowl, thirty-three people together is one hundred and sixty-five cents.

This is almost the noodle stall owner's income in a morning or an afternoon. The boss smiled and narrowed his eyes.

After Qian Xiaoxiao finished eating, he found that the girls had stood up and made way for the boys eating behind them.

So the corners of her mouth curled up slightly.

She looked at the stall owner next to her and asked, "Uncle, if we want to rent a house, what should we do?"

What Qian Xiaoxiao thought was that if renting a house was troublesome in the past, he could ask an agency for help. He didn't know how it worked here.

"Oh, let's rent a house. Hey, do you see it? It's the house diagonally opposite. You can go and have a look."

As far as Qian Xiaoxiao knows: In the old days, the person who lived between buyers and sellers to get commissions from them was called Ya Zi, also called Ya Lang, Ya Yi, which is what we call an intermediary.

Fan Wenlan, Cai Meibiao and others wrote in Chapter [-], Section [-] of Part [-] of "General History of China": "The Ya people solicited business, negotiated prices, negotiated with the government and merchants, and sometimes the Ya people came forward."

In the Western Zhou Dynasty, this kind of intermediary was called a hostage. In the Western Han Dynasty, it was called a monk. Finally, it was called a Yaren after the Tang Dynasty.

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, with the further development of the commercial economy, the number of dental merchants increased greatly, and a specialized trade union was formed called the dental trade union.

The earliest Ya people worked as intermediaries in the markets of prefectural cities or villages, helping buyers and sellers to complete the transaction process smoothly and extracting commissions from them.

Later, commerce continued to develop, and the types of Yaren's banks also became diversified, such as negotiating trade, soliciting transactions, accepting entrustments, doing business on behalf of others, and collecting business taxes on behalf of others. The role of Yaren's guarantee in contract sales and credit trade also became Very important.

Informal individual teeth are generally called "brokers". Some people with certain professional experience specialize in brokering transactions for certain types of commodities, such as "cattle brokers", "donkey horse brokers", etc. The dental office provides information, venue, and a place for buyers and sellers to make deals and extract commissions from them, which is the office of the dental office.

"You can go and take a look, that guy from Yiji is really smart." The noodle stall owner said with a smile.

"Thank you, uncle."

"Why are you so polite? From now on we are all neighbors and should take care of each other." The uncle said with a smile.

Qian Xiaoxiao said to everyone: "You eat slowly, I will go over and take a look."

"I'd better go, your feet are inconvenient."

"Okay, go ahead and ask how it works and what procedures are required."

"Yeah." Guan Miao stood up and walked towards the Yongji store diagonally opposite.

When Guan Miao walked into the Yiji store, she was shocked by the boss's service attitude. The service attitude here was simply better than that there.

"Boss." Guan Miao greeted the owner of the store.

When the boss saw Guan Miao coming in, he immediately walked out from behind the counter and said enthusiastically: "Sir, please have a seat, please have a seat!"

"Thank you. I heard you can rent a house here?" Guan Miao asked straight to the point.

"My guest, yes, I wonder what type of house your guest likes? How many people live there?"

"There are thirty-three of us."

The boss was stunned.

"Boss, what's wrong?"

"No, no, I just didn't expect your family to be quite big."

The boss said flatteringly.

"No, no, we are from the college taking students on a study tour." Guan Miao said with a laugh.

"Oh, college students, sir, don't worry! Our place is absolutely safe. Whether you rent or buy, I guarantee your safety!" the boss said quickly.

"That's it, that's great." Guan Miao nodded with satisfaction, "I want to see the housing prices here first."

"Ok, no problem."

After the boss finished speaking, he gave him a distribution map of the city.

Guan Miao looked at the distribution map in his hand. It was very crude, but it was enough to understand the distribution of houses in the entire city.

"Guest, look, in the East District, the rich and noble officials live here; in the South District, the merchants live here; in the west, there is the common people's area; in the north, well, you don't need to look at it, right? Everything is there. It’s a ghetto area.”

Boss Yiji explained patiently.

After hearing these few words, Guan Miao basically understood the distribution of housing levels in the city.