North and South groceries

On this side, Lin Wulang wanted a child, and Aunt Luo was also secretly anxious, thinking that she was really a bit old at this age.

The imaginary age of 27 has not yet given birth, and in this era, it is basically regarded as infertile.

The old sister's restaurant is on the edge of the West Market. Mrs. Luo has been there for a long time, and she is quite familiar with the shops around.

She heard people say that there was a drug seller in the northeast corner of the West City. His surname was Yang. I got pregnant after taking the medicine from his family.

This day, Mrs. Luo went to the old shop in Guangdefang to deal with some business. After she finished her work, she saw that it was still early. After thinking about it, she went to find the drug seller surnamed Yang.

But she didn't know that the drug seller surnamed Yang didn't have much ability, but he cured some people by luck with a few prescriptions handed down from his ancestors and earned a reputation. Human ability, I am afraid that it will not be able to match ordinary doctors.

This person is real, he said to Aunt Luo: "I just have a few dead prescriptions here, if some people have the right symptoms, they will be useful if they take them, but if they are not right, they will not only be useless, but may even cause damage."

"We ordinary people can't find a high-level doctor, so we eat like this, how can you be the same. I heard that your brother is familiar with Sun Simiao, why don't you go to find him? If you talk about medicine in this world There is no one better than him in the way of recuperation."

Aunt Luo also knows that Sun Simiao is good at medicine, but although she has managed her elder sister's restaurant in a decent way all these years, she is still just an ordinary merchant. A person like Sun Simiao always feels very far away to her.

Back home that night, Aunt Luo told Lin Wulang about the matter. After some consideration, the two decided to go to Zhongnan Mountain in the south of Chang'an City to seek medical treatment. If you are willing to see her, even if you can't get Sun Simiao to see her in person, it would be good to ask his disciples to take a look.

A few days later, Aunt Luo arranged the work at hand, drove a carriage with Lin Wulang, and headed for Zhongnan Mountain in the wind and snow...

The road is difficult in winter, and Apu and his group go west all the way, often encountering wind and snow.

When we set out early in the morning, the sky was clear and the wind was not strong. How could we know that before noon, the sky turned dark and the wind was howling, and it was about to snow again.

Fortunately, there is a village not far ahead, but this is not where the inn is located. Ordinary people will not stay in such a wilderness village unless they have to, because they are afraid of encountering black shops.

However, those tea merchants said that they had rested here two years ago because they were hiding from the rain, and every time they passed here in the past two years, they would also stop to have some hot meals.

Most of the villagers here came from nearby villages, built some houses on the side of the post road, and earned some money and silk from passing merchants to subsidize their living, not thieves.

At this time, some people in the small thatched courtyards in front also noticed the arrival of their group, and with the weather like this, it was inevitable that they would stay here, so some villagers boldly came to solicit business.

These days, not only passers-by are wary of locals like them, but these locals are also very careful about those passing by, for fear of encountering a group of evil people.

If they feel that something is wrong, they will not dare to go up to solicit solicitations at this time, they just stay in the house, the door is closed, no matter how many people outside shout, they will not agree.

In this way, the two sides were vigilant and contacted carefully. The people in the team finally divided into several groups, and each chose a store to live in.

Apudugou and Azhi were led by the tea merchants in Hedong Road to a yard they knew well. They all looked kind.

It was A Weng and his eldest son who went out to solicit business just now. At this moment, they welcomed a group of people into the courtyard. The little boy holds these hot water bowls to the hands of the guests.

Ah Zhi walked outside for half a day, hungry and cold, and his body was a little frozen. At this time, he came to sit down in the living room of this family, took a bowl of hot water, took a few sips carefully, and gradually It warmed up again.

Take a look at the rough pottery bowl in his hand, it is rough, but it is very clean, even in this winter when mutton is eaten every day, this bowl has been washed by them until there is no trace of oil, obviously Rub it carefully with plant ash, and then scrub it with clean water.

The tea merchants were still talking with the owner, because they were familiar with each other before, and the two sides were quite warm. The sons of the old man brought corn paste and stewed mutton from the kitchen, and the people in the room were eating. , while ordering some other food with them.

In winter, the price of sheep is cheap. After the group of them left Chang'an City, the farther west they went, the price of sheep was also cheap. When they came to this place, the locals almost ate mutton every day.

Fortunately, in the past two years, corn has been popularized all over the Tang Dynasty. Because it is easy to grow and has a high yield, many farmers have to cook some corn porridge in winter. It is better to eat some grain than to eat meat .

During the banquet, the tea merchants, together with the host family, told Du Gou and others about the formation of their village.

"A few years ago, there were no villages in this place, and there were weeds and weeds on both sides of the road."

"And there are not a few decent fields to support a few people, so how can there be a village."

"..."

Although the position on the side of the post road is not bad, but in such a position, it is easy to be targeted by villains, and it will be even worse in times of war.

That is, in the early years, this road was paved into a concrete road. Later, due to the development of the Longyou Road, more and more caravans came and went on this commercial road. There were lively villagers nearby, so they ran to the post station Doing some small business next to him did make money, and many people followed suit after seeing him.

"In the beginning, we just carried baskets and loads to sell goods, but after a long time, we felt that there was some shortage. Some people built thatched sheds and thatched yards there."

"Originally, there were a few rebels in that place, but the wealthy households in the town arranged for their families to run the business. There were also merchants with strong financial resources. These people didn't want to be robbed of their business by the nearby villagers, so they said that these villagers were merchants. We want to take their land and change them to business registration."

The nearby villagers were indeed frightened at the beginning, but they had tasted the sweetness before, and now they suddenly cut off their income and always felt uncomfortable, so some people secretly sold goods a little in front of the post station, and after a long time, they built there again. Set up a hayloft...

Later, those merchants and wealthy households did not know how to do it. They called some servants and smashed these grass sheds, so conflicts broke out. Some people were arrested, but the angry villagers were not afraid, and the two sides often clashed. , and even developed into fighting with weapons.

"Our place was very chaotic in those days. Every time the merchants passed by, they hurried away and refused to stay for a day." Speaking of this, the old man sighed.

"That kind of fighting will inevitably lead to casualties." Du Gou was also quite aware of these civil struggles.

After the two sides fought for several months, everyone was a little tired. Once the foreign caravan arrived at their place, they came and went in a hurry. Some people were killed and maimed in this battle. The work here was also delayed.

Later, the county magistrate found a few gentry who were quite prestigious in their local area to come out as peacemakers, and released the villagers who were imprisoned in the cells. In this wilderness, let them sell some of their own food and vegetables here, as long as they don't delay farming, they won't take away their land, so gradually, the current village came into being.

Speaking of these things, everyone thought of some post stations they passed before. There was a grass market next to the post station. It was quite convenient for the local people to buy and sell goods there, and there was no strict control on time.

Thinking about what happened in this village, and thinking about the post stations that were deserted before, maybe it wasn't that the people in those places were timid and unwilling to do business next to the post stations, but that they were not allowed.

Among the people present, if one had the least experience, it would probably be Azhi. She was originally from Shizhou. She was sold to Qiao's family by her parents when she was a child, and then lived in Lishi County. Later, she went to Chang'an City with Qiao Junlin.

After seeing Lishi County, Chang'an City, and the scenery along the road from Lishi County to Chang'an City, she thought that the world is like this, no matter where she goes, the mountains and rivers always look like this. It's the same landscape, and the people are the same, so there won't be any big difference.

Now she doesn't think that way anymore. People in the world look similar, but inside they are very different. Although there are always poor and rich, some are poor and cowardly, while others are so poor. Some people are not benevolent for the sake of wealth, while others are willing to do good.

Regardless of whether the landscapes are the same or different, people in this world are always different.

After eating, the host arranged for them to have a rest, and asked them if they had any clothes to wash. If they were washed at this time, they would be dried on the kang bed and dried in the morning.

The men were not polite, and they took out their dirty clothes one after another. The old man's son packed them in baskets and took them to wash with the women at home.

Ah Zhi also had a few clothes to wash, but she didn't want to put her own clothes with those men's clothes, so she said she wanted to wash it herself.

The place where the women wash their clothes is under the kitchen. In a thatched hut, the layout is simple and the space is quite spacious. Two young daughter-in-laws sit on a small stool and wash their clothes in a wooden basin, and an older one Yes, sitting under the stove to light the fire, the three of them talked while working.

Ah Zhi went in with her few clothes in her arms, and the elderly woman brought her a wooden basin standing by the wall, and neatly scooped up a few scoops of hot water from the pan, and took the half of the bucket out of the water. The cold water scooped out of the tank was mixed and poured into her wooden basin.

So Ah Zhi sat there washing clothes, listening to the three women talking one by one, a fire was burning in the stove, although there was no kang in this room, it was not very cold.

Not long after, a few more children came over and begged their aunt for dried corn kernels, saying that they would go to the opposite street to exchange for maltose.

These children also know how to wink, just now they saw that the guests gave money, the adults in the family have earned money today, and they are in a better mood, so it should be easier to ask for candies.

The older woman sent them: "Go, you just ate yesterday, and you want to eat again today?"

But those children refused to leave, they were coquettishly surrounding their mother, some tore their clothes, and some climbed on their mother's back to play tricks, for the one or two pieces of caramel, they all wanted I did my best.

On the contrary, there was a little girl who obediently squatted beside A Zhi and watched her wash clothes.

Ah Zhi has lived in Chang'an City for these years, and he has no shortage of food and clothing, especially when he lives in the White Mansion later, and the clothes for the four seasons are quite well-arranged. In the eyes of the girl, she is also very beautiful and foreign.

Azhi looked at this well-behaved little girl in front of him, and he also liked it a little.Later, she wiped the clothes in the basin with suet soap and scrubbed them, poured out the dirty water in the basin, and the woman who was burning the fire hurriedly brought a bucket of warm water with her.

Taking advantage of this time, Ah Zhi took out three copper coins from his bosom, handed them to the girl, and told her to buy caramel with her brothers and sisters.

Those children roared out of the yard, regardless of the wind and snow outside at this time.

"What are you doing with their copper coins? These dead children seem to have gluttons in their mouths, and their stomachs are like bottomless pits. They can't get enough to eat." The woman who brought her water said so.

"Which child of this size is not like this." Azhi replied with a smile.A bucket of warm water was poured into the basin, and she put her few clothes in it to continue scrubbing.

"The people in your big place are definitely not like us. Our place is poor, and the children are particularly greedy."

"That is, in the past two years, we can still make a fuss about eating caramel. At that time, it would be considered good to have two pancakes a day."

"Madam Dalang and the others didn't eat well when they were young."

"At that time, it was rare to eat caramel once or twice a year, but they were still better than us. From the age of seven or eight, they never went hungry again..."

They didn't say a few words just now, when the voices of those children came back from the yard.

The older woman opened the straw curtain and went out to ask a question, only to hear from the children outside that the caramel seller saw that they bought it with copper coins instead of grain, so he gave them two yuan more.

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