Economic and Trade Song Dynasty

Before that, Qin Juan never thought that he would care about the expansion when he heard the news.

At least he doesn't think he will care about the news of the extension...

However, at this moment, he was sure that he cared.

"What's wrong, my lord?" Qing Lao San leaned over, thinking that he had discovered something serious

Qin Juan shook his head.

"I'll take you to the fourth floor, where you can overlook Suzhou City." Qing Lao San smiled with big white teeth.

"There are four floors in this building?" He looked outside just now and thought there were only two floors.

"There are four floors in total. It's actually not that high. I remember that Zhongxing Mansion still retains an ancient building with ten floors. If you go to Zhongxing Mansion, you must go and see it."

"I haven't been there." Qin Juan said lightly.

The wind on the fourth floor is strong, and the venue is not small. There are several painters and musicians, and there are also two or three dancers.

Qin Juan had never seen such a scene before. He walked over to see what the artist was painting. It should be the scenery of Suzhou City.

He raised his head and looked into the distance. The scenery was somewhat different from what the artist painted, but he could roughly recognize it.

The youngest Qing felt strange, Master Qin didn't watch beautiful dancers dance, so why did he go to watch old painters paint.

"A pair of ten taels of silver, do you want to buy it?" Seeing him standing there for a while, the little boy who was washing pens next to the old painter asked him.

The child was thin and dark-skinned. Qin Juan always liked children, so he took out a piece of silver, which was enough for twelve taels, and handed it to him: "I keep this pair for me."

Seeing this, the old painter quickly said, "This one is almost finished."

"I'm not in a hurry." Qin Juan said, looking at Qing's third child, "You are rewarded with the painting, just wait here for me for a while."

Qing Lao San chased after a few steps: "Then where are you going?"

"Don't follow me, just wait here for me."

Qin Juan told Qing Laosan not to move, and he really didn't move. After about a quarter of an hour, Qing Laosan felt that something was wrong. Why, he told me not to move and I didn't move?

"..." Qing Lao San was annoyed for a while, and for some unknown reason, he turned around and sat down.

Probably because he was overwhelmed by Master Qin's majestic appearance, but he really wanted to follow Master Qin, even if it was to be his soldier.

Or, he has never been the same as the boss or Qing Shiyi...

Qing Laosan never expected that he could honestly wait for someone from day to night, and no one would chatter with him except that child!

Qin Juan came out of this building and rode to the place Wanxi had mentioned to him once before.

Wan Xi couldn't explain clearly, so he asked him to find it easily. After asking many people, he came to this street.

This street is very old, and even the road is not very easy to walk, obviously in disrepair.

The old street, where almost no one walks, is wide enough to imagine the bustling here, and it should be able to accommodate two carriages driving side by side.But because the street market and the horse market have all moved away, the place has gradually returned to calm.

After walking for a long time, I saw a few children playing on the side of the street, two of them were playing with flower ropes, and three were playing with throwing sandbags.

When he came on horseback, the five children stopped and looked at him in unison.

The bold one should be the eldest among the children, and asked him, "Are you a foreigner?"

Qin Juan asked him suspiciously, "How can you see that?"

Child: "We don't have a market here anymore. The market has moved to the north of the city. Only people from other places will come here by mistake."

He is a articulate child.Qin Juan smiled slightly, squinted at him, and then asked, "I'm from Mashi in the north of the city."

"I see." The child was a little confused, and said with a blushing smile, "Your horse is pretty."

"Thank you." Qin Juan said, "Go ahead and play, I will leave after shopping."

The child reminded nervously: "You'd better go back after strolling around here, don't go in there, it's an academy, the dean is a bad old man."

"...Okay." Qin Juan looked along the child's finger, but he didn't tell the child that he was going to the back of the school.

After saying goodbye to these children, Qin Juan left on horseback.

It was almost noon when he detoured past the school and walked towards the woods on the back mountain.

There is a small market in the woods behind the school.

There are several melon stalls selling melons, several vegetable vendors, and a tavern.

Qin Juan was also hungry at this time.

When I entered the tavern, I asked the proprietress what dishes she was good at, and just fried two of them.

The proprietress fried a green vegetable and a stir-fried kidney.

Only these two dishes did not bring Qin Juan to tears, they were so delicious...

"Little brother, Han?" The proprietress hugged her chest and looked at him.

Qin Juan looked over and saw that she was a thin, fair-skinned, average-looking woman, not tall, who looked about forty years old, and the waiter in the tavern who washed and chopped vegetables and chopped firewood was her son. It looked as big as him.

Qin Juan nodded.

Upon hearing this, the proprietress smiled and said: "The surrounding villages call me Yanniang, but I am not gorgeous at all, and I was not very beautiful when I was young. Let's call it alive, anyway, it is the name given by my parents."

Because her dishes are really delicious, Qin Juan thought that he should be sweeter and say something nice, scratching his ears and thinking for a while, and finally managed to say: "Although the lady boss is not gorgeous!"

As soon as he said this, he even wanted to praise himself.

but didn't think...

"Pfft..." The waiter who was washing the dishes over there laughed out loud.

I just heard the waiter boy say: "Some people can say that they are not good-looking, but they want to be praised for their good-looking. Who would have thought that an honest person came here today, hahahaha..."

The proprietress flew over with a feather duster, hitting the waiter boy and screaming.

Qin Juan watched the mother and son arguing. In fact, he wanted to ask if he could have another plate of stir-fried kidney...

He didn't have enough to eat at all.

At this moment, I don't know if it was because of the end of the academy, a few students who came out of the academy came.

The mother and son soon stopped arguing, and the tavern became busy.

Qin Juan was really not full, and sat there refusing to leave.

When I was free, I called the waiter over, and the waiter leaned over and asked, "Didn't you give me the money? You can leave immediately after giving the money."

"Get me another plate." Qin Juan pointed to the empty plate on the table.

The waiter raised his forehead: "Wait a minute, I'll ask my mother, she only has two kidneys a day, and see if she's willing to give you all of it."

The waiter went and returned and put the stir-fried kidney in front of Qin Juan: "Hey, in order to let her cook another dish, I didn't scold her to death."

The bucket of rice bottomed out, and the waiter wondered, "Is it necessary to be so exaggerated..."

Qin Juan blushed: "It's the first time I eat kidney. If you don't tell me, I don't even know it's pork kidney."

"Hahaha, so it is like this!" Waiter leaned forward and backward with a smile, and after laughing, he looked serious again, "Actually, no one ate it a long time ago, but because they were too poor, gradually some people even bought kidneys and pigs." I was reluctant to throw away the large intestines, after all, there was nothing to eat during that time, and it was not easy to kill a pig, these things were kept, and many methods were researched.”

After talking for a while, the waiter suddenly looked at Qin Juan: "Are you really Han?"

Qin Juan raised his head and looked at him in a daze: "Don't you think I am?"

"The appearance is similar, but the accent is not. Your accent looks like a fool." The waiter answered truthfully.

"..." Just as Qin Juan was about to answer, he noticed that several students at the next table were also looking at him, as if they were still waiting for his answer.

Qin Juan suddenly didn't know what to say.

"I'm... a Han Chinese who can speak Mongolian and Uighur." It's okay to say that.

Only then did the students stop looking at him.

After the students left, Qin Juan asked the waiter, "Who runs the academy in front?"

"It's jointly run by the Liu and Guo families. It's called Hexi Academy, and there are more than [-] students." The waiter replied.

"Does it only accept Han people?"

"Accept Han people and Khitan people." The waiter came over, "We also took in people from the Xixia party."

Qin Juan: "Mainly to send out counselors?"

"That's right, but it's part of it, and the rest is just self-cultivation." Waiting hall, "The Liu and Guo families take turns to teach, usually Ouyue Master Guo and Qiyue Master Liu, but they only accept rich and famous people near Hexi. My son, this point has been said by many people. There are many children in the neighborhood, all of whom go to private schools and cannot enter the academy. "

Once people get excited about chatting, they will always want to chat.

The waiter seems to be getting more and more energetic as he talks.

Qin Juan supported his chin with one hand: "I heard that the Guo and Liu families are family friends and often intermarry?"

"They are all relatives. The Liu and Guo families are too close to intermarry. These generations probably won't make it. The Lin family, which was supposed to be settled, is now in decline. The Lin family and their two families are family friends. The older generation said that the Lin family Four daughters were born, and the Liu and Guo families could take care of them. Who knew that none of the daughters fell into the two families, and the only son was still missing. In the end, it was the Hua family in the north of the city who took advantage of it. Go to the high branch."

Coming out of the tavern, Qin Juan led the horse around.

It stands to reason that the Lin family's house is nearby, but he hasn't found it yet.

He still wanted to go to the woods behind the academy, maybe the old house of the Lin family was in the woods.

Perhaps there were no forests around the old Lin family house back then, but it was just too long, and now it is full of trees.

Thinking of this, Qin Juan came galloping on horseback.

The surrounding trees also looked like they had been planted within ten years, perhaps confirming his guess.

There were three or four paths in the forest, and he walked casually until he saw a house.

For some reason, he decided just based on his feeling that it was the house of the Lin family.

How many years ago, his mother and uncle were born here.

The gate was locked tightly, and when we turned over the courtyard wall, we saw the words "Lin's Ancestral Hall" engraved on the plaque at the entrance of the lobby directly opposite the courtyard.