[Red Mansion] Queen's Road

Line up to enter the city, and when you walk to the gate of the city, everyone who wants to enter the city to sell some small things, everyone is queuing.

Linlin looked up, lowered her head and said to Cui Shang, "Father, look at how many watermelons are selling in front of you."

"You are wrong. Could it be that if you sell melons, you won't let others sell melons? With such a large population in the capital, you can still sell watermelons with a few more cars."

Cui Shang felt that the old wife was used to being domineering in business, and this was a matter of consideration, so he couldn't help explaining her.

Those words made the people who lined up next to them applaud.

Chongming was startled by these applause, and suddenly woke up, sat up quickly, rubbed his eyes, wiped his saliva, looked up and saw the gate of the city.

I thought to myself that the old couple were just kidding.

He took out the bamboo hat and put it on his head, tied the belt carefully, turned over and lay down on the watermelon, leaning on his chin with his hands, and said arrogantly

"This is too slow."

After I finished speaking, my stomach growled. By the way, I hadn't eaten when I went out in the morning.

"Father, have you eaten this morning? Are you hungry?"

Someone next to him laughed at him, "This lazy boy sleeps until dawn, first ask if there is any food," and said to Cui Shang, "Old brother, your son is well-raised, tender and tender. Meat."

Cui Shang laughed a few times and ignored him.

Chongming thought to himself, this old guy who doesn’t know him is just saying bad things about me, isn’t it just saying that I am lazy and don’t work?

Our family doesn't need me to work.

Thinking of this, I wanted to stare at him again, when I heard my mother call me, "Chongming, come here, here are some buns for you to eat."

Chongming jumped off the melon cart, trotted to Linlin, looked down at the pair of straw sandals on his feet, although the weaving was softer, the feeling of silk and grass was completely different.

After walking a few steps, I looked down at my feet, and walked a few steps with kicks and stamps.

Linlin knew it was because she was not used to wearing straw sandals.

Chongming hugged Linlin's arm and whispered coquettishly, "Mother, these shoes are too difficult to wear, they hurt my feet."

Linlin just thought that the old man wanted to experience life, and it would not be impossible to accompany him out to experience it by herself, but there is no need to bring the children to suffer along with it.

"Be patient for a while, and when you get to the city later, go to any of your brother's houses to get a pair of shoes that you wear."

Chongming happily agreed, stood next to Linlin and wolfed down the buns, and complained after eating, "The buns are a bit cold, not soft enough, and there is no snack."

Cui Shang heard it and said to his son, "Chongming, come to me."

After Chongming ran over, Cui Shang stretched out his hand and hit his son on the back of the head. "Jiao Didi hasn't left the house yet. Complaining about this and that is not as good as a girl. Look at the little lady in that family. Has anyone complained?"

Chongming just pouted, but he didn't dare to put his son down here.

It was also their turn to enter the city at this time, so Chongming quickly stepped on the wheels and got on the melon cart, lying on the pile of watermelons, curiously entered the city.

Although the capital is large, each city gate has a different function. The city gates used by ordinary people are completely different from those used by dignitaries.

The gates of the common people, as soon as they enter the outer city, they can see the scene of prosperity and prosperity, and they can see the atmosphere of life filled with fireworks.

These were things Chongming had never seen before.

After entering the city, Linlin turned her head around, put on the bamboo hat herself, and said to Chongming while tying the belt, "Son, a catty of melons costs a penny, let's sell them."

Chong Ming was speechless, and sat up from the melon cart at that time, staring at his parents in astonishment.

After a while, I found my voice again, "I...I don't shout, this kind of thing is degrading, so I don't shout."

"Could it be possible to ask your father to shout? That's fine, old man. When your voice is hoarse, I will continue to shout for you."

Before Cui Shang opened his mouth, Chongming quickly crawled forward a few times, "I yell, I yell, can I yell?" If his brothers know that he is sitting in the car and making his parents work hard, they will definitely beat him up at that time. fuck yourself.

Chongming thought about why I was suffering so much.

"But my son hasn't called out before, why did he call out?"

"You can call it big sweet and crispy watermelon. It costs a penny and a catty. Buy 10 catties and get a catty free."

Qilin sat in the car and opened his mouth several times, but couldn't open his mouth, feeling that everyone on the road was looking at him.

"Mom, let's stop shouting. If we don't shout, maybe we can sell the melon. I always feel that someone is watching me."

"You just take yourself too seriously. Who is looking at you? Who knows you here? Who knows that you are a little county king. You are standing in the car and shouting that I am the county king. Who are you looking at?" I took care of you and thought you were mentally ill.

Listen to my son, people can't take themselves too seriously, you see how well your father and your elder brother have done, come on, your mother shouted, and you followed suit. "

Before Linlin yelled, Cui Shang stopped her, "It's not your turn, I yelled, and he followed suit."

Just like this, the father and the father yelled for each other, and sold half a car of melons along the way. At first, they were shy and shy, but then let go. It was someone who came to ask him if the melon was ripe, whether it was sweet or not, and he was stunned by his small mouth and had nothing to say.

The husband and wife pulled a carload of melons to sell today!The biggest purpose is to let his son clearly realize that he has just sold half a carload of melons, and Chongming is already different from when he came in.

Seeing the sun getting higher and higher, Cui Shang wiped the sweat off his face, "Let's go, find a place to eat."

Although they sell melons for a penny a catty, most people still exchange grain. Some use corn, some use wheat, no matter what kind of crop the price is different.

Chongming has learned arithmetic since he was a child, and it is a piece of cake. Most of his confidence comes from this transaction after transaction.

Hearing my parents talking about looking for a place to eat, I hurried forward a few steps, stuck my head between my parents, "Where are you going to eat?"

Linlin looked at the restaurants on both sides of the street. It is not impossible to come to this kind of place to eat, but it is really too much trouble to come to this kind of place to eat. Maybe the inner guards who are hiding around have to climb up in advance Check it out in the kitchen.

It's almost time for dinner, and maybe I didn't check carefully enough in a while.In addition, the two of them are spoiled and spoiled, if the food outside is a little unclean, it will cause another disturbance if it is spoiled.

"Our relatives are in the inner city, and it's time to have dinner in your brothers' palace. No matter which family it is, we will go in and eat when we get there first."

Zhongming nodded, "That's a good idea."

The few buns he ate in the morning are long gone now, and his stomach started to growl again. Seeing someone selling apples in a basket on the street, he licked his lips with his tongue, "Let's exchange wheat for some apples." Bar."

Linlin looked at those who came out to sell fruit, usually children or women selling such small odds and ends to supplement their household expenses.Walking along this road, I found that no one of the women who went in and out of the houses in the outer city had their feet bound. It was just the ladies and girls in the inner city, and some people were binding their feet.

Recall that the daughters-in-law married by the royal family from their own to Qilin's generation are all girls with big feet, and some people have already quietly touched the girls without binding their feet.

This is definitely an improvement, so there are now women on the street selling some small snacks, needlework and fruits with baskets on their shoulders.

As for whether to exchange the wheat on the donkey cart for apples, Cui Shang doesn't care, but Linlin doesn't want her son to eat outside food, "You won't save some money, don't we still have watermelon in the cart? Break a piece and eat it yourself." chant."

Chongming retracted his head, and really picked out a small watermelon, cracked it with his fist, opened it and looked left and right to see that there was no spoon.

"I didn't expect, my lord, that I would eat watermelon like those bumpkins today." After speaking, I plunged into half a watermelon and started to chew.

The donkey cart slid into the inner city, and there was no one blocking them on the road. Before they could say a few words, they got rid of these guys blocking the way for the people who suddenly appeared next to them.

The donkey cart walked and walked, but it reached the door of Lin's house.

Linlin looked at the door plaque, "I've been in the deep palace for decades, and I've never been out and about. I don't know Lu...do you think you brought me here on purpose?"

Linlin pulled Cui Shang's sleeve and asked a few words, then took out her handkerchief and wiped her eyes, "My father's health is getting worse and worse, I know what you mean, it's been almost two years Alright. Alright, let's go in."

Chongming jumped off the donkey cart, jumped up and down the steps after a few steps, and raised his legs to enter the door.

The door inside the door hurriedly stopped him, "Which family are you a child from? Look at your smug little face. What is this black and smudged thing? You can't enter through the front door. Do you know if you have to go through the back door?" .”

"Why are you going through the back door?"

"You see, you child doesn't understand the rules. The main entrance is for relatives, or the old man or his friends. We slaves have to go through the back door, go back and forth, and come in around the back door."

Chongming snorted, "You mistook the person, my mother is your eldest aunt, and she came to see relatives today, did you see that, the half-carriage came here as a gift."

Anyone who is a doorman is a person who changes from a machine.

Stretching his neck to look, he looked up and down at Chongming, "I don't know my aunt, grandma, just wait, I'll find someone I know."

Chongming snorted again, and jumped out from the door, "It would be right for the whole family to come out to greet them as usual."

Cui Shang patted him on the back of the forehead again, "Will you wink? Can you say this in front of your mother to put on airs? Especially when it involves her natal family."

The father and son were talking, when a person ran out of the door, looked at it from a distance, and quickly kowtowed to the ground.And let people quickly open all the middle doors, pull out the threshold, and let the donkey cart in.

Someone had already passed the news to the backyard. When Lin Ruhai heard that the Empress Dowager was coming, she was so excited that she burst into tears and struggled to get up.

"I knew it... I knew it..." He couldn't finish his sentence, and wiped his tears with his sleeve.

He said to Jia Min who was standing aside, "Call the children back and have a reunion dinner today."