211. Chang'an City
It was a coincidence that the two groups of them were still on the same road. Luo Yong and his team came from Li Shi. These people came from Mengmen Pass, all heading towards Chang'an City.
The next day, Luo Yong and his group left first. At about noon, they saw a rural Cao Market not far from a station. So Luo Yong asked the coachman to park the car and went to the Cao Market to buy a few things.
When the people who lived with them caught up with the inn with them last night, Luo Yong was standing in front of a pork stall on the side of the road, holding a pork belly in his hand to check.
"Tsk, it's really a frugal person. I don't buy good pork, but I actually went to buy water again." The fat man opened the car window and looked at it. Then he ordered the servant who drove the car and said, "You go down and buy some good pork, we'll stew it tonight."
"Here." The coachman parked the car, went to the front of the pork stall, picked up the fat and thin pork belly and bought it better. Thinking about it, he added another pig's hind legs.
Speaking of which, the official road from Lishi County to Chang'an City is not very deserted, and it is much better than the road from west to Liangzhou City.
Along the way, I often pass through some rural towns and sometimes I encounter Caoshi. Most of these Caoshi appear at the intersection of roads, or just beside the inn.
There are not only Caoshi next to the station, but also various tourist hotels. If you do not have relevant documents, or if you are not in a position of staying in the station, you can stay in the hotel next to the station.
When it comes to the benefits of staying in the inn, one is safety and the other is free. When you can stay in the inn, Luo Yong will definitely not consider other things, although some of the conditions and facilities for traveling in the opposite direction seem to be better than the inn.
That night, Luo Yong and the others arrived first. When the group of people behind entered the station, they had already cooked a bunch of chickens.
I saw Luo Yong lifting the wooden lid on the pottery and stirring it with a spoon. The clear milky white soup was neither thick nor light, and bursts of fragrance wafted out. The fragrance smelled really good. In addition to the fragrance of chicken and pork belly, there was also a faint peppery fragrance...
"Langjun, how do you stew the meat tonight?" asked the fat man's servant.
"Look at the stew." Lang Jun waved his hand and no longer had expectations for his stewed pork tonight.
There are quite a lot of people in this inn today. Some of them are more active, so they will take this opportunity to chat with people, exchange information, and expand their connections. After all, those who can live in the inn will generally not have a low status.
Luo Yong traveled with these children at home, and based on the principle that it is better to have less than more things. He was not enthusiastic about those who came to chat. The other party felt that he was boring, so he just talked and drank with those who could chat.
As for the others in their team...
There were enough people eating, so would you add more? They weren't stupid.
After taking a bowl of pork belly chicken, Luo Yong and others in the pottery pot tonight, they let the servants of Uncle Bai and others and Dr. Chen's servants take them to share. These men sat outside to catch the train all day long. It was a cold day, so they should have a few bites.
Each person had a large bowl of pork belly chicken soup, a large pot of cold dishes, and the Hu cakes bought by Uncle Bai Er at the food shop next to the station. He drank the soup and ate the cakes. This supper was very satisfying.
"Are you full?" After dinner, the servants went out to wash with tableware. Luo Yong and others sat in the hall to cook the fire. Liu Lang snuggled beside him. Luo Yong reached out to touch his hair and asked.
"Yes." Liulang was a little afraid of being a little scared. At this time, he leaned against Luo Yong and looked at the crowds here and there in the hall with curiosity.
Luo Yong loosened his hair and rubbed his scalp. The little guy moved his body, leaned his head against Luo Yong's knee, grabbed the hem of his clothes in his hand, and kept playing with it, his eyes were still looking at the people in the hall, and his ears were listening to them.
Siniang Wulang and Qi Niang were gathering around the fire to roast taro. A group of people came from the south and brought hairy taro. The children looked at each other for a few more times and saw them. They grabbed a few from the basket and asked them to roast them. In return, Siniang and his wife divided a small plate of five-spice beans from their snacks and put them in wine.
Bai Yimao and his friends got together, not knowing what they were muttering. Uncle Bai and Dr. Chen were sitting opposite each other. The two were discussing math problems. Qiao Junlin sat cross-legged on the short kang beside him, holding a book and watching.
In the past two days, Luo Yong has a new understanding of the hard work of Qiao Junlin. As a result, I really don’t know if his brainpower can keep up. Luo Yong remembers that when he was in high school, there was a very hardworking male student in his class. At his teenage years old, he forced himself to be a little white...
On this side, Luo Yong was thinking about whether Qiao Junlin would lose his hair. On that side, there were also some people talking about them quietly.
"Why can these beans beans beans be so delicious?"
"I see that young man is very skilled."
"Just that pork belly chicken soup just now, are you all smelling it? Tsk tsk..."
"I don't know which one it belongs?"
"I heard from the brother over there that I met them after passing Lishi."
"Could it be..." The sister's food shop of Li Shi Luo's family is now quite famous in Chang'an City. The food shop in Liangzhou City is not very famous, mainly because Luo Erniang is famous.
"It shouldn't be possible. Na Luo Sanlang stayed well in his Xipo Village. In this cold weather, why did he run out with his family and his friends?" someone shook his head and said.
"You have not heard of it yet when you came down from the north. The saint asked Narasanlang to go to the Imperial Academy to teach arithmetic methods. Now the documents have also come down." Several people who came from Chang'an City heard about this.
Several people looked at each other, and soon a young man came over to talk to Luo Yong: "Dare you ask me about this brother, but I came from Li Shi?"
Luo Yong didn't like others to inquire, especially when he was still taking his family out. Previously, there were people in Chang'an City who wanted to kill him, and he knew that he had made many enemies.
"We are from Fangshan. I don't know where this brother, Tai's surname, came from?" Before Luo Yong could speak, Qiao Junlin had already closed the book and said to the man with a smile.
"It's actually Fangshan's people. I also said you should have come from Li Shi." The man still looked a little unbelievable. When they were discussing there just now, he was very convinced that the brother of these children should be Luo Sanlang of Li Shi. The person who spoke at the moment had nothing to do with them. He didn't talk to him, but he wanted to talk too much.
"I don't know where I came from and where I want to go?" Qiao Junlin smiled, as if he didn't see the other party's dissatisfaction at all.
"We came from Chang'an City and wanted to go to Taiyuan Prefecture." The other party had no choice but to reply.
"So that's the case." Qiao Junlin bowed to him and said with a smile, obviously he had no intention of continuing to talk to him.
The other party felt bored, so he bowed his hand and went back to his side, saying to the people there: "Yan is a Fangshan person."
"Hey, I just said that there would be such a coincidence." Even if someone said that.
"No matter where he is, eat wine and drink." Some people also saw that this person was treated coldly there just now, and the atmosphere was quickly warmed up.
That night, when Luo used them to go back to their room to rest, Qiao Junlin came to their room and said to him:
"You need to be careful when you go out. Some people are enthusiastic on the surface, but in fact they don't know whether it is good intentions or bad intentions. Don't be careful."
After he left, Teacher Luo grabbed his loose hair and thought to himself, was he educated by his own students?
You should know that this time he went to Chang'an City to serve as a doctoral assistant in the Imperial College. Qiao Junlin is still a student in the Imperial College, so they are a teacher-student relationship. However, obviously, Qiao Junlin did not regard Luo Yong as a teacher.
That night, Qiao Junlin not only came over to knock on Luo Yong’s door, but also talked about this with Uncle Bai Er and Dr. Chen.
These two people also felt a little alert when they heard someone inquiring about Luo Yong's identity. After all, Luo Yong has made many enemies in the past two years.
So the next morning, their group set off at dawn, rushed all day long, leaving all the people they met in the post station behind.
I walked faster in the next few days. Even when I passed by Wu You and his food shop, I just stopped for a while, had a meal there, and then set off again soon.
In less than ten days, I rushed all the way to Chang'an City. After the cement road was repaired, the carriage ran on it, and the speed was really faster than a little.
Their group entered the city in the early morning. When they arrived near Chang'an City the night before, it was already late and the city gate was closed, so they stayed nearby and entered the city early the next morning.
After entering the city, Uncle Bai and others said goodbye to Luo Yong, and then went home on their own, asking his servant to send the Luo family brothers and sisters to the place and then return.
Dr. Chen and Qiao Junlin were going to register at the school first, and made an appointment with Luo Yong, asking him to go to the Imperial College tomorrow, and then left. Luo Yong took Wulang to the car here, and the brother and sister went all the way to Guangdefang.
The car was walking on the streets of Chang'an City. The children of the Luo family were lying on the car windows and watching, staring at the carts carrying loads driving ox carts and horse carts. They felt fresh no matter how they looked.
The walls of Chang'an City are so high and the gates are so big. People in Chang'an are brightly dressed, with many beautiful colors. The streets of Chang'an City are so wide...
"Why are there no shops on this street?" Qi Niang remembered that when my brother took her to Lishi County, there were too many shops in the county town.
"Stupid, my sister didn't say that in the letter, the streets outside are for people to walk on, and shops are all in the market." Si Niang said to her.
"Then we can go to the market at any time?" Qi Niang was most interested in the shop.
The driver who was driving the car in front heard it and said with a smile: "It's a bit far from this city gate to Guangdefang, but now there are cement roads everywhere in Chang'an City, and the carriages run very quickly."
The streets of Chang'an City are extremely spacious, with a width of dozens or hundreds of meters. They are not common even in later generations. Nowadays, these streets are covered with concrete pavements. When pedestrians, cars and horses are passing by, they seem to be walking on a large square.
There are open drainage channels on both sides of the street, and rows of trees are planted on the edges of the canals. The water in these canals gathers from nearby courtyards. Under the trails of many streets, there are drainage culverts built with blue bricks to discharge domestic sewage.
These sewages do not contain human and animal urine manure. People come to collect the things every day. Free service is not enough. The fertilizer collected can be sold outside Chang'an City, so you can earn some money.
So at this time their cars were walking on the street, watching the shimmering waters on both sides of the road, and the green trees beside the canals, and no strange smell was smelled.
The carriage was on this cement road, and it was not long before we arrived at Guangdefang. Because it was still morning and the West City had not yet opened, Guangdefang was not at the most lively time of the day. Only some residents came out to activities, buying groceries, eating, and many shops were preparing for the day's livelihood.
The location of the Ma Family Guesthouse is very conspicuous. As soon as their car entered through the south gate of Guangdefang, he saw a two-story building at the corner of the street in front, with a plaque of the Ma Family Guesthouse hanging on it. There is also a small shop downstairs, and another small sign hanging on it, which reads to the Sister Food Shop.
There are many people queuing outside the Sister’s Food Store now. Luo Yongzhi and the others are here to buy tofu. I heard that since Aunt Luo and others started making tofu in Chang'an City, their business has been very good, and they are not enough to sell every day.
Luo Yong walked outside the counter and looked, but didn't see Aunt Luo here, so he asked Xu Dalang's eldest son: "Dalang, where is my sister now?"
The young man was so busy that he was not touching the ground. When he heard the sound, he looked up and saw that it was Luo Yu. He was immediately overjoyed: "Why is Sanlang coming? But he just arrived today?"
Luo Yong's disciples' children were not Luo Yong's disciples, and Luo Yong was a relatively casual person, so these people were also more casual in terms of titles, some were called Sanlang and some were called Mr.
Luo Yong didn't like to hear their call him Mr. Luo Yong called him old, but he was still a teenager.
"Just just entered the city, is my sister in Chonghuafang?" Luo Yong also knew that Aunt Luo had rented a yard in Chonghuafang.
"That's right, she's still here just now, and now she's gone." Xu Dalang's eldest son said.
"This yard is pretty good." Luo Yong said with a smile.
The housing prices in Chang'an City are not comparable to Liangzhou City. Although Chonghuafang is not as good as Guangdefang, it is also close to the West City. Although Chang'an City has two cities in the east and west, the east city is too high in style and is not as popular as the West City.
"It wasn't enough before. After winter, I sold some canned food, which was enough." Aunt Luo said happily, "I have someone write this yard in your name."
"What's wrong with writing it in my sister's name?" Luo Yong said.
"Forget it now." The aunt shook her head and said, "Although Wulang is good, the family is still unclean. Her mother-in-law is older, so I'm afraid they will become more and more confused as they get older in the future."
The Luo family siblings didn't share the money very clearly. For example, Aunt Luo managed it and Aunt Luo managed it. Luo Yong never mentioned sharing money with her, and the second wife was the same. To put it bluntly, Luo Yong is still unilaterally paying and willing to give her sister more money to accompany her.
For Aunt Luo, she was naturally very happy to treat her generously, but she felt very unhappy when she thought that if these things were under her name, they would probably be in vain for the future.
Although Lin Chunqiu and Lin Wulang are brothers, he has eaten better than Goro since he was a child and dressed better than Goro, and has never worked less than Goro. Such a person now wants to give him something to Goro himself. Aunt Luo was very angry just thinking about it.
Aunt Luo took out the deed, Luo Yong reached out to take it, and said with a smile: "Then I will keep it for my sister for a few years."
"Safety, don't lose it." Aunt Luo reminded. In her opinion, Luo's use of anything is good, but in some aspects, it is a little unreliable.
"Sister, just be at ease." This thing is safer to put in the space.
"Where are you planning to live here this time? Do you want to live here?" Aunt Luo asked this question, and she felt it was inappropriate. Luo Yong was appointed as an official by the court this time. He was a seventh rank and an assistant to the Imperial Academy. How could he live in the yard where they worked?
"I still live in Feng'anfang." Luo Yong said.
Feng'anfang is also on the west side of the city, not far from Guangdefang, but is located in a relatively south. It is not far from Anhua Gate and Mingde Gate on the south side of Chang'an City. The Ma Family Trading Company is there, and the yard that Luo Yong's disciples bought for him before was also there.
The yard is now home to Hou Lin, Qiao, Junlin, and Azhi. The yard is not too small, but there are still several empty houses. Luo Yong and others plan to live there this time. Hou Lin is a teacher in the Imperial College, Qiao Junlin is a student of the Imperial College, and Luo Yong is an assistant to the Imperial College, so the three of them are co-stars.
However, I was not in a hurry to go over at this time. Aunt Luo asked Luo to wash with a few first. There was a special place for bathing in their yard. There was a stove and a hot kang, which could heat the house while boiling water. The floor kang surface was covered with cement, and there was a drainage ditch under the base of the wall.
Luo Yong took turns to wash in, and then the aunt peeled Liu Lang Qi Niang and washed them. Liu Lang was still ashamed. When he came out of the bathroom with a wet hair, his cheeks were flushed. Luo Yong looked a little funny and brought him over to wipe his hair.
After taking a shower, the brother and sister ate some more food. In the afternoon, when the aunt and the others were busy, Luo Yongsan slept in the room and sat upright. He had been sitting in the carriage for more than ten days, but he was still a little tired.
The aunt came over to see her and saw that these people were sleeping soundly, so she didn't bother them.
Chapter completed!