Fan Ning's newly rented house is located in the old Caomen Street. It is an ordinary small courtyard with good conditions. There are eight houses in two entrances, and the monthly rent is 12 jin, which is much more cost-effective than the inn.

Of course, this kind of yard is usually not rented for a short period of time, but it is also a long-term rental. Fan Ning and the others are lucky. The owner of this house is going to go out for half a year, so they only rent it for half a year.

The yard was guaranteed by the Zhu family, so the landlord gave Fanning the key directly without knowing Fanning's identity. In this way, there was no registration in the government and no registration book like inns, so Fanning and the others disappeared into the vast crowd.

There is more than one million long-term residents in the capital and more than one million migrant population. In the vast crowd, where will Zhang Yaozuo's people go to find Fanning? Besides, they don't even know what Fanning looks like.

The house rented by Fanning looks very much like a courtyard. There is a well in the courtyard and a peach tree is planted. Fanning lives in the main house, Su Liang lives in the left wing room, and Li Dashou lives in the right wing room. There is no toilet in the yard, and they all use toilets. They pay 300 cents a month. Every morning, someone comes to clean the toilet.

But what satisfied them the most was that the tiles on the old Caomen Street were less than 100 steps away from them.

Wazi is a commercial complex of the Song Dynasty, with food, drink, entertainment and everything. There are hundreds of specialty foods alone.

There are also various home service shops such as beauty, training, pets, express delivery, tooth shops, laundry, house repairs, clothing estimation, etc. As for entertainment shops such as storytelling, teahouses, Guanpu, and brothels, there are also many.

After packing up their luggage, everyone came to Wazi for lunch. Opposite the gate of Wazi is the old Caomen Inn, which is also a famous inn dedicated to the imperial examination. In more professional terms, it is called the imperial examination designated inn.

What does it mean?

The main reason is that there are too many candidates participating in the provincial examination. More than 100,000 people gather in the capital every year. In order to prevent trampling, the list will generally be posted two days later than the normal list is posted.

Once the list is issued, the first method of informing the news officer to go to the inn to inform the inn. There are hundreds of inns in the capital, and the news officer cannot travel to every inn. Generally, only twenty inns designated by the official room are to be visited, and the old Caomen Inn is one of them.

These twenty designated inns are designated inns. When each candidate registers, he needs to designate an inn as his contact inn. Early in the morning of the day the candidates issued the list, the candidates must be designated to wait at the inn.

However, registration usually starts from early November to the end of December, which lasts for two months.

It is only the end of September, and it is still a month before registration is started. It is still early. If nothing unexpected happens, Fan Ning will use the Old Caomen Inn as his contact inn. As long as you give the inn a little money, the inn can also provide services to convey information about the imperial examination.

It was just noon, and the tiles were already very lively, with crowds of people and endless flowing through. The guy who delivered the food ran and shouted, "Borrow light! Borrow light! Please give it!"

"Senior brother, that one seems to be a express delivery shop!" Li Dashou pointed to a small shop at the door and shouted.

They need to send a few letters first and then go for lunch.

Fan Ning also saw it. The sign reads 'Wang Chuerjiujiao Store', which is also a relatively famous express delivery store in Beijing. It has opened many branches, and it should be a storefront.

The three of them walked into the shop. A shopkeeper was busy behind the counter. He looked up and asked with a smile: "Do you want to send a letter?"

"There are a few letters that need to be delivered to your store."

The shopkeeper handed over three bamboo tubes containing credit, and the bamboo tubes were divided into two parts. The left side said the local port and the right side said the foreign port.

The shopkeeper said to the three people: "The letters from the capital are placed in the local port, and letters outside the capital, including all counties in Kaifeng Prefecture, are placed in other places."

Everyone took out a few letters and put them in the bamboo tube. In addition to the letter of safety to their parents, Fan Ning also wrote a letter to Cheng Ze from Yangzhou, told him the address, and also wrote a letter to Ouyang Qian, telling her the new address.

"This yanei collects hundreds of cents."

The shopkeeper looked at Fan Ning's three letters and said to him: "Pingjiang Mansion is fifty-money and Yangzhou is forty-money. Because they are all in the countryside, they are a little more expensive. There is only ten cents in the capital, a total of hundreds of cents. If the Yanei hopes that the letter from the capital will be sent today, then add ten cents."

Fanning took out a silver slot, took out another ten cents, and handed it to the shopkeeper together, "One silver slot, one more ten cents, please send the letter from the capital today."

"No problem, I'll make arrangements right away!"

The shopkeeper collected the money from Su Liang and Li Dashou again, and then the three of them left the Jijiao Shop and followed the crowd to find delicious snack bars on both sides of the street.

It was lunch time, and the long food street was filled with various fragrances. There were very few restaurants in the tile, and basically all kinds of snack shops. Every family had signature dishes, which were affordable and popular among the people. Many people living nearby, who had good conditions simply did not open fire, and took turns to eat various snacks every day to have a great treat.

The three of them walked around, and there were hundreds of shops on both sides that made them overwhelmed. They couldn't know which one to choose.

At this time, Fanning's eyes fell on one of the shops, called Copper Scissor Rose Chicken. The name is a bit special, but what attracts Fanning is that a sign below said, "This store serves shochu."

This made Fan Ning a little interested. There was even soju. I wonder what was the soju market in Beijing?

"Just this one!"

Fanning pointed to the 'Bronze Scissor Rose Chicken', and the three of them walked into the small shop. This was a husband-and-wife shop. A woman in her thirties greeted her and smiled, "Are there only three yamen?"

Fanning nodded, "Thirds!"

"Three yamen, please follow me!"

The store is very small, almost everywhere, with five small tables placed, with small stools on the chairs, three tables are already full of people, and two tables are empty. The woman smiled and said, "You can sit on both sides, you can do whatever you want!"

"Senior brother, sit here!"

Li Dashou was burly and was a little frustrated when sitting on such a small stool. He found a slightly wider seat and sat down, and smiled and said, "It's a little better here, but it's too crowded there."

Fan Ning and Su Liang sat down, and the woman served them three bowls of hot soup and smiled and said, "The special dishes in the shop are rose chicken, and other dishes include roasted lamb, venison, red carp, roast rabbit meat, roast goose, roast duck, and sometimes vegetables. Our shop also serves buns, the famous General Hong bun, and our shop does not increase the price."

"How to sell rose chicken?" Fanning asked.

"It is usually sold as a whole or half, and the small officials can do whatever they want."

"Come a rose chicken, a plate of braised carp, a plate of roasted venison, and four kinds of vegetables. Then ten mutton buns."

"I know, what do the three little officials want to drink? Our store has sheep wine and alcohol. The honey sour plum soup in the small store is the most famous, and there is also fresh milk."

Fanning pointed to the sign at the door and asked with a smile: "It says that the store serves shochu. What kind of shochu is it?"

"The small shop supplies the soju wine from Wangjiazheng store, called Guanglingchun, and it costs 30 cents a cent."

Fanning nodded, "Then make a stick of wine and three more bowls of sour plum soup."

"Three, wait, come soon!"

When the woman left, Li Dashou took out another book of the Book of Changes and read it silently. He seized all his time to read and practice calligraphy, and did not miss the time for dinner.

Fan Ning and Su Liang were no longer surprised. At this time, Su Liang asked Fan Ning in a low voice: "Why is the Wang Family Store also making soju?"

Because of living in a dormitory, Su Liang and Duan Yu both knew that Taihuchun and Fan Ning had something to do, so the Zhu family gave the Fan family a lot of money.

Fan Ning said lightly: "I heard from Mr. Zhu that one of his winemakers was kidnapped on his way to the capital. He disappeared for almost a month before returning home. Soon the secret convenience of soju spread. Almost every official store in the capital has launched its own soju."

"Is this case solved?"

Fanning shook her head, "In the end, it was left unresolved, and no kidnapper was found."

At this time, the woman from the hall brought drinks to Fan Ning and the others, a large pot of honey-made sour plum soup, and a small pot of hot wine and five cups.

Soon, the shop's signature dish Rose Chicken also came. It was actually a roasted chicken, and it was painted with a layer of rose dew. The hot roasted chicken fragrance mixed with the special rose dew fragrance, which had a mouth-watering and strange fragrance.

There was also a pair of copper scissors on the plate. The woman skillfully cut the roasted chicken and poured a layer of chicken oil to make each piece of chicken turn yellow and particularly attractive.

"Please use it slowly, three of you!" She left with a smile.
Chapter completed!