On the morning of the tenth day of April, the officials from the palace's Ministry of Etiquette came over to discuss etiquette matters with the chief.
Others probably don’t need to be summoned for questioning alone, they can just stay there.
The melons on my back were so ripe that in less than two quarters of an hour, the people from the Ministry of Rites praised him and turned around to go back to the business.
The people in the village have finally come to Nanjing, so naturally they can’t hang around in restaurants all the time. Let’s go out and have a look.
Hire a car, the village elder got up and sat on it, Zhu Wentian put the money in the car together, and the other people followed under the car.
Zhu Taiyi and four others were allowed to go home, and Zhou Zong led 20 guards to follow the village team.
Compared with other places, Nanjing seems very prosperous. Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to see peace in the world and gave various discounts.
Businessmen pay money when doing business, while ordinary people sell their own property for free.
Vegetarians usually find a bridge and set up their stalls on the roadside on the bridge. They wear a bamboo hat to protect themselves from the sun and have no scales. They only sell cucumbers and eggplants by their roots, and cilantro and celery by their handles.
Just like selling cherries, you get a broken bowl and buy two bowls for one penny. Depending on the quality of wild loquats, you can usually buy seven or eight for one penny.
There are also people selling things in the alleys, usually repeat customers, who all know what is sold in this alley, otherwise it is not as good as on the bridge, who buys things exclusively in the alleys
The shops along the street also The doors and windows are all open. It's hot now, and the tea shop is crowded.
For ordinary tea, you can get unlimited refills by throwing in a penny. If you want to drink good tea, go to the shop and choose.
Looking at the tea seller, Zhu Wentian clicked his lips, so the team came to the place selling watermelons.
A donkey cart pulls watermelons. The watermelons are covered with mugwort, which creates a refreshing fragrance when it blocks the sun.
Beside the car were several people carrying burdens to sell cantaloupes, also covered with wormwood.
The watermelons are not big, and cost three cents each. You can pick them by yourself, and you will not be exchanged for the raw ones. Let the seller pick them for four cents.
Someone negotiated the price and bought two for seven cents, and they were also given a choice. The chosen ones would be cut open a little for the buyer to see.
"Buy." Zhu Wentian only said one word, "It's so hot, I don't even have the heart to laugh anymore."
“Four people can eat one. Fifty-three people, including the driver, buy fourteen for forty cents. That’s okay.”
The manager was calculating and selling melons. People bargain with each other, and if you buy more, it will be cheaper.
"Look at you wearing these clothes, how can you bear to make me lose money?" The melon seller had a sad face and was unwilling to pay two pennies.
The chief looked at everyone’s clothes and showed a troubled look, “You can choose the forty-two cents for us.”
“The choice is four cents each, fourteen cents. If you give me fifty-five cents, if you want one less, I'll pick it for you." The melon seller disagreed.
"Let's go and have a look in front. There should be some in front." Zhou Zong said from the side.
"No, forty coins, you pick it yourself, don't blame me if you pick something raw."
SellThe melon man was anxious and sold fourteen of them at once. He was reluctant to part with the business.
"Okay, come here, Hanhan." The village chief nodded this time and gave up his position. He didn't know how to pick. Watermelons have never been grown in the village.
Zhu Wentian stepped forward, picked up a melon, looked at it, patted it casually, and gave it to the inside.
The village chief took the watermelon knife and cut it open. When the flesh was sandy, he cut it a few times and gave it to the village elder first.
Zhu Wentian continued to pass the melons. Every time he cut the melons, they were filled with grit. After fourteen cuts, there was not a single bad or raw one.
Together with the hired coachman, everyone ate the watermelon.
"Hanhan still has this ability" Zhou Zong was surprised.
"The mountain god has blessed us, so we are not stupid." The village chief emphasized.
"No, silly, hehehehe" Zhu Wentian nodded.
In fact, melons are basically ripe. Melon farmers grow their own melons. When selling them, they must choose ripe melons in the field.
He said that deliberately because he wanted to make more money. If someone else buys a raw melon, he won’t give it in exchange, and others won’t want to buy it either.
Zhu Wentian mainly chooses the ones with or without sand. The advantage of the hot weather is that the melons are sweeter and the taste of the sand pulp is better.
If it’s a rainy day, the melon seller will feel uncomfortable.
At this moment, the melon farmer was beaming. He didn’t care what melon the other party picked. A group of people stayed here to eat, attracting more people to buy.
Even the cantaloupe seller next to him became popular and helped the buyers pick melons.
Zhu Wentian is collecting watermelon seeds. The village did not grow them before, but they can grow them next year, including cantaloupe. Otherwise, you have to go to the county town to eat a melon.
My friends helped collect them. I don’t know what Brother Hanhan is doing with it, maybe it’s for speculation, but just follow the instructions.
They didn’t know that watermelons have special seed melons for taking seeds, but they are not produced locally because the seeds of local melons are too small.
After eating the melon, everyone felt physically and mentally happy and continued shopping. The driver enthusiastically explained the interesting things about which place, what was worth seeing, and whose food was delicious.
He followed along and felt that he should work accordingly.
At the same time, he saw that these people were not born into wealthy families, but they just had good clothes and jewelry.
After walking for a while, at noon, the coachman pointed ahead, "Go forward, there is the Great Yuan Xing Yongshou Palace, now it is called Yongshou Palace. They said it was not good to mention the Great Yuan again, so they were all beaten away. .
There are a lot of food for sale there, including fresh fish and even beef. The smoked chicken sold in the palace is also sold, but I don’t know if it tastes the same as what was eaten in the palace. ”< /p>
"Okay, let's go there to eat." The liangzhang didn't want to go back to Fuhua Building now, it was so far away, and he would go around again and go back at night.
Zhu Wentian looked at the palace that would become Chaotian Palace in the future. It would not be as tall and grand as it would be in the future.
The village elder got off the car, and the driver took the car to a group of livestock carts nearby. The village leader helped pay five cents, and there were people here who specially helped to provide water and grass for a fee.
FiveA penny is the best. Before a penny, just pay attention to water and watch the animals and don't move around.
We first choose a place, which is a shop selling duck soup. We set up a table at the door and put a bench on it, and each person has a portion of duck soup.
The children took the copper coins and divided them into several groups to buy other things, mainly because they were not familiar with them. If they knew who had something good, someone could help run errands.
Not long after, the children came back and bought fried buns, siomai, two smoked chickens, fried dried tofu, boiled broad beans, and six steamed fish.
The store that sells steamed fish asked where to eat it and told the children who bought it to just leave the plate there when they left and they would pick it up themselves.
Then everyone looked at the smoked chicken together. The coachman wondered why he was staring at the chicken like that
Zhou Zong shook his head, "This is obviously smoked according to the method of smoking sausages. It smells like firewood." It smells like smoke. Let's eat it, brothers."
He divided the two chickens and ate them among himself. People in Xiaqiu Village probably wouldn't like them.
He gave the coachman a thigh and two wings. The coachman tasted it and was very happy, "This is for the palace."
"No, everyone said it was It's smoked over charcoal fire. The smoked chicken in the palace doesn't have the smoky smell."
A guard emphasized that he had eaten the smoked chicken in the palace when he was in the Prince's Mansion and ate it in Xiaqiu Village. The one from Qiucun has the same taste and texture.