Zhan Zhumen

Chapter 8 News
Since Huo Erhuai added two people to his family, he knew that he had to earn money.

Originally, he only soaked in the river every day. He would release the net as soon as the dawn broke and collect the net as soon as the sun set. He only caught some fish and shrimp every day to sell for money.If you have free time, you can rest on the boat or mend the fishing nets, or think about which waters to catch another net.

But now he is starting to think of other ways to make money.

At this time, I was about to rush to the pier in the outer city. When I heard the two children muttering, I couldn't help telling: "You can't go to the pier. You are still young and your body can't bear it. Just go. Why don't you go back to accompany your mother and Nian'er first? Will you go back with dad if you don’t go shopping in the outer city?”

"Father, we'll wait for you to go back together. Let's go to the outer city first, and we'll wait for you at Uncle Gao's before sunset."

"That's fine too."

Huo Erzhun grabbed a few copper coins from his small satchel and handed them to them.

Huo Xi looked at it, and didn't want to take it at first, but when he saw that he forced it over, he only took two coins, and pushed the rest back.Pulling Yang Fu, he separated from him.

"Xi'er, where are we going?"

"Go to the tea shop."

"Tea shop? Xi'er, are you thirsty?"

Huo Xi didn't return to him, and quickly passed him: "Hurry up, uncle, the sun will set in a while."

"Hey, here we go."

Jinling City was originally a fertile land in the south of the Yangtze River, with plenty of food and goods. Now it is the capital of the Wei Dynasty, and its popularity is even more prosperous.The entire capital has a population of one million, and because of the well-developed water system, goods from south to north gather in the capital, making it even more prosperous.

The Jiangdong Gate of the outer city is only more than an hour away from the Shicheng Gate of the inner city, so the most common people live between these two city gates.

And because Mochou Lake, one of the two lakes in the capital, is between the two city gates, a large number of literati and scholars came here to go boating and tour the lake, discussing and exchanging poems and articles.

Even if the king of Yan entered the imperial city due to the change of the old and new dynasties, there was no chaos for long, and now it is a sign of peace and prosperity again.

Huo Xi looked left and right to see if there was no one there, wiped a gray wall with his hands, and quickly wiped it on his face a few times before clapping his hands together and patting it clean.

Yang Fu was dumbfounded.

"Xi'er, why do you..."

"I'm so good-looking, what if I get kidnapped by Huazi? I won't be able to see my parents."

Yang Fu felt reasonable when he heard it.Although his sister is always yelling at him, there is no better person in this world than his sister and brother-in-law. If he doesn't see them, he will cry to death.

Seeing that Yang Fu used both hands, Huo Xi smeared his face like a black-faced Duke Bao, and was speechless.

"What, what's wrong?"

"Nothing. Let's go."

"Go to the tea shop? We only have two pennies, is it enough for tea? Why didn't you just take a few more copper coins?"

Huo Xi was silent.She didn't want to take it.Don't want to owe too much.I'm afraid it won't work.

Seeing that she didn't speak, Yang Fu didn't care.All the way greedy.

Although this is an outer city, it is more lively than other places.The closer to the inner city, the busier it is, with people coming and going.The shops are buzzing with the wind, cloth shops, jewelry shops, pastry shops, embroidery shops, grocery shops, artisan shops, medical centers, medicine shops, tea houses... It is dazzling.

The outer city is so lively, but I don't know what the inner city is like.

Yang Fu kept yelling all the way, but Huo Xi didn't dare to raise his head.

Don't be careless.

"Xi'er, if we're like this, we might be chased away before we get close."

Yang Fu looked at the well-dressed people on the street, and then looked at himself, patching and patching, and many people cast strange glances at them.Yang Fu stretched his clothes, feeling a little embarrassed.

Huo Xi comforted him: "We don't steal or rob. If we don't give, we don't give. I'm afraid. Besides, it's not like there are no poor people."

Yang Fu looked again, and sure enough, there were still many poor people like them.Take it easy.But the heart that wants to enter the inner city is a little colder.

Huo Xi pulled him all the way, stopped and walked, looked and listened, without any destination, just casually.

It wasn't until they reached a teahouse built by a thatched shed near the inner city wall that they dragged Yang Fu in.

"How much is a cup of tea?"

"A cup of fragrant tea costs three Wen, a cup of sugar water costs two Wen, ordinary tea costs a cup, dried fruit costs three Wen, four Wen and five Wen a dish, cakes cost five Wen, six Wen, seven or eight Wen, and the tea can be refilled."

Yang Fu looked at all kinds of dried fruit cakes on the table and licked his lips.

Before he could swallow his saliva, Huo Xi had pulled him to sit down in a corner, "Dude, have two cups of ordinary tea."

"Okay, two little guests, please wait a moment." A young waiter raised his voice.

Huo Xi sat down very calmly, ignoring the curious eyes on the left and right.

This poor boy is just a little taller than the table, this calm one, he dragged his elder brother to sit among a group of adults, and his expression didn't change.Looking at his elder brother, he didn't dare to lift his head.

The crowd was amazed.

Huo Xi didn't look sideways and pretended not to see.

It's not that Yang Fu hasn't bought tea in the past, and he drank a lot of tea that cost a penny, but he just drank it outside the stall and left. How is it like sitting in a tea shop after ordering a tea that costs a penny now?

There is no money to order tea and fruit snacks.It also occupies the position of the two of them.

But turning her head to see Huo Xi's calm face, he is an uncle, so he shouldn't be too cowardly.He simply took courage and straightened his chest.

Huo Xi glanced at him and raised the corners of her mouth.

Hehe, Yang Fu also smiled at her, and suddenly let go.

The two poor boys had nothing to look at, and gradually no one looked at them any more.

Huo Xi pricked up his ears while sipping tea.

"Tell me, is it safe now?" A middle-aged man pointed up with his finger, and then whispered: "The one who occupies the capital, his other brothers can watch?"

"What can you do if you don't watch? The strength of the army has been almost reduced by the late emperor."

"Then it's safe? Don't fight anymore. When I think of the killing of so many people outside the Jubao Gate every day, it's bloody. I dare not turn off the lights and go to sleep at night, for fear of waking up the next day. The brain is gone."

A man shuddered when he remembered that when the new emperor first entered the capital, he started killing people and piled up the dead.

"What kind of cards do you have? If you want to be dragged to the execution platform, people still don't like it."

"Then I have to thank them for looking down on them." Several people laughed.

"Hey, Mr. Fang, it's a pity. Now the students in the world are afraid to speak. Look at Mochou Lake, there are fewer people."

"No."

Several people shook their heads and sighed.

"One emperor and one courtier. Some time ago, almost every family in the city had funerals."

Just one person said in a low voice: "I have a friend who runs a coffin shop. Some time ago, the business was so good that people were jealous, and he was so busy that he went in and out of the big family every day. When he came back, he said that there were a lot of strange things this year. Many wives in the mansion died suddenly. As for the wife of the son of Duke Rong, it is said that she also had a difficult childbirth in Zhuangzi, and she died twice. Even her daughter was too sad, so she went with her..."

"That's really a pity. I heard that the son of the world followed his father, Rong Guogong, and participated in the battle of Jingnan with the new emperor. He made military exploits repeatedly. Even if he was demoted to the first rank, he would still be a marquis. Tsk tsk, what a pity."

"Duke Rong Guo is a posthumous title. You can't take over."

"People don't need to seize the title, can't they get a title just by military merit?"

"Haven't you heard that the eldest son of Rong Guogong was granted the title of Marquis of Xincheng for his military merits, and it is still hereditary."

"It's such a pity. I am still a Mrs. Hou, and my son will be a Lord Hou when he is born. Tsk tsk. I heard that his family has straightened the side house. Look at his luck."

A man shook his head and sighed: "It's also my fault that I don't have a reliable mother's family. Otherwise, I'll be more protective during childbirth. Why is this happening?"

"I heard that the whole lady's natal family was exiled, and I don't know how many of them survived to the place of exile."

"Tsk tsk... This is considered dead. I don't know who the dowry will fall into."

"Anyway, it won't fall into your hands."

Huo Xi listened to the jokes of everyone in the tea shop, sighed, clenched his fists, bit his lips tightly, his eyes were full of hatred.

It turned out that the mother died, the younger brother died, and she died too.

(End of this chapter)