I hurriedly rushed out, and finally got out of the city before the city gate closed.

As soon as I left the city gate, I heard the call from the soldiers guarding the gate behind me, and then stopped the person who was still behind me. The city gate slowly closed, and it was useless if the person who had taken one step to beg for mercy.

The access control of Chang'an is very strict and must be closed as soon as it arrives. Especially now, the Tang Dynasty has not been established for a long time, and this system is not at all relaxed.

"Ha, that's a little bit short, fortunately."

"The guards in Chang'an are really ruthless."

"That's right, this is not comparable to Jiangnan. It can be more comfortable in Jiangnan, but it's not possible here."

Everyone was very happy to leave the city in time without being froze and hungry in the city for a night. Especially with dozens of kilograms of copper coins on their backs, everyone was in a much better mood.

The capital of the Tang Dynasty was not as good as during the Song and Ming dynasties. Not only were the shop markets in the capital in the east and west markets, but it was also strictly prohibited to build shops outside the city.

After leaving the city gate, there was an empty wilderness.

A wide official road, with the exception of rows of willow trees on both sides, and farmland outside the ditches.

This kind of towering imperial capital, but the appearance of farmland outside the city made Li Xiao feel a little unacceptable.

It was not dark yet. I took advantage of the twilight and rode my horse forward for about two or three miles before I saw several wooden houses on the side of the road. They were tea shops and rice dumplings on the side of the road. It was not that they didn't want to open them outside the city gate, but that the government had a ban and could not get too close to the city gate.

"Drink a cup of tea and rest, eat some dry food, and have been busy all day."

I got off the horse, found two tables, and sat down.

The young man came over to ask, and saw that the guy was only eight or nine years old. If he were in later generations, he would be just a primary school student, but in the Tang Dynasty, such a young child had already started working. He either helped farm at home, or had already herded cattle and sheep at the landlord's house to earn his own food. Some of them were like this child, and they even started to be apprentices in the shop.

"Give us two pots of tea."

"What kind of tea do you want?" the young man asked very skillfully.

Da Biao said very directly, "Just two pots for only one cent, give me two pots."

Tea was already very popular in the Tang Dynasty, but it was not as good as the Song and Ming Dynasties that were all drunk. At this time, the tea was more common than the nobles, officials, gentry and doctors. The way they drank was not the same as the later ones, but the tea was sausage, which was very complicated and leisurely, and very consistent with their identity.

Of course, ordinary people like Li Xiao and others cannot afford to drink such tea. Ordinary people can't drink some cheap tea cakes at this time, and some even some other tea with leaves drying.

Such tea is cheap, and this tea shop on the roadside can cost two large pots per cent, and it also adds water for free.

Of course, two cents are actually not cheap for ordinary people.

When the tea was served, Li Xiao took a few glances and found that it was indeed not a tea leaf, but some kind of dried plant leaf that he could not recognize. Moreover, the leaf was steamed and made into a tea cake.

Now when the customer wants to drink, take down a piece, mash it, add some salt, add some ginger, green onion, etc., and then boil it. After that, a pot of cheap tea will be done.

Li Xiao couldn't drink anything good for such tea, but Dabiao and others drank it quite delicious.

First of all, it is hot. When walking on the road in the middle of winter, your hands and feet are cold. If you drink a cup of hot, you will definitely be well-off. Another thing is that salt is added to the tea. Salt is very expensive these days, and people must eat salt. Salt can replenish their energy. Drinking a cup of tea with salt will make you excited about the next road.

Li Xiao felt that drinking this kind of tea was actually better than making a bowl of seaweed soup, a handful of seaweed, a bowl of boiling water, a little salt, brewing, and sprinkling some chopped green onions. If you knock an egg and make some eggs, it would be more delicious.

There is also a noodle shop next to it, which sells some noodle soup, but it seems that not many people are willing to spend money on bowls of noodles. Everyone buys pots of tea and then eats the dry food they carry with them.

There are steamed buns, dough cakes, and it is still a very simple era.

Li Xiao tore a piece of yellow bread that had already become cold and hard, and then threw it into the tea bowl in front of him. There was no mutton soup or steamed bun, but it did not prevent him.

Dabiao and the others were the same. They tore the cold noodles into the hot tea and then eat the brewed cake. Although they had just sold thousands of cucumbers and had more than 5,000 copper coins in their hands, they would not immediately think about being extravagant and ordering a few bowls of noodles to eat.

Drinking two pots of tea for one cent and eating the yellow rice noodles cakes I brought, but everyone was very happy. Following Li Xiao all the way from Jiangnan to Guanzhong.

He also threw the drastic change in the first half of the year behind him.

At the beginning, everyone couldn't live anymore, they had red eyes, bit their feet, stomped their feet, raised their arms and shouted, and turned around. But in a blink of an eye, they were killed by the government army and abandoned their armor. No one was willing to continue the life of fleeing everywhere in a daze.

When I came to Guanzhong and left my hometown, I only told them that Li Xiao could start here again.

Although I found that the situation had changed when I arrived in Lanxi, I now have at least a place to settle down and earned my first amount of money.

There is a place to stay at night, and there are two meals a day during the day, so you don’t have to hide in the world, so everyone is already very satisfied.

No one wants to go back to the kind of life he was a few months ago, and everyone is more willing to be a down-to-earth person.

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Blue Creek.

Zhang Family Courtyard, front hall.

The little bully Zhang Chao handed a box to his father Zhang Bashai like a treasure.

"What's this thing? Are you spending money again? How many times have I told you that I didn't spend money randomly? No matter how big the family business is, it can't stand your troubles every few days."

The little bully smiled and said, "Dad, you didn't spend money. This is a good thing. Open it and take a look."

Zhang Pao's temples were already gray, and middle-aged, with a big belly, sitting on the bed, like a big meat ball. He looked very kind, but in fact he was quite cunning and fierce. The Zhang family used usury, forcing many families to die.

The box was very delicate, which reminded him of the old ginseng that his son gave him last time. Last time, the old ginseng Zhang peeled the skin and gave it to the clinic to see it. It was indeed an old ginseng that had been decades old, which was very good.

"Another ginseng?"

"Dad, just open it and look at it."

"The ginseng last time was good. I didn't expect that Zhao Cuzi had such good stocks. I guess he still had such good things in his hands. If you have time, you might be able to get all the good things out. If he doesn't know the truth, then they will let the girl from the Li family be your concubine to pay off the debt."

"Dad, what's the best girl in the Li family? She's a yellow-haired girl, she's not too thin. I prefer the more girls in the Zhao family."

"What's the good thing about a woman named Zhao? She married the unlucky devil of the Li family. She doesn't want to give such a woman for free. Entering our house will only bring bad luck. Even if you don't like the girl from the Li family, you have to take her as a concubine for their Li family's property."

"father."

"This matter has no discussion. At worst, you just ignore her after taking the door. Just think of having another cat or dog." Zhang Bapi said coldly.
Chapter completed!