Chapter 138: It is not easy to live in the capital
The cargo ship sailed smoothly for several days. A Yao followed the escorts to leave the water and change to land for several days. However, I don’t know if it was her illusion, but it seemed that she had taken a long way to go...
A Yao thought well. They seemed to have been in a water and land journey, and they were commissioned by the Bird's Nest. When paying the deposit, Bird's Nest specially instructed the escorts to take A Yao to walk for a few more days. In fact, Nanxun arrived in five or six days to go to the capital. It only took three or four days to choose a good horse and go on a fast horse and go day and night, and you can even arrive from the capital in one day. Pei Shuo was in such a mission a few years ago, and received the news of a general amnesty and household registration in one day.
Bird's nest is determined not to let A Yao find her.
When the prosperous city was approaching, the Nanxun Escort Agency completed their mission, settled the accounts with A Yao and set off for the next destination. A Yao walked into this strange city with her bag.
The market that comes into view, following the steps below, is like the life scroll slowly unfolding on the Qingming Festival.
The road is spacious, with ox carts and two restaurants and groceries calling for customers loudly. There are many more people here than in Nanxun. This is how far they have just entered the city gate. A Yao looked at it for a while and walked straight toward the center of the capital.
If you ask a little, you can find a good inn near Dali Temple and Yamen. The price is a bit expensive, but the advantage is safety.
Staying in the inn for ten days should be enough for her to find a suitable house to live in?
A Yao washed her face and wiped her hands and feet, put her bags in it, and put some broken silver and copper coins in it. She exchanged some silver coins for silver bracelets or inconspicuous solid silver hairpins on her body. She also hid the silver notes and land deeds. After checking, she went downstairs to eat something casually.
"Waiter, come with some vegetables and another plate of dumplings."
"Okay."
The restaurants and inns in Beijing are similar to Nanxun, and they are allowed to sell snacks in a bamboo basket to come in to sell to customers. As soon as A Yao sat down, someone came to sell cucumbers and cold-sauceed Malan. Judging from her age, she was about the same as A Yao. "Customer, do you need to make snacks?"
A Yao looked into her basket and seemed to have no appetite, "I can't thank you."
"I also have sour plum soup. If I can't eat anything in Ku Xia, I can come to a bowl of sour plum soup to make my appetite." The girl said again.
Sour plum soup, A Yao was full of salivation when she heard this name. Even though she didn't want to buy it at the beginning, she was a little interested: "Take it up and let me take a look first."
The girl quickly called her younger brother, and the boy who was one head shorter than her also held his own bamboo basket and ran to A Yao. The basket was sour plum soup filled with a bamboo tube. Open the lid and smelled the fragrance of osmanthus.
A Yao, who often deals with food, could tell at a glance that the sour plum soup was diluted with water, and it probably wouldn't taste much better when it tasted.
"Two cents a barrel, which is both quenching thirst and appetizing. Big sister, do you want it?"
A Yao swept over them. The patchwork clothes on his younger brother were washed white with patches. The sister's clothes were better than him, but they didn't fit. The adults wore them for her, and the younger brothers wore them for her. "Then let's do one." She took out two cents, and the brothers smiled and opened their eyes, "Wait, are you from the capital?"
She called them to stop and put aside five cents: "Let me find out something about you."
The two siblings left with satisfaction. A Yao took a sip and did not add rock sugar when cooking the sour plum soup. Afterwards, they diluted it with water. The overall taste was as light as water, but they bought the sour plum soup for seven cents and the news. There was also a map of the capital, which was worth it.
The next day, A Yao took her map to the store and the housekeeping business to start a long process of looking for a house.
The eldest princess's mansion.
Princess Zhuang Xuan, who was over thirty years old, was a hostage in the previous dynasty when she was young. She had watched the struggles of concubines in the palace, witnessed the change of dynasties, and followed her younger brother. Now the emperor is fighting for the country. When the country is stable, she proposed to use her merits to exchange for not getting married in this life, and move into her eldest princess's mansion to live a happy life. She didn't care about everything. Everything was left to the general manager. Although she was fully let go, she liked to listen to what happened in the mansion every day, and it was interesting to listen to it.
The chief manager reported one by one, and the eldest princess suddenly asked, "What are you going to arrange for the girl who came with the token?"
"Go back to the eldest princess, I thought that since she came to the door by herself, she would put her under her nose to take care of her. So I asked her to sign a contract to work as a servant in the Lotus Garden, and now she changed her name to Coral."
"Have you found out wherever you come from?"
"I've found out, from Nanxun, I want to overturn the case." The general manager told the cause and effect of the Nanxun Zhou Qing poisoning case to the eldest princess. The eldest princess was fascinated by the name of the name. She raised her eyebrows, "I've returned to Nanxun, and it's probably not long before I will return to Beijing. These two girls are good, loyal nurses. As for the case... Haha, she has the ability from Chen Nian Guzi many years ago, and I won't stop her."
The girl who took the token and now renamed Shanhu was no one else, but the bird's nest that left A Yao behind.
A few days ago, she came to Princess Zhuang Xuan's mansion and claimed that she had come to return the token. The token was given to the Shangguan family by the eldest princess, saying that one day she could use such a token to exchange for a wish. This wish was not useful for a long time, so Bird's nest used the token to enter the Princess' mansion and truthfully reported the ending of her family. She was here to seek the truth and hoped that the princess could take it in.
At that time, the chief supervisor came forward with a bowl of medicine and said that the eldest princess didn't believe her, and asked her if she dared to drink this bowl of poison.
The bird's nest was drunk without hesitation and then she had the opportunity to stay in the Princess's Mansion as a traitor. Fortunately, she followed Wangyue and knew how to take care of flowers and plants. She seized the opportunity to go from a low-level traitor who had just entered the mansion and was bullied by others to become a traitor who served flowers and plants. Life was finally better.
Bird's nest makes his difficult life better, and A Yao also found a house. There is a small courtyard in front of the house where you can grow some vegetables and flowers and plants. The area inside the house is not very convenient to clean. The kitchen is the most beautiful thing for A Yao is the kitchen. There are several stoves. If the time is arranged properly and there are people to use it, steam, stew, fried, fried and fried can be done at the same time. The monthly rent is 8 guan. What is the concept of 8 guan? The monthly silver money for lower-level officials in the capital is about 5 guan. A Yao's rent is slightly higher than that of the eight rank sesame official.
She now felt that Mo Xingle heard the pain of hearing the money she gave, so heartbreaking, Nanxun Yamen was so dark!
Chapter completed!