See you in the world

Chapter 31 Seeing in the Town

The so-called town and prosperity have nothing to do with each other. Looking around, although there are stretches of buildings, most of those buildings are still thatched huts with earth walls, and there are also wooden houses, but they are a small number, scattered bricks and tiles The room is located in the middle, and it can be said that it is already in the limelight.

Old, rundown, that's what the town is called.

If it weren't for the denser buildings and more people, Yunjing actually felt that it was no different from the countryside. He even suspected that most of the families in this town were still farmers.

Near the town, there are more and more pedestrians on the road, there are porters carrying burdens, farmers buying vegetables, tourists on the road, and vendors driving cars...

Taking a little look at the passers-by, Yunjing found that most of them were dressed in ordinary clothes, coarse clothes, straw sandals, cloth shoes, simple in style and monotonous in color, and their clothes were quite old, and many of them had patches on their clothes.

It is evident that the poor predominate everywhere.

Occasionally, one or two people in long robes and silk fabrics with wide sleeves stand out from the crowd.

Yun Xiaofu, who was traveling with him, glanced at a man who stood out from the crowd, and said enviously in a sour tone: "Just that suit of clothes can cover all my family's belongings, tsk tsk, those sleeves are so wide, you can make a whole suit with just the sleeves." Clothes, waste of fabric"

After hearing this, Yun Jing seriously suspected that he had plots against the rich.

Having said that, it has been more than two years since I came to this world. In Yunjing's memory, the villagers of Xiaoxi Village did not wear long gowns with wide sleeves. Poor families tried their best to save cloth.

Who wouldn't want to wear a decent wide-sleeved gown if conditions permit.

From their direction, when they were about to enter the town, there was a four-foot-wide and three-foot-high archway, which was obviously old. There was still moss growing on the stone pillars at a slightly higher place, and the exquisite patterns carved on it could be vaguely seen. .

There are three big characters written on the archway, which Yunjing doesn't recognize, they belong to this world.

That kind of font does not belong to any type in Yunjing's memory, it is not the symbolic characters of the past in the memory, and it is not pictographs. The words are a little bit similar.

The bronze inscriptions of the ancient Chinese civilization in the previous life are somewhat similar to the characters in front of me, but they are absolutely different. The characters here are more rigorous in structure, and the strokes are straight, not as smooth as the bronze inscriptions.

"Niujiao Town, Xiaojing, you remember, those three words are called Niujiao Town", Yunshan noticed that Yunjing was looking at the words on the archway curiously, so he lowered his head and smiled.

"I remember it," Yunjing responded obediently.

The heart said Niujiao Town, those three words originally meant this.

He knew that his father didn't know those three characters. The reason why he knew those three characters again was that people usually yelled a lot to understand them. He probably wouldn't be able to recognize those three characters if they were taken out in another place. up.

Without systematic learning, writing is a difficult thing to master.

Passing through the archway, Yunjing's attention was soon attracted by a big stone on the side of the road. The stone was as tall as a person and five or six meters long. The side near the road was polished smooth, and it could be called a stone wall. A grass shed was built over the big rock.

On it, there are many words written in black ink, and the words are separated one by one, as if writing different contents.

"Father, what's that?" Yun Jing asked, pointing to the big stone with written words, he really turned into a curious baby.

Yun Shan glanced at it and explained: "That's a notice board. Usually, any new regulations from the government, wanted arrests, etc. will be written on it. When it is written, someone will read it specially to prevent illiterate people from knowing what to write. Look at it. There are new ink marks, obviously written not long ago, and I don’t know what they wrote, it seems that the person in charge of reading is just not here.”

It turned out that this was the case, and then Yunjing asked again: "Why don't you write it on paper and stick it on it? It's better than writing on stones, right?"

"Paper is so expensive. A piece of paper one foot square costs five copper coins. How can you save money by writing on stone? You just need to wash off the front with water and you can rewrite it. Moreover, the government was once generous. Use paper to write and paste it, and then the paper was stolen, and after a few times, I didn’t do that.” Yun Shan touched his head and smiled.

Well, it's still to save money.

Tsk, it's really bold for someone to steal a notice written by the government.

Then, a piece of paper one foot square costs five copper coins, which is equivalent to five catties of coarse grain. It can be seen that reading and writing is really not affordable for ordinary families. If you want to learn something, the cost of paper alone is It can frighten many poor people.

Passing the notice wall, Yunjing and his party soon entered Niujiao Town, a three-foot-wide road went deep into it, and there were many shops on both sides of the road, grain and oil stores, grocery stores, teahouses, restaurants, blacksmith shops, cloth shops..., There are also some shops that are messy and don't know what to do.

In short, the facades along the street are all for business.

After entering Niujiao Town, what made Yunjing speechless the most was the streets. The whole place was so dirty and messy, with sewage flowing, cow and sheep manure everywhere, rotten vegetables, leaves and dog feces littering everywhere, it was almost impossible to get down.

However, people seem to be familiar with such an environment, and no one cares about it at all.

"Although it is an ancient society, but the streets are so dirty and chaotic, is there no "urban management" to take care of it?" Yunjing muttered speechlessly.

There were a lot of people on the street. Although it was not so crowded, it could be called lively.

"There are so many people," Yun Jing said, looking at the pedestrians around him in a tone suitable for his age.

Yun Shan nodded and said: "No, I heard that there are more than 2000 households living in Niujiao Town, there are more than [-] people, and today is the day for the market, people from all over the world will come to the market, so there will naturally be more people up"

Because he doesn't understand the situation in this world, Yunjing doesn't know whether a town with tens of thousands of people can be called a big one, but in his previous life he was used to big cities with tens of millions of people, so he didn't think much of it.

Then he realized that grandpa and father came to the town today not on a whim, but because today is the time to go to the market, and there are many people, so things will naturally sell better.

After entering the town, Yunjing's family gradually separated from the villagers. They sold different things and went to different places. They agreed to gather at the archway in the afternoon and go back together.

Yunjing noticed for a moment that there are special places for vegetable sellers on the street, there are also fixed places for fish and river seafood sellers, and the same is true for mountain products...

In short, it has become a default mode for everyone to go to where to sell something. You can buy what you want as long as you go to a special place.

After walking on the street for more than ten minutes, Yunjing's family came to a place selling bamboo products.

The streets here are tens of meters long, and both sides are selling bamboo products, such as baskets, dustpans, bamboo hats, baskets, brooms, umbrellas...

All kinds of bamboo woven products piled up on the side of the street like a mountain, and even the road in the middle was squeezed to about ten feet.

The Yunjing family obviously came a bit late, and it took a long time to find a suitable place to set up a stall. It was already on the edge of selling bamboo products. Such a place is not ideal, and it will affect the business, causing Yunlin and Yunshan to have a little bit of trouble on their faces. melancholy……

(End of this chapter)