Chapter 49: Throwing pots
Why are they all afraid of social death, here involves a rule of the inner city, which is different from the outer city, the latter has no curfew.
The former, on the other hand, because it is inhabited by decent people, for the safety of the dignitaries, no one can be on the streets after the drums are beaten at dusk.
It was well known that the Education Department worked at night.
This meant that going to the Education Department could be more than just prying for information, you also had to stay overnight.
This is why Xu Pingzhi was against Xu Qi'an going to the Education Department. He was already a young and energetic guy, so if he stayed overnight in the Education Department and was teased by other girls, who would be able to bear it?
Therefore, whoever goes to the Education Department will have to go whoring.
And the three men here are all set up:
Mr. Xu is a decent man.
Not going to hookers Xu Qi'an.
Gu family love wife Xu Pingzhi.
All three men know one thing clearly in their hearts, even if there is a reason for what happened, whoring is whoring, can't change this fact.
Although I have not whored in my past life, but I can imagine myself to go whoring and then by the police uncle called to inform the parents of the embarrassment .... Simply do not want to live ..... Xu Qi An sat upright, his face serious and decent.
In his mind, some interesting stories about the greenhouse came to mind, a certain hookah listening to the song, Wang sheriff started a topic, a certain official in the dynasty to go to the Church Department to sleep with the girl, the result is to beat the tea surroundings, encountered his own son.
Father and son in the same cave, the scene is very embarrassing.
The next day it spread all over the officialdom of the capital, leading to a laughing stock, so much so that even Sheriff Wang heard about it from County Magistrate Zhu.
For an era that valued the Three Principles and the Five Virtues as well as reputation, to have such a thing happen was a weight that one's cheeks could not bear.
Xu Qi'an looked at Uncle Xu and Erlang Xu, and images could not help but float in his mind:
Xu Xinnian: "Yo, father, you're here too, let me have this girl today, tomorrow she's yours."
Uncle Xu Erlang: "Get lost, who's the old man? I'll sleep first."
Xu Qi'an: "You all stand down, I want to be alone."
Thinking about it makes me shudder ah .... Xu Qi'an coughed, "The pre-faculty department is put on hold beforehand, let's continue to poke around, after all, the faculty department isn't a must, and we're not sure if we can really poke around for favorable news from the Floating Fragrance Flower Leader.
"We'll sit down again the day after tomorrow to summarize the news, and if we don't have any additional gains, we'll reconsider going to the Oratory."
Hearing him say this, Xu Erlang and Xu Ershu's attitudes instantly improved, nodding their heads.
Xu Qi'an thought to himself, "It's better for me to make a sacrifice and make a trip to the Education Department tomorrow night.
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The next day at noon, Xu Qi'an leave to go back to the Xu residence, in the past days is still quite lively Xu residence, a lot of cold.
Half of the maids and old maids were taken away, leaving the concierge Old Zhang and a few servants to take care of things. Uncle Xu and Erlang Xu have not returned.
Xu Qi'an lightly went to the inner courtyard, pushed open Xu Erlang's room, rummaged through the cupboard and found the moon white Confucian shirt, precious fabric, embroidered with the same color cloud pattern.
He took off his constable's uniform and replaced it with this most decent piece of clothing of his little old brother, a jade pendant of fairly decent texture dangling from his belt.
Xu Qi An stood in front of the bronze mirror and looked at his own appearance at this moment.
It is not bad .... It's just that my skin is too masculine, and I can't wear the handsome beauty of a little puppy ..... If I had a beautiful face in my past life, I would be able to handle this kind of clothes .... Now this skin lacks some sense of immersion. .... Xu Qi'an smoothed out the folds on his chest and left satisfied.
The structure of the capital city of Dafeng can be summarized by the word "nesting", which are the palace city, the imperial city, the inner city and the outer city.
Compared to the outer city, which was populated and mixed with fish and dragons, Xu Qi'an interpreted the inner city as the CBD area in the previous era, and those who could live in it were all rich people.
Those who could live in the inner city in this era were people with status and position.
It was worth mentioning that her aunt had always wanted to sell her property in the outer city and move to the inner city.
Unfortunately, having a nephew who was a gold-devouring beast made Aunt yearn for the inner city, but there was no chance of living there.
From the Xu Mansion to the city gates of the inner city, on foot, it would take Xu Qi'an three to four hours with his current footwork.
He hired a carriage and arrived at the nearest gate of the inner city an hour later, pulling out the credentials he had prepared long ago and crossing the border smoothly.
The soldiers guarding the city scrutinized the carriage, and when they saw that Xu Qi'an wasn't carrying any large luggage, their faces couldn't hide their disappointment.
Because this meant that Xu Qi'an was not entering the inner city to do business, he would not be able to collect the city gate tax.
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The streets of the inner city were wide and crisscrossed, with beautiful houses surrounded by greenery built on the main roads, and various kinds of courtyards spread out on the non-main roads.
Whether it was the city's construction or the way pedestrians dressed, as well as the number of carriages on the streets, they were all far superior to the outer city.
"When you have time, you must bring Ling Yue sister to the inner city to play, the prosperity is incomparable to the outer city." Xu Qi'an lifted the curtains of the carriage window and looked at the bustling scene, Xu Lingyue's sharp and exquisite appearance floating in his mind.
He didn't go to the Department of Education immediately, it was still early, and seafood merchants didn't work during the day.
After paying the silver for renting a carriage, Xu Qi'an wandered aimlessly on the streets.
Not long after, Xu Qi'an arrived at a marketplace and looked up at the pagoda at the street entrance: Yongkang Street!
The spaciousness of this street was unlike anything Xu Qi'an had ever seen before, it was two hundred meters wide, with a single slab of green stone forming a flat surface that stretched to the end of the line of sight.
Stores and houses lined up on both sides, ten horse-drawn carriages lined up side by side without any pressure, and pedestrians were bustling about.
Where is it a street, it is clearly a large square.
Standing under the pagoda, Xu Qi'an looked at this scene and was sincerely shocked.
"Yongkang Street is one of the main roads in the capital, second uncle said it was huge, I didn't expect it to be this big." Xu Qi'an muttered in his heart.
There was a reason for the main road to be so spacious, as the emperor or clan nobles traveled, there would be guards to clear the area in advance.
The width of two hundred meters made most of the current military crossbows and cannons useless.
Even if there were assassins who wanted to hide in the buildings on both sides to release cold arrows, seeing this distance, they could only helplessly leave the keyboard with both hands and type 666.
Xu Qi'an scurried around Yongkang Street like an off-leash wild dog, but because of the limited budget in his pocket, he pressed down on his shopping spending.
Suddenly, a luxurious carriage attracted Xu Qi'an's attention, blinding his titanium dog eyes.
It was a carriage pulled by four sturdy steeds, the curved dome crowned with silver and coated in gold, the windows draped in bright yellow satin, and further down was the �cabinets� used to cover the floating dust, wrapped in translucent white jade.
The wheels are nailed to the side with a circle of neatly arranged gold nails, and the hubs are also wrapped in jade.
And what was really inside was the carriage material, the golden nanmu wood specialized for the royal clan.
"I guess I can't afford to buy a wheel from someone else even if I struggle for my whole life ...." Xu Qi'an thought sadly, as if he had found the mood of his last life when he was a social animal again.
This luxurious carriage was parked on the side of the road, a column of soldiers wearing black armor and holding lances guarded the side of the carriage, and interestingly enough, another column of soldiers was actually playing a pot throwing game.
The stall owner was an old Taoist priest in tattered Taoist robes, his flowery white hair was pulled back with a wooden pin, hanging down in messy strands.
On the stall were copper coins, silver ingots, gold ingots, Taoist scriptures, bodhi strings, jade mirrors .... all sorts of miscellaneous gadgets.
Other things not to mention, just the gold ingots and silver ingots placed on the stall were not snatched away, this old Taoist is by no means simple. .... Xu Qi'an stopped to watch.
He watched for a while and understood how the game was played, the pitcher was thirty paces away from the porcelain pot, blindfolded, with his back turned, for a total of three arrows.
If one of the arrows was hit, one would get the third tier item, which was some gold, silver and jade. If all three hit, you will pick any item from the first echelon.
And there were only two items in the first echelon: the Bodhi Strings and the Jade Mirror.
"Didn't win again, darn it!"
"Go away, it's my turn."
The armorers took turns throwing pots, but all of them returned in defeat, and the pile of broken silver in front of the old Taoist got higher and higher.
After the fifteen armorers experienced another round of failure, Xu Qi'an noticed that the curtains of the carriage moved a bit, and one of the armorers marqueeing by the window bowed his head to hear it and walked towards the stall owner.
"Old Taoist, my master has said sixty taels of gold for everything on your stall." That armorer walked up to the old Taoist and said aloud.
Is this throwing pots and missing, direct kryptonite .... Xu Qi'an stood not far away, watching this scene.
Facing the temptation of sixty taels of gold, the old Taoist shook his head, "Rules, are rules."
The armorer instantly tensed his body, staring hard at the old Taoist for a moment before turning around with a huff and returning to the carriage to report.
A few seconds later, the owner of the carriage recalled the armorer and prepared to leave.
Xu Qi'an took the opportunity to step forward, coming before the old Taoist and asking, "Old Taoist, how much to play once?"
The old Taoist, who was sitting cross-legged on the ground, raised his head, looked at him, and handed over the three arrows, "One penny silver."
Xu Qi'an took the arrows and smiled, feeling that he was winning.
Throwing a pot from thirty paces was not too difficult for a martial artist at the Refined Essence realm. But with his back turned and blindfolded, it was almost impossible to throw it.
The eyes were the most important part of the five senses, and the loss of sight would make the martial artist's sense of touch decrease and increase the difficulty of hitting.
Whether or not you could hit the shot all depended on your face.
Xu Qi'an's face wasn't pretty, but he had absolute confidence because, for several days in a row, he hadn't picked up any silver.
Was it because I would come to the inner city and would come across this pot-throwing game, so the luck value automatically accumulated?
If I can hit the pitch, the gold and silver ingots are all mine .... Hey, the life of a European Emperor is so plain and boring .... Xu Qi'an walked thirty paces away, turned around, covered his eyes with a black cloth, and casually threw it back.
"Knock knock knock..."
Three arrows went into the pot in no particular order, almost simultaneously.
The surrounding passersby let out sounds of amazement, and the clamor attracted just as they were about to leave the carriage, a soft and nice voice floated out of the window:
"Stop the car!"
PS: tomorrow to travel a trip, hey, I actually do not quite want to go out, after all, the epidemic is not completely over, a little wimpy. But in order to cha rice, can only be hard to fly.
That is to say, there is no computer around tomorrow, I may not be able to update during the day, so the chapter at noon tomorrow updated in advance. It's not an extra update, it's an early update for tomorrow!
