Chapter 112 Visiting Chang'an (Part 2)

I ate the cake and tasted the tofu pills. Cheng Chumo breathed a long sigh and patted his belly: "Let's go, I'll go for a walk with you. I heard from the boy of the Xu family that you haven't gone out after you came to Chang'an?" Xu Guoxu was obviously much older than Cheng Chumo, but he called him a boy. I don't know how these two got together.

When he was about to pay the bill, the store refused to accept Wang Kuang's money, saying that he had received too much favor from the little boss. He had obtained such a good life. It was already a great honor for the little boss to come to the store. How could he receive the money?

Cheng Chumo slapped Wang Kuang's hand with money, touched it for a while, then put it away awkwardly, and signaled his followers to hand over a piece of silver to the store: "Come on, dare not? Then don't send food to a certain mansion in the future." This piece of silver is at least one cent, worth hundreds of cents. The store smiled bitterly: "Mr., you can't bear it if you give so much. A bowl of tofu pills is two cents, eight bowls are only sixteen cents, and a stove of cakes is ten cents, and a total of only twenty-six cents."

"Let's take it for you. At worst, you can keep it in the account. If the young master comes to eat again, he will not charge him any money." Wang Kuang also saw that Cheng Chumo was a man who had no money on his body. In the future, he would inevitably go out alone. If he wanted to eat Jian'an snacks, it would be convenient, so he opened his mouth to help. Then the store accepted it with great gratitude.

When he left the door, Cheng Chumo looked at Wang Kuang with a smile: "Why, you are worried that you, a fellow villager, will be retaliated against by the poor just now? You have pulled someone in? Don't worry, you are just a little boy who is not good at home. He is only a fifth-ranked boy. He can find time for the Xu family to knock on his father in one go, and you can't make any storms."

Wang Kuang rolled his eyes. What does it mean to be a fifth-rank? This is a high-ranking official. As the governor of Jian'an, Huang Liang was only a fourth-ranking subordinate. He didn't expect that Xu Guoxu's junior supervisor in the inner court was still from the fourth-ranking subordinate, and it was the immediate boss in the court. That's why Cheng Chumo said that Xu Guoxu would knock on and hit him. But this official system made Wang Kuang a little confused. Why are eunuchs and ordinary officials mixed together?

Think about it, I don’t have the ability to be an official anyway, and even if I have talent, I don’t have the chance. The mark of a merchant has been deeply imprinted on my body. There is no need to bother to understand the official position. I’d better give this trouble to Wang Xian, and Master Liu is there.

However, for such a small matter, Xu Guoxu was going to be dispatched. Wang Kuang felt that it was a bit of a big deal. He could only explain. If the scholar came to the door and went to find Xu Guoxu, he would just give Ambassador Huang a look. Huang Da was willing to go into the store and greeted him.

To be honest, if there is no Cheng Chuanmo leading the way, relying on the Lin family's servants, Wang Kuang and Huang Da were really lost in Dongshi. The entire Dongshi was also a regular tic-toe structure, with three streets across and three streets across, which divided the entire Dongshi into sixteen pieces. Moreover, the small pieces and alleys were all small shops. The shops in the alleys were all small shops, and the big shops were on both sides of the main street. All the shops were almost the same pattern, and it was like walking around. If you compare the hypermarkets or commercial streets in later generations with Dongshi, it would be akin to visit the labyrinth. In this Dongshi, there were a wide range of goods and all kinds of strange things. Wang Kuang even saw many black people dressed by servants and people from the Arab region. The ones dressed by servants should be the so-called Kunlun slaves. Generally, people who can own Kunlun slaves are wealthy families, and ordinary people do not have the right to own Kunlun slaves and cannot afford them.

When Wang Kuang saw the black man and Anxie people, he was indifferent. Cheng Chumo, who had originally wanted to show off in front of Wang Kuang, could not hold back: "Why, Erlang, have you seen these Kunlun slaves and Anxie Hu before?"

"Things have thousands of appearances, and people naturally have thousands of differences. What's so strange about this? Even if you have a person with hair all over your body, it's nothing." Wang Kuang thought to himself, I've seen many people, how can you understand? Have you seen wolf boy? Have you seen hair boy? If I tell you, there are still places in this world where men and women bathe together and have multiple husbands, aren't you scared to death? At this moment, it's probably only a savage who can surprise me.

"A person with hair all over the body? Erlang, have you seen it?" Cheng Chumo Daqi: "As far as I know, there are not many people with hair all over the body in the Tang Dynasty. Some are one of them. Where did you know Erlang? Oh, I almost forgot, and I came here again after listening to interesting stories."

"As well?" Wang Kuang suddenly became interested: "So you have seen me, my uncle?"

"Go, go, go, the little master, the little master's name is called, we are friends now, call me Cheng Dalang or call me Chumo directly." Cheng Chumo was determined to narrow the distance with Wang Kuang. In the past few days, he had already found out from Xu Guoxu that Wang Erlang and the court were not connected. A merchant family has cured Empress Changsun's illness and many people have done so. After all, there is no harm in dating him. On the contrary, Wang Kuang's idea from time to time may be helpful to him at any time. As long as he is not a fool, everyone knows, don't wait for the other person to develop one day, and if he sticks it on, it will be no different from others. Even if Wang Kuang is not developed in the future, it will not harm him.

"That's fine, how many years older are you, so I'll call you Brother Chumo from now on." Wang Kuang was not pretentious and immediately changed his words.

"Is that right? Erlang, did you just ask me a person with hair all over my body? Hehe, I'll tell you, I saw it a few days ago, saying that it was captured by the mountain people in the Bashan Mountains. They were more than meter long, without any wisps, and could not speak, but could only scream. Look at it, which is very different from ordinary people. Now they are in the imperial village outside the city. You must be interested. I will take you to see it another day."

The reason why Wang Kuang was interested in the Mao people mentioned by Cheng Chumo was due to his debate with several netizens before traveling through time. Some people said that historical records have captured savages in the Tang Dynasty, and some netizens refuted that savages cannot exist. The basis is that if a species does not have a certain amount of existence, it will inevitably lead to inbreeding, which will make the gene unhealthy. Over time, it will inevitably perish.

Originally, Wang Kuang was skeptical about whether there were savages, but before the evidence came out, almost all those who had a negative attitude towards the existence of savages used the above reasons to refute. Wang Kuang happened to see the information, saying that among all African cheetahs in the world, the genetic similarity of any two cheetahs was astonishingly similar, equivalent to identical twins, even father and son, or mother and son were no exception. In other words, the reproduction of cheetahs has always been inbreeding in biology, which made Wang Kuang doubt the reasons for those who objected, but he had never caught the living savages, and there was no direct evidence to prove that there were indeed savages.

Now, when Cheng Chumo said that the person who had caught a hairy body was more than meter long, it was very close to the descriptions of the savage witnesses in later generations. Of course, Wang Kuang became interested and immediately made an appointment with Cheng Chumo to see it tomorrow. Anyway, the imperial village is not an imperial palace, but just planted some food, vegetables and livestock exclusively for the palace. It is not prohibited from entering or leaving ordinary people. There is no taboo.

If it is really a savage, it proves that the savage does exist, but Wang Kuang still has doubts in his heart. Perhaps, it is still an existence similar to the wolf boys in later generations?

With this episode, Wang Kuang's interest in visiting Dongshi was much less. He only asked Cheng Chumo to take him to the jewelry shop to his sister-in-law, Sun Hanshi, Zhu Si Niangzi and other women to buy some jewelry, rouge and powder, and then went to buy a knife that was said to be a hundred steel steel for Wang Ling. Almost all the remaining gifts were bought for those big men. The shopkeeper Sun told him to buy a fur and beard hat, a wolf-skin knee pad bought for Wang Wu, and a white jade wine pot that Sun Mingqian liked, so the one who gained the most was naturally Wang Xian. Wang Kuang bought him more than ten knives in one breath.

Rice paper, pen, ink, ink, ink, go, etc., I bought all good things. Thinking of scholars who have to know how to use piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, I bought a piano for Wang Xian. As for whether Wang Xian could learn or how well he learned, he couldn't control it. He was not complete in his five tones, and Yu's music had seven or six orifices, but he couldn't help him. But I couldn't wait until I needed it later, so I didn't have to buy it temporarily. Jian'an had no need to sell it. It wasn't enough until he spent all the money brought by Wang Kuang. In the end, Cheng Chumo confiscated some money from his entourage.

Looking at the things that were full of people in their hands everywhere behind, Cheng Chumo smiled bitterly: "Erlang, it turns out that I am here to bring someone to you as a transporter today."

Wang Kuang spread his hands: "There is no way. Jian'an is located in a remote area and is just a Xiazhou. If it is an ordinary thing, it is still difficult to find good things. Just say that the rice paper is the price of several times that of Chang'an, and it is often impossible to buy. Now that I have come to Chang'an, I will buy them all."
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