Chapter 979

Mu San gets up early every day. The place he rents is quite remote. It takes less than half an hour to buy some vegetables and meat. However, meat has not been available in Chang'an since half a year ago. As for vegetables, you can buy them, but the price of a Chinese cabbage is amazing.

If other cities were trapped for several years, I'm afraid the city would have begun to eat people. Chang'an city is big enough with a radius of 100 miles. You can always find a place to grow some food and vegetables. It's not funny at all. Scenes that would never have been seen in the past are naturally happening in Chang'an city.

For example, people who have a vegetable field in Chang'an city will hire more than a dozen skilled bodyguards. The cost of these bodyguards is not too high, as long as they are full every day. If it were not for the army in Chang'an city to ensure public security and the bodyguards killed the employers and occupied the vegetable garden for themselves, some things might not have happened.

Because there is more than one granary in Chang'an City, the food supply is not stretched. No matter who is in power in the imperial court, at this time, as long as there is no stupidity - forced to the extreme, they will not do anything stupid not to distribute food to the common people. The enemies outside are blocked by the unparalleled high wall of Chang'an city. If they annoy the people in the city, the enemies outside are expected to be happy.

The granary reserves in Chang'an City have always been abundant. Even if the population in the city is so large, the two granaries in the city and the official granaries of the household department add up to enough for the people to eat every day for twenty or thirty years.

However, sufficient food only played down some people's panic, and did not let the people live a quiet and down-to-earth life as before. After all, there are almost cries of siege outside the city every day. No matter what happens on the surface, people will be afraid of the destruction of the city in their imagination.

Mu San hasn't eaten out since a long time ago. To tell the truth, he doesn't know whether he has companions around him now. Every day, he would expect someone to suddenly come out and tell him that he was coming to pick him up. He thought like this day after day, so that his spirit is a little abnormal.

When he walked down the street, he would always look at the corner to see if someone had left a mark. In the past, he was most afraid of traveling at night, but now he is used to wandering in the street every night like a ghost. He has been able to accurately avoid the officers and soldiers patrolling the street. He is even bored to count the difference in the number of officers and soldiers in each team in the past.

He thought that someone would appear in the night, hold him and talk to him.

unfortunately

It's been two years.

Nothing there?

He lived a dull but oppressive life. He didn't even dare to look in the mirror, because he knew that his aging rate must be frightening in the past two years. He didn't go out to dinner because he knew that his voice and walking posture would attract other people's attention sooner or later. He didn't dare to let people know himself.

Now he can cook a bowl of noodle soup very delicious. Sometimes he even thinks that if one day he is about to spend all his money, he will go out and set up a snack stand in the street. His business will be good.

A person alone for a long time, thought is the only partner.

When lying in bed, he will construct stories in his mind. Sometimes he would laugh or even cry when he thought of a particularly wonderful plot. Every boring day and night, all he dared not do was stare at the ground. He was afraid that the ground would suddenly crack and swallow himself in.

He thought more than once that it might be a relief for someone to catch himself.

He would giggle at the sky, at the birds in the trees and at the insects on the walls.

Every morning when he woke up, he would giggle.

Then say to yourself, it's good that I haven't been driven crazy.

The noodles are almost finished. He must go out and buy some. He hasn't been to the place where the government distributes food, so he doesn't dare. Fortunately, Fang Xie gave him enough silver at the beginning. The silver note can be cashed in Chang'an City, but he has to go to the bank with the back view of the government, and only 400 liang of cash for 1000 liang of silver note.

He still didn't dare to go. He only dared to pawn at the pawnshop with his jewelry. A while ago, he took an East Pearl worth ten thousand gold in the Taiping period and exchanged 1200 liang of silver in a pawn shop. This is already a sky high price. At that time, the pawnbroker didn't look right at him. He must have suspected that he stole it. So mu San didn't stay for even a second. He took the silver on his back and left quickly.

If he wasn't smart enough, he would be killed by the pawnbroker on the way back.

Every time he pawned, he dared not go to the same shop, and even went to the other side of the city to pawn. Even if he buys noodles and oil, he won't be in a nearby shop.

When he woke up in the morning, the last star in the West that fell and the brightest star in the dawn was still there. Mu San got up and quickly cleaned himself up. After washing, he punched in the yard. He played without rules and seemed to have little power. He figured out this fist technique by himself. He knew it didn't work, but he forced himself to practice it every day and run around the yard for half an hour. He must make himself able to run at any time and quickly, so he needs a good body.

When I go out, the genius just lights up. Mu San wants to travel when there is no one. In the past two years, he has more and more felt that his male and female body is very troublesome. If someone with a heart looks at him carefully, he can see his flaws.

He is no longer the little eunuch who talked to Lord Xiao Fang for the first time when he found his way in the Tai Chi palace. He is almost twenty years old. At this age, he should have had a beard and an Adam's apple, but he didn't. His smooth jaw didn't even have thicker pores. No one believed it when he lied that he shaved.

Can only avoid people.

Try not to see anyone.

He doesn't need a map. Although Chang'an city is very big, he has gone through too many places in the past two years. He has a map of Chang'an City in his mind.

The price of the city carriage is ten times that of the original, and few people can afford it. But the drivers did not dare to reduce the price, because the silver now is far less than that a few years ago. In the past, one or two silver coins could order a good table in the best restaurant. Now one or two silver coins are only enough for his mule to eat a few full meals.

People are listless, so are mules.

Mu San paid the silver and got into the car. He said an address and narrowed his eyes to sleep. The carriage moved slowly. He was not in a hurry, so he didn't hurry.

After a full hour, Mu San opened his eyes. Counting the time, we have reached East 23rd Street. Sure enough, the carriage stopped, almost synchronized with Mu San's eyes.

He is used to walking around here every day to see if there will be a harvest. If he didn't buy rice noodles, he wouldn't take a carriage. Because he was carrying a bag of silver, the security in Chang'an city was only controlled by the military without riots. As for such hours of street robbery, Chang'an house, which has long been unable to open rates, will not take care of it, and people in the military are even more lazy to take care of it.

He was actually ready when he got off the bus. He still got nothing today.

But he was wrong.

At the entrance of the shop on the 23rd East Street, there is an extra snack stall today. That's two couples. It seems that the man is honest and honest, and the woman has some heavy profits, but she is kind.

When Mu San saw the man smiling at him, he suddenly wanted to cry.

I really want to cry.

……

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"I thought I was starting to stink."

Mu San sat down and asked for a cage of steamed stuffed buns.

"Don't you want a bowl of hot noodle soup?"

Asked the boss.

Mu San shook his head: "don't talk about eating noodles. Now I want to vomit when I mention the word noodles. In the past two years, I have eaten all the noodles others have eaten all my life. Sometimes I cook them without oil and salt. Sometimes I can't help thinking that eating shit is more delicious than eating that kind of noodles."

The vendor boss smiled: "needless to say, I know how you live every day. You can't see it doesn't mean you don't. There have never been fewer people around you in the past two years. You can tell you that you think your life is worse than death in the past two years, so those who have protected you in the dark for two years have a much harder life than you."

Mu Sanyi was stunned. He really didn't expect that someone had been protecting him in the past two years.

"At least you have noodles."

The boss sighed lightly: "but what about my brothers... Do you know what one of my brothers said about you? He said he wanted to slap you 17 or 18 times when he saw you look so nervous every day."

"If he comes to slap me in the face, I will thank him..."

Mu San sent a steamed stuffed bun to his mouth and found that it was only a piece of meat the size of his belly.

"Your business is getting worse and worse."

He said.

"Bah"

The boss spat: "you go to other houses to eat. My meat stuffing is twice the size of others' homes, and I receive the same amount of silver."

"How much is such a cage of steamed stuffed buns now?"

Mu San asked.

"Three Liang silver"

The boss was dissatisfied: "there are fewer and fewer people who can afford to eat. Even the middle-class families in the past are already poor. If the government didn't distribute food in a fixed amount, I don't know how many people would starve to death. A few days ago, I saw a famous businessman in Chang'an City queuing up with the people to get food. It is said that he has sold all his former houses."

"Sometimes it's impossible to imagine the fate. Those who do big business don't have business if they can't get out of the city. Instead, we do small business and live better."

Mu San sighed: "you didn't appear in front of me just to get a chance. You live very well."

"There is a key in the drawer in front of you. It belongs to the shop behind me. Dig under the second floor tile in the door and there are many silver tickets. Although it takes more than half of the discount to cash in the bank in Chang'an City, it's still no problem to get tens of thousands of liang of silver. I'll arrange people to go to more banks with you to exchange. Then go to the rich family's house to collect jewelry..."

"Do business?"

Mu San couldn't help asking, "I've been waiting for this for a long time. Is this what I'm waiting for?"

"Why haven't you calmed down yet."

The boss gave him a blank look: "from tomorrow on, you will be the messenger of the black flag army in Chang'an city. You don't need to bring gifts to the courtiers' homes. They wish they would treat you well. But when you meet powerful generals in the forbidden army or other armies, you still need to bring some gifts."

Mu San's eyes lit up: "the Lord is coming?"

The boss smiled and said, "here you are. Now you have reached Gyeonggi province. Gao Kaitai's soldiers can't stop the Lord's powerful division. It won't be long before the Lord will come to the city. How much credit you have then depends on your performance these days."

The boss sat down and ate with Mu San.

"You ate it yourself. What else do you sell?"

Mu San asked.

"Sell a fart!"

The boss stretched out and looked back at his wife: "We'll go to the ready-made clothes shop and buy some good clothes to wear. In the future, we two will be your personal guards. You don't have to hide and meet those people. Those big people don't dare to expose you. Just avoid the people of the iron armour Army... After all these years, I've finally made it. You feel like vomiting when you smell the smell of noodle soup. Why don't I cook noodles until I feel like vomiting?"