On this side, Lin Wulang wants a child, Aunt Luo is also secretly anxious, thinking that she is really old now.

The 27-year-old is not yet childbirth. In this era, people have basically been regarded as unable to give birth.

The old shop of Sister Food Store is right next to the west market. Aunt Luo has been there for a long time before and is quite familiar with the shops around.

She heard that there was a medicine seller in the northeast corner of the west city. His surname was Yang. His pharmacy shop was not big, but it had a good reputation among the women in their area. It was said that he had several wives before, and he got pregnant after taking his medicine.

On this day, Aunt Luo went to the old shop in Guangdefang to deal with some things. After finishing her work, she saw that it was still early. After thinking about it, she went to find the medicine seller named Yang.

But she didn't know that the drug seller surnamed Yang actually had no ability. It was just a few prescriptions handed down from his ancestors. He had indeed cured some people and gained fame. If he really wanted to tell the ability to save people by seeing a doctor, he would probably be inferior to ordinary doctors.

This person is really good. He said to Aunt Luo: "I have just a few prescriptions for death here. If some people have the right symptoms, they will be useful after taking them. If they are not right, they will not only be useless, but may also be harmful."

"We ordinary people in the market cannot find a doctor. Even if we eat randomly, how can you be the same? I heard that your brother is familiar with Sun Simiao, why don't you go to find him? If the way to regulate medicine is mentioned in the world, no one is more skillful than him."

Aunt Luo naturally knew that Sun Simiao had good medical skills. Although she had managed her sister's food shop well over the years, she was just an ordinary businessman. A person like Sun Simiao always felt very far away for her.

When I returned home that night, Aunt Luo made it easier for Lin Wulang to talk about this. After some discussion, the two decided to go to Zhongnan Mountain in the south of Chang'an City to seek medical treatment. Perhaps Sun Simiao was really willing to treat her for Luo Yong's sake. Even if she couldn't ask Sun Simiao for personal treatment, she would be fine if she asked his disciples to help her take a look.

A few days later, Aunt Luo arranged the work she had on hand, and drove a carriage with Lin Wulang and headed towards Zhongnan Mountain in a wind and snow...

It is difficult to walk in winter, and Apu and his group go all the way west, and often encounter wind and snow.

When we set off this morning, the sky was clear and the wind was not strong. But before noon had arrived, the sky became dark and dark, the cold wind was howling, and it was about to snow again.

Fortunately, there is a village not far ahead, but this place is not the station. If ordinary people go out, they will not stay in such a wilderness village without having to, and they will be afraid of encountering black shops.

However, those tea merchants said that they had rested here because they had been away from the rain two years ago. In the past two years, they would stop to use some hot rice when they passed by here.

Most of the villagers here come from nearby villages, build houses next to the post road, and earn some money from passing merchants to subsidize their lives, not thieves.

At this time, some people also discovered the arrival of their team in the thatched yards in front of them. In addition, the weather was like this, so some villagers came here with the courage to recruit business.

These days, not only are the passers-by wary of these locals, but they are also very careful about those who pass by, for fear of meeting a group of evil people.

If they were not right, they would not dare to come forward to recruit people like this at this time. They just hid in the house and closed the door, and would not agree no matter how the people outside shouted.

In this way, they were vigilant and contacted carefully. The people in the team were divided into several groups and each chose a store to live in.

Apudugou and Azhi were taken to a yard they knew by the tea merchants from Hedong Road. The yard was clean and the inside and outside were placed very neatly, and the owner looked kind.

The one who went out to solicit business was Ah Weng of this family and his eldest son. At this time, they welcomed a group of people to the yard. Two or three wives in the family hurriedly poured hot water with everyone, and asked the boys of all sizes to hold the hot water one by one to the guests.

My sister walked outside for half a day and was still hungry and cold, and her body was a little frozen. At this time, she came to the hall of the family to sit down, took a bowl of hot water, and took a few sips carefully, and her whole body gradually became warmer again.

I looked at the coarse pottery bowl in my hand. It was a bit thicker and washed very cleanly. Even on this winter day when I ate mutton every day, the bowl was washed without any oil. It was obviously rubbed with wood ash and then washed with clean water.

The tea merchants were talking to the owner, because they had already known each other before, and the two sides were quite enthusiastic. The old man's sons brought corn paste and stewed lamb from the kitchen. While eating, the people in the room ordered some other food with them.

In winter, the price of sheep is low. After their group came out of Chang'an City, the more they walked west, the price of sheep was low. When they arrived at the current place, the locals ate mutton almost every meal.

Fortunately, corn has been popularized in the Tang Dynasty in the past two years. Because it is easy to plant and produces a lot of high yields, many farmers have to cook some corn porridge and paste corn in winter. At least eat some food to eat, which is better than eating meat every meal.

During the meal, the tea merchants and the host told Du Gou and others about the formation of their village.

"A few years ago, there were no villages in this place, and there were miscellaneous trees and weeds on both sides of the road."

"There are not a few serious fields and I can't support a few people, so how can I have a village?"

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Although the location next to this post road is pretty good, it is easy to be targeted by evil people in such a position. If it is in a war-torn period, it will be even worse.

In other words, a few years ago, the road was paved into a concrete road. After that, more and more caravans came and went. The vigilant villagers nearby ran to the inn to do some small business. They did make money. Many people followed suit and followed suit.

"At first, I just carried a basket and a load to sell goods. After a long time, I felt that it was a bit inadequate. Some people built a straw shed and a thatched yard there."

"Originally, there were several unrestrained families in the town, but the wealthy families arranged their families to run the business, and there were also merchants with strong financial resources. These people were unwilling to be robbed of business by nearby villagers, so they said that these villagers were doing business and wanted to take away their land and change their business to business."

The nearby villagers were indeed scared at first, but they had tasted the sweetness before. At this time, they suddenly stopped their entry and were always uncomfortable. So someone secretly sold goods a little in front of the station. After a long time, they built a straw shed there...

Later, the wealthy merchants and wealthy merchants called out some servants and smashed all the straw huts and courtyards. Then the conflict broke out and some people were arrested, but the angry villagers were not afraid. The two sides often had conflicts and even developed into armed battles.

"We were in a mess on those days. Whenever the merchants who were traveling by, they left in a hurry and refused to stay for a day." At this point, the old man sighed.

"In such a fight, there will inevitably be casualties." Du Gou was quite clear about these civil struggles.

After fighting for several months, both sides were a little tired of the TCM. When the merchants arrived at their place, they came and went in a hurry like running for life. Some people were beaten to death and crippled in this battle, and their work in the field was delayed.

At this time, the county magistrate found a few gentry who were quite prestigious in their local area to be a peacemaker, and then released the villagers locked in the prison cell. Both sides took a step back and refused to allow villagers to do business next to the inn. Then they pointed to this wilderness and asked them to sell their own food, vegetables and vegetables here. As long as they did not delay farming, they would not take away their land. So gradually, the current village was found.

As they talked about these things, everyone remembered some of the inns that had passed before. There was a Cao Market next to the inn. It was quite convenient for local people to buy and sell goods there, and there was no strict control at any time.

Think about what happened in this village, and think about some of the very deserted inns they encountered before. Perhaps the people in some places were not timid and unwilling to go to the station to do business, but were not allowed.

Among the people present, if you have the least knowledge, you will probably count Azhi. She was originally from Shizhou. She was sold to Qiao's family by her parents when she was a child. Then she lived in Lishi County. Later, she followed Qiao Junlin to Chang'an City.

Having seen Lishi County, Chang'an City, and the scenery along the way from Lishi County to Chang'an City, she thought that this was probably the case in the world. No matter where she went, the mountains and rivers were always the same, and the people were also the same, and there would not be any big difference.

Now she no longer thinks that way. The people in the world look similar, but there are very different things inside. Although there are always poor and rich people, some are poor and cowardly, some are poor and unyielding, some are unkind for the sake of wealth, and some are kind and generous.

No matter the mountains, rivers, plants and trees are the same or different, the people in this world are always different.

After dinner, the owner arranged for them to take a break and if they had any dirty clothes to wash. If they were washed at this time, they would be baked on the kang and baked and it would be dry tomorrow morning.

The men were not polite, so they took their dirty clothes out one after another. The old man's son packed them in a basket and took them to clean them with the women at home.

My sister also had a few pieces of clothes to wash, but she was unwilling to put her clothes together with those men's clothes, so she said she wanted to wash herself.

The place where the woman was washing clothes was under the kitchen, a straw hut house, with a simple decoration and a spacious place. Two young wives sat on small stools and rubbed clothes in wooden basins. There was also an older one sitting under the stove to burn the fire. The three of them were talking while working.

Azhi hugged her clothes and the older woman brought over a wooden basin beside the wall to her, and then neatly scoops of hot water from the pot, mixed it with most of the cold water scooped out of the water tank, and poured it into her wooden basin.

So Azhi sat there washing clothes, listening to the people talking nonsense, and the fire was on fire in the stove. Although there was no fire kang in the room, it was not very cold.

Soon, a few more children came over and asked their mother for corn, saying that they wanted to go to the street opposite to change malt sugar to eat.

These children also knew how to look at the winks. They all saw the guests pay. The adults at home earned money today and were in a good mood, so it was easier to get candy.

The older woman sent them: "Go, I just ate yesterday, and I want to eat it again today?"

But the children refused to leave, and they were whimpering around their mother, plucking clothes, and crawling on their mother's back and playing tricks. They all tried their best for the one or two pieces of malt sugar.

There was a little girl who was obediently squatting beside Azhi to watch her wash clothes.

Azhi has lived in Chang'an City for many years and has no shortage of food and clothing. Especially after living in the Bai Mansion, the four-season clothes were even more thorough. Although she was wearing low-key when she went out, she was also very beautiful and fashionable in the eyes of the little girl in front of her.

Azhi looked at the kind-hearted little girl in front of her, and she also loved her a little. Later, she applied some clothes in the basin with mutton fat soap and rubbed them, poured the dirty water in the basin. The woman who was burning the fire hurriedly brought her a bucket of warm water.

Azhi took advantage of this time to take out three copper coins from her arms and handed them to the girl, asking her to buy malt sugar with her brothers and sisters.

The children whistled out of the yard, regardless of the wind and snow outside at that time.

"What are you doing with their copper coins? These dead children all have greed in their mouths and their stomachs are like bottomless pits, and they can't eat enough." The woman who brought water to her said.

"Which child of this size is not like this?" Azhi replied with a smile. A bucket of warm water was poured into the basin, and she put her clothes in and continued to scrub.

"The people in your big places must be different from us. Our place is poor and the children are particularly greedy."

"In the past two years, we can still make trouble for malt sugar. At that time, it would be good to have two mixed breads a day to fill our stomachs."

"Da Lang and the others didn't eat well when they were young."

"At that time, it was rare to eat malt sugar one or two times a year, but they were still better than us. After all, they were seven or eight years old, and they never hungry again..."

Before they could say a few words, the sound of the children coming back came from the yard.
Chapter completed!