The convoy had to slow down after entering the city.
"Roasted ginkgo... Come and try the ginkgo!"
"Steamed buns! Big, hot steamed buns fresh out of the oven!"
"Persimmon... it's not astringent... it's astringent, just change it!"
Cheng Yu's ears were filled with the cries of various rhythms in the city. The main road into the city was paved with large blue stone slabs, and the ruts on the stone slabs told the prosperity and vicissitudes of this county.
The main road is full of people of all kinds. The prosperity of Qingchuan County is far beyond Cheng Yu's imagination.
Perhaps because he was used to living in Qingluo Village, the sudden sight of this bustling scene made Cheng Yu feel a little alienated from this world.
He looked far into the distance and saw that the entire county was an obscure parallelogram, with the length from east to west and north to south estimated to be nearly seven miles.
The capital is nine, the county is seven, the prefecture is five, and the county is three.
Cheng Yu vaguely remembered that under the constraints of the ancient ritual system, the capital city wall could only be nine miles long, and the county seat could only be three miles long. However, Qingchuan County clearly exceeded the two-level ritual system and almost reached the scale of a county.
But then I thought about it, there is a big river next to the city. Maybe after the flood, the city was constantly being repaired and expanded.
At the same time, Cheng Yu did not see buildings such as square walls or square gates in the city, but more of the facades of shops facing the street for business.
In ancient times, it was called "invading streets". It can be seen that at this time, urban construction was no longer a lane system, but had evolved to a street system.
Half of the residences in the city are gray tile-roofed houses, and nearly half are thatched houses like those in Qingluo Village.
Starting from the center of the city, it is dotted with patches of gray bricks and black tiles, and continues to the northeast of the city into a gray and yellow patch.
After Qian's car entered the city, it didn't go very far on the main road before turning west onto a branch road.
The square bricks paved on this fork in the road are exquisite and neat, and there is actually only one house on one side of the entire road.
There is a plaque hanging on the tall red door, which reads: "Qian Mansion" in two big characters.
Behind the high courtyard wall, there are actually six or seven consecutive deep courtyards. The whole courtyard is divided into three courtyards: front, middle and back, and there is a large garden at the end.
There are many strange rocks inside, surrounded by mountains and rivers, and among the pavilions and pavilions, there are flowers that never fade in all seasons and eight-segmented evergreen grass.
Compared with the small courtyard with two entrances at the head of Qingluo Village, this Qian Mansion is like heaven and earth.
I just don’t know how much blood and sweat of the villagers are built into this high-rise building with carved beams and painted beams.
"Chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp..."
While Cheng Yu was sighing, suddenly there was a sound of chirping next to him.
He turned around and looked, and saw a group of city sparrows, smelling of smoke and fire, standing in a row on the ridge of the roof, leaning forward and back and calling incessantly.
As a sparrow with ideals, content, and especially magic, Cheng Yu ignored their ridicule.
How about the Farmhouse Finches?
What about Tangque?
Are you still a sparrow?
Sparrow Anzhi...
Forget it, sparrows can’t understand.
……
Seeing six carriages slowly stopping in front of the Qian Mansion, Cheng Yu spread his wings and flew towards the Qian Mansion.
Unexpectedly, the birds behind him were stunned at first, and then the noise became even louder than before.
Cheng Yu heard the loudest cry of one of the birds:
"Look, look, look, this bumpkin is flying towards the courtyard."
Another bird next to me thought it had just arrived, so it chirped and asked:
"How do you know he is a country bumpkin? He has never smelled the country bumpkin."
The loud-sounding bird chirped:
"I personally saw him flying all the way from the fields with the cart. He was just a weirdo. He really didn't have a trace of earthy smell on him."
Another one next to him also shouted:
"I've seen it too. Looking at that thin body, I can tell it's a village sparrow that eats chaff."
"Don't worry about him, he still dares to fly to Qian's house, and there will be a good show to watch."
"It's very true, it's been a long time since a country bumpkin came to the city and suffered, but now we can catch up."
"Let's go together."
"Eat it, eat it! Go to the theater and watch the theater!"
"Pulling"
A group of birds were following Cheng Yu from a distance, chatting, laughing and chirping like a crowd eating melons.
Cheng Yu ignored them and flew towards the gate of Qian Mansion alone.
He certainly heard what those birds said just now.
In addition to sight, sparrows also rely on their sense of smell to identify similar species. However, he has a small water skill and takes care of his hair every day. He is even cleaner than in his previous life, and there is no odor in his body.
But after listening to what the nobles said in the end, I wonder if there is anything else in the Qian Mansion that I, a country bird, can eat.
Cheng Yu thought about this and did not fly directly into the Qian Mansion. Instead, he spread his wings and crossed a certain distance, landed on the wall opposite the Qian Mansion gate, and quietly stared at the Qian Mansion motorcade.
I saw everyone getting out of the car in embarrassment one by one. The side door had already opened after hearing the sound, and a few young men ran out from it. They hurriedly came to the front of the car where the senior officials were driving, and carefully lifted a door from the car.
The door panel, lying on the door panel is the young man's grandfather who is breathing out but not in.
Qian Duofu also got off the last car and stood on the outside, weighing his feet and looking into the inner circle.
The woman in the goose-yellow shirt in the carriage he was driving, supported by two maids, did not care about the difference between men and women, and hurriedly pushed aside the people who were talking to Mr. Qian:
"The great master's kindness in remaking me will never be forgotten by this little girl."
At this time, Officer Qian was thinking about his beloved son and could no longer care about this woman. He waved his hand and said:
"Easy to say, easy to say, but we are all on the same journey. Now that we have entered the city, please do it yourself."
After saying that, he began to instruct the servants to move the servants properly into the house.
The woman in the goose-yellow shirt glanced at the clerk on the door panel and asked softly:
"Did this young master catch the cold somewhere in the mountains?"
"Huh?"
Officer Qian was about to enter the house when he heard that he suddenly paused and turned around and asked, "Why did the girl say this?"
The woman in a goose-yellow shirt gracefully wished her all blessings:
"Excuse me, my family has been practicing medicine for generations, and my little girl's father..."
When she talked about her father, her eyes turned red. She wiped her tears and continued:
"My father is a well-known sage, and my little girl knows a little bit about Qihuang.
There is only a difference between men and women, so the little girl concentrated on looking there, smelling and checking, and then accidentally saw that the young master's complexion seemed to be cold and weak, and his voice was stagnant. It seemed that... in addition to being infected with wind and cold, he was also suffering from cold.
What a fright."
The official Waiwen was a little surprised when he heard the last sentence. Before he could answer, the maid behind the woman in the yellow shirt said:
"My lady's diagnosis, smelling and smelling diagnosis are well known to all women and children in our place, and there has never been a time when she has never looked past them."
"Talk too much! My maid is negligent in discipline, please forgive me."
The first sentence of the woman in the goose-yellow shirt was angry at her maid, and the second two sentences were about blessing the outsiders to the high officials.
"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. If that's the case, please tell me in the mansion. I'll go into the mansion first and tell Madam Yu, so that she can go out to meet the young lady in person."
After the official finished speaking, he bowed to him first and then led everyone into the mansion.
Not long after, a middle-aged man who looked like a steward hurriedly ran out of the house with a carriage driver. He first invited the woman in a yellow shirt and the maid to get on the carriage, and then followed the carriage to a side door in the backyard.
……
After a moment of panic in front of the Qian Mansion, everyone in the mansion returned to their places. The open space in front of the mansion suddenly became quiet. Even the steward Xi, who had been tied up, was carried into the mansion by two young men.
Qian Duofu was the only one left standing in front of the door, but no one paid any attention to him.
He touched his head, patted the dirt off his body, quietly walked to the side door, and sang with the boy in front of the door.
But the boy's eyes were very high, and he didn't want to pay attention to this dignified boss.
Qian Duofu laughed dryly and was in a dilemma.
Just as he was hesitating, two strong men ran out of the mansion, stepped forward, picked up Qian Duofu, and dragged him straight to the mansion.
The junior member's grandfather almost lost his life in the area under Qian Duofu's jurisdiction. Looking at the situation when he was dragged into the house, I'm afraid he won't be able to escape a good beating.
The walls of the Qian Mansion were tall and blocked his view. Cheng Yu wanted to see what was going on, so he spread his wings and flew towards the high gate of the Qian Mansion.
Unexpectedly, just as he was halfway through the flight, he was stopped by the wings of another sparrow rushing out of the sky. If Cheng Yu had not heard the coming and was on guard, he would have been slapped on the head.
"Chi chi chi!"
The birds started chirping, and Cheng Yu was immediately stunned.
It turns out that this sparrow is not a bystander, but his second brother who stepped in and married into the county town.