Chapter 31 Women's Pain
After paying the money and parking the donkey cart outside the West Market, the group of people walked towards the new circus troupe.
On the way, Li Sanniang saw someone selling pomegranate juice, which was still freshly squeezed, so she paid for a small cup for everyone. Not to mention, it was quite delicious.
Looking at the pomegranate juice seller, he must be an outsider. His tall nose and deep eyes are naturally different from the appearance of Li Sanniang, a Han girl.
After drinking pomegranate juice, I also found out how to watch the circus.
It turns out that the largest Ruyi Tower in the east end of the West Market has one person, one vote, and the minimum price per vote is 200 coppers. The seats closer to the front are more expensive, and the most expensive one costs 50 taels of silver.
However, children under three years old are free of charge.
But which parent can trust their children to go to the circus alone? They all have to buy tickets to accompany their children.
Li Sanniang thought that since she was here, it would be better to spend more money to see more clearly, so with a big move, she bought everyone a seat for three hundred copper coins.
After paying the money, I took my ticket and went in. It wasn’t too far back. It looked a bit like a modern lecture theater. It was a platform surrounded by seats on three sides. There were also private rooms on the second floor for those with money. It's a place for rich people to have fun.
There were a lot of people, a mixed crowd, and the little Luzhu'er was held in Brother Li's arms. Before the show started, there were already a lot of people, and it was bustling.
Finally finding a place to sit down, Li Sanniang regretted that she should have listened to Mrs. Li's advice before going out and brought some soft cushions with her so that she could sit higher and see more clearly.
After waiting for a while, circus people came onto the stage beating gongs tied with red silk.
As expected of someone who specializes in eating this kind of hand-made food, although Li Sanniang’s family is not at the very back, it is pretty far behind. However, the funny jokes of the gong guy on the stage are still quite noticeable. clear.
The opening performance was a circus. I heard Brother Li explaining that this was a good horse from the Western Regions, and it should have been the retreat of the Turkic army.
Li Sanniang couldn't tell where the horse came from. She just felt that the horse was tall and handsome, not afraid of fire rings, and had intelligence. The performing boy could tell whether to run or stop just by pinching the horse's belly.
After the circus performance, during the intermission, there were beautiful bearded women in cool clothes selling honeydew melons, melon seeds, candies, and milk wine all over the place.
How could this possibly make Li Sanniang resist chopping her hands!
Smiling at Sister-in-law Li’s expression that she was not allowed to spend money frivolously, Li Sanniang paid for a small clay pot of fried melon seeds. The honeydew melon was really not cheap, so she only bought two pieces and gave away half of it. Luzhu'er ate it, but Brother Li didn't. Li Sanniang and Sister Li took two bites of the other half to taste it.
The remaining piece was divided among the four little ones.
Li Sanniang ate the honeydew melon and thought to herself, she didn't know if she had gained or lost by living an extra life.
This is just a cantaloupe. You have to come to the West Market and spend a lot of money to buy it and take a few bites to taste it.
Before Li Sanniang could come out of this thought, an old man from the Western Regions with many pigtails came up from the central table. He was followed by two shepherd dogs. There were about ten sheep released from behind. .
Haha, these people from the Western Regions are really interesting. They actually want to perform a show of people driving dogs and herding sheep.
That's right. People who live in Chang'an City have never seen such a scene, so they are naturally curious and interested.
Later, Hu Nu came on stage to show off her whip skills!
Li Sanniang was so excited when she saw it that she wished she could express her love by giving him a lot of money like the rich man on the second floor!
Of course, in the end, I was short of money, so I only put in ten copper coins.
After watching the whole circus, Brother Li said that he would take everyone to try hand-made mutton, which would be a luxury. Brother Li paid for it himself. After wandering around, we entered a mutton soup restaurant owned by a Hu businessman at the entrance of an alley. Brother Li said that his colleague had brought him here before. The food was large and affordable, and it was really delicious.
One person ordered a bowl of mutton soup, and after a stack of croquettes were served, two large meaty bones were served, along with a knife.
Brother Li did his best to cut the meat for everyone to eat. The mutton soup with pepper had a special taste.
Luzhu'er's little belly can eat a lot, and the belly will be round after eating.
It is really interesting to sit in the mutton soup restaurant and listen to the people around you gossiping about the new things in Chang'an city.
The most interesting thing is that Li Sanniang wanted to hear other people’s gossip, but she didn’t expect to hear it on her own head!
The man at the table across the table was happily gossiping with his tablemates about the story of the noble scholar of the Household Department who was surrounded by the Imperial Guards a few days ago. What he said was true, and he was at the scene. Same.
He also said that the reason why the besieged Gao family was able to escape unharmed was because a girl named Li saved the life of the Duke of Liang and gave the Gao family a chance to escape the siege.
Hearing this, it was really hard for Li Sanniang to face the teasing looks from Brother Li and Sister-in-law Li shamelessly. She touched her feverish face and said: "Brother, let's go home, Luzhu'er eats." I was so full that I couldn’t keep my eyes open, so I stopped by to buy some pomegranates and give them to my brother and sister-in-law to taste when I got home.”
Li Sanniang understood this time. Dr. Gao came to the house before and said that he wanted to become famous in Chang'an, which was really embarrassing and shameful.
As soon as Sister-in-law Li saw Luzhu'er in Li Sanniang's arms, she was so sleepy after eating so much that she couldn't even open her eyes and was about to fall asleep in Li Sanniang's arms.
After paying the money, they walked back to the road. After walking a few steps, Brother Li saw that Li Sanniang was really tired holding Lu Zhuer, so he took her over directly. Li Sanniang was about to say, "Brother, I'm not tired. Give me a hug when you are tired."
I saw a circle of people blocking the way. The originally spacious road for carriages was blocked by people watching the excitement, making it difficult for people to walk.
There is nothing a few people can do, they can’t be stuck here. If they want to wait for the crowd to disperse, they probably have to patrol the streets.
So, I had no choice but to squeeze forward with the strong bodies of Brother Li and the four little ones. The people who were squeezed away wanted to turn around and curse, but seeing how tall Brother Li was, they didn’t dare to say anything. What's the matter? He muttered, "You have to squeeze in to see the excitement."
After finally squeezing through, I saw a woman with messy buns and dust all over her body being pushed to the ground. A man holding a wooden stick next to her was grabbed by the arm by an old man, and there was another man sitting next to her. There was an old woman on the ground slapping her thigh and yelling.
After listening carefully for a while, it turned out that this was a family. The woman on the ground was married to the man with the stick for five years without a son or a daughter. The man drank alcohol to drown his sorrows because he had no children and did not go out to work. How could this be done in Chang'an City? Survive?
So, this woman went out to the Western Market and washed herself for barbarians in exchange for a mouthful of food.
But this man’s mother-in-law, the old woman, heard someone say that this woman was having an affair with a foreigner in the West Market, so she told the man, and the man thought he had been cuckolded. , he would beat the woman to death with a wooden stick.
The old man dragging the man was a neighbor in their neighborhood, and he was kind-hearted, so he came after him to give him some advice.
As soon as I understood what was going on, I saw the man pushing the old man, coming over with a wooden stick and trying to hit the woman on the head hard.
"Dalang!"
Li Sanniang called out to Li Dalang. Li Dalang stepped forward, reached out and used his skill to grab the man's wooden stick, and blocked the woman in front of her.
Seeing that it was safe, Li Sanniang went to check the woman's injuries. The woman opened her eyes, but her eyes were completely lifeless, and there was blood dripping from her forehead at the corners of her eyes.
Therefore, Sanniang still has not broken the routine of rescuing people when she goes out~
I hope that every girl can live the life she wants~
I have been watching a lot of costume dramas recently, and I have a lot of ideas, so I decided to take up this theme for my next book!
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