Nantong has vast waters and is close to the seaside. There are also foreign ships coming and going from the port.

On the streets of Nantong Prefecture, foreign merchants with gems in their pockets can be seen everywhere, exchanging bags of gems and spices for porcelain and tea.

Several state capitals around Nantong are rich in tea and porcelain, but the port is only in Nantong.

For no other reason, it is said that there is a goddess sitting in Nantong Mansion.

When hurricanes ravage the coastal capitals every summer, Nantong is the only one left unscathed, with few boats and houses destroyed.

Yun Huachun didn't care who the goddess was. Nantong was close to the sea and was relatively peaceful when a typhoon came, so it was a good place to go.

This group of people came in a mighty manner, which was different from the merchants.

As soon as I entered Linpu County on the outskirts of Nantong, I was stopped by someone and asked where I was going.

"Sir, we fled from the northwest and want to settle down in Nantong." Yun Huachun said truthfully.

"It's so far to the northwest, what are you doing here?" the soldier guarding the city said with a straight face.

In his opinion, Yun Huachun and his party behaved suspiciously.

Coming all the way from the northwest to this beach, there are still groups of people who are either scammers or hiding some other purpose.

If you don't enter from Linpu, it's difficult to go to other places.

Yun Huachun had no choice but to follow the soldier to the county government office, taking along the letter and name card given to him by General Wei.

It was difficult to take such a large group of people to the county government office, so they had to wait outside the city gate.

The county magistrate of Linpu is a young civil servant. He has just come to Linpu to take up his post, and he has to pay attention to everything big and small.

He acted seriously and did not read any famous posts or letters. He carefully checked Yun Huachun.

On the verge of asking about his eighteenth generation ancestors, Yun Huachun kept his mouth shut and didn't reveal too much.

In the end, the county magistrate found out that Yun Huachun had studied in school and took a test on his knowledge before he passed the test.

"Since you are a scholar, why didn't you tell me earlier? It would have saved you a lot of trouble!" the county magistrate sighed.

If he had known that Yun Huachun was a scholar, he would not be so embarrassed.

"Recently, many Ryukyu spies have come to Nantong Mansion. I don't know what information these spies are collecting."

"If you want to settle down in Nantong Mansion, I'm afraid it won't be easy. I advise you to settle down nearby, even in my county..." the county magistrate advised.

Yun Huachun was flattered, "Sir, I'm telling you the truth. The students came here so far, firstly to escape, and secondly to find relatives."

"I have an elder who sent me a letter a few years ago, saying that he lives by the sea. The student wants to go and look for the few relatives at home."

The county magistrate's face was not as warm as before.

"Then go ahead!"

Yun Huachun breathed a sigh of relief when he left the government office.

The young county magistrate shook his head.

I thought to myself, I don't know if this scholar is really stupid or pretending to be stupid, he came to Nantong with the Wei family's name card.

Perhaps he didn't know that the magistrate of Nantong and the Wei family were quite difficult to deal with.

However, privately, he was not convinced by the prefect, so he said a few more words to Yun Huachun.

Yun Huachun went to the county government office to say hello, and everyone was able to enter the city.

After entering the city, I discovered that Lin Pu was not bad either.

Summer has not yet entered, and there are merchants selling fruits on the street. It is said that they are brought from further south.

There are also people selling aquatic products.

Crab shells and shellfish come in different colors, and fish are strangely soft and boneless.

The businessman poked the fish in the bucket and spit out a lot of ink.

The people in the village were really like entering the city from the countryside. Their eyes were wide open and they didn't know how to accept this new world.

Yuntao took a look and saw that Linpu was very prosperous. She didn't know how prosperous Nantong could be.

Now there are people selling ice drinks on the street!

There are various tea drinks, milk, and freshly squeezed sugar water.

The so-called freshly squeezed sugar water is sugar cane juice.

After the sugar cane is washed, it is walked on a special stone mill. The juice flows from the periphery to the small opening below, and is caught by a copper pot.

Pour it into a chopped bamboo tube and drink it anywhere.

Yuntao's eyes widened! Is this all there?

"Dad, I want to drink this!" Yuntao said, pointing to the stall.

Yun Huachun immediately spent money to buy a glass of sugar cane juice for his daughter. Naturally, his wife would not be an exception.

Salmon a cup is really not cheap.

There is no ice or snow in early spring, so it is really strange that there is a thin layer of ice on the sugar cane juice.

Yuntao took a look at the bucket next to the vendor. It was wrapped in a thick layer of baggage to prevent the air conditioning from leaking out at all.

It is not the kind of ice trays found in later stores, nor is it cut out ice cubes, but layers of crushed ice flakes.

"Is this using saltpeter to make ice?" Yuntao asked curiously.

The hawker glanced at Yuntao. The family was wearing shabby clothes and they were giving money readily without bargaining.

He also became friendly and said: "The little girl also knows about saltpeter."

It was pretty much what she had guessed.

Dajin has already made ice with saltpeter. If we buy some saltpeter back in the future, it wouldn't be strange for them to use some ice at home.

"Is there a candy shop here?"

"Yes, they are all selling candy over there."

Yuntao hurriedly asked her father to accompany her over to see.

The shop selling sweets is very conspicuous, and it stands out among a group of shops. Most of the people walking through it are big traders wearing gold and silver.

Bag after bag of brown sugar is made into lumps, or looks like sand and mud, and is packed in the bags and arranged neatly, which is quite spectacular.

"Girl, what are you looking at? Do you want to eat brown sugar?" Yun Huachun asked curiously.

He still knows what his daughter likes to eat. She won't eat anything too sweet. If she doesn't like brown sugar, she can eat some brown sugar, but this shop doesn't have brown sugar.

Yuntao shook her head, "Dad, I'm just going to look around to see what's for sale."

"At that time, our family can only choose things that others don't have."

"There's no rush to make money, our family has money." Yun Huachun whispered.

Their family is shabby, but they are really not poor. He still has to make money, and there is no need for his daughter to worry.

"I'm not in a hurry!" Yuntao said with a smile, as if he had already made up his mind.

Yun Huachun took his daughter to a nearby bookstore and looked around. Books in Linpu County were cheaper than those in the north.

The books sold extremely fast. Even if they stood here for a while, many people came to buy books.

In the alleys with white walls and blue tiles, the sound of reading can be heard loudly.

There were both men and women running around doing work on the street, but children were rare.

The streets are full of dazzling products, and nobles in brocade and satin clothes and beggars in ragged clothes appear on the same street.

This is a small part of the prosperity of Jiangnan, which is really charming.

I don't know whether it was because Lin Pu was too unfamiliar, or because the world had changed, but they couldn't arouse much interest.

Linpu is prosperous and all daily necessities are expensive.

When I was in the northwest, one penny could buy two fist-sized buns, which could feed two children.

But in Linpu, only three pennies can buy a cage of steamed buns.
Chapter completed!