Ordinary daily life on the East Street of Ping'an Town
Ping'an Town is very small, far less than other counties outside, let alone the central and prosperous place in mainland China. The permanent population here is only a few dozen households, and only a few hundred people. But thanks to the geography here
As a result, throughout the year, spring and autumn go by, and there is never a shortage of adventurers from all over the mainland. Therefore, although this is a small town, it is small but has all the necessary organs! But compared to other small villages and towns, this place is
It is undoubtedly very big and has a different kind of liveliness.
There is a wide and neat street from the east end of the town to the town. Compared with other places in the town, except for the Wangyou Tower in the center of the town, the east street of the town is quite lively since early morning every day.
On both sides of the street, there is Uncle Zhao's rice shop, Uncle Wang's medicine shop, Aunt Li's small tailor shop, Uncle Blacksmith's blacksmith shop, and a pork shop opened by Xiaohu's father, Butcher Wang...
Therefore, every day residents in the town come to the East Street to buy some daily necessities.
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It was another early morning, and there were already many residents and pedestrians of the town on the streets of East Street. They were coming and going, carrying baskets and baskets, which was quite noisy. However, pedestrians on this street rarely saw outsiders.
strange faces. This is because most of the foreign business and trade are on the second floor of Wangyou Building, where there are various stalls set up by foreign merchants.
And this is also to try not to affect the lives of local residents.
After all, commercial logistics places are mostly places where three religions and nine streams, dragons and snakes live together!
Most of the residents who come to settle in Ping'an Town, far away from the prosperity of the central mainland and come to this borderland, have some unknown pasts, so they might as well have some thoughts of escaping from the world! Therefore, they prefer a quiet and comfortable life. Also
Therefore, if guests who come here for the first time come to East Street, they may feel that it is somewhat different from the outside.
There are many shops on East Street, which are enough to meet the various daily needs of the residents of the town, and the owners of the shops here do not seem to be doing business! Because there is not all kinds of chaos here like outside
The unbearable hawking sounds are, at least, completely different from the stalls on the second floor of Wangyou Building.
If we talk about the trade fair on Qingshui Ping, it is a large-scale trade fair that brings together many businesses. It is not easy to organize. We can only come here a few times a year, but the excitement every time is comparable to that of Ping'an Town during the New Year.
It’s time; as for the stalls on the second floor of Wangyou Building, they are more like the trading points that various shops and merchants from outside rent in Pingan Town all year round. After all, adventurers from all over the world gather here, and they will always bring them from the primitive mountains.
There are countless resources, many of which are inconvenient to carry, and most of them choose to deal with them nearby. These merchants receive the goods from here and then transport them to other places. They can make several times or even dozens of times of profits by going back and forth! But, East Street, even more
Most of them serve people in the town.
"Uncle Zhao, are you up? Have you eaten?" "Uncle Wang, good morning!"... Zhou Chen was walking on the streets of East Street, greeting the neighbors politely in the East Street of the town.
The shops on both sides of the street have also begun to open their doors to welcome customers. But at the entrance of the rice shop and the medicine shop, there is an old-fashioned lounge chair, covered with an unknown fur coat, and a small table next to it.
, there was an old-style teapot on it, and Uncle Zhao and Uncle Wang were lying leisurely on the recliner, half-squinting their eyes, basking in the warm sunshine, looking very uncomfortable.
"Boy Zhou is up!" "Boy Zhou is good!" "Boy Zhou is here!" Obviously, everyone was familiar with Zhou Chen and responded kindly.
In each shop, some have apprentices as helpers, and some have only the boss. At this time, there are already many residents of the town coming in and out to buy things. However, there is no haggling that is common among outsiders.
During the counter-offering process, I didn’t see the store owner using any fancy sales tactics or yelling at me, and he looked completely calm.
Well, everything here seems so laid-back and casual!
The customer comes to the store, takes a general look, and doesn’t have anything to ask. If he likes something, he takes it directly to the counter, pays the money, and leaves, or he says, “Oh, I forgot to put my money on me when I went out today.
Bring it over again!" Then Shi Shiran left, and the boss didn't keep accounts or anything. He just replied "Oh, okay!" "Yeah, okay!" Sometimes it even makes people suspicious.
You, the boss, agreed after seeing clearly what they were taking from you. Well, this place is so natural and plain!
Of course, those who forget to bring money will come and pay as promised the next day. In this regard, people in the town still have credibility. After all, we are all neighbors in the town, we meet each other without looking up, and we live together here.
In the past few years, decades and even many years to come, I will not make myself unhappy just to take advantage of some small advantages!
Of course, except for the black-hearted profiteer in the inn next to Wangyou Tower!
Here, shops open in the early morning to accept customers, and close as usual at sunset. Sometimes, the shop owner casually hangs a sign outside to take a break.
Of course, people from outside may feel a little strange when they see the scene here. Some people may even do some irrational things out of curiosity.
In all these years, Zhou Chen has only seen it once!
That time, a foreign guest came to East Street. When he saw the scene here, he was immediately curious. Perhaps he was tempted to test, or perhaps he just wanted to take advantage, so he followed suit and chose Uncle Wang specially.
Zhou Chen walked into his family's medicine shop calmly, and came out with a medicinal plant in his hand. Zhou Chen couldn't remember exactly what it was. He put ten cents on the counter, and then specifically told him to lie down on the lounge chair at the door.
Uncle Wang said, "Boss, I put the money in the cabinet!" and left, just like that. At this time, he may still have pride and ridicule in his heart! Of course, this is purely what Zhou Chen thinks in his heart.
Guess. In fact, Zhou Chen just happened to be passing by at that time and didn't understand what happened.
But not long after, Zhou Chen saw Uncle Wang, who was squinting on the recliner and sunbathing as usual, suddenly stood up and walked out of the town expressionlessly. Well, looking in the direction, the person just left was
The direction of the time! After a while, Uncle Wang came back, carrying a baggage. I could only hear Uncle Wang cursing along the way, "Asshole! I'm so angry! Do you think I'm a fool or an idiot?!" "Why?
Do you have a brain?" "The medicinal materials I finally collected were given to me! I didn't let go of the most valuable little Linzhi in the shop, or was it a person?!" "I gave him everything that was slightly more valuable.
I put it in my pocket, why the hell didn’t you leave some for me?!”······
Next, Zhou Chen saw that Uncle Wang's drug store was closed. That whole day, Uncle Wang had a dark face. It is said that Uncle Wang was angry for several days, scolding anyone who caught him, and he was always old.
He was so angry! He even had a quarrel with Uncle Zhao and Aunt Li next door. However, it was rumored that when he met Aunt Li, she was scolded after the quarrel failed, and she ended up shrinking at home for several days.
I was so stunned that I didn’t dare to go out! In those days, people in the town thought that maybe Uncle Wang was old and fell ill!
Later, Zhou Chen slowly understood the whole story. It turned out that the outsider who went to Uncle Wang's drug store took a lot of medicinal materials from the drug store, and even selected some valuable ones, including the only small forest in the store.
Zhidu took him away in his arms. He thought he was doing things covertly and was not discovered, so he even said hello to Uncle Wang when he left. There were nearly a dozen taels of medicinal materials in the shop, but he ended up paying ten cents!
This is treating Uncle Wang as a big fat sheep trying to kill his wool!
One can imagine how Uncle Wang felt at that time, when he saw everything in his eyes!
As for what happened to that person later?
It is said that that man was quite powerful and relatively well-known outside. Perhaps he wanted to rely on his own strength to take the things and leave. As a result, he met Uncle Wang as soon as he left the town, and naturally he recovered all the medicinal materials.
What about a man? Two of his hands were severed, and he took the things he bought with ten cents and threw them into the primitive mountains. The fate is self-evident!
Therefore, this also tells us a truth: don’t try to provoke the rules here with some seemingly random things in Ping An Town! Of course, don’t be overly curious, be careful, curiosity killed the cat!