The two of them took a carriage and went straight to the Guqiao Market. It was indeed bigger than the market they went to yesterday. The main road could accommodate four carriages passing at the same time, but now both sides of the road were full of hawkers and hawkers.
There is a whole row of shops behind it.
Zhao Ling'er walked along the shops and admired them one by one.
"There is a football store here!" Zhao Ling'er shouted excitedly to Li Heng.
"That's not football, that's Cuju."
Zhao Ling'er walked in and saw that the walls were hung with Cuju balls. They looked like modern footballs, but they were sewn together with needles. Each Cuju ball was made up of twelve pieces of skin.
"Little girl, do you want to buy Cuju?" The store clerk came over with a smile.
"Oh...how do you sell this Cuju?" Zhao Ling'er asked.
"Girl, what brand do you want? The two best brands are Pear Blossom and Tiger Palm. They are good-looking and durable! You can touch them." As he said this, the clerk took two Cuju from the shelf and handed them to Li Heng and Zhao Ling'er.
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"Look at how dense the sewing is, you can't even see a single thread. The outer layer is made of cowhide, so it's strong!"
Zhao Ling'er took it and bumped it with her hands, feeling that the weight was about the same as a current football.
"Look at this again, this is a six-leaf peach!" The waiter handed another one over.
Zhao Ling'er took it and took a look: Well, it looks nice! It's very similar to ancient hydrangeas, but it's light green, and there are flowers, birds, insects, and fish on the surface, which looks like a girl's thing.
"There are also coins, buckets, silver ingots, five cents, sunflowers... there are many brands, which one do you like?"
"How much does this cost?" Zhao Ling'er asked, pointing to the six-leaf peach he just looked at.
"This? This only costs 25 cents!" the waiter said with a smile.
"Okay, get me one of these!" Zhao Ling'er said.
"Okay, I'll get you a new one!" the clerk said, taking out a deflated six-leaf peach from underneath, and asked Zhao Ling'er: "Do you want to beat this one?"
"Um?"
"He's asking if you're inflated?" Li Heng explained to Zhao Ling'er. "Hit."
The waiter took the six-leaf peach, walked to something like a blower, inserted one end of it into the hole of the six-leaf peach, and stepped on it with his feet. After a while, the deflated Cuju inflated.
When it looked like it was almost done, the man pulled out the head of the blower and handed the Cuju bag to Zhao Ling'er with a net bag.
"Hey, it's so beautiful!" Zhao Ling'er happily took it.
After leaving the cobbler's shop, Zhao Ling'er suddenly smelled a burnt aroma.
Looking along the scent, it turned out that there was a stall selling grilled steamed buns next to it.
I saw the vendor smearing oil on the steamed bun slices. The oil rolled along the steamed bun slices and fell on the charcoal fire, making a sizzling sound.
Zhao Ling'er hurried over and said, "Bring me a toasted bun!"
The person next to him chuckled.
"Girl, do you want crispy Qiong Ye?" the old man baking the steamed buns asked calmly while baking.
"Sweet Qiong Ye?" Zhao Ling'er paused and said: "Yes, what I want is Su Qiong Ye! Oh, I want two portions, one with butter and one with honey."
"Okay!" the old man agreed, quickly packed the things that others wanted, and took out six slices of sliced steamed buns from the dustpan, pierced them with iron skewers and grilled them on the charcoal fire.
"Dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong..." A dense sound of gongs came from nearby.
Zhao Linger looked around.
Not far ahead, I saw a man in costume holding a gong and shouting: "Take a look, take a look. Today we are going to talk about "Three Kingdoms". Listen to how Liu Bei visited the thatched cottage three times to invite Zhuge Liang out. Look again.
See how Zhuge Liang borrows arrows from a straw boat to defeat more with less, see how Zhou Yu beats the yellow cover, see how Cao Cao cooks wine and discusses heroes..."
While Zhao Ling'er listened to him, she anxiously looked at the crispy leaves being roasted, and excitedly said to Li Heng: "Let's go and see it later!"
Li Hengdao: "Didn't you make an appointment with Zhou You to meet at Hu Hot Soup? Are they coming soon?"
Zhao Ling'er then remembered that Zhou You and the others were probably arriving soon, so she reluctantly walked to the spicy soup stall.
“Well, this Su Qiong Ye is fragrant and crispy, no wonder it’s called Su Qiong Ye!”
When we reached the intersection, we saw a large spicy soup stall in front of us on the right. The stall owner simply set up a few wooden boards as tables, and then there was a row of benches surrounding it, with many people sitting there.
Seeing the steaming hot spicy soup, Zhao Ling'er couldn't help but want to drink a bowl.
"Shall we sit here and wait for them?" Zhao Ling'er pulled Li Heng to sit down.
"Shopkeeper, please bring two bowls of spicy soup and four fried dough sticks!" Zhao Ling'er shouted.
"Have you finished eating so much?" Li Heng looked at the crispy leaves in Zhao Linger's hand.
"You can eat if I can't finish it!" Zhao Ling'er said coquettishly to Li Heng.
"Hey! Zhouyou!" Li Heng suddenly shouted loudly.
Zhao Linger also saw Zhou You and Wan'er.
"Hi! We're here!" Zhao Ling'er stood up immediately and ran over to hold Lin Wan'er.
Lin Wan'er was still holding something in her hand, and she was almost staggered by Zhao Ling'er.
"Come on, let's have a meal first!" He said, pulling Lin Wan'er to the position where she was sitting just now.
"Boss, two more bowls of spicy soup and four fried dough sticks!"
“You’re going to eat when you’ve just arrived?” Zhou You said as he sat down.
Lin Wan'er sat down next to Zhao Ling'er and said, "Here, I brought the clothes. I'll go to your house to try them out later."
Zhao Ling'er took the clothes, put them in her arms, and said, "Oh, don't worry, don't worry, we'll talk about it when we get home. Let's go shopping in the afternoon."
A few people finished their meal, and the four of them walked around and watched.
"What did you buy yesterday?" Zhou You asked.
"I just bought a mattress, a broom, and a few buckets, but I didn't buy anything else!" Zhao Ling'er said.
"Then let's walk around together. There are a lot of things to buy!" Zhou You and Li Heng walked in front, while Zhao Ling'er and Lin Waner walked behind arm in arm.
The streets were bustling with people, and the cries of vendors kept coming and going.
"Hey, what do you think this is?" Zhao Ling'er pulled Lin Wan'er to a stall selling combs.
"Look, there's a bronze mirror here! Hey, is that a wig?" Zhao Ling'er suddenly saw some hair pieces and buns next to her.
Lin Wan'er followed and picked up the comb to inspect the material.
Zhao Ling'er excitedly put the wig pieces on her head and compared them, and asked Lin Wan'er: "Does it look good?"
"Let's go, let's go!" Zhou You urged: "You haven't bought any big furniture yet, so don't look at these today!"
But Zhao Ling'er is full of curiosity about everything here, and she still has a lot of bits and pieces she wants to buy. She has been here for so many days, and she has been living like a passerby, without any sense of belonging.
Zhao Ling'er took out ten taels of silver notes and said to Zhou Youyou: "I'll leave the big shopping to you and Li Heng. I want to buy a large bathtub, three wooden basins, four stools, and pots and pans.
, you can watch and buy. Wan'er and I will buy some things for girls together, and at five o'clock we will gather at the place where we just drank spicy soup."