novelkee Chapter 496 Eating at all the snack stalls
Chapter 496 Eating at all the snack stalls
Zhou Mai looked at the big characters on the tower and said yearningly, "Everyone says Yunzhou is prosperous, but the county town is far from comparable. I wonder what it's like inside."
Zhou Guo said, "Let's go in and take a look. We are here to have fun anyway. Let's have fun for two days and go back when we have had enough."
"The city gate is paved with blue bricks. This road is so big that four carriages can pass side by side!"
"There are so many people! It's not a festival, why are there so many people?"
The Li family members who had never been there were so exhausted that they thought everything in the provincial capital was new and novel. They had never been to any provincial capital before, though they had been to several county towns, but how could a county town compare to a provincial capital?
There are many streets. Turning around one street after another, there are many people and shops on each street, all kinds of shops. There are even four or five silk shops on one street, as if it is a street specializing in selling cloth.
Zhou Xing and others were amazed at what they saw. It turned out that the provincial capital was so big, as big as a dozen county towns. The streets were always bustling with people selling all kinds of things.
Zhou Guo smiled and said, "Let's find an inn to settle down first, and then go out for a walk after we're full, or just go out and eat at a snack stand. Eat whatever you like."
Zhou Su's eyes sparkled as she said, "We'll have snacks during the day and eat at Baoyue Tower at night."
Everyone laughed, "You don't want to suffer a loss, you want to take advantage of both sides."
Zhou Guo said, "Okay, then let's go to the inn. We'll go out for a walk in the afternoon, then come back to the inn to rest, and then go to Baoyue Tower for a big meal in the evening."
Zhou Mi said, "That won't do. We finally got a chance to go out and have fun. How can we spend all our time in the inn? Of course we have to keep wandering around and come back to sleep at night."
Zhou Mai and the others nodded. They thought so too. It was not easy to come to the city. If they stayed in the inn to sleep and rest, what was the point of coming to the city? They had places to sleep at home.
Zhou Guo smiled and said, "I'm just worried that you're tired. Since you don't want to rest, then don't come back."
He then led everyone to find a medium-sized inn, and even the best members of the Li family were reluctant to leave.
He also said: "It's just a place to sleep, why live so well? If you ask me, there is no dilapidated temple at the city gate, otherwise you can save a lot of room fees by staying in a dilapidated temple for one night."
Zhou Gu and Zhou Mi both agreed very much. They could buy a lot of delicious food with the money they saved.
The old man glanced at them and said, "Fortunately it's not you two who are in charge, otherwise the whole family would suffer."
Zhou Guo and his friends laughed.
Zhou Gu touched his head a little embarrassedly. It didn't matter to him where he slept. Even if there was no dilapidated temple, he could sleep in the open air. When they were transporting mushrooms, they always slept in the wild in order to save money and avoid being seen. He was used to it.
Because there were so many people, Zhou Guo asked for four rooms at once.
Even Li was upset now, she pulled her sleeve and said anxiously: "Why do we need four rooms? Two are enough. We also live in two rooms in winter, so we don't have to spend so much extra money.
A room is not cheap, it costs more than 400 Wen.
Zhou Guo said, "Mom, we are here to have fun, so of course we need to eat and sleep well. How can we fit so many people in two rooms? We can only sleep on the floor. When we are tired, we can ask the waiter to bring water to the room for a shower. If there are too many people, we won't even be able to turn around. Four rooms are much better, they are spacious and we can sleep however we want."
The old man nodded, "Very, very, very much. Since we are here for fun, we need to live in a better place."
Li said nothing more.
The family took the luggage off the carriage and asked the second brother to take it to the backyard, where someone was assigned to look after it.
The group went upstairs happily. The rooms were either next to each other or opposite each other, so they could hear anyone if they opened the door and shouted. Li was even more satisfied when she saw this, as it would be easier to take care of anyone if something happened.
Everyone stood at the door and began to assign rooms.
The old man shared a room with Zhou Suli and Li Wang, and brothers Zhou Gu and Zhou Mai shared a room with each other. It didn't matter how the three of them slept, since they were all boys, they could just sleep on the floor.
Li brought Xu to live in the same room with Li.
Zhou Guo said to everyone, "Go back to the house and put your things down. Take the valuables with you, and then we will go out to find food."
Zhou Mai smiled and said, "You don't need to tell me about this. No one will leave valuables in the inn."
Everyone nodded. Yes, they knew this.
Zhou Guo still lived in the same room with Zhou Xing. Zhou Xing was older and had never left home, so it was not suitable for her to live with her younger brothers.
She put down her luggage, turned around and walked towards the door. Her money and other belongings were in the bag in front of her and no one could steal them.
After a while, the whole family came out.
The family stood at the door, smiling at each other, their eyes full of anticipation.
Zhou Guo waved his hand and said with a smile: "Let's go out."
The streets are bustling with people, just like market day in town.
Li sighed, "There are so many people in the city. Don't they have anything to do? Why are they wandering around the streets so idle?"
Zhou Xing said: "Yes, Second Aunt, you said they are so idle and do nothing, how do they make a living?"
Zhou Guo said: "Who said they have nothing to do? Although they don't farm, they know how to do business. They can bring out what we grow and sell it. After selling it, we have money. People living in the capital don't rely on farming to make a living. Some of them farm their own land, so naturally they don't have to work, they just spend money."
Zhou Gu couldn't help but say, "That's the landlord's house. The landlord doesn't have to work, he just eats, drinks and spends money."
Zhou Mai and Zhou Mi have been in school all the time and have seldom had the chance to go to the county town. The place they go most often is the market in the town. Now that they have entered the provincial capital, they can't take their eyes off the delicious food on both sides of the road. They don't have such an opportunity on weekdays.
Zhou Su wanted to eat everything she saw. Seeing the two of them staring at this thing, she pulled Zhou Guo's sleeve and said, "Sister, shall we eat this?"
Zhou Guo took a look and saw that it was knife-cut noodles. "Okay, big brother, we want five bowls of noodles."
"Okay, sir, please sit next to me for a while."
Everyone happily sat down in the seats nearby.
Li looked at all the people and asked, "Why did you only order five bowls of noodles? There are eleven of us. Who wouldn't want to eat?"
Zhou Guo said, "Mom, there are so many delicious foods on the street. You guys have small appetites. If you really want to eat one bowl each, how can you eat anything else? Let's share these five bowls of noodles among us. Then we can eat all the delicious foods on the street."
Zhou Su nodded repeatedly, "This way we can eat a lot of delicious food and save money."
The noodles came, and five bowls were served. Each person took an empty bowl and shared some.
The old man looked at the noodles in the bowl, sighed, took out a pair of chopsticks from the chopstick holder, picked up all the noodles in the bowl with one chopstick, ate them all in one bite, and then drank the soup in the bowl in another gulp.