Chapter 13 third quarter

After the fire that year, no one dared to live in the garden where Di Qing lived, so it gradually fell into disrepair, and later it was designated as the property of Daxiangguo Temple and became an inconspicuous vegetable garden. Lu Da's life in the vegetable garden is very comfortable. Firstly, in the vegetable garden, he can not be bound by the many precepts and regulations of the temple. The welfare of the monks in Xiangguo Temple is really good, and it is not as poor as when they were soldiers in Weizhou. He also had money on hand, and when he was bored, Lu Da would occasionally come out of the garden to wander around.

Leaving the abandoned garden, Lu Da immediately entered another world—a prosperous and prosperous world in the world. If Lu Da walks out of Xiangguo Temple and walks west along the Bian River from Xiangguo Temple Bridge, he can walk to Zhou Bridge in about ten minutes. At that time, there were four rivers running through the city of Tokyo, namely the Bian River, Cai River, Jinshui River, and Wuzhang River. There were countless bridges on each river, and the Zhou Bridge located in the inner city of Tokyo at the Bian River was the most famous. Zhouzhou Bridge, also known as Tianhan Bridge, is 17 meters long from north to south, 30 meters wide from east to west, 6.58 meters high, and 5.8 meters wide. There are stone walls on both sides of the bridge, carved with shapes such as seahorses, water animals, and flying clouds. Stone pillars are densely arranged under the bridge, which is the road for cars to drive.

Zhouqiao Mingyue is one of the eight scenic spots in the empire.At that time, Taizu went to the south and went to the north, and returned triumphantly. He was admired by all the people on this bridge, and he was full of vigor. According to the well-known sentence of saddle decline, leaning on the ridge and singing songs; Wang Anshi, who has never been moved by Tokyo's prosperity and prosperity, was also intoxicated for a while on the state bridge. The decline of the turmoil is not far away. Tonight I hear the old sobs again, but I look at the mountains and the moon and talk about the Zhou Bridge"; many years later, when the Southern Song Dynasty poet Fan Cheng, Ambassador Jin, passed by the old capital of Bianjing, the Zhou Bridge has changed, and Fan Da The poet couldn't help crying, and wrote that "the north and south of Zhouqiao are Tianjie, and the father is waiting to drive back. He couldn't help crying and asked the messenger, when will the six armies really come?" That is another feeling, another time Never mind.

The south of Zhouqiao is directly facing Xuande Building, the main entrance of the Imperial Palace. From Xuande Building to Zhouqiao, there is a Royal Street with a length of more than 1,000 meters. In the middle is the royal road dedicated to the royal family. "Royal Corridor" (stalls are also allowed to do business), and the sidewalk and the Royal Road are separated by black lacquer, red lacquer and water ditches. From the north of Zhouqiao to Suzaku Gate, there is a food culture street about 750 meters long, which was the most prosperous night market in Tokyo at that time. In ancient Chinese cities, before the Song Dynasty, the Jingfang system was implemented, and the commercial market was strictly separated from the residential area of ​​the citizens. The commercial area was called a well, and the residential area was called a square.But in the Northern Song Dynasty, this well-work system was broken.

When Zhao Kuangyin established his capital in Kaifeng, he was very forward-looking. The roads in the capital were built quite broad and magnificent. However, with the stable economic development of the country, small merchants and hawkers began to appear on the wide streets. Later, merchants He became more and more courageous, and began to build a fixed pavement facing the street. The city is becoming more and more bustling and bustling, and the officials are not willing to turn the wide Guodu Avenue into a busy city where even horses can't run smoothly.In the fifth year of Song Zhenzong Xianping (1002 A.D.), Zhao Heng organized the cadres and workers of the empire to carry out a large-scale demolition activity, and forcibly demolished many street shops in Tokyo.Wild fire, in spring.By the time of Emperor Renzong Zhao Zhen, the streets of Tokyo became commercial districts again, and Zhao Zhen learned from his father to carry out another major demolition.

And when Emperor Huizong Zhao Ji, the street shops in Tokyo revived again, Zhao Ji was very busy with public and private affairs, and he was not in the mood to engage in demolition and relocation, so he opened it as soon as he said it, and paid taxes on a regular basis. Buying stones for silver is more important than anything else. As a result, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty had a completely new look, which was very different from the cities before the Northern Song Dynasty. We may regard it as the prototype of a modern city. In the short few hundred meters from Zhouqiao to Zhuquemen, there are hundreds of shops and restaurants, such as Zhaochejiatan, Zhangjia Hotel, Wangloushan Cave Huabaozi, Xuejiafencha, mutton rice, cooked mutton shop, Lijia Xiangpu, Granny Cao Meat Cakes, and Li Sifen Tea are all well-known shops in Tokyo. Here, Luda only needs to spend 15 yuan, and you can enjoy the delicacies sold in Wanglou, Meijia, Lujia, Caojia and other deli shops. Goose, duck, chicken, rabbit, tripe, lung, eel, steamed stuffed bun, chicken skin, kidney kidney, minced chicken and other delicacies.

Of course, if you fill your stomach with cooked food from the beginning, Ruda will regret it soon. If you go north, you will find more delicacies, such as fried lamb, white sausage, dried bream, frozen fish head, ginger bean, mozang, red Shredded, batch-cut sheep's head, spicy feet, ginger and spicy radish, Xiayue sesame curd chicken skin, sesame drink powder, vegetarian gauze sugar, ice and snow cold yuanzi, crystal horn, raw water papaya, medicinal papaya, chicken head Rang granulated sugar, mung beans, licorice cold water, lychee paste, mustard melons, pickles, apricot slices, plum ginger, lettuce shoots, mustard pepper melons, finely seasoned rice dumplings, fragrant candied seeds, lychee candies, and plums , Knife perilla paste, Jinsi Dangmei, Xiangyu yuan, Dongyue pan rabbit, spin-roasted pork skin, wild duck, dripping crisp crystal kueh, fried scallops, all the delicacies from all over the world are gathered here.

If Luda who is full eats his lust occasionally, he will soon hear the singing and singing of the nearby Pig Killing Alley (such a vulgar name for a very romantic place), East and West Churches and brothels , Those places can always empty the men's sperm and silver. Of course, Lu Da was a monk, and it was indeed inconvenient to go to those places. What he wanted more was to find a place with good wine. If Lu Da had money in his pocket, he should turn around and go to Fanlou in Jingmingfang, Donghuamen, Miyagi, Tokyo. It is a flagship restaurant in Tokyo's restaurant industry, and a meal will cost at least a hundred taels of silver; Lu Da doesn't have much money, so he should go forward, turn right at the intersection of the night market and the well in the middle of the street, turn right at the end of the alley, and then turn right at Quyuan Street, where the Yuxian Main Store is the Seventy-two Main Store in Tokyo Among the high-end restaurants with the most reasonable charges, in Yuxian Zhengdian, silver bottle wine costs 72 cents and lamb wine costs 81 cents, and Lu Da can drink to his full.

Lu Da, who was drunk, staggered back the same way, but when he returned to the night market in the middle of the street, he couldn't cross the street. There was a team in front of him rushing from Nanxun Gate to Zhuque Gate, and Lu Da couldn't join the team. Lu Da was happy, clapping his hands and applauding, saying that with so many troops marching into the capital, it seems that there will be another battle, so tomorrow I will stop being a monk and become a soldier again. Passers-by laughed and said that the fat monk was so drunk that he thought the pigs in the pig team were soldiers.

Don't blame Lu Da for his lack of knowledge. The team of pigs is really spectacular. Nanxun Gate was the only way to mobilize live pigs from other places to Beijing at that time. Every evening, there were more than ten thousand pigs in the capital every evening. There are only ten or twenty people driving a pig.When they arrived in the capital, the pigs knew how to obey the traffic rules and drive in an orderly manner, so they didn't worry much about the pigs. Ruda was drunk, and he couldn't find his way in this world of feasting and feasting. When he woke up, Lu Da found that he was still lying on the grass of the abandoned garden. The prosperity outside had nothing to do with the abandoned garden, nor with the former owner named Di Qing, nor with the current spectator Lu Da.

A "fire" many years ago has already burned their hopes and dreams. Lu Da seemed to understand why Elder Zhizhen asked him to come to Daxiangguo Temple, and why Elder Zhiqing asked him to guard the garden. They just wanted him to understand that the fate of the imperial generals was buried here. But Ruda is not dead, and Ruda's heart is not dead. He finally decided to leave. The rivers and lakes, and a place called Liangshanshuipo, are his tomorrow.