The Blessed

The wharf of Qingyang county was much bigger than that one near the market at the entrance of Ling Village, passenger ships, cargo ships, official ships and business ships so thickly dotted, and your eyes even couldn’t reach the end. As they got off the boat, they followed people to walk inside the county. Those high walls were still kind of new, which should be mended after the two towns merged into a county, soldiers were patrolling on the walls, and the county gate was also heavily guarded. Seeing those, Ling Jingxuan finally had some sense of reality of the fact that he had really transmigrated into ancient times.

“Daddy, is that the county? A lot of officers and soldiers. What do they do?”

In a strange place, a few little buns unavoidably were kind of adaptable. After getting off the boat, the small bun grabbed Ling Jingxuan’s hand and never let loose. And the big bun and Tiewa also grabbed the hand of their own father, each of whom showed more or less of fear and curiosity. Ling Jingxuan always wore a faint smile. He looked over following the direction his son was pointing at, “They are some soldiers guarding this place. Don’t be afraid. As long as we don’t do anything against the law, they wouldn’t do anything to us.”

Here was far from the battlefield, the people here were all at peace, plus, Magistrate Hu was an upright official. So all in all, Qingyang county was a comparatively prosperous place.

The small bun nodded, the fear for strange things under those eyes also vanished. After entering the county, the horizons sprung wide and the streets were very wide, several carriages side by side could also pass, on both sides of the road were lined with all kinds of shops, red bricks and black tiles, tidy and clean, also unified. Teahouses, restaurants, pawn shops, it got all shops you could name of. Before those shops, it was those stalls. Although those peddlers got up early, it was a long way to here. Now the sun had already risen, and you couldn’t hear their hawking everywhere. And people shuttled back and forth, not Datong town could compare.

“Jingxuan, are we directly going to the county yamen or first find a place to settle down?”

Han Fei who was holding Tiewa in case he ran around paced up his steps and caught up with Ling Jingxuan and Yan Shengrui ahead. Even they adults already got attracted by the flourishing county, let alone those kids. If possible, he really wanted to take his kid to walk around here to widen their eyes.

“We’ll first go to Xinyuan Restaurant to book a few rooms. Let’s go to the yamen later. I want to do some shopping first, and see if I can sell those handbags my aunt made.”

Once they and the magistrate reached an agreement about the land thing, they must go to see the land and measure it together, by then, he’d have no chance to sell his handbags. Of course, the premise was they could see Lord Magistrate first smoothly.

“Hmm, I also would like to show the kid around first. But, how about we find an inn to check in?”

Xinyuan Restaurant was a bit too lofty and also too expensive for them farmers to live in.

“Hehe…Brother Han, I know what you are worried about, but we are an important supplier of Xinyuan, we don’t have to spend money checking in there. Just come with me. Don’t worry. You got me.”

He turned to give them a faint smile, then while chatting, they had crossed the streets, and came to the most prosperous area, and the three-floor Xinyuan Restaurant here was at one time larger than that one in Datong Town was located at the junction of a few streets, luxuriant architectural style. With one glance, it could attract all people’s attention. Ling Jingxuan smiled, and meanwhile thought of that coquettish man Zeng Shaoqing. This was his style. Just a restaurant in a county. Does he have to decorate it like a five-star hotel?

Except that the Xinyuan Restaurant in here was larger and more luxuriant, there was no other difference. Maybe it was typical in this era. A group of people under Ling Jingxuan and Yan Shengrui’s lead went into the restaurant. Although they all special wore some new clothes, except that the few little buns were wearing robes made of silk, others’ were all basically cotton cloth, so looking kind of shabby, especially in here.

“Sirs, what can I do for you?”

It was still early morning, and the restaurant had just opened, there weren’t many guests. So nearly everyone set their eyes on them. Each of them more or less showed some contempt in the eyes. The waiter who went forward to welcome them looked quite warm, but didn’t take them to the seats at all, but only blocked their way. Ling Jingxuan cast a faint look at him and brushed him aside.

“Wait...sir...”

“Huh?”

Apparently the waiter didn’t expect he would do this, after a short blankness there, he tried to catch up and stop them, but only a severe look from Yan Shengrui, he already froze there and dare not move again.

“Sirs, have a snack or check in?”

Everything happened too quickly. The shopkeeper who came from behind looked at them standing before the counter. Compared with the waiter’s snobbish attitude, the thin shopkeeper, who was like in his forties, was much more sophisticated. He could tell, although the leading Yan Shengrui and Ling Jingxuan were just wearing some cotton clothes, their temperament was not those common people could own, especially Yan Shengrui, who had that kind of inherent nobleness.

“Shopkeeper Wang?”