eurekapd Chapter 269 Shopping Crazy
Chapter 269 Shopping Crazy
Without waiting for Zhou Chang's order, the carriage sank and the skinny monkey jumped off: "Your Majesty, let me go and ask."
Gao Yuan walked over and took the reins from the skinny monkey.
In a blink of an eye, the skinny monkey came back and said, "Your Highness, the Dafu Pagoda next to the Dafu Temple was completed and consecrated today, and everyone rushed over to get some of the good fortune."
"Dafu Pagoda?" Zhou Chang slapped his thigh, "Oh, how could I forget about Dafu Pagoda?"
The thin monkey asked, "Your Majesty, should we go and take a look as well?"
"Of course I have to go." Zhou Chang naturally thought of Yuan Qi.
The ceremony is being consecrated today, so everyone from the Yuan family should be present.
"Okay." The skinny monkey jumped back into the carriage and prepared to drive away.
The huge crowd was all heading east, but the carriages could not move forward.
Zhou Chang didn't want to be stuck in the carriage either: "Monkey, there are too many people. Let's get off the carriage and follow the flow of people."
"Yes," the thin monkey agreed, but he was worried, "But Your Majesty, this place is still two streets away from Dafu Temple."
Gao Yuan had already opened the curtain of the carriage and helped Zhou Chang get out.
The skinny monkey had no choice but to stop the carriage and jump off.
"There's nothing we can do. It's probably the end of the year now, and people in the city are probably bored, so they all come here." Zhou Chang jumped out of the car with the help of Gao Yuan.
The skinny monkey went ahead and led the carriage, mumbling, "That's right, there are too many people, Your Majesty, don't just go forward, Brother Gao should protect them more. I'll be leading the carriage behind, and it will probably be difficult to find a place to park the carriage in a while."
Although Zhou Chang didn't like crowds, it was the first time he saw such a lively scene. Everyone had a smile on their face, sweeping away the depression and gloom brought about by the previous "ban on entertainment".
Even though there are a lot of people, they are not crowded, so the walking speed is not slow.
After walking across a street in the time it took to stick of incense, and turning a corner, Zhou Chang's eyes suddenly opened up.
Rows of brand new houses with red walls and green tiles stand before your eyes. In the distant background stands a seven-story tower, each floor decorated with red silk and copper lanterns.
"Wow, wow, wow, it's really changed." The skinny monkey kept exclaiming in amazement, "Your Majesty, Brother Gao, look, look..."
Zhou Chang still had memories of Master Shuchen and was fairly familiar with the area around Dafu Temple.
However, the scene before him did not match Shuchen's memory at all.
The houses and towers are all in brand new colors, with new paint, new plaques, new archways, and newly decorated facades...
There are colorful lights and silk ribbons hanging everywhere on both sides of the street, and the decorations are all new, making every house eye-catching.
Skinny Monkey couldn't help but comment from behind: "In the past, half of the houses around Dafu Temple were temple properties, and half were businesses. They were messy and old. What happened to them now? They've completely changed."
Most of the people around were talking about the same thing as Skinny Monkey said, and they were all amazed.
Walking into the street, the houses on both sides looked brand new and were all open for business, selling all kinds of things.
There were incense, candles, paper money, snacks, clothes, shoes, hats, cloth, grain, oil, and even teahouses and restaurants. It seemed that the things on sale were more complete than those in all the markets I had visited in the past half month combined.
Zhou Chang was overwhelmed, as if in a dream. The hawking and talking sounds were not very clear, but they were filled with a strong ancient flavor.
"Ding, ding, ding..."
Before I could enjoy the moment for long, the reminder to place an order started to ring wildly in my mind.
"Conspicuous system, cancel the order reminder sound, and just give me a list in the end." Zhou Chang also shouted frantically in his heart.
The viewpoint system cooperated: "Okay."
Zhou Chang had had enough of the hustle and bustle of one world; the other world finally quieted down.
She knew what the orders were without even having to hear them.
Whenever she saw something new, someone would place an order for it, so she told the two people accompanying her: "Gao Yuan, you go and lead the carriage and follow me. Monkey, you go and buy things."
As he spoke, he took out a stack of small silver bills worth less than 100 taels that he had specially exchanged from his pocket and handed it to the skinny monkey.
The skinny monkey took it and asked, "My Lord, what else should we buy?"
These days, I buy things every day and have bought everything I can.
The only thing is that anyone who bought it and moved it into Prince Yi's bedroom would disappear the next morning.
"Just like before, don't buy any food for now, and don't buy anything edible. Only buy small, fun and useful items. They don't have to be big, and include both men's and women's items." Zhou Chang also gave instructions according to previous practice.
Shopping is actually a physical job. She can no longer support herself and has been relying on Skinny Monkey recently.
When the skinny monkey heard that they didn't want to buy food, his interest, which was not great to begin with, dropped even more, but since the prince had given the order, he had no choice but to obey.
So he walked through the streets on both sides, throwing silver bills at anything he saw, and put all the small things that could be carried into the big box at the back of the carriage.
Even though he was numb from shopping, the skinny monkey still didn't forget to ask along the way: "Hey, old man, do you know what happened to this street? Is it still the original Dongfu Street?"
Zhou Chang and Gao Yuan were not talkative people, so they just listened.
The man replied, "It's not called Dongfu Street anymore. I heard someone bought all the land around Dafu Temple and rebuilt houses to allow businesses to reopen. It's now called 'Longfufang'."
Zhou Chang listened and thought to himself, Brother Rong Wang only said before that he would donate land, but if this street was to be bought and rebuilt by someone, then only Yuan Yu would have the financial resources to do so.
"This tower was built very quickly. It was completed in just over a month." The skinny monkey brought over a bunch of wood carvings and exquisite clay figurines, and also grabbed the delivery guy to chat with him.
The waiter was also amazed: "Tsk tsk, that's right, this is nothing. I heard that His Royal Highness Prince Rong also invited two masters from outside the city to consecrate the pagoda today, plus the abbot of Dafu Temple. The three eminent monks will consecrate the pagoda together. It is unprecedentedly grand."
Someone else followed up and said, "That's right. I heard that the epidemic a while ago was caused by ghosts. We only have one Buddhist temple in the city, which couldn't suppress it. So His Royal Highness Prince Rong asked for an imperial decree and proposed to build a tower to suppress it. Now, as soon as the tower was built, the epidemic was suppressed."
When he said this, several people around him who heard it followed suit and praised him:
"Prince Rong is such a good man."
"Prince Rong is doing this for the benefit of the people. I heard that it is to pray for the souls of those who died in the war and the epidemic."
"It seems that there is still Prince Rong's land around Daifukuji Temple."
"What do you mean? Look at the tower in front. It's right below that area. I heard it was donated by Prince Rong."
"That must be very effective, right?"
"Why not? This tower was built two days ago, and the epidemic in the city was under control. The ban on West City was lifted today. Do you think it works..."
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The skinny monkey kept buying things while Zhou Chang kept listening. The three of them gradually arrived in front of Dafu Temple.
Dafu Temple is still the Dafu Temple that Zhou Chang remembered, with a tall gate and extraordinary grandeur. It is always bustling with incense and worshippers, and now it is even more bustling with people.
This place is a great blessed place for her, as it has helped her to successfully sell goods many times.
But to this day, I don’t want to go in again, mainly because I’m afraid of running into my “acquaintance” Master Shusheng. Wouldn’t that be awkward for both of us? It’s better not to meet him and live in peace.