Meng Zhao became interested at this moment. He first asked Aunt Feng'e to cook the noodles, and then said, "Sir, you have been to the capital. What is the capital like? Is it particularly prosperous?"
The man took a bite of beef and said while savoring the taste, "The capital city is truly prosperous and thriving. I just came back to Qingshi County, and I feel out of place everywhere. Not to mention anything else, even the street in front of your shop is far inferior to the alleys in the capital."
"The main streets of the capital are paved with smooth bluestone slabs, wide enough for several carriages to pass at the same time. The shops along the streets are all two or three stories high. I was thinking of bringing my wife a box of rouge when I came back, but when I went into the shop, I found that it was more luxurious than a restaurant. The cheapest scented soap inside cost several tens of coins."
"I once had the chance to visit Chunfenglou in the capital and try their Yipinxiang wine. Oh my, that wine was absolutely delicious! After that, any other wine I drank tasted like horse piss, it was like drinking horse piss. It's a pity that Yipinxiang is a special wine supplied to the capital, and you can't get it anywhere else."
Meng Zhao asked Aunt Feng'e to attend to the customers while she sat there listening to the man chatter away, occasionally asking questions. Because she was pretty and spoke gently, and she also praised the man from time to time, providing him with plenty of emotional value, the man was willing to talk to her more.
There was no way around it; Meng Zhao was simply too curious about the outside world. This wasn't modern times, where you could just take out your phone and search for information about everything in the world.
What she knows so far, apart from what is described in the original work, is all what she has heard from other people. So if some customers who often travel around come to the shop, Meng Zhao is willing to put down her work and chat with them more.
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