Gasp! She's a Time Traveler Using Modern Tech to Improve Ancient Life-Chapter 556 - 555: Chang’an, Chang’an

After twenty-four days of rushing around, Lin Wanwan and her group finally arrived in Chang’an.

Little Qingyu, kneeling at the carriage window, looked at the towering city gate and exclaimed: "What a big gate!"

The little one hoped her mother would allow her to sit on Ali’s shoulders to get a full view of the city wall.

But Lin Wanwan refused her request, we must be reserved and not look like country folks visiting the city and being amazed by everything.

Isn’t it just a city wall! She had already seen it in the modern world, and had seen plenty of skyscrapers.

Although the city wall in front of her was dozens of meters high and indeed majestic, as a modern Huaxia person from the most information-developed society, she was not moved.

There were a lot of people at the city gate, bustling about, and some vendors mixed in, selling pastries and roast chicken.

Little Qingyu pointed at the roast chicken wanting to eat street food, but Lin Wanwan firmly refused her, you must not eat while traveling, be refined!

Little Qingyu pouted, suddenly feeling that Chang’an wasn’t so fun after all!

On the streets of Xiaxi Town in Mao County, mother never cared if she ate while walking!

Passing through the city gate, and having the guards check the travel pass (a travel permit issued for official travel by the government, needed to be shown at checkpoints), the group entered the city.

The scene inside Chang’an City was somewhat different from what Lin Wanwan imagined.

The world’s greatest city in her heart now seemed somewhat unworthy of its reputation before her eyes.

The people, all in dull colors, dusty and ragged streets, stinking donkeys, horses, mule carts, and rushed and weather-beaten foreigners.

The great city, the prosperous times, just this?!

Lin Wanwan sighed deeply: "Reality is indeed grim."

Thinking of this period’s Europe and America still living primitively, the Great Tang seems indeed quite good.

After all, you can’t compare vertically, but must compare horizontally! It’s only by contrast with other countries that the Great Tang is the great city of the universe.

Seeing Chang’an City so dusty, like an old man in his twilight years, Lin Wanwan’s fear immediately dissipated by more than half.

After all, I am standing on the shoulders of historical giants, with a golden finger to meet the ancients, what’s there to fear!

Contrary to Lin Wanwan’s thoughts, the people like Yun Shang, Hua Nong, Sun Chuyao who came with her unconsciously felt three inches shorter seeing Chang’an City and its people.

They had never seen such towering city walls, never walked such wide and tidy streets, never encountered so many strangely dressed foreigners, this really is a magical city, it has everything!

"Mother, look at the people here, not a single person has a patch on their clothes! And they all walk with their heads held high!" Little Qingyu’s eyes were almost dazzled by the splendor before her.

Even in Qiantang County, she had never seen so many proud and confident people, as if the world was already at their feet.

Lin Wanwan glanced outside the carriage again, and a soundtrack automatically played in her ears: Hey, I’ve never seen such arrogant people, today I finally did!

The bustling people of Chang’an gave Lin Wanwan the impression of being both insolent and poor, with a face full of arrogance, making her worried about the quality of this city’s ordinary folk.

It was already near dusk, and having come all this way in haste, it was certainly impossible to immediately go to face the emperor.

Xiao Chong returned to his home in Kaihua Square, while Xiao Yixun accompanied Lin Wanwan to stay at the mansion rented by the Pang family in Jinchang Square.

This albino beauty is now completely attached to Lin Wanwan, anyway she goes wherever she goes.

Fortunately, Xiao Yixun is not annoying at all, she is cool and quiet, doesn’t talk much, is simple-minded, likes what she likes, and dislikes what she dislikes. 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮

She neither likes hustle and bustle nor going out, spending all day in her room playing with her poisonous insects and plants, occasionally reading medical books, playing the zither and writing with Lin Wanwan, reading to her when she’s tired of reading, acting as Lin Wanwan’s accountant helping with the accounts, secretly competing with Little Qingyu in eating vinegar.

Lin Wanwan had gotten used to her presence, if one day she suddenly wanted to leave, Lin Wanwan might be reluctant.

After all, where else could you find a silent and obedient accountant who comes with money and servants! Hard to find even with a lantern!

The reason for choosing to stay at the Pang family’s house when entering Chang’an City this time was naturally because of the closest relationship with her supposed aunt of the Xiao family.

Before leaving Qiantang, Xiao’s mother held Lin Wanwan’s hand, carefully instructing Xiao’s sister to take good care of Lin Wanwan, their only niece.

Lin Wanwan had no opinion on whether to stay with the Pang family, the Xiao family, or rent a house alone.

Anyway, after meeting Li Shimin, she plans to leave and won’t stay here long.

Chang’an is not her domain, she doesn’t want to stay too long.

However, when she arrived at the Pang family’s gate by carriage, Lin Wanwan was still surprised, not shocked, just simply surprised.

The Pang family’s mansion turned out to be just a narrow courtyard house, without a garden or pool, just a small rockery in the backyard.

Upon entering the main gate, there was a pavilion facing the entrance, after passing through the pavilion was the main hall, and after the main hall was the main chambers, with three wing rooms on each side, much simpler than Lin Wanwan’s mansion in Xiaxi Town!

There was only one main bedroom, guests and children could only stay in the wing rooms, and the servants had to sleep in the common area, like apartments in modern cities, completely packed.

Living in Chang’an, big is not easy, Lin Wanwan truly realized.

And this is an official’s home! Upper-class people! Imagine what the housing conditions of ordinary people are like.

Lin Wanwan still didn’t know that this courtyard was rented by the Pang family’s uncle and wasn’t even their own house, owning your own house in Chang’an is not easy at all.

Pang family’s uncle Pang Youqi, currently serving as the Ministry of Rites, in Chang’an where you could hit two officials with one brick, he is just an inconspicuous small official.

But you must not underestimate this small official, you know in the Tang Dynasty system, new scholars have to start from the Secondary Ninth Rank, like a School Book Officer.

Without family background, to be promoted to the Seventh Rank after eight years is pretty good.

And Pang Youqi’s Ministry of Rites is Secondary Sixth Rank! For someone from modest origins, reaching the Capital’s Secondary Sixth Rank is definitely official luck.

Normally, someone like him without support in the officialdom finds it hard to get past the Seventh Rank hurdle. So, this Pang family uncle is not simple.

Due to insufficient housing, Lin Wanwan and Xiao Yixun’s servants, male in one, female in one, all slept in common quarters, much more difficult than conditions in Mao County.

And Xiao Yixun couldn’t enjoy peace because right next to her wing room lived Pang family’s uncle’s daughter, still busy practicing the piano at night.

Xiao Yixun’s snow-white hands went in and out of her sleeves several times, looking like she very much wanted to throw some Sedative Powder over, but ultimately restrained herself.

If it weren’t for the curfew in Chang’an City, Xiao Yixun might have pulled Lin Wanwan to stay in her home at Kaihua Square.