Li Xin finished smoking the cigarette in his hand, threw the cigarette butt into the ditch at his feet, and also collected the thoughts that were surging in his heart, walked into the drizzle again, stepped up the stairs to the bridge, and came to Xia Xiaona's side.

"Why have you been around for so long?" asked Xia Xiaona.

Li Xin said: "I came here after smoking a cigarette in front of the shop, firstly because I was afraid that the smell of smoke would smoke you, and secondly, because I was smoking there while watching the scenery. ”

Xia Xiaona asked strangely, "Where are you looking at the scenery?"

"Look at you!"

Xia Xiaona felt Li Xin's hand on her waist getting tighter and tighter, and quickly lowered the umbrella in her hand to cover the faces of the two of them, and said coquettishly: "What are you doing? It's on the street, so many people around are watching!"

Li Xin couldn't help but kiss her on the face: "I don't care, let them take care of it!"

Xia Xiaona said shyly: "What's wrong with you? You were fine just now, but you will become like this after a while!"

Li Xin did not answer her words, but asked, "Do you know how to speak Shanghainese?

"How could I say this, how did you think to ask this?"

"I just think that the scenery in front of me plus your dress and temperament, if it is paired with Wu Nong's soft words, it can make me shuttle back and forth between the Republic of China and the present, this is the ultimate enjoyment of our visit to the ancient town of the water town!"

Looking at Li Xin's burning gaze, Xia Xiaona blushed: "If you ignore you, you will be cranky like last night, this is on the street, you are not afraid of letting people see the joke!"

"Just say a few words to me. Li Xin said reluctantly.

Xia Xiaona thought hard and said, "Alla is a crooked ......."

Before she finished speaking, she burst into laughter: "Haha...... Am I right?"

Li Xin laughed when he heard it: "Not bad, yes, it seems that this is what I said, you learn a few more words, and tell me at night!"

"You're broken!" Xia Xiaona pinched Li Xin's arm.

Li Xin took her waist and walked under the bridge, learning her tone and saying, "Now Allah invites Nong to dinner?"

Xia Xiaona smiled: "What you said is not like it at all. ”

Li Xin said: "That's right, learning dialects is a difficult thing for me, if only I belonged to starling, I could open my mouth and come." ”

"What do you mean by starling?" Xia Xiaona asked innocently.

Li Xin smiled: "Are you really, you don't even know this? There is an idiom called clever tongue, which describes what a person learns like anything, just like a parrot learning his tongue." Don't say it, I've really seen this kind of person, any dialect, as long as he hears three or five sentences, he can learn it vividly, what do you say he doesn't belong to starling?"

"I've never heard of such a statement, but it's quite vivid. You still say that others are clever and eloquent, I think you belong to the starling, and you can say anything. ”

Li Xin asked with a serious face, "Am I so capable of learning?"

"You can't learn, you can speak. I don't know what's going on in your head, how can you have so many strange ideas!" Xia Xiaona said, smacking Li Xin's forehead with her white fingers.

"Really, do you like to hear it?"

"I like it, but don't say bad things!" Xia Xiaona pouted.

Li Xin teased her with great interest: "Allah said in the house that it's okay?"

Xia Xiaona shyly held her pink fist and slapped it on Li Xin's shoulder: "You hate it!"

Li Xin smiled contentedly, he knew that although Xia Xiaona said that she was unwilling, when he took her to swim in love, she followed him step by step.

Next to a high stone arch bridge, Li Xin saw a lot of people gathered in front of a small shop, so he squeezed in to take a look.

"It's fried stinky tofu, do you want to eat it?"

"No, it doesn't smell good. Xia Xiaona said.

"That's what I want, you wait, I'll buy one. ”

After a while, Li Xin came back with a piece of stinky tofu in a paper bowl, he tied a piece of stinky tofu with a bamboo skewer and handed it to Xia Xiaona: "It's so delicious, you can taste it." ”

Xia Xiaona took it and tasted it: "Well, it's quite delicious." ”

She looked left and right while eating, and then said with a smile: "But it's too unladylike to dress like this and eat stinky tofu unscrupulously on the street, hehe..."

Li Xin laughed and looked her up and down: "It's okay, it's this kind of ladylike taste of small jasper that is down-to-earth, I like it!"

At this time, the rain gradually decreased, and it was the May Day holiday, and there were many people who came to the ancient town to play, and the alleys seemed to be very crowded.

In order to avoid the oncoming crowd, Li Xin walked out from under the umbrella and followed behind Xia Xiaona.

Xia Xiaona walked gracefully in the alley with a blue and white umbrella, her high heels knocked out a "da-da" sound on the stone road, and her slender figure fascinated Li Xin's heart.

Thinking of the softness of her palms when she held Xia Xiaona's waist just now, Li Xin wanted to continue this beauty at this moment.

At an intersection, Xia Xiaona, who had never seen Li Xin follow, stopped and waited for Li Xin: "What are you hiding behind?"

Li Xin smiled and didn't speak.

Xia Xiaona saw that Li Xin was smiling a little strangely, so she asked, "What are you laughing at?"

"I'm watching you walk from behind, it's beautiful!"

Xia Xiaona glanced at Li Xin affectionately: "What bad idea do you have?"

Li Xin put her mouth to her ear and whispered, "Go back at night and let me take a good look!"

"You're so bad!"

Li Xin took the blue and white umbrella in Xia Xiaona's hand and closed it, took her hand and asked, "How is it, is this the ancient water town you imagined?"

"Of course it is, if I don't have to go back in a hurry tomorrow, I would like to stay here for a few more days. Do you like the view?"

"Like. It's not just the scenery here, as long as you're there, I like the scenery everywhere!"

"Really, will you always be like this?" Xia Xiaona said tightly, holding Li Xin's hand.

"Of course. ”

Xia Xiaona, who was full of joy, originally wanted Li Xin to curse and swear, but when the words came to her mouth, she held back again, and she felt that those words were a little unlucky.

Li Xin, who wanted to take Xia Xiaona to eat local specialties, chose left and right in the ancient town, and finally chose a restaurant with very beautiful decoration and many diners. As soon as they entered the door, the enthusiastic proprietress greeted them and said, "Is the gentleman eating?"

"yes, are there any seats?"

"Yes, yes, you two, please come with me, there are seats on the second floor. ”

"What specialties do you have here?" asked Li Xin as she walked.

"That's a lot, braised pork, hooves, river crabs, river shrimp, I'll show you the menu later." ”

After coming to the second floor and sitting down, the proprietress immediately took out a thick menu and pointed it to Li Xin: "Sir, you see that these are all our local specialties, what do you want to order?"

Li Xin pushed the menu to Xia Xiaona and said, "What do you want to eat?"

"All right, you can order it. ”

"Then I'll just order what I like?"

"Hmm. ”

Li Xin took a closer look at the menu and asked, "The braised pork tastes similar to the hoof, right?"

The proprietress said, "It's different, the method is different, and the taste is different." ”

Li Xin said: "I look at the same color, but the size and parts are different. ”

The proprietress smiled when she heard this: "Sir, you are really joking." There are also hoofs in other places, but braised pork is our specialty here. This dish is made of the best pork belly cut into cubes, tied with straw into a "field" character, cooked in traditional ways, the color and flavor are as beautiful and glutinous as eel, you can't eat it anywhere else. ”

"Really, let's have one, I think it's pretty special. ”

The proprietress wrote in the notebook and asked, "Do you want anything else?"

"Is this whitewater fish also a local specialty?" asked Li Xin, pointing to the menu.

"Yes, this white-water fish is a specialty of a lake near us, and the cooking is very particular, and the main purpose of steaming is to preserve the original flavor of the fish. This kind of fish itself is delicate, after slaughtering and washing, it should be marinated for more than two hours, add condiments and steam it into the pot over high heat until 5 minutes cooked, take it out and pour out the juice, and then add cooking wine and steam it for another 5-6 minutes. When you taste it, it is tender in the mouth and has a good taste. ”

Li Xin smiled: "Can you really say, is it really so delicious?"

The proprietress was a little embarrassed by Li Xin's words, and replied with a smile: "Of course, you see that we have so many guests here, many of them are repeat customers near Shanghai, and we can't sit here on holidays." ”

"Okay, a steamed white water fish, a hairy crab with clear water, a mushroom greens, a wine herb alfalfa, and two bowls of rice. That's all for now, it's not enough. ”

"Okay. The proprietress replied as she took notes.

"Fish and crabs are fresh. Li Xin advised.

"Don't worry, we can't even do this, aren't we smashing our own signboards?"

The proprietress put away the thick menu and turned around to leave, when she suddenly asked as if she remembered something: "Sir, do you two want to have some rice wine?" ”

"Yes, is there a vial?"

"Yes. ”

"Then bring us a bottle. ”

"Okay, you two wait a minute, the food will come up in a while. ”

After the proprietress left, Xia Xiaona asked Li Xin: "Aren't you not drinking?

"Follow the customs of the locals, you didn't listen to the proprietress who said that to taste the river fresh of the water town, you have to pair it with rice wine to have a taste. ”

"Don't get drunk. ”

"Don't worry, I still have this self-control. Li Xin is really telling the truth, if it weren't for the better taste of the beautiful scenery, delicious food and beauty in front of him, he would not be good at drinking in the first place.