Chapter 49: Laughing about Liang Sanye
Now that I have learned the news of my sister and met my aunt, I don't need Chen Qing to entrust me with this later matter, and my aunt will bring a letter to my sister.
Taking advantage of the fact that it was still early, Chen Qing went to buy 30 pieces of straw paper, 5 envelopes, and 10 pieces of rice paper, carefully folded the paper and wrapped it in a cloth and put it in the back basket, and then slipped through the door of Tongji with a weak heart, and took an ox cart back to the county seat.
The ox cart was much slower than the horse-drawn cart, and it took more than an hour to arrive. Chen Qing paid 2 copper plates, and then rubbed his stomach and jumped out of the car at the city gate.
At this time, it was too late, except for breakfast, I ate a snack at Mr. Lin's at noon to satisfy my hunger.
The Liang family eats three meals a day, except for Liang Zijun at home, Chen Qing only eats two meals as usual, but seeing that the meal is almost there, it is estimated that it will be dark when he goes home to make dinner. With money in his hand, Chen Qing didn't plan to treat himself harshly, he rubbed his stomach and entered the north gate, it didn't take much time to eat, just go out of the city gate before the unitary time (before 18 o'clock).
It's still late autumn, and the gates of Lidong will be closed from the end of the Shen hour (18 o'clock) to the halfway point of the Shen hour (17 o'clock). It opens at 5 a.m. the next day, and half an hour earlier (4 a.m.) in summer.
Summer: 4 a.m. ~ 6 p.m. Winter: 5 a.m. ~ 5 p.m
Except for the beginning of winter to the spring equinox, the county will open for 6 hours in winter for more than 3 months, and the rest will be open for 7 hours in summer.
Chen Qing walked along the north gate, and the weekday lively breakfast shops and noodle stalls would have long since closed. Usually these cheap meals are only for breakfast and lunch, and the shops are closed before the time comes, and the city gates are opened before they open for business.
I had to turn into an alley and walk half a street before I stopped in front of a small restaurant. The prices of such restaurants and liquor stores that open for dinner and night meals are high, and coolies or farmers mostly rush home for dinner, and only traders, or wealthy local families, go out to eat.
Chen Qing stopped to look at the wooden sign hanging in the store, and felt that the price was not too expensive, so he sat down at the square table outside the door. The guy looked at Chen Qing's shabby clothes, and carried a bamboo basket on his back, so he didn't let it in, but enthusiastically asked Chen Qing what he wanted to eat.
Chen Qing ordered a bowl of the cheapest wontons and asked for a scallion pancake. The guy sang "Goth~" and walked briskly towards the kitchen. After a while, a plate of scallion pancakes cut into triangles was served.
Chen Qing drew two chopsticks, slowly tasted the pancakes, and waited while eating, and the wontons were served when the cakes were almost eaten. The steaming hot wontons are served with salty scallion pancakes, which is also a treat on this chilly evening.
Liang Zijun shook out of the tea shop leisurely, coldly caught a glimpse of an extremely familiar big basket on the corner of the street, and smiled slightly at the corner of his mouth, this kind of bamboo basket is really a necessity for the villagers, one for each person!
was enthusiastically introduced into the box by the guys, and after the dishes were served, Liang Zijun threw peanuts into his mouth very boredly, and secretly scolded Liao Fanzhi for breaking the ground.
"Yo, why did you eat it first? Don't wait for me, man, bring another pair of dishes, a jar of good osmanthus stuffed" As soon as Liao Fanzhi came, he saw Liang Zijun ordering a table of dishes, and he was eating and drinking.
"What did you choose? Not to mention that the dishes are unpalatable, there is a musty smell everywhere" Liang Zijun wrinkled, threw down his chopsticks in disgust, and grabbed peanuts with his hands to eat.
"No, this is a place recommended by Qi Shao, saying that it is a newly opened restaurant for us to give a hand" Liao Fanzhi and other guys sent chopsticks to take a bite of the food, and then smashed his mouth and scolded, "Damn, it must be the one surnamed Qi who made a face in the outer room and pitted our brothers' silver"
"It's just a little silver, and the master doesn't take it to heart, but the host doesn't say that he came to toast the wine, this is not authentic, the master specially came to cheer and ordered the most expensive food on the table, why do you have to show your face to know each other?" Liang Zijun took a sip of old wine mixed with water, and smashed his mouth in a similar way.
Liao Fanzhi still thought that the wine tasted strong enough, poured a cup to suppress the sour taste of vegetables in his mouth, and didn't want to spit on the ground as soon as he drank it, turning his head and spitting on the ground, "What kind of broken wine?
Liao Fanzhi slapped the table and got up, Liang Zijun squinted and sneered, and waited for the shopkeeper to apologize repeatedly before standing up as a peacemaker, "Forget Brother Liao, how can we say that we also came to support Qi Shao's face, don't make your face when you don't do it, but let Qi Shao have no face"
Liao Fanzhi snorted coldly, and wanted to leave after losing a piece of silver, Liang Zijun's eyelids were half raised, "What's the hurry, this osmanthus brew hasn't been served yet, you have to drink wine to leave"
The shopkeeper responded with a busy voice, "Yes, yes, two masters, wait a minute, this guy will give you the best osmanthus brew"
The shopkeeper went to handle the wine in a hurry, and Liang Zijun calmed the irritable Liao Fanzhi and sat down. "This table of dishes can only cost a few dollars, don't make a fuss as if we can't afford to throw it away, a few sips of wine will be considered to be enough for Qi Shao, and the next time we meet, we will slaughter him hard."
Liao Fanzhi raised his eyebrows, rubbed his cheeks and said with a smile, "You're still the most cunning kid!"
"What time did you listen to me make you suffer?" Liang Zijun pulled the corners of his mouth, smiling unrestrainedly.
"Don't smile at me, I'm embarrassed by your laughter, let's leave it to the little girl~" Liao Fanzhi rubbed his arms and secretly said that it was getting colder and colder.
"Do you need to show them a smile? you love to hug and hug, don't get involved with me," Liang Zijun sneered.
"Hey~ Brother Liao, haven't you forgotten that our Liang Sanye loves cleanliness the most? He has only been willing to flirt with the lady of a good family and an unmarried girl over the years," Li Shoucai strode up to the second floor with his stomach in his hand.
"I said Shoucai, why are you getting more and more rounded? This hem can also lose your demeanor," Liao Fanzhi moved his seat in disgust.
"See laughing, see laughing, this home is for eating, and it is inevitable to taste two more bites when developing new dishes" Li Shoucai shook his cheeks and laughed at himself.
"Come on, who doesn't know that you Wanle Zhai is a restaurant that even has a name in Beijing, and your fat has not grown in vain in the past few years" Liang Zijun poked Li Shoucai's stomach with his elbow.
Li Shoucai sighed twice, and then smiled and gave his hand, "No, see laugh, see laugh"
"Yo, it's all here, but it's the latest to come down, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm going to apologize to you for this meal" Why bother to confess as soon as he entered the door, and he gave his hand again and again with good demeanor.
"How can you afford to pay the money from Brother He, you can come to give face to your brother, come and sit, and the good wine will be delivered in a while" Liao Fanzhi got up with a smile and greeted him, and enthusiastically gave up his seat.
"Be polite, then it will be cheeky to be a brother" He Biting raised his eyebrows and sat down proudly, he was used to eating white food, and he always had to take Qiao's pretense to shirk it, just this, none of the three people present were not bored.
Liang Zijun turned his head sideways, turned his back to everyone and rolled his eyes, just saw Chen Qing drinking soup and chewing cakes diagonally opposite the street, only to see him as if he hadn't eaten anything good, and after eating the cakes, he drank the soup before getting up to check out, and then looking at his poor and sour appearance, Liang Zijun's whole face felt hot!
"Brothers, sit down for a while, I'll book a restaurant again, let's change places for a while and then have a drink" Liang Zijun immediately got up with an ugly face and explained, and hurriedly went downstairs to find it.
If this poor body is seen by others, it will be his Liang Sanye's face, I thought that Chen Qing was honestly nesting at home, who would have thought that he would meet in the county today, but fortunately he didn't die and bumped into the eyes of several people, Liang Zijun had nowhere to get out of his stomach, he just wanted to catch Chen Qing and send him out of the city quickly.
When Liang Zijun hurriedly walked down the second floor to the opposite street, the person who had eaten the wontons was about to turn out of the street, Liang Zijun ran half a street before he caught the person and dragged him into the alley, lowered his throat and frowned and shouted, "Why did you run out of this body?"
Chen Qing looked inexplicable, what kind of clothes did he wear if he didn't wear this? There are only a few clothes in total, can he still wear flowers?
Liang Zijun stared at the wood for a long time, and finally twisted his eyebrows and pulled people around the alley to the north city gate. forcibly sent people away, and did not forget to warn, "In the future, without the orders of the master, you are not allowed to enter the city without permission!"
Chen Qing bit it tightly and glared at him fiercely, why did he have to get permission to go out? After breaking free from the restraint, he returned coldly: "It's true that I paid off my debts, but I didn't sell myself to you! My feet grow on my legs, I can go wherever I like!"
After speaking, he ignored the stunned Liang Zijun and walked straight towards Liangjia Village. Liang Zijun held back the scolding that was about to exit, and did not return to the restaurant while holding his breath, but turned around and went to Liang Ji Cloth Workshop.
"Brother Liang, this is ...... Didn't we do something wrong that annoyed him?" He Biting got up and glanced downstairs, looking inexplicable.
Although Liao Fanzhi didn't know why Liang Zijun was unhappy, he knew that it was not because of himself when he looked at his face, and he immediately started haha, "I guess I suddenly remembered that there was something at home"
"As soon as I came in, I saw that he looked bad, I guess he was not happy, Brother He doesn't have to mind, let's drink first, and after looking for him, he will definitely make amends" Li Shoucai smiled and pulled people to sit down and continue to eat and drink.
Coincidentally, the shopkeeper sent a jar of aged osmanthus brew, and personally poured the wine to compensate one by one, which also turned the matter of Liang Zijun leaving the table in a bad mood.
After three rounds of drinking, He Biting smiled drunkenly and said, "Don't blame Brother Liang for being in a bad mood recently, this is going to change me, it is estimated that I will bring someone to the door to snatch my daughter-in-law back!Hmph~ Who dares to abduct my daughter-in-law, see if I don't ask my uncle to put their whole family in prison"
He Biting looked villainous and proudly pretended to be his uncle's prestige. Liao and Li stopped answering the two sentences with haha, this idiot, Liang Zijun heard this and flipped the table.
Why bother with no eyes, why bother to continue to grieve for his friends, but he couldn't help but gloat in his heart, "Who do you say Brother Liang has a crush on? I have to look down on such a country girl who has no appearance, but people refuse to marry but push a brother out to marry, you say this joke, the whole Qingping County probably knows that Liang Sanye's house was stuffed with a little brother, and he also took a few hundred taels of dowry for nothing, tsk~"
"It's no wonder that Brother Liang is not tough, the family is not authentic, and they don't let the relatives come to the door until the day when they know that it is the sister brother who is married, how can you not let people enter the door in front of the guests? Brother Liang is also aggrieved enough, and he was forced to stuff a little brother into the house without saying it, I heard that the brother is rougher than a man, hey~ If I change me, I will divorce and marry another person after a year and a half, and he will be allowed to enter the door for half a year. ”
Why bother to carefully share the news with the two of them, this Liang Sanye has a good face, it is the number one in the entire Qingping County, this time he suffered such a big loss, I don't know how to vomit in my heart, I still pretend to be light all day in front of people, and laugh and say that the taste in the house is good.
Everyone was waiting to see his jokes, but they didn't know that such a thing happened in the first few days, and the best time to ridicule had been missed.
He Biting didn't believe his rhetoric, thinking that he was just dying to save face. With the strength of the wine, he just shook out the conversation that had been held back for more than a month.
"Brother He has great powers, and he can even feel the ins and outs so clearly, but it's a pity that the three of us can just talk about it in private, don't embarrass your brother in front of outsiders" Li Shoucai blinked his small eyes, and the three or two sentences that he picked up first and then ordered He Biting to take back the string of ridicule behind.