Hong Yanwu's parents met for the first time in the late autumn of 1936, when the lotus flowers in Shichahai had long since withered, but the golden cinnamon in Dongyue Temple was fragrant.

According to Shou Jingfang, the specific date of the day was probably not the ninth day of the ninth month of September, or the tenth day of the first month of September.

Because he asked Hong Lu to listen to the afternoon play, because it was still early, he proposed to take advantage of the "flower red bird season" (commonly known as, meaning autumn is the peak season of the bird market) to visit the bird market in Longfu Temple.

At that time, the time and place of the bird market in the capital were not fixed, and most of them were attached to the temple fair, and they were divided in turns from the third day of the old calendar every month.

The third day of the first month is the land temple, the fourth day is the flower market, the fifth and sixth days are the Baita Temple, the seventh and eighth days are the Huguo Temple (commonly known as the West Temple), the ninth and tenth days are the Longfu Temple (commonly known as the East Temple), and the following is analogous to the thirteenth, twenty-third, fourteenth, twenty-fourth and other days. Among them, the bird market of Longfu Temple is the most prosperous, and then it is added for two days on the first and second days of the new year, and there is no empty day in January.

Of course, Hong Lucheng knew that Shou Jingfang's unique hobby in playthings was good, and he was afraid that if he didn't accompany him on a trip, he would have to complain for several days, so he readily agreed.

Unexpectedly, the two of them hired two rickshaws, and when they just walked to the west exit of ** mansion, a black cloud suddenly came, and it was overhead. In the thunder of lightning, a torrential rain fell in an instant.

The rain was blowing and the wind was blowing, and the whole street was suddenly white, and the felt cloth rain canopy that the rickshaw came with couldn't cover it.

Since God is so shameless, not to mention that the bird market will definitely not be visited. Hong Lucheng and Shou Jingfang don't get it right, and they have to be drenched into water chickens.

Fortunately, Hong Lu was in a hurry, and remembered that his "Jinlan Zhai" was nearby, so he hurriedly ordered two cars to go west to Donghua Gate.

also added two coachmen, who did not hesitate to run in the white rain and became a line. That's why they didn't get drenched.

gave the two drivers twice the car money, and as soon as he entered the shop, Shou Jingfang praised Hong Lucheng for his cleverness.

Because I really go to other places to take shelter from the rain, I don't have time to say it first, even when I arrive, it is to shelter from the rain, but "Jinlan Zhai" is different, this is a good place to eat and drink.

For the shopkeeper of "Jin Lan Zhai", the arrival of the young master of the young owner and the Shou family is tantamount to the arrival of two superstar figures, so they naturally have to be warmly entertained and rushed to have a good time.

The shopkeeper not only beckoned the men to quickly serve tea, but also lit the fire in front of the hall to dry the clothes for the two of them. In addition, he also instructed the oven in charge of the back to quickly handle two special filial piety.

That is a kind of pastry that only the Hong family has in the name of, and only the old customers can coincidentally enjoy - "Eight Treasure Cylinder Furnace".

The name of this "Eight Treasure Cylinder Furnace" sounds quite bluffing, but to put it bluntly, it may disappoint many people. Because it's actually a pieless cake made by reassembling dim sum drums.

However, it does have something unique that can be called the "Eight Treasures".

Speaking of which, we have to talk about the traditional dumpling shops in Beijing, the Hong family operates all Manchurian pastries, which are very different from Southern and Western-style dim sum.

Manchu people call dim sum "glutinous dumpling", glutinous dumpling shop is also called "Dazi glutinous shop", Saqima, Baiguo flower cake, hibiscus milk cake, fine small glutinous pastry, puff pastry dim sum, cream uta, such "Dazi glutinous", there are many honey, ghee, cream and all kinds of nuts in the materials.

Therefore, it is precisely from these various and high-quality scraps that are fused together that the fired fire will have a long taste, soft and delicious, and an unusually luscious taste.

Especially in the hot cylinder furnace that has just been baked, the fragrance can be smelled from a mile away, so that those who "smell the fragrance and dismount" are also very popular with the fragrance introduced to the door.

But this kind of thing, the Hong family's dumpling shop is not for sale. It is free for some people who come to the door and catch up with the old customers. If you happen to be able to eat it for free, you can't buy it if you can't buy it.

The intention of the Hong family is very clear, not for anything else, just to attract popularity for small profits. So after a long time, these dim sum dregs that were originally not worth anything not only publicized the Hong family's business, but also won the lasting favor of many new and old customers.

Of course, with the identity of Hong Lucheng and Shou Jingfang, there are special convenience conditions in this kind of oral blessing. Anytime you go, whenever you want. Not restricted. How else can it be said to be a home-owned business?

But no one expected that when Hong Lucheng and Shou Jingfang drank hot tea and were roasting clothes around the stove. Coincidentally, two more women who were drenched in the rain came in outside the door.

One is a beautiful girl in her twenty-eight years old, wearing foreign student clothes, and the other is a middle-aged woman in her thirties and forties. It seems that she knows that it is a beautiful lady and her servant.

Sure enough, the servant woman greeted the shopkeeper. said that they came out of Zhongshan Park and returned home halfway to catch the rain, who would have thought that the car broke down in the middle of the road, and had to come in to avoid the rain. I want to ask the shopkeeper to make a cup of hot tea for their young lady.

After saying this, without waiting for the shopkeeper's answer, Hong Lucheng got up first and came down. This is the consistent principle of the Hong family's business, harmony generates wealth, and people are the first.

And without waiting for the tea to be served, Hong Lucheng gave up his chair and invited the young lady to sit near the fire to warm up.

The young lady was a little ashamed, but she couldn't resist the repeated persuasion of the faithful servant, for fear that she would not be able to explain when she got sick. Hong Lucheng was enthusiastic again, so he excused himself a few times, and finally came over with a blush.

But when she sat down close and loosened the wet braid coiled on the top of her head, Hong Lucheng's heart jumped violently uncontrollably.

Because Miss's long, thick braid hung down to her heels. The thick black hair, lined with the shy face of the young lady, made her look almost like a peach blossom stained with dew.

The glass hazy by water vapor, the aroma of the freshly baked "Eight Treasure Cylinder Furnace", and the delicate figure of the young lady, with a long braid, burst out of the artistic conception of "looking at Penglai from afar, half of the clouds are covered, half of the haze". It also made his mind flood with a picture with an old and warm color.

Although he was forced to be polite, forced to look directly at men and women, he still felt an uncontrollable attraction.

He suddenly realized a sentence in his heart, a woman, if her silhouette is good-looking, then she is a real beauty.

The silhouette of this young lady is very beautiful.

On this day, Hong Lucheng's subsequent performance was very abnormal.

He could have replied and was very good at building relationships with customers, but he couldn't keep talking, and he would only let the "eight-treasure cylinder furnace". actually stumbled in his words, and behaved clumsily, like a different person. It is not commensurate with his white face, self-cultivation, and beautiful appearance.

And I have to say that girls are very sensitive, the young lady seemed to sense something, glanced at his face, and instantly turned crimson.

Then she tasted a piece with great reluctance, thanked her politely, and turned her body around in embarrassment. Through the glass, I just watched intently as the rainwater on the street hit blisters on the street, and the water under the eaves flowed in a line.

As for the rest of the room, the shopkeeper was concentrating on reconciliation. Shou Jingfang and the servant woman were all distracted, munching in ignorance.

Those two plates of "Eight Treasure Cylinder Furnace" didn't take long for them to enter their stomachs.

When the rain had cleared, the young lady bought two boxes of hibiscus cakes and sakima from the shop to take away as a reward for this hospitality.

But in addition to two oceans of money, she also left Hong Lucheng with the lovesick taste of "ruining his whole life and being haggard, only a few dusks".

The young lady's beautiful face made Hong Lucheng unforgettable, and for a long time, he wrote almost all words similar to "Qingsu Ruo Jiuqiu Chrysanthemum".

I don't know how many paintings with a vapor glass background have been painted, with the back of a beautiful woman in front of the glass, of course, there are three or two sand fruits or a sleeping cat, and even a twisted sick plum.

Since then, he has always only cared about the family business, and he has become unsettled, and began to go to Zhongshan Park frequently and "Jinlanzhai" frequently.

When he arrived at the shop, he only sat in front of the glass window and looked at the street scene, often drinking a cup of tea into white water. Looking at the "Eight Treasure Cylinder Furnace" in the saucer, he was stunned.

He didn't know what was wrong with him or what to do, but he felt that in addition to this, it was even more difficult to solve the irritability in his heart......

In fact, he himself knows very well that in this era when most personal marriages are only determined by parents, it is almost impossible to decide the marriage by himself.

But it was this chance encounter, an unexpected coincidence, that made his first desire for the opposite sex.

The longing and twilight that he had never experienced made him begin to believe in the phrase "a thousand miles of marriage" prompted him to start looking for the trace of that young lady with a stubborn persistence.

With the hope of good luck, without knowing a little bit of information about the young lady, he hoped that the old man could tie the red thread to him and the young lady.

However, maybe fate is really destined, and who is a family with whom has already been arranged by fate. Hong Lucheng's immature hope has changed because of his persistence.

After a long time, the shopkeeper of "Jinlan Zhai" couldn't stand it.

Seeing that Shaodong's family was getting thinner and thinner, he actually understood why. So, I told the truth in private. told Hong Lucheng the identity of the young lady, the eldest lady of the East Mansion of the Yan family in the half-acre garden, and the eldest lady of the Yan family's East Mansion, Wan Yan Yunlin.

She also said that her father had died, and now she has only a widowed mother and an older brother. Although he is a close relative of Wanyan Lixian's family in Xifu, he doesn't move around much.

Just because the old lady Guerjia is from a noble background, she has always been decisive and clear in her work, and her self-esteem and self-confidence are full of violence and majesty, and she is not easy to socialize, and her family style can be called strict to the extreme.

The original intention of the shopkeeper was actually to say that the gap between the two families was too big, and the Tianhuang noble family had despised the merchants, and now there was a barrier between the Hong family and the upstarts, and it was difficult for the two families to become relatives no matter what. He thought that he could make the young owner change his mind and die of this heart.

But Hong Lu listened to it, although he had some worries in his heart, he couldn't stand his feelings. On the contrary, he was very happy to know the whereabouts of the Yiren, and then he made up his mind to try his best to take the initiative to fight for his own happiness.

In this way, it is a bit cliché today, but it is quite real love at first sight, and it has really become an opportunity for Hong Lucheng and Wang Yunlin to hold hands for a lifetime.

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