Chapter 1: Scoundrels
Early spring, Meiling County!
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There was a plainly dressed man, leading a red horse, standing under an apricot tree. He is obviously picturesque, handsome as a fairy, but there is a faint sadness lingering between his eyebrows!
The man raised his hand and gently stroked the pearl hidden in the deepest part of his arms, and said softly: "Yue'er, even my brother is looking for you!"
The charming woman behind the man had already red eyes, and she asked him desolately: "Since I am reluctant, since I love him so deeply, why did I force her to save me in the first place!"
The plain-clothed man said lightly: "Save you, but also save her! Only by forgetting me can she live a long time!"
But his Yue'er's vow before leaving sounded in his ears: "If there is an afterlife, never see each other"
He closed his eyes painfully: Yue'er, even my brother will not wait for the next life, and the debt will be repaid in this life!
"I see, ......I see," the woman clenched her fists and laughed wildly, but two lines of tears slowly ran down her white cheeks.
The plain-clothed man turned on his horse and galloped away amid the woman's wild laughter.
The woman gradually stopped laughing, and hatred swelled up on her always gentle face, she stared at the man's distant back viciously, and shouted sadly: "Huo Lianjue, believe me, you will definitely regret it." ”
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Meiling County
"Sell....... Rock sugar gourd yo ......."
"Selling tofu brain, fragrant and sweet tofu brain......"
"Ravioli, hot ravioli......"
Because it is a ten-day gathering, the East Street, which is not very spacious, is even more crowded with villagers who have come from the nearby ten miles and eight towns to do business.
Most of the villagers brought pickled vegetables, peanuts, eggs, dried fish, live chickens and ducks and other agricultural products. The eldest girl and the little daughter-in-law also shy to put out manual work, what handkerchiefs, purses, sachets, insoles, etc.
In order to get a good price at the market, the villagers went out before dawn, and it was close to noon, and most of them were already hungry.
So some people took out the dry food that had been prepared long ago to satisfy their hunger, and some people took advantage of the small money in their hands to make a tooth sacrifice and began to wander around the market.
In order to steal business, the vendors in the bazaar who sell all kinds of food are shouting more and more hard.
"Selling steamed buns! Big buns with white flowers, thin skin and big filling, a bite full of oil, not delicious and no money!"
Zhang Dapang kneaded the dough on the board while shouting loudly without showing weakness. The big steamer in front of him was constantly steaming out, and it was full of white and fat, mouth-watering big meat buns.
"Shopkeeper, how do you sell these buns?" Zhang Dapang raised his head and saw a handsome young man holding a golden sandalwood fan in front of his stall.
This young man was wearing a luxurious cyan dark striped robe, and his forehead was also covered with a black forehead inlaid with huge eastern pearls, and the young man was more and more white as jade, and his eyebrows were like ink paintings. There are a pair of amazingly bright black eyes on the palm-sized little face, which is full of anticipation and unforgettable!
It's just that this young man's face is not bloody, his lips are pale, and he has a strange pathology.
Of course, these are not the point, the point is that the young man's clear black eyes are staring at the buns in the steamer at the moment, his throat is squirming slightly, obviously swallowing saliva.
Seeing the greedy appearance of this handsome young man, Zhang couldn't help showing a trace of smugness on his round face that was as fat and white as a bun, and said with a smile: "Buns cost two cents a piece, and three five cents." ”
Seeing the young man's dark eyes purring, he shook the folding fan in his hand, and said in a slightly immature voice: "Three for five cents, but it's not expensive!"
Zhang Dapang hurriedly took the lotus leaf neatly and asked out loud: "Little master, how many do you want to buy?"
"Not busy!" the corners of the young man's pale lips hooked slightly, revealing a sly smile. Then he gently shook the folding fan in his hand and said slowly: "Young master, I don't ride the fastest horse, I don't drink the most mellow wine, I don't eat the best food, your buns are really as delicious as you say?"
This guy is not very old, but his tone is not small!
Zhang Dapang was aroused by the arrogance in his chest by the young man's obviously provocative question, he patted his chest and said heroically: "My buns are notoriously thin and stuffed, and they are full of oil when they bite into it, and they don't need money if they are not delicious!"
The handsome young man didn't seem to believe Zhang Dapang's words, and raised his voice again and asked, "It's really a mouthful of oil, it's not delicious and doesn't cost money?"
When Zhang Dapang heard this, he couldn't help but feel a strange feeling in his heart. But the young man in front of him is gorgeously dressed, his eyes are clear, and the one who is sprinkled with gold folding fan is called a personable, and at a glance it is a noble son who has been pampered by a rich and noble family.
Zhang Dapang immediately got rid of the ridiculous idea in his heart, nodded vigorously, and said, "Not bad, not bad, no money!"
After the handsome young man got his affirmative words, he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and smile, and then he turned his head and shouted loudly to the bustling crowd behind him: "Big Shuang, Little Shuang, come and eat steamed buns!"
Zhang Dapang looked at the young man's line of sight, and saw that as soon as his shout fell, two delicate girls wearing the same light green silk shirt and combing double snails were immediately squeezed out of the crowd.
After the girls approached quickly, Zhang Dapang was shocked to find that the two girls were not only dressed the same, but also looked exactly the same. The same goose egg face, willow eyebrows, purring and turning through clever apricot eyes.
It's actually a twin, or a pretty girl who is as beautiful as a flower and full of youthful vitality. It's just that their cheeks are flushed, and their skin is a healthy honey color, which is a world of difference from the handsome but slightly sickly teenager.
Just as Zhang Dapang made a mistake, the two girls had already run to his stall. I saw them pulling the sleeves of the young man's shirt from left to right, shaking and shouting, "Why do you want to eat steamed buns? That's the food of a rough man!"
"I want to eat osmanthus cake, I want to eat osmanthus cake!"
"What's so delicious about osmanthus cake, if you want to eat it, you can eat the Luohan seat of Jiupin Zhai!"
The girls were chattering, and the delicate and crispy sweet voice not only made Zhang Da Fat's whole body crisp by half, but also obviously gave the handsome young man a headache.
I saw him brush the folding fan in his hand, and gently knocked on the top of the big double head who wanted to eat osmanthus cake, and then raised his voice, and said angrily: "Osmanthus cake is the most sweet and soft glutinous in Jin Fengxiang, but unfortunately they only make five cages in Chen every day, and it is already noon, even if the osmanthus cake is not sold out, it has been cold, and it has long passed the best tasting period." ”
Then he knocked on the little pair who wanted to eat the Luohan seat, and said: "The Luohan seat is good, but unfortunately it is early autumn, and without that oil-soaked spring bamboo shoot, no matter how good the Luohan seat is, it can only be called a nun Zhai!"
Xiaoshuang touched his head and asked curiously, "Why is there no oil-soaked spring bamboo shoots, and the Luohan seat is called a nun Zhai?"
Zhang Dapang also looked at the young man with puzzled eyes, waiting for his answer. The corners of the young man's pale mouth hooked evilly, and he saw that he dragged out his voice, and said meaningfully: "Well....... You'll know when you find Xiao Langjun!"
Xiaoshuang looked ignorant and wanted to ask again, but Dashuang pulled her, then smacked lightly, blushed slightly and said, "Don't ask, it will definitely not be a good word!"
Zhang Da Fat's heart moved, he felt that he had understood the essence of this young man's words, and couldn't help but show him a tacit obscene smile.
Zhang Da chubby neatly sandwiched three hot buns with a bamboo chopstick, and handed them over with lotus leaves. Don't forget to make fun of it, and said with an elegant smile: "Then please ask the little master to taste my bun and see how it tastes!"
The handsome young man smiled slightly and put away the folding fan, then stretched out two slender and white fingers, twisted one of the buns quite reservedly, brought it to his lips and bit a small bite, chewing slowly.
Seeing this, the big and small pairs no longer made a fuss about what osmanthus cake to eat, Luohan seat. They honestly grabbed a bun and ate it with gusto.
In the end, he was born in a rich and noble family, and the handsome young man's eating appearance was very elegant, but the speed was not slow, and a white fat bun the size of a man's fist entered his belly after a while.
After the bun was down, his originally pale lips were dyed with a touch of oil, revealing a hint of pink and tender color. The big double, the small double is not much slower than him, and the three buns were wiped out in an instant.
Seeing that they had finished eating, Zhang Dapang asked with a smile, "Little master, how does my bun taste?"
"It's quite hot!" the handsome young man nodded, wiped his sleeve on his mouth, led the big pair, and the little pair raised his legs and left.
"Hey, wait!" Zhang Dapang was stunned for a moment when he saw this, and then hurriedly chased him out. He stopped in front of the young man and shouted, "You little brother, you can leave after eating, and you won't pay!"
The young man looked surprised and said curiously, "Pay?
"What kind of money can it be, of course it's bun money!" Zhang Dapang was simply angry, he spread his hands, and said angrily: "Three buns, charge you five cents, hurry up and pay for it!"
"I still want money for steamed buns!" the young man "brushed" to open the folding fan in his hand, and while shaking it gently, he turned his face to the big pair next to him, and the little pair asked, "Do you think this bun is delicious?"
"It's not delicious, there is not enough time to make the dough, there are dead lumps in it, the meat filling is not fresh enough yesterday, and there are too many green onions in it to cover the fresh fragrance of the meat filling. Dashuang and Xiaoshuang shook their heads in unison and said crisply: "We have never eaten such unpalatable buns." ”
I know my own things, and what Dashuang and Xiaoshuang are telling the truth. But his own things were buried like this in public, which also made Zhang Dapang's mood extremely unhappy, and his white and chubby round face became darker and darker.
I heard him say hatefully: "Since it's so unpalatable, why don't you still eat even a little dregs." Don't ramble, it's a matter of course to pay for food, so give the money quickly!"
The young man smiled lightly and said slowly: "I asked again and again before eating, it was you who said, a bite full of oil, it is not delicious and does not need money! Now we eat your buns and feel extremely unpalatable, why do we have to pay? Big Shuang, Little Shuang, let's go!"
Zhang Dapang couldn't help but have black lines on his face when he heard this, the young man in front of him was extravagant, and he was also the first to evaluate the food, I really didn't expect him to be a scoundrel who sang and wrote well in order to eat overlord bags.
"Want to leave, it's not so easy to ......" Zhang Dapang couldn't help but feel angry, and opened his big fan-like hand to grab the placket of the young man's clothes.
In Zhang Dapang's opinion, the young man was thin and small, only his chest was high, and catching him was as simple as catching a little chick.
Who knew that the two girls who followed him all changed their faces when they saw this, and they didn't know whether it was the big double or the little pair who stretched out their delicate arms to block it first, and hit Zhang Da Fat's big hand back. The other lifted his leg and kicked Zhang Da Fat's stomach, and he took several steps backwards without a defense, and one stumbled and almost fell.
Zhang Dapang didn't expect these two yellow-haired girls to look delicate and weak, but they were both infinitely powerful. This is a hard stubble, and he can't help but "chuckle" in his heart and begin to secretly complain.
This side made a move, and immediately attracted the attention of countless melon-eating people around the scene, so the four of them were instantly surrounded by people.
Zhang Dapang peeked and found that there were a few familiar neighbors in the crowd. His bull's eyes lit up suddenly, and then he lay down on the ground, rolling on the ground while howling loudly: "Come and see, come and see, it's simply unreasonable, these people don't give money for eating, and they beat people!"
The boy obviously didn't expect that the big pair and the little pair would do something to others, and he glared at them secretly reproachfully. Dashuang and Xiaoshuang glanced at each other, quietly stuck out the tip of their tongues, but said in unison: "Who told him to move his hands and feet first." ”
Although Zhang Dapang's voice was desolate, it caused the people around him to laugh. It's not the bad taste of the onlookers who help to abuse, it's really the big fat man who is as his name suggests, tall and fat, and sitting on the ground is not much shorter than the three immature boys and girls in front of him. But he was like an angry little daughter-in-law who leaned on the ground and hammered his chest and howled, how ridiculous is this scene!
It seems that it is not possible to mix and eat! The young man sighed slightly, and whispered to Da Shuang, Xiao Shuang: "Do you still have any money on you?"
Xiaoshuang blinked and said confidently: "It was spent three days ago, and there is not a single copper plate left!"
Dashuang frowned, and complained angrily: "It's all you, you have to eat some whole lake feast, and spent the last twenty taels of silver, otherwise we can last a few more days." ”
Xiaoshuang bit his fingertips, his eyes rolled, and he muttered in a low voice: "There are still mouths to talk about people, obviously you eat more than me!"
"You ......."
"Stop arguing!" Seeing that the two had a tendency to quarrel, the young man had a headache to stop it. He said angrily: "Quarrel and can't make money, let's think about how we can get out of trouble!"
After hesitating for a moment, Dashuang raised his hand to take off a warm pink pearl stuffed in the ear hole, put it in the young man's hand, and whispered: "This pearl should be worth the money of those buns!"
The young man hesitated for a moment, but still took the pearl in her hand, and then whispered: "I borrowed it, and I will buy it back for you when I have money!"
Dashuang smiled and said, "Okay, I'll wait!"
The young man held the pearl in his hand tightly and still carried a large pair of body temperatures, and came to Zhang Da Fat, who was still lying on the ground howling, and said angrily: "Hey, don't make trouble, this pearl is worth the money for the bun!"
"Pearl?, who knows if it's true or not!" Zhang Da Fat Bull's eyes rolled and said angrily: "Take it and see ......."
This pink pearl comes from Penglai, although it is small but crystal round, it is a very favorite thing of the big pair, if it is not for some loss on his side, the boy will never use it to pay for the bun.
Zhang Da Pang is a rough man in the market, at most he knows some yellow and white things, this small and small still has a trace of warm pearls rolling in his palm, let him stare at the cloudy bull's eyes, but his brain is like a mess, still can't tell the real from the fake.
The young man saw Zhang Da Pang staring at the pearl for a long time without making a sound, thinking that the matter was understood, so he took Da Shuang, and Xiao Shuang turned around again to leave. Seeing that these young boys and girls were timid, the big fat man couldn't help but feel happy and proud in his heart.
At the moment when the young man turned around, the thumb-sized Dongzhu on his forehead refracted a dazzling luster in the sunlight, and flashed in front of Zhang Dapang's eyes.
Although Zhang Dapang doesn't know the goods, he knows that the one on the young man's forehead is definitely much more valuable than the one in his hand, if he gives it to Second Sister Li on West Street, she will definitely agree to her marriage!
Zhang Da Pang stretched out his scarlet tongue and licked his lips, his eyes stared at the young man's forehead, and a strong greed couldn't help but rise in his heart.
"Wait!" Greed finally overcame reason, Zhang Dapang shouted, hurriedly got up from the ground, and took a few steps forward to block their way.
The young man's eyebrows furrowed, and his face finally showed impatience, and he said coldly: "The pearl has been given to you, what else do you want?"
Zhang Dapang snorted heavily with his nose, then threw the pink pearl in his hand to the ground, gritted his teeth viciously and said: "Originally, five cents can be understood, but it's a pity that you beat people, so this matter is not counted like this." Now my clothes are torn, and people are injured, so I have to spend five taels of silver to see the doctor. Your little bead isn't worth five taels of silver, unless it's the one on your head!" he raised his hand and pointed at it, and everyone's eyes followed his fingertips to the young man's forehead.
The young man's two bright black pupils also subconsciously turned up, and the crystal pearl on his forehead quietly revealed a seductive luster under the eyes of everyone.