Chapter 15: Beauty Bathing
The people in the gambling house also strode away after Ye Zhutou and Hua Lianyue exchanged a few words. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Hua Lianyue looked up at the sky, the blue sky was rippling with a few thin clouds and mist, and the bright sun was just rising overhead. The golden sunlight shines through the mist, exuding a lazy warmth.
Hua Lianyue withdrew her eyes and looked at the shriveled money bag in her little hands, and asked with a grin, "How much is left?"
Xiaoshuang checked the weight of the money bag, estimated it in his heart, and said, "There are still twenty or thirty taels." ”
"Okay!" Hua Lianyue tapped her palm with a folding fan, and said with great interest: "My mouth has faded in the past few days in the Li Mansion, how about we go to eat the whole lake banquet in Wufu Building?"
"Okay!
"Little glutton!" Hua Lianyue tapped the top of her head with the fan bone in her hand with a smile, and then waved her hand and said, "Let's go!"
The reason why Meiling County is called Meiling County is because there is a mountain outside this county that is famous for plum blossoms. It is said that in winter, the mountains are full of red plums that are like clouds, and the shadows are sparse and horizontal, and the dark fragrance floats. Every time this kind of grand occasion comes, it will always attract countless literati and ink writers to watch. This mountain is lonely and nameless, only because of this mountain full of red plums, it is called Meiling by the world.
Meiling is divided into two again, the east ridge is steep, and there is a hundred-year-old temple on the top of the mountain called Fahua. Xiling is low, but it has built a academy called Qingyuan.
There is an inlet left by the river when the river passes between the east ridge and the west ridge. This inlet stretches for miles and is extensive. The bay was planted with lotus, water chestnut, chicken head rice and other things by nearby villagers. In the water, there are schools of fatty carp, crucian carp, grass carp and other colorful lake fresh. And the Wufu Building, which is good at making a banquet for the whole lake, is located on the lakeside in the middle of the East and West Ridges.
Hua Lianyue was leaning on the bamboo fence on the third floor of Wufu Building at the moment, waiting for the food to be served, while glancing around boredly. The view here is excellent, and the view of the lake is as far as the eye can see.
In early autumn, the lotus flowers on the lake are almost gone. The autumn breeze blows, the surface of the lake ripples, and the residual leaves make a sound of rubbing. Originally, his eyes were full of decadence, but there were more than a dozen pointed-head boats shuttling at a very fast speed among those remnants.
Most of the fishermen sitting on the boat were fishermen dressed in coarse cloth, whispering and laughing loudly, but their hands were neatly looking for the abandoned chicken axes among the leaves. It is their delicate and pure laughter that injects endless vitality into the remnant scene in front of them.
Under the tall plane tree by the lake, several ladies with copper nails are quickly peeling chicken head rice, they hope that when the time comes to the market, their freshest chicken head rice can be exchanged for a good price.
Hua Lianyue happened to have a bowl of the freshest osmanthus stewed chicken head rice in front of her. The entrance is soft, glutinous, with the aftertaste of osmanthus, and she groaned with satisfaction: "The most is the autumn and August in the south of the Yangtze River, and the chicken head rice is round with pearls." ”
This whole lake banquet is very particular, such as "carp eat one foot, crucian carp eat eight inches, whip eel, horseshoe turtle" and so on. All the fish, turtles, shrimps, crabs, mussels, water chestnuts, roots, lotus, lotus roots, cattails, etc. produced in the lake are all available, each with its own taste.
Moreover, each ingredient can be made with different flavors, and there are various methods such as sweet and sour, teriyaki, sauce, and stew for just one carp.
There are more than 40 kinds of dishes on the Quanfu Banquet, but each dish is a small plate, served on a blue and white plate depicting the bamboo pattern of Lake Shizhi, and it is just four or five mouthfuls. It can not only let the guests taste the most delicacies as much as possible, but also appear reserved and noble.
Although the business of these Wufu Lou is excellent, there are not many people like Hua Lianyue who dare to come to the Quanfu Banquet. So countless curious eyes, along with the dishes, swept towards Hua Liyue and Xiaoshuang intentionally or unintentionally.
However, Hua Lianyue and Xiaoshuang have long been surprised (it can also be said that they have big nerves), they eat what they should eat and drink, and they are not affected at all.
At this time, there happened to be a glutinous rice lotus root, and Hua Lianyue put a small piece into her mouth, well! The taste of freshness and beauty made her picky tongue finally get satisfactory comfort, and she was chewing with satisfaction, when she suddenly heard someone shouting excitedly in her ear: "Look, Boss Xiao is going to bathe!"
Hua Lianyue almost choked to death by the soft lotus root in her mouth, she hurriedly picked up the cloud tea in front of her, drank a few sips randomly, swallowed what was in her mouth, and pricked up her ears to listen carefully.
"Boss Xiao has to pray for blessings in this Wufu Building every seventh day of the new year, could it be that you also came here to see her Mu ..... Pray for it?"
"That is, no matter how delicious the food in Wufulou is, it is not as vibrant as Boss Xiao himself!" As soon as this person's voice fell, a tacit and dirty laughter sounded around him.
The laughter was mixed with an extremely clear and cold snort, Hua Lianyue was stunned for a moment, feeling that this voice was extremely familiar. Looking for prestige, I saw the handsome young master of the Li family, Li Mingjie happened to be sitting behind her alone, holding a blue and white porcelain cup and pouring himself a drink.
Hey, didn't you hear that Li Ruxiang say that he was going to study in the morning, how could he be here at this moment, could it be that he also came to see that Boss Xiao to bathe and pray for blessings?
However, this obscene thought only flashed in Hua Lianyue's heart, and it was left far behind, and she was still more interested in the upcoming Boss Xiao.
Hua Lianyue has traveled all over the Central Plains, and she is also well-informed, and she has never seen the owner of a restaurant bathing in front of diners and praying for blessings. This is very interesting, very fragrant, very rare and lively can not be missed, her smart eyes stared at the boss, and looked at a bamboo platform built in the middle of Wufu Building with great interest.
Several young women were busy on the bamboo platform, carrying a large wooden bathtub surrounded by carved bamboo screens covered with tulle. Buckets of hot water poured into the tub were poured into the tub in an endless stream. After a while, the small bamboo platform was steaming, and the white mist was filled, like a fairyland.
At this time, another girl slowly walked up to the bamboo platform with a bamboo basket full of petals, and through the dreamlike tulle screen, the girl could be vaguely seen gently scattering the petals in the bamboo basket into the bath tub. A faint fragrance of flowers steamed with the heat, and it spread in the Wufu Building.
The surroundings suddenly became more and more passionate, laughter, shouting, endless.
At this time, the busy girls on the bamboo platform leaned over in unison and said crisply: "Please Boss Xiao!"
As soon as the girls' voices fell, the original noisy crowd came down strangely quietly. Under the eager gaze of everyone, a beautiful woman walked in lightly.
Xiaoshuang exclaimed incredulously: "This Boss Xiao turned out to be a woman!"
"Nonsense!" Hua Lianyue stared intently at Boss Xiao who came intently, and did not forget to whisper Xiaoshuang: "Of course it's a woman, otherwise you think that these people in front of you are specially rushing to see a rough man bathing and praying for blessings on the seventh day of the new year." ”
Xiaoshuang scratched his head and sneered: "I still think it's incredible if I don't see it with my own eyes!" Bathing in front of so many men......
The woman's green silk is like Dai, her long eyebrows are like ink, her pair of oblique eyes are smiling, and her red lips are as bright as cherries, as if she wants to invite someone to kiss Fangze. Obviously, she didn't do anything, but it made people feel that her every move was with an indescribable charm, this is a lazy and bewitching woman in her bones.
She was covered in red, her towering chest was as white and greasy as jade, and her slender waist was tied with a belt trimmed with gold wire. As she walked, the long skirt undulated like waves between her bare ankles.
The men around her were all holding their breath, but the pair of fiery and presumptuous eyes seemed to have unscrupulously stripped her of the light and flowing red veil.
Hua Lianyue has also seen a lot of beauties in her own way, Jinling Oiran Li Meier, Fan Yiqiao, the daughter of the prefect of Xinyang, and even the famous capture of Yin Che in the capital, they are all first-class beauties. But she had never seen Boss Xiao like in front of her.
The appearance is as delicate and transparent as a girl, and her body is as enchanting and moving as a young woman. However, her pair of beautiful phoenix eyes happened to meet Hua Lianyue in Gu Pan. Hua Lianyue instantly felt that she had fallen into an ancient well that was not alarmed, and there was a biting chill in the gloom and gloom. What made her feel like she was facing was a desolate old man who had seen through the world.
Just for a moment, Boss Xiao faintly looked away, and Hua Lianyue realized that she had been subconsciously holding her breath, so that her chest was a little painful. This is an interesting woman with a story, and Hua Renyue has a strong interest in her.
After a while, Boss Xiao had already come to the bamboo platform. saw her jade hand gently tugging on her waist, and the golden silk belt opened with a touch, and the red dress on her shoulder, which was as thin as a cicada's wings, immediately poured down.......