Chapter 42: Restaurant I

Seeing that the acrobatic performance was over, Baba waited to see the next one, and heard a commotion from the southwest, and the crowd immediately rushed to that side.

I saw that a row of houses and buildings to the south of the street were majestic and magnificent, the first floor in the middle was five stories high, the colored lights swirled, from the fifth floor to the first floor, the downstairs façade was wide, and on the street in front of the door, I don't know how many people were standing, and the noise just now came from here.

Wu Yan saw a wooden plaque hanging on the main entrance, with four big characters written on it - "Liuxian Restaurant", and turned his head suspiciously and asked Xia Zihe, "To attract so many people, how good should the wine brewed in this restaurant be?"

Xia Zihe smiled and said nothing, seeing Wu Yan frowning and puzzled for a long time, he explained: "Since he claims to be able to keep immortals, you say, why doesn't the store have two brushes." ”

This is equivalent to not saying it, Wu Yan was helpless, so he simply shut up and stopped talking to him, just looking at the restaurant in front of him.

Although it is called a restaurant, there is no square table and bench for people to sit in, and there is no greasy food and wine, the light is bright, and the marble paved on the ground is like a mirror, smooth and silvery, bright and shiny.

There is a potted plant under the vermilion window lattice that opens on the street, there is a table in front of the potted plant and in the middle of the lobby, there are seven or eight people standing together, carved with jade, there is a pattern of flying dragons and phoenixes, but there is a table but no chairs, it is not like a place for people to sit, I don't know what the intention is.

There is a painting embedded on the wall opposite the bonsai, with no one on the painting, depicting the scene of colorful clouds chasing the moon, the clouds are swirling, and the bright moon is full. It is not the angle of looking up at the night sky, but the bright moon is painted as if it is close in front of you, like a round mirror, looking at people. Wu Yan glanced at it and saw that there was nothing strange and brilliant in the painting, so he turned his head to look away.

Suddenly, a voice came from the crowd, the voice was old but loud: "The Dushan jade worn by the ancient demon concubine Youmei, is anyone interested?"

I saw an old man standing on the round platform, wearing gray clothes, there was no pattern on the clothes, but there was a pattern embroidered on the left chest, the pattern was a circle, there was a circle in the circle, in the middle was a big and a small two "people" shape, like a mountain like a word, "people" below is two connected "one", like a river, the pattern is simple, like a mountain and water, and I don't know what the meaning is.

The old man glanced at the people in front of him, bowed his hand to the side, and invited the boy who was holding a wooden plate in one hand beside him, pointed to a piece of jade in the plate, and introduced: "It is this Dushan jade, this jade is a circle, and the pattern is a hibiscus." As you can see, the hibiscus is half-open, one flower color is half white and half pink, the other is hibiscus red, there are light brown lotus leaf clusters next to the flower, the lotus leaf is chiseled with small holes, through the rope, knotted into a knot, worn on the chest, or hung around the waist, or strung with jade beads into a bracelet, worn on the wrist, can be. And the hibiscus symbolizes double happiness, which means that it is a good gift for self-admiration or gifting. ”

The old man took the wooden plate from the little boy's hand and placed this piece of jade in the light, only to see the two hibiscus flowers crystal clear, extremely beautiful in color and lustre, lifelike. Seeing that there were exclamations among the crowd, the old man smiled and said, "There is a story about this jade, I wonder if you have heard of it?"

Seeing that no one answered, the old man continued to speak: "Legend has it that this jade was swallowed by a hooked snake in the stomach, and the poisonous blood soaked in the jade, for a hundred years, and the person who touched it died immediately. The merman obtained this jade and soaked it with the blood of the merman for a hundred years, and finally removed the toxicity on the surface of the jade. After the demon concubine got this jade, she found that within 100 meters of this jade, flies and mosquitoes were difficult to find, snakes and mice avoided it, the weather was cold and warm, and the weather was hot and cold, and the wearer could avoid a hundred poisons......"

"It's the same as the truth, but don't be a bully. Someone at the bottom couldn't hold back and interrupted the old man's words.