Chapter Forty-Eight: Encounter
"Why are you here?" Zhang Zhaohua and Gao Xu said in unison. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
"This is my family's land," Zhang Zhaohua said first: "I heard that there are voles harming crops, so I came to take a look." What about you, are you still in Kaifeng City, and you won't go home for the Chinese New Year this year?"
"I have been in Kaifeng during the Chinese New Year," Gao Xu said, "but I will be able to go home after Shangyuan." ”
"Where are you going, aren't you going home now?" Zhang Zhaohua asked.
"Now it's time to go to Shangqiu in Weihui Mansion," Gao Xu said, "Go to Zhongdu." ”
"Then Gao Chi is not with you?" Zhang Zhaohua said.
"He had trouble with his legs and feet, so he went first, and I left two or three days apart. Gao Xu paused for a moment, and suddenly said, "Do you have any happy events at home, what are you wearing on your head?"
Zhang Zhaohua involuntarily touched her head, she wore a "spring flower" on her head, which was to draw out two copper wires of the copper wire mesh, stick them on it with colored paper, and make a golden silk strip, and then take a few colored threads to wrap the silk strips into half a flower, each flower has six petals, and a large leaf stretches out outside, and then wraps the red silk thread around the outside of the flower shape, and wears it on her two total horns.
In ancient times, children divided their hair into two halves, and tied them into a knot on the top of their heads, which were shaped like two sheep's horns, so they were called "total horns". Zhang Zhaohua's two general horns are generally only dressed with colored threads, these days the bride entered the door, made two spring flowers for her to wear on her head, people who saw it said that it was good-looking, Zhang Zhaohua himself also felt good, but looking at Gao Xu's expression now, she was not so sure.
"What's wrong," Zhang Zhaohua said, "This doesn't look good?"
"This flower on your head," Gao Xu showed a miserable expression: "I usually only see the seller wearing it on her head, did you buy it from the seller?"
"It's homemade!" Zhang Zhaohua said: "Who is the selling woman, does she wear the same thing on her head as mine, does she wear it every day or only during the Chinese New Year?"
"Isn't selling a woman just going through the streets and alleys to sell things, or exchanging gold and silver jewelry, or selling baopa flower thread, or making a grate head, or filling the bride to say yes," Gao Xu saw Zhang Zhaohua's stunned face, so he suddenly said: "Aren't you here, then who will sell you flower arrangements?"
"We are here to pick up the merchants," Zhang Zhaohua said: "I wear this flower for a holiday, and our family does have a happy event." ”
Hearing what Zhang Zhaohua said, Gao Xu said: "It turns out that your brother is married, congratulations," he glanced back, and the person behind him took out a treasure banknote, Gao Xu handed it to her, pretended to cough and said: "It's a congratulatory gift, you accept it." ”
"Don't want this thing," Zhang Zhaohua blocked his hand away, and pouted: "It's a small place here, I don't know it, and the bottom of the pressure box has also been bitten by insects and rats." ”
Gao Xu lowered his head and took down a golden thing from his hand, and said: "This ring must be obtained!
"Where don't you," Zhang Zhaohua saw that he seemed to be angry, so he said: "It's just that this golden thing is too valuable, I can't afford it, and besides, you didn't eat a sip of wine, and you gave a courtesy, and there is no such reason to take advantage of it in the world." ”
Zhang Zhaohua said so in his mouth, but his eyes stared at the ring inlaid with rubies without blinking, and his heart was itching, knowing such a small object, I was afraid that it could be worth a few cars of dowry for his new sister-in-law, so thinking about it, I thought of Gao Xu's uncle who was an official, and the little son of the official family was brocade clothes and jade food, and it was really a world of difference from ordinary people's families.
"Don't want this precious one," asked Gao Xu, "which one do you want?"
Zhang Zhaohua rejected the gold ring, but three or four of Gao Xu's ten fingers were wearing rings, Zhang Zhaohua glanced at it and said: "Just this ring on your right thumb, it's not gold and silver, this ring made of white stone is very beautiful." ”
Gao Xu was obviously stunned, and then he seemed to choke his throat, and said, "You said this is a white stone?"
"It's not a stone," Zhang Zhaohua said: "The gold and silver are too valuable, and the ring of this white stone in your hand looks worthless, if you give this to me, I will accept it." ”
"White stone, white stone," Gao Xu said, with a thumbs up, "this is not a stone, it is Hetian mutton fat jade, and this is not an ordinary ring, it is a chise, also called a wrench, which is used to pull the bowstring." ”
"Oh," Zhang Zhaohua pretended to exclaim: "That's worth a lot of money, I don't dare to ask for it - the ring on your hand is so valuable, what about the black one on your left hand, it's not a black stone?"
If Gao Xu only showed a painful look when asked about the mutton fat jade wrench on his right hand, then when Zhang Zhaohua asked about the one on his left hand, Gao Xu's expression was simply described as horrified.
"This is made of the horns of the Great Han!" Gao Xuqi snorted, "Only one hundred can find one surrounded by a black seal, which is worth 100,000 yuan." You're a girl who picks things!"
Zhang Zhaohua was taken aback by what he said, and said angrily: "Who are you fooling? A ring can be worth 100,000 yuan! Not to mention Zhang Chang, Yongcheng has bought it! You said that this thing is used for buckle strings, and you can pull a bow and crossbow with a few stones, and you can brag about it here!"
Gao Xu was a little angry by what she said, and suddenly his eyes widened, and he took out a bow from the bag he was carrying on horseback, pulled up the arrow and shot it at her.
Zhang Zhaohua was shocked for a moment, his hair stood up, and he shouted "ah", squatting on the ground with his head in his hands and cowering, like a quail with its feathers shrunk in the autumn wind.
She heard the group of guards in front of her burst into laughter, Gao Xu's laughter was the most presumptuous, almost shattering the sky, and she also heard the sound of the arrow piercing through the flesh and skin, but it didn't seem to penetrate her own body.
After that, she heard Zhang Geng's voice again, and said, "Sister Hua, the snake ran away, didn't scare you—"
Zhang Zhaohua stood up tremblingly, saw Zhang Geng turn from behind the tree in the front row, holding a drill in one hand and a bamboo basket in the other, and said: "I just clamped one, and let it slip away without paying attention," said and saw the round-headed cauliflower snake nailed to death on the ground, snorted, pulled out the arrow, and said: "Good archery, seven inches in the middle, which shot it?"
Gao Xu responded, and Zhang Geng exclaimed: "Little boy, why did you come here? If you have nothing to do, go to the house to eat and drink to warm up!"
"I'm leaving," Gao Xu got on the horse and said with a smile: "Thank you for your hospitality, if you have the opportunity to come to Kaifeng in the future, I will come back to your house." ”
He said and took the reins and looked at Zhang Zhaohua - but Zhang Zhaohua was still in shock, in fact, he didn't expect Gao Xu, who looked chubby and about a centimeter behind her, and the strength inside was already so full, and it was said that he shot seven inches of the snake, and the snake was still swimming.
"What's your name," Gao Xu said proudly on his horse, "I ask you, little girl." ”
"What do you call me," Zhang Zhaohua was originally convinced, but now he was not angry: "Why should I tell you." ”
Gao Xu tapped her twice with his horsewhip and rode away. But he didn't run forty or fifty meters and then turned back, pulled his fingers down and threw them into her arms, and said: "I saw you twice, I lost twice, but there is no next time!"
"Let's go—" Zhang Zhaohua couldn't wait to wave a small handkerchief and replied: "It's a blessing to suffer!"
Seeing that Gao Xu seemed to stumble on the horse, Zhang Zhaohua smiled proudly.