Chapter 36: Sioux City
Fang Yu walked and played for more than a month, and finally shook down Jiangnan. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info He wasn't in a hurry to go to Sioux City, just wandered around the Jiangnan water countryside. Sometimes I go to the riverside to eat fish, sometimes I go to see the slender man and the girl, and occasionally I talk to the girl who washes clothes by the river. Maybe it's really boring, he finally came to Sioux City.
Sioux City is located at the intersection of various waterways in the south of the Yangtze River, and it has been a place of developed commerce and trade since ancient times. When I entered Sioux City, there were all kinds of people, all kinds of shops, restaurants, etc. Fang Yu saw that the time was not yet noon, and his heart was happy, so he went directly to the West City Gate.
There is a shop near the West City Gate, Chen Ji Wonton Shop, with thin skin and large filling, full of soup, and has been Fang Yu's favorite since childhood. It's just that the owner of the shop, who only does business for half a day every day, will close the stall after noon.
Fang Yu asked for a big bowl of wontons, scooped one and bit half, squinted his eyes, and chewed carefully, he was also a person who had walked through famous mountains and rivers and eaten delicacies everywhere. But he just loves and misses the ravioli here. Fang Yu is a cynical son on the surface, but in his bones he is a very nostalgic person. He had eaten his fill and watched the streets of Sioux City with all kinds of people, people coming and going. A little familiar, and a little unfamiliar. The prosperity of Sioux City is different from that of the capital, it is more casual and chaotic. Because of the large flow of people, the law and order are also relatively chaotic. Where business is done, every day there are people who are prosperous and there are people who go bankrupt. Some people come, some people go. From time to time, large families are stolen, and business trips are robbed. These cases, which are regarded as very important in the capital, are just ordinary daily life in Sioux City. The government can't control this at all. The city gates that are always open, the flow of people shuttling day and night, merchants, rangers, gangsters of the three religions and nine streams, countless inns and inns, before you can find out the case, the perpetrators have long disappeared in the vast sea of people.
Fang Yu looked at the time and walked to Sun's house in Nancheng. Although the Sun family's business also has some power, it is not a big family in a place like Suzhou City, where the dragon and the tiger are hidden and the rich gather. Sun's Mansion is on the side street of Nancheng, only three or five hundred meters away from the main street, but it is much more secluded. Most of the surrounding areas are merchants' mansions similar to the Sun family. There weren't many people coming and going in the alley in front of the door.
Fang Yu stepped forward and knocked at the door, and a little boy came out to open the door.
"Who is Childe looking for?" It seems that the child does not know Fang Yu.
"Next, Fang Yu came to greet Master Sun." Fang Yu replied.
"Childe, please wait a moment." At that moment, the child ran in to report. didn't run a few steps, and met the housekeeper of the Sun Mansion, Sun Tong. Sun Tong is a man in the prime of his forties, who was taken in by Master Sun to do business when he was young, and he did things very properly, and he was very loyal to the Sun family. Xiao Tong told Sun Tong that Fang Yu came to see the master, Sun Tong knew Fang Yu in his early years, and ordered Xiao Tong to inform the master, and greeted him at the same time.
"Fang Gongzi is here, please come in quickly, why haven't you heard the master say that you are coming?" Sun Tong warmly welcomed Fang Yu into the mansion.
"I told Sun Zheng that I was coming, but the time was not determined, why didn't he mention it to you?"
"Well, young master, he studied diligently day and night, and there was some negligence for a while." Sun Tong said with a laugh.
Negligent? He must have done it on purpose, Fang Yu knew his friend too well. However, he and Sun Zheng seem to have always been more enthusiastic about him, and Sun Zheng has always ignored his love.
At this moment, Master Sun had already walked out.
"It turned out to be Fang Xian's nephew, they told me that I still don't believe it, you haven't been here for a few years, let me see, tsk, it's really getting more and more handsome and chic, a talent." As soon as Master Sun came out, he enthusiastically pulled Fang Yu and kept talking.
"Fang Yu to Uncle Sun to say goodbye." Fang Yu has always been very respectful to his elders.
"Heck, it's all my own family, and there are not so many rules. Come on, come in and let's have a good chat. ”
Master Sun pulled Fang Yu into the main hall. "Fang Xian's nephew Ling Zun is good?"
"Father, he has been out all year round to seek immortal medicine, and he is very comfortable and free, and I can't see him a few times a year."
"Haha, the owner of Fang Zhuang is still blessed, he gave birth to such a good son as you, and he is willing to help him take care of the villa. Unlike Sun Zheng's stinky boy, he knows how to read all day long. ”
"Uncle Sun has an eldest sister, which is enough. Besides, Sun Zheng is going to enter Beijing to take the exam after the New Year, and if he passes the exam, it will be a great joy to shine on the lintel of Sun's house. That's something we can't compare to in any way. ”
"If you take the test, you will definitely be able to pass it. How can it be so easy to be an official, if the above is not satisfied, it will be killed. ”
"Uncle Sun, don't make fun of me, if I study, I'm afraid that ten more masters won't be enough for me to be angry."
"Hmph, you kid is too naughty for everything." Master Sun pointed at Fang Yu with his finger and remembered what happened when he was a child, and he couldn't help laughing.
"What about Sun Zheng?" Fang Yu has been in for so long, and he hasn't seen Sun Zheng.
"Where's the young master? Didn't I ask you to invite it? ”
"Young master, young master said he was not available." The boy who opened the door just now said hesitantly.
"What do you mean by not being available? Don't you come out to meet the guests? Is there still a bit of a rule in this, did all his books be eaten by dogs? Master Sun said angrily.
"Uncle Sun, don't be angry, he didn't fear me going to see him, anyway, I came this time to see him off for the exam in Beijing next year, and I will probably stay for a while. He'll always have time, just a little more bothering. ”
"Fang Yu, it's strange to say this, this is your own home, what bother, you can live as long as you want. If Sun Zheng leaves, you will be my son. ”
Fang Yu smiled and drank, thinking about Sun Zheng, this dog thing, I came all the way to see him, and he didn't even take the initiative to come out to meet me.
"Nephew Fang Xian, you have also worked hard all the way, let them take you to your room to rest first. Or your original yard and see what else you need to say. ”
Fang Yu said goodbye to Master Sun for the time being, and followed the servant to the East Guest Courtyard. Sure enough, it's still what I remember. Fang Yu hadn't been here for a few years, this courtyard was where he lived when he was a child, and he even kept it for himself, Fang Yu's heart was moved.
The room was very simple, and there were still some things that he had played with when he was a child, so Fang Yu took a few and looked at them, and put them all back in their original places. He didn't feel tired and didn't want to rest. After doing it for a while, he got up and walked out of the courtyard gate, and turned southwest to Sun Zheng's study.
Fang Yu stepped forward and knocked on the door.
"Come in!"
Fang Yu pushed the door in, and a young man with a slightly dark face and a medium figure was sitting at the desk, it was Sun Zheng.
"Sun Zheng, I've come all the way here, you don't even look at me, isn't it too much."
"Wait for me in a moment, and I'll be right away."
"Why should I wait, cut." Fang Yuzhen was a little angry and ready to leave.
"If you're not interested in fifty years of finger wrapping, let's go." Sun Zheng still didn't look up. Fang Yu suddenly stopped, turned back, and approached the house.
"That, haha, haha, I haven't been here for a long time, and you have a lot of books in this house, let me see what these are? Oops, what is this?,I've never heard of it.,So many... So saying, he found a place in the house and sat down.
About half an hour later, Sun Zheng came over, "Let's go." ”
Fang Yu patted the book in his hand with a rub, and then got up and followed. The two men went out the back door, crossed two narrow alleys, and came to the door of a tavern. The tavern is not big, and the location is relatively remote, but there are not many customers inside.
Xiao'er saw Sun Zheng coming to greet him, "Sun Gongzi is here." ”
"Well, are you there?"
"Yes, yes, you sit down first, and I'll inform Miss."
"Trouble her to bring me the wine I dragged her to save."
"Okay." Xiao'er agreed.
Sun Zheng took Fang Yu and walked to the innermost room and sat down. Fang Yu took a look at this place, the store was not big, and the decoration was ordinary.
"How did you get the finger wrapping?" Fang Yu asked. Finger Wrapping is a kind of wine that is a specialty of Sioux City, the taste is rich and pure, but the production is very small, so there are not many people who have drunk it, and the reputation is not very large. Fang Yu has always been eager but unable to ask for it, but he didn't expect Sun Zheng to get it.
"Why, I'm afraid I won't be able to lie to you. You'll find out if it's really a drink after a while. Sun Zheng said without any expression. However, at this time, Fang Yu's expectation of fine wine had occupied almost all of his senses, so he didn't have time to study whether he had an expression or not.
About half a pillar of incense, the young woman came to the room with a mud-sealed wine jar.
"Brother Zheng, you're here." A crisp and enthusiastic female voice floated over. Fang Yu looked over and saw that it was a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, wearing red sleeves and melon seeds, lively, enthusiastic, and capable.
"Well, this is my friend Fang. Sun Zheng introduced.
"Brother Fang is good." The little girl greeted politely.
"This is the flower girl."
"Hello, Sister Hua." Fang Yu restrained himself a little, and replied elegantly.
"Brother Zheng, this is the wine you want." Hua Mei handed over the jar.
Sun Zheng said, "Thank you, Sister Hua." Hua Mei was a little embarrassed and said, "It's nothing, just tell me if you need anything in the future, I'll try my best to find it." Then, she glanced at Fang Yu and said, "Brother Fang has come from afar, you must have a lot to say, I won't bother you, just call me if you have something." ”