57. Fox Alley

This alley is about 300 zhang back and forth, and there are no camphor trees on both sides of the road, but stone plaques one after another. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The plaques are uniformly engraved with large gold letters, and each building has a fence and a small garden of different forms.

Passing through the garden, there are first merchants, then a small two-storey loft of about the same height.

The floor is paved with flat stone slabs, the same color as the surrounding bricks, a slightly marked, beige.

Ming Mo just stood outside a yard called "Changji" at this time, there are fruit trees with flat leaves planted in the garden, and now it is the season of fruiting, the clear yellow fruit pulls the branches very low, it seems that no one has cleaned up in recent days, the fruit is gradually full, and the unbearable ones fall into the pond under the tree.

A few green-haired ducks swam around in the water, pecked at the peel, and were instantly surrounded by schools of fish.

"Don't think about it, these houses are not accessible to ordinary people," Xiaojing looked at Ming Mo's stunned appearance, and hurriedly pulled her forward, "The people living in this alley are all rich people, and the owners of several households have never shown up, and I heard that they are all from the rest of the capital." ”

"Why? I don't live in such a nice house. ”

"So you see, like ...... over there"

He casually pointed to the nearest house, where two women were crawling on the ground scrubbing a green blanket, and a man was standing behind him walking back and forth with a serious face.

"That man is the housekeeper, and when the master is not there, they will have the final say......" The two men walked through the door of this house, and Xiaojing continued, "When Duyi Street was built, these rich people came out a lot, so this land was allocated to them, only the familiar faces among the powerful can spend money on this road, and ordinary people can't even enter the door, at most they can look outside......"

"That's great!"

"That's natural, and besides, I've heard that whatever you do here is exempted from taxes every season......

"And that kind of thing?" Ming Mo looked back in surprise, "Our family can't eat enough for the whole winter for those strange levies!" ”

As soon as she thought of this, she was suddenly stunned.

Xiao Jing looked at her face from the side, and could only pat her back with a pretended comfort: "Don't think about it...... These things are not up to them. ”

As he spoke, half of the fox alley had passed.

Ming Mo looked at the small buildings lined up, and the envy in her heart was gone.

At this time, most of the courtyards have closed the gates, and occasionally withered leaves fall outside, which invisibly adds a bit of depression, but still can't hide the delicacy of the alley everywhere.

As soon as he took two steps, a cool breeze drifted up his feet with a burst of broken petals.

Ming Mo heard a woman's voice, although it was far away, it was clear and beautiful: "I know that people won't, you did it on purpose, right......?"

The direction of the sound was a small partition window that had been pushed open, and Fox Alley had turned there, giving the second floor on this side a small, irregular terrace.

Red lanterns hung under the eaves, obscured by the gauze tents on the edge of the terrace.

A woman, dressed in a light green dress, took something in her hand, said a few words as if she could not refuse, and turned and hid in the long gauze tent.

Ming Mo happened to be standing downstairs, and saw the woman take out half of her hand from the edge of the terrace, her slender fingers shook slightly, and half a glass of wine was spilled down, and a crystal drop of water rolled down in the air.

Then she suddenly realized that there was someone below, and poked her head out in a panic, and her eyes collided with Ming Mo.

Willow eyebrows, the complexion is very light white, and the eyes are shaking, like a pool of deep water.

For a short moment, she seemed to be frightened, then licked her slightly upturned lips, showed an apologetic smile to Ming Mo, and lightly hid in the gauze tent behind her.

The sound of laughter came again, and even Ming Mo was about to lose her mind, Xiao Jing had already walked to the front and turned back to call her.

"Hey! What are you doing? ”

He looked up along Ming Mo's line of sight, and there was no one in the depths of the gauze tent.

Ming Mo buried her head and patted the tattered robe on her body, instantly feeling like a grizzled mouse, she raised her hand sluggishly to comb the hair behind her ears, and even felt completely embarrassed to put her hand down for a while, so she could only grope up and down in embarrassment, and finally grabbed the strip of cloth that was off the cuffs.

"You're so weird......"

Koi smiled and stepped forward.

"Get out of here!"

She scolded angrily, Xiaojing was frightened, and his mouth was flattened, and the whole person looked very aggrieved.

"Okay, okay......" Ming Mo could only reach out to pull him, "Hurry up, go back late in a while, the third aunt is going to scold again." ”

Xiaojing immediately dodged, and turned around to lead the way in front of him, and Ming Mo followed behind without saying a word, his fingers still stirring the dirty strip of cloth.

She sighed softly, and Koi quietly turned back to look at her.

was soon discovered, and Ming Mo rolled her eyes impatiently: "What are you doing!" ”

"It's nothing, I think you're good-looking!"

She blushed, chased after him and raised her fist to hit him, scolding the little boy in a daze.

"Haha..."Xiaojing ran away, "which of the two of us is the little brat?" I'm not ashamed to blush when I tease you! ”

The two men laughed and jogged and soon arrived at their destination.

Slightly different from the others, this one's house, hidden behind a long willow, has a painting studio in the garden where the entrance hall enters, and a subordinate is rolling up his sleeves, unfolding the scrolls one by one, and then placing them on the shelves with hooks at the two ends.

The door to enter the garden was firmly closed, and Xiaojing took Ming Mo's hand: "The main gate will definitely not be able to enter, come here!" ”

Half a circle around the perimeter of the garden, there was a sudden opening in the low bushes, facing the front window of the studio.

The well lay down and gouged in the gap for a while, and soon cleared out the broken branches and leaves, revealing a small hole in the ground, almost enough for one person to pass through.

He jumped down decisively, and dug his head into the bushes, leaving only half of his body outside.

Ming Mo watched him sway from side to side, made a snorting sound, and kicked the ground again.

"Hey, do you want me to help?"

He didn't bother to answer, and his lower body began to step back.

Ming Mo hurriedly let him, only to see him suddenly sit on the ground with his butt in his arms, holding a stump as thick as a bowl in his arms.

Xiaojing threw things aside: "Strange, I've always been in and out of this road, and there seems to be something stuffed in front, I'll go in and take a look, you're waiting here." ”

He rubbed his face with his sleeve and jumped into the pit again, and after a while, even the lower half of his body went in, and Ming Mo simply retreated to the side of the road, stretching his neck and looking into the yard alone.

The man had already put all the paintings on the shelf, and was holding a long hair in his hand.

I saw him look left and right, with a weak look, and when he was sure that there was no one, he put the long hair used to sweep the ashes under the squeaky nest, took out a small cloth bag from his arms, carefully unfolded it in the palm of his hand, and put it to his mouth to eat.