CHAPTER XVII

Chen Huan was annoyed at the moment, and rushed forward and grabbed Zhuo Yuting's wrist: "This is what I like, do you want to rob it?" "You can't say it's your ...... if you haven't paid the silver" "You are really a robber...... these two people were originally rivals, when Princess Zhuo was still there, they often quarreled in the palace, and today it is a narrow road, bumping into a piece, and the words of the two are entangled together, and the people who came with Zhuo Yuting rushed up and surrounded them, there are few people on our side, I only brought jade butterflies and colorful silks, Chen Huan only brought a maid, and the other party even had more than a dozen people with the master and the maid, and we are obviously not opponents. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

Seeing that Chen Huan was about to suffer, when I was in a hurry, I heard a cry behind me, the sword flashed, and when I looked again, I saw that the sword in Wei Sheng's hand had been unsheathed and was pressing on Zhuo Yuting's neck, and suddenly Zhuo Yuting's sharp scream sounded, Wei Sheng shouted: "Stop" Everyone was stunned, Wei Sheng shouted at Zhuo Yuting: "Put the jewelry back, otherwise don't blame me for being unkind!" Zhuo Yuting was so frightened that her face was pale, trembling all over, trembling and handing out the jewelry in her hand, Song Erniang hurriedly took the tray and stepped forward to catch it, Chen Huan smiled proudly at Zhuo Yuting, and held my hand: "Sister, let's go, don't let boring people lose their interest." I nodded and followed her downstairs, Wei Sheng saw that we were leaving, so he withdrew the sword in his hand, followed without saying a word, and settled the account downstairs, we were about to leave, Song Erniang came over with a fat man, and introduced with a smile: "Your Royal Highness, this is our host." Saying that, I flashed to the side, I looked up, but I recognized it was the salt merchant Xiao Daohong I had seen before, he and Liu Mao knew each other, and the two of them had secretly handed over the letter before, thinking that the letter in my hand was handed over by Liu Mao to him.

Xiao Daohong stepped forward with a smile on his face and made a gesture, "The small shop is not well entertained today, and I ask the two highnesses to bear with me." "Well, I don't blame you for that." Chen Huan bought the jewelry he liked, and gave his old rival a dismount, and it was the time of joy in his heart, so he chatted with Xiao Daohong with a pleasant face, and then Xiao Daohong ordered someone to send two posts, saying that the next time I took the post to buy jewelry, we received the post, and after thanking him, he turned around and went out.

Then we went to two cloth villages, it was close to noon, we looked for a place to have lunch, found two are full, although it is August, the sun at noon is still very spicy, walking around with a big sun, hot and tired, we are worried about where to eat, Wei Sheng said: "There is a small shop not far in front, the taste is good, and it is clean, but the shop is smaller, if you don't dislike it, you can go and taste it." "We didn't want to look around anymore, so we agreed.

The group followed Wei Sheng into an alley, smelled a smell of wine from afar, turned a few corners, and saw a small courtyard in front of them, with a wine flag at the door, not even a signboard. Wei Sheng saw that we hesitated, and hurriedly introduced: "This was originally a shochu workshop, just because the lady of this house cooked a good dish, so I was instigated to open such a small shop, mainly to sell wine for a living, only regular customers will come here to eat, I have also been here twice with friends." So saying, he led us into the courtyard, and in the middle of the courtyard there were four main houses, three of which seemed to be stove rooms on the east side, and a shed was set up on the west side, and the shed was full of large and small wine jars. A woman in her thirties wearing a blue cloth printed skirt was scooping wine out of a wine vask, and when she saw us coming in, she quickly put down the wine jar in her hand and greeted us, "It turned out that Wei Gongzi was here, hurry up and invite inside!" Wei Sheng introduced that this was the proprietress and the woman smiled and led us to a main room on the east side.

There were only two tables and a few stools in the room, which were cleaned, and in the middle of the table was a vase with a bouquet of wild flowers, which looked very simple. Can there be good food in this place? Chen Huan and I will be skeptical, but since we are here, let's sit down. So Chen Huan and I picked up a table and sat down, the proprietress brought the tea up, Wei Sheng followed her out to arrange the meal, Yudie and Caijuan and the maid Chen Huan brought were busy serving us and washing our hands, Yudie poured a cup of tea and handed it to me, I took a sip gently, the sweet and sour fruit tea, drank until the mouth was full of relish, I couldn't help but drink two more sips, Chen Huan saw it and took it up and drank it slowly.

After a short time, I smelled the aroma of food, an eleven or twelve-year-old girl came in with a tray, put a few plates of plain side dishes on the table and withdrew, Wei Sheng came in with a wine jug and a few wine glasses, "This is the master's home-brewed fruit wine, it tastes very good, never for takeout, I asked for a pot, and the two highnesses couldn't help but taste it." Yudie saw me nod and took the wine, put the wine glass in front of us, full of wine, I picked it up and smelled it, but it was fragrant, the color of the wine was bright red, I smiled and said to Chen Huan: "This wine is colorful, if you use a jade cup to hold wine, I am afraid that the color is better." Chen Huan echoed the two sentences, and we tasted it, the taste was a little like osmanthus nectar, the taste was a little sweet, but it was mellow than osmanthus nectar, and the aftertaste was long, so we nodded and said yes.

Chen Huan turned his head again and asked Wei Sheng, "Do they have any good dishes?" Wei Sheng: "Their fish is the best, and the portion is sufficient, and the guests who come are all for his family's roasted fish." I knew that Chen Huan was the most fond of fish and couldn't help but smile, Chen Huan also smiled, and two red clouds floated on his face, which made Wei Sheng's eyes straighten.

After a while, the little girl brought a large pot of roasted fish over, and the aroma was fragrant, we were hungry at this time, so we started to move, the proprietress is really good, even I, a person who usually doesn't eat much fish, feel very delicious, I ate two pieces of fish in a row, only to see Wei Sheng standing next to Chen Huan to pick fish bones for her, I couldn't help but be stunned.

I've grown so old, and I've never seen a man take care of a woman so carefully, even if it's as loving as my father and mother, at most it's just to give my mother a dish, and I've never been so meticulous. And the so-called loving couples in this era pay attention to raising the case and raising the eyebrows, that is, the woman kneels on the ground and raises the tray to the same level as the eyebrows, which naturally defines affection as the humility of the woman and the calmness of the man. Even if she is a princess like us, when she marries in the future, she is at most on an equal footing with her husband, how can she ask her husband to serve her?

Chen Huan was obviously a little uncomfortable, she didn't move the fish that Wei Sheng gave her and the fish piled up in her bowl, and Wei Sheng was still urging her to eat it quickly. She was a little nervous, so I smiled and said, "Thanks to Gongzi Wei's help today, Ah Huan, let Gongzi Wei sit down and eat together!" Chen Huan nodded hurriedly after hearing this, and put a pair of dishes and chopsticks up, Wei Sheng sat down unceremoniously, and I sent the maids down to eat, and everyone went out, Chen Huan relaxed and slowly ate the dishes in the bowl, Wei Sheng kept staring at her bowl, and immediately picked up the dishes when he saw that it was empty, until she was full, he ate the bowl of rice.

After eating, we went back to my house directly, Chen Huan and I have the habit of taking a lunch break, I arranged her to rest in the guest house, and I took the jade butterfly silk back to my yard, the maids saw that I was back and hurriedly fetched water in, after the jade butterfly served me to freshen up, I changed into a soft satin bedgown, and sent everyone out, and then leaned on the head of the bed and took out Liu Mao's letter.

The letter simply mentioned that he led his troops to take two more cities, and is currently settled in a place called Kaiping, and did not say how he is doing, the whole article is about the lovesickness after parting, saying that he will miss me every night, and so on, this letter is written with enthusiasm, not at all like the cold look when I first met him, I looked at it and felt that the letter was very sweet, I held the letter and smirked for a while, before putting the letter into the box at the head of the bed, and then lay on the bed and fell asleep slowly.

I woke up about half an hour later, and when I saw that Chen Huan didn't come, I asked people not to disturb her, I finished washing again, changed my clothes and went to the study, and told Caijuan to lay paper and polish ink, and prepare to reply to Liu Mao. I wrote in the study for nearly an hour before I finished writing the reply, thinking that Song Erniang had quietly told me that I would come to the house in two days, so I would put the letter away.