Chapter Eighty-Six: Ancient Costumes, Long Corridors, and Flower Lanterns (Medium)
The owner of the costume shop walked out with a camera and smiled at me, "Young man, your girlfriend is the best-looking person I've ever seen in my shop." β
I smiled and nodded, and instead of letting my boss take pictures, I took a few photos of Xiao Yayun as a photographer myself.
After taking the photo, when Xiao Yayun took off her clothes and returned them to the boss, the boss looked at the two of us and pleaded: "I don't want to charge you money, this dress can also be given to your girl, can you leave a photo for me, I will use it and paste it on the signboard." β
I glanced at Xiao Yayun, "What do you think of your portrait rights?" β
Xiao Yayun smiled and shook her head and refused, and the boss suddenly had a very disappointed expression. I can probably guess a little bit of his thoughts, in recent years, ancient costumes have become more and more popular, especially Hanfu. However, there are not many people who really look good in ancient clothes, and if Xiao Yayun's photo can be pasted on the signboard, it will undoubtedly have a good advertising effect.
This can be seen from the fact that several couples around have begun to ask about the price of taking pictures and entering the store to choose clothes, many of them went only after seeing the effect of Xiao Yayun's wear.
After leaving the ancient clothing store and walking forward for a few hundred meters, Xiao Yayun suddenly sighed, looked at me and complained: "Actually, I like that dress a lot, I originally wanted to join our school's Hanfu Club when I was a freshman, but I still didn't go after thinking about it." β
I smiled and said, "I like to wait until I go back to the imperial capital to buy one, and I will reimburse you for the money." As for the photos, we still don't give them away, in case he vents some unnecessary energy on your photos at night. β
Xiao Yayun directly hit me hard and glared at me, "You're going to die." β
I shrugged my shoulders and didn't dare to speak again, I looked ahead, there was a corridor not far ahead, I took out my ticket and glanced at the map on it, and said with a smile: "Look, the promenade of smoke and rain." β
Many people may not know what it means, but in fact, it is just a street with a roof, which stretches for about a thousand meters along the river, and is mostly made of bricks and wood.
When I watched the strategy about Xitang on the high-speed rail, I saw the legend about this rainy corridor, and the legend said that there was a young widow surnamed Hu in Xitang earlier, who supported a family and a small shop. There is a stall selling tofu on the river beach in front of the Hu family's shop, and the stall owner is called Wang Er, a young and honest young man, but his family is poor (if he is not poor, he will not come out to sell tofu).
After selling tofu in front of the store for a long time, Wang Er and Hu became acquainted, and when he saw that Hu was difficult, he sympathized with him and helped to do some physical work. In order to be grateful for this love, Hu took the opportunity of repairing the shop pΓΉ to build a shack along the river, covering all the streets along the river in front of the shop. As a result, I didn't expect that after the shack was built, the business of the Hu family's shop was particularly prosperous. So other merchants followed suit, and slowly the shacks on the street were connected together, and later people named it Lang Peng, which means a shack built for Lang.
I told Xiao Yayun about this story, and after finishing speaking, Xiao Yayun looked at me and winked and smiled: "No? β
"No."
"According to your temperament, shouldn't you focus on describing the story of the widow Hu and the second Wang who sells tofu?"
"What is there to say about this, that the prince and the princess can live happily together, and the widow and the tofu seller cannot? Do you want to hear how they live happily together? β
I emphasized the word happiness, Xiao Yayun suddenly blushed, turned around and looked at the river and stopped talking.
I didn't continue to tease her anymore, this girl has been teased by me for so many years and is still very thin-skinned, and if I continue to tease, I will inevitably be punched and kicked.
Walking in this smoke and rain corridor, you can see the pink walls on both sides of the river, the shadow sinks in the river water in front of the door, blowing a gust of wind, and the wet and bright still shadow is as light as ink.
I suddenly felt that this place is actually very suitable for some people with delicate minds and a bit of literature and art in their hearts to play, and in the quiet morning and dusk moments, strolling under the porch should arouse some feelings for such people.
Xiao Yayun suddenly sighed lightly and said, "The shop here is still as good as it was many years ago. These old shops seem to be old furniture, although they are very old, they are still normal, and they can even be said to be full of vitality. But the people inside don't know where they are. β
I looked at Xiao Yayun in surprise and said something very unpleasant: "Don't you know that these are all renovated?" Even the Fengqiao Bridge was renovated in 99. β
Xiao Yayun suddenly stopped, turned around and squinted at me, I knew that I had said the wrong thing, and hurriedly made a zipper movement in front of my mouth.
Xiao Yayun snorted at me coldly, stepped on my instep and turned around and walked forward.
"I don't even speak by me, why are you still stepping on me."
"That's to punish you for what you just said."
Walking through the smoke and rain corridor, Xiao Yayun shouted to eat, hungry.
I glanced at the time, it wasn't yet four o'clock, and it was still early for dinner, so I decided to take her for a snack.
If you want to say that the most famous snack in Xitang is the stinky tofu of the old lady.
In the whole Xitang, as long as the stinky tofu is sold, it will be hung with the name of a stinky tofu of the old lady, and after a long time, no one knows which one is real and which one is fake, only which one is delicious and which one is not delicious.
The best food is said to be on the stone road, outside the scenic area. When Xiao Yayun and I walked to the door of the store, we found that there were no empty spaces, and there were more than a dozen people in line.
I was taken aback when I saw this scene, there are definitely not many people in Xitang today, and it can even be said that there are very few, whether it is to send a son to Fengqiao or on the Yanyu Promenade, I have not seen a few tourists. When you get here, it's a crowded and lively scene, and it seems that this stinky tofu is very popular.
I bought two servings of stinky tofu, one with spicy sauce and one without, fried to crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. Xiao Yayun doesn't eat turnips, so she didn't put diced radish.
The stinky tofu in this shop is a little larger than the ordinary stinky tofu, about 1.5 times the appearance of the ordinary stinky tofu, and it looks good in a rectangular box with five pieces in one piece.
Xiao Yayun ate while walking, while I held stinky tofu in one hand and took out a cigarette from my pocket with the other. I'm not very interested in stinky tofu, so I bought two servings just to change the two flavors of this Nizi.
"How did you draw the world, don't you all smoke thirty-five Liqun?"
I put the cigarette in my mouth and touched the lighter in my pocket, and said with a smile: "Chu Cheng gave it to me, and that guy stuffed this pack of cigarettes for me before I left." This grandson is a farewell gift, and it is different from others. I kept it in my pocket and didn't smoke it. β
I couldn't find a lighter all over my body, and I was a little embarrassed.
Xiao Yayun smiled and took out a lighter from the side pocket of the backpack on her back and handed it to me.
I took the lighter with some surprise, "Why did you bring this?" You don't smoke. β
"I know you smoke, so I'll bring one with me when I come out with you."