Chapter 325 Jiangnan Town
But when they got off the boat, it was still about half an hour's drive from the bustling streets of the town. Xiaohuan saw that when Chunyu got off the boat, she gave her family three taels of silver for the boat fare, but she was overjoyed. Their family went out on a boat this time, but they only had about two taels for half a month, and now they saw that Chunyu was generous, so they were very polite to her.
"Sister Chunyu, since you're here to play and find friends, you must be staying here for a while, right?" Xiaohuan hurriedly asked.
Chunyu smiled and nodded, and didn't talk much, she had a good chat with Xiaohuan on the boat before, but she didn't talk too much about herself.
"Then why don't you come and live in my house......" Xiaohuan said eagerly, but when he saw Chunyu's smile, he realized that he was abrupt, and quickly said embarrassedly: "My father and brother are never at home on weekdays, and it's good to go back once a month." They always leave the ship after delivering the goods to the master's house, waiting for someone to come and deliver the goods, so my family only has my mother and sister-in-law and two little nephews. I go back occasionally, so we rent out the two vacant houses at home. However, because the family is full of old and weak women and children, we only rent women's ......"
"I understand that you mean well, you don't have to explain too much, just take me to see it first." Chunyu said: "I'm a little tired and inconvenient to walk far, you go and stop the car to come, and we will take the car back." ”
"Okay." Seeing Chunyu like this, Xiaohuan seemed to have agreed, so he happily went to the side of the road to stop the car.
Chunyu looked at the prosperous scene outside along the way, and then listened to Xiaohuan's explanation, only to know that this is the production area of Hangzhou silk and Yunjin, so the streets and alleys here are full of silk and satin shops, embroidery workshops, tailor shops and the like. As for the other flowers, there are also a lot of shops, restaurants, restaurants, tea houses, etc., which are not like a small town, but like a smaller county seat.
Further inside is the most prosperous Liuyan Street in Jinlan Town, at this time the time is about to pass, because the sky is darker today, so waiting for the carriage they sit in to the main street, it is already the beginning of the lights, the lively night market has begun. On both sides of the street, in addition to the various shops that are open to welcome customers and do business, the pedestrians on the street also seem to have made an appointment, and they come and go shopping in the street one after another, or men in threes, fives, fives, or men, or a couple with children, or young ladies with maids and veils and mysterious ladies......
In addition to the shouting of various vendors on the street, there is also the faint sound of silk and bamboo music, and there is also the whispering of Wu Nong who sings a little song in the tea house restaurant. The so-called is the outer building of the Qingshan Building outside the mountain, and the West Lake singing and dancing will be closed for a while. The warm wind smokes the tourists drunk, and Hangzhou is regarded as Bianzhou. If it was during the day, Chunyu hadn't just gotten off the boat and was a little tired, and she wouldn't have to go down to take a good look at the scenery near the West Lake and see the charm of this small town in the south of the Yangtze River.
Chunyu took a deep breath, and still smelled all kinds of faint fat powder fragrance in the air, which was strange, but he heard Xiaohuan say: "Look at my sister like this, I'm afraid I don't know, our town has a name called West Lake Nightless." Many people from near and far come here to visit when the sky is about to dark, and the night market here does not end until midnight. ”
"So late? I can't imagine that the nightlife of this ancient people is quite rich...... "Chunyu sighed, this Hangzhou is worthy of being a rich water town, and the people here are more relaxed and carefree than the people in the north. When she was in her hometown for quite a few years, most of the people there went to the fields before sunrise to do farm work, and rushed back before sunset, and basically they should have rested after eating. Occasionally, some go to bed late to participate in temple fairs, lantern festivals or something, and they are all taking advantage of the festival to be happy......
"Sister, what did you just say?" Chunyu was talking to himself, so his voice was small, and Xiaohuan didn't hear it clearly.
"It's okay, are you far from home?" Chunyu asked.
"It's coming soon." Xiaohuan said with a smile, and Chunyu stopped talking when he heard it, but turned his head to continue to look at the excitement outside.
Sure enough, after Xiaohuan finished speaking, the carriage stopped, Chunyu got out of the car and paid for the car, and looked at the scene in front of him, but he was stunned for a moment.
I saw that this is a small lake, although the sky is dark, but you can still see that the lake water is clear and green. At this time, there were already a lot of lights on the shore, and the red, yellow, and green lights reflected the water surface, and then the waves were very beautiful. Most of these lights were reflected from the boats docked on the shore, and there were many rowing boats and sampans on the lake, all of which were for food and people.
"There was originally a bridge here, a few years ago the mirror lake rose and flooded the bridge, and then the bridge was broken when the water went down, and it was not repaired after changing several county orders, and finally everyone simply didn't want the bridge, and the trip was rowed with their own boats or sampans, which did not affect anything. Later, some wealthy merchants saw that the scenery here was good, so they built a few fixed painting boats on the shore and started businesses such as restaurants and tea houses, and over time this place became the best place to go nearby. Xiaohuan said with a smile, and then shouted towards the lake.
Then Chunyu saw a small boat slowly sailing over, and there was a stove on the boat, and a steamer was on the small pot on it, and it was steaming hot, and I don't know what was inside. There was a young woman of twenty-four or five, who looked ordinary but looked kind.
"My sister is back, how about the goods this time...... Hey? Who is this little brother? The young woman was talking, but she saw the spring rain on the side, so she asked.
"She's ......" Xiaohuan said but hesitated, not knowing what Chunyu meant, whether she wanted to say that she was a daughter.
"Sister-in-law, I'm here to find friends and have a fun by the way, I came over on your boat, and I was worried that there was no place to stay, Xiaohuan said that your family had a vacant house for rent, so I came together." Chunyu said with a smile, she thought that she would have to live for a while, and there was no need to always wear men's clothes, so her voice was not as thick as before, but her crisp voice.
"Oops, I'll just say that it looks weird, it turns out to be a girl." The young woman said, smiling heartily and then said, "That's really welcome, sister come up quickly, it's not early in the day, thinking that you are tired from taking the boat, let's go back quickly." ”
"Sister-in-law, this is Sister Chunyu." After Xiaohuan and Chunyu got on the boat together, they then said to Chunyu: "Sister, this is my sister-in-law." ”
"Sister Chunyu can just call me Sister-in-law Alain." Sister-in-law Alan said, and then said to Xiaohuan: "Thinking that you are afraid that you are a little hungry, let's get something to eat first, I took out a lot today, and I didn't sell it out." ”
(To be continued.) )