Ah Wu couldn't believe what he was hearing.

Still going somewhere?

If Ah Wu was a man at the moment and beat Chu Mao, she would definitely not hesitate to punch him in the nose. After walking back and forth for more than an hour, her feet were almost no longer her own, and she was so hungry that her chest was pressed against her back.

In order to recuperate at dinner, Ah Wu has always eaten less, and there is no activity after dinner on weekdays, so he doesn't feel hungry. Today, I suddenly walked so many roads, and that half bowl of porridge was not hungry at all.

On the way back, there were a lot of small stalls with white smoke and sweet fragrances, and Ah Wu's smell of them had changed from disgust to a slight nostril, and his eyes involuntarily drifted to the stalls lined up by people on the street several times.

White sugar cake, big knife noodles, spicy soup, mutton steamed buns, steamed beef, mutton blood, yellow cinnamon persimmon cake......

Every time Ah Wu saw a snack, he glanced at His Royal Highness the King of Qi, and His Royal Highness looked straight ahead, not affected by these street stalls in the slightest. Later, the number of times Ah Wu aimed at it was too much, and His Royal Highness also gave the eyes of the steamed beef seller.

Freshly baked steamed beef wrapped in bamboo leaves, pink and tender beef, turquoise bamboo leaves, and green coriander look refreshing and delicious. Then Ah Wu followed the gaze of His Royal Highness King Qi and saw the greasy apron tied by the proprietress in front of him, and the black hand that she rubbed between her nails by the way.

His Royal Highness King Qi frowned, this time it was given to Ah Wu to eat, and she refused to swallow, so she could only endure her hunger, thinking that as soon as she returned home, she would have a bowl of bird's nest porridge, and it was best to eat it with sauce and meat shortbread, accompanied by a plate of three silk spring rolls, and poured a thick marinade on top.

But at that moment, the gate of the Prayer King's Mansion was seen, and Ah Wu's heavy steps were also brisk, and His Royal Highness the Prayer King actually said that he would go to a place!

"Will it be too late?" Ah Wu politely refused. But helplessly, she has an elegant posture, excellent upbringing, and even a smile with three points of sweetness, so that it is easy for people to mistake her rejection for thoughtfulness.

"No, it's never night, it's just right to go now." Chu Mao replied, and then asked Ah Wu, "Do you know how to ride a horse?" ”

That's a real question. Ah Wu girl, knows astronomy, geography, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, poetry and songs are wonderful, but she can't ride a horse. A person as strong as her hates things that people ask her about what she can't do.

"No, it won't." Ah Wu replied quite bluntly.

Chu Mao also heard a little meaning, and turned around and instructed Li Yanguang: "Go and rent two sedan chairs." ”

didn't use the carriages, horses, chairs and sedan chairs in the house, but went to rent them outside, which made Ah Wu's eyes a little more profound. When the green sedan chair came, she still couldn't resist her curiosity and bowed down and sat in the sedan chair.

The sedan chair walked around in the alley for a long time, not to mention that Ah Wu didn't know the way at all, even during the day, she had to be confused.

The sedan chair stopped in front of a black lacquered door in the depths of the alley, and Chu Mao personally opened the curtain for Ah Wu and helped her out.

"Your Highness?" Ah Wu was a little puzzled, this alley was pitch black and there were no people, there were green walls on both sides, only a small door was opened here, like the back door of a house. A red plum sticks out in the courtyard and spreads in the wind.

"Call me Zequan, do you have any other words besides the small character Awu?" Chu Mao asked. Today's talented women also give themselves names and numbers in the backyard for their own entertainment in order to be elegant. Ah Wu had the name of "duck farmer" in her previous life, which was her seal on the painting, but she did not have such leisure and leisure in this life.

So, Ah Wu shook his head.

Chu Mao lowered his head and looked at Ah Wu's face seriously for a moment, "You are born like this, why don't you be called Yusheng?" ”

Ah Wu's face turned red, and she didn't bother to refute the words that Chu Mao gave her casually.

And Liu Xiang had already gotten Chu Mao's color, stepped forward and knocked on the copper ring on the small door, only to hear a delicate and round voice that seemed to be impatient: "Come on, come on, don't knock again." ”

As soon as the door opened, a seventeen or eighteen-year-old woman in a red shirt came out, and said, "Death, I don't know how to make a light noise, tonight is full, so I can't send it away." After spitting, he was about to close the door, but he just looked up casually, and his two eyes were locked on Chu Mao's body, and the impatience on his face suddenly turned into a full of joy, "Ah, Lin Gongzi, please hurry, please hurry." ”

Ah Wu looked at the woman's smoky and flattering demeanor, and a trace of doubt rose in his heart.

However, when the woman's eyes finally moved from Chu Mao to Ah Wu, her joy suddenly turned into surprise, "This ......"

"This is my Yusheng Virtuous Brother. Mei Niang is available? Chu Mao asked.

"Yes." The woman replied absent-mindedly, her eyes still wandering over Ah Wu's face, extremely rude.

"Go and call her, bring the lute." Chu Mao took a step forward and blocked the woman's view.

Then the woman answered and led the way. Ah Wu found that behind this gate is a rather large garden, Jiangnan characteristics, exquisite and elegant. The woman led them into a flower hall, and a little girl came to serve tea and desserts. Ah Wu saw that they were well-founded, as if they came out of a big family.

At this time, Ah Wu was already confused, this place is like a place for fireworks, and it is like a back house for everyone, and he can't see a famous hall.

After a while, a woman in a green shirt and green skirt of twenty-five or six walked in with a pipa in her arms, and blessed Ah Wu and Chu Mao on the seat, and sat down, thinking that it was the eyebrows in Chu Mao's mouth. The head is lowered, the fingers are trying the strings, and the attitude is quite arrogant.

"I don't know what song Lin Gongzi wants to hear?" After adjusting the strings, Mei Niang raised her eyes slightly, and glanced at Chu Mao with resentment, and a lake of autumn waves fell on Ah Wu's body, stunned and then lowered her head again.

Chu Mao glanced at Ah Wu and said, "Pick your best hand and sing." ”

Mei Niang fluctuated the strings, and sang in a mansheng voice: "The green leaves are thick, all over the pond pavilion, and there are many while it is cool." The sea pomegranate is blooming, and the enchanting fragrance is sprayed. Lao Yan and chicks talk, and there are high willows and cicadas to harmonize. After the shower, the pearls were messed up, and they hit the new lotus. ”

"There are a few in life, thinking of the beautiful scenery, and the first dream has passed. The poor pass is determined, why use hard work. Friends invite guests to play, and sing to Fangzun. and drunk, let him have two rounds of the sun and the moon, back and forth. ”

When she sang "Poor Pass is determined, why use bitterness", Meiniang's throat was sour, and she repeated it again.

After a song, I listened to Ah Wu as if I was fascinated, and Mei Niang's voice was graceful, not like the girl's crisp cry, nor like the young woman's softness like the spring forest of the warbler. It is a unique spaciousness, the first half of the que's pride, glamour, dreams, and shock, and the second half of the que's melancholy, sadness, resignation, and exile, all come out on the tip of her tongue, singing people's moods with ups and downs, swaying, and finally silent, and I can't wait for Du Kang to relieve his worries, and drink it into his throat.

First, Ah Wu vaguely guessed the identity of Mei Niang, who was originally contemptuous, but now that he listened to her songs, he lamented the scattered beauty.

After singing a song, the aftermath lingers.

Ah Wu was still savoring, but he heard someone outside say loudly: "Didn't you say that Mei Niang's voice was uncomfortable today, so she didn't start singing, why did she sing here again?" ”

"Fifth Master, isn't it enough for Ah Xiu to accompany you tonight?"

"It's not enough, your small body is not enough to it, call Mei Niang, people are old and people are old." The person who was called the fifth master outside laughed lewdly and laughed, "Did you say, the sixth child?" ”

When the Meiniang in the house heard this, she stood up with her pipa in her arms, pushed open the door and walked out. I didn't look at anyone, so I rushed away.

Now the people outside the house and inside the house are facing each other.

"Yo!" The eyes of the fifth master lit up and said, "It turned out that the water washed the Dragon King Temple." ”

Ah Wu also recognized the "Fifth Master" at this moment, but it was not the Fifth Prince Chu Xuan. The sixth child standing next to him is the sixth prince Chu Yu.

"It turned out that the fourth brother was here, no wonder Meiniang pushed my field and dared to come out to sing." Chu Mao smiled at Chu Mao, but his eyes glared at Ah Wu as if they were poisonous.

Chu Mao ignored Chu Mao, blocked Ah Wu sideways, and asked, "Are you leaving?" ”

Ah Wu nodded, she was caught red-handed by a woman disguised as a man to come to such a place, which really made her ashamed.

"Let's go first, you guys play slowly." Chu Mao nodded to Chu Mao and Chu Yu, and left with Ah Wu.

"Heh, I can't imagine it, I can't imagine that the fourth child actually brought her here." Chu Xuan looked at Ah Wu's back and said, and then looked sideways at Chu Yu, only to see that he was stunned by Ah Wu with a pair of eyes.

"Don't look at it, that's the fourth baby's bump." Chu sneered.

Chu Yu turned his head and smiled, like Wen Yu, and suddenly called Ah Xiu on the side to look confused. "Where does the fifth brother want to go?"

Chu Xuan sneered, "Let's grow up together, you pout, I don't know what you're going to do." Disperse, it's boring, this, the girl will look at you all night, and what do you say to please make my brother happy. Chu Yan brushed his sleeves and left.

Only Ah Xiu was left alone in the wind and looked at Chu Yu pitifully, "Master." ”

"Go down, you're doing well tonight." Chu Yuwen said.

That Ah Xiu bit his lip and retreated, but he was still unwilling, turned around and changed his clothes, and called him before Chu Yu left, "Master-"

Under the lights, looking back at dusk, Ah Xiu was dressed in men's clothes, biting his lip, leaning on the railing, followed by an exclamation, he had been pressed on the column by someone who came, and he was dry and dry.

Ah Wu followed Chu Mao out of the door, and the sedan chair man outside saw the door open, and immediately carried the sedan chair over.

Ah Wu returned to Yulan Hall, looked at Chu Mao puzzled, and said, "Your Highness, what are you taking me to that kind of place?" As soon as he came back, Ah Wu asked someone to throw away the clothes he was wearing today, washed them up and down, and couldn't wait to break the skin, so he came out of the clean room.

"That Mei Niang is the first room of the former Ministry of Rites waiter Jiang Lianghou in Jiangnan, the pipa is clear, the aftermath is around, the name moves Jiangnan, and it is difficult to invite a daughter. Later, Jiang Lianghou's song "Happy Spring Comes" hugged the beauty, but after he went, the eldest woman couldn't tolerate Meiniang, so she ran away with the piano and borrowed to live in Nanyuan. is lonely, and she is very sought after if she doesn't sell her body, otherwise where would she dare to lose face like this. Chu Mao walked to the bedside and said to Ah Wu, "Do you want to have some supper before going to sleep?" ”

Ah Wu then remembered his stomach.

On the small table outside, Zishen had already prepared dishes for Ah Wu, a bowl of clear porridge, a plate of silver silk bean sprouts, and a plate of sesame oil mixed with tofu shreds.

"Why doesn't it even smell like meat?" Ah Wu complained.

"It's up, I let her take it down, and when she sleeps, she eats greasy and is not easy to restrain herself." Chu Mao sat opposite Ah Wu, not moving chopsticks at all, just watching Ah Wu chew and eat slowly.

"How is Mei Niang's song sung?" Chu Mao asked.

Ah Wu replied without raising his head: "Very good." It can be used as a meaty porridge, and the old man complains that the silk is not as good as bamboo, and the bamboo is not as good as meat (1). ”

Chu Maoqing smiled lightly, "Very good." ”

After eating, Ah Wu yawned on Chu Mao's back, walked to the bed, took off his shoes and wanted to lie down, but heard Chu Mao say: "Just eaten, don't lie down, if you are sleepy, I will talk to you for a while." ”

Ah Wu thought about it, so he nodded. His hand reached to his feet in the quilt and pinched it, but it really hurt.

"Foot pain?" Chu Mao blew the lamp on the bed and bed.

"Sort of." Ah Wu couldn't help but say coquettishly, this is also a kind of complaint in disguise, "Hmm-"

Ah Wu's feet didn't have time to retract, and he was caught in the palm of Chu Mao's hand that reached into the quilt.

The author has something to say: (1) Li Weng (Li Yu)'s so-called "silk is not as good as bamboo, and bamboo is not as good as meat", which means that the music plucked by the silk strings is not as beautiful as the music blown by bamboo and wood, and the music blown by bamboo and wood is not as beautiful as the song sung by the human throat.