Chapter 13: Meiyu Village (Part II)
3,000 visitors, 40,000 silvermen.
The people of the She ethnic group are hospitable, and some guests come from afar, not only are they as warm as fire, but they will also give everything they have to entertain them.
Therefore, after Lan Atan, the father of Yaoyao, a girl of the She ethnic group, learned that Li Sanjian and the others were not Han people living near them, but guests from afar, he gave everything he had to entertain Li Sanjian and others.
At this time, a large wooden table was placed outside the thatched hut in Yaoyao's house, and various foods were piled up on the wooden table.
Although these delicacies are very common foods, rather than delicacies from the mountains and seas, they are also more varied and more delicious to eat.
In addition to the dishes on the table, the wine is not the wine of the Han family, but glutinous rice wine, a kind of wine made from glutinous rice, the degree is not high, but it tastes sweet like honey and tastes mellow.
In addition to Li Sanjian and others at the banquet, there were She men and women, old and young who were sitting around the wooden table, and everyone looked at Li Sanjian and others curiously, talking and laughing in a low voice, as if it was a festival, and it was extremely lively.
Many of the dishes and drinks for Li Sanjian were made up by the neighbors of Yaoyao's family.
"The guests in the mountains sing mountain songs, and the guests in the mountains have a spring as a mirror, and the spring water is shining. . . ." Yaoyao's father picked up a bowl of home-brewed glutinous rice wine and looked at Li Sanjian and sang.
She people are good at drinking, they don't talk without wine, and even if they can't afford to eat, they still have to use some of the grain to make wine.
Most of the time, the She people are reluctant to drink tea or wine on weekdays, but use it to entertain guests.
"Brother, this is a drinking song, please drink." Li Gang saw Li Sanjian looking at the people in a daze, so he stabbed Li Sanjian with his elbow and said.
Li Sanjian and Li Gang recognized their home, and then went to Quanzhou together and lived together for three months, so they swept away the strangeness and embarrassment at the beginning, but at this time they also seemed familiar and affectionate.
"Oh, oh." Hearing this, Li Sanjian hurriedly picked up the wine bowl and drank it all.
After Li Sanjian finished drinking, he licked his lips and said with an endless aftertaste: "Brother, this... Where did this Yaoyao go? ”
At this time, Li Sanjian already knew Lan Atan's true age, which was thirty and two, and it was not appropriate to call him his father-in-law again, so he called him his brother.
Since Yaoyao brought Li Sanjian and others to her home, there was no trace of them, so Li Sanjian asked in wonder.
At this time, Li Sanjian and others were accompanied by Yaoyao's parents and some neighbors.
"She... She... In the house ... Lan Atan replied a little embarrassed when he heard this.
Li Sanjian saw that Lan Atan's expression was a little strange, but it was not good to continue asking, so he shook his head and took another big sip of glutinous rice wine.
Not to let his daughter entertain guests, this may be the custom of the She people, Li Sanjian secretly guessed in his heart.
"Yaoyao has no clothes to wear... I'm lying naked in bed... ”
"Hahahaha!"
Some of the good children in the neighborhood laughed together.
"Why is that?" After Li Sanjian heard this, he glanced at Li Gang and the others, and asked in surprise.
"Hey, I'm not afraid of jokes from distinguished guests." Lan Atan then sighed: "There is only one set of dresses at home, Yaoyao and her aunt wear them instead, whoever goes out will wear them... ”
Li Sanjian and others were silent when they heard this.
At this time, Li Sanjian noticed that the dress on Yaoyao's aunt was exactly the same as Yaoyao's, and only then did he see the poor people living at the bottom.
Li Sanjian was also born poor, a poor person in a small fishing village in Danzhou, Qiongtai, but no matter how poor Li Sanjian and his mother Fu Erniang were at that time, they would not be like Lan Atan and Yaoyao's families, where the mother and daughter only had one set of dresses, and whoever went out wore them.
Meals for guests, glutinous rice wine, etc., are also made up by neighbors.
It is not difficult to understand that this beautiful mountain village is so poor, Li Sanjian secretly said in his heart, the so-called to get rich, first build roads, Meiyu Village's traffic conditions are so bad, coupled with many mountains and little arable land, how can the people be rich?
At this time, Li Sanjian was the governor of a state, and his consideration of the problem had unconsciously undergone great changes.
"Take out all the money you have." Li Sanjian then said to Li Gang, Yao Yu and others.
Lan Atan and the others were hospitable, and they did their best to set up such a table of wine banquets, Li Sanjian and the others couldn't eat for nothing, right? If this is the case, Li Sanjian is extremely unbearable in his heart.
Li Sanjian gave Yaoyao a piece of priceless jade, but these items are priceless for Lan Atan and others, and they may not be able to exchange for a full meal.
The so-called far water can't quench the thirst of the near.
"Division... Uncle... I don't have much money, so I'll take it out... I'll just wait ... Yao Yu stretched out his hand into his arms and said to Li Sanjian with a bitter face. Dancing God eBook
"Less nonsense!" Li Sanjian slapped Yao Yu and said, "Take them out." ”
"Haha, you're stupid!" After Li Gang took out more than 50 coins from his arms and stuffed them to Li Sanjian, he smiled at Yao Yu and said, "When you arrive in Quanzhou, will my brother still lose you?" ”
Everyone thinks about it, Li Sanjian is a dignified governor of Quanzhou, and when he arrives in Quanzhou, he waives his pen and allocates some money and food casually.
So Yao Yu and Xu Biao also donated one after another, Xu Biao counted more than 200 texts and handed them to Li Sanjian, and Yao Yu had the most, and he actually had a whole amount of money.
Li Sanjian snatched the consistent money from Yao Yu and glared at Yao Yu fiercely.
Yao Yu actually had so much money on him, and when he was embarrassed on the bamboo raft, he didn't take it out...
"Uncle Shi, this is all my belongings... Yao Yu said to Li Sanjian aggrievedly, swallowed his saliva at the same time, and looked at the yellow, orange and orange copper coins in Li Sanjian's hand with great reluctance.
Yao Yu is a person with merit and fame, of course, there will be no less, but Yao Yu has not started a family so far, he is alone, and he uses money to call friends and make a big spend, which is extremely bold, so he does not have much savings.
Li Sanjian glared at Yao Yu again, then stopped paying attention to him, holding a copper coin of less than two yuan and placing it on the wooden table.
"Honorable guest, what are you... Seeing this, Lan Atan asked suspiciously.
"Brother, I'm really bothering to come here, a little money, just use it as wine money." Li Sanjian smiled at Lan Atan.
"Don't, don't, enough, enough."
Song Yiqian is consistent, and two pieces of money are two thousand Wen, when has Lan Atan seen so much money? So I was so frightened that I waved my hand again and again, and I was a little incoherent.
With so much money, for Lan Atan and the others, it is enough to set up ten tables of banquets.
"Don't hide it from my brother, I am from the Kaifeng Mansion of Jingshi, thousands of miles away, and I have seen a lot of people along the way, but I have never seen such a hospitable person like the She family, and at this time, you are so expensive, I really don't want to go, just a little money, please don't have to excuse myself." Li Sanjian said after pushing the copper coin in front of Lan Atan.
Li Sanjian's attitude is extremely sincere, without a trace of charity and kindness.
"Hey, we should be guests from afar, we should treat guests, and we have to collect money from guests, and if we spread it, it will be said, and we won't be able to raise our heads in the village." Lan Ah Tan still refused to accept it.
"That's good." It's not a matter for the two of them to push back and forth, so Li Sanjian thought about it and said, "Yaoyao is a good girl, and she has helped me a lot along the way, how about this little money as a thank you gift?" Buy her a few clothes, and I hope my brother doesn't have to excuse herself. ”
"Hey, hey, I'm talking about you, you're an old man, you're so wordy." Xu Biao saw that Lan Atan still refused to accept the money, so he interjected: "If you accept it, you will accept it, tell you, the big official has taken a fancy to your little sister, you can take this money as a bride price, quickly accept it, if you feel that you still don't want to go, then take a few more jars of wine, so that I can drink it happily, hehehehe... ”
Glutinous rice wine, the wine is a good wine, sweet and delicious, but the wine power is too poor, Xu Biao has already poured a jar of glutinous rice wine, but just a few wine burps and there is no follow-up...
"Hahahaha!" Everyone was stunned for a moment when they heard this, and then laughed together, and even the surrounding She villagers laughed too.
"it!" Li Sanjian suddenly felt hot when he heard this, scolded something that no one could understand, and hammered Xu Biao's arm and scolded: "You rammer, can't wine and meat stop your mouth?" ”
Xu Biao's flesh was like a stone, so Xu Biao didn't feel much pain, but it shook Li Sanjian's palm.
"Hey, hey!" Xu Biaohan laughed and drank with his head down, but from time to time he looked up in the direction of the hut.
Big officials? Have you taken a fancy to my Yaoyao? Lan Atan was secretly frightened when he heard this.
Although Lan Atan is a member of the She ethnic group, not a Han Chinese, he is also a Song citizen and is under the rule of the Song Dynasty, so he can still understand Chinese.
Generally speaking, a person who has an official and a half-position can be called a big official, and a person from the public can also be called a big official, such as a yamen official and so on.
At this time, Li Sanjian was wearing an extremely ordinary Han robe, and he couldn't see what his identity was, but his entourage called Li Sanjian a big official, so Lan Atan also understood that Li Sanjian was a public official, and he should be a public official?
A young man fell in love with Yaoyao? Lan Atan's heart was both surprised and happy at this time.
Lan Atan was shocked that Song Lu did not allow Han and She to intermarry, so if Li Sanjian really fell in love with Yaoyao, then Yaoyao could only be a concubine, not a wife.
Lan Atan is happy that if Yaoyao is really included in the house by Li Sanjian, then wouldn't his family be the one who has climbed the public gate? There will be a lot of benefits in the future.
In this way, it is not too aggrieved Yaoyao, not to mention that Li Sanjian in front of Lan Atan is tall and handsome, and he is a handsome brother who is rare in the world.
So Lan Atan, both surprised and happy, accepted two copper coins.
Although these copper coins are a little less as a dowry for concubines, there will be a lot of benefits in the future.
"Yo yo yo, Ah Tan, you don't accept my dowry, but you accept a gift from a private family, or a stranger, Ah Tan, what do you mean?"
At this moment, a hoarse voice reached the ears of Lan Atan, Li Sanjian and others.