Chapter 31: Food and Wine

I only heard the woman laugh and say, "General Wang, let go of me, you still have distinguished guests by your side!" ”

Liu Fan glanced sideways and saw that this person was slender, coquettish, with a pair of Danfeng triangular eyes and two bent willow leaves......

No, isn't this the description of Wang Xifeng in Dream of Red Mansions? Well, it's still a pair of Danfeng triangular eyes, two curved willow leaves hanging eyebrows, and there is a pungent strength hidden in the excellent charm.

Wang Kai said: "What does it have to do with having distinguished guests and letting you go." ”

"Alas, I was stupid when I saw you, and I couldn't help but want to marry you and go home."

As he spoke, he explained to Liu Fan: "Liu Fan, this is Ah Xia, my good friend." I only heard Ah Xia laugh and scolded: "What is your goodness, there are young women in the backyard who are twenty-eight years old, what is good about me as a half-old, General Wang let me go quickly, so as not to miss the reception of distinguished guests." ”

Wang Kai looked to the side and said, "Okay, for Brother Liu's sake, I'll let it go for the time being, and I'll go to you after dinner." Ah Xia, I'm going to serve the best dish today, well, let's put it on the table with eight plates, sprinkle it, first serve the altar and taste the fragrance. ”

"Alas, General Wang, the silver of the day before yesterday has not been paid off, why are you so generous today, and you can't afford to owe it to the old man anymore."

"Today, General Ben is happy, General Ning Yuan, who has just been promoted to the imperial court, what does it matter if he owes some silver, this time the reward is down, it will not be a problem to buy your Yihong Courtyard with you, besides, the two Liu Fan brothers have a life-saving grace for me in Ganzhou, you quickly order us to serve food, I want to get drunk with Liu Fan brothers, in addition, tonight I will find a Qingqi person for each of the two Liu Fan brothers, my brother is already a guerrilla general, and he will not lose you in the future."

Liu Fan said secretly in his heart: "No wonder Wang Kai would rather choose to come to Yihong Courtyard than marry a wife, this kind of charming young woman style can be described as infinitely lethal to Wang Kai!"

Glancing at Dong Zizheng's red face, he knocked his hand on Dong Zi's head, and then bowed to Ah Xia and followed Wang Kai in.

The layout of the interior is roughly the same as Liu Fan's imagination before he came, the first floor of the door is a patio-like hall, the stage is in the middle, the open lobby is around, the second and third floors are elegant private rooms, and the following songs and dances can be directly enjoyed from the floor-to-ceiling windows of the private rooms.

Wang Kai turned around and asked Liu Fan, "Brother, let's sit on the first floor for dinner, it's fun to watch the performance from below." ”

"Everything is up to General Wang."

Wang Kai glared at Liu Fan and said, "What kind of general is not a general, it is too angry to call each other like this, and we are not allowed to call it like this in the future." ”

Liu Fan said with a smile: "As long as General Wang is not strange, I will call you big brother in the future." ”

"That's right."

Liu Fan and the others were taken by Ah Xia to the table on the north and west sides of the first floor, Liu Fan noticed that the four sides of the first floor were basically full of people, and the private rooms on the second and third floors were also sparsely seated in the window, most of them were polite and polite gentlemen, but there were also several groups of rough soldiers who couldn't hide it no matter what they dressed like Liu Fan and the four of them.

Wang Kai had already waved to several of them with a broken gong voice, and it seemed that this person was not only a frequent visitor here, but also a star-like figure.

When the group sat down, Wang Kai still grabbed Ah Xia's hand and didn't let go, and the two of them were already alarmed when they came in from the doorway, especially Wang Kai's loud noise all the way has caused many people to look sideways, and the eyes of several people who seem to be talented people have obvious disdain in their eyes, and one of them has already scolded.

Seeing that Wang Kai let go of Ah Xia and turned around while insulting and looking like he was about to start, several groups of military men saw that there was a play and had already called out loudly, Ah Xia and Li Aiguo hurriedly pulled it back, only to hear Li Aiguo say, "The general forgot about the last time he was confined." Wang Kaicai sat down scoldingly.

Liu Fan scolded a few talented people in his heart: "What are you pretending to be high, not all the people here have the same thoughts, the turtle scolds Wang Ba, the old crow says that the pig is black, maybe the back of the polite and polite is even more wilted, I don't think anyone can say anyone." ”

After Ah Xia left, it only took a moment, Xiao Er successively brought up plates of steaming dishes, Liu Fan came to this world, and he has been eating either the big pot rice in the military camp, or the big pot rice in the post house, and he has never enjoyed this exquisite dish in the ancient restaurant, as Xiao Er shouted, Liu Fan heard that there were not only bear paws, humps, but also some crisp birds, roe deer meat, wild goose kites, etc., which he had never heard of in another world, either mountains and rivers or birds and beasts, and thought to himself: "Weird, Don't eat any viruses like SARS. ”

Several groups of military men couldn't help but coax when they heard Xiao Er's shouting, and one of them even shouted: "General Wang is mighty, it seems that this promotion is not small, and he has been called to the top eight plates." ”

Wang Kai laughed and said, "It's not bad, I've been promoted to the fourth level." ”

As soon as the words came out, only a group of military men were heard in exclamation almost at the same time.

Just now, the man said again: "That General Wang is almost General Ning Yuan or General Dingyuan now, right?" ”

"Thanks to the care of the imperial court and the camp, I have just been promoted to General Ning Yuan. Brother Zhang, come over and have two drinks together, right? ”

"General Wang loves love, how dare he sit with the general, and throw our captain aside, and go back for fear that people will wear small shoes for me."

As soon as he finished speaking, he was kicked sideways by a strong man next to him, only to see the strong man stand up and raise his hand to Wang Kai and Liu Fan and salute: "Qian Jishan, the captain of the ugly battalion of the C Brigade of the Jishi Army, has seen the generals. ”

At this time, Li Aiguo had already poured the wine, Wang Kai picked up the wine bowl and said: "Liu Fan and Liu Dong, this first bowl is my brother to thank you two for saving your life in Ganzhou City, although my brother is a mixed person, but at least I know that the two brothers will be my business in the future, although I believe that in the future, the creation of your two brothers will definitely be stronger than my brother and me, but no matter what, as long as there is something, you two will say it, and my brother will not hesitate to fight the soup and fire." ”

As he spoke, he leaned his neck and dried up.

After Wang Kai saluted three bowls, it was Li Aiguo who saluted three bowls, and when Liu Fan and Dong Zi brothers each saluted three bowls, each of the four people had already drunk twelve bowls each, and a jar and a taste of incense had bottomed out, although the degree of this wine was about the same as the beer of later generations, but if you drank too much, you could get drunk, and Liu Fan already felt that his brain was a little hot.

When Xiao Er went to get the wine, he thought to himself: "This won't work, at least this table of dishes can't be wasted." ”

glanced at the empty stage in the middle of the lobby, and casually asked Wang Kai: "Brother Wang, is there a performance every day in this Qinglou?" ”

Wang Kai burped and said: "Of course, there are at least three performances every day, sometimes there are five or six performances when there are more people, not only here, almost every one of the more than 20 brothels in Qinglou along the way has performances, brother, speaking of these, it is my brother's strength, let me popularize it for you." ”

Liu Fan casually raised his hand and saluted: "Please talk about it well, Brother Wang, so that I, a poor boy who has never seen the world, can also have a long experience." ”

"Speaking of this Qinglou performance, there is no one more than Yangzhou, Luoyang and the capital Chang'an, these three places hold the most luxurious flower list every three years, attracting thousands of officials, rich people and scholars to spend a lot of money for it, and finally select the local flower list of the year, that is, the champion, the eye, and the flower.

The selection criteria are mainly appearance, poetry, song and dance, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, etc., but the final ranking is determined by the number of scores.

In the northwest of Liangzhou has held a flower list activities, in recent ten years because of the Khitan army harassment, so the flower list contest has been stopped for many years, I heard yesterday that in order to celebrate the victory, Liangzhou is going to re-bloom the list of flowers, the specific time has not yet been determined, because to the first day of October on the 10th day of the celebration has not been a few days, it is estimated that the preliminary round will start soon. ”

Hearing this, Liu Fan interjected and asked, "Brother Wang, is this flower list just a civil activity, or is the government also involved?" ”