The lunar calendar is almost the end of April. Towards the beginning of summer, the West Lake has faded away from the chūn red willow green and brocade huā, and has been replaced by a thick greenery, and the breeze on the lake also has a slightly drunken feeling.

It is close to the Dragon Boat Festival, and it is the wind and sunshine, and the weather is lukewarm. At the beginning of May, it was the day of dragon boat racing on the West Lake, and the people of the four townships of Hangzhou had to gather together to pack up the dragon boat and go to the West Lake to race boats to worship the gods.

On the lake, boats and boats shuttle back and forth. West Lake is known as the "lake", and the number of cruise ships and the number of names are unique in China. The Qing Dynasty man Li Yi wrote the "Cruise Record", which collected more than 90 kinds of cruise ships on the West Lake since the Tang and Song dynasties, and by the late Qing Dynasty, there were as many as 1560 kinds of various sè names. That is, there are treasure vases and Ming yù that can accommodate 100 people, and there are also small foot boats and melon skin boats that can only carry two or three. It makes people feel that they are dizzying.

Cai Shi went to charter a boat to swim in the lake according to Zhao Yinggong's instructions. He was a native of Hangzhou and knew where to find the right boats. The painting boat on the West Lake, most of the haode is the sī boat of the wealthy gentry, the gentleman has his own identity, and can only take the film to "borrow", Zhao has no relatives and no reason in Hangzhou, and his famous family background is not prominent, so it is impossible to "borrow the boat" with the post.

Fortunately, in addition, there are also painting boats built by rich merchants, because they are enjoyed by sī people, and rich merchants want to show off their wealth and fighting spirit, and the design and decoration are all extremely ingenious. Such a boat can be rented and played when it is not in use on weekdays, regardless of family background.

Zhao Yinggong wanted to meet Merlin's requirements, and took care of Cai Shi to find a painting boat with a boat girl. Cai Shi found a prostitute's painting boat outside Yongjin Mén, named "Fangfei Drizzle Boat". It was a bustard's boat named Mei Niang.

This is also a type of prostitute. Generally, a "mother" with several "nv children" cào holds "nv children", that is, there are biological and nv. Specializing in soliciting business to visit the lake. It is common to see them in Jiangnan, and compared with the ordinary "boat girls" of hand-cranked boats, their grades are higher, and their equipment is more jīng.

This boat is 66 zhang long, wide and wide, the boat has all kinds of furniture and utensils, there is a hall for drinking, a bedroom for resting, and a wide area of lù platform on the foredeck, which can be rolled and comfortable. Whether it's a sunny day or a drizzle, visitors can enjoy a feast and drink in the upper reaches of Lù Terrace.

At this time, the painting boat was slowly gliding on the water, two boatmen, holding a basket in the stern of the boat, and went to the middle of the lake, not very hard, they knew that the old man was going to enjoy the landscape, but he was not in a hurry. The boat glides slowly across the lake under their baskets.

Sun Wangcai took a few dart masters, standing at the bow and stern of the ship, guarding the cabin.

In the hall of the ship, next to a table of eight immortals sat Zhao Yinggong and a group of veterans who came to Jiangnan on a business trip. One by one, they wore wigs, buns, scarves, and silk satin—but their postures were unnatural, and they looked awkward.

Cai Shi took Fenghua, Jiying and other personal servants to serve beside him.

Because this time it was purely a smelting tour on the lake, and there were outsiders present. Therefore, Zhao Yingong greeted everyone in advance, and he didn't talk about work or things on the ship, only about the wind and the snow.

Several veterans were busy with work on weekdays, and now they suddenly have leisure to visit the West Lake, although the scenery outside is beautiful, but for a while they can't think of what to say about "wind huā snow moon". I simply silently enjoyed the lake and mountains outside the window.

Zhao Yinggong saw that the atmosphere was awkward, so he gestured to Cai Shi with his eyes. Cai Shi nodded slightly, and then withdrew.

After a while, I only heard the bead curtain leading to the rear cabin sound, and a fù man in his early thirties was born with a bead hairpin, a green silk hair neatly and neatly, a bead hairpin, a yù orchid on each sideburns, and a pleated skirt of snow green sè, which looked clean and neat, and the charm still existed.

She held a tray in her hand and smiled at yínyín's first blessing;

"Master Zhao is blessed."

"Oh, that's it!" Zhao Yinggong knew that this was the "mother" of this ship, and said with a smile.

Mei Niang stood up and blessed everyone again;

"Blessed are you, gentlemen." Although the head is lowered, when it is raised, the eyes flow inadvertently, which is extremely charming. Zhao Yingong smiled slightly, knowing that she must have been a veteran in the past in the party.

The patriarchs in the painting boat were not interested in this - it was not that they disliked her age, according to the old standards of time and space, there were many nV children who thought they were little girls at the age of thirty-five or sixteen, but that this appearance was too mediocre. With a round face, small eyes and a wide forehead, this posture is not as good as the farmer who sells huā by the lake.

Mei Niang has seen the ceremony, while mouthing. While directing the maid on the ship, he put out a fruit plate and tea.

The fruit plate is a lacquer and red sixteen plate, this thing can be auctioned for more than one million in the old time and space, and it is not a cheap object in this time and space, Zhou Dòng Tian, Xu Xu, Merlin and others can't see the mén in it, he Zhao Yinggong detours but often dabbles in the collecting world - although he can't afford to collect any slightly valuable antiques, but like many fans who don't have cars but have a few treasures about them, he has a deep understanding of ancient objects. As soon as I got on the boat, I saw that all the furnishings and utensils on this painting boat were all on the haode guess, and they were by no means ordinary goods. It's no wonder that this day's smelting tour is not a reward, but also forty taels of silver.

There are all kinds of dried and fresh fruits and melon seeds on the plate. There are people they know and some they don't know, and it looks very jīngchi.

Mei Niang was very attentive, and personally sent four teas after a while, a sè green huā glaze red peony pattern covered bowl tea cup, Zhao Yinggong sniffed lightly, it turned out to be a very familiar thought that this is on the haode Longjing tea, the nèn leaves in the tea cup are stretched and loaded, which is the Ming Qian tea of Longjing.

"Mei Niang ordered good tea." Zhao Yingong picked up the teacup, took a sip, and exclaimed, "How can this dragon well be more soft and new than others?" There is no trace of winter snow in this leaf, I don't know what the magic method is? ”

Mei Niang smiled; "Master, this 'soft new', the word is used wonderfully, and it happens to be the opposite of the 'hard new'. After a winter of boiling and frying, the tea tree will inevitably have a hard skin and withered face, and the first buds will only bring out the old taste, which is naturally hard and new. If you abandon the buds that have gone through the winter, and collect the new sprouts in the chūn day, it is authentic. Less is less, guess is jīng矣, wonderful is wonderful. ”

Except for Zhao Yinggong, the other elders basically didn't know anything about tea and the like. Listening to Zhao Yinggong and this half-old talking about what "soft" and "hard" they were, they were at a loss and tasteless.

Mei Niang saw that the scene was a little cold, and hurriedly glanced at the maid on the boat, and after a while, there was a small sound of the skirt swinging behind the screen, and everyone felt as if their eyes were bright; The nv's sixteen or seventeen-year-old mō is tall, about 66 meters tall according to the standards of this time and space. Because of the hot weather, she was only wearing a thin pink NV shirt, lined with a moon white Luo skirt, with a loose bun on the back of her head, a goose egg face, red phoenix eyes, a slight collapse of the nose bridge, a small mouth cherry chún, looking round and round, holding a white sunflower fan lined with green gauze and gold trim in her hand, and walked out slowly.

The appearance of the NV son and the Mei Niang are like, about the relationship between the mother and the NV. She used fat powder to evenly touch her face, traced her eyebrows, and even the ornaments on her head were selected by jīng's heart, so she looked particularly fresh and radiant. Zhao Yinggong knew from Cai Shi that this young man was a well-known charming girl in Hangzhou.

Of course, it is not first-class in terms of value, but on the huā boat on the West Lake, he is a first-class person.

"NV, I've seen all of you." Mei Niang greeted.

"Mei Yan'er has seen all of you." The fù people had already folded their sleeves around their waists and bowed in a frenching manner.

Zhou Dòngtian, Xu Xu and others have little interest in the indigenous NV, and according to the aesthetic supertaste of the old time and space, she is at most a middle-aged posture - not to mention a pair of small feet that appear and disappear under the skirt. It makes people feel jī skin pimple at first glance.

Zhao Yinggong said with a smile; "It doesn't matter to us, you are so good at serving this Master Mei."

"Master Mei came to the slave's boat, but the slave family didn't know how to sit down, and I hope that the master will forgive the crime of neglect!" Mei Yan'er lightly opened Zhu Chún first apologized. As a well-trained sister, she always speaks softly and slowly, which makes people feel indescribably comfortable when listening.

"Uh-huh, oh," Merlin said for more than ten seconds before he could hold back a sentence, "You sit down." ”

smiled flatteringly; "Thank you, Master Xie." He immediately sat down beside Merlin, took the pine nuts from the fruit bowl, peeled them with his hands, blew off his clothes, put them on a handkerchief one by one, and held them in front of Merlin for him to use.

Don't look at Merlin shouting every day to appreciate the famous prostitute, play "Daming Fan", this live sè fragrant Daming prostitute really sat beside him, blowing like musk, and the aroma of fat powder blowing one after another, suddenly at a loss, I don't know what to tune? Do you first come to yín oh to sing a song "Thousands of miles of ice, thousands of miles of snow drifting" to show your "Wang Bazhi" or sing a song "Sweet mìmì" to express your "literary style"? Otherwise, talk about democracy, freedom, and human rights, or equality between men and women. I held it for a long time, but I didn't hold back a word.

Mei Yan'er saw that this old man Mei was dark-skinned, burly, and his hands and feet were not as soft as those of a scholar, so much like a fighting martial artist. I was already tired of three points in my heart. Looking at the other masters on this ship, except for Zhao Yinggong, although they were dressed gorgeously and looked like a lord, their demeanor seemed to be very unsuitable for the mō appearance of this dress. And he has dark skin, rough hands and feet, and he doesn't look like an ordinary rich man at all. It's like a rich man in the countryside.

But the pomp and circumstance of this group of people is not small, especially the few people on the platform at the bow of the boat, who are obviously armed with martial arts. This made her feel more and more that these people were coming from the wrong way, and she was suspicious, and she became more and more careful in her words. To be continued!.