Text: Chapter Seventy-Eight: West Lake
When he walked to the door, he subconsciously rubbed the sole of his shoe on the head of the little stone lion, and then remembered that he had no money in his pocket for a long time, and now he was Jinse, who was richer than himself, so he went back to the kitchen.
Bai Chun was obviously prepared, about one or two taels of good silver had already been placed on the dinner table, Ye Qing smiled and picked it up and left, Bai Chun did not stop it.
It was only when Ye Qing had just walked to the heart of the Yuan and looked at Li Heng, who had made an appointment yesterday to accompany him to Yanfu today, that he heard Bai Chun's voice behind him: "Save some flowers, there are many people in West Lake today, don't lose it." ”
"Got it, don't worry." Ye Qing waved his hand impatiently at the back of his head, he is such a big person, and he can't lose the money, so wouldn't he be a pig.
After walking out of the door, Li Heng looked back at Ye Qing and gently closed the door of his house, and continued to burn the bun and toss the one or two silver in his hand, and then couldn't help but remind: "You better be careful, as long as there is a flower viewing or something festive in the West Lake, every time it is scattered, there will always be people picking up leaks, just hairpins and jade pendants can pick up a lot." ”
"Really? Is it that serious? Ye Qing was taken aback, what kind of scene is this, there are no crowds of people, shoulder to shoulder, otherwise the hairpin and jade pendant can be squeezed out?
"Why am I lying to you, you don't remember this, do you?"
"I've picked up a spill?" Ye Qing pointed to his nose, but saw Li Heng's eyes looking straight at the corner of the Royal Street, at the door of the Third Aunt's Tavern.
"Yo? Whose horse ...... Isn't this the Yan family's carriage, why did you come here? Ye Qing looked at it, but he was still about to walk before and after he saw clearly that it was the carriage in the Yan Mansion.
"You are very powerful now, the eldest lady of the Yan family does not hesitate to take a detour out of the city, and she has to pick you up here in person, and it will save me and Lao Liu Tou from running over there again." Li Heng obviously knew whose carriage it belonged to, and whispered side by side with Ye Qing.
Ye Qing glanced at Li Heng casually, ignoring the guy's somewhat strange tone, and walked to the front and back, but the curtain of the carriage was motionless, as if there was no one.
"Don't tell me, it's a carriage I've prepared." Ye Qing pointed to the carriage, looked at Zhao Qi'er and the others behind the carriage, and it was still Lao Liu Tou who was driving.
Lao Liu Tou is the master of greedy for small profits, during this time in Yan Mansion, although he has not done anything out of the ordinary, but now he has developed the virtue of a groom, but whenever Yan Chengcheng goes out, the groom is basically Lao Liu Tou.
In order not to walk on two legs, Lao Liu Tou put his face open, and did not care about Zhao Qi'er and others' dissatisfaction with him, anyway, as long as Yan Qingcheng went out, the carriage had to be him.
"It's almost on, it's time to go." Lao Liu Tou held a horsewhip in one hand, and beckoned Ye Qing to sit on the wheel with the other, as for Li Heng next to Ye Qing, Lao Liu Tou acted as if he didn't see it.
Ten people, including Ye Qing, are all dressed as forbidden soldiers today, with a knife on their waists, and even Lao Liu Tou rarely wears Fan Yangli on his head, not like Ye Qing, but on the back of his head.
After sitting on the wheel, with the sound of Lao Liu's driving, the black horse began to slowly spread its hooves and began to slowly carry the carriage forward.
Ye Qing began to move as the carriage began, and then leaned back slightly, put one foot on the wheel, and knocked the carriage back with his knee-holding hand: "Thank you." ”
"Miss asked me to ask you, if someone gives you a 50% condition today, or a 60% condition, will you cooperate with them?" As soon as Ye Qing's words fell, You'er's little head stretched out from the car window and said straight to Ye Qing.
"No, what's wrong?" Ye Qing still leaned back on the carriage, glanced at the head sticking out next to him and asked.
You'er made an expression of disbelief, and just wanted to say something, obviously someone pulled her behind her, and after making a grimace at Ye Qing, she hurriedly shrank back.
Ye Qing thought that the retracted head, after receiving the new instructions, would poke it out again and ask him why, or tell him the truth, so that he would not change his words, but he was about to go out of the city gate, and the head was not exposed.
So Ye Qing swayed along with the carriage, while looking at the ox carts, donkey carts or pedestrians that were overtaken by Lao Liu Tou from time to time, and while the sky was still a little blue, he knocked on the carriage behind him and said, "Don't worry, since I promised you, I won't cooperate with others anymore." Also, you don't need to tell them about the dye today, and of course, you don't have to worry about them being able to copy it. ”
"Why?" After a while, Yan Qingcheng's slightly hoarse voice sounded behind Ye Qing.
After talking to Yan Hongyuan last night and returning to her own embroidery building, Yan Qingcheng, who had always had some worries and would not sleep steadily, had insomnia again last night, as expected, and even in her mind, she secretly mobilized Ye Qing's figure as her own secret, and shyly let the figure accompany her to sleep, but it didn't achieve the effect.
Still with her eyes open, tossing and turning on her embroidered couch, she couldn't sleep until You'er got up and started to work.
"No, I guess they don't know who gave you the dye, right?" Ye Qing turned his head slightly, looked at the curtain on the wall of the carriage and said.
"I've seen Jinse, but I haven't introduced it too much, so I don't know yet." Yan Chengcheng recalled the situation of taking Jin Se to the dye workshop in the past few days, and said after coughing a few times.
"That's it, let's see what tricks they will play, your second and third uncles, you can't be stupid enough to think that you can be with your family for a long time with just that little dye, right?"
"And what if they copy it? …… Everyone is an expert in making dyes, especially the shopkeeper of Na Liao, who has been doing this for generations, so it shouldn't be too difficult for them, right? "Yan Chengcheng is most worried about these, after all, since ancient times, no matter what kind of secret recipe it is, it will always be imitated by others in the end, and I haven't heard of anything yet, because it can be kept secret all the time, this method can be kept secret.
Although the various cloth shops, porcelain, silk and other trades, even including the dishes and delicacies in the teahouses and restaurants, as well as fine wines, will be advertised everywhere, and the things they sell are made with many years of secret recipes, but the final result, in fact, everyone knows it, it is basically just a recipe.
It's just that sometimes some steps are different, but this doesn't affect anything, in Yan Chengcheng's view, some things completely depend on the habits of craftsmen, it's just that some people are used to putting salt after they get used to it, and some people are used to putting vinegar after they get used to it.
Ye Qing smiled disdainfully, and then said unashamedly: "It's not that I blow it to you, my recipe, even if I give them eight hundred years, they can't do it." ”
After finishing speaking, Ye Qing estimated it in his heart, as if he had said too much, and remembered that it seemed that in five or six hundred years, the recipe he used now would appear, but then again, who could confirm his authenticity at this time?
Yan Qingcheng in the carriage obviously knew that he was boasting about Ye Qing's words, so he simply ignored it, it was all at this time, whether the Yan family could rely on cloth and silk to get through the difficulties of separating the family, it was a matter of one move, I hope it is as he said, not to mention...... Now in addition to being able to rely on him, who else can she rely on to get back to this difficult situation after the separation.
The horse-drawn carriage gradually drove into the embankment of the West Lake, and the rows of buildings on both sides were mostly vermilion wooden structures, and the signboards danced slowly with the gentle breeze brought by the rising sun.
Most of the deep mansions with blue bricks and tiles are hidden in the depths of the dense forest, which is quite a hermit's courtyard.
There were already many carriages on the embankment, and even at the intersection of the road, I saw many carriages parked there, and several horsemen were sitting together, yawning and chatting.
According to Lao Liu Tou, when the imperial court just established Lin'an as the capital, there were not so many shops, restaurants, inns, docks, etc. on the shore of the West Lake, but as time went by, more and more were built here.
Even many dignitaries, royal relatives and nobles will buy some properties here, and in their spare time, they will take their families and so on to live in their other courtyards together.
Tourists, literati and elegant guests, etc., will also come here to play, even if it is the courtyard of the deep mansion compound, although they can't afford it, they will come to feast their eyes, or look at the prosperity outside the city of Lin'an, and then write a poem to show the results of their efforts in the cold window of ten years.
And because they came early, when they entered the bustling streets, the flow of people was not as dense as Li Heng and others imagined, and Lao Liutou's handlebar style was indeed needless to say, even if he was driving on a road full of pedestrians, the carriage also allowed him to drive steadily, not slowly.
Ye Qing seems to have come to Wuxi Film and Television City, where he is filming costume movies, and everything is extremely fresh, look at this side and over there, and ask Lao Liu Tou from time to time, what is the name of Leifeng Pagoda now?
What does it mean that a lonely mountain is not lonely? Where the hell is the broken bridge? What about Su Causeway, where is Su Causeway? What is the autumn moon in Pinghu? Is Quyuan Fenghe a place to sing? Didn't you say that Lonely Mountain has been regarded as a royal garden by the royal family, isn't it that we can't see it?
Li Heng arrived a little embarrassed and tugged on Ye Qing's trouser leg, no way, this thing was already standing on the wheel at the moment, looking around at everything in the West Lake, muttering in his mouth, and even attracted the side eyes and surprise of some passers-by.
It's like a bun that doesn't seem to be easy to come to the rich and prosperous Lin'an City, everything is so fresh and exciting, the old Liu Tou next to him didn't know how to answer Ye Qing's question, and opened his mouth...... In the end, I had to drive with my head bored, as for Ye Qing, who had never seen the world, I didn't know him.
Yan Chengcheng in the carriage was also in shock, and the You'er next to him was about to be dumbfounded, this ...... What's going on?
"Miss, he hasn't been out of Lin'an City since he was a child, right? No, this is really his first time in West Lake, right? Why is it more exciting than You'er seeing West Lake for the first time? ”
"No, didn't he make a poem? Outside the mountain, the green mountains are ....... Without waiting for Yan Chengcheng to finish speaking, Yan Tingcheng heard a message from outside, wanting her to trample on the heart of the forbidden army!
"Outside the mountain, Qingshan Building, outside the Qingshu, there are capable people behind the capable people. How's this poem? Ye Qing happily looked at Li Heng, who was tugging on his trouser leg, and said loudly.