Chapter Forty-Eight: Painting the Boat
After the window of the private room on the second floor was opened, the noisy sound immediately poured in, although it was not as deafening as the first floor, but it was still noisy, mixed with the heat wave and the smell of sweat, which really made Nuan Jin nauseous for a while.
She looked back at Jin Xiangrong, and seemed to be unable to figure it out, he was a dignified prince, if he wanted to gamble, he could set up a gambling game in the mansion by himself, not only the environment was much better, but there was no need to mix with the three sects and nine streams here.
Just like her royal brothers and ministers, I once heard that they set up private gambling games, which is a pleasure, but the emperor didn't like it, and later explicitly ordered the princes, nobles and courtiers not to get involved in gambling, and then this phenomenon slowly disappeared.
However, Jin Xiangrong has always been in his fiefdom Nanling, and the mountain is high and the emperor is far away, so it doesn't hurt to gamble from time to time.
Jin Xiangrong looked at the ugly men on the gambling table on the first floor from the window, and smiled: "It's just idle and boring." ”
"What?" Nuan Jin snorted, as if she didn't expect Jin Xiangrong to give her such an unspeakable answer.
"How disappointed? Think I should say I'm here to observe the people's feelings? The master never plays false, the master just comes to see the excitement. ”
"I can really understand the difficulty of the old prince of Nanling now."
Jin Xiangrong didn't care, pulled up Nuan Jin and walked out the door: "It's not easy, he has passed so many years, and he hasn't killed me yet, which means that he is also used to it." Let's go eat something delicious. ”
"Hey...... Don't always pull me, men and women can't kiss! ”
Jin Xiangrong called a carriage, the two talked and laughed in the carriage, the atmosphere was quite harmonious, and it didn't take long for the carriage to stop, and a small servant opened the curtain from the outside and probed in: "Master, it's here." ”
Jin Xiangrong nodded, jumped out of the car first, and then thoughtfully helped Nuan Jin down from the carriage.
Nuan Jin thanked him a little embarrassedly, and suddenly caught a glimpse of the little guy who had just opened the curtain and was a little familiar.
"Huh? Look, why do you look familiar? ”
The little guy smiled when he heard this, and when he saw that Jin Xiangrong was noncommittal, he said: "The master will never forget, the slave is fake Su, and when he was in the market last time, the slave followed the master." ”
"Oh." Nuan Jin nodded, didn't say anything more, and walked forward with Jin Xiangrong.
"What? You don't like fake Sue? It doesn't matter, if you don't like it, I'll send him back to Nanling to save your eyes. ”
"Master!" As soon as Fake Su heard that Jin Xiangrong was going to turn his face and deny people, he hurriedly complained, "If you don't know the beauty, you will send the slave away, and the slave will still serve you." ”
Nuan Jin couldn't help laughing, sure enough, the unserious master wanted to bring out the unserious minions: "The mouth is quite sweet, don't worry, you just stay in Lin'an City, I am older than your master, I don't allow it, you don't have to go anywhere." ”
"Gotcha! If you are rare, the servants are willing to follow you into the palace to serve. ”
"Punching sex!" Jin Xiangrong glanced at the fake Su: "So soon, climb another high branch?" Be careful that the bamboo basket is empty, and in the end, even the master doesn't want you. ”
Nuan Jin was amused by the two of them, as if she hadn't been so happy for a long time, Jin Xiangrong...... Nuan Jin glanced at him without a trace, and he was really an interesting person.
"It's here!" Jin Xiangrong cheered, and finally stopped on the bank of the Youfei River.
"Didn't you say go eat something good? What can you eat on the shore? I don't see any shops, so you don't want to fish now, do you? Nuan Jin looked around, except for a few painting boats in the river, there was nothing, let alone any restaurant vendors.
Jin Xiangrong smiled, and did not answer directly, and gave fake Su a look, the latter had an order, and immediately called a small boat, and Nuan Jin was helped onto the boat by the two of them before he understood what it meant.
The boatman, an old man in his fifties, paddled into the river with his oars without saying a word.
The boat was unstable, and it was inevitable that it would be a little shaky when it was in the middle of the river, and Nuan Jin was full of doubts, but seeing Jin Xiangrong's appearance of the old god, he felt that if he kept asking questions, he would be very unsettling, so he had to endure his curiosity and shut up and stop talking.
It didn't take long for the boat to dock next to a painting boat, the water was rippling, and the painting boat was many times larger than the boat, and it stopped next to it, and the boatmen had to look up to see the top of the boat.
The lanterns on the painting boat are colorful, and the veils fluttering in the wind dance in the sky, as if they are about to swim to the edge of the sky. And the hull can be seen everywhere carved dragons and phoenixes, lifelike, as if to jump out of the wooden frame to fly in front of you, do not think much, at first sight, you will know that such a delicate carving, must be from the master's hand.
Nuan Jinhu glanced at Jin Xiangrong suspiciously, only to see him smiling brightly and making a gesture of please.
"Master, the little one will help you board the ship."
His appearance was very funny, and Nuan Jin couldn't help but be happy when he saw it, and put his hand on Jin Xiangrong's forearm: "Walking." ”
The two of them boarded the painting boat surrounded by a group of small servants, and Nuan Jin was really taken aback as soon as he stood still. Looking at it from the outside just now, this painting boat is already magnificent enough, and when I walked inside, I found that it was even more contained.
The boat is divided into three floors, below the deck is the place where the boatman and his subordinates stay, and above the deck there are two floors, each floor has a different purpose, there is a pavilion for eating and drinking tea, there are also wings for resting, each of which is beautifully decorated and well-made, and even some tea utensils are also quite exquisite. As far as the eye can see, on the entire Youfei River, their painting boat is the most gorgeous and magnificent.
"How? Not bad, right? Jin asked proudly.
"Yours of this boat?"
"Not before, I looked rare, and I won people's love."
Nuan Jin pursed his lips, thinking about the scene of his first encounter with Jin Xiangrong at the last market, and said disdainfully: "It's very similar to your style." ”
Sure enough, it is a master who will enjoy it, Nuan Jin carefully looked at the surrounding work, and Jin Xiangrong asked the little maid to put down the veil around him, forming a unique private space.
"The princess will sit down first, and it will be fine after dinner."
"Eat here?"
"Don't worry, although the king's chef is not as good as the palace, it is still much better than the folk cooks.
Nuan Jin nodded, listening to what he said, he really looked forward to it.
The two sat in the pavilion and chatted, from the conversation Nuan Jin was a little surprised, I didn't expect this Jin Xiangrong to have been to so many places, although he had the constraints of the identity of the prince, but it did not delay him to travel north and south of the river, where the scenery is pleasant, where he will go, where the food is famous, he will also taste, like him who lives freely and freely, I am afraid that it is the only one.
"Two masters, dinner is ready, do you want to eat now?"
The sound of fake Su's inquiry sounded outside the veil, Jin Xiangrong greeted him, and the moment the veil was provoked, there was a pungent aroma pouring in, and Nuan Jin watched the little guys rush in, and the meal with coloring and fragrance in his hand was simply shocked.
"Hey, hey, my saliva is going to come out!"