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In the east of Xianyang City, the Lingering Fragrance Garden is as lively as ever.

In the cold winter, the second and third generations of the princes and princes of Layue who did not have official positions gathered here almost every day, racing horses, fighting dogs, bowing, throwing pots and drinking sisters.

However, what has recently made people interested in the entertainment and play of the Lingering Fragrance Garden is that a two-story building that has been closed and renovated opposite the Lingering Fragrance Garden has been removed from the wooden board and straw curtains, revealing a row of red gatehouses, a black gate in the center that is more than a foot high, in addition to the two black and white beast statues squatting at the door, there is a huge plaque hanging on the towering lintel, but it is covered with a red cloth, I don't know what is written on the plaque.

At noon, two four-horse-drawn luxury carriages came along the street, and dozens of guards wearing leather armor accompanied each other on the left and right, with big swords hanging from their waists.

Many people standing outside the Lingering Fragrance Garden looked at the two people in the carriage, and suddenly let out a burst of exclamations.

"Look, it's the Marquis of Qinghe!"

"And Master Yushi, Master Meng!"

"Could it be that the two adults also came to play in the Lingering Fragrance Garden?"

"Is it possible, there are countless singers and dancers in the two adults' mansions, all of them are first-class delicate little ladies, how can they come to play in such a vulgar place?"

"That's right, but where else can I play and entertain here besides the Lingering Fragrance Garden?"

And the news that Chen Xu and Meng Yi suddenly came to Liuxiang Garden in the east of the city soon spread to the garden, and suddenly a large group of women also poured out, covering their mouths with red faces and pointing at the carriage.

"Qinghe Hou~~" The crowd suddenly remembered a few excited and excited screams of the girl.

"Qinghe Hou is so beautiful......"

"Yes, it's also domineering, the last time I beat Ma Teng's son, it was particularly majestic, and the slave was soft as long as he thought about it!"

"The slave's heartbeat is almost uncontrollable, if it is enough to enjoy the Qinghe Hou, the slave will die without regrets!"

"Shhh, don't talk nonsense, I heard that His Majesty the Emperor is going to marry the fifth princess to the Marquis of Qinghe, once your words reach the ears of adults, you will definitely be killed......"

"Just stop here!"

Chen Xu gently patted the handrail a few times, and the horseman who was driving the car reined in the horse, and the four horses stopped at the gate of Liuxiang Garden in an instant.

Chen Xu jumped out of the carriage, turned to Meng Yi who was following behind, and said with a smile: "Master Meng, it's here, please!" ”

Meng Yi looked at the crowd gathered at the gate of Liuxiangyuan and the women smiling one after another, couldn't help frowning slightly and got out of the car, and then walked towards Liuxiangyuan.

"Ah, the two adults really came to Liuxiang Garden!" Seeing Meng Yi's actions, the crowd of onlookers hurriedly dispersed on both sides after a commotion.

Chen Xu hurriedly grabbed Meng Yi's arm, and said with a smile in his mouth: "It seems that Master Meng is a frequent visitor to the Lingering Fragrance Garden, and you must be familiar with the way to come, today Xu Please eat and drink not in the Lingering Fragrance Garden!" ”

"Not in the Lingering Garden?" Meng Yi stopped, looked around with a puzzled face, and found that there was only Liuxiang Garden, which was a place for play and entertainment.

"Don't look at it, my lord, it's on the other side, please!" Chen Xu pulled Meng Yi and turned around and walked outside the black gate.

A guard from the Qinghe Marquis Mansion stepped forward and slammed the door a few times, and with a creak the door opened, a small head poked out of it to take a look, and then hurriedly walked out to salute.

Chen Xu touched the child's head and said, "Go and inform the imperial manager that Ben Hou is going to treat you at the Qinghe Hotel today!" ”

"Yes, Master Hou!" The child shouted at the inside of the door: "Open the door quickly, the Hou Ye is here, and there are distinguished guests!" ”

"Squeak~~" The two doors quickly opened left and right.

"Lord Meng, please~" Chen Xu smiled and led the way into the door, Meng Yi stood at the door and looked left and right a few times, and followed in with a puzzled face.

Entering the door is a huge courtyard, the area is about seven or eight acres, planted with green pines and cypresses and some green bamboo flowers and plants, although it is a cold winter, but there is still a bit of greenery.

Facing the gate is a two-storey wooden and stone building, connected together with about ten houses, not a newly repaired building, there are obvious traces of renovation, the main entrance hangs the plaque of Qinghe Restaurant with five ancient seals.

There is also a fence on the side of the restaurant, in which the sound of bells and flutes is constantly heard, and at the same time, you can hear the singing and the sound of people talking.

"Qinghe Hou, this is your property?" Meng Yi couldn't help but ask after observing.

"Yes, this place has just been renovated and is ready to be officially opened to the public the day after tomorrow spring, everything has been prepared, just today I invite Master Meng to try the dishes made by our chef to see if it suits the taste!" Chen Xu smiled and led the way, saying as he walked.

"Haha, okay, I have heard for a long time that Qinghehou is good at cooking all kinds of deliciousness, and the steamed buns, dumplings, noodles, tofu and soy milk that we eat every day are all invented and made by Qinghehou, well, there are also hot pot and tofu milk are also delicious, go quickly!" Meng Yi said and hurriedly walked in front of Chen Xu.

Chen Xu's face couldn't help but shake slightly.

It seems that the tradition of delicious food is the ancient genetic inheritance of the Chinese, and later generations have just developed a variety of delicious foods to meet the development of this gene.

The two quickly walked to the door of the Qinghe Restaurant, and Huang Fuque also hurriedly came out of it with a group of subordinates at this time, including helpers and cooks, all of whom were wearing clean and neat small stand-up collar uniforms, which did not look much different from the hotel staff in later generations.

"Meet the Marquis of Qinghe!" A group of people respectfully saluted Chen Xu.

"Excuse me, this is Lord Yushi Dafumeng!" Chen Xu pointed to Meng Yi and introduced.

There was a burst of exclamation in the crowd, and then they hurriedly bowed to Meng Yi together.

"Today I'm going to invite Master Meng to a banquet, hurry up and prepare a few good dishes!" Chen Xu waved his hand, and a group of kitchen workers and helpers hurriedly dispersed, leaving only Huangfu to lead the way in front, and soon led the two of them through a small courtyard to the door of a house, only to see a small wooden sign hanging on the lintel, on which were written the four seal characters of the rising sun.

Meng Yi looked at Chen Xu with some confusion, Chen Xu turned around and pointed to the wooden sign on the door of another room not far from the courtyard and said: "Don't be confused, in order to facilitate the arrangement of diners who come to the banquet, this restaurant is divided into several different courtyards, with a total of more than ten individual suites, each suite has a separate name, which is easy to manage, and also allows the kitchen and helpers to not be chaotic when cooking and passing dishes, and this rising sun is my exclusive place to invite guests to eat and drink, and it is not open to the public on weekdays, please be in the Mengda!" ”

"Please~" Meng Yi nodded and didn't ask any more, stepped into the room, and suddenly a hot breath came to his face.

This is a suite, five zhang long and wide, there is a large round table in the middle, there is a layer of small turntable on it, and the round table of later generations is almost exactly the same, there is a pair of framed calligraphy and paintings hanging on the wall facing it, a few strokes draw a few ink bamboos, but it is very freehand, and there is a poem written next to it with a penmanship that seems to be a seal.

"In the sound of the dog barking in the water, the peach blossoms bring the rain. When the tree is deep, I see deer, and I don't hear the bell at noon. The wild bamboo is divided into green mist, and the flying spring hangs on the blue peak. No one knows where to go, and they are sad to rely on two or three pines. ”

Looking at the layout of the room and the clumsy and weird calligraphy and painting on the wall, Meng Yi stood at the door and was stunned for a long time, while Chen Xu had already walked to a room inside to say hello.

The room inside is slightly smaller, but the layout is luxurious, the door is a five-fold screen, there are simple pictures and ancient poems painted on it, there is a huge warm kang behind the screen, there is a desk on the kang, there is a piano seer, the wall is hung with antlers and bows and arrows, there are several kinds of bonsai and rockery with strange shapes on both sides of the wall, although the bonsai is common in some pine, bamboo, plum tea and other plants, but it adds a bit of vitality to the room, and it looks pleasing to the eye.

In the center of the room, there is also a stove for boiling water and tea, and a table and tea set, inside the stove is full of charcoal, and a kettle is steaming on it.

"Lord Meng, please take a seat, it is estimated that it will take half an hour for the dishes and meals to be prepared, let's drink tea to warm up first!"

After Chen Xu led Meng Yi to sit down in the inner room, soon two girls in short skirts and uniforms came in, and after saluting the two of them together, one used a fan to boil water on the charcoal stove, and the other knelt in front of the tea table and began to sort out the ceramic tea set.

Not to mention the kettle for boiling water, it is an ordinary pottery jug, and the tea set is a porcelain specially brought from Qinghe Town, a delicate teapot and several exquisite teacups, these porcelains are almost no different from the porcelain seen in later generations.

Meng Yi's eyes fell on the two girls making tea, swishing from top to bottom, and then staring directly at the snow-white thighs of the girl kneeling in front of the tea table.

Ahem!

Chen Xu coughed a few times deliberately, Meng Yi came back to his senses, just when Chen Xu thought that Meng Yi would blush or be embarrassed, but he didn't expect to be wrong, only to see Meng Yi's face happily pointed to the girl who was making tea and said, "Qinghe Hou, is it good to give this tea lady to the old man?" I just lack a tea lady who can make tea! ”

Damn, Chen Xu's body was crooked and he almost hit the ground, stared at Meng Yi and said, "My lord is serious?" ”

"Naturally, you are serious, you little tea lady is delicate and beautiful, the old man likes it very much, but don't worry about the Qinghe Hou Mansion, there are many servants in my house, and I will send a few ...... to the Qinghe Hou when the time comes."

Chen Xu's cheeks twitched and couldn't stop.

Are people in this era so shameless?

You are so old, someone else is a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl, I'm afraid it's fake to go back to make tea, and it's true to be ruined.

But in this era, it is common for wealthy nobles to give concubines to each other, and as for the lower status of servants, no one cares about killing them at will, let alone giving them away, so Meng Yi does not have the slightest psychological burden to ask Chen Xu for a maid he likes.

And old men like little Lori have existed since ancient times, and there will be two thousand years later, but it's not so blatant.

When Su Shi, the great poet of the Song Dynasty, was thirty-seven years old, he met the twelve-year-old courtesan Wang Chaoyun on the shore of the West Lake. If you want to compare West Lake to Xizi, light makeup is always appropriate.

The great poet really didn't cover it, and if a poem didn't work, he would say another word: the flowers faded and the red and green apricots were small, when the swallows flew, the green water was around, the willows on the branches were blowing and there was little, and there was no grass in the fields?

Under the shameless seduction of the great poet, Xiao Chaoyun finally ran away with Mr. Su, and began a life of eating, sleeping and chatting, and until he died, Wang Chaoyun was by Su Shi's side, and Su Shi never wanted to mention his song "Butterfly Love Flower" after Wang Chaoyun's death.

The story of this uncle falling in love with little Lori has been praised as a story for the ages, and the reason why no one criticizes it is only one reason, that is, the love between the two is based on consensual thinking, as evidenced by poetry, until death.

And the Tang Dynasty also has a super uncle named Du Mu who likes little Lori.

At the age of thirty-three, Du Mu went to Huzhou to play, and met a ten-year-old sister-in-law, who liked it at first sight, but at that time he probably felt that the little girl was indeed too small, and she was going to be struck by lightning, so she gave the little girl's mother a lot of money, and made an appointment that she would come to Huzhou to be a big official in ten years, and then she would marry the little girl.

As a result, Uncle Li's official road was not smooth, and he waited for 14 years to become the Huzhou Thorn History, when he was more than forty-seven, but he still remembered the original agreement, and still remembered the barefoot little Lori who was smiling with a skirt, but when he went to find the little girl, he knew that the little girl couldn't wait to marry her uncle for ten years, she was married three years ago, and gave birth to two children, the little Lori had become his wife, Uncle Li was sad and sighed endlessly, and wrote a song "Sighing Flowers" Poem: It's too late to find self-hatred, and I have seen it in previous years. Now the wind is swinging the flowers in a mess, and the green leaves are full of branches.

After sighing, Uncle Li left sadly.

The story of this uncle falling in love with little Lori is also a beautiful story that is transmitted through the ages.

The endless spring river water, endless lovesickness, but all love can not withstand the passage of time, when we meet again, things have already been wrong, and in the end we can only have infinite sorrow and sighs.

But now the greasy uncle of this semi-barbaric era falls in love with the little Lori cultivated by Chen Xu, not to mention writing poetry, he doesn't even want to spend money, so he asks for it directly.

It is impossible to send.

But if you don't send it, it doesn't conform to the current customs.

Chen Xu was very sad and distressed.