Chapter Twenty-Eight: Qianyun Tower

It was already evening when the group entered Chengdu, and as a prosperous place in Chengdu, the prosperity at night was naturally not comparable to Huayang County. The shops on both sides of the street lit up the street lamps in front of their doors, and the orange flames and bud-like lampshades dyed the solemn autumn street with a layer of rouge-like red, and it was a blurry trance.

An Yi and Jiang Ruyue are okay, after all, they are men. An Xin, the girl, was still thirty or fifty miles away from Chengdu and began to cry out that she was hungry. So, as soon as they entered the city, they were divided into two places, An Yi took Jiang Ruyue and Lin Muzhi to the old mansion to settle down, and Gao Yingshu took An Xin to Yixian Tower.

The old house of Anfu is not far from the Yixian Tower, surrounded by powder walls outside the courtyard, and the bare wicker hangs on the courtyard wall, which can be seen in the spring and summer.

Push open the dusty courtyard gate, and you will see the three hanging flower gatehouses inside, and the verandah on all sides. There is a dry pool in the courtyard, and there is a white stone road across the pool that leads to the opposite bank. In the inner courtyard, the road is connected, the mountains and stones are embellished, the plaque of "scholarly door" is hung on the five hugging buildings, although the whole courtyard has not been taken care of for many years, and it is full of dust, but it still can't cover up the magnificence of the year, graceful and luxurious.

"Although Brother An's mansion has not been taken care of for many years, the luxury of the year can be seen." Lin Muzhi looked at the spacious courtyard and praised it

Standing comfortably in the old house, it seems that he can smell the smell of childhood from the air, and the roses on the courtyard wall and the koi in the pool seem to flow in the stream of time. He put away his thoughts and said to everyone: "There are many people on Muzhi's side, so let's arrange for the brothers to live in the outer courtyard, Ruyue and Ming Yin will go to the inner courtyard with me, and the innermost two rooms will be reserved for An Xin." The house has not been cleaned for many years, and tomorrow I will ask Xin'er to go to the market to buy some servants and come back, but tonight I will have to worry about you doing it yourself. ”

Lin Muzhi grinned and said, "I don't know how much better it is than the black and narrow alley in Huayang County." After speaking, he shouted at the people behind him: "Brothers, thanks to Gongzi's acceptance, I will take care of this mansion for Lao Tzu tonight, and it will be regarded as paying rent!" ”

"Good!"

The people answered.

An Yi shook his head helplessly, he took out a few silver tickets, and asked Jin Mingyin to arrange a few militiamen to carry some rice back, so that everyone could have a full meal first.

After settling everyone down, except for Jiang Ruyue, who wanted to stay in the mansion to prepare for the scientific expedition, the other three walked out of the mansion together, wanting to go to the streets of Chengdu to find some food.

"Brother Yi, aren't we going to find Sister Xin'er and Sister Yingshu?" Jin Mingyin asked the comfort of walking in front,

An Yi waved his hand at him and said, "Let the two of them talk about themselves in Yixian Building, and the four of us will go and figure out what's going on." ”

Lin Muzhi smiled mysteriously after hearing this, and said to Anyi: "Brother An, I came to Chengdu a few years ago, and I know that there is a good place to go." ”、

An Yi has not been to Chengdu for a long time since the old man moved away, and compared with the streets of the past, it has been completely different, and many of the good places in the impression of the two brothers and sisters when they were young have disappeared.

"Brother Lin said."

"Qianyun Tower!"

An Yi smiled after hearing this, and said, "This name is fragrant enough, what Brother Lin said is a Fengyue place?" As soon as I arrived in Chengdu, I went to this Fengyue field, and I didn't want to enter the gate of the Shu Mansion again. ”

Lin Muzhi and Jin Mingyin couldn't help laughing when they heard what he said, but Lin Muzhi said: "Hahaha, where did Brother An think of going, I'm not just a person who doesn't know the severity, how could I bring my brother to that kiln as soon as I come." ”

He paused, and then said: "Qianyun Tower is the most elegant place to go in Chengdu Mansion, there are countless romantic talents, and dignitaries and dignitaries can be seen everywhere. The outside of this place is a teahouse, and the inside is a place to listen to music and watch plays. It's just that unlike ordinary Qinglou, the girls in it are all showers and don't sell themselves. ”

"Then these merry sons and daughters can't touch them every day, and they throw silver into the water for nothing?"

Lin Muzhi seemed to have expected An Yi to ask this question, and whispered to An Yi with a smile: "Which wonderful person you have taken a fancy to, and you can bring it out of Qianyun Tower." ”

This is the first time I have heard of it, An Yi feels that the shopkeeper of this place is a person with ideas, and this way can better cater to the appetite of dignitaries and dignitaries, coupled with the rendering of literati and inkmen, compared to the Qinglou woman with a clear price, I don't know how many times more silver will be lost.

An Yi nodded, "Let's go, then let's go and see how charming this Qianyun Tower is, which attracts these dignitaries in Chengdu to linger." ”

Qianyun Tower is in the center of Chengdu County, and the three of them are already in front of the building after walking a cup of tea.

The vermilion gate reveals the ancient charm, and there are only a few waiters on the third-order white jade steps to welcome the send-off, and the colored glazed tiles can still reflect the brilliance of the lights in the night. Two mahogany lacquer pillars stand on the left and right, each with a couplet.

The uplink is:

Half a couch dream has just returned to the first live fire to fry the new stream water

The next link is:

A curtain of spring twilight, tea smoke and falling flowers

Directly in front is a jade screen, covered with black tiles, the wall is built into undulating waves, the sound of the piano and the sound of music faintly come from behind, and the three big characters of "Qianyun Building" are written on it.

An Yi Xin said, this is such an elegant Fengyue place, and the couplet that seems to be full of tea fragrance is so fragrant. Judging from the outside alone, there are no girls dressed up at the door to attract guests, and a few waiters who greet and send them look a little thin, but this does not delay the traffic in front of the Qianyun Building, brocade clothes and jade boots.

"Three guest officers, look at your faces, but it's the first time you've come to our Qianyun Tower?" As soon as they arrived at the door, they were greeted by a waiter.

An Yi smiled and said to the waiter: "We are from other places, I heard the name of Qianyun Tower, and recommend an elegant room to us." ”

This waiter welcomes and sends him at the door every day, but he has cultivated a pair of keen eyes, and the dignitaries can distinguish between high and low at a glance, and the literati and ink writers can judge the high and low at a glance. Seeing An Yi's dress, he naturally won't slack off.

"Those guys, please come with me."

The waiter bowed his waist, dodged to the side, and made a "please" gesture.

Bypassing the screen is a winding verandah, with stones flowing down the steps, and in the middle is a large square platform of terrazzo, on which a graceful woman is plucking the strings. The square platform is surrounded by exquisite pavilions and pavilions, high and low. On the opposite side of the square platform rises a towering building, on each floor there are three or three houses, several bright and some dark, reflecting each other.

An Yi looked at the building opposite and asked the waiter who led the way, "Where is the building opposite?" ”

The waiter turned around and explained, "That building is the main building of our Qianyun Tower, and most of the houses above are some of our distinguished guests here. The top layer is our Qianyun Pavilion, every once in a while, there will be wonderful people from all over the Great Xia Dynasty to be the master of this pavilion, whoever can answer her words, who can be destined to be her guest of the curtain. ”

"Oh? Then I would like to know how to become a guest here? ”

The waiter smiled and said, "It's actually very simple to be this guest in our Qianyun Tower, and you only need to have two breaths. ”

An Yi didn't quite understand, "Two breaths? What gas? ”

"I plan to get drunk with madness, and I want to buy songs and laughs with gold."

"Hahahaha~" An Yi laughed out loud after hearing this, but he didn't expect that Liu San, who was "ordered to fill in the words", would still be able to do this guest of Jiangyun Tower after hundreds of years.

The waiter will comfort them, and lead them to a seat in an elegant pavilion not far from the square platform.

"What are you going to do?"

"Give us something real, we've been on the road all day, and we're all a little hungry." An Yi said to the waiter,

The waiter answered.

"Young master, slow down!"

Soon after An Yi and a few people entered, a group of people came down from the carriage in front of the door of the Qianyun Building, and the first man was seven feet tall, wearing a purple robe embroidered with green lines, with a piece of the best hollow mutton fat jade pendant hanging on his waist, and a pair of white deerskin boots, and a hexagonal large jade inlaid on the boots on the left and right sides.

The man seemed to be a little drunk, and was helped out of the carriage by everyone, holding a long spear that was eight feet long and snow-white.

The waiter at the door obviously knew this person, and hurriedly stepped forward to greet him: "Oops! Young Master Zeng, you won't let your subordinates inform you when you come, I'll help you take this thing..."

The waiter's courteous man took the Mithril spear in his hand, who knew that the man didn't appreciate it.

"Smack~"

slapped the waiter with his backhand, and scolded him with a little alcohol: "What kind of bird are you, this golden gun has just been shot, and it is made of stainless steel and gold, which stains him and pokes you in a hole!" ”

As he spoke, he lifted the golden spear and stabbed it at the waiter, who was already with the strength of wine, and stabbed it on the white jade steps at the door, and the white jade stone, which was as hard as iron, was smashed out of a thumb-sized gap. Seeing this, he hurriedly grabbed him, and persuaded him with good words: "Young master, you dodge carefully." ”

The waiter was so frightened that he sat on the ground, frightened but did not dare to flee, so he had to get up and bow and apologize, and hurriedly led the group to the main building.

When they walked through the verandah, the woman who played the piano on the terrazzo square platform in the center was gone, and was replaced by a wonderful woman, dressed in a red mopping smoke cage plum blossom baishui skirt, covered with a moon satin embroidered orchid robe, lined with pale pink brocade wrap on the chest, the cuffs embroidered with delicate gold peony, a few lace laces outlined on the chest, a layer of thin silk as a clear mist, and a gold belt tied around the waist.

The man who was called Young Master Zeng looked directly at the woman on the ink table, and his mouth said, "What a stunner." ”

The entourage next to him didn't understand what Young Master Zeng meant, so he grabbed the waiter who was leading the way in front and asked, "Hey, let me ask you, is this woman new?" ”

The attendant hurriedly turned around and explained, "Yes, yes, this is the Ziyun girl who just came to us today, she is from Jiangnan, and she is our current Pavilion Master. ”

Young Master Zeng looked at the woman on the square platform who was saluting everyone, and said to his entourage with a lewd smile: "You see that this Jiangnan woman is really smart, and it is perfect to wait for Lao Tzu tonight." ”

The entourage hurriedly smiled and said yes.....