Chapter 16: Meeting the Goddess and the Woman 1
Zhao Dezhao and his entourage walked around the market for a long time, duang, and in a blink of an eye, it was noon, and the group was hungry and unbearable, and the Bodhisattvas in the Five Organs Temple began to strike.
"Oops~ I'm so hungry! Zhao'er, let's find a place to eat!" Zhao Kuangmei, a foodie, began to cry out when she was hungry, looked at Zhao Dezhao pitifully, and kept touching her shriveled little belly.
"Uncle, I've looked up and down, inside and out, but there's no food here? Oops - you better bear with it. "Zhao Dezhao looked around, what is the Li family lacquerware shop, the Wang family flower and fruit shop, the Xiao family pen, ink and paper inkstone, the Zhao family charcoal burning, the Chen family silk and satin village, and the jewelry shop...... None of them are a place to eat, and there doesn't seem to be any fragrance in the air, Zhao Dezhao shook his head helplessly.
"Li Yuanchang, I heard that you grew up in Tokyo, do you know where to eat nearby?" Zhao Kuangmei asked.
"Hui Shilang, there is no one near here, and there are dozens of hundreds of houses far away, Temple Dongmen Street...... The north is the small sweet water lane, and the south restaurant in the lane is very prosperous. The little one heard that the food there was very delicious, so it was better to go there. Li Yuanchang pointed to the side of the street and asked.
"It's far away there." Zhao Kuangmei glanced at Li Yuanchang, this is not nonsense, of course I want to find closer.
In fact, people think that Zhao Kuangmei and the two are going to some hotel or tea shop to solve the problem of food and clothing, and sometimes a cake shop on the side of the road can solve the problem.
Zhao Dezhao seemed to smell something suddenly, "What a fragrant smell—have you smelled it?" "Sometimes when people are hungry, they smell something nice and think it's very good.
"Mmmmmm
"Selling steamed cakes, fragrant and sweet steamed cakes—" I don't know where I shouted.
Zhao Dezhao raised his head and looked at the sound of selling, and a middle-aged man in the distance walked towards Zhao Dezhao and them with a burden. Here, Zhao Kuangmei seemed to see a savior, and without waiting for the four Zhao Dezhao who were standing in place, they all rushed up as if they had no good image.
"Little brother, you want to buy ...... Pie?" The middle-aged man looked at Zhao Kuangmei in front of him and asked in his mouth.
"No, no, it's not just me, it's the five of us." Zhao Kuangmei shook her hand and turned her head and pointed to the four people who followed behind.
"That's right, it's just five of us, give us twenty-" Zhao Dezhao looked at the number of people and emphasized on the side.
Then the five of them asked for twenty steamed cakes
After paying the money, Zhao Dezhao saw that the middle-aged man still had a lot of steamed cakes that had not been sold, and asked, "Why do you have so many steamed cakes left in the store that have not been sold?" According to Zhao Dezhao's impression, these cakes and snacks are usually sold in the morning, and they are usually rare after 10 o'clock in the morning.
"Little brother, you don't know, this is what I just picked from my mother-in-law, today is a good day, the whole morning has been sold several loads, but unfortunately there is only me in the family, mother-in-law and son, if there are more people, it will be good, and it will make a lot of money." It would be nice if it was like this every day......" As he said this, the middle-aged man touched his head and smiled stupidly.
"That's it! I thought it was ......" Zhao Dezhao thought this was the afterlife.
Zhao Kuangmei stuffed a piece of cake in her mouth, and said vaguely: "Zhao'er-you said that there are oil cake shops and Hu cake shops. If it is an oil cake shop, it sells steamed cakes, sugar cakes, bindings, and quotations...... The Hu cake shop sells door oil, chrysanthemum, wide coke, side thickness, oil, pith cake, and new sample full hemp. Only Wu Chengwang Temple Haizhou Zhang family, the Zheng family before the imperial courtyard is the most prosperous, each family has fifty ...... Afterburner. I heard them say that the bread there is the best, and we will eat it next time! ”
Zhao Dezhao replied: "Okay! Although this is just an ordinary steamed cake, not like those various steamed cakes with oil and honey, mille-feuille steamed cakes, steamed cakes with a hammer, steamed cakes for sleep, etc., but this taste is wonderful! Let's go there next time and eat together. ”
Zhao Dezhao and his entourage ate quite satisfied
The five of them were walking on the street, eating steamed cakes without image, and an accident happened at this time, and suddenly two little girls, one tall and one short, ran out from the side, collided with Zhao Dezhao, and knocked him to the ground.
"I'm so sorry, did you hurt?" The girl who was the same height as Zhao Dezhao apologized and said.
"It's okay!" Zhao Dezhao patted the dust on his body.
"Whose child, who doesn't walk with long eyes, collided with my nephew-" It was Zhao Kuangmei who spoke.
The three subordinates around Zhao Dezhao were all indignant and ready to help.
"It's not in the way, don't-" Zhao Dezhao saw the people around him with angry eyes, and hurriedly got up from the ground and patted the dust on his body.
"What is this, you son...... You see, I'm fine, uncle, it's just a little thing, you don't have to be so alarmed. Zhao Dezhao said to Zhao Kuangmei and his subordinates, and at the same time said to the two little girls, but they are two little girls, what do you care.
"See you're fine, Wei Niang, let's go—" said another little girl who was the same height as Zhao Kuangmei.
"Sister, this ...... That's not good!"
"We've all apologized."
Then the tall girl dragged the short girl and ran away.
After the two little girls left, Zhao Dezhao and Zhao Kuangmei turned around and continued to shop.
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The day has passed, the night has fallen, and the most wonderful thing in the whole Lantern Festival is the lanterns at night.
I saw the lights on at the beginning, and suddenly, there was a loud roar, and colorful flowers appeared in the sky. Zhao Dezhao looked up, and those beautiful flowers disappeared in an instant. Hehe, this is the fireworks from more than 1,000 years ago.
How bright and pure the night of the five dynasties and ten kingdoms was, just when Zhao Dezhao and his party were fascinated by it, another shocking loud explosion exploded, and those ever-changing fireworks gracefully unfolded her smiling faces of light yellow, silver white, washed green, light purple, clear blue, and pink, which were beautiful. Then some small sparks slowly descended, and the shadows of fireworks flashed in the sky.
Fireworks of lanterns, golden and blue shooting, splendid and glorious, visitors happily swim in the sea of fireworks and lanterns, petals like rain, falling one after another, people seem to be within reach.
During the Shanggen Lantern Festival, in addition to fireworks, there is also a lantern show by the river in Tokyo. For other men and women, you put lanterns on the spot, and young boys and girls take advantage of this beautiful scenery to fall in love; For Zhao Dezhao, putting lanterns by the river is also a kind of enjoyment of the quaint life.
The five of them returned to the edge of the river next to the royal street. The river is a tributary of the Bianhe River, and the entire royal street is divided into two parts, and the river can lead directly to the palace, where it meets the Jinshui River. Seeing that there were boys and girls by the river putting lanterns, Zhao Dezhao also joined in. No matter what kind of sons and grandsons they are, Wuling is young, and they even shout with sarongs, and they will bring beautiful women and beauties to enjoy everywhere. People are all about jade leakage and urging, and the golden rooster has been singing repeatedly, and the excitement is still endless. But Zhao Dezhao is still a little kid, even if he is a twenty-year-old adult at heart, he is a head taller than his peers, so what.
Run, brother! Seeing that there were vendors selling river lanterns by the river, Zhao Dezhao and the five of them couldn't wait to run there.
After all, there is a difference between master and servant, at the beginning, the three people around them refused to buy them lanterns, but Zhao Dezhao said that today is the Lantern Festival, and it is a good thing to meet the occasion all year round! The three of them reluctantly accepted Zhao Dezhao's kindness.
Each of the five people picked one in front of the stall, and Zhao Dezhao had a unique vision, picked a good-looking lotus lantern, and was about to pay.
"I want this, shopkeeper! Here's a silver ingot, for you, don't look for it. ”
How do you feel that this voice is so familiar! Following the source of the voice, a girl in a pink dress appeared in front of Zhao Dezhao.
"Why are you?" Zhao Dezhao blurted out at the same time as the girl.
Zhao Kuangmei saw the girl in pink and replied: "Yes, why did I meet you again." ”
And the little girl next to him, who was as tall as Zhao Dezhao and wearing a pale green skirt, was pulling the tall girl at this time and said, "Sister, this is not good, this is a lantern that people like." ”
"What are you afraid of, I'm a girl, a boy won't bully a girl, say it to others, and they will say you're right." The tall girl said.
"This lantern is my nephew's first sight, you have to pay attention to the first come, first come!" Zhao Kuangmei's tone was very strong, and she resolutely said that she would not back down.
That's right, I'm here first.
"Sister, I don't want this, people come first—" said the short girl, taking her cousin's hand.
The two have very different personalities, although they are both girls, one is savage and the other is quiet.
The tall girl glanced at Zhao Kuangmei and Zhao Dezhao with her eyes, and her expression (qing) seemed to say that a man should have a gentlemanly demeanor and rob something with a weak woman. And Zhao Dezhao saw the tall girl's expression, and sighed in his heart, it's bad, what kind of world is this, a girl is such a man. This big and small is clearly a goddess and a woman.
Zhao Dezhao was speechless.
ps.1. ("Etymology" explains: "When Song Renzong Zhao Zhen, because of the proximity of steaming and Zhenyin, people avoided it at the time, and called steamed cakes for cooking cakes)
2. "The Legend of the Forest" covers a wide range of categories, including astronomy, geography, politics and punishment, society, and entertainment. It has two characteristics: 1. It contains a large number of market conditions and life consulting materials, such as the "incision language" and various complaint paper writing methods that were popular in urban society at that time, as well as the "cumulative arithmetic method" and "ninety-nine algorithm" used for arithmetic. 2. There are many illustrations, among which the "Northern Shuanglu Panma System" and "Yuanshe Touching the Field" are vivid depictions of urban social life in the Song Dynasty. It opened up a way for later books to pay attention to both pictures and texts, and the Ming Dynasty's "Sancai Tuhui" and the Qing Dynasty's "Ancient and Modern Book Collection" were all influenced by it.