Chapter 16: Invitations
Zhang Tong also joked: "Every time the minister passes by this Sun Chulou by car, as long as he thinks of the delicious puffer fish he once ate here, he still can't help but drool. Everyone laughed, and then Liu Yi ordered the side dishes, and ordered Xiao Er to urge the store to deliver them quickly.
Liu Yi explained: "This Sun Chulou's puffer fish was bought from the fisherman in the river immediately after the guest ordered it. ”
Seeing that the men's beauty showed a look of disbelief, Cai Yu took her to the window to look, only to see Xiao Er, who was in charge of ordering just now, quickly ran to the dock next to the restaurant to summon the fisherman who had just closed the canopy, and did not bargain, and quickly carried the puffer fish that had just been fished up from the river back to the store.
Cai Yu picked up a piece of paper-thin fish fillet, dipped it in sauce, and sent it to the bowl of the man's beauty, while laughing: "Cao Zijian Shiyun: 'Carp and shrimp, turtle and bear's feet.'" It can be seen that this sashimi dipped in shrimp paste is an excellent delicacy, you should not eat too much if you are weak, but you must not taste this deliciousness. The beauty saw that Cai Yu was not shy in front of the courtiers, and blushed and picked up the fish fillet and ate it.
Seeing that Wu Yingying was a little surprised, Lu Ying whispered in his ear: "This is Xiao Zhouhou." Wu Yingying suddenly realized, let me ask Cai Yu's harem, how can there be a second woman with such a favor. He nodded to Lu Ying gratefully, but he couldn't help his curiosity, and secretly glanced at this little week a few times.
When she met this beautiful queen who has been passed down through the ages, she also looked at the courtiers present, and nodded generously at him when she saw Wu Yingying, and smiled slightly, which slowed Wu Yingying's heart by two beats. Wu Yingying hurriedly raised his wine glass to hide his blush, and felt that someone had been stabbed under the left ribs, and when he turned his head to look, it was Lu Ying who was smiling evilly at him. Looking at Cai Yu again, it seemed that his spirit was all focused on Xiao Zhouhou's body, and he didn't notice the slightest gaffe of the courtiers in front of his beautiful little wife.
At this time, the smoke and rain on the river began to fall slightly, and after the wine was hot, it was naturally the main topic of the poem, Cai Yu put the wine in the wind, looked at the white sails on the bank of Egret Island, and was happy in his heart, so he filled in a poem "The Fisherman": "A spring breeze and a leaf boat, a cocoon and a light hook." The flowers are full of Zhu, the wine is full of Ou, and the waves are free. ”
After filling in this word, everyone was convinced, and Xiao Zhouhou's eyes looking at Cai Yu couldn't help but be a little stupid. All the courtiers also wrote lyrics one after another, and Zhang Tong won the first "Ballad of the Spring Festival Gala": "The rain is slight, the smoke is faint, and the small courtyard is half a red rose." The zither reclined on the painting screen, scattered a few lines of golden geese flying. Xiao Guanmeng is nowhere to be found, and thousands of spring waves rise from Nanpu. Messy poplar flowers flutter embroidery curtains, and there are liuluan words in the evening window. ”
Lu Ying won the song "Remnant Silk Song": "The spring breeze blows people's clothes, and the remnants of silk and flowers fly in the air." The sorrow is not broken, and the male bee and the female butterfly depend on each other. The high-rise buildings are in the clouds, and the windows and pillars are running water. Luan cries the smoke of the old willows, and the fragrant dream is thousands of miles away. ”
Liu Yi then also wrote a poem, Wu Yingying couldn't, and of course stole a song "Bodhisattva Man" by Xin Qiji: "Qingshan wants to speak a high language, and there are countless thousands of horses." But the smoke and rain are low, and they will never come. When people say something, they always feel white. Clapping his hands and laughing at the sand gulls, he was all worried. ”
After everyone had a lyric, the queen smiled and said: "No wonder Cai Taibai lingers here, it seems that this Sun Chulou is a place where romance gathers, and today at a table, I am afraid that there will be no less than three or four masterpieces to be passed down through the ages." Everyone laughed, so they drank happily again, during which Cai Yu was afraid that Xiao Zhou would eat too much raw food and spoil his body, so he asked Liu Yi to order more cooked foods such as roast goose and meat soup, and added some light vegetarian dishes.
After the red sunset, the sky was getting dark, Wu Yingying thought that he was going to go back to his house on this road, who knew that Zhang Tong proposed that it was difficult for His Majesty to go out of the palace to play, it was better for everyone to take a night tour of the painting boat, Cai Yu immediately agreed, so everyone moved to a painting boat, called two young ladies who sang songs, and ordered them to sing the word cards filled in by everyone just now, and Lu Ying played the iron flute to harmonize. Everyone listened to the music and traveled to Qinhuai at night.
Wu Yingying had read Zhu Ziqing's masterpiece "Qinhuai River in the Sound of Oars and Lights and Shadows" in the past, and had been fascinated for a long time, but he did not expect to get his wish in this situation, the huge painting boat swayed into the channel in the center of the river, gently patting the carved railing thousands of years ago, and listening to the historical celebrities in the staggered planning, lying on the rattan bed looking out of the window, in a trance, suddenly a pair of big hands slapped heavily on his shoulders, Lu Ying spewed wine and roared in his ears: "Wu Dalang is wandering thousands of miles again, hurry up and have a drink with me."
Wu Yingying had to have another drink with him, and when he looked back, the atmosphere in the cabin was already extremely active, and even Xiao Zhouhou, who was a little shy at the beginning, began to take the initiative to pour wine for Cai Yu frequently, and Cai Yu also pulled her wrist from time to time to linger and obsessively, without the demeanor of a monarch of a country. Wu Yingying smiled, poured himself another cup, and asked Liu Yi to do it. In the early morning of the next day, Wu Yingying first woke up from a hangover, shook his head and laughed at himself, others traveled to ancient times and said that drinking wine is like drinking water, why is he such a waste of firewood? Looking around the cabin, I don't know when Cai Yu and Xiao Zhouhou were helped to sleep in another private room, Liu Yi and the other three were sleeping with their legs folded and their arms pressed together, and their posture was completely indiscriminate.
Wu Yingying stretched his sore waist and feet, paced out of the cabin, only to see that the boat had been quietly moored at the water's edge, not far away the cattle tied to the tree were leisurely gnawing on the new buds and young leaves in the morning, the white mist continued to rise and float from the river, and the woods were also filled with morning mist, and the surroundings were silent, as if they were in a fairyland.
As soon as he took a few deep breaths, he heard a group of people hurrying towards this side, and the current person was a familiar servant of Liufu, who saw Wu Yingying as if he had seen a savior, and asked: "Isn't it General Wu in front?" Wu Yingying shouted happily before he could answer that it was himself: "It can be regarded as finding a few big officials." ”
But I heard a woman behind me say: "Have you ever looked carefully, and really found it?" Wu Yingying fixed his eyes, but a female official came out of the crowd, hurriedly rushed to the bow of the boat, saw Wu Yingying did not wait to salute, and asked: "Who are you? Your Majesty and the Empress have rested in the boat." ”
Although Wu Yingying was displeased with her and her attitude was a little arrogant, he still replied with a pleasant face: "I am a regular attendant of the scattered cavalry, and I also lead the command of the Jinfan Army, and your majesty and the queen are in the boat. ”
The female official was slightly surprised when she heard Wu Yingying's self-report, but her face instantly turned calm, and she said: "General Wu Wanfu, the slave maid is the female history of the palace, and now Wu Guolao is waiting for the audience in the Guangzheng Palace, and the slave and maid are specially coming to find His Majesty and Niangniang to return to the palace." ”
"Oh", Wu Yingying stared at the female official's dark eyes for a while, convinced that she was telling the truth, and replied kindly: "Your Majesty and Zhou Hou are resting in the Accord in the boat, and I will accompany you in now." He reached out to pull her onto the boat.
The female official smiled at Wu Yingying in gratitude, and ordered Liu Yi's servants and his eunuchs to prepare the carriage and horses immediately, and followed Wu Yingying to the private room of Cai Yu and Zhou Hou, stopped and held her breath, and woke up the queen and Zhou Hou softly.
After a while, Cai Yu and Xiao Zhouhou appeared at the door dressed as a whole, and after listening to the report of the female history, Cai Yu's originally stretched brows wrinkled again, and said to Wu Yingying: "The old man of Wu Guo entered the palace early in the morning to meet him, could it be that the northern army went south?" Cai Yu couldn't help but smile, patted her back lightly and said, "It doesn't matter, these courtiers are honest people, let's not wake them up, Wu Qing can accompany Gu back to the palace." ”
After going out, Cai Yu and Zhou Hou got into a carriage first, and Wu Yingying had to get into the second carriage with the woman, and before he could sit down, the car started and went straight to the palace.
Probably rarely riding in the same car with men, the female history was a little nervous. The two of them didn't speak, Wu Yingying didn't think about it, he didn't have time to take a closer look just now, and now he looked at the female official sitting next to him with great interest, and felt that this woman was picturesque, and she had a beautiful and refined temperament.
The carriage was moving fast, bumpy all the way, and when there were several sharp turns, the female historian clung to the seat tightly, as if she was afraid of falling, Wu Yingying only felt funny. Finally at a big bend, Nushi exclaimed, and fell to the side of the carriage with Wu Yingying, Wu Yingying reached out to help her shoulders, and Wen Yan asked, "Are you okay?"
The female historian glanced at Wu Yingying gratefully and replied, "It's okay, thank you, General Wu." ”
Wu Yingying laughed and said, "No thanks, no thanks, if there are any more bumps in the road, you can grab my arm." ”
The woman didn't speak, she seemed quite shy, Wu Yingying felt quite interesting, and deliberately asked: "The Buddha said that it is fate to travel in the same car, what is the position of the female history in the palace, can you tell the name of Fang?" This sentence made the woman seem to be taken aback, she raised her head, looked at Wu Yingying carefully, and made sure that he had no other intentions, so she whispered: "The slave maid is Jianye Wenfang Sibao, the first father's surname is Huang, the slave maid's name is Wen, and the Wen of Yueyun Suwen." The sound is like a gnat, if it weren't for Wu Yingying's pointed ears and almost inaudible, it was really different from the capable appearance when looking for Cai Yu and Zhou Hou.
"Oh, Huang Wen. Wu Yingying repeated in a low voice, Huang Wen's face seemed to have dropped to her chest, and suddenly she heard Wu Yingying call her name and raised it again, and looked at Wu Yingying bravely with a pair of big eyes.
Suddenly, Wu Yingying only felt a movement in his heart, the two of them looked at each other like this, but they didn't speak again, suddenly the car stopped, Wu Yingying sighed regretfully, politely opened the car door for the female Shi, and saw her Tingting's back hidden in the deep palace gate, shook her head vigorously, and then followed closely behind Cai Yu, straight into the Guangzheng Palace.