Chapter 18: Today's Wine
Every festival is not forbidden to stay at night, which is the favor of the Xuande Dynasty to the people.
There are occasional children frolicking on the street, shaking off the petals on one shoulder, the fragrance of flowers spreads in the streets and alleys, and there are also Kong Ming lanterns slowly rising, carrying people's thoughts, floating to high places.
The main hall of Changqingzhai is brightly lit.
Yue Lan took off the mud seal of the wine jar, and the fragrance was fragrant in an instant.
Meng Xun stood up and stretched out his head to look: "Senior brother, have you really brewed chrysanthemum and flower wine?" ”
"It's not true." Yue Lan said, pouring wine for everyone.
Luo Changqing picked up the wine cup, sniffed it, and said with a smile: "It's exactly the same as Uncle Liu's, Lan'er, how did you make it, I'll learn it too?" ”
"Master, if you like it, I can brew it at any time, chrysanthemums and flowers are gone, there are plum blossoms, and there will be peach blossoms in the coming year, why do you need to learn?"
"I always have to learn something, and if you all leave, I won't do anything, but I can't help it." She said.
Yue Lan's action of pouring wine stopped.
The other two also paused.
Meng Xun was about to stand up and speak, but she pressed the person back: "I mean, sooner or later, you will have your own separate home, even if you are the door to my Changqingzhai, it will not always trouble you." ”
"Haha." Meng Xun put his mind at ease, "If you want to start a family, it should be the master first." ”
"It's okay, the future is not accurate, today we won the first place in the Thousand Kite Club, we should celebrate, and I also tell you a good news, today a foreign merchant asked me to order paper kites, this is a big business, but also a new beginning of our Changqing Zhai, from tomorrow, everyone will start to work hard!" She smiled and raised her glass.
"Great!" Everyone raised their glasses together, and the staggered touch made a crisp sound.
I don't know whose cup of wine spilled slightly, soaking the scroll that Lu Ling put on the table.
Lu Ling frowned and put the book away: "I haven't drunk it yet, but let my 'Yan Ruyu' get drunk first?" ”
"You still hold it for a meal, you love it so much, can't you do whatever you want when you're drunk?" Meng Xun joked.
"But it's different from the world, I poured my life into just asking for one thing, it doesn't matter if I forget to sleep and eat, you won't understand if you don't ask for anything."
When Meng Xun heard this, he suddenly remembered the previous fortune calculation, and the words "what he asked for will not be done" made him suddenly a little dull, and he pouted and stopped talking.
Luo Changqing looked at the two of them with a smile and took a sip of wine, which was fragrant and refreshing.
Yue Lan on the opposite side suddenly said: "Master, this chrysanthemum and flower wine are made of chrysanthemum, angelica, and rehmannia after boiling together, filtering and extracting the juice, and then adding koji glutinous rice to cook, and then sealing the altar." ”
She thought: "Sounds ......"
"It's not that hard, is it?"
"It's hard." She laughed.
Even though she has a good skill in making paper kites, she probably specializes in art, and things related to food are never good, Uncle Liu can't teach how to teach, and then Uncle Liu gave up, and forced the three apprentices to learn to cook, Yue Lan learned the best, and the other two are half a catty and eight taels, but they can also make decent meals and will not starve themselves to death.
But she's different, she can probably be poisoned if she doesn't starve herself to death.
Having said that, Uncle Liu can do anything, and Yue Lan seems to be able to learn anything.
But......
"Lan'er, why did you tell me again?" She asked, didn't he just say that she would not study?
"Master, if you want to learn, then of course I will tell you, after all, I can't say for sure what will happen in the future, but I hope to always make wine for you." Yue Lan's eyes were a little dark.
She tasted this, drank slowly, and before she knew it, it was the second glass, slightly drunk but also wanton, Yue Lan's fleeting loss in the light was captured by her, and she only felt her heart tightened: This is ...... Messing with him again?
How to coax, how to coax?
Why did Fang just say that, and what will happen in the future?
Oh yes, the matter of starting a family.
She suddenly remembered something and tapped the table: "Oops, I should have talked about my marriage contract in detail today, but it's a pity...... It seems that I will still have time to visit. ”
"Today?" The three were shocked.
"So, that family is at the Thousand Kite Festival today?" Meng Xun asked hurriedly.
"Yes, but I was so focused on the game that I didn't care about it, and I didn't have a chance, and then I ...... I forgot. ”
"Master, you really don't care about this at all, you can forget this!" Lu Ling shook his head.
"Of course I care, I must return it as soon as possible, I will go early tomorrow morning, you can rest assured ......" she said hurriedly.
It's just that the family is probably still angry, hoping that they won't be beaten out tomorrow, but even if they are beaten, they have to go hard, and they can't delay it any longer.
"What am I relieved about?" Lu Ling frowned and asked, looking up at her.
But he saw that her master did not look at him.
Her master looked forward, facing the direction of the senior brother, daring to feel that what he said just now was not said to him, but to the senior brother.
It's weird, what kind of guarantee does she have with the senior brother, who is the master?
However, Senior Brother's face seemed to be much better than just now, and Master was obviously relieved.
Lu Ling was even more puzzled, what were they talking to?
He didn't know that his master was sighing at the moment: "This is okay, coaxed, right?" ”
Finally settled down.
Outside the window, the wind blew away the floating clouds, and the moonlight poured for thousands of miles.
Fortunately, the people who get together have the fate to drink together, even if the relatives who do not have the opportunity to meet again are difficult to think, but fortunately, they are also close relatives in front of them.
Lu Ling's sentence "I'll go upstairs and read later" annoyed Meng Xun, and he kept staring at him to pour wine, but Lu Ling was good at fighting back, forcing Meng Xun to drink a lot himself, but the scholar couldn't take much advantage of the "scoundrel", and after a while, both of them were drunk, but they still refused to rest.
Yue Lan couldn't get the two of them away, so he had to say: "Just let them make trouble here, nothing will happen, wait until the wine wakes up, Master, are you drunk, go up and rest first?" ”
"I'm a little drunk, but I'm not sleepy." She pushed open the door and walked into the courtyard, the fragrance of flowers came to her face, "Why don't we go to the roof to admire the moon, what do you think?" ”
"That's a good idea." Yue Lan's heart moved, and he also came to the courtyard, looking up, "The roof of the main hall is in a good location, there is no shelter, let's come up here?" ”
"Yes, you can still see the view of Liudu Street."
"Then we'll ......"
"Wait a minute, help me figure it out, this ladder isn't high enough." Luo Changqing interrupted him and was measuring the height of the ladder and the roof.
Yue Lan smacked his tongue: "This ladder ...... It's not high enough at first glance. ”
Do you still dosage?
"So how do we get up?"
"Master?" Yue Lan coughed lightly, "You ask this...... Is it serious? ”
With that, a little on tiptoe, with a wave of long sleeves, his figure was off the ground.
In the blink of an eye, the man was already standing on the roof.
Luo Changqing looked up at him and saw that the hem of his clothes and hairband were blown by the wind and moved lightly under the moon.
She was drunk and misty, only to feel that the moon was like heaven, and people were like gods.
Yue Lan quickly flipped down again and fell in front of her: "Do you still need to find a ladder?" ”
"I forgot that you have the kung fu to be able to go up." She laughed.
"If I can go up, you can." The other party said.
"What?" Before she could react, she suddenly felt an arm around her waist, but she heard the person next to her say "Hold on", and then she took off into the air.
In a moment, it fell gently.
The place where she fell was already the roof, and the person who grabbed her let go of her hand in time.
She stepped on a piece of tile, but she did not stand firmly, and when her body shook, she was about to fall.
The man grabbed her in time with one hand and smiled slightly: "Be careful." ”
"Well, thank you."
"Master, I'm still ...... Help you to sit down over there. ”
"It's fine." She let him hold his hands and follow him step by step.
I suddenly remembered that when I was a child, this person was still walking in a hurry, and he also held her hand like this and walked forward with her step by step.
They've grown up after all.
The two sat down side by side, and Yue Lan let go.
The breeze and the moon are bright, the sky lanterns light up the night sky, the colorful light dyes this small county town, almost every house on Liudu Street has red lanterns hung in front of the door, and the people under the lamps sit together, and the food on the table is steaming.
A pigeon landed in front of them, blinking their eyes, probably attracted by the good night, and wanted to enjoy the beautiful scenery.
Yue Lan felt interesting, reached out and grabbed the little pigeon into his arms: "It's not afraid of life at all." ”
"You better let it go, it's not afraid of life, but it doesn't necessarily like to be caught." The person next to him laughed.
"That's right." Yue Lan put the pigeon down.
But the pigeon did not go away.
He had to raise his hand and wave, and the pigeon cooed twice, before he stretched out his wings and flew away.
"It's beautiful here." After letting go of the pigeons, Yue Lan said.
"Isn't it, it's fun......" she said.
Before he finished speaking, he suddenly heard someone shouting like thunder: "Lu Fengming, you little cub, see if I don't kill you today!" ”
If this voice is not Gu Shopkeeper, who else can it be?
It's really ...... to beat children during the holidays It's a lot of fun.
The two leaned to the side, and saw the shopkeeper Gu holding a broom, chasing Xiaofeng all over the yard.
The person on the roof had the heart to admonish: "Shopkeeper Gu, don't do it, Xiaofeng made a mistake, you can talk about him well." ”
The other party followed the sound and looked around, looked up and saw them, and said first: "Why do you climb so high?" Then he said angrily: "This little cub let go of the pigeons I have raised for many years, do you think you should fight?" ”
The two were stunned: "Pigeons? ”
"That's right, my pigeon has black eyes, white fur, and is not afraid of life at all, I have raised it for a long time, hmph, I have to clean him up today, you all don't care about it."
The two looked at each other, turned their heads together, and really didn't care anymore.
The pigeon had probably flown to the end of Liudu Street by this time.
"We seem to have done something bad." Luo Changqing said in a low voice.
"The pigeon knows its way, it will go out for a spin at most, and it will come back soon, if you don't believe it, we will wait here and see." The people around him are patient and comforting.
"Okay, then wait here for it to come back, if not, I won't go down tonight."
"I'll be with you."
At the end of Liudu Street, turning a corner, is the gate of the Yang family, and the two red lanterns in front of the door are particularly magnificent.
Shen Qianqian opened a small stove in Yaxiang Pavilion alone, and Yang Lianqi had dinner with Li and her cousin, but she didn't go with him.
Since she has fallen out with Yang Lianxi and them, she doesn't have to worry about her face, she can let people do whatever she likes to eat in Yaxiangge, the Yang family is not short of money, and she will not be disadvantaged in terms of food and clothing.
It's just that as soon as she was full, Yang Lianqi came with dozens of subordinates, each of whom had a plate in his hand and laid them out on the table in front of her.
Rao has all kinds of mountain treasures, and she doesn't feel much, so she only wonders and asks: "Why, your aunt doesn't let you eat enough?" ”
But it shouldn't be, if Yang Lianqi can't eat enough, she won't be able to eat enough.