Yu Yuan returned to the store in the evening. He was carrying a few lotus leaf bags in his left hand and a glass bottle in his right hand, and when he saw Yu Wen playing chess in the hall, he went straight over, smiled and lifted the things in his hand, and said, "Uncle, what do you think I brought back?" ”

Yu Wen smelled the aroma of braised vegetables when he approached, he sniffed deeply, and said, "It's the braised pig's head from the Zhenbei City family." ”

Yu Yuan laughed and said, "Uncle, your nose is really smart. ”

"That's it!" Yu Wen smiled, "You don't want to think about who brought you back from Hangzhou Mansion when you first ate braised pig's head?" If I can't smell his braised pig's head, what kind of glutton is it? As he spoke, he pointed to the glass bottle in Yu Yuan's hand: "What is this?" It's still in a glass bottle, and this bottle is worth a few taels of silver, where did you get it? ”

Yu Yuan said hello to the boss, sat on the spring bench next to him with some pride, and said, "You can't guess this, right?" This is called wine, and it was given to me by Yao San'er. ”

"Wine?" Yu Wen frowned, "Yao San'er? ”

"It's the third boy who lives in the Yao family in the north of the city, who grew up with me since he was a child, and later followed his uncle to become a businessman." Yu Yuan said excitedly, "I was strolling around the north of the city at noon today, but I didn't expect to meet him." He has now opened a grocery store on the side of Wulin Gate and is the boss. Knowing that I came with you, he was going to come to say hello to you, but the goods came to the shop, and he couldn't get out, so he gave me this bottle of wine, saying that it came from the big food, and now the rich and noble people in Hangzhou give gifts from time to time to send this, saying that it is to honor you and give you a taste. He also bought the braised pig's head in the north of the town. He is also ready to come and visit you tomorrow. ”

Yu Wen remembered it and said with a smile: "It turned out to be him!" When his parents died, you helped him to eat from time to time, but I didn't expect him to remember you, which is also fate. ”

Yu Yuan nodded again and again, and said with a smile: "He is really good now, he also bought a small house in Qingchunmen, married a lady in Hangzhou City as his wife, and settled in Hangzhou City." ”

Yu Wen nodded and invited the boss to drink with him: "It's rare that we fall in love like this, don't be polite." We just happened to taste what this wine was like. ”

The boss has dealt with Yu Wen several times, and knows that he is a rather open-minded person, and everyone is very curious about this wine recently, so you are welcome, let the proprietress go to add a few dishes, and Yu Wen and Yu Yuan moved to the patio, put the braised pig's head meat on a plate, and drank the wine first.

Yu Yuan holds the pot.

As soon as the wine was poured into the wine cup, Yuwen smelled a fruity aroma, which was different from the wine he usually drank, he took a deep breath, and then looked down at the wine cup of the white bottle, the wine was red, like blood, he was startled, and said, "Why this color?" ”

Yu Yuan hurriedly said: "It's this color, Yao San'er specially told me before, if it weren't for this color, it would be fake wine." ”

Yuwen nodded and took a sip reluctantly.

The innkeeper hurriedly asked, "How is it?" Does it taste good? “

Yu Wen was noncommittal, and said quietly: "This wine is the same as that tea, it is also divided into flavors, I think it is good, you may not think it is good, you have to taste it yourself to know." ”

The innkeeper felt that his words made sense, and raised his glass and took a sip...... And then, the whole person stayed there.

Yu Yuan looked wrong, and said hurriedly: "What's wrong?" Is there something wrong? ”

The innkeeper glanced at Yu Wen, swallowed the wine in his mouth, and then slowly said to Yu Yuan: "You will know if you taste it." ”

Yu Yuanhu glanced at the two suspiciously, and took a sip of wine tentatively, but the wine was spit out by him with a "poof" before it entered his throat.

"What does it smell like?" He furrowed his eyebrows, "Didn't you say that it was very precious?" “

Yu Wen and the innkeeper both laughed, and Yu Wen said bluntly at this time: "What famous wine?" How can it compare to our Jinhua wine? However, it's still okay to try something new. Go, bring a cup to your sister and try it. It's rare to come to Hangzhou Mansion, and you have to see some strange things to make this trip worthwhile! ”

Yu Yuan squeezed his eyes and brought a glass of wine to Yu Tang.

Yu Tang looked at Yu Yuan suspiciously: "Didn't you say let me fast?" ”

"This wine is very precious, you just taste it, smell it, you think you can drink the whole cup!" Yu Yuandao.

Yu Tang didn't doubt that he had it, and took a sip.

Astringent, sour and bitter, what kind of wine is this!

Yu Tang got up and wanted to beat Yu Yuan.

Yu Yuan and her circled around the round table and said, "Uncle asked me to bring it to you to taste." ”

"Then you can't do that!"

The brother and sister were making trouble, and Xiao Er knocked on the door outside and said, "Young Master Yu, someone is looking for you!" ”

Yu Tang didn't want to mess with him anymore, Yu Yuan straightened his clothes and asked, "Who is it?" ”

The shopkeeper said: "It's a twelve- or thirteen-year-old boy who only said that he came to you, but he refused to say who he was?" ”

Yu Yuan said in confusion: "Who is this?" Then he said to Yu Tang: "I'll come when I go and see." ”

Yu Tang nodded and sent Yu Yuan out.

After a while, Yu Yuan turned back, and he whispered to Yu Tang in a low voice: "It's Master Qian who sent someone to find me, and when Uncle Hui comes back, you tell him." ”

Yuwen was drinking with the innkeeper at this time.

Yu Tang worried: "Didn't you say what it was?" “

Yu Yuan shook his head and said, "Don't worry, if there is anything, I will immediately ask someone to report to you." ”

Yu Tang couldn't worry about it, so he could only let him go.

When the second watch drum was played, Yu Wen's banquet was dispersed, and he came to see Yu Tang: "Are you better?" ”

"Much better!" Yu Tang helped his father sit down at the table and poured him a cup of hot tea.

Yu Wen saw Yu Tang make the needle and thread that was thrown on the table, and couldn't help but pick it up and watch it in front of the oil lamp: "Ouch, I didn't expect you to do this." This little bug can be done in a real way, and the position of the seven black dots on its back is not wrong. That's great! ”

Yu Tang is very good at making insects, in addition to ladybugs, there are dragonflies, praying mantises, bees...... She did it all very realistically.

Yu Wen said: "This flower is also well done, I look like a pulsatilla (1)." When you go back, I'll make a lot for your mom too. ”

This is her father's praise and affirmation of her.

Yu Tang was very happy and said with a smile: "I'm going to make a peony flower or peony flower for my mother." ”

Yu Wen said: "I think your mother looks better with begonias or cloves." ”

Could it be that in my father's mind, my mother was more like a begonia or a lilac? “

Yu Tang nodded with a smile and told Yu Wen where Yu Yuan went.

Yu Wen was very worried, but it was not good to show it in front of Yu Tang, and said lightly, "I know", and told Yu Tang: "You go to bed early, remember to make a flower for your mother tomorrow, we said that we bought it in Hangzhou City, see if your mother can tell the difference." ”

Yu Tang responded with a smile.

At night, he tossed and turned, and never fell asleep.

Before dawn, Yu Yuan came back.

When he entered the house, Yu Tang, who was hanging in the heart next door, also woke up, and she quietly dressed and went to her father's room.

Yu Yuan came to open the door.

Yu Wen was dressed and stood in front of the bookcase with a heavy face, and he didn't say anything when he saw Yu Tang coming in.

When Yu Tang got closer, he found three unframed paintings spread out on the bookcase. Two of them can be seen as "Hidden Pictures of Pine Creek Fishing", and the other one looks like a mountain and a sea, and there are many various symbols on it that people can't understand.

Yu Wen said in a deep voice: "Ah Tang, I really let you guess correctly." There's something strange in this painting! ”

Needless to say, Yu Tang could see this, she looked towards Yu Yuan.

Yu Yuan's face was not very good-looking, he lowered his voice and said: "These are the three paintings that Master Qian revealed, "Songxi Fishing Hidden Map" is in the upper and lower layers, the middle layer, it is this layer I don't know what it is. Master Qian didn't even frame it, so he asked us to take it back. ”

It can be seen that Master Qian also sees that there is a problem in this.

Yu Tang pointed to the painting he didn't know what it was and said, "What is this?" ”

Yu Yuan shook his head: "I don't know either." ”

Yu Wen stared at the nameless picture, and spit out two words with a gloomy face: "Yutu!" ”

"What?!" Yu Tang and Yu Yuan asked in unison.

Yuwen explained: "It's a topographic map of mountains and rivers. In the past, when fighting wars and controlling waters, we had to use this kind of map to know whether the surrounding area was mountains or water, mountains and forests or flat rivers. ”

Yu Tang thought that he would go to Zhaoming Temple without anyone leading him and didn't know where to go, and he suddenly felt that the person who could paint such a picture was very admirable. Moreover, it must have taken a lot of manpower and material resources, which is very precious. She said, "Is this the picture they are looking for?" ”

Yu Wen and Yu Yuan didn't say anything, and acquiesced to her words. Yu Wen even said: "Maps are very rare and valuable. They are all in charge of the Ministry of War or the Ministry of Industry, and ordinary people have never seen it. In the past, when generals went out to fight, they needed to be a third-grade officer such as the general soldier to go to the Ministry of Engineering with the documents of the Ministry of War to receive it, and after the battle, the map had to be returned intact. Even I, too, overheard Lu Xin say it. ”

Yu Yuan couldn't help but be a little frightened when he heard this, and said, "Where did this painting come from?" Who the hell is looking for this painting? How did he know that this thing was hidden in this picture? Why didn't he come to our house to buy it in a dignified manner? ”

No one can answer these questions.

Whether it is Yu Wen or Yu Tang, they have never realized so clearly as at this moment that their family is in big trouble.

Yu Yuan said: "Then, what should we do?" ”

Yu Wen sat down on the Taishi chair behind the bookcase and said, "You let me think about it, let me think about it...... Although I recognized it as a map, I didn't know exactly where the mountain shape was depicted and what it was for...... If you want to know, you can only go to people who have seen the map, or even are very familiar with all kinds of maps......" He said, pointing to the place where the wavy lines are drawn in the picture to represent the water: "There is nothing marked, I don't know if it is a river or a river, we hold this painting, like a child holding an eighty-pound knife, not only can not deter others, but also hurt ourselves." ”

People who have seen the map and people who are very familiar with it...... Pei Yan's face suddenly appeared in Yu Tang's mind.

"Daddy!" She slurred and said, "Or, let's go find Master Pei San, right?!" ”

Yu Wen looked at her sharply.

Yu Tang suddenly felt inexplicably worried, as uncomfortable as being stripped of his coat, and said, "Otherwise, you can find Zhou Zhuangyuan...... They're all knowledgeable people, and they must know what is painted on it......"

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