Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Past
The day before the opening of Yunshang Pavilion, Jia Hei came over to discuss various matters for tomorrow with Mo Li, Gu Jing and Ah Sheng Laibao, and when everything was finally confirmed, the sun had already set.
Mo Li took out twenty taels of silver and asked Aunt Gu to go to the restaurant to order food, and then left a few of them to have dinner in Mo Mansion. After the sky darkened, the wine and food in the main hall of the outer courtyard had also been arranged, and on the large round table of black lacquered rosewood, four plates of Qiaoguo were placed respectively; four side dishes; Four dishes of fresh tables: Haozhou duck eggs with red oil, salty and crispy peony golden shrimp, fragrant fried roasted bones, fatty and tender dry steamed chicken; In addition, there are crystal hooves, filtered steamed roast duck, stir-fried kidneys, and the last plate is a large oval disk with red and white ground filled with red and fragrant anchovies, fragrant and delicious, melted in the mouth, and the bone spurs are fragrant.
After Jia Hei and the others were seated, Hongdou held a jar of lotus wine, and Mo Li went to Zhu's to get a set of small golden chrysanthemum cups, and then personally poured the wine one by one and handed it to them.
"Don't be in charge, you can also sit down and eat with us, the husband is not informal." After Jia Hei put the cup in his hand back, he pulled his big tongue and said, and there was a sense of excitement on his dark face. After learning about the Mo family's situation in the past few days, tomorrow will be a challenge for him, so this will arouse his fighting spirit even more.
"I have to go back to the backyard to accompany the old lady and his wife to dinner, this is specially prepared for you, what else do you need later, just order the red beans." After Mo Li put down the wine jar, he smiled faintly, and then said to Gu Jing, "Please ask Uncle Gu to entertain Shopkeeper Jia on my behalf, I will be out of company first." ”
Although since she is in charge, some things can be discussed according to the actual situation, but she has filial piety on her body, and it is not good to really touch those drinks and food, which is one of the reasons why she asked a shopkeeper to come over to help. After all, buying and selling can only be done by opening the door, and when business starts, it is impossible to avoid such occasions every time. People come and go, news is passed on to each other, many of them are born on the wine table, after all, men have men's ways, and women have women's ways.
Gu Jing nodded, after Mo Li went out, Jia Hei didn't care, and after pouring a new glass of wine, he patted Ah Sheng's shoulder and said, "Come on, brother, let's have a drink, I've been tired these days." ”
It was almost the middle of the moon, and the wine was full, and the food was sufficient. Gu Jing was old, so he said goodbye and went home to rest earlier, and Noble and another guy also got up and left with Gu Jing, and in the end, only Ah Sheng and Jia Hei, who were a little drunk, were left sitting there chatting nonsense.
"Have you eaten yet, get up after eating, how late is this, I have to go back to the girl after I clean up, the girl has just asked!" When Hongdou went to pull the ink dye over to help clean it up, he couldn't help but say something out loud when he saw that the two cheeky guys in the hall were still sitting there.
"Okay, okay, my brother and I will go, let's go." Jia Hei burped, then patted Ah Sheng's shoulder and stood up with a smile, then looked at Hongdou and said with a smile, "Hongdou girl is too temperamental, you should learn from our master, how gentle our master's speech is, and it has both a woman's natural posture and a man's temperament, how good, how good...... Well, if I'm down, I'll recommend myself to join you, and be your uncle......"
Hongdou listened to his drunken words, and his eyes widened angrily and scolded: "You, you have your spring and autumn dreams, my girl will not take a fancy to your dead charcoal, my girl is recruiting a son-in-law, not collecting garbage!" ”
Jia Hei staggered to the red bean, and said while burping: "The little girl can't speak, I said that you should really learn from our master, what kind of garbage charcoal, I call it, this is called manliness, manliness understands!" ”
Hongdou was sprayed by him with a mouthful of wine and frowned, and then looked at his hippie smiling face, he paused angrily, then pulled Mo Ran to the side and walked away two steps, and snorted in his mouth, "Dead drunkard!" ”
Mo Ran looked at Jia Hei's appearance, and asked, "Do you want to prepare some decanting soup?" ”
Because she knows everything about horse printing and dyeing, she has also been pulled by Mo Li to prepare the store together these days, so she has been in contact with Jia Hei, and feels that this black boy's insights on certain doorways are very fresh.
"You see, other people's ink-dyed girls are more talkative than you." Jia Hei smiled, "Just a homophone is stained, it's not the same, or your red bean will be called Modou in the future, or black bean, brother, you, do you think Modou is better or black bean?" ”
Ah Sheng thought about it, and said seriously: "Black beans are quite compatible with you." ”
Hongdou blushed angrily and roared: "You all die!" ”
"Hahaha......" Jia Hei laughed, and then pulled Ah Sheng and escaped.
After the two brothers left the Mo house, they went to a small tea shop in a nearby alley to sit down, ordered a pot of tea, roasted the fire by the way, and went back to sleep after the wine woke up.
"Brother, actually, I've always wanted to ask you, why did you come to that store as a buddy?" Jia Hei asked the shopkeeper to get him some hot water and wiped his face, and after the wine had dissipated a little, he poured a cup of hot tea and took a sip, and then asked.
"For no reason, I didn't have any destination, I just walked and stopped." Ah Sheng also took a sip of hot tea, thought about it, and then continued after a while: "The year I went to Yongzhou coincided with the snow disaster, and along the way, I saw a lot of people who starved to death, grabbed more food, and also caught up with the first fever in my life. I remember entering the city in a daze, squatting in a no-man's corner, and I was going to try my way to get some food to fill my stomach after dark, but that evening she brought me a bowl of hot porridge. ”
Jia Hei also remembered the natural disaster that year, he almost lost his life at that time, and he was embarrassed, so he said: "Why didn't you go with you and me at that time, I didn't see you when I got up after dawn." ”
Ah Sheng thought for a moment and said, "At that time, I didn't want to go with people. ”
Jia Hei grinned, and said with some eyebrows: "Then you stayed here because of a bowl of meat porridge, or because of other girls?" ”
Ah Sheng smiled faintly and didn't answer this, but the look in his eyes softened.
Jia Hei laughed: "Okay, brother, buddy understands, but brother, you have been staying here for the past few years?" Your parents don't think about you? ”
"They're all dead." Ah Sheng turned his head to look at the bright moon outside the tea shop, and his eyes showed a little melancholy reminiscence.
Jia Hei was stunned, and the small tea shop suddenly fell silent.