Chapter Eighty-Three: Half a Day's Leisure

The carriage gradually drove into the West Side.

The east and west streets of Xicheng are the most prosperous places for commerce and trade in Ziyang City, but the east street sells some luxury items that ordinary people can't afford, but West Street is a place where ordinary people gather.

When passing through the fork in West Street, Shen Yue'e rolled her eyes and asked Wei Yunying with great interest: "Miss Wei, do you want to go to West Street for a walk?" I went there once, and there were a lot of jugglers, and there were also flower sticks. ”

"What is a trick stick?" Wei Yunying said curiously.

"You don't even know about 'playing tricks'?" Shen Yue'e covered her mouth and smiled, although this sentence was a joke, Wei Yunying did not see the ridicule on her face that she had seen in the face of other official ladies in the past, only a faint intimacy, and she was also happy in her heart, so she only pouted and looked at Shen Yue.

Shen Yue'e accepted it when she saw it, and explained with a smile: "Playing with a flower stick is a flower stick dance, the flower stick is made of a four-foot-long bamboo pole, and a copper coin is embedded in it with an iron shaft, and the flower stick will make a loud noise when it hits the body." It's interesting, do you want to see it? ”

Wei Yunying was very curious when she heard this, bit her lip and hesitated, so she had to ask Sanniang: "Sister Ke, shall we go and have a look?" ”

Sanniang said with a smile: "There are a lot of people on West Street, it's a little messy, we only came out today with three carriages and only a few mothers-in-law, or don't you go?" Aren't you going to buy rouge gouache? It's going to take a long time. I also want to buy some gifts to take home, Yun Ying wants to help me pick one. ”

Wei Yunying was originally a little disappointed, but when she heard the back, her eyes lit up again, and she smiled and nodded, "Okay, I can help my sister pick it." ”

Shen Yue'e skimmed, but she didn't mention that she had to go to West Street.

At this time, the sound of "hot tofu" was heard outside. Shen Yue'e gently lifted a small piece of car curtain. I saw an old couple pushing a wheelbarrow and selling it on the street. A few passers-by in plain clothes were surrounding the wheelbarrows. One person holds a wooden pallet and blows while "whirring" and drinking it into his mouth.

"Stop." Shen Yue'e shouted outside, and the carriage gradually stopped.

"What's that?" Wei Yunying looked curious.

"It's called Toban tofu, shall we try it? I heard the little girl say that it was very delicious. Shen Yue'e asked Wei Yunying.

Wei Yunying was also very curious when she saw those passers-by eating with relish, and she had never eaten at a roadside stall, so she felt novel and interesting, so she felt a little itchy in her heart.

"Sister Ke." Wei Yunying blinked and looked at Sanniang pitifully.

"It's not allowed, that's not allowed, so what are you doing here? It's better to embroider at home. Shen Yue'e pouted.

Sanniang smiled. He instructed Bai Ying: "You can bring someone to buy some up, our car is full of small gluttonous worms." If I don't allow it, they'll have to roll around and mess with me. ”

Bai Ying pursed her lips and smiled, and got out of the car. Wei Yunying blushed embarrassedly.

Waited a while. Bai Ying led the two girls, one of whom came up with a pallet made of Tsubaki wood in his hand, and the white and tender tofu was cut into strips and spread on the board. It was also smeared with an appetizing layer of chili oil.

Bai Ying got into the car and put the pallets on the car one by one on the small table.

"How do you eat this?" Wei Yunying leaned over to the table and stared curiously at the pallets.

Shen Yue'e laughed and said, "Didn't you see that they just held this in their hands and ate it while blowing?" ”

"But......" Wei Yunying was a little embarrassed, that way of eating was too unsightly.

Shen Yue'e proudly rolled up her sleeves and held up a pallet with both hands. deliberately pursed his lips and said contemptuously: "You don't dare, I'll eat it for you first." ”

Saying that, I really learned from those passers-by and blew on the tofu. I put my small mouth up and sucked it again, but I didn't want to drink too much in one gulp because of poor control, and the tofu was too hot, so I immediately grinned with my teeth.

"Hahahaha......" Wei Yunying couldn't help laughing when she saw her strange appearance, remembering that she had been teased by Shen Yue'e just now, so she also laughed at her and said: "Sister Shen is really greedy, look at you in a hurry!" ”

Shen Yue'e pretended to be angry when she heard this, put down the pallet in her hand, and pounced on Wei Yunying's itch. Wei Yunying hid and begged for mercy, and in the end he could only hide behind Sanniang, begging for mercy: "I was wrong, I was wrong, I don't dare anymore." ”

Shen Yue'e glanced at Sanniang, withdrew her hand, and continued to drink the tofu.

Wei Yunying secretly poked her head out from behind Sanniang, and saw that Shen Yue'e was drinking happily, and she was also a little greedy. He also stepped forward and picked up a pallet and took a sip like Shen Yue. Then his eyes lit up, and he said to Sanniang: "It's really delicious, Sister Ke, you can eat it too." ”

As he spoke, he put down the one in his hand, picked up a new one and sent it to Sanniang.

Sanniang couldn't help but smile when she saw her shiny puppy's eyes, took it with her, and tried to take a sip under her gaze. Sure enough, it is soft and smooth, and it is very delicious.

Wei Yunying saw Sanniang nodding to her, so she was satisfied with her share and drank her share again.

Sanniang held the pallet and looked at Shen Yue, who looked very hearty and lively on the side, and couldn't help but sigh. It can be seen that Shen Yue'e is trying to curry favor with Wei Yunying, but her casual gestures are not pretending, she must have really been such a temperament before.

Just now......

Maybe unconsciously, this heartiness has become a protective color for her.

Wei Yunying and Shen Yue'e were eating happily in the car, but Sanniang was attracted by the conversation of passers-by drinking tofu outside the car.

"Brother Zhang, why haven't you gone out to receive the goods at home recently?"

The man called Brother Zhang bowed his waist slightly and snorted the tofu in his hand, raised his sleeve and wiped his mouth, and then said to the man: "Hey, you don't know." In recent days, there are always a few dead people floating down in the mountain stream behind Mingshui, and the people nearby are panicking, where is there anyone who dares to walk on the road to Zhouzhuang? No matter how good the money is, there must be that life flower. ”

"Boss, one more board." The man surnamed Zhang shouted at the old man who sold tofu, and then said: "This wild wolf is too rampant, fortunately it didn't run to the village at the bottom of the mountain, otherwise those villagers would have suffered." ”

"And where have you made your fortune lately?"

"Follow a distant uncle, planning to go on a boat. If you need my help to sell anything, go to my house and look for it, and I'll leave tomorrow. ”

……

Sanniang didn't pay much attention to the female shopkeeper when she heard about the wolf trouble, but later when she helped Xuanshao draw a map, she felt that something was wrong. I don't know if this matter has anything to do with Xuan Shao.

"Sister Ke, let's eat, let's go?" Wei Yunying shouted Sanniang.

Sanniang nodded with a smile and ordered the car to move on.

The rouge shop that Shen Yue'e said is not big, and it is still in an inconspicuous corner, but the shop is small and complete. The types of rouge gouache here are not worse than some famous shops.

The proprietress of the shop is a half-aged in her thirties, but she always seems to have some frivolity in the land of fireworks. She was very enthusiastic to help Shen Yue'e and Wei Yunying choose rouge gouache, and she didn't forget to greet Sanniang, who casually looked at all kinds of goods.

Sanniang put down the tin rhombic glasses painted with exotic beauties in her hand, and raised her eyes to find that opposite the rouge shop was a small shop selling clay molds. Thinking of the gift she promised Wu Niang, San Niang said to Wei Yunying and Shen Yue: "You pick it up here first, and I'll go to the shop that sells clay molds on the opposite side to take a look." ”

Wei Yunying and Shen Yue'e were dazzled by the dazzling array of rouge gouache, and when they heard this, they only responded and buried their heads again. Sanniang shook her head, and was relieved to see that Mama Tang and several other old mammas were here, and Mama Tang asked someone to stop her at the door of the store.

"Miss said that she was a guest in my flower girl's shop, and the shopkeeper of the shop opposite would always give you a cheaper." The proprietress looked up with a smile and shouted at Sanniang.

This is the end of East Street, the flow of people is much less than elsewhere, Sanniang took two maids and two mothers-in-law and went to the opposite side. As soon as she stepped out of the rouge shop, Sanniang couldn't help but take a deep breath.

It turned out to be a rare time of freedom for her to be here for so long.

When he was in the Wang family, even in his own yard, he never broke off people for a moment, and he hugged him when he went out. The girl who came with me today was the mother-in-law of the Zhao family, so no one dared to disobey her orders. And the merchants don't have as many rules as the Wang family, just look at Shen Yue'e and know that she often visits these shops.

Because of this mood, Sanniang stayed in the clay mold shop for a while and selected a lot of clay molds with exquisite workmanship. In the end, he also dictated the appearance of Wu Niang, and asked the lady who made the clay mold to make two according to Wu Niang's appearance, and said that he would send someone to get it tomorrow.

Sanniang finished buying the clay mold, thinking that Wei Yunying should have picked it up almost over there, so she went back to the rouge shop.

Before entering the door, she saw several guards with knives standing outside the rouge shop, and Sanniang saw that the mother-in-law guarding the door was not different, so she thought that it might be that Mrs. Wei was not at ease, so she sent someone to find it, and she didn't care.

But as soon as he entered the shop, he saw that there were two more people inside, and when he saw the beautiful face that was three points more gorgeous than the woman and the little bird in his arms, Sanniang took a deep breath to keep her face from being too stiff.

"This son accompanied my little sister to buy rouge, but I didn't want to meet my cousin and Miss Shen here, it's really fate." Xuan Yun hooked his lips and smiled, his eyes staring at Shen Yue.

Wei Yunying had already lowered her head with a red face, but Shen Yue'e looked a little difficult to distinguish, and when she looked up and saw Sanniang who appeared at the door, Shen Yue'e seemed to be relieved, and pulled Wei Yunying to Sanniang's side in three or two steps, but she also bowed her head and didn't speak.

Sanniang raised her eyebrows and glanced at Shen Yue. Shen Yue'e bit her lip and tilted her head to the side.

"Shizi." Sanniang smiled and saluted Xuanyun.

Xuanyun's beautiful peach blossom eyes floated obliquely towards Sanniang and smiled softly.

"Why is it that when I see this son today, it is like a mouse seeing a cat? It was ...... that day" Xuanyun shook his head, and only said something but didn't say anything.

Shen Yue'e turned pale and glanced at Sanniang. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point () to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support, is my biggest motivation. )