Updated: 2012-04-26

After eating a good meal, the little guys quietly cleaned up and rushed up the tea, Li Xiaoqi picked up his cup of brewed tea, with a smile, and listened intently to Su Zicheng and Shui Zhixian talking, Su Zicheng didn't mention half of the official business, but said some short gossip from the parents, the family is good, the grandson has gone to school, the little girl doesn't look good at others, and so on, Li Xiaoqi was surprised to hear it, it seems that this Shui Qingqian has a lot to do with Su Zicheng, who is the Shui family? It's about fifty, and I'm only a magistrate, which is a bit interesting.

After chatting for half an hour, Shui Qingqian saw that Su Zicheng's face was a little tired, so he stood up and said with a long sigh of resignation: "Master, it's getting late, the next official will retire first, Lord have a good rest, Lord is less than in previous years." ”

Su Zicheng smiled and bowed his head, turned his head and instructed Dongping: "You send Shuizhi County for me, and pick two safe guards to send him back." Dongping respectfully agreed, and led Shui Qingqian out of the tent. Li Xiaoqi also stood up: "It's time for me to say goodbye, you can rest." Su Zicheng looked at her, and his words were irrelevant: "The day after tomorrow, stay in Beizhuang, Jingnan Mansion, enter Kaiping Mansion in the afternoon of the day after tomorrow, and send the girl you picked to Beizhuang." Li Xiaoqi nodded: "Okay!" ”

The next day at dawn, Li Xiaoqi was half-closed and was about to climb into the car, when Lu Feng jumped out from the side: "I'm back!" Li Xiaoqi was startled, Lu Feng looked a little thin, his eyes were shining very energetically, and he stretched his waist: "I came back in the middle of the night last night, how was it?" Run fast, right? ”

"Well, you can send any letters in the future, are you fast!" Li Xiaoqi looked up at him, bent his eyes and said with a smile, Lu Feng motioned for Li Xiaoqi to get on the car, jumped to the door of the carriage and sat down, hehe said with a smile: "You know what I'm doing in such a hurry, right?" I'm telling you, we will definitely be able to rush to Jingnan Mansion tomorrow, coincidentally, tomorrow is a good day for Jingnan Mansion to open new wine, I tell you, this new wine is a rare event, you must see! ”

Li Xiaoqi was interested, moved forward, and motioned to Lu Feng: "Tell me in detail, how to open the way?" At noon the next day, Su Zicheng saw a few more local officials, delayed for a while, and didn't see the courtyard outside the city of Jingnan Mansion, the sun was already going down to the west, Lu Feng and Li Xiaoqi were in a hurry, so they simply rode their horses, quietly left the team, and galloped all the way to Jingnan Mansion to see the excitement of Kaigu Xinjiu.

Su Zicheng and his entourage entered the Jingnan Mansion Courtyard, Jingjiang Hou Shui Qingliang's eldest son Shui Yan led people out of more than a mile away, the first filial piety Empress only had two younger brothers, all of whom were in-laws and mothers, the eldest brother Shui Qingming, attacked the Marquis of Anyuan, Mrs. Sui, gave birth to a daughter and two sons, the eldest daughter Shui Rong married the champion of the previous department, Xiao Yuanpei, the son of the Xiao family of the Beiping poetry and book family, the eldest son Shui Li, married his wife Ye, and the second son Shui Rong was only seventeen years old. The younger brother is Jingjiang Hou Shui Qingliang, Mrs. Jiang, gave birth to two sons and a daughter, the eldest son Shui Yan, 20 years old this year, is Su Zicheng's companion since childhood, is picking and choosing to discuss the family, the second son Shui Jin, 16 years old this year, the young daughter Shui Ying.

Shui Yan welcomed Su Zicheng into the courtyard, drank tea and waited for him to take a bath and wash up, Su Zicheng changed into an azure gray robe and came out, sat comfortably on the chair, took a sip of tea from the cup and asked, "Have you seen the eldest brother in the past few days?" Is Big Brother good? ”

"Before I came, my uncle called me over and talked for a while, my uncle is good, my health is good, and my mood is good." Shui Yan shook the folding fan and replied with a smile, Su Zicheng breathed a sigh of relief, looked Shui Yan up and down and asked, "Is your family matter decided?" There are no famous ladies in Beiping that you can look at? ”

"No hurry, what's the hurry? This marriage matter cannot be rushed no matter what. Shui Yan said vaguely: "By the way, you let the maids you pick, all of them have been brought, according to your instructions, pick half from your house, find half from my house, the Ruyue girl I am looking for in your house, everyone is picked out by Ruyue girl, call you to take a look?" ”

"No, let her see for herself." Su Zicheng put down the cup, turned his head to look at Nanning and ordered, "Go and invite the fifth master to come over." Nanning was full of embarrassment, and lowered his hands to report: "Back to the master, the fifth master and Lu Ye rushed to Jingnan Mansion at the end, saying that they went to see the new wine." Su Zicheng frowned, was silent for a moment and ordered: "Let Changqing go and look for it, see if something happens." Nanning agreed to leave the house. Shui Yan stopped the folding fan in his hand in surprise: "You are looking for these girls, I thought it was a girl who was waiting." ”

"It's a girl, but she calls herself a master, and if she does five, she calls herself the fifth master." Su Zicheng explained lightly, Shui Yan was surprised and stunned, stared at Su Zicheng for a long time, his eyes gradually showed ambiguity, shook the folding fan, and whispered with a smile: "This girl must be a good girl!" Su Zicheng looked at him: "You'll know if it's good or not." Shui Yan was stunned when he heard it, and he would know it in the future? Wasn't it taken into the inner court?

In Jingnan Mansion, Lu Feng and Li Xiaoqi sent their horses and ran to the streets where the Kaigu New Wine Parade passed.

Jingnan Mansion is very lively, pushing, holding, holding and selling all kinds of fresh flowers, loose sweets, waist white intestines, and even crown comb collar one after another, shouting one after another, the city is as lively and festive as the New Year.

"Let's go, Dongda Street is the most lively! I've inquired about it all and went to see if I could find a private room upstairs and look comfortable! Lu Feng pulled Li Xiaoqi, and the two squeezed all the way forward in the crowd, rushing to Dongda Street. How can there be a private room here? The liquor shops and shops on a street are all the most powerful guys standing at the door, and no one is allowed to enter, and it is certain that there will be no more people inside.

Li Xiaoqi turned his head to look at the bustle on the street, and pulled Lu Feng: "Just look at it on this street!" Stronger than the inside! ”

On the other side of the street, the female prostitutes recruited by the various wine shops have come over with flowers, Lu Feng hurriedly pulled Li Xiaoyi, crowded around, looked for a street corner with a better line of sight, and protected Li Xiaoqi to stand on a street boundary stone, Li Xiaoqi just stood still, the female prostitutes with the fragrance of flowers and rain were dressed luxuriously, sitting on the horses draped in silk and hanging flowers, and decorated with colorful decorations, smiling and waving all the way, and slowly marching over. Lu Feng stood beside Li Xiaoyi, pointed to the female prostitutes who were dressed differently and introduced: "Look, the one in front, with a high bun and a wide skirt with wide sleeves, is the head of this Jingnan Mansion, you don't see a few." ”

"There are quite a few, more than a dozen!" Li Xiaoqi looked carefully at the prostitutes who were heavily fat and powdered, and had such and such yellow flowers on their faces, and pointed at the prostitutes with some depression and complained: "Look at it, a face is painted like a New Year's painting, white and white, red and red, what is the mess on that face?" It's really ugly, no matter how good the foundation is, it's ruined! The clothes on my body are beautiful! "Those female prostitutes, wearing a brightly colored bandeau inside, a long skirt of pink and yellow and tender green almost touched the ground, and a non-protective placket was covered outside, and the skirts embroidered with various colors spread out with the horse steps and the breeze, revealing white breasts and shoulders and gorgeous silk, in fact, such heavy makeup with such gorgeous clothes, it really gave birth to an extreme beauty, just like a Japanese geisha, Li Xiaoqi was in a trance, as if he was in that exquisitely decorated Japanese room, in front of a group of geisha folded hands and feet, and monotonous shamisen, dancing back and forth.

Lu Feng laughed: "I don't know, it's the new makeup that just came over in Taiping Mansion, and what's more, the eyebrows have to be shaved off first, and then painted on, if you take a closer look, it's still a little tasteful!" Li Xiaoqi exhaled, and pointed to the female prostitutes behind him who wore crowns of various colors of gold, silver, beads and jade, and wore gorgeous bandeau tops, but only wore a long light veil that was so light that it was obvious at a glance on their shoulders. Li Xiaoqi pointed to the large number of female prostitutes with light veils and asked, "This is second-class?" ”

"That's right! Look at the back, the second-class ones are boring, if you look at the first line, you will look at the third class, the third-class are all young prostitutes who have just opened their faces, and the next year's line is the first of the third class. "Lu Feng is really a very knowledgeable player, Li Xiaoqi supported Lu Feng's shoulders, and looked back at those third-class female prostitutes, who were really much younger, and also wore crowns, but this crown was mostly silver horns and silver frames, with light yarn and fine silk in the middle, and occasionally one or two crowns with all silver or gold horns and gold frames, Gu Pan was a lot of pride, a tight and narrow cover-up shirt on the upper body, and a pair of crotch pants with extremely fat legs on the lower body, Li Xiaoqi stared at the wide-legged pants on the third-class female prostitutes, almost whistled, these pants, she also wore them!

Lu Feng pushed her: "Come down, come down, come down, the wine is here, let's grab the new wine!" Fast! Li Xiaoqi jumped neatly into the nether stone, pulled Lu Feng tightly, and rushed straight to the ox cart covered in red and hanging colors behind, in the middle of the car stood back to back two wine shop guys wearing clean white shirts and trousers, holding a long wooden handle wine spoon, scooping wine, pouring wine in one go, there were four or five wine shop guys wearing white shirts and trousers on the left and right half-squatting, hands and feet very fast to take the cup, catch the wine, and then give the wine to the crowd on both sides of the car, this pouring wine and sending wine is as rhythmic as a dance. Lu Feng took two glasses and handed one to Li Xiaoyi, Li Xiaoqi took it and took a sip, this wine tastes actually good. The two of them drank one by one, Lu Feng drank it all, Li Xiaoqi had to lick a few tongues per cup, she was too shallow to drink a few glasses, and she could pour down in a few glasses.

Just drank it all the way, Li Xiaoqi had already drunk so much that his face was pink, his eyes were so bright that he was dripping, he was holding Lu Feng, he couldn't stop laughing, Lu Feng hiccuped, his steps were floating, dragging Li Xiaoqi, and he shouted excitedly: "Go!" I'll take you to the top brand of Jingnan Mansion! ”