[Chapter 3, Volume 3]

Section 205

Go out of the east gate along the official road all the way, a fork in the road in a few miles, oblique to the south, although it is the official road, but Xu is to go to the Chuncao Lake for the sake of many tourists, there is no lack of dignitaries and nobles, this path is also repaired very neatly.

The side of the road is full of mulberry elms, and there are traces of pruning between the branches.

It's the height of summer, and it's full of greenery. When I lifted the corner of the curtain and looked out, I saw that all around were deep and light blue colors, and sometimes the chirping of orioles came from overhead, and there were also turtledoves and other cooing sounds under the trees, giving people a sense of tranquility and serenity.

Wei Changying looked at it curiously, turned to her husband and said, "It's quiet on this road." ”

"At this time, there are only people who go to see the lotus." Shen Zangfeng held the luminous glass, slowly sipped the wine in his mouth, and said, "The people of Chuncao Lake are mostly in the spring, and at that time, the carriages on this road often line up all the way to the city gate. "The car is equipped with an ice book, a strange beast tray, a copper ring buckle cover, ice in the middle, a pot of wine in the town when I go out, and half of the ice melts the water at this moment, and the entrance is just right.

Shen Zangfeng felt good after drinking, motioned for Qin Ge to fill it, and handed it to Wei Changying's lips with his cup.

"These many?" Wei Changying was quite surprised, took a sip of wine with his hand, praised it, and said, "Also, Chuncao Lake Chuncao Lake is naturally the most beautiful in spring, so it is called Chuncao Lake." ”

Shen Zangfeng saw that she didn't seem to like it very much, so he picked it up and drank it himself, and said with a smile: "It's also beautiful to go to the lotus flower in the lake now." ”

"But if you say it's not good-looking, I'll beat you carefully." The chief of the guard smiled and pushed him.

Shen Zangfeng handed the luminous cup to Qin Ge and put it away, and said meaningfully: "If it's good-looking, then how can you thank me?" ”

"It's supposed to be good-looking, on such a hot day, you coax me out of the house, of course there has to be a better place, otherwise, what am I going to do with this bumpy suffering?" Wei Changying's eyes were rolling, he covered his cheeks with a fan, and said with a smile, "In short, if you look good, you won't be punished at most, if you don't be satisfied, then you will be punished, and you will be punished severely." As he spoke, he knocked him on the shoulder with a fan.

Shen Zangfeng smiled, made a look of fear, and said: "The fierce young lady, I don't dare to say it for my husband." ”

"That's right, I'm just fierce!" Wei Changying's eyes were smiling, but his face was fierce, and he nodded, "You have to be careful, don't annoy me, now that I'm out, there is no village in front of the village and no shop here, let's see what you do!" ”

Shen Zangfeng sighed: "This is really falling into the hands of thieves!" He grabbed her hand and said helplessly, "Now that Xiaosheng is careless, he has fallen into the hands of the female king, and the king can take pity on Xiaosheng and be gentle!" ”

He sang and said, the scholar dragged out the tone, but he hadn't practiced, he didn't like it, and the strange voice was strange - not only Wei Changying, but also the maid who was waiting in the car laughed, Wei Changying laughed so much that he leaned on his shoulder for a while, and wiped his tears and said: "The female king...... Well, am I that fierce? ”

Shen Zangfeng said with a smile: "Xiaosheng is such a handsome and handsome person, ordinary female kings are reluctant to fight when they see it, but you Wei female king doesn't feel sorry for Xiaosheng at all, according to Xiaosheng's opinion, you are much more fierce than ordinary female kings!" I really don't know how to pity the fragrance and cherish the jade at all, but it's a pity that the pearl is secretly invested, and the pearl is secretly invested! ”

Wei Changying pinched him angrily: "Why have you been robbed by many female kings?" Otherwise, how can you still distinguish between an ordinary female king, and me, a female king? Hurry up and bring this king to the truth! Otherwise, huh! He held up a fan and made a gesture to fight.

"Ah, these are all guesses." Shen Zangfeng was not fooled, he smiled and brought it over, held her hand and said, "Do you see if there are lotus flowers on the side of the road ahead?" ”

Looking in the direction he pointed, it was indeed a lotus.

On the side of the grassy road, it seems to grow in the ditch, and the deep green lotus leaves are very inconspicuous because of the grass and trees. However, the pink, white and pink lotus flowers are swaying, and they are lined with a piece of blue, but they are particularly eye-catching.

Wei Changying leaned on the window of the car and looked at it for a moment, and said curiously: "Why can't you see the lake in front of you?" ”

"This ditch is three miles long." Shen Zangfeng touched her sideburns with a smile and said, "Shall we go to the other courtyard to put down our things first, and then go to the lake, or go directly to the boat?" ”

Wei Changying said: "Is the courtyard far away?" ”

"When we get to the lake, we have to walk four or five miles." Shen Zangfeng calculated for a moment and said, "If you go directly to take a boat, you will ask someone to prepare a boat by the lake, and if you go to the other courtyard, you will ask someone to row the boat to the gate of the other courtyard first." ”

"Then it's better to take a boat." Wei Changying heard that it would take four or five miles to get to the other courtyard when he arrived at the lake, so he said busily. In this summer, although there is ice in the carriage, it is also stuffy, and no matter how smooth the path is, the carriage is always bumpy. It's not as interesting as taking a boat - because Mrs. Song and Mrs. Song are too close to her and Wei Changfeng, and she can only stand in the backyard of Ruiyu Hall and watch others board the boat to play, but she can only break willow branches on the shore and hit lotus leaves to vent......

I've never been on a boat, so I'm always curious.

Shen Zangfeng smiled: "It's all up to you." ”

Three miles, although the carriage did not go fast, it soon arrived. The trees that had been lush in the middle of the road suddenly disappeared, and at the end of the road, there was a vast expanse of smoke and water in the middle of summer.

Wei Changying saw it from the curtain of the car and said movingly: "There is such a big lake outside the imperial capital? ”

"In the "Spring Grass Lake Fu" written by the predecessors, there was a sentence of 'the smoke and waves are vast, like the sea', which is said to be vast, and there is also 'when the spring grass is born, the wild deer are yoyo, the spring water is green, and the spirit is comfortable when you see it'." Shen Zangfeng smiled and said, "Otherwise, how can it become a place where people in the city compete to rule regardless of whether they are high or low?" ”

At this time, the lake breeze was blowing mightily, blowing the curtain upside down, Wei Changying only felt that his sleeves were flying, and the whole person seemed to rise with the wind, and the sideburns shook the beads and struck each other, making a crisp sound - in the hot summer, the cool breeze relieved the heat, it was really refreshing and tight, she was in good spirits, pressed the flying skirt, and praised: "It's really a good place." ”

The carriage stopped at the lake, Wei Changying couldn't wait to get out of the car, and looked at the lake, but saw that the water was as blue as blue, as bright as jade, and the breeze crossed the lake, and from time to time there were gusts of lake waves lapping the embankment under his feet.

The snow-white waves flutter on the embankment, splash Qiongyu, disperse and come back again - in this repetition, standing by the lake, there is the coolness of the lake waves in addition to the cool breeze of the lake, and a weeping willow is planted on the embankment every ten steps, and it is the time when the willow smoke is weaving, and the birds are chirping, tactful and pleasant.

Wei Changying looked at it for a moment, suddenly remembered, and turned around and asked Shen Zangfeng, who was arranging for his subordinates to send luggage to the other courtyard: "What about the lotus?" ”

It's not that ...... Will this be the beautiful lotus flowers in Chuncao Lake? Why didn't she see the shadow of the lotus flower for a long time? But in the middle of the lake in the distance, you see the outline of clusters of reeds?

After Shen Zangfeng finished admonishing Shen Die, he walked over to her and said, "The water here is too deep, and the lotus flowers are not good to grow, so you have to go over there." Pointing to the reed, Wei Chang Yingqi said, "Isn't that a reed over there?" ”

"There's Tingzhou there, there are reeds, and there are lotus flowers nearby. It's just that the water is deep on our side, so we can't see it. Shen Zangfeng took her hand and said with a smile, "Come, let's get on the boat and go over there, you'll know when you see it." ”

Wei Changying was pulled by him, only to see that the black canopy boat under the embankment was already waiting. This flat boat is obviously specially made for fun, and it is made for summer fun, and it is not the same as the ordinary boat - the head and tail of the boat are no different, but the black canopy here is the same as learning to paint the boat, not a round arch canopy, but four corners of the pillars, covered with canopies to shade the sun and rain, and the curtain of fine grass weaving hangs on all sides to block the scorching sun.

Now there are two places on all sides that the sun can't shine on, and they are rolled up, revealing the inner furnishings, which are very simple, just a few and a few opposite two seats.

At the end of the boat was a woman in her thirties with a blue cloth head and a short skirt, presumably for the sake of ease of movement, the skirt only reached the ankles, and the outfit was shrewd and capable.

Seeing Wei Changying looking at her, she hurriedly let go of the boat, bowed generously, and said, "The little woman Cao Yingmei has seen the son and the young lady. ”

Shen Zangfeng said: "This is the daughter-in-law of the manager of the other hospital, born and raised by this Chuncao Lake, and she is good at water and boating. ”

Wei Changying smiled and said: "It's not that I accidentally let a woman operate the boat for us, I thought that such a big lake would take a painting boat!" Who wants to be a boat? ”

"There are also painting boats." Shen Zangfeng said, "It's just that it's convenient to see the lotus or the boat - many places of the lotus are shallow, and in previous years, there were painting boats that were stranded because they were greedy for flowers, and where the flowers and leaves were too dense, the painting boat couldn't enter." We'll take a boat first, and then go back and change boats at night. ”

Thinking about it, Wei Changying saw that there was a section of white water under the embankment, although this small boat was not afraid of running aground, the head of the boat was pierced and pointed all the way to the shore, but there was no pier, so he said: "Go up here?" ”

"Ying'er don't worry, if you feel embarrassed, just carry you up for your husband." Shen Zangfeng teased and laughed.

Wei Changying raised the fan in his hand, and seemed to smile: "What's so difficult about this?" Be careful yourself! ”

The two got on the boat one after the other, Wei Changying didn't know how to water, when he was on the shore, he envied the freedom on the lake, and he was a little panicked when he really got to the place surrounded by water and shook under his feet, and he couldn't help but hold on to Shen Zangfeng's sleeve tightly, and was comforted by him for a long time before regaining his calm.

The two of them helped each other into the tent, and after sitting down, they found a basket on several sides, filled with lotus leaves, which had not yet turned yellow under the sun, but was stained with a few drops of dew, which had obviously only been picked recently. There are wine jugs, wine cups, and fruits in the middle, thinking that when the boat rows up, it will fall down on a few points, so I took a basket to load, and I was afraid that it would be broken in the basket, and I used lotus leaves to plug the gaps.

Judging from this preparation, this Cao Yingmei is also a careful person.

Shen Zangfeng took them out one by one, poured an agarwood drink for his wife, and said with a smile: "You will peel lotus seeds for me to eat in a while." ”

"You're really going to do it." Wei Changying scolded with a smile, "How good this agarwood drink is, lotus seeds are so difficult to peel, how unfair is it for you to exchange this with me?" ”

Shen Zangfeng was about to reply, when Cao Yingmei at the end of the boat raised her voice through the grass curtain that separated the tail of the boat: "Son, young lady, are you going to Furong Island?" ”

Shen Zangfeng said: "Not bad. He asked her again, "Will the Xie family liquor store in Furong Island be opened?" ”

Cao Yingmei said with a smile: "Originally, there were few people these days, and Xie Zhang's door was also closed to hide lazy. I heard that the son was going to bring the young lady over, and the door was specially opened today. Then he said, "Early this morning, Brother Xie and the sister-in-law of the Xie family went out to the north to get off the net, saying that as soon as the young lady came back for the first time, she had to take out a full copy of the matter. ”

Shen Zangfeng smiled and said to Wei Changying: "You have a good mouth, Xie Zhang's making lake fresh is a must inside and outside the imperial capital." Normally, there are only three things in his wine shop: fish head, fish soup and steamed cakes, and he wants to take all the copies, but as long as there is nothing in the lake, he can't do it. ”

Wei Changying was born in a high-ranking family, although he was not domineering to the common people, but he didn't attach much importance to it, and he originally heard Shen Zangfeng specially ask the Xie family wine shop on Furong Continent, and thought that there was a wine shop there, and he was worried that he would have nowhere to go after it was closed. I don't want to, but I admire this Xie Zhang's craftsmanship very much, thinking that her husband is from a similar background to herself, and he attaches so much importance to this Xie Zhang's craftsmanship.

He smiled and said, "Isn't it?" Look how much you touch me. ”

Shen Zangfeng was stunned for a moment, then laughed out loud and said, "Yes, yes, I am all stained with your light." ”

Cao Yingmei changed the oars at the end of the boat, and listened to their words and smiles through the curtain, and couldn't help but smile, thinking that the young couple was really lively, and there were only two people, and there was laughter and laughter on the lake.

And in the middle of summer, he was still so interested, and he was not afraid of trouble at all, and he came from the imperial capital to stay for one night—thinking of this season...... She suddenly burst out laughing, and thought to herself: "I will be close to Furong Continent for a while, and I don't know what to do with this young lady?" ”