A September chrysanthemum

Summer has just passed, a night of wind and rain, get up early to see, the ground is full of yellow, yellow, green and green leaves.

Located in Ziyuchai Street in the south of the capital, the Yanyu Pavilion is the center of the drunken gold fan in the capital and the largest brothel in the capital. It is said that the old bustard is a native of Jiangnan, or the former Oiran, so he obtained such a name with the flavor of the rainy season, the guests who came to spend a lot of money needless to say, probably the sisters here are famous, although the Yanyu Pavilion is quiet during the day, but it has always been bustling at night, cars come and go, and other people's lamp oil saves out of the endless darkness comparison, like another bright false world.

It's early in the morning, and the whole Yanyu Pavilion seems to be breathing soundly in a quiet sleep, only I got up early and carried a basket to pick chrysanthemums.

Our family is a small shop on Ziyuchai Street that specializes in making dim sum for Yanyu Pavilion, my father is a dim sum master, my mother is the daughter of a tailor shop, I usually make some needlework for women, I am eleven years old this year, and I also follow the chores every day to do some odd jobs to help. The shop has a smoke and rain pavilion to lean on, which is enough to make the family well-off, but in the early years, we were really poor, and they all said that the children of the poor were in charge of the house, and I was not willing to be idle, busy with some odd work, but also happy.

Picking chrysanthemums is to make flower moon cakes, speaking of moon cakes, the moon cakes made by my father are the size of a child's fist, golden and moist, fragrant, the mold patterns of the moon cakes are exquisite and chic, it is a variety of seasonal flower patterns, the filling is made of flowers and chestnut mud lotus paste and honey red dates, etc., sweet and fragrant, has always been praised by the guests is unparalleled in the world. At the beginning, he relied on this flower moon cake to get the appreciation of the old bustard of Yanyu Pavilion, and named him to be in charge of Yanyu Pavilion dim sum, and his father slowly survived from a dim sum shop boy to the present, and had his own dim sum shop. So my dad often said on his lips: "People, you have to be grateful~" Of course, my father regards the bustard as a benefactor, and he spares no effort to make snacks and researches them wholeheartedly. Today it is said that it is time for the September chrysanthemum to open, and I was asked to go to the back garden of the Yanyu Pavilion to pick some back - the Yanyu Pavilion is exquisite, and the raw materials are all in their own garden.

All kinds of rare flowers in the back garden compete with each other, the blooming purple and red, the chrysanthemum in September is especially good, smelling the fragrant aroma, refreshing the spleen, I hum a little song to pick the flowers that are about to bloom, when the basket is about to be full, I suddenly found that there is a pair of black boots worn by a man under the flowers, the soles of the shoes are rushed out, and the inverted figure is resting, and the appearance is still very new.

Probably some guest threw it down from the back window for drunken fun, I kicked it lightly, and wanted to pick it up and hand it to Huang Bo, the manager of the back garden, but found that there was not a pair of black boots in the flowers, but a person in black boots lying in the flowers! I was so scared that I couldn't help but cry out.

The man snorted: "Hey, little girl, I'm dying of hunger, you came just in time, give me something to eat." "What, it turned out to be a beggar, I opened the flowers, but found that the man lying down was not as dirty and dilapidated as an ordinary beggar, but a young man with a very tall figure in his twenties, and, as if the idiom taught by the gentleman, his temples were like ink paintings, his eyebrows were like knives, and his ivory-like face was quite good-looking, and he was wearing a moon-white gown, tied with a royal blue belt, and a piece of jade that seemed to be very expensive embedded in the belt, and his head rested on his arm, looking weak. It's just a noble son. But the man was thin, with a sharpened chin and a protruding collarbone that was slightly exposed in the collar.

I quickly took out the flower mooncakes I brought for breakfast, and the man grabbed them and stuffed them into his mouth, barely chewed, swallowed them in one gulp, and then breathed a long sigh of relief and said, "Well, it's been a long time since I've eaten such a delicious offering~" and then burped. I corrected, "This is not an offering, it's an ordinary mooncake." "It doesn't matter~" This person sat up energetically and said with a smile: "I'm really going to starve to death, the people here, my home has been demolished, and no one has cooked for me, if you don't come, I don't know how long I'll have to lie down." If you help me, you will be blessed~" I smiled: "Your home was really demolished?" Or are you secretly guarding this place for which girl? "Hey~ The little girl knows a lot~ I do stay here, but don't mention this, what's your name? Is it this maid? ”

"My name is Umeba. The family lives outside the Yanyu Pavilion, and the family opens a dim sum shop, which is to pick flowers and make dim sum to send here. ”

"Hahahaha, Mei Cai? It's obviously smart, it's almost the same as buttoning meat~ Why did your family give you such a ridiculous name? The man looked overjoyed. It's rude.

I replied dryly: "At that time, my family was poor, and when my mother was pregnant with me, she wanted to eat plum cabbage and pork but didn't eat it. ”

"Plum cabbage button meat?" The man touched his chin: "I haven't eaten it for a long time~ I really want to eat it~" Hey, looking at what he is wearing, he doesn't look like a poor man, he must be a legendary swinger, for the sake of Sister Qinglou, scatter all the wealth of the Bomei people and laugh or something, there are a lot of things like this in Fireworks Street, and I have not seen it less when I spent all my money and was kicked out. It's the so-called loser. I don't like these kinds of adults, they are said to be causing trouble to others. Seeing that the basket was about to be full, I turned around to leave, but this loser stopped me: "Plum vegetables! I'm going to eat that offering! ”

"What offerings?! I've told you that it's an ordinary mooncake! ”

"It doesn't matter, it's the one, bring it to me next time!"

"Who cares about you! I just made fun of my name, doesn't your name sound good? Why are you making fun of me? ”

"Oh, such a young girl is looking for a reason to ask my name, women are the same regardless of age~ blame me for being too handsome~ But since you offer me an offering, and the plum cabbage button meat and Longjing are a perfect match, you will be allowed to call me Lord Longjing in the future~"

Longjing? It's obviously a fake name that I just came up with, right? Are you a fool of me? You're clearly teasing me! I left in a huff. I must sue Uncle Huang for a complaint.

Huang Bo is the caretaker of this back garden, and his temper is quite short-tempered, for fear that someone will spoil the flowers and plants, because selling the flowers and plants in the garden without permission is also a business. Hearing me tell that there was a wandering young man staying in the back garden, he immediately raised his eyebrows and muttered: "Which poor boy can't be beaten away~" While standing up from the rattan chair and rushing into the garden quickly, Huang Bo's short stature, small head, small feet and big fat belly made him look like a spinning top that was whipped and spun forward.

At this time, a miserable scream pierced the tranquility, and Huang Bo was stunned. I looked back, facing the back window of the garden on the second floor, a young woman with a disheveled hair was disheveled, her face was full of horror, and she jumped straight down from the second floor without hesitation.

Running closer, I also know, it turned out to be the popular sister Ruixia girl, she and I are quite familiar, because I like the West Lake beef soup made by my father the most, often send me over, always praise me for being cute, and the reward is very generous, but it is said that the limelight in the sister is too prosperous, the popularity is not good, several sisters hate her for taking away their guests, and chew a lot of gossip behind her back. At this moment, I saw that her beautiful face was pale, her eyes were closed, her hair was hanging down haphazardly, and most of her goose yellow autumn shirt was untied, revealing her moon-white undershirt, and even her white shoulders were exposed.

Uncle Huang hurriedly shouted: "Oh no! Miss Ruixia has fallen from the building! After a while, my sister and the little maid Yingying Yanyan got together, and was pinched by Huang Bo, Miss Ruixia slowly opened her eyes and looked at the people in a circle, but she was still trembling with fear, her bangs were wet in cold sweat, and her bloodless lips were still trembling and muttering: "Ghost ~ There is a ghost!" Help, help, help, help! ”

Everyone looked at each other, and I hurriedly asked, "Miss Ruixia, you say slowly, what the hell?" Where? Miss Ruixia grabbed my hand tightly and said in a trembling voice: "I just sent off Wang Gongzi in the morning, I bolted the door, and wanted to sleep for a while, when I turned my head and saw that the dresser mirror reflected behind me, there was a woman dressed in blue. Saying that, I shuddered, I have been to Miss Ruixia's room many times, because it is popular, the layout is magnificently tight, red sandalwood, and the dresser embedded with the eight treasures of Buddhism is brilliant, especially magnificent, Huang Bo said roughly: "Which sister wants to tease you in the house?" There is nothing else in the Yanyu Pavilion, but the sisters are blooming everywhere. "No... No, I also think that a sister sneaked into my house to tease me when I went out to see off my son, and when I looked back, there was no one behind me, and the house was empty~ And, and when I looked back, the person was still in the mirror! I can see it clearly! She smiled on her face, with circles of chains around her neck, she must be a ghost who asked for her life~ She just approached behind me step by step, her face couldn't be seen clearly, but I could see that the more she smiled, the happier she became, I was so scared that I jumped out of the window~" After saying that, her whole body seemed to have just been fished out of the ice cellar, and she still trembled.

Everyone talked about it, and one of the older sisters, who was plain and generous, and the most measured Sister Peony walked in separately from the crowd, and then helped Ruixia up and said: "Xu Ruixia is in a nightmare, I have been in Yanyu Pavilion for so many years, I haven't heard of any strange forces, everyone don't think nonsense first, wait for me to help Ruixia meet my mother, and the sisters will disperse!" ”

The sisters lost their faces one after another, and helped the maids to go back to their rooms, and Uncle Huang hurriedly picked up Miss Ruixia with Sister Peony and went to the account room to find the bustard.

I was also scared, I felt that a basin of ice water poured in from the collar of my cotton jacket in the cold winter, and my back was cold. I was about to go back to find the basket and go home, but a hand slapped on my shoulder, which scared me and I cried.

Then a pair of very warm arms picked me up, and laughed and joked: "Mei Cai Mei Cai, every time you see me, you have to scream, it's me!" "When I looked up, it turned out to be Longjing. No wonder this arm is warm, but it is really panicked.

I pushed him away and gave him a roll of the eye. He turned around to look for the basket, only to find it behind him. Just about to reach out to take it, he hurriedly held the basket in his arms and said triumphantly: "I can guess what happened to the sister who jumped off the building just now." ”

"Just you?" I snatched the basket and said, "I don't believe it." He turned around and walked away.

Long Jing was still shouting in the back: "Mei Cai, come to me if this matter can't be solved!" Thank you for the mooncake! But don't tell anyone about me just yet! Otherwise, if you are laughed at by others, don't rely on me. ”

I didn't look back, it turned out that he was quite self-aware of his reputation, and he must be notorious, and they all said that swingers were flamboyant, and I couldn't be teased by him.