Chapter 19: The Black and White Scholar
Yangzhou Qingjiang Mansion, Guishan County, there is a restaurant, called Osmanthus Chicken.
The restaurant has two treasures, the osmanthus stuffed to drink, and the eight treasures to eat roast chicken. Therefore, the restaurant is named Osmanthus Chicken Restaurant, which complements each other and is easy to remember!
Guishan County is located in the northernmost part of Qingjiang Prefecture, and it is also the junction of Yang and Xu Prefectures. Therefore, the two signature dishes of this restaurant are not only famous in Yangzhou, but also attract many tourists from Xuzhou from time to time to come to taste.
As a result, it sells at a high price.
At this time, it is May, and there is still a lot of time before the osmanthus tree blooms, and the osmanthus brewed in the restaurant is more expensive.
At this moment, in a corner of the hall on the first floor of the Osmanthus Chicken Restaurant. Situ Nan, who had left Yuzhang County, was sitting at this table, wearing a hat on his head, dressed in black, with a short blade less than two feet long hanging from his waist, and his sheath was pitch black.
This short blade was bought by Situ Nan after he left Yuzhang County, and the style was the same as the Ox Knife, and it was specially equipped with a scabbard. It's just that it's not as easy to use as the ancestral knife at the beginning.
At this time, there was a pot and a pot in front of Situ Nan, which was the signature two treasures of the Osmanthus Chicken Restaurant, the Eight Treasures Roast Chicken and the Osmanthus Stuff.
"What the hell, it's not as good as beer!"
Putting the wine glass in his hand on the table, Situ Nan complained in his heart.
He took a sip of the osmanthus brewed in a pot of five taels, which really disappointed him.
In addition to the light yellow color, the osmanthus fragrance is prominent, the entrance is mellow, sweet and sour and palatable, there is no difference between this wine and water.
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but miss Jiang Dabai in my previous life, feeling that that was the real taste of wine, looking at the osmanthus brewing pot in front of me, and at the same time making a decision in my heart.
Osmanthus, peach blossom, apricot blossom, wine with this name cannot be bought.
"Brother, can you borrow a seat?"
A brother interrupted Situ Nan's complaining, and when he looked up, he saw that a white-faced scholar was standing in front of him, wearing a scarf and holding a folding fan, looking slightly worse than himself, and he was quite handsome. There was also a companion beside him, dressed in a red dress, with a purple veil on his head covering his cheeks, and a pair of eyes staring at him with purple veil.
"Feel free!"
"Thank you!"
When the two sat down, Situ Nan didn't deliberately talk to them, pushed the wine glass aside, picked up the chopsticks, and put a piece of roast chicken in his mouth.
Just when Situ Nan eliminated nearly half of the roast chicken in the basin, a sound like a silver bell suddenly sounded in his ears.
"Little brother, I don't drink this osmanthus brew, but it's a bit violent."
It was the woman in the red dress who spoke, and she was sitting opposite Situ Nan at the moment.
Her voice was very good, somewhat similar to Tang Cai'er's voice, so that Situ Nan couldn't help but look at her twice, but unfortunately she brought a veil and couldn't see her face clearly.
"If the girl thinks it's a pity, take it!"
Situ Nan said and pushed the wine jug in front of the woman.
"How can you drink without a wine glass?"
The woman was stunned for a moment, then chuckled, reached out her jade hand, took the wine glass used by Situ Nan, raised the wine jug in front of her, poured the small cup in her hand, lifted the corner of the veil, and gently put it into her mouth.
"It smells so good!"
After the woman finished speaking, she even licked the corners of her mouth and smiled at Situ Nan.
The woman's boldness surprised Situ Nan a little, and Situ Nan, who was a little weak-hearted, hurriedly turned his head to look at the scholar on the left, and found that the latter was also looking at him, with a meaningful smile on the corner of his mouth, and he couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.
Hurriedly turned his head and stopped looking at the two.
As a human being in two lives, Situ Nan met this kind of woman for the first time, and after bowing his head, he saw no movement. I didn't know what to say for a while, so I had to pick up my chopsticks and continue to eat roast chicken.
Not long after, the dishes that the two of them wanted were sent by the shopkeeper Xiao Er, which was much more hearty than Situ Nan's, and coincidentally also ordered a pot of osmanthus stuffed.
"Brother, do you want to eat some together?"
When the scholar saw that the dishes were ready, he asked before moving the chopsticks.
Shaking his head and refusing, Situ Nan looked at the roast chicken in front of him that was about to be empty, to be honest, he was a little supportive now.
Situ Nan, who took the penance pill, was not hungry at all, but when he came to Guishan County, he heard about the name of this restaurant, and he was addicted, so he came to taste it. At this moment, a pot of roast chicken is in the belly, and there is no idea about other food.
Then he nodded to the two of them, and got up to leave. At this time, the conversation between the two diners on the side made Situ Nan couldn't help but listen for a while.
"Yesterday, I heard that the old man Chen of the Yasi climbed the corner of the wall and fell to his death!"
"You say it's not evil? Old man Chen's nephew heard that he died in the corner of Ding Xiucai's house last month. ”
"You said that Ding Xiucai's mother-in-law is so good-looking?"
"One time I saw the silhouette, and it was beautiful. , It is said that Ding Xiucai's mother-in-law is fragrant and proficient in eighteen kinds of martial arts, and I don't know if it's true or not. ”
"Of course it's true! Didn't you see what Ding Xiucai was squeezed into? This bed, hehe. ”
"Hey. I want to be squeezed dry, too. ”
"Your mother-in-law thinks so too."
", don't mention the yellow-faced. Rain on someone's parade. ”
"Hahaha. Drink, drink! ”
Hearing their words, Situ Nan couldn't help but sigh, there are really everyone in this world. There are those who climb the corner, and there are those who talk about the corner.
Shaking his head, he walked towards the door of the restaurant.
"Peony flowers die, and ghosts are also romantic!"
At this time, there was a scholar's soft groan from behind, which made Situ Nan can't help but complain again.
Vassally elegant, tacky!
Leaving from the Osmanthus Chicken Restaurant, you can walk to the north gate of Guishan County with the strength of a cup of tea.
"Run, Ding Xiucai is back!"
"Hey. I didn't see it again! ”
At this time, Situ Nan suddenly saw two figures running away from a house not far away.
Ding Xiucai?
Hearing this name, Situ Nan couldn't help but glance at the house where the two ran away. The very ordinary house is not much different from his home in Yuzhang County, except that the courtyard wall is slightly higher, and there are a few cherry trees planted in the wall, and the pink and white cherry blossoms are blooming brilliantly at this time.
Situ Nan glanced twice, then turned his head and continued on his way.
At this time, a tall and thin scholar came to him, which was different from the scholar who met the poetry in the restaurant. Although he was also dressed in white, the face in front of him was thin and black, and his body was like a bamboo pole. At this time, he was holding a box of rouge in his hand, and his thin black face was full of smiles.
Situ Nan knew that this person should be that Ding Xiucai. It's just that I didn't expect it to look like this, dark and thin, like a ghost. I couldn't help but feel a trace of sympathy and doubt in my heart.
What kind of mother-in-law does this have to marry to become like this?
What kind of aesthetic does this have to be to like a scholar like ugly? Talented?
The two passed by, and Situ Nan's footsteps suddenly stopped. After turning his life, he turned around, staring at Ding Xiucai's back, and couldn't help frowning.
Just now, a strong floral fragrance came out of Ding Xiucai's body, and the fragrance of flowers entered his nose, Situ Nan's heart suddenly fluttered, as a straight man, he has never felt the love of men and women, but he actually had a trace of chicken movement just now?
"It's not normal!"
Situ Nan looked at Ding Xiucai and walked to the door at this time.
"Sakura, I bought your favorite rouge."
Ding Xiucai shouted happily into the house, and then pushed open the door.
At this time, through the door, Situ Nan happened to see a woman in pink walking out of it, and after a quick glance, he felt that the woman's smile was like a flower, very good-looking.
Situ Nan, who stopped his figure, suddenly had a bold thought, he wanted to look at this woman twice.