Chapter 3 The tea shop listens to the secrets, and the wine is in the future

I want Yuntang to like to drink fine wine, but it is only two glasses of drunken wine, how to drink the strong wine known as "smelling the fragrance of Zhou Gong, sleeping until the depth of spring". She took the wine jug from Shui Sanshao's hand, drank only half a glass and fell unconscious, and when she woke up, she was in a simple bamboo house outside the greasy fragrance, and when she raised the window, she saw that it was dusk.

This scene, she understood that there was no hope of entering the water house, shook her hand and stroked the hem of her skirt, and the door steward said that the meaning of the water three less, out of the water house, actually walked out of a little relieved, and after returning home, she repaired a letter to Yun Lin, and asked him to make other errands, such as going to the Rujia Inn to find out who the proprietress was, what her sexual orientation was, and why she was beautiful every time she appeared, and she was frivolous and charming.

However, how could Yun Lin follow her wishes, within two days, a pigeon brother wearing a special armor of a small baolou knocked on the window lattice of her room at the second watch, and brought a letter, to the effect that the matter of the water house is her last errand, if it is done properly, she will retire from now on, 50 taels of gold, the north-south pass in hand, and she will have no worries about her life.

The reward is tempting enough, Yuntang thinks that he is a layman, and everything is easy to say under the gold and silver. It doesn't work to just enter the water house as a maid, but you have to think of something else.

What is the method, Yun Tang is worried.

After a night of hard thinking and meditation, there was still no other way.

At noon the next day, the wind and rain came suddenly, under the explanation of mica, she brought a Luo umbrella to Yunqing, and on the way back, she found a tea shop near the water house, calling for tea, in order to find something.

After sitting for two hours, she generally knew certain things, such as the fruits and vegetables of the water house came from the farms outside the city, the carriages and horses were all dressed in tassels and brocade silk with strange marks, and the maids who came in and out looked very thoughtful, and the water seemed to be able to pinch out the water......

"The color of the maid of the water house is really good." couldn't help it, Yun Tang couldn't help but praise.

"The superficial scenery may not be what it is." A young man at the side table said when he heard this, Yun Tang looked sideways and saw that it was a scholar in a gray cloth robe, his appearance was not good, only his lips were extremely thin, as if he had been deliberately carved with a sharp weapon.

"Oh? Why did Childe say that? ”

"The girl doesn't know?" The scholar was a little surprised, "Also, I'm afraid that the girl is not from Shucheng, I want the old lady of the water house to settle down properly, but the people in the city just talk to each other in private, how do outsiders know." ”

When Yuntang heard this, he was curious, moved to the scholar's desk in three steps and two steps, sat down, and said: "I am a person from Shucheng, I am only absent all the year round, and I also ask the son to come carefully, there is a good tea and good scenery at the moment, but there is a lack of a good story of the son." ”

"It's not a good story." The scholar said, "Do you know the three young waters?" The third young master of the water house? Since the old lady Gengshen took Shui Sanshao back, she will definitely recruit two maids for her every month, and those who are not virgins and beautiful people do not want it, the money is considerable, and many families send their girls to the water house, but guess what? ”

"What's wrong?" Yun Tang asked with a staring gaze.

The scholar looked around, leaned over and said, "The crazy man died of madness, and it is said that he was tortured to death by Shui Sanshao." ”

"So miserable?!" Yuntang was taken aback, thinking that Shui San Shao was handsome and unparalleled, how could he be a ruthless person? Could it be that he judges people by his appearance and has superficial opinions?

"No! There was such a thing in the original water house, the old lady made people treat the maid's family who had an accident, and even helped him move home, others may not know, never thought that there was civil strife in the house, an old mother in the backyard was thrown out, and the gate shouted, everyone knew about the accident, but at that time dozens of maids were killed, so no one sent the girl in. ”

"I'm afraid that old mother won't survive." The gate of the water house is big, the old slave shakes off the secrets, if the matter of the three young people is true, how can there be a chance to live.

The scholar nodded, and the look of pity was visible, and said, "The girl is right, I heard that someone hanged herself that night, and her family was then missing. ”

"No one to report to the officer?" Yun Tang secretly cursed Yun Lin what kind of errand he gave him, but he knew in his heart that Yun Lin would not let his cousin send him into danger, but he was not afraid.

"It's reported, there is no evidence and no certificate, and there are people in the water house in the court, who can move it?!"

Yuntang was clear, recalling the list attached to Yun Lin's letter, according to the above records, the old man of the water house had helped the current emperor to quell the chaos in Guanxi, and the emperor felt his merits and wanted to add the official title, but the old man had no intention of returning to his hometown in the officialdom, and later retired to Shucheng.

Speaking of water three less, Yun Tang knows a limited amount, although it is rumored that he is the third son of the old man, but now it is only twenty and three, the old man Geng Shennian was already an octogenarian when he died, and there is one in twenty and twenty in Shui, how to estimate it is not right, the old man in the sixtieth year accidentally got a son, and he should be strong and strong? The wind is still strong?

"Let's ask Gongzi, everyone in Shucheng knows about the water house?" If this is the case, if my father and mother know that they want to do things in the water house, I am afraid they will not be able to.

"Most do." The scholar smiled slightly, as if unintentionally glanced at Yuntang's ears, and saw a graceful figure walking towards the water house, and said, "The wine brewing girl from the water house is here." ”

"Brewing girl?" Yun Tang looked at the woman when she heard this, "There are guests in the water house today?" "According to the rules here, there are guests in the house who will specially invite the wine cooker to cook wine in order to show their dignity, and the wine cooking skills of the wine cooker may not be very good, but they must have a good appearance.

"Definitely. This is just the preference of the three young waters, every day must ask the wine cooker to cook March Spring, the craftsmanship can be called for days, and the poor craftsmanship will be driven out of the house in less than half an hour. In the greasy color and fragrance, the boiling wine girl can enter and exit intact. The scholar played with the teacup in his hand, and continued: "Of course, the person who climbs into the bed of the three young people in the water in vain is a different scene. ”

Yuntang lowered her head and thought, if this is the case, then there is only one way for her to go now, incarnate as a wine cook, close to Shui Sanshao, get her plain feet and mud mold as soon as possible, and retire with honor.

But she doesn't know how to cook, so what should she do?

Still thinking about it, she didn't pay attention to the scholar next to him smiled helplessly, and when she came back to her senses, the scholar had disappeared, and when she settled the tea money, the tea shop owner forcibly accepted her two tables of tea money, and said: "That son can say, but three dollars of tea money, girl, you can earn it." ”

Yun Tang always felt strange when he heard this, and he breathed a sigh of relief, and secretly swore that he would never sit with anyone at will in the future, who knows when the bar will hit his own head.

After returning from the teahouse, mica was not at home, so she thought it was a visit. Yuntang groped into Yunqing's room and turned out two jars of rice wine, brought the winter hand warmer stove to try to cook the wine, and after a while, the room was full of wine, she tasted it lightly, but the wine was hotter, and the taste did not change much.

After pouring a glass of wine, she learned from the master of the winery she had seen before to put ginger and peach blossoms in the wine, and let it warm it to taste it again after it boiled.

By the time a jar of five catties of liquor had been cooked, she was already drunk, her cheeks were red, and she sat down in the hall with red cheeks and unsteady steps, and drank cold tea.

When Yunqing and his wife returned, they couldn't cry or laugh when they saw this scene, the table was full of wine and fragrant room, and Mica said: "Since the wine is out of the altar, why don't you invite guests to get together, a few days ago, I answered Gu's to tell her about Shucheng's personnel, and today is also a coincidence...... Gu's son is a talent. ”

"It's fine." Yun Qing heard the meaning of Mica's words, and looked at Yun Tang, who was gradually coming back to his senses, "I'll go to the street to buy some spells, Yun Tang, you go and invite Uncle Gu's family to eat." ”

"No, Dad...... I ......" Yuntang wanted to say something, but turned his head and knocked on the door of the Gu family with a drunken spirit.

"Who?" As Yun Tang knocked on the door, a young man's clear and powerful voice sounded inside the door, and the door opened with a "squeak", poking out a fresh and delicate face, Yun Tang ignored the surprised expression on his face, and said unfamiliar and polite: "I've seen Gu Gongzi." My father asked Uncle Gu and Aunt Gu to ...... Well...... There is also Gu Gongzi who went to the cold house to eat, in order to show the good of his neighbors, and he hoped to appreciate his face. ”

"Please go back to Uncle Yun, we'll go in a while." Gu Xu Xingqiang pressed the ecstasy in his heart, smelled the fragrance of wine on his body that was blown away by the evening breeze, and asked, "Miss Yun is drinking again?" ”

Yuntang Shangjue was a little dizzy, and said, "I want to learn to cook wine, but I drink a little too much without paying attention." ”

"I don't know...... Are you lucky enough to be able to taste Miss Yun's boiled wine? Gu Xuxing saw her unconsciously rubbing the corners of her forehead, and couldn't help but want to "do it for you".

"Fortunately, if Gu Gongzi drinks tonight, I will cook it." Yun Tang suddenly glanced at Gu Xuxing and asked, "Gu Gongzi's dress must be from the Portal Family, he is well-informed, he should be able to taste the quality of the wine, right?" ”

"Don't hide it from Miss Yun, there is a winery in the property under the name of the Gu family, and the Gu family also makes wine for a living."

"That's great." Yun Tang laughed, "I'll go back and wait for you, Gu Gongzi, you and Uncle Gu and Aunt Gu hurry up." ”

Gu Xuxing looked at her back as she rushed back, and was stunned again, as if she had lived for a long time, and it was the first time she saw a woman laughing without feeling presumptuous.

The night breeze is cool, and the evening hall is candlelit.

The Gu family couple and the Yun family looked at Gu Xuxing and Yun Tang with meaningful eyes, and then moved to the backyard, thinking otherwise.

Yun Tang discharged two columns of drinks on the desk, both of which she had cooked earlier, and Gu Xuxing rolled over in her Adam's apple under her fiery and longing gaze, drinking cup by cup.

"How?" Yun Tang asked after he had finished drinking all his wine.

Gu Xuxing thought for a long time, but instead of thinking about how to describe the wine, he was thinking about how to answer so as not to make Yuntang sad and sad. After a while, he said, "I wonder if Miss Yun would like to try the wine I cooked?" ”

"But, here you go." Yun Tang handed him the wine cooking utensils, supported his cheeks with his hands, and looked at him motionlessly.

Gu Xuxing blushed and said nervously: "Miss Yun, wait for me, wait for me to go home and get some things." ”

Yun Tang nodded, Gu Xu Xing walked home quickly, but in the blink of an eye, the person came back and laid out several utensils, which made Yun Tang dumbfounded for a while, "Why do you need so many things to cook wine?" ”

"Nature is needed." Gu Xuxing chuckled, "Cooking wine is not as simple as the girl thinks. ”

"Then you show me, I'll see how simple it is." Yuntang said, looking like asking for advice.

Looking at Gu Xuxing's hot pot to warm the cup, and out of nowhere, he made dried flowers and plums like a trick, and after about a quarter of an hour, a glass of wine with a mellow aroma and a seemingly unsweet wine fell in front of him. "Is this okay?"

"Girl, try it." Gu Xuxing's ten fingers were slender, his index finger curled up and knocked on the wall of the cup with his knuckles, Yun Tang asked suspiciously, "Why is this?" ”

"The wine is full of fragrance."

"There's a lot of attention to cooking." Yuntang drank the cup, when the wine passed the tip of the tongue and slid into the throat, such as drinking nectar, the aftertaste was long, but he felt hearty in the chest, so comfortable, and said: "Good wine!" ”

Gu Xuxing said with a smile: "The knowledge in this is deep, if Miss Yun wants to, she will not hide her selfishness." ”

"Really?" Yuntang drank a few more glasses one after another, this wine didn't seem to be intoxicating, and he was still not drunk after drinking a cup.

"Cloud girl! This drink is more intoxicating, but it is not on the table at the moment. Gu Xuxing wanted to stop him, and said: "Whatever the girl asks, she will respond to it." ”

Yun Tang Fang thought that Yun Qing loved to drink very much, how could he miss such a good wine, so he stood up, and found that she and Gu Xuxing were around him, guessing that Yun Qing and his wife should be in the backyard, so he stepped back, but he didn't think that he would take a step, so he felt weak and weak under his feet, staggered a step, and pressed towards Gu Xuxing, who was about to help her.

Due to inertia, she inadvertently grabbed both sides of the rattan chair with both hands, and actually trapped Gu Xuxing in the chair.