Meng Meng eats her strawberry-flavored ice cream alone.

Seeing her licking her lips with her little tongue, looking like she was still unsatisfied, Cao Shujie said that he would not buy her ice cream anymore.

"Mengmeng, look at what you want to eat." Cao Shujie pointed to the shops on both sides of the ancient city and said.

There are many shops that sell snacks, and there are a variety of things for sale.

Hot and sour noodles, mutton soup, pork cakes, water chestnut fire, barbecue, stinky tofu, strings of incense and so on.

Even KFC has entered the ancient city.

The shops here are no longer uniformly decorated, but are antique buildings like other shops in the ancient city.

Meng Meng didn't know what to eat for a while.

She turned around and asked Cheng Xiaolin, "Mom, what do you think we are going to eat?" ”

"I don't know." When Cheng Xiaolin saw these things, she really didn't have the desire to eat.

She wanted to eat something special, but these were the same as the fast food she used to eat when she was working in the capital in a hurry, so it was boring.

As she was walking, Meng Meng saw a pot of golden fortune trees in front of a shop.

At first glance, it looks like a gold product, and it attracts people's attention from afar.

When I looked closer, I realized that this thing was actually woven with something similar to thin iron wire, and the details were very finely woven.

Looking up at the plaque of the store, I found that there was a line of words written next to it: 'Handmade aluminum crafts'.

"Mom and Dad, look, it's so beautiful." Meng Meng shouted as she pointed to the objects placed in the store.

Cao Shujie looked into the store and saw a yellow five-clawed golden dragon at a glance.

The whole dragon is about a meter long, and there are red gems of unknown materials pasted on the eyes of the eyes, the dragon's mouth is open, and several dragon whiskers are forked to both sides, which looks very imposing.

Take a closer look, it is also woven with thin aluminum wire, and there is a note next to it that the color of the surface of the aluminum wire is electroplating, and it will not fade when washed with water.

"Wife, look, this craft is really good." Cao Shujie saw this kind of craft for the first time.

His wife was also surprised when she saw her for the first time.

The two of them are still looking down and discussing, this thing can't be machine craft, right?

"It's very delicate." Cao Shujie pointed to the dragon and said.

Cheng Xiaolin had already looked at the phoenix next to her.

Whether it is a dragon or this phoenix, the shapes are made vividly, and from a distance, people feel that the objects are made lifelike, as if they are alive.

Up close, the dense aluminum wire is braided, and you can see that the workmanship is troublesome just by looking at it.

With a hand press, it's quite sturdy.

"If this thing were really hand-knitted, it wouldn't have been able to calculate the amount of time it would have spent." Cao Shujie said.

He didn't deliberately lower his voice, and a girl next to him who looked like she had just graduated from college came over and explained with a smile: "This big brother, no matter how big or small our ornaments are, all of them are hand-knitted. ”

Listening to what she said quite confidently, Cao Shujie pointed to the dragon-shaped weaving in front of him and asked her: "If this thing is finished, how long will it take?" ”

"Big brother, if this is done, it will take about 7 days." That's what the other side said.

"So fast."

This time was beyond Cao Shujie's expectations.

He thought it would take about a month, but the other party smiled and said: "It also depends on who does it, if you are not skilled, it may be in vain for a month or two, this is done by my master himself, and he is very proficient." ”

Hearing this statement, Cao Shujie agreed.

Cheng Xiaolin was very curious: "How much does it cost to say something like this pair of dragons and phoenixes?" ”

"If you are single, 3,000 yuan, in fact, the materials are not valuable, mainly because it is more troublesome to make, time-consuming, and more expensive for manual work." That's what the other side said.

This statement is reliable.

Cao Shujie nodded, he recognized the other party's craft, and didn't think the price was too expensive.

But he also knew that this thing would look good under the lights, and if he really bought it back and put it at home, it wouldn't have this effect.

The girl who looked like she had just graduated was called Song Xiaohui, she looked at the clothes worn by Cao Shujie and Cheng Xiaolin, and she felt like rich people, and thought that they were going to buy this pair of dragons and phoenixes, so she hurriedly said: "Big brother, eldest sister, if you buy it, this pair of dragons and phoenixes Chengxiang will add up to 1,000 yuan cheaper, what do you think?" ”

Cao Shujie and Cheng Xiaolin glanced at each other, the two of them really didn't expect that the work of this moment would drop by 500 yuan each, and the price of this handiwork would fluctuate so much?

It happened that Mengmeng's eyes moved away from the dragon and phoenix, and she saw all kinds of small ornaments placed on a table in the middle of the store, she pointed to one of the small ornaments and shouted: "Mom, cow, you see it's a cow." ”

"I'm also a cow." She shouted.

"Isn't it, it's pretty good-looking, Meng Meng, do you want this?" Cao Shujie asked her.

Ke Mengmeng shook her head: "Don't, I want a golden cow." ”

"......" Cao Shujie was a little nervous, and Cheng Xiaolin had already covered her mouth and laughed.

When the family of three came out of the store, Cheng Xiaolin bought three gadgets, including a pistol woven with aluminum wire, a small ornament riding a motorcycle, and a small flower basket for 10 yuan each.

This is a bit different from what Song Xiaohui thought about just now.

But Cao Shujie, they don't care.

In Cheng Xiaolin's words, these small ones can still be placed in the room after they are bought, but where will those one-meter-long and half-meter-long ornaments be placed after they are bought?

Maybe in a few days, Mengmeng will be dismantled into a pile of aluminum wire, what's the use of buying it?

Halfway along the central street in the ancient city, I bought a lot of various knick-knacks, but I haven't found the food I want to eat.

Just as they were about to go back, Cheng Xiaolin pointed to a row of houses in the east and said to go over there and take a look.

This time, they really found a place to eat.

There are a few restaurants here that are similar to private dishes, and they don't know which one is delicious.

After looking at it for a while, I found that there were a lot of people entering one of them, and Cao Shujie and his family of three followed in.

The two of them ordered a few signature dishes, in addition to the price, the taste was really good.

Even Meng Meng ate a lot.

Cheng Xiaolin also said that she was too hungry, and if she didn't eat well in the future, she would be hungry for a while.

"Mom, you're so nasty!" Meng Meng is gone.

She also reached out to beat her mother Cheng Xiaolin, but was suppressed by Cheng Xiaolin.

"Mengmeng, you dare to do it to me, is your skin itching again?" Cheng Xiaolin said her.

Mengmeng found that she couldn't do her mother, so she surrendered directly, ate silently, and ate first before she was full.

Otherwise, when he was beaten, he would not have the strength to escape.

After eating, coming out of this private restaurant, Meng Meng was a little sleepy, Cao Shujie looked at the time quite early, the wonderful fireworks show and iron flower show did not start until the evening, the two of them discussed, first go back to Siheju to rest for a while, and then come back in the evening.

"Mom, hug." Meng Meng doesn't want to walk anymore.

After eating, she felt more and more sleepy, her little head was like a sleepy insect, Cheng Xiaolin wanted to let her husband hold Mengmeng.

But Mengmeng is quite stubborn: "No, I don't let my father hug me." ”

"You're going to exhaust me." Cheng Xiaolin muttered, but still picked up her daughter and walked outside the ancient city.

But as soon as I walked a few steps, I felt that it was too hot.

When passing by a shop selling fans and oil-paper umbrellas, Cao Shujie didn't say a word, bought a fan, a large oil-paper umbrella, and after paying the money, he held the umbrella in one hand to block the top of his wife's head, shook the fan with the other, and rushed back to Siheju.

Mengmeng slept until more than five o'clock in the afternoon, Cao Shujie and his wife woke up early, and when they saw Mengmeng who woke up, Cao Shujie also asked her if she didn't sleep at night?

"Dad, you hate it!" Mengmeng said that she was annoying her father, but she still ran towards Cao Shujie and asked him to braid herself.

When she saw the oil-paper umbrella standing on the bedside table next to her, she was startled and shouted, "Dad, what is this?" ”

"That's it, oil-paper umbrella." Cao Shujie explained to her.

Mengmeng nodded, and then asked her father, "Then where did you buy it from?" ”

"Mengmeng, you still care about a lot of things."

Cao Shujie said of her: "You ask where to buy it and what are you doing, is it possible that you have to buy another one?" ”

"Huh"

Meng Meng fumbled and opened the oil-paper umbrella, she used the manual umbrella paper, and then moved the umbrella support, which was quite strong.

But when she hooked the thread with her hand, she didn't know if it was because she was too strong or the rope was too loose, so she pulled one of the ropes apart at once.

When Cheng Xiaolin saw it, she was stunned on the spot.

"Mengmeng, you are a loser, why are you so underwhelmed."

Meng Meng also looked confused, and a little overwhelmed.

The next moment, Mengmeng hurriedly stuffed the umbrella into her father's hand: "Mom, it wasn't me who broke it, it was my father who broke it." ”

Cao Shujie: "......"

What else could he say?

"Wife, can I do it?" Cao Shujie asked his wife.

Cheng Xiaolin couldn't hold back her laughter.

She said: "Shujie, you are unlucky to have such a girl. ”

When I came out of Siheju, it was already past 6 o'clock in the evening, and it was not so hot at this time.

Cao Shujie shook the fan in his hand and fanned the two of them.

Meng Meng held her mother's left hand and hid her father far away, for fear that she would be beaten if she didn't pay attention.

At this time, when I came to the ancient city of the Great Song Dynasty, all kinds of lanterns of different colors had been lit up.

Wrapped around the ancient city wall, on the trees in the city, the lantern strips at the entrance of each shop are dazzling.

There are small holes of various shapes on the ground, and light shoots out from inside, and these lights are like a mirage in mid-air, posing in various shapes.

But if you take a closer look, you will find that these looks are more like Liang Shanbo in the TV series, such as Songjiang, Li Kui, Wu Song and other heroes.

There is a river in the ancient city, and there are painting boats floating slowly in the river, and there are lights on both sides of the river shooting out of the wall, and different scenes are performed under the water curtain.

There were those who were fighting, and some women lifted the curtain of the painting boat and looked at the heroes outside, with a shy look on their faces.

There are also pedestrians who shuttle back and forth along the corridors and bridges in the ancient city.

Along the river, there are also shops that place balloons, and a few guns are placed on a long table about two meters in front of the shop, attracting children to play to their heart's content.

"Mom and Dad, I want to play." Meng Meng shouted.

I'm back to my hometown, and now I'm going to see my grandfather, I don't know when I'll be back, and there's a chapter in the evening.

(End of chapter)