Chapter 15: The Sugar Man
"Saixianglou?, is the food there delicious?" Katafeng immediately came with interest when he heard this name, you must know that although the food in the sky is very exquisite, but I always feel that there is a lack of a trace of fireworks, and it always tends to be light, and the portion is small, so it can only be tasted. You must know that they are now embodied in the mortal world with mortal flesh, and there will also be people's hunger, pain, injury, and illness.
"You don't know this, in the entire southern capital, if their family is the second, no one dares to admit the first. Yun Manqing patted his chest and swore to pack the ticket.
She said this, and turned to the two behind her with a smile: "Hey, my leg doesn't seem to hurt so much, and the lost powder I just ate seems to be almost digested, or let's give the county lord this face and go to that building to eat." ”
"Saixianglou!" Yun Manqing hurriedly leaned over as well, blinking his eyes and adding.
"We're fine. "It's like looking at Yebai for the first time, and shrugging his shoulders at Katafeng, what has always been a question is whether you are good or not.
"Then we decided so happily. Yun Manqing jumped up happily and turned to look at Pian Feng's legs, "Why don't we call a carriage." ”
"That's very good!" Katafeng nodded very approvingly, and gave her a thumbs in his heart, the little girl is actually quite considerate of others sometimes, just rush this point, and let her be a little bit in the future.
Considering that there would be four people seated, they called a carriage with a slightly wide roof of yellow logs, with a golden bird carved on the edges of each of the four corners of the perimeter, and many tassels hanging from its beak, which swayed from side to side as the carriage jolted. There is a small window on the left and right sides of the sedan chair, which is covered by a small brown curtain that can be lifted by the person sitting inside.
With the coachman's "Woo-", the carriage slowly drove over and stopped in front of them.
The coachman jumped out of the carriage, took a small wooden bench from the side, put it on the side of the carriage, and walked over to help Ruochu and Yun Manqing into the carriage.
Who knew that Yebai had already stepped forward, took Wan Ruochu's hand, and helped her into the carriage. The carriage was divided into two sides, and it was covered with soft fur felt pads, which made it very comfortable to sit on. There was also a small black lacquered square table in the middle of the innermost seat of the carriage, which was convenient for passengers to put some luggage.
Considering that the two girls might have something to whisper, Yebai didn't sit on the side with Wan Ruochu, and chose to sit opposite.
Yun Manqing, who was outside the carriage, looked at Pian Feng's leg and asked, "You can go up yourself." ”
Katafu pretended to be embarrassed and deliberately said, "I'm afraid it won't work." ”
"Really?" Yun Manqing didn't know if what he said was true or false for a while, his leg was indeed injured, and the carriage looked a little high. But if it's really a problem to get into the carriage like this, Yebai should have helped him up just now.
Seeing that she was hesitant, Katafeng showed a very sad look, "Why are you all so ruthless, abandoning me, the wounded man, under the carriage." ”
"Alright, alright. Yun Manqing couldn't see his pretentious Meng Lang's expression, so he jumped into the carriage first, stretched out his hand to Pian Fengdao: "Come up!"
"Do you still want to be embarrassed?"
As soon as the wind entered the carriage, it seemed like Chu couldn't help but spit on it.
"Yes, yes, of course, properly here!" he said, patting his little white face.
"Sit down, don't make any more noise. Yebai gave him a look, and Katafeng immediately sat obediently next to his son-in-law. You must know that although he has been joking lately, it is because his master has not spoken out and expressed his acquiescence, but when he sees Yebai's serious expression, he is still a little cowardly.
When the two girls on the opposite side saw this, they were secretly happy in their hearts, seeing how you could jump.
"You see that he is afraid of his son-in-law, and his son-in-law likes you, in the end, it is your sister who has the final say!" Yun Manqing whispered in Wan Ruochu's ear.
"Where the words. As if she wanted to refute her at the beginning, but she smiled and said in her ear: "Then you like him, don't you have to listen to me." ”
"How can I like ......" When Yun Manqing was in a hurry to say this, she forgot that there were two other people in the carriage, blushed, and embarrassedly opened the curtain and pretended to look out the window.
The other two seemed to prove that they were not the ones who listened to the ears, and pretended not to hear Yun Manqing's words, and suddenly there was no sound in the car, only the sound of the wheels rolling on the ground and the horse's hooves being heard.
"Sister Ruochu, you see that sugar man is doing a good job. Yun Manqing was attracted by the small vendors on the side of the street.
As if she had followed her fingers at the beginning, she saw several golden hollow maltose inserted in the bamboo skewers next to her, not only characters, but also all kinds of cute little animals.
"Wow, it's so cute, I want to eat it. "In fact, I don't just like the golden silver taels, but I also like the dazzling variety of food in the world. Although her mother's craftsmanship is good, the variety of food that can be made is limited after all, and there are so many varieties of snacks, she will not have so many varieties. So when I see these new and delicious snacks, I always salivate.
"Why don't we go down and have a look?" Yun Manqing suggested when she saw that she liked it so much. If it weren't for the injury to her leg, she wouldn't have sat in this cramped carriage and bumped it, and she had been going to the streets, either walking slowly and strolling, or riding a horse and shuttling slowly, so pleasantly.
"Then I'll be with you. Let Wan Ruochu leave his sight for a long time, Yebai is still a little uneasy.
"It's okay, you can go to Saixiang Building with Katafeng first, and the two of us will also walk in that direction. "It's like thinking about it at first, and it's still a little inconvenient.
"But ......"
"Don't worry, Brother Night, I'm the county lord of the Southern Capital, hand over Sister Ruochu to me, you just have to put your heart in your stomach, rest assured!" Yun Manqing patted his chest again.
"Okay, then you have to be careful and don't play for too long. Yebai looked at it as if he had just admonished.
"Good. He nodded obediently.
"Coachman, help stop the car. Yun Manqing's voice was a little happy, like a bird about to come out of the cage, and he got out of the carriage in a hurry.
"Miss, slow down, be careful of falling!" reminded the coachman.
Wan Ruochu smiled behind her and shook her head, isn't this a place where she often plays, how can she be more anxious than her.
"Okay, it's okay, please send them to Saixiang Building. So saying, he took a mina of silver and gave it to the coachman.
"Hey, hey, you have such a big ingot of silver, we can't find any broken silver. "The driver was a little embarrassed.
"No need to look for it. With a wave of his hand, Yun Manqing pulled Ruochu and ran towards the candy seller.
"Boss, give me this little bunny. ”
Yun Manqing pointed to a little rabbit with a golden round head and a short tail inserted on the very edge.
"Okay, little girl, take it yourself, it's not the first time I've done my business as an old man. ”
The boss is an old man in his sixties with gray hair.
"Do you recognize me?" asked Yun Manqing happily.
"I don't know who you are, old man, but I know that you frequented my stall. ”
The old man walked aside as he spoke, stirring the maltose in the pot.
It turned out that his legs were a little lame, and his back was slightly hunched.
After stirring the maltose, he asked Wan Ruochu, who was standing aside silently, "Girl, which one do you want?"
"This character is so vividly done, so beautiful. "As if Chu had been staring at a flying immortal figure, although it was made of sugar, there were faintly visible facial contours, even the eyes were lifelike, the long streamers between the hands, and the auspicious clouds on the soles of the feet.
"This is a well-known character in the myth and legend - the Weaver Girl. The old man explained.
"Yes, I've heard this in the theater garden too. Yun Manqing had already licked off a rabbit ear at this time, and when she heard them talking about the Weaver Girl, she hurriedly came over and interjected.
"Yes, you can ask this girl to take you to the theater garden to listen to it, it's very exciting. The old man said and picked up another character on the side and gave it to Wan Ruochu: "If you want to choose that, you have to match this character." ”
"Why?" At first glance, it turned out to be a man riding a cow, carrying a basket on his shoulder, and some clouds around him.
"Haha, after watching the play, you will understand! Also, these two candies must be eaten by one person, and they cannot be given to others, let alone their own lover. The old man said with some mystery.
"Why?" seems to be more and more confused, what is the reason why two good candies have to be eaten by one person.
"This has always been the rule, otherwise two people can't be together! Old man, I didn't make these two kinds of sugar, isn't this the Virgin's Day soon, I'm going to make an offering to the temple, who knows that the girl takes a fancy to it, which can be regarded as fate in the dark. ”
It was as if he had looked at the two sugar men in his hand for the first time, and some of them were skeptical.
Yun Manqing saw that she finally took a fancy to the two, and immediately went to pay the bill, but the old man stroked his white beard: "Today's sugar man will send you, not only because of fate, but also because of your care for the old man's business." ”
"That's embarrassing. Although Yun Manqing is a dignified county lord and never takes advantage of others, but people insist on giving it away, and she has no reason to refuse, so she no longer refuses, and readily accepts it, and quietly puts some silver next to the old man's sugar man.
Yun Manqing's heart is actually very happy, the southern capital is under the governance of his brother, the people are simple, there are few people who do evil, everyone is hardworking and willing to work, and the city is peaceful. She also admires her brother from the bottom of her heart. That's why I quarreled with Katafeng before.
Thinking of the wind, I suddenly remembered that the two of them estimated that they had arrived at Saixianglou, in order not to make them wait for a long time, they still hurried up to go shopping, so they turned around and wanted to call Wan Ruochu, but where was her figure behind her?