Chapter 42: A Sudden Letter
This Taiping Street is a famous street, which has been the core area of the ancient city of Tanzhou since the Warring States Period, and has been prosperous for thousands of years. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
The history records that Jia Changsha, the Taifu of the Han Dynasty, lived here for three years, built stone beds, dug wells, planted citrus trees, and wrote the famous Han Fu "Mourning Qu Yuan Fu" and "Ostrich Fu".
This street is not ordinary lively, pedestrians shoulder to shoulder, traffic, endless streams, restaurants and song houses are noisy, and the guests of the tea houses are crowded.
At that time, they invited plasterers and carpenters to decorate the shop and order tables, chairs, buckets and basins; at the same time, they went to the Paibian shop to order gold-pasted signboards; purchased bowls and spoons that should be needed; they also asked people to go to Jianfeng Village to summon five or six people to come over, and Bai Zhu taught them to make all kinds of ice paste; the calf first took people to cut down bamboo in the distant mountains and sawed it one by one; and bought a small boat to cross the river by Liushui. Everything is ready, just wait for the renovation to stop, and it will be ready to open.
After more than ten days, the store has been renovated, Du Shenfei and Yu Coaxing Immortal and other people came to see, the first floor of the street also set up a take-out window, where Du Shenfei once operated bamboo tube ice water, which can greatly reduce the demand for tables and chairs.
The signboard was also hung up, engraved with five large gilded characters of "Circle House Drink", and a pair of couplets were hung on both sides of the gate, saying that "the scorching sun scorched, all countries are like in a furnace; ice and snow nourish the heart, and a bowl wins into the fairy world." ”
Du Shenfei led a group of people, set up tables and chairs, and cleaned dishes and basins.
I bought a yellow cloth again, and painted it with red paint with two lines of Niu Da's words, "The grand opening of the circle house drink, surprise discount and big reward", and hung it on the signboard.
All kinds of drinks and corresponding prices are written into food lists, framed beautifully, and hung on the wall. There are more than 20 kinds of seasonal fruit ice paste, ice and snow cold yuanzi, crystal soap, sugar mung bean, yellow cold dumplings, ice and snow cold water lychee paste, ice and snow fine material dumplings, etc.
Everything is ready to stop.
Early the next morning, Niu Xian led a few people sent by Jianfeng Zhai to transport ice in the Tiger Wolf Valley, and Bai Zhu and Hei Zhu also took a few people to their places. Duan Hanyan set off a firecracker and officially opened.
As soon as the firecrackers sounded, the lively people outside the door had already gathered in a large circle, and they poured into the store to buy a strange one.
Some people know Du Shenfei again, saying that it is a shop opened by Wang Wenqing's immortal apprentice.
At that time, there were really many guests and business was booming. Everyone sat and stood, everyone held a bowl in their hands, held a spoon, and praised while eating. Bai Zhu, Hei Zhu and others were busy from morning to night, and never stopped.
Du Shenfei, Duan Hanyan, Yuqiao Xian, Lei Roll and others stood at the door and were overjoyed.
Yu Coaxing Immortal smiled: "If business is so good every day, let's open a few more stores." Soon became rich. ”
Duan Hanyan said: "Then you will be a fish outside." ”
Yu coaxed the fairy and laughed and said, "Then you are also a member of the Duan." ”
Du Shenfei looked at the guests coming in and out, but his brows suddenly wrinkled, and he saw a person coming out of the store with his hands behind his back.
This person turned out to be Zhang Zhenfei's lackey Liu Yeping.
Liu Yeping crooked his mouth, looked at Du Shenfei and sneered, and walked away with his hands behind his back.
When the fish coaxed the fairy to see it, he asked Du Shenfei: "Big brother, this person, his demeanor is frivolous, he is angry, and his expression is strange, he doesn't look like a good person, do you know him?"
Du Shenfei said: "This person is a lackey of Zhang Zhenfei, called Liu Yeping, the person I told you that I designed with Zhang Zhenfei to harm me, I never thought that he would appear here today." ”
Yucoo Xian frowned slightly, and was silent for a long time before saying, "The next time we open a store, we will have a lesson." ”
Du Shenfei asked, "What lesson?"
Yu coaxed the immortal and said: "That is, when our strength is not good, a few of us should not appear here at all." ”
Du Shenfei said: "Yes, let these people not know that this store is opened by us at all, so as not to get into trouble." ”
Duan Hanyan asked, "Big brother, old fish, how do you think this Zhang Mingyu will retaliate against us?"
"I don't think they will blatantly retaliate against us. ”
Du Shenfei said: "Why?"
Yu coaxed the fairy and said: "Because his home is in this city, the one who wears shoes is more afraid of the barefoot, and he is even more afraid of our revenge." But we have to beware of his schemes. We now have to take one step at a time. ”
Du Shenfei said: "A few of us, let's go back to the 'original garden' first." ”
More than ten days have passed, and Zhang Mingyu has not seen any unfavorable actions against the "Circle House Drink Shop".
Du Shenfei's heart was slowly put down.
One evening, I was sitting in the hall of "Yuan Shiyuan" with Duan Hanyan and others, when suddenly a doorman walked into the hall and said, "Brother Du, someone outside sent a brief note here, saying that it was for you." ”
Du Shenfei was taken aback, and he didn't know who it would be, so he wrote a post and sent it, so he asked, "What about the person who sent the post?"
Menzi said: "It was sent by an unkempt little beggar, and now it is gone." ”
Du Shenfei took it, opened it and took a look, only to see that it was written on the paper:
"Shui Miao is under the feet of Qi Shen Fei's brother: reminiscing about the past and working together, temporarily having to join forces, crying goodbye to the Xiangjiang River, and being distracted. Half a year apart, lovesick two places. The ten-mile long pavilion looks through, a hundred thoughts, and a thousand thoughts. Fang Qijun's heart is like iron, red beans are acacia, cut in his heart, how can he not stop now, do not come to see me. My heart is not a stone, can I not be gloomy? I wish that by the Xiaojin Bridge, in the old cabin, I can see the face of the king. Haunting promises, relatives and relatives. Pray for a look. ”
Du Shenfei was taken aback when he saw that this post was full of resentment and blame.
Duan Hanyan saw it and asked, "Big brother, what's wrong with you, where did this letter come from?"
Du Shenfei said: "Brother, it's the girl I once told you, since I returned to Tanzhou, I've looked for her several times, and there is no one of her." Suddenly there was news today, and I had to go see her. ”
Du Shenfei immediately stood up, threw the book on the table, went out, hurriedly, his heart was up and down, not at peace, and went straight to Xiaojinqiao.
Although the weather was sunny, the sun was wrapped in dark clouds, and there was not a trace of cool breeze, which seemed much hotter than yesterday.
The sweat on Du Shenfei's back gushed out like spring water, but the sweat carried a hint of coldness, and his clothes were tightly attached to his back, this feeling was like a rooster in the roadside butcher shop with his feet and wings tied and waiting to be slaughtered, which was extremely uncomfortable.
A stray dog on the side of the road was beaten to the ground by a one-eyed man with a stick because he picked up and ate a bun that fell to the ground, and screamed miserably.
Du Shenfei had already come to the riverside, and sure enough, he saw Zhao Shuimiao's boat.
The small boat looked more dilapidated than before, but Du Shenfei still felt very kind, so kind that it was as if he would be the only successor to the ship in the future.
I saw Zhao Shuimiao wearing a white dress like snow, standing at the bow of the boat, looking at the shore with his eyes.