Huazhou City in July, it is the hottest time of the year, the sun in the early morning is red and scorching the earth, and there is not a drop of rain for six or seven days in a row, on the loess road outside the city, a layer of fine empty soil has already floated, as soon as the carriage and horses pass, it suddenly raises a burst of dusty like smoke.

On the Dongzhi Street in Huazhou City, a man and a woman are riding horses along the street, the woman is dressed in light cyan clothes, starry eyes and willow eyebrows, long hair over the shoulders under the tulle hat that shades the sun, the round goose egg face, slightly reddened by the blazing sun, adding a bit of charm, with a short sword inserted in the waist, the scabbard is connected to the hilt, all of which are silver-white, and there are faint patterns on it, carved orchid and bamboo, the sun shines under the sun, and the silver light is dazzling! The man who walked with her, with a heroic face, a long figure, and a long coat with meticulous workmanship seemed quite fit, and at a glance it was not an ordinary fabric, but there was always a little melancholy between the eyebrows, and it seemed that there was infinite heart!

"Weishui Wu Ge, this name is good!" The two were passing by in front of a restaurant, and the woman glanced at the plaque in front of the restaurant, nodded and chuckled: "It seems that the owner of this restaurant is not a layman!"

The man also smiled and said, "I don't see that this name is good! Weishui is a big river in the northwest, but Wu Ge is the timbre of the south of the Yangtze River, and the two are thousands of miles apart?

"You don't know this Brother Yun!" The woman sat on the horse, pointed her finger at the plaque and said with a smile: "These four words are from Wang Mian Wang Yuanzhang's "In the Weihe River", the so-called flat land is connected to the sea, the lonely city with the Weihe River, the pedestrians are Chinese, and the boat is half Wu Ge! You must know that this Weishui, back then, was a heavy river transportation road, and the rice and grain in the south of the Yangtze River could enter the Yellow River from the Jiangnan waterway, and then go up the Wei River, straight into Chang'an, that is, Emperor Wu of the Song Dynasty Liu Yu's Northern Expedition, and the famous general Wang Zhenwei also used the navy to take Chang'an from the Wei River! Therefore, on the Wei River, there were many boats from the south of the Yangtze River, and naturally there was Wu Ge!"

"These allusions, I naturally don't know as well as Ying Ruo's sister!" The young man laughed and said: "I have followed my father since I was a child, practicing the method of catching thieves and thieves, and later worshiped under the master, otherwise I would not be able to reach this status today!"

Between the two of them talking, they both turned over and dismounted, this woman is the treasure daughter of the Jingshi Criminal Department, the personal disciple of Yao Guangxiao Yao Shaoshi, named Chai Yingruo. The man is the son of the fast family in the capital, Chai Yingruo's father Chai Zhengmen's apprentice, Gu Tuuyun, known as the goshawk!

"Yo, two guest officers, please come inside!" A guy in front of the restaurant, seeing these two people dismounting in front of his house, hurriedly greeted them with a smile on his face! Then he led the horses for the two of them, and beckoned people to take the horses to the back trough, and he followed in small steps and said: "I don't know what the two of you want to use? If you want to settle in the city, I have a clean upper room here!

Chai Yingruo entered the door of the restaurant, took down the hat, saw that the store was somewhat deserted, a strong man sat in a corner, ordered a table of wine and food, and was eating happily, but there was a guest on the table in the other corner, looking at the clothes on his body, it seemed to be a monk, but somehow he had a worn-out Taoist crown on his head, and he didn't know whether it was a monk or a Tao, in addition, it was the shopkeeper guy, and there was no one else, and the tables, chairs and benches were also wiped clean, and he nodded with satisfaction: " Brother Yun, let's just stay here, Xiao Er, open two upper rooms, what is delicious to relieve the heat, take it and try it!"

"Yes, yes!" The shopkeeper saw that these two people were dressed, and knew that they were not ordinary people, so he hurriedly greeted the counter and ordered: "Go quickly, put us in the well in the morning, quickly hang one of them, let the two guest officers relieve the heat first, and then ask the back kitchen to prepare some delicious cold dishes, so as to be clean!"

"What kind of wine and food should be put in the well?" Gu Qiyun was stunned when he heard this, even Chai Yingruo was at a loss, and the shopkeeper just smiled and said: "This is our native product of Huazhou, it is not a wine or food, but it is just a little heart that we prepared in advance, and we used it to greet guests!"

The words of the shopkeeper here just fell, and the second brother came over with a bucket, Chai Ying looked at it with Gu Tutuan, and couldn't help but laugh dumbly, what was in the bucket was not anything else, but a big watermelon with green skin and green lines, the water was extremely fresh, and it was put in the well water for a morning, it looked verdant, and it was extraordinarily large, not to mention fifteen or sixteen pounds, and then the little second brother carried the watermelon to the table, with a quick knife in his hand, and cut the melon with a bang, and suddenly a cool melon fragrance came out, and the little second brother wiped the knife body with the guati, and the blade was gently put on the melon skin, The bright red juice flowed out at that time, Chai Yingruo and Gu Tuuyun were both happy, and swallowed saliva together, and then waited for the little second brother to cut the watermelon in three or two, Chai Yingruo picked up a tooth first, and bit it gently, the mouth was full of sweet and sandy sweetness, and it melted in the mouth, from the throat to the heart, and the summer heat dissipated immediately!

"This is a melon planted in the sand by the Yellow River!" the shopkeeper smiled, stood aside and said: "It is also a must in my Huazhou, these days are the time of ripening, every morning, I ordered someone to go to the melon field to pick up a few good ones, put them in the well and ice, specially designed to entertain guests, if the two of them are after noon, I am afraid that there will be none!"

"Good melon, good melon!" Chai Yingruo praised again and again for eating, and picked up a tooth and said: "It's hard for the shopkeeper to think so thoughtfully, such a big melon, there must be a lot of silver, right?"

"Look at what this guest officer said!" The shopkeeper smiled and said: "This watermelon is the most worthless when it is ripe every year, and no one wants it for five cents a few days!"

"No one wants five cents?" Chai Yingruo looked at the watermelon and said, "Then when I go back, I have to bring a few and let my father taste them!"

"Sister Yingruo, this watermelon is ripe, so you can't take it back to Jingshi!" Gu Caiyun took a piece of watermelon, looked at Chai Yingruo and said with a smile: "Even if we go day and night, it will take one or twenty days to say the least, and when we go back to Jingshi, this melon will also be bumpy and broken, go back and cut it, only a bun of bad water will be left!"

The shopkeeper hurriedly took a few empty plates, put the cut watermelon on the plate, wiped the table clean, clothed the vegetables with his own hands, and put the chopsticks for the two, then smiled and said: "The two of you use it slowly, if you want to order anything, just tell it!"