Fireworks in April, catkins such as smoke and clear rivers are picturesque, and Yangzhou is beautiful at dusk.

The warm breeze slowly carries the spring mood, and the streets are full of red men and green women, all of whom are eager to ape.

There is a poem that describes just right, "the world is three points proud, and two points of scoundrels are Yangzhou", which shows the domineering of this beautiful scenery of Yangzhou.

Located in the middle of Yangzhou City, the Xiangmanlou is known as the first floor in the world, the store has two uniques, one is the signature osmanthus wine, the golden osmanthus is fragrant. The other must be this zongzi.

If the fragrant osmanthus wine fragrance spreads all over Yangzhou, then his zongzi is definitely famous all over the world, and even the emperor who eats the treasure of the pearls and emeralds all over the world is full of praise after eating, so he gives the holy name golden leaf osmanthus zongzi.

Every Dragon Boat Festival, there is an endless stream of people who want to taste the first rice dumpling in the world, and the people in line have to line up to the outskirts of the city. Of course, it's not so simple to come to the queue to buy it, and you have to book in advance, as little as May or June, more than a year or more, otherwise you will come empty-handed.

It's not that the dishes in Xiangmanlou are not delicious, but compared with his family's zongzi, it is a bit of a competition with the sun.

It's not going to be the Dragon Boat Festival soon, a young man in brocade clothes and jade belt swaggered into the Xiangmanlou, holding a heavy package in his hand, and a luxurious sachet tied around his waist is particularly conspicuous. At a glance, you can know which lady must have sent it, because the embroidered gold thread is not something that ordinary women can give.

"Xiao Er, give me a pot of your best osmanthus wine, and fry me a few of your best side dishes!" the young man shouted loudly, and then threw the burden on the table casually and sat on the upper seat, with one foot on the chair, like a merry boy.

"Okay, guest officer, wait a minute, good wine and good food will come soon!" Xiao Er was very neat, and went to the back kitchen to repeat the young man's words and went to entertain the others.

The relatives looked at the royal gold plaque hanging in the front hall and couldn't help but sigh, this Manxiang Building is not the first floor in the world, just sitting here and smelling the fragrance of osmanthus wine feel a little drunk.

After a while, Xiao Er came out with food.

"Guest officer, you have something to tell me when your wine and food come, I will go down first. ”

The young man who didn't care about talking waved his hand at Xiao Er, quickly picked up the wine and poured himself a glass and put it under his nose and sniffed it, a faint aroma of osmanthus lingered on the tip of his nose, and the young man looked happy and then couldn't wait to drink it all.

"Good wine!" the young man exclaimed loudly, the fresh aroma of osmanthus spread after entering the mouth, warm and moist into the throat, with a hint of coolness and more aftertaste, he quickly poured himself another glass and tasted it carefully.

After three rounds of this wine, soon the small pot of wine was at the bottom, and he reluctantly sent the last drop in the jade pot into his mouth.

In fact, the young man really wants to have another pot, but this Manxianglou has his rules, and people who come here can only drink one pot of wine a day, not a drop more. At first, when the young man came, he would beg Sui Lao to bring another pot, but the stubborn Sui Lao picked didn't do it, and the two of them almost broke off their friendship for this matter, so the young man who fell gave him the name of 'Lao Li'.

In fact, this Sui Lao was not aimed at anyone, even the emperor only drank a pot of wine when he stayed in Xiangmanlou. The young people who come here and again are also used to it, and they all say that the friendship between gentlemen is as light as water, and they have to hold this mentality when they come to this Manxianglou to drink.

"Little Er!"

The young man slapped the table.

As soon as Xiao Er heard someone calling him, he hurriedly ran over.

"Guest officer, you have something to order. ”

"Tell your boss that I will come to pick up the twenty zongzi I ordered on time on the fifth of next month, and you will prepare them in advance, and the thirty-year-old osmanthus wine he promised me will also be packed for me in advance. After saying that, the young man slowly picked up the burden with his hands—it was full of silver ingots with white flowers!

"This is zongzi money, but it is prepared for me in advance, and I will come on time to get it. ”

It doesn't matter if you see a large pile of silver on the table, all of them are startled, although the price of this fragrant rice dumplings is a bit outrageous when it is taken by profiteers outside to break the sky-high price, but it is only ten taels at the top of the sky, but this young man is five hundred taels when he shakes his hand, which is a generous shot!

Ostentatious!

The guest officers in the room sighed again and again, but the little two looked at the silver two on the table, but their expressions did not change, and they looked at the young man with a sad face: "This master, you are late, our zongzi are all sold out."

"Sold out!" exclaimed the young man in shock.

"Yes. Xiao Er replied truthfully.

"What about my thirty-year-old osmanthus wine?"

"It's sold out too. ”

The young man was shocked and angry when he heard this, and last year he said hello to Sui Lao, the owner of Xiangmanlou, and the latter also agreed very happily. Seeing that it was going to be the Dragon Boat Festival, I didn't expect Sui Lao to rebel, because he usually behaved in his shop, but it was Sui Lao who was the first to be a dishonest person.

"Call your boss out for me, I want to talk to Sui Lao about what he is playing with me. After speaking, the young man shouted behind Xiao Er: "Sui Lao Li! Sui Lao Li! You old bastard get out of here!"

As soon as Xiao Er heard the other party scolding his shopkeeper so openly, a cold sweat broke out on his head and hurriedly stopped the young man.

"This lord, don't scold, you can't hear the shopkeeper even if you scold the sky, he and our boss will go back to the countryside and go to his mother's house for a month, just left yesterday!"

As soon as Xiao Er finished speaking, a guest officer also threw about twenty taels of silver on the table after eating, which was more powerful than the young man who threw a few hundred taels, and said loudly: "Xiao Er settles the bill, and I will come to get the zongzi and wine next month on time." ”

Before leaving, he turned around and glanced at the young man with a slight mockery, and smiled sarcastically.

"Okay, guest officer, go slowly!" Xiao Er didn't think about it, and ran over happily to put away the silver.

Seeing this, the young man was even more puzzled by the second monk, how could others buy it, but he didn't sell it for a few hundred taels, so he asked: "Hey, I said Xiao Er, where are you singing, I paid more than 20 times his money, but you sell him and don't sell me, you Xiangmanlou is doing this business?"

Xiao Er saw that the young man was a little anxious, and he no longer concealed it and said with a sincere look: "Guest officer, since this is the case, I will no longer hide the truth from you, everyone sells the zongzi in our store, but I can't sell them to you." ”

"This is all what Sui Lao Lu told you?" The young man knew that Xiao Er didn't dare to say such a thing to the guest officer, someone must have instructed him to do this, and he wondered if he had offended Sui Lao Lu somewhere.

Xiao Er nodded slightly, and the young man smiled when he saw that Xiao Er was not angry, and continued to ask.

"How do you know that I am the person Sui Lao said about. ”

This time, it was Xiao Er's turn to smile and show a row of big yellow teeth, pointed to a little vermilion ink between the young man's eyebrows, and smiled without thinking: "Because our shopkeeper said that person has three eyes." ”

After hearing this, the young man suddenly realized a wry smile, innocently touched the cinnabar mole on his forehead, raised his eyebrows and sighed: "It's the first time I hate my third eye so much. ”

After speaking, he waved his sleeves, turned around and was about to walk out of the Xiangmanlou, and he didn't even bother to collect the silver taels on the table.

Seeing that the young man was about to walk out of the door, Xiao Er couldn't sit still when he remembered that he still had something to say, and looked at his back and shouted eagerly: "Guest officer! The zongzi in our store have all been bought by the Guangling Mansion for a banquet next month, you can go there to have a look! Then there is still a good daughter red waiting for you! Seventy years!"

The young man was visibly stunned when he heard the second half of the words, and then walked out like a breeze.