Chapter 44 The Wind and Lotus Painting Boat
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"Leader!" Behind Yue Wenxuan, a man in black rode up. "Childe, please come over for a moment. Something seems to be there. ”
Yue Wenxuan turned his head to look behind him, nodded, and turned the horse's head with the reins in his hand. As soon as he arrived at the carriage where He Xun was, he saw that the person driving the carriage had changed to the moon in the sky at some point. The two glanced at each other, and Yue Rukong immediately lowered her head and stopped looking at each other.
"What is the matter with Gongzi's subordinates?" Yue Wenxuan sighed slightly, no longer paying attention, and just asked He Xun in the carriage.
As soon as the curtain of the carriage was lifted, He Xun asked in a low voice from the window: "Leader of the Hardship Month, we have been traveling for seven or eight days, where have we been, and how far is it from the destination?"
Yue Wenxuan replied: "If you go back to Gongzi, our party is already in the territory of the imperial city of Jinling, according to the current footsteps, there will be about ten days!"
He Xun nodded when he heard this, and said, "Then let's camp near Jinling tonight." ”
"Yes!"
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"The warbler at the mouth of the Yellow Bird Lane wants to speak, and the ice at the head of the Black Magpie River wants to be sold. Green waves, east, west, north and south, red fence 390 bridges. The mandarin ducks ripple their wings, and the willows add tens of thousands. By asking the spring breeze to come sooner or later, only from the day before yesterday to today. "Jiangnan, Suzhou has always been synonymous with prosperity. Although it has experienced the dark moments of the past few days, it still can't erase its glory.
Although it is already night, the wind lotus painting boat docked on the shore is still singing and dancing. Dressed in a variety of colors, the bewitching and colorful women greeted the passers-by under the bright lights, some men were attracted to the painting boat, and some people only dared to peek a few times because of the people around them.
"Tang Gongzi~" The redwood woman had a carved face, and her green jade fingers came to the young man's mouth with a wine glass, and said: "Drink another glass, and the slave family will go to beckon the musician to come over." ”
The young man grinned, stretched out his hand to take the woman into his arms, opened his mouth, and drank the wine: "What are you doing? Are you in a hurry to leave?" the young man looked at the woman and smiled.
When the woman heard this, she poked her finger at the young man's chest, and said quietly: "It's not that I'm afraid that you Tang Gongzi will be lonely, so the slave family will recruit a few happy people to help the fun." ”
The young man grabbed the woman's hand, put it to his mouth and kissed it softly: "You have a lot of ideas." With that, he let the woman go and let her go. After drinking a cup of self-care, the young man looked at the bustling crowd downstairs boredly, and said in his heart: "This Ling Yan has been back for a long time, why don't you send a letter, it's really boring for me to play alone." ”
The young man is Tang Huan who saved Ling Yan. To say that Tang Huan can be regarded as an alternative, the Tang Sect in Shu has always been secretive, rarely in contact with the outside world, and it is sometimes rare for others to see their true faces when they use their means, but this Tang Huan is obviously a disciple of the Tang Sect, but he is not good at walking around in Shu, but lingers in the land of fireworks in the south of the Yangtze River all day long. If you ask him who is the most famous person in Suzhou City, I am afraid he will not be able to answer, but if you ask him which girl in Suzhou City is the most beautiful, I am sure that he can tell you for three days and three nights.
"Tang Gongzi!" The woman next to her walked over and saluted Tang Huan and said, "Le Lian is here." ”
"Oh?" Tang Huan looked up and saw that four or five women in the same dress were sitting down not far away with various musical instruments, constantly adjusting the instruments in their hands. "Let's start with a cheerful tune. Tang Huan waved his hand and gestured.
After the song was finished, Tang Huan nodded again and again, although this song could not reach the realm of everyone's lingering sound and endless for three days, it was already an excellent level. "It's good! " Tang Huan opened his eyes, glanced at everyone, and took out a silver ticket from his arms.
The sequoia woman beside her was blinded, and hurriedly took the silver ticket and said, "Thank you Gongzi for reward!" The woman said, but Le Lian behind her thanked Tang Huan.
The reward of five hundred taels is already a high income for her and several Le Lian behind her, although most of them have to be handed over to the "steward" of the painting boat, but the rest of the money is enough for their expenses. Compared with others, this is already excellent luck, there are old customers like Tang Huan, who can be regarded as 'young and rich, and who has a lot of money, their lives are also good, and they don't have to accompany some poor scholars who are full of fat brains or have any oil and water on their bodies like other women, at least Tang Huan is still good-looking.
"The slave family will give another cup to the son. The woman thought about it, and took a drink from her glass.
"Good, good!" Tang Huan clapped his hands and praised. He took a glass of wine and drank it again.
Several Le Lian also came over to toast Tang Huan in turn under the signal of the Sequoia woman. There are beautiful women who invite themselves to drink, of course, they do not refuse to come, and after a circle, Tang Huan has already drunk a lot.
It was getting late, and the number of guests in the boat was scarce.
Tang Huan stood up, tidied up the clothes on his body, looked at the redwood woman who was already lying on the table drunk, chuckled, shook his head and went downstairs.
Just after walking a few steps, Tang Huan felt a little hungry in his stomach, and he had eaten a few bites of food just by drinking and chatting with the woman tonight. After thinking about it for a while, Tang Huan wandered into the back kitchen of the painting boat, because he often made generous shots and was diligent, the maids, running halls, stewards and other characters in the painting boat were all familiar with this young man. After greeting a few people along the way, Tang Huan began to look for some food alone.
To say that the person who opened the Wind Lotus Painting Boat must have seen the world, and even the chef in it is also very skilled, after stealing a few delicacies, suddenly there was a noise in the room not far away. Immediately followed by the shouts of "mother" from the painting boat, Tang Huan looked at that place in surprise, and his nosy personality began to urge Tang Huan to move forward at this moment.
"What's going on?" Tang Huan gently pushed the door to take a look, only to see a petite woman holding a stick and confronting several painting boat stewards. At her feet was a man lying down, as if he had been knocked unconscious.
The mother of the painting boat turned her head to look at the person, and immediately shouted: "Tang Gongzi came just in time, quickly help the slave family catch this girl!?"
This woman is forty or fifty years old, and if it was twenty years ago, Tang Huan was quite happy, but now she can only retreat again and again: "Slow down, slow down." Tang Huan pushed the female boss away and asked, "You tell me what's going on first." ”
The female boss left Tang Huan a little, stroked the messy hair in her ear and said, "This dead girl's father sold her to our painting boat, but she didn't listen to discipline and injured a guy." ”
"Oh?" When Tang Huan heard this, he couldn't help but think that the petite woman opposite glanced at her, wearing a coarse linen robe, her face was unrecognizable with a few black ashes, and she had a pigtail on her head, and she was only twelve years old. But it was the twelve-year-old girl who dared to confront several big men with a stick in her hand, and this courage alone made people look a little sideways.
"Tang Gongzi, can you help!" the female boss shook the other party's arm and said coquettishly.
The corners of Tang Huan's face twitched, and he took the other party's hand away without moving, and said: This is your own business, I'd better go back to sleep. He waved his hand and was about to leave.
"Don't go!" as soon as he turned around, he heard a shout behind him.
Tang Huan stopped, turned his head and looked, the girl was looking at herself with big eyes open at the moment, and said with a small mouth: "You bought me!"
"What?" Tang Huan frowned, turned around and said loudly.
"I said you bought me!" the girl grinned, repeating what she had just said.
The female boss next to her reacted the fastest, and immediately stepped forward as soon as her eyes rolled: "Is there a lack of a little girl around Tang Gongzi who brings tea and water, this is just right!"
Tang Huan glanced at the female boss and said, ", what's the use of me asking for a little girl." Although Tang Huan was a little surprised, he was by no means stupid, this old bustard ...... Ahem, this female boss is so active that she can't do anything with this little girl, although she bought it with money, but she has to teach her a lot of skills later, this kind of investment will never be small, instead of leaving this kind of noisy shaking head, it is better to sell it to Tang Huan nearby, which not only solves the trouble, but also makes a small profit.
"Oops......" The female boss gently patted Tang Huan's shoulder and continued to sell.
The girl looked up at Tang Huan quietly, and when Tang Huan looked at her, she suddenly opened her mouth and made a few lip shapes. Tang Huan's eyes widened, his brows were tightly locked, and his mouth was clearly "Tang Gate".
"How much is it!I bought it!" Tang Huan turned his head and said hurriedly to the female boss.
The female boss was stunned, and immediately smiled, and hurriedly stretched out five fingers.
"Five taels?" Tang Huan smiled in his heart, this price is not as good as drinking wine for a day. But it seemed that he was happy too early, the proprietress shook her head, stretched out five fingers and said, "The slave family said fifty taels ......"
"You!" Tang Huan raised his eyebrows and said angrily: "How can this girl be worth fifty taels!"
The female boss held her face with one hand and said softly: "This girl injured my guy, and smashed a lot of bottles and cans, and the slave family can't help ......it."
Tang Huan looked at the debris all over the ground, and then at the girl who was staring at him with watery eyes, reached out and touched the remaining money in his pocket, and shook his head and said, "Ten taels, no more." ”
"Deal!" As soon as the female boss heard the price, she immediately changed her words, without the slightest hint of difficulty just now.
The corners of Tang Huan's mouth twitched, and he began to regret it in his heart, and even began to wonder if this was a scene played by the female boss and this girl, just to cheat himself out of some silver.
After taking out a piece of silver from his waist and throwing it to the female boss, several stewards around the girl also withdrew.
The girl's nose moved dexterously, and she rushed into Tang Huan's arms, because she was small, she could only keep his waist. The female boss narrowed her eyes, pushed the door out with a look of understanding, and did not forget to close the door before leaving.
Tang Huan glanced down at the girl, only to see a sly smile flashing at the corner of the other party's mouth buried in his arms, and then returned to normal. He blinked, wondering if he had read it wrong.