"The Peach Blossom Festival is coming soon. Mr. Zhu, you have won the title of Peach Blossom Master twice in a row. The literary scholar is also observing filial piety. I think this year's Peach Blossom Master must be you!"
"Brother Yang is not right. Even if the literary scholar does not keep his filial piety, the young peach blossom must be Brother Zhu."
"What the hell! It's all up to the county governor and all the brothers to support me." The sour-mouthed Mr. Zhu had a sinister look on his face, which made it uncomfortable for a scholar to look like this.
"The Sheriff has already announced that he will betroth his only daughter to this year's young master, Mr. Zhu, so prepare to win the beauty!"
"What the hell! It's too early to say too much!"
"Master Zhu, please don't be modest. Master Zhu is a great talent in Nancheng. He is so talented that no one can match him. Wouldn't it be easy for Mr. Peach Blossom to get him?"
"I heard that the county governor's daughter was twenty-eight years old, and she was born like a fish and a wild goose, and the moon was shy of the flowers. Mr. Zhu, you are so beautiful and blessed! You really envy me!"
"Where is it! Brothers, thank you!"
"Who are you? You haven't even written your horoscope yet, and you're just thinking about it here!" I curled my lips in disdain and snorted coldly.
"Does this lady have any dissatisfaction with me?"
"No, it's just that I can't stand it. The outcome has not yet been decided. It's too arrogant to act like you are already the governor's son-in-law."
"Miss, are you dissatisfied with my talents? Miss, please give me some advice!" Zhu Meicai had not yet received such anger. He immediately lowered his face, cupped his hands, and immediately issued a battle invitation.
"Don't dare to give me advice, I will make a pair. If you can match it, I will obey you!"
"Miss, I don't think you need to be wrong. This young master is known as the rival. He was an opponent at the age of three, a poem at the age of five, a lyricist at the age of seven, and at the age of fifteen, he has no rival in Nancheng..."
"Okay, there's no need to tell me your glorious history. If you tell me about it, I will obey you!"
"Miss, please come out!" Zhu Meicai said angrily. Since he was born, he has never been so despised by anyone, and he is a woman. If this woman's arrogance is not killed, my name, Zhu Meicai, will be written upside down.
"Master Zhu, please listen. The first couplet I wrote is: Riding a strange horse, stretching a long bow, playing the harp, harp, and pipa. The eight kings, the princes are on top, fighting alone." As soon as I recited the first couplet, Mr. Zhu's face immediately changed.
.
After thinking hard for a long time, my fair face turned the color of pig liver, and I still couldn't think of a reason.
Zhu Meicai cupped his hands angrily and said in a bad tone: "I'm not talented, please give me the second couplet."
"Young master Zhu, don't worry. On the Peach Blossom Festival, my sister's brother will give you the second line."
"Miss, what's your surname?"
"My surname is Su."
"Okay, then come back to Mr. Su for advice later that day! Let's go!" After being humiliated by this, Zhu Mei felt angry and walked away angrily with several drinking friends.
"Xiao Nuo, where did your brother come from? Have you already..." Have you remembered the past? Mei couldn't help but look worried. If she remembered the past, wouldn't he want to let her go? How could he still think about it now?
Can you let go?
"Isn't this lady's brother the same lady as me?" I didn't know what was going on in his mind, he smiled, picked up a piece of beef and put it in his mouth.
"Xiao Nuo, do you want to disguise yourself as a man and participate in the Peach Blossom Festival?"
"Charming, you finally have a brain! Congratulations!"
"Then do you know when and where the Peach Blossom Festival will be held? What is the content? Who can participate?" Meiyi asked several questions in succession.
I shook my head honestly, put a piece of fish meat into Mei's bowl, and smiled sweetly, "Then do you know?"
Meiye shook his head honestly, and my face suddenly became elongated.
"The Peach Blossom Festival will be held ten days later. It will be held in a peach blossom grove. There is a peach blossom nunnery in the peach blossom grove. The owner of the nunnery calls himself the Peach Blossom Immortal. He is about seventy years old. He has a childish face and a strong spirit. He is the old friend of the county governor. Every year,
He presides over all the Peach Blossom Festivals." He said eloquently.
"The content is nothing more than reciting poems and composing poems. There are no special restrictions on participants. Anyone who is a scholar can participate." Chi poured us a glass of wine and said, "Try it. This is Nancheng's exclusive wine, made with peach blossoms."
It is brewed with bright color, sweet and intoxicating aroma, mellow and warm taste, and is called Peach Blossom Fragrance."
The color of the wine is indeed bright and delicate, like rouge. It looks like there are delicate peach blossoms rippling in the wine. I put it to my lips, and the sweet fragrance is overflowing, as intoxicating as warm wind. When I taste it, it is really sweet and pure.
, the mellow fragrance flows on the tip of the tongue and lasts for a long time.
"It's been a long time! But it's still not as good as your daughter's fragrance." When they mentioned their daughter's fragrance, they both looked embarrassed.
"That daughter's fragrance, Xiaonuo should...don't drink it from now on."
"Why don't you drink it? It's such a pity to throw away such a good wine." It's strange to say that since the last time I drank the daughter's fragrance, I have never forgotten it, but I can never find the amber bottle that contains the wine. I don't know where it is.
Where did he hide his treasure? How stingy!
"Anyway, just don't drink anymore."
"Why don't you drink? Why don't you give me a reason?"
"This..." Mei hesitated for a long time, unable to come up with a reason.
"I know that wine is hard to come by. If you don't want to drink it, don't drink it. What's the big deal? It's not your wine. Why are you so stingy? Humph!"
"Xiao Nuo, I didn't..."
I ignored him, poured myself a glass of Peach Blossom Fragrance, and drank it.
"It's not that I don't want to drink it for you. It's medicinal wine, not drinking. Drinking it will make people confused and harmful to the body. I use it to deal with invading enemies," Zhe Yaya drank the wine in the glass and said calmly,
"I brewed Baihua wine myself, which is made from hundreds of flowers and plants. It is sweet and fragrant, and has an intoxicating fragrance. It is better than the daughter's fragrance. Drinking it can strengthen your body. If you like it, you can drink it. However, don't
You're going to get drunk, and drunkenness will harm your body, and no matter how many tonics you take, it won't help."
"Chi is still kind to me, unlike you, who hides all the good things you have, as if you are afraid that I will steal them from you."
"I don't have it..." Mei Zhi exclaimed.
"Don't talk back!" I glared at him fiercely, and Mei obediently shut her mouth and said no more.
The three of them had a hearty meal and when they walked out of Tianfu Tower, it was already dark.
After the three of us walked out of Tianfu Tower.
In the hidden backyard of Tianfu Building, the shopkeeper carefully looked at the portrait in his arms, and without hesitation stuffed a small piece of paper into a small bamboo tube, tied it to the pigeon's leg, and threw it into the air with both hands. The white pigeon spread its wings.
Fly away.
On the other side, a lean middle-aged man asked the young man standing aside: "Are you serious? Do you see clearly?"
"My subordinates can see it clearly, it is exactly the same as the portrait, and..."
"And what?"
"My subordinates heard the shopkeeper asking about the girl's name."
"How did she answer?"
"She said her last name was Su!"
"Sure enough..." the middle-aged man pondered for a moment, "Did you send someone to follow?"
"Sent two brothers to follow."
"Okay, well done! If things are done well, you will be rewarded heavily!"
"Thank you, General!" the young man said, bowing and retreating.
"Come here!" A smart young man came in.
"What are your orders, general?"
"You will return to Beijing immediately..."
The middle-aged man whispered a few words in his ear, and the young man's face immediately became extremely serious, "I will definitely live up to my mission as a general!"
After saying that, he strode away.
The middle-aged man thought for a while, took out a pen and paper and wrote a line of words, then stuffed the note into a bamboo tube, tied it to the pigeon's foot, and threw it upwards, and the pigeon flapped its wings and flew away.
On the official road leading to the border, a one-armed man galloped on his horse.
Although Nancheng is a small city in the south, when the lights are on, people come and go in the market, traffic is busy, and vendors setting up stalls on the roadside greet customers loudly from time to time, with laughter and laughter one after another, creating a lively and prosperous scene.
"Rouge, the best rouge! Miss, come and see, this is a good product. I am not boasting about it. My rouge is the best in Nancheng. Even Miss Dingxiang's rouge is mine."
I bought it here.”
"Miss Lilac? Who is she?"
"Oh, this lady, you have just come to Nancheng. You don't even know Miss Dingxiang. Miss Dingxiang is the daughter of Lord Ding, the warden of Nancheng County. She looks like a flower. She is the most beautiful woman in Nancheng.
, it’s famous far and wide.”
"Is it really that beautiful?"
"Of course! But Miss, you are not bad either, you just lack a little bit of dressing up. I bought my wife's rouge and I will keep you and transform you into a great beauty. Those gentlemen and scholars will be so fascinated when they see you."
"Really?" I asked with interest. I picked up a box of rouge and looked at it carefully. I also knew that I couldn't be considered a refined person in the way I looked now. With noodles in clear soup, clothes and jewelry that were not eye-catching, I looked like a country girl from a rural area.
, it seems that it’s really impossible not to dress up and put on makeup.
"The texture is not delicate and light enough, the touch is not soft and smooth enough, and the color is not bright and gorgeous enough, so it cannot be considered a high-quality rouge." He spread the rouge evenly on the back of his hand and frowned, "It doesn't fit the skin well enough. This kind of rouge is only
It will make the skin drier and even flaky.”
I deeply understand the essence of Wang Po selling melons - selling herself and boasting, but what this Wang Po sells is rouge.
Wang Po's face immediately became ugly. She snatched the rouge from her hand and said in a very unkind tone: "Sir, rouge is for my daughter's household use. What do you know? If you don't understand, don't talk nonsense there.
It's hindering me from doing business. Miss, do you want to buy it? Just don't buy it. Just stand aside."
"If Xiao Nuo wants it, I have rouge of various textures and colors, not to mention rouge, gouache, eyebrow makeup, lip balm, lotion, makeup remover, skin care powder, everything you need!" Wang Po looked incredulous.
With an expression on his face, he murmured in his mind, is this still a man?
Do you own a cosmetics store?
"Then I won't buy it. The quality of the stuff I made myself must be very good." I put down the rouge in my hand and held his hand, "Zhao, is the red mole between your eyebrows natural or was it applied?
I heard that many women like mirror decals.”
"Born!" Xiao smiled charmingly, and the red mole between her eyebrows shone even more charmingly.
"Miss, Master, welcome to our store. The jewelry in this store is the best in the city. Please take your time and take a look at it." The shopkeeper with a thin beard smiled attentively.
"Mei, have you brought any money?" I looked around the store with my eyes.
"Bring it."
"how many?"
"It's more than enough to buy this store, Xiaonuo, do you want to open a store?" Mei saw me looking around the store and thought I wanted to buy this store and run it myself.
"I don't want to open a store. Opening a store is so tiring." I turned to look at the shopkeeper, whose eyes were shining brightly. "Did you hear that? My husband has money. Hurry up and take out the treasure of your store. These second-rate goods
You have the nerve to show it to me, do you really think that I am a rough country woman who has never seen gold, silver and jewelry?"
"Yes! My eyes are clumsy, madam, wait a moment!" As soon as he saw the big customer, the shopkeeper smiled from ear to ear. He neatly opened a box under the counter and took out several exquisite sandalwood boxes.
As soon as I opened it and put it in front of my eyes, I said, "Ma'am, please look, this is the best product in our store."
One is a phoenix hairpin, which has a gold body and is inlaid with dozens of small gemstones. It looks noble and gorgeous. The other is a pearl necklace. The pearls are round and white, with excellent luster. What’s even more rare is that they are all the same.
The shape and size are the same, and you can tell at a glance that they are the best. The last one is a jadeite bracelet, which is green in color and clear and transparent. No impurities can be seen when held under the light. It is as transparent as crystal.
"These three pieces of jewelry are top-notch jewelry that we don't easily show off to others. Look at this seven-color gemstone phoenix hairpin. It's luxuriously designed. Every gemstone is a top-quality gemstone. The wives of high-ranking officials and dignitaries like to wear this phoenix hairpin. Again,
Look at this South Sea pearl necklace, each pearl is carefully selected from the finest South Sea pearls, round and white, delicate and smooth,"
"There is also this jade bracelet, which is made of the finest jade and carefully crafted by skilled craftsmen. The color is green and transparent..."
"How does it compare to mine?" I lifted up the sleeve on my left hand, and the jade bracelet on my wrist appeared in front of me.
The shopkeeper looked at it carefully and touched it again, with a look of shame on his face, "Shame on the shop. Madam's jade bracelet is not comparable to the jade bracelets in the shop. Madam's jade bracelet is priceless. I have been dealing in jade for many years, but I still have no money."
See this treasure."
So valuable?
"Then how much silver does this jade bracelet of yours sell for?"
"Five hundred taels." After the shopkeeper said this, he took down the three pieces of jewelry.
"Ms. sir, pay!" Upon hearing this, Mei took out five 100-tael silver notes and placed them on the counter.
"Madam, you..."
"Although this jade bracelet is not of the highest quality, it is not bad. Just wear it, Mei. Put it on for me."
Upon hearing this, Mei gently picked up the jade bracelet and put it on her white and soft wrist.
I raised my wrist and said, "Charming, this is the first gift you gave me, and it is also a token of our love. From now on, the bracelet will be with you when you are alive, and the bracelet will be with you when you die. Of course, if you have a new love, I will give it to you."
It's back to you."
"Xiao Nuo, I will never let you down!" Mei took me into her arms and vowed.
"Emotional matters are uncertain. If the relationship disappears in the future, there is no telling who will be sorry for whom." I don't know why, but I don't have any confidence in feelings at all.
"Xiao Nuo——"
"Shopkeeper, wrap up the South Sea pearl necklace for me."
"Excellent!" I thought there would be no business, but unexpectedly, I sold two treasures at once, and the shopkeeper smiled so hard that his eyes turned into a straight line.