Chapter 65 The first sight of the curtain light in the south
Although Bai Shuo and Xue Manlin had never met, they had seen her photos before, but they seemed to be from two years ago. Bai Shuo only remembered that she was a girl with short hair, and he didn't know if he could recognize her for a while.
Soon after arriving at the corridor, Bai Shuo realized that the corridor was thousands of meters long. Where should he wait? So he stood in the corridor like a chicken at a loss, looking around. People passing by sometimes looked at Bai Shuo.
Shuo, his eyes looked very strange. There were some people in ethnic costumes in the distance pointing at Bai Shuo and talking about something, as if they had seen something strange.
Suddenly Bai Shuo felt someone from behind pat him lightly. Bai Shuo turned around happily, and a beautiful face appeared in front of him with a smile, but this face was too far from the one in his impression. Bai Shuo had not yet
After regaining consciousness, the beauty held up a camera and said sweetly: "Handsome man, can you take a photo for us?"
"Huh? Oh! Okay, okay." Bai Shuo quickly took the camera and took a picture for her and her friend, and asked them to see if they were satisfied and then said goodbye happily. After they left, Bai Shuo thought to himself
, it turns out that I am not the only outsider here, there seem to be some tourists who come here because of it.
Bai Shuo didn't seem to be ready to wait around, and planned to stroll along the corridor. Just a few steps away, another innocent-looking girl with long hair walked up to him and asked politely: "Mr.
, may I ask how to get to Lienu Bridge?"
Bai Shuo said politely: "I'm sorry, it's my first time here and I don't know."
"Uh... excuse me, thank you." Before Bai Shuo could say no thank you, the girl had already flown to the front. But after a while, the girl turned back and jumped in front of Bai Shuo.
He asked with a smile: "Handsome guy, are you waiting for someone?"
Bai Shuo's mind suddenly paused for three seconds, and he instinctively said "hmm". The girl then said: "Just wait patiently for someone, and you don't know the road. Why are you walking around?"
Holding Bai Shuo's arm, he walked forward: "Let's go, I'll take you to have something to eat."
Only then did Bai Shuo know that this girl was not Xue Manlin or someone else.
When she walked to a place selling steamed beef under Lienu Bridge, Yan'er stopped and started to bargain with the boss. The shop owner was a middle-aged man with a serious face, especially when he heard the bargaining, his serious expression was even more exaggerated. It wasn't until later that Xue Manlin
After talking to him in local dialect that Bai Shuo couldn't understand at all, he agreed to lower the price. Taking the package handed over by Xue Manlin, Bai Shuo slowly opened the wrapped lotus leaf, revealing a piece of bacon-like meat.
There was a little glutinous rice around, and I tasted it. The overall taste was salty and pure, but it was not particularly delicious.
At this time, Bai Shuo took a serious look at Xue Manlin, who was eating beef. She was wearing a pair of light blue denim shorts, with slender and well-proportioned legs, and a translucent top with a blue floral pattern.
Short-sleeved clothes, the length of which almost covers the denim shorts, a black belt tied around the waist, shoulder-length hair, fair and even-colored skin, and a slightly slim little mouth with an oval shape.
Her face looks particularly cute and charming. Regardless of any aesthetic standard, Xue Manlin should be a standard little beauty, completely incompatible with the impression of a tomboy.
"Why do you make your hair so long?" Bai Shuo, who couldn't find anything to say, said something after a long silence. Xue Manlin made a weird face while eating: "Do you think my hair looks better with long hair or shorter hair?
hey-hey."
"Well...it looks better if you look longer..."
"I'm sorry to say that I sat next to you and watched you for so long and you didn't recognize me. I thought I had become ugly." After saying that, Xue Manlin pretended to cry.
Bai Shuo said quickly: "You are very different now from the photo, but you look really ugly when you cry."
Xue Manlin immediately put away her expression and smiled brightly. However, Xue Manlin's smile is indeed very beautiful. It is a very pure and simple smile. This kind of smile seems to have a healing effect and can make people feel relaxed and happy. This is from the photo
You can't feel it in person, so she is much more beautiful and cuter in real life than in the photos.
"Now I will take you around and enjoy the scenery of my hometown. Come with me." After finishing the beef, Xue Manlin took out a tissue to wipe her mouth and hands and said to Bai Shuo.
"Then I'll go back to the inn to get my camera first," Bai Shuo replied.
Xue Manlin leaned her head very close to Bai Shuo and whispered: "Not everything can be recorded with a camera. You have to use your own eyes and heart to feel it, you know?... Come and wipe your mouth!"
After that, she wiped Bai Shuo's mouth with the tissue she had just wiped, and then pulled Bai Shuo forward.
Follow Xue Manlin around on the road to Nanshui, and listen to her tell the characteristics and stories of Nanshui. It's a unique experience. Walking in Nanshui, you don't have to expect lilac-like girls to decorate the scenery in front of you. The small bridges, flowing water, and high altitudes here
The high eaves and long stone roads will make your heart quiet and silent, making you feel that you have blended into the scenery here and forgotten a lot. Nanshui in life is authentic, quiet and soothing, without modernity
The exquisite processing and carving, without the oppression of the city, is the best place to adjust the soul. You can enjoy the sentiment of "seeing Nanshan leisurely", and you can also feel the joy brought by the paradise. All kinds of feelings originate from emotion and end in the heart.
"Do you know why Lienu Bridge is called Lienu Bridge?" Manlin suddenly asked. Bai Shuo shook his head: "I don't know, but I think it must have something to do with a woman."
Xue Manlin then told Bai Shuo that in the late Ming Dynasty, a group of anti-Qing troops was forced to the Nanshui Town area by the Qing soldiers. During the transfer, a general's wife was separated from the troops. Later, the Qing soldiers discovered this
The woman finally blocked the woman on a bridge. The Qing soldiers recognized the woman as the general's wife, so they wanted to capture her and threaten the general to surrender. After the woman knew about it, she resolutely jumped off the bridge and fell from the bridge.
After the Qing soldiers left, the local people buried the woman and called the bridge the Martyr Woman Bridge. It is said that the general later led his troops to Nanshui Town. After learning the news of his wife's death, he was disheartened and disbanded on the spot.
After joining the army, most of the people in this army settled down and lived in this area and intermarried with the local people, gradually forming the characteristic culture of Nanshui Town today.
Bai Shuo knew that at the end of the Ming Dynasty, many anti-Qing teams moved to Bagui and even Burma, and stayed in the area for a long time, but he did not expect that such a legend also existed here. At this time, Manlin suddenly said:
"Do you think the general's wife is brave?"
Bai Shuo said "hmm".
"I don't think it's okay. If it were me, I would dare to jump. For the people you love and for the goals you pursue, what's so scary about dying..." Man Lin seemed to be in a state of deep thought. Bai Shuo suddenly said
I feel that such words are a bit incredible coming from a little girl who has not graduated from college. But thinking about the fierce folk customs here, Man Lin may be a descendant of those Ming army soldiers and inherited some brave genes, so she feels relieved.
The two of them just walked and talked, and in a blink of an eye the sky gradually dimmed. Suddenly Xue Manlin pointed in the air and shouted: "You are so lucky, you can see the City in the Sky on the first day." Following the pointing,
Bai Shuo looked up and saw a faint halo in the air, looming. The shape and lines of the halo seemed to correspond to the outline of the town on the ground. The sky seemed to have turned into a bronze mirror, vaguely virtualizing everything on the ground.
The seals were engraved on the clouds, and the phantoms of some buildings could even be clearly seen. It was like there was a market in the sky. Bai Shuo was deeply impressed when he witnessed such a spectacle for the first time. Xue Manlin repeated it again
Explained to Bai Shuo: "Although this scene is not uncommon in our area, it is not visible all the time. Generally, it can be seen a few times in July and August. The old people say that this is the sky curtain being accidentally rolled up.
The curtain opened the gap, revealing the holy scene of heaven, so it was called "curtain light".
Looking at the beautiful scenery in the sky and listening to Xue Manlin's explanation, Bai Shuo murmured: "The city in the sky, the light of the sky, the light of the curtain..." A grand plan has gradually begun to take root in Bai Shuo's heart.
Planted the seeds and waited for them to sprout.
After watching for a long time, the halo above the sky gradually dissipated. At this time, Xue Manlin suddenly shouted that she was hungry, and pulled Bai Shuo forward and strode forward. When a restaurant appeared in front, Bai Shuo also felt
Feeling a little hungry, Xue Manlin followed Manlin into the restaurant. Without asking for Bai Shuo's opinion, Xue Manlin chatted with the boss for a while, as if she had ordered the dishes. Bai Shuo smiled and asked what delicious food Xue Manlin ordered, and Xue Manlin
But he turned his head and made a face and said: "Don't make any noise, just listen to me here. You can watch whatever I tell you to watch, you can eat whatever I tell you to eat, and you can do whatever I tell you to do.
Ha ha".
After a while, the first dish was brought up. Irregular pieces of tender white stuff overlapped together, with a few chopped green onions sprinkled on top. Bai Shuo recognized at a glance that the raw material must be tofu, and smiled.
"You're just going to entertain me with this thing?".
"This is called steamed stinky tofu. You need to taste it first. It doesn't have to be big fish or meat to taste delicious." Man Lin said as she took a large piece of it to Bai Shuo.
Hearing that it was stinky tofu, Bai Shuo was a little concerned and took a bite carefully. Unexpectedly, this thing was not only not smelly, but also very tender, refreshing and delicious, so he ate most of the remaining piece in one bite.
"Here comes your big fish and big meat." Before Man Lin could finish her words, the boss brought out another plate of fish-like things. It turned out to be steamed south water fish. This fish is a fish unique to this place.
This kind of steaming makes the meat delicious and the taste slightly sweet, which mainly highlights the umami flavor of the fish. However, you have to taste it carefully to feel the taste. If you are hungry and gobble it up, it will be a waste of delicious food.
The third dish was snails with soy sauce. Manlin actually remembered that Bai Shuo had told her that she liked eating snails before, and this dish was spicy, which suited Bai Shuo's Bashu taste. But Manlin didn't know that the spiciness of this dish had anything to do with me.
The spiciness in Bashu is very different, but this kind of spiciness is also very unique. Bai Shuo thinks it is delicious and spicy enough, and he suddenly has the idea of pulling Liang Ying over to taste this spiciness.
Unknowingly, the meal lasted for almost an hour. When Bai Shuo was about to pay, he realized that Man Lin had already paid the bill at some point. Man Lin also said playfully: "This meal is cheap, just treat it as my own."
As a landowner, please don’t trouble me with expensive things, haha.”
When he came out of the hotel, it was getting late. Bai Shuo found that the lanterns everywhere were lit up. Lanterns were hung on the riverbanks, inns, no, almost every house. The appearance of the ancient town that could only be seen in costume dramas suddenly appeared in real life.
In front of me, Liang Ying had seen a very colorful lantern festival in Yizhou Lantern City. Although these lanterns were not as gorgeous as the lantern festival there, they made people feel less dressed up and more plain.
, the tranquil feeling made people feel relaxed and comfortable. Suddenly, Bai Shuo felt that he liked this place a little bit. He believed that if this place was turned into a tourist attraction, it would definitely be very popular.
"If you want to experience the night here, it's best not to go and take a boat. Come quickly." Man Lin was making trouble again and pulled Bai Shuo onto a small boat without any explanation. There was a boatman on the boat, who obviously knew Man Lin.
, Manlin said a few words in his ear, and the boatman rocked the oar very artistically. The boat started to rock, and Manlin laughed happily again.
What I saw on the boat was another different scenery. The lanterns on both sides of the bank were reflected on the water. It seemed that the whole river had turned a light red. The whole feeling was as beautiful as a photoshopped picture. I really don’t know if people are swimming in the picture.
, or the painting moved in my heart. From time to time, other rowing boats passed by in the river, bursts of laughter from the people on the boats, the sound of old artists on the shore playing music with national characteristics, and the squeaking of the oars.
Intertwined with the sound of water splashing against the side of the boat, it formed a happy sound without rhythm. At this time, Bai Shuo and Man Lin seemed to have become a scene in the eyes of people on the shore, and many pedestrians on the shore couldn't help but look back.
Looking at them, the beautiful and lovely Man Lin should be the more eye-catching part of this picture.
It wasn't until it got completely dark that Bai Shuo returned to where he was staying. Man Lin wandered around the room and suddenly asked, "How much does it cost to stay here for the day?". "Well, it seems like 50...", "Oh my god! 50."
You live in such a wretched place!" Bai Shuo looked at Man Lin blankly and said nothing. He thought: 50 yuan is not expensive. Although this place is a little shabby, it is not a shabby place.
"They said this is the only inn in town." Bai Shuo finally said with some embarrassment. Although he knew he had been deceived, he still gave this reason.
"You're stupid. Do you know that there is a newly built hotel not far ahead. The conditions are much better than here, and the price is almost 50 a day."
Bai Shuo looked at Man Lin blankly. Although 50 yuan was nothing to Rang, if he could find a hotel with better conditions, it would be acceptable. After all, the conditions in this place were still too simple.
"Hey... I'm stupid and don't want to ask more questions. If you had just said hello to me before you came, there wouldn't be any problem. You even settled down on your own initiative. Hey, do you want to give me a surprise?
?" Man Lin continued to talk with the tone and expression of an adult educating a child. Bai Shuo still didn't speak, just looked at her pouting mouth and a little excited and angry expression, which looked very cute.
Suddenly, Manlin pulled Bai Shuo and said loudly: "But, there is still something commendable here." After saying that, she pulled Bai Shuo directly to the balcony facing the river outside the room. Bai Shuo sat quietly, with that picture
A bottle of unknown wine and some cakes and snacks were placed on the very old wooden coffee table in a short while by Man Lin. She didn't know where she got it from. The wine was light yellow in color, had a fragrant taste, and the alcohol content should not be high.
They drank wine and ate snacks while looking at the scenery and chatting. During the careful tasting and soft conversation, Bai Shuo felt that he seemed to be one with this thousand-year-old ancient town, and his tired and restless heart also changed.
It was surprisingly calm, matching the tranquility of the night. It was quite late at this time for such an ancient town, and the lights on the river bank were still reflected in the water. Perhaps without the rowing of boats, the water surface was much quieter, no longer
It was a light red patch, reflecting the lights very clearly. Bai Shuo and Man Lin were also reflected quietly in the water, and everything looked so peaceful and warm. Occasionally, a breeze blew across the water, ruffling the peaceful stream.
In the ripples, the lights, Bai Shuo, and Manlin's reflections blended together vaguely, seeming to be weaving a warm and gorgeous dream, and also seemed to be performing a touching and ancient love story. The atmosphere suddenly became quiet, and White
Shuo found Manlin looking at him blankly, so he also looked at Manlin. After looking at each other for five seconds, Manlin suddenly said, "It's very late, go to bed early, good night!", then quickly turned around and walked out of the room.