Mengmeng finished her strawberry-flavored ice cream alone.
Seeing her licking her lips with her little tongue, looking like she still had something to say, Cao Shujie said that he would never buy her any more ice cream.
"Mengmeng, look at what you want to eat." Cao Shujie pointed to the shops on both sides of the ancient city and said.
There are many shops selling snacks, and they sell a wide variety of things.
Hot and sour noodles, mutton soup, meat pancakes, fire chestnuts, barbecue, stinky tofu, skewers and so on.
Even KFC has set up shop in the ancient city.
The shops here are no longer uniformly decorated. Instead, like other shops in the ancient city, they are all antique buildings.
Mengmeng didn’t know what to eat for a while.
She turned back and asked Cheng Xiaolin: "Mom, what do you think we want to eat?"
"I don't know." Cheng Xiaolin saw these things and really had no desire to eat them.
She wanted to eat something special, but these were the same fast food she used to eat in a hurry when she was working in the capital, so it was boring.
While walking, Mengmeng saw a pot of golden money tree placed in front of a shop.
At first glance, it looks like a gold product, attracting attention from a distance.
When I took a closer look, I realized that this thing was actually woven with something similar to thin wire, and the details were very fine.
When I looked up at the store's plaque, I found the words "Handmade Aluminum Woven Crafts" written next to it.
"Mom, Dad, look, it's so beautiful." Mengmeng pointed at the objects displayed in the store and shouted.
Cao Shujie looked into the store and saw a yellow five-clawed golden dragon.
The whole dragon is about one meter long. There are red gems of unknown material attached to the eyes. The dragon's mouth is open, and several dragon whiskers are spread out to both sides. It looks very powerful.
Taking a closer look, you can see that it is also woven with fine aluminum wire. There is a note on the side that the color of the surface of the aluminum wire is electroplated and will not fade when washed with water.
"Honey, look, this craft is really good." This was the first time Cao Shujie saw this kind of craft.
His wife was also surprised when she saw him for the first time.
The two of them were still lowering their heads to discuss. Could this thing be machine-made?
"It's very delicately done." Cao Shujie pointed at the dragon and said.
Cheng Xiaolin was already looking at the Phoenix next to her.
Whether it is a dragon or a phoenix, the shapes are all lifelike. Viewed from a distance, it makes people feel that the objects are lifelike and alive.
Looking up close, you can see that the densely packed aluminum wires are woven into the shape. Just by looking at it, you can tell that the workmanship is very troublesome.
When I pressed it with my hand, it was quite strong.
"If this thing was really hand-knitted, the time it would take would be immeasurable," Cao Shujie said.
He did not deliberately lower his voice. A girl next to him who looked like she had just graduated from college came over and explained with a smile: "Brother, no matter how big or small, all of our ornaments are hand-knitted. If you fake it, you will be compensated ten percent."
Hearing what she said was quite confident, Cao Shujie pointed at the dragon-shaped knitting in front of him and asked her: "How long will it take to finish this thing?"
"Brother, it will take about seven days to finish this," the other party said.
"So fast."
This time was beyond Cao Shujie's expectation.
He thought it would take about a month anyway, but the other party said with a smile: "It depends on who does it. If you are not skilled in doing it, it may be useless for a month or two. My master did it himself. He did it."
Very skilled.”
After hearing this statement, Cao Shujie agreed.
Cheng Xiaolin was very curious: "How much does a pair like this dragon and phoenix cost?"
"A single one costs 3,000 yuan. In fact, the materials are not valuable. The main reason is that it is troublesome and time-consuming to make, and the manual labor is more expensive." This is what the other party said.
This statement is reliable.
Cao Shujie nodded. He recognized the other party's craftsmanship and didn't think the price was expensive.
But he also knew that this thing only looked good under the light. If he bought it and put it at home, it wouldn't have the same effect.
The girl who looked like she had just graduated was called Song Xiaohui. When she saw the clothes Cao Shujie and Cheng Xiaolin were wearing, they looked expensive. She thought they looked like rich people. She thought they were going to buy this pair of dragons and phoenixes, so she quickly said: "Brother
, Sister, if you buy it, this pair of dragons and phoenixes will be 1,000 yuan cheaper together, what do you think?"
Cao Shujie and Cheng Xiaolin looked at each other. They really didn't expect that the price would drop by 500 yuan each in just a short while. The price of this handicraft would fluctuate so much?
Mengmeng's eyes happened to shift away from the dragon and phoenix, and she saw various small ornaments placed on a table in the middle of the store. She pointed at one of the small ornaments and shouted loudly: "Mom, cow, look, that's a cow."
"I'm an Ox too," she shouted.
"Yeah, it looks pretty good, Mengmeng, do you want this?" Cao Shujie asked her.
Ke Mengmeng shook her head: "No, I want a golden cow."
"..." Cao Shujie couldn't hold himself tight, and Cheng Xiaolin covered her mouth and started laughing.
When a family of three came out of the store, Cheng Xiaolin bought three gadgets, including a pistol woven with aluminum wire, a small ornament riding a motorcycle, and a small flower basket, each costing 10 yuan.
This is a bit different from what Song Xiaohui, who received them just now, thought.
But Cao Shujie and the others don't care.
In Cheng Xiaolin's words, these small ones can be placed in the room after they are bought, but where will those one-meter-long and half-meter-long ornaments be placed after they are bought?
Maybe Mengmeng will be dismantled into a pile of aluminum wires in a few days. What's the use of buying it?
I walked halfway along the central street in the ancient city and bought a lot of various gadgets, but I still couldn't find the food I wanted to eat.
Just as they were about to walk back, Cheng Xiaolin pointed to a row of houses to the east and said to take a look there.
This time they actually found a place to eat.
There are several restaurants here that resemble private cuisine, and they don't know which one is delicious.
After watching for a while, I found that there were quite a few people entering one of the houses, so Cao Shujie and his family followed them in.
The couple ordered a few signature dishes, and although they were a little more expensive, they tasted really good.
Even Mengmeng ate a lot.
Cheng Xiaolin also said that she was very hungry. If she didn't eat well in the future, she would be hungry for a while longer.
"Mom, you are so annoying!" Mengmeng quit.
She also reached out to beat her mother, Cheng Xiaolin, but Cheng Xiaolin suppressed her in reverse.
"Mengmeng, you dare to attack me, are you itching again?" Cheng Xiaolin said to her.
Mengmeng found that she couldn't fuck her mother, so she surrendered directly and ate in silence, eating until she was full first.
Otherwise, when being beaten, you won’t have the strength to escape.
After dinner, Mengmeng came out of this private restaurant. Mengmeng felt a little sleepy. Cao Shujie saw that it was still quite early. The wonderful fireworks show and ironwork show would not start until the evening. The couple discussed it and went back to Siheju to rest for a while.
, come back in the evening.
"Mom, give me a hug." Mengmeng didn't want to walk anymore.
After eating, she felt more and more sleepy, and her head was like a sleepyhead. Cheng Xiaolin thought about letting her husband hold Mengmeng.
But Mengmeng was quite stubborn: "No, I won't let dad hug me."
"Just exhaust me to death." Cheng Xiaolin muttered, but picked up her daughter and walked out of the ancient city.
But after just taking a few steps, I felt extremely hot.
When passing by a shop selling fans and oil-paper umbrellas, Cao Shujie bought a fan and a large oil-paper umbrella without saying a word. After paying the money, he held the umbrella over his wife's head with one hand and shook the fan with the other.
Rushed back to Siheju.
Mengmeng slept until about five o'clock in the afternoon. Cao Shujie and his wife woke up early. Seeing Mengmeng waking up, Cao Shujie asked her if she would not sleep at night?
"Dad, you're annoying!" Mengmeng said she was annoying her father, but she still ran towards Cao Shujie and asked him to braid her hair.
When she saw the oil-paper umbrella standing on the bedside table next to her, she was startled and shouted: "Dad, what is this?"
"That's it, an oil-paper umbrella." Cao Shujie explained to her.
Mengmeng nodded and then asked her father: "Then where did you buy it?"
"Mengmeng, you care about a lot of things."
Cao Shujie said to her: "Why are you asking where you bought it? Do you want to buy another one?"
"Shua"
Mengmeng fumbled and opened the oil-paper umbrella. She moved the umbrella paper by hand, and then moved the umbrella support. It was quite strong.
But when she hooked her hand around the fixing thread inside, she didn't know whether she was too strong or the rope was too loose, and she suddenly pulled apart one of the ropes.
When Cheng Xiaolin saw it, she was stunned on the spot.
"Mengmeng, you loser, why do you deserve a beating so much?"
Mengmeng also looked confused and a little at a loss.
The next moment, Mengmeng quickly put the umbrella into her father's hand: "Mom, it wasn't me who broke it, it was dad who broke it."
Cao Shujie: "..."
What else could he say?
"Honey, can I do it?" Cao Shujie asked his wife.
Cheng Xiaolin couldn't hold it in any longer and laughed so hard.
She said: "Shujie, you are unlucky to have such a daughter."
When I came out of Siheju, it was already past 6pm, and it wasn't that hot anymore.
Cao Shujie shook the fan in his hand to fan the couple.
Mengmeng held her mother's left hand and hid from her father, fearing that he would be beaten if he didn't pay attention.
Now when we come to the ancient city of Song Dynasty, lanterns of various colors have been lit up.
The colorful lanterns wrapped around the ancient city walls, on the trees in the city, and at the entrances of various shops are dizzying.
There are small holes of various shapes on the ground, and streams of light are emitted from them. These lights are like mirages in mid-air, taking on various shapes.
But if you look closely, you will find that these shapes are more like Liang Shanbo in the TV series, such as Song Jiang, Li Kui, Wu Song and other heroes.
There is a river in the ancient city, and there are boats floating slowly in the river. There are also lights shooting out from the walls on both sides of the river, and different scenes are performed under the water curtain.
There were people fighting, and there were women who opened the curtains of the boat and looked at the heroes outside, with a look of shame on their faces.
There are also pedestrians walking back and forth along the corridors and small bridges in the ancient city.
Along the river, there are shops with balloons and several guns placed on a long table about two meters in front of the shop, attracting children who come and go to play.
"Mom, Dad, I want to play." Mengmeng shouted.
I'm back home. Now I have to go see my grandpa. I don't know what time he will be back. I have another chapter in the evening.
