Chentan's Memories

The seventh chapter to dissipate resentment boil three altars of wine to tell what's on your mind

——"You have to buy wine from Miss A Ci. But don't buy expensive ones, the loose wine that costs three pennies and one tael is delicious."

"Miss Ah Ci..."

According to Tang Yushu's explanation, Lin Lang walked around the market in Caishen Mansion for a long time, but he didn't find a woman selling wine.

The dense clouds hoarding over Chentan suddenly dissipated this evening, and the weather seemed to be showing signs of turning fine.

As soon as he left the wing room, he saw Tang Yushu who had come back from work, scrambling for a pile of things in the yard. He didn't know if it was a stove or something, insisting that he would treat himself to a good meal at night.Like the waiter in a tavern, he took a black stone pen and asked while writing in his palm: "Brine tofu, do you want... river prawns, do you want... what is ham? Do you want..."

Pushing aside Tang Yushu's hand and poking around, he saw a bunch of squares, hooks and circles crookedly drawn on his callused palm... Lin Lang couldn't help laughing.

Tang Yushu blushed, "I can see it myself!"

I asked Tang Yushu what he planned to do delicious after memorizing so much in a mess, but he still refused to say anything, he clenched his hands tightly and went straight out, and only told Lin Lang to go buy it later. liquor.

"...I don't know what a big bastard can do."

Lin Lang frowned and guessed for a long time, but still couldn't figure out what that guy was thinking.

After leaving the gate of the house, Lin Lang felt inexplicably comfortable with the strong smell of fireworks from the God of Wealth Mansion Market.

Every morning, traders from all walks of life will start their own business one after another, performing their duties in a square-inch-sized boundary.

As a result, the whole market was steamed with fireworks of burnt fish and fragrant steam of lotus seed soup.The crystal clear pearl jelly will tremble when it is blown by the wind, reflecting the bright yellow orange cake next door; The fruits are strung together in a string, shining like jewels under the bright sky.

Lin Lang recalled that there are also many snack streets in Jinling City—all kinds of food have pompous storefronts with their own signboards; but compared with the small markets here, they lack a little simplicity.

Even so, in the past, when he was free, Lin Lang would take Shun'er to feast.

But definitely can't be known by my father.If you find out, you will definitely be babbled and scolded again: "It's not clean, the cook in the mansion is from the Imperial Dining Room, so he can't confuse your savage mouth?"

It's true.

Lin Lang is a person who has walked the Silk Road.From the banks of the Qinhuai River in the south of the Yangtze River to the Gaochang Kingdom in the Western Regions, the sauced duck in the capital, the dumplings outside the customs, the roasted whole lamb on the Gobi Desert, and the various pasta in the Central Plains, if you want to list them in detail, you can write a thick "Food" Ya" come.

But everything is a memory of the past.

From the moment he stepped out of Lin's mansion, Lin Lang was mentally prepared. No matter how happy his carefree days were, he didn't plan to turn back.

After searching for A Ci for a long time without any results, Lin Lang had to go around to the noodle stall to ask Uncle Wang for help: "Uncle Wang, is there a girl A Ci who sells wine in this market?"

"Yes." Uncle Wang pointed to the opposite side of the noodle stall.Lin Lang looked in the direction, and saw a handsome young man in a coarse linen shirt with his hair neatly tied behind his head.

"...Girl!" Lin Lang turned his head and clicked his tongue, emphasizing his gender once: "Tang Yushu pointed out her name and said that she wanted to drink the wine she sold."

"That's Miss A Ci!" Uncle Wang also emphasized the gender once again, but the work in his hand stopped in an instant: "Wait—" He raised his head and pouted his eyebrows, his eyes were filled with Unbelievable: "You make wine for Yushu? - The sun has come out from the west!"

"..." Lin Lang spoke for a while but still didn't know how to answer. With his usual impatient face, he threw a blank stare at Uncle Wang and said "I want you to take care of it!" Then he turned and went to Ah Ci's drinking room. stand.

"A Ci...girl?" Lin Lang still refused to believe it: "How do you sell flower carvings? The best kind!"

A Ci raised his head to see the visitor, and responded indifferently: "Two coins and one pot."

Two coins and one pot of flower carvings...Lin Lang silently repeated the price, squeezed the money bag: so expensive...Standing on the spot and thinking about it, he finally gritted his teeth: Forget it, I can drink wine for three cents a tael If not, just let this poor and rough man enjoy my favor and try the special bars in the south of the Yangtze River.

"Come to the three altars!"

After reporting the number, Lin Lang suddenly felt that he was very sad - the rich young master who used to spend money like water, now two coins and a jar of wine are too expensive...

Na Ah Ci deftly moved out three jars of wine to the table in front of him, blushing blushing inexplicably: "No need to pay...these are for you to drink."

"So good?" Lin Lang's eyes widened, a smile curled up at the corner of his mouth, and he couldn't help tidying up the dragon's beard and hair on his forehead: "Dare to ask girl...why?"

Ah Ci lowered his head to avoid Lin Lang's gaze: "Don't bully Brother Yushu in the future, I will invite you..."

Ben was still counting Xiao Jiujiu secretly in his heart, guessing that the girl A Ci was overwhelmed by her own charm-in the end she was a rough person like Tang Yushu?

Lin Lang curled his lips, and put the money in front of Ah Ci according to the count: "No yes, no yes!" After saying that, he stretched out his hand to hold the wine jar.

This was also a joke, but he didn't expect Na Ah Ci to snatch the wine jar first: "Then I won't sell it!"

"Hey——" Lin Lang raised his eyebrows and raised his eyebrows: "... I didn't miss you a penny, so how can there be any reason not to sell it?"

Ah Ci put on a straight face: "The wine is mine, and I won't sell it if I say I don't sell it."

Seeing that Ah Ci was difficult to deal with, Lin Lang had no choice but to give in: "...Good, good, don't bully, don't bully! Is it done?"

Seeing through Lin Lang's plan to delay the attack, Ah Ci did not let go of the arm holding the wine jar.

"I swear! Swear, okay?" Seeing Ah Ci's strong temper, Lin Lang had no choice but to press his index finger with his thumb, and raised his palm and said, "I, Lin Lang, will never bully Tang Yushu in the future! Otherwise, I will be bitten by a dog—" Is this possible?"

Only then did Ah Ci agree, and reached out to hug the wine jar to Lin Lang.

Just as he was about to take over the wine jar, his gaze was attracted by the silver bracelet on Ah Ci's wrist. Lin Lang squinted his eyes and read out the words on the bracelet one by one—"Bai... pardon..." After reading, he turned his gaze to A Ci: "Your name?"

Ah Ci didn't want to talk too much, and impatiently raised his face: "Do you want more?"

"Yes, yes..." Lin Lang had no choice but to embrace the wine jar, bid farewell and turned around to leave.

The girls in this world are really in different poses and with different expressions.

"Bai Shuci..." seems like a man's name, but the person is also like a man.If it wasn't for her clear and moving voice when she spoke, Lin Lang couldn't believe that the agile young man dressed in coarse fir was actually a girl.

Thinking of this, another figure floated in Lin Lang's mind again——

That night in the Jinling Flower Mansion, he took Shun'er out of the formal banquet under the pretext of being respectful. Lin Lang, who hid in the courtyard to breathe, encountered the most important setback in his life——

The smiling girl stepped forward, under the complicated attire, her footsteps were still light and dignified, which was in stark contrast to herself who was sitting on the stone bench in the courtyard: "Mr. Lin also felt restrained at the banquet, so he ran out ?”

The person who came was the person his father intended for him to marry—"Miss Liangxu..." Lin Lang bowed politely.

"I also feel very restrained. After all... my father likes you, but I don't." The words were full of contempt, but the smile on his face was like a spring breeze.

This is the temperament of all ladies, right? —— Lin Lang muttered in his heart.

I just heard the eldest lady continue to say: "Forget it, my father is not all optimistic about you—he is optimistic about the wealth of the Lin family, the mansion with carved beams and painted buildings, and the frame of copper rafters and iron wheels. What I am optimistic about is that the eyes are full of jewels and jewels - but the young master must know that this is not you."

--not me.

Lin Lang patted his forehead to bring himself back to his senses.

The door of the house is ajar.When he walked in, Tang Yushu had already returned from grocery shopping, and was so busy working there that he didn't notice himself.Lin Lang took advantage of the situation and stopped quietly, watching secretly, wanting to find out the truth about Tang Yushu's so-called "delicious food".

I saw a charcoal fire under a stone pot that he didn't know where he got it, and a pile of ingredients that had been washed but not treated in any way were placed on the surrounding plates.The hot air rising from the pot distorted the air above, sending out a strong fragrance unscrupulously.

"...?" Lin Lang sniffed, and couldn't help saying, "What's the smell? It smells so good..."

"Have you bought the wine?" Tang Yushu heard the movement, turned around and found Lin Lang.

Responding to the three jars of wine in Dian's bosom, Lin Lang stepped forward and pointed to the pot with his chin, asking, "...what is this?"

Tang Yushu had already prepared the bowls and chopsticks, and introduced: "If you are afraid of spicy food, you can put it in this oil dish to rinse it - you have bought all the food you like, and you can put whatever you want in it - the food in the pot The mutton is ready, try it first!"

Looking at the fine bubbles boiling in the stone pot, Lin Lang was beating his heart: "...Is it delicious? This..."

Tang Yushu picked up a piece of well-cooked mutton, put it in his bowl and said, "Taste it quickly, you will know!"

This food, which has never been seen before, looks a little rough.Although the smell was strong and fragrant, Lin Lang was still a little bit jealous, but he couldn't accept Tang Yushu's kindness, so he carefully picked up the piece of mutton and put it in his mouth.

A moment later, Lin Lang's exclamation resounded over the market in the God of Wealth Mansion.

——"This... this is too delicious!"

"really?"

Lin Lang felt that it was a waste of time to say a single word in his mouth, so he stuffed the cooked mutton into his mouth and shouted, "Too! Too! It's so delicious!"

"This is called hot pot..." Tang Yushu was a little vain after satisfying your young master's desire for tongue and tongue: "We all like to eat it."

"delicious!"

"Eat more if it tastes good." Tang Yushu poured some more vegetables into the pot, and then poured two bowls of wine after seeing Lin Lang gobbled it up so that he wouldn't lose his appetite.

Lin Lang's mouth was full of mutton, but he still pointed at the hot pot with the tip of his chopsticks and said inarticulately: "I have eaten all kinds of delicacies from mountains and seas with my uncle-but this hot pot is as good as any delicacies!"

"Eat slowly..." Although he couldn't understand the idioms in his mouth, Lin Lang's exaggerated reaction made Tang Yushu's chest puff up a little: "I was afraid that you might not be used to it."

"Can ham and river prawns be boiled in this too?"

"It can be sprinkled, and anything can be cooked."

"Ah!——" Lin Lang swallowed the delicacy in his mouth, panted quickly with his mouth open to relieve the hot tongue, and raised the wine bowl towards Tang Yushu in a bluff: "Come on—touch a bowl !"

Tang Yushu picked up the wine and touched him, but the wine stopped suddenly when it reached his lips. After sniffing, Tang Yushu said, "It smells so good."

"Two coins and one jar of silver—this is called Huadiao, which is a characteristic of Jiangnan."

Tang Yushu felt distressed: "It's too expensive, too expensive, you can't live a life."

"I don't know how to do it, but I know how to be a human being—you entertained me with such a delicious hot pot, and I can still afford three altars of flower carvings."

At this point in the topic, Tang Yushu grabbed a piece of meat and chatted: "Your family is so rich, why do you have to come out and suffer?"

Lin Lang stared at the freshly cooked ham in the pot and couldn't move his eyes. He just snorted coldly and said with a wry smile: "If you live comfortably, you think I'd like to run out—I was kicked out by my father!"

"Did you get driven out?"

"That's right... I don't want to marry Meijiao Niang, I don't want to be an official, I don't want to listen to him arrange my life - what about you? Everyone says that Jinguan City is comfortable and leisurely, why did you come all the way here? Son?"

"I..." Tang Yushu also smiled wryly: "I promised to bring my sister..." After that, as if thinking of something: "You have studied and can read, I want to ask you something !” After speaking, he opened his dark eyes and looked at Lin Lang expectantly.

The cannibal's mouth was soft, Lin Lang chewed the meat: "What's the matter?"

"Help me write three characters!" After speaking, Tang Yushu got up and ran back to the wing room to take out a jar of well-ground vermilion ink, a pen that he didn't know where he got it, the tip of which had fallen off, and a piece of paper wrapped in cloth. spread out in front of Lin Lang and carefully opened it: "Write—Tang, Qing, Yang, Tang Qingyang—is it easy to write?"

Oh, it turned out that the boards he sawed and saw early in the morning were for this purpose...

"Is it easy to write?" This question is indeed a stupid question that can be asked by illiterate people.

After hearing this, Lin Lang wanted to make fun of Tang Yushu, but when he looked up, he saw that there was a bit of flattery in his smile, as if he was cautious for fear of being rejected.The burning charcoal at the bottom of the pot gave off a red light, which fell on the bottom of Tang Yushu's dark eyes, shining brightly.

At that moment, many images passed through Lin Langhai's mind.

——"She likes Jiangnan so much..."

——"She thought that the people in Jiangnan were as temperamental as water, and she also said that the young people in Jiangnan were gentle and pleasant..."

——"She definitely didn't know that I was in the south of the Yangtze River—being cheated of wages, being robbed of my house..."

Lin Lang put down his chopsticks: "Cheng—"

Going back to the wing room, I took out a carved jade rod from my uncle's bag, which I had never been willing to use.

In fact, Tang Yushu was illiterate, but the red ink mixed with gold powder was solidly written stroke by stroke on the wooden sign, Tang Yushu thought it was very beautiful.

Xu Shi was a little bit drunk after eating the pot, and Tang Yushu looked at the sign and said repeatedly: "Remember--the brother who wrote your name for you is Lin Lang."

Lin Lang saw that his nose was a little sore, so he had to cough hard: "Hey-there's not enough charcoal fire!"

—— "I'll add it!" Tang Yushu put away the wooden sign carefully, and added the charcoal graciously.

After eating for an entire hour, Lin Lang was still unsatisfied, but his stomach was already uncomfortably full.

The wine jar was also empty.Unexpectedly, this big bastard actually had a surprisingly poor capacity for alcohol. He had tied his tongue in the other side, and he was muttering the dialect of Shu that Lin Lang couldn't understand at all.

Until being dragged back to the west wing by Lin Lang, he was still pointing at the surroundings, saying something, "The moon is crooked, the flowers are slanting..."

"Shut up, where did Hua Hua come from!"

After struggling to send Tang Yushu to sleep, Lin Lang returned to the East Wing.

After washing and closing the door, Lin Lang got into bed.

...Maybe the court really made a mistake.Lin Lang thought: That guy doesn't look like a liar at all.

——"It's so pitiful..."

It seems that he is no more than two or three years older than himself, but God is not fair: he was fighting bloody battles under the city wall at the age when he was reciting poems on the boat; But enduring the wound from the eyeless knife to take care of his young sister—Chengdu is fighting, but Jinling is unheard of;

Lying on the bed tossing and turning, Lin Lang sighed deeply.

The lingering heat of the hot pot was still showing off on the tip of his tongue, but his satisfied mood gradually became inexplicably depressed at this moment.

Lin Lang always remembered that it was October [-]th.

At the beginning of the day, the sky was clear and half-day, and it was wrapped in thick clouds and mist.Ushered in the last autumn rain, Chen Tan is ready for winter.

After the sound of rain woke Lin Lang up at Yinshi, he felt a coldness under his body in a daze.

Startled, he quickly woke up.Lin Lang's first reaction was... did he wet the bed after drinking too much?

After calming down, I realized that rainwater was leaking from the rafters right above the bed, causing the quilt to soak up the freezing rain and stick to my body heavily.

Lin Lang was angry and helpless, so he got up and changed into a clean underwear.Looking at the quilt soaked in water, the alcohol has already dissipated by seven or eight.Silly standing at the head of the bed and shivering for a moment, Lin Lang ran out of the east wing.

"Knock knock knock" - "Tang Yushu!"

A misty voice came out: "What's the matter?"

"I……"

Tang Yushu opened the door, shirtless and rubbing his sleepy eyes, and put Lin Lang standing in the rain into the room: "What is it?"

"I am cold……"

"Didn't I find a quilt for you?"

"The roof is leaking again..."

While complaining, he glanced at Tang Yushu's bed, and saw that the thick quilt was spread out, and he felt warm just by looking at it.Lin Lang offered the price: "Twenty Wen, buy your quilt!"

Tang Yushu yawned: "Not for sale."

"Fifty Wen."

"Not for sale."

"Five coins! Cut half of it for me." Lin Lang gritted his teeth and offered a sky-high price.

"Don't cut it... This is the only relic my mother left me."

Lin Lang persisted: "But your quilt looks weird!"

"My mother said that if you marry a daughter-in-law, you can build together."

"..." Lin Lang was froze insanely, and had no choice but to break through the sky-high price: "Five taels, don't be long-winded!"

But Tang Yushu refused to accept it: "Don't sell it!"

"..." Lin Lang felt that he was so unlucky, and he couldn't help feeling sad—the rain leaked from the roof in the middle of the night, soaking the entire quilt, and he couldn't think of any other way.In anxiety, she even wanted to cry: "But I'm cold..."

Tang Yushu: "..."

After lying in bed for a while, the cold dissipated from the body.

Turning his head to the side, he saw Tang Yushu leaning on the pillow with his arms around his arms, staring at somewhere in the dark with his dark eyes.Only then did Lin Lang notice that in the thick night, there were many shocking scars on his naked body.

Lin Lang took a deep breath, the words lingered in his throat for a long time, then swallowed them again, and only asked, "Why aren't you sleeping?"

"...The wine seems to have woken up." Tang Yushu turned his head in the dark and smiled to himself.

Lin Lang was also completely at ease: "Then... talk about it?"

"Put it on."

Lin Lang: "...?"

is intentional.Tang Yushu looked at Lin Lang's bewildered expression, and after succeeding, he smiled and said, "Putting out the Longmen Formation—that means talking for a while."

Lin Lang ignored Tang Yushu's boring humor: "What is the plan for the future, do you still have to go to the pier?"

"want……"

"Don't go... That foreman is not a good person. You are good, and it is easy to find any job."

"I can't tell... When the house is finally approved, where will I be sent... Let's do it first-how are you? What are the future plans?"

Lin Lang intertwined his hands together, pillowed it under his head, and sighed: "Let's make a deal."

"What kind of business are you doing?"

"I don't know..." When asked the same question again, Lin Lang still couldn't answer, but said to himself: "Before I came out, I thought I could manage the family business, I thought I was omnipotent... I didn't know until I came out." I'm really nothing."

Tang Yushu was silent, blinking his eyes in the dark and listening carefully to Lin Lang's confession.

"Sigh... I don't know if leaving the Lin Mansion is the right choice - but I know it must be wrong to stay there..."

"Are you afraid? Tang Yushu." Lin Lang closed his eyes: "... afraid of the future that can't be seen clearly, and also afraid of the way back... afraid of the day when all money is spent, afraid of the day when consciousness Realizing that I am really like what my father said - you are nothing without me..."

——"You are a very powerful person."

Lin Lang opened his eyes.

Tang Yushu looked at the young man beside him - in the night, he had lost his usual aggressive face, revealing his fear and weakness.Tang Yushu opened the mouth and said: "You are smart and knowledgeable; you can deal with people, and you can play tricks on bad guys; you have also read books, can write, and know a bunch of idioms that I have never heard... It's just that you have a bad temper a little."

As soon as he finished his last sentence, he received a heavy kick on his left leg.

"No, no, no!" Tang Yushu begged for mercy while laughing, and continued, "The most important thing is - you know how to live your life..."

"But I don't know—everything I did in the past was for Qingyang: I joined the army to earn food and medical treatment for her; I killed the enemy desperately to exchange my head for more money. The battle is over, and Qing Yang is gone... When I was alone, I suddenly didn't know how to live my life, and why I lived it..."

"You didn't want to believe it before, but this house was really rewarded by the general. I didn't lie to you—it's probably because the higher-ups made a mistake... The house that your grandfather left you must belong to you. Wait until the case is dealt with." After getting the board, it must be a new house for me above—but it will also be in the south of the Yangtze River, and when I move, you can also find me to play with."

"Brother Yushu, recently... thank you."

"What's the matter?" Tang Yushu couldn't react to the sudden kind address and thanks.

"...everything." Lin Lang turned his head away and refused to look at Tang Yushu, because he didn't like to face such hypocritical moments.Let's just say what should be said, then quickly changed the subject, and asked with the back of the head: "Hey - on the day when the house is finalized, no matter who leaves, can you treat me to a hot pot meal again?"

"You like eating so much?"

"really tasty!"

"Go for it!"

Lin Lang laughed, and this time he deliberately asked, "Huh? What do you want?"

The sky outside the window had turned gray, and the sound of cock crowing could be heard.

Lin Lang seemed to have fallen asleep, and his even breathing sounded softly.Tang Yushu got up on tiptoe, spread his legs and prepared to carefully cross the sleeping Lin Lang, planning to go to work.

But before his front foot hit the ground, he was hit by Lin Lang who suddenly called "Tang Yushu" and sat up. Tang Yushu, who lost his center of gravity instantly, rolled under the bed.

Rubbing his painful elbow and standing up, Tang Yushu grinned: "What are you doing..."

Lin Lang patted the bed excitedly: "Come back to sleep, come back to sleep!"

Seeing Lin Lang so happy for the first time, Tang Yushu felt a little nervous: "I...I have to go to work."

"I thought of it, I finally thought of it!" Apparently Lin Lang didn't listen to Tang Yushu's words, and yelled happily to himself: "Don't go to the pier——we will do it together in the future!"

"What are you doing?" Tang Yushu wondered if Lin Lang was having a nightmare, so he stepped forward and tapped Lin Lang on the forehead lightly.

Lin Lang pushed Tang Yushu's hand away: "Look - you can make such delicious hot pot, and I am proficient in business management, we both have such a big yard; I have 100 taels of silver at my place. Start our business with capital—open a shop!"

"What are you doing?" Tang Yushu couldn't digest Lin Lang's plan smoothly for a while.

Lin Lang tugged Tang Yushu's arm and shook it heavily: "Let's open a hot pot restaurant!"