Jiang Qing

Dry-mouthed, he followed the boss and questioned the people all morning, but he couldn't even drink his saliva. Chen Ping just squatted under a big tree, and a drop of water fell on his forehead impartially.

He thought it was because he was hungry and thirsty, and scolded himself for being dizzy, where did the water drop come from under the big tree?Looking up, the sun has long since disappeared, leaving only a few dark clouds, brewing a little bit of drizzle, slanting down.

Glancing at the boss sitting next to him, he swallowed back a curse word.

Today was his first day on duty in the patrol battalion, and he didn't know the head well, so he dared to be presumptuous, so he could only curse a few times in his heart to relieve his anger.

He had heard long ago that the job in the patrol battalion was easy, as long as he followed the team leader and pretended to patrol around every day, he could do his job perfunctorily.

It's not their turn to do dangerous things like catching robbers and bandits. It's even better in the scorching sun and heavy rain. Just find a restaurant to rest at will. Anyway, they have the name of an official. , I saw that they were all serving with delicious food and drink.He saw with his own eyes that the son of the Wang family next door had gained a lot of weight after staying in the patrol camp for a year.

This is only a benefit on the surface. In secret, those whorehouses, restaurants, and even the shopkeepers who come to the city early and late, who wants to give them a little face, and they can always have some money in ten and a half months. The key is that the money doesn't need to be sifted from the top, it just falls into the pockets of the people below them.

Such lucrative jobs are naturally not easy to get into.

The Chen family is not a rich family, but Chen Ping is a single seedling, and was raised by Mr. Chen to be a son who doesn't work hard and doesn't know the five grains.He doesn't have any skills, but the old man of the Chen family is a good at courting relatives. He previously climbed up to Uncle Zhou, the housekeeper of Yin's family in Jingzhao Mansion, and the two of them even worshiped brothers. Today you come to Chen's house to have a drink, and tomorrow I will visit Zhou's house When watching a play, it's better to be like a brother.

Chen Ping also recognized Uncle Zhou as his godfather. His previous errand in Jingzhao Yamen was helped by this godfather. Otherwise, how could he find such a good job with a mediocre commoner in the Chen family.

Originally, the family didn't expect Chen Ping to do any great things, and he was doing well in such an idle life, until he and his brother broke the cowhide once, and spent two months' monthly salary to go to Lanwei Pavilion for a while.

Lin Ruwei, the owner of Lanwei Pavilion, stood there with a smile, and called him "Mr. Chen", and he immediately lost his soul. Wanting to be a fan of the "Prince Prince", he ran to Lanwei Pavilion every three days, but he was too shy to hold back his big money, and his little coffers were all spent. There was really no other way, so he had to ask His father confessed everything.

I thought I would be scolded head and face by the old man, but when the old man of the Chen family found out that his ineffective son was in his twenties, he finally had some pursuit, even if the pursuit was a girl, he was so excited that he burst into tears. To help my precious son marry Lin Ruwei into the family.

Despite the wealth of the family, the Chen family really couldn't afford much money, so they had to work hard on other places.It is also thanks to Chen Ping's godfather Lu Ziguang, who set up a line for the Chen family, let Chen Ping enter the patrol camp and stay honestly for a few months, help him make some achievements, and greet him again, and it won't be long. Promoted to lieutenant general of a patrol battalion.

That's an official under the imperial court. With her Lin Ruwei's wealth, how could she dare to fight with the official, and coupled with the relationship with Jingzhao's governor, she is a girl, and she has no place to complain, so she is still obedient. Housewife.

After getting the right shot, a stone in Chen Ping's heart fell to the ground, and he was quite honest.Unexpectedly, on the first day he was on duty, he encountered such an errand to search Jiangyang robbers, and he was so busy that he didn't touch any water, but it was hard for him, a person who couldn't carry his shoulders or hands.

The rain was getting stronger, and the thick raindrops fell on their armor, slowly condensed into water droplets, and flowed down.

Chen Ping raised his head and looked opposite. Standing by the window on the second floor of Lanwei Pavilion was the beautiful figure that he had been thinking about day and night. She was still so bright and charming. Even through the thin rain curtain, one could still see her every frown and smile.The half-closed window outlines her clothes, and it can be vaguely seen that she is greeting the guests by the window.

The guests who can be entertained by the owner of Lanwei Pavilion must be either rich or expensive, he felt a little uncomfortable, the young man by the window smiled and said something to Lin Ruwei, which made her cover her mouth and smile, Chen Ping was even more annoyed, Staring at him viciously, wishing to stare a hole in the window.

Covering his face halfway with the fan, Li An smiled and glanced at Lin Ruwei, then glanced at the little soldier squatting under the tree, teasingly said: "Our Boss Lin is really charming, I can't wait to look at that kid I ate."

Lin Ruwei didn't speak, took the two bowls of small wontons from the restaurant girl, and handed them to him: "I don't have the demeanor of a prince. The prince was not weak back then. Who would want to see more of the prince in this brothel? Just a glance."

Li An showed disgust, stirred the bowl of wonton in his hand, and glanced at the person who was hiding behind the window, who didn't show at all: "You asked me to come to play, so you let me eat this?"

He looked at Lin Ruwei and reprimanded him, "You too, the owner of the village didn't serve any good dishes, so you just eat this?"

"I asked her to make it, what's the choice?" Mei Shao glanced over, he ate the wonton, seemingly casually said: "This is the secret recipe passed down by Boss Lin's family, and most people can't eat it. I remember you and I said, before your family opened a restaurant, they made their fortune selling wontons?"

In Li An's eyes, Lin Ruwei is just one of many beauties, but other beauties are like flowers and charming, but she is like a reed, with a firm heart under the softness.

Li An is quite insightful about such elegant things as admiring beauties, and what he pays attention to is looking at them from a distance. If a beauty is seen from a distance, it is enough to be graceful and pleasing to the eye.If you delve into the reasons behind the beauties, it will be too unpleasant.Hearing what was going on behind Lin Ruwei suddenly, he felt a little resentful, and gave Mei Shao a wink, but he didn't get a response.

Fortunately, Lin Ruwei didn't mind very much, and there was even a little tenderness in her eyes: "Yes. This craft was passed down to me by my mother. At that time, there was a famine in Ezhou. She went north to find relatives, and married into the Lin family. Relying on her skills, she set up a wonton stall outside, which was barely able to support the family's expenses.

"Later, I inherited my mother's wonton stall and set it up for a few years. After that, my father opened a small restaurant, and I was getting older. He didn't want me to show my face outside, and wanted me to stay at home to get married. I didn't want to. If I am willing, I will secretly come out to set up a stall at night. When the weather is good, I can see the stars in the whole sky, twinkling towards me, and I think that this may be my mother watching me there. Lu doesn't feel scared at all."

She raised her head slightly, and Li An could see the twinkle in her eyes. She seemed to be crying, but she didn't shed a single tear.

"Is your stall on Showa Road?" Mei Shao held the spoon, her tone was a bit strange, "In the 33rd year of Qinyuan, is that the wonton stall you set up on Showa Road? Did you tell me that there was an expensive Young master often comes to buy wontons when you are about to close the stall, he..."

When Lin Ruwei first opened Lanwei Pavilion, Zeng asked Mei Shao to help find someone, saying that he owed him a silver tael.

This debt was owed a long time ago, in the summer night of the 33rd year of Qinyuan.

After counting the money for tonight, Lin Ruwei was about to take advantage of the dead of night to close up the stall and slip back home.From a distance, I saw a young man, carrying a lamp, wandering around in front of a few scattered stalls. He didn't even bring a boy. He looked out of place in such a night market, so Lin Ruwei took a second look.

It took so little time, that young master came to her stall and asked, "Do you make ravioli from Jiangnan?"

Seeing him stop at each stall for a while, it turned out that he was asking this, Lin Ruwei thought it was funny, looking for Jiangnan-style wontons in Pingdu, what a weirdo.

When she was boiling the wontons, she secretly looked at him, saw that he had a lot of dew on his body, and seemed to have asked a lot of stalls, but he was not at all irritable, and his words were not at all angry. It's all different.

He just sat there quietly, looking intently at a candle at the corner of the table, the dim yellow light made his face uncertain, but it was not scary at all.

Lin Ruwei knew that he was counting the time by looking at the candles. When she opened her stall, she often used the amount of candles to estimate the closing time.

"Is the young master out to buy a midnight snack for the madam?" When the wontons were delivered, she couldn't help asking.

The young man didn't answer, just smiled, walked in a hurry, and disappeared into the night with a lamp.

Maybe it's because his craftsmanship really suits that young master's taste. He often buys wontons with a lamp in the starry night, alone, with a lamp.After getting acquainted with each other, the young master will save a sum of money with her, and she will estimate the time when he will come, and put the wontons in the pot in advance.

This simple business was done for a summer, until Lin Ruwei was discovered by his family by chance, and he never managed to sneak out again.Later, she also waited at that intersection, trying to return the unused money to the young master. I don't know if it was because she had been confinement at home for a long time. Trail of lights.

"Later, I opened this Lanwei Pavilion, and I also searched for the young man according to his appearance and age, but there was no clue. He once said that his wife is from Lanzhou, so he came out in the middle of the night to find Jiangnan flavor for her. Wontons. Over the years, which wife has not come to my Lanwei Pavilion for dinner, but I can’t find one whose age and place of birth are suitable. I think that young master may not live in Pingdu anymore, otherwise How could it not be found?"

Lin Ruwei looked at Li An, who was stunned there, biting wontons, a little flustered, and asked, "Is there any problem with that young master?"

Li An swallowed a wonton indiscriminately, looked at Mei Shao's expression, and touched his chin: "Qinyuan was 33 years old, this year is 26 years old, Zhaohe Road, and there is a wife from Lanzhou at home... .”

"What did he say?" Mei Shao, who had been listening quietly, put down the spoon in her hand, and gently held the green sandalwood beads on her wrist, as if looking for a support.

"He says......"

It was Zhongfu, and even in the middle of the night, the cicadas kept making noise.

The young man under the moon carefully held the food box, looked at the girl who kept asking him, with crooked eyebrows, and helplessness in his gentle voice: "He is from Lanzhou, he has been in Ping for three years, and he still can't get used to it." The food here. I have to be strong on weekdays, and I don’t want people to say that he is spoiled. Fortunately, he likes your wontons very much, so I will bring him some. This place is no better than my hometown. Everything goes smoothly. There is such a thing that can I'm happy to do what he wants."

Lin Ruwei was very envious, and sighed while resting her chin: "You are so kind to Madam, you must like her very much if you buy her snack every night, right?"

It seems that something that has been buried in the bottom of my heart is growing quietly and sprouting secretly.The tender bud that the young man in white had buried deep in his heart only dared to poke his head out a little towards a girl he had never met before, swaying in the cool evening wind.

His eyes reflected the brilliance of the full moon, full of tenderness: "With him by my side, it is enough to pass the long night. For Madam, I have been happy for a long time."

It's all because the cicadas' chirping in the summer night was too loud, making people panic and turbulent.

Otherwise, how dare he admit that he likes her tonight.

The author has something to say:

Mei Shao's secret love: Everyone around me knows that I like him, but he doesn't

Bai Bingchen's secret love: No one knows that I like him except myself

Lin Ruwei: I know! (hands up)

Ang Lee: You are just someone who says you like him, calm down!