Chapter 12
Chapter 12
As soon as Xiao Ruan said this, the calico scarf gasped, and the hand covering her mouth trembled slightly: "It's true."
"Really, my grandma wrote a book of travels in a floating life, and there is a paragraph in it that describes Longfengzhai." Xiao Ruan said slowly without rushing.
Now explaining that the flowered cloth scarf is very useful, she nodded after thinking for a moment, and suddenly said: "I see, no wonder you know my grandpa, then your grandma is now..."
"Passed away, passed away very early, was busy making a living in the early years, and finally died in the war, so after all these years, I have not been able to come back to Longfengzhai."
While speaking, Xu Yanqing seemed to see a trace of loneliness slipping through Xiao Ruan's eyes....
"So it's like this..." The calico turban sighed, narrowed its eyes, lowered its head and shook it, then suddenly remembered something, ahh, stretched out a finger and shook it, and hurriedly said: "Wait a moment, I'll Come and go."
Xiao Ruan hummed and watched her leave.
"Eat it, the taste will be bad when it's cold." Xiao Ruan lifted a piece of food with her chopsticks and put it on the small plate in front of Xu Yanqing: "This is a jade hook hanging from a bead curtain."
Xu Yanqing poked it curiously. Except that it was deep-fried, I really couldn't tell what it was made of. It looked like a small golden bun. After taking a bite, Xu Yanqing said in surprise: "It's a bun. Dough and eggs!"
"Yes." Xiao Ruan also took one for himself, took a bite, looked at the fried golden and soft noodles inside, and said shallowly: "The noodles are like Zhulian, and the eggs are like the moon in the sky. Come here."
Xu Yanqing swallowed three of them one after another, and he still couldn't get enough of them. His mouth was bulging, and he said indistinctly, "It's delicious. I didn't expect noodles and eggs to be so delicious."
"Drink some water, drink less willow wine, it will hurt your health." Xiao Ruan took the wine glass in her hand aside and handed her a glass of water.
Xu Yanqing was slightly taken aback, although it was a small detail, he was inexplicably moved.
Xiao Ruan chewed carefully, and said: "Although this dish is simple, it is not easy to make. The heat and time are very precise. If there is a deviation, the taste will change."
"Is this one well done?"
"Very good, the better the heat, the better."
"Really, I think this is delicious." Xu Yanqing drank a glass of water, took a tissue beside him and wiped his mouth, "You said it so clearly, do you know how to do it!"
Xiao Ruan's thin lips hooked a few curves, but she didn't speak.
Afterwards, Xiao Ruan introduced a few more dishes, carp playing with lotus, on the red stone steps...
It was the first time for Xu Yanqing to listen so seriously, and it was the first time for a science student to feel the charm of ancient Chinese and be fascinated by it.
"Here we come, we've been waiting for a long time." Suddenly, a calico kerchief popped out happily from behind, with a few layers of tired panting in his tone.
"This is?" Xiao Ruan looked at the floral cloth scarf and put a small wine jar on the table, and asked in confusion, "Wine?"
"Smell it, you'll know it after smelling it." The calico kerchief took off the wine seal at once, untied a faded and mottled red cloth, and laughed mysteriously.
The moment Xiao Ruan took off the cloth, she could smell the familiar scent, but she still brought her face closer to smell it.
"It smells so good! It's wine!" Xu Yanqing opened his mouth excitedly.
Xiao Ruan nodded in agreement: "Yes, it's peach blossom wine, also known as ten years."
The calico turban couldn't help giving Xiao Ruan a thumbs up, and praised: "Amazing! I didn't expect you to know its alias."
Xiao Ruan responded with a slight smile.
"Here you are." The floral turban tied the red cloth tightly again, and pushed the wine to Xiao Ruan: "Forget about my grandpa's wish."
"This can't be..." Xiao Ruan's usual calm face showed a few waves: "My grandma and Huai Su's ten-year appointment..."
"Yes."
"But it's been so many years, it's not early..."
The calico turban smiled, and continued her words: "It's time to respect heaven and earth, but my grandpa is still reluctant. He was waiting for someone until the moment he died, and that person is your grandma."
Xiao Ruan didn't speak, his calm face turned pale in an instant, his eyes were full of surprise, and he slowly touched the wine jar with his fingers...
Xu Yanqing was moved by the story of Xiao Ruan and Huai Su. Seeing Xiao Ruan's appearance at the moment, he knew that she was not feeling well, and the past was always unbearable, so he tacitly agreed with the calico turban and kept silent.
"Thank you." After a long time, Xiao Ruan sincerely thanked her while looking at the flowered cloth scarf, and then looked at Xu Yanqing: "Are you full?"
"I'm full." How could she be considered full today? Her belly was almost bursting. With so many dishes, [-]% of them went into her stomach.
"Then let's go." Xiao Ruan took out her wallet, took out a thick wad of money and handed it directly to the floral scarf: "Meal money."
"No, no, it's too much." The calico turban was frightened by the wad of money and backed away.
"Accept it, I'm sorry to disturb you today."
"What do you bother, I opened the door for business, and I was afraid that you wouldn't bother me." Seeing that the calico kerchief couldn't be resisted, he took three hundred and handed the rest back, saying, "I'll just take the meal money and leave it alone." enough."
Xiao Ruan has already picked up the wine jar and is about to leave: "It's okay, the rest will be my meal money next time."
"Don't, don't, this place will be demolished soon. There will be no next time. You see, the neighbors have already moved away. If we didn't know how to arrange the wine in the cellar, we would have moved away too." As he spoke, he let out a helpless sigh.
"Why demolish it?" Xu Yanqing asked the question Xiao Ruan wanted to ask.
The calico turban looked at Xu Yanqing, his face darkened, and said: "The government purchases and takes back the land. It is very compulsory. I am afraid that this place is not as high-end as high-rise buildings. Many people disagreed at first. There were quarrels, and hands-on moves, and finally moved out when we got tired, and so did we, this store has been passed down for three generations, I have lived here since I was a child, and I am reluctant to leave, but there is no other way.”
"What kind of government is this, the underworld!" Xu Yanting was very angry and complained.
The calico turban was frightened by her. If those people from the government or developers who came down to talk about demolition heard about it, they would inevitably have another big fight.
"Hehe, Sister Liu, why haven't you left yet? You didn't move after collecting the money, but it's really shameless. Also, who said it was about the underworld just now."
I'm really afraid of what's coming!
The calico turban was not feeling well, his face turned dark, and his amiable face just now turned gloomy, he hurriedly pushed Xiao Ruan and Xu Yanqing out of the door, and said: "Leave quickly." Then He raised his broom and rushed towards the group of people.
"Get lost! It's clear that the deadline hasn't come yet, is it interesting for you to come every day!" The calico turban really became popular, and the voice of the conversation was at its loudest.
Hearing the movement, the skinny man who had been busy in the kitchen also rushed out and put his hand on the calico scarf: "We will leave when the deadline is up, you let us go now, those wines, these things in the store are not in time at all Handle it well."
"What to do with it!" The man in the lead roared, waving the stick in his hand and was about to smash it down: "It's just some broken wood, I can smash it for you, and you don't want to toast or eat or drink. We did it three days ago Tell you to move quickly, if you don't leave by today, then we will settle it for you." He said, and winked at the other two tall and burly men beside him.
"No!" The calico turban stood in front of the skinny man together to prevent them from entering: "You can't smash it, if you dare to smash it, I, Liu Huaijin, will fight you hard!"
"Get out!" The man in the lead yelled, seeing that the two people in front of them didn't move, their eyes were fierce, their teeth were gritted, and they were about to raise a stick and smash them down.
The man in the calico turban let out an ah and held her in his arms.
Xu Yanqing couldn't bear to watch it long ago, if Xiao Ruan hadn't blocked her, she would have wanted to rush over and slap that little bastard a long time ago.She really hated Xiao Ruan in an instant, this person was so greedy for life and afraid of death, and he was so proud of himself that it had nothing to do with him.
At the moment when Xu Yanqing was struggling to rush out, he lifted a weight in his hand. It turned out that the wine jar in Xiao Ruan's hand was hugged into her arms, and Xiao Ruan had already rushed over in the blink of an eye. To be honest, Xu Yanqing seemed to only see A phantom, did not see how Xiao Ruan passed by at all.
The calico scarf opened her eyes in shock, and hastily pulled her husband aside, only to breathe a sigh of relief when she saw that her husband was not injured except for a few drops of cold sweat on his forehead.
"It's you." When she saw who took the stick, she immediately became anxious: "Go quickly, don't get involved in this matter."
"I just can't bear to see some scum." Xiao Ruan looked at the man in front of him, his sharp eyes were like a cold knife.
"Scum, who are you calling scum, don't think that you're great after a few years of fucking books, don't make me afraid to beat women, and no one will look after people who are against the government if they are killed."
"Kill it." Xiao Ruan chuckled: "Can you kill me, try it."
The man in front of him was furious by Xiao Ruan's contemptuous tone, he greeted the three people around him and shouted: "Hit me to death, hit me to death here, I don't care if Leopard cleans up this place today!" Don't believe it!"
The three men were also tickled by the words. Holding sticks, they walked towards Xiao Ruan humming with wretched expressions: "Girl, you have to pay for your words. Today, my brother will teach you the principles of life."
It was another man who was talking, with sharp mouth and monkey cheeks, but a very strong body. The moment he raised his stick to Xiao Ruan and was about to smash it down, Xu Yanqing rushed over, threw the man down, and bit his arm , blood was left on the spot.
"Bastard!" He yelled and kicked Xu Yanqing out.
"Er..." Xu Yanqing hit the wall, his back seemed to be falling apart, and he gasped in pain.
"You are looking for death!" After saying this, Xiao Ruan disappeared in place, came to Xu Yanqing's side, held her in his arms, and asked urgently with a frown, "Are you all right, is there anything wrong?"
"Oh, it's okay, the young man was just kicked, it's not a big deal." Xu Yanqing coughed twice while speaking, and there were bursts of pain in his lower abdomen.
Xiao Ruan's knuckles turned white, and there seemed to be a wave of gold spreading in the black eyeballs, gradually swallowing the entire eyeballs.
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