Eat in Song Dynasty

Chapter 145

There are thousands of trees with colorful flowers in Linjin, and rows of willows in the narrow path.

But recalled that when Jin Mingchi was on the road, the man in the red dress competed to see the man in the green dress.

In the spring of March, the grass grows and the warbler flies.

The first day of March is the opening day of Jinming Pond, the royal garden. On that day, all the residents of Bianjing came out of the city to go outing in Jinming Pond.

The little ladies put on light and airy spring shirts, and went out together in bright dresses, and the fragrance of the places they passed attracted the young men to look at them from afar.

Jinming Pond is located outside the Shuntian Gate in the west of the city. Its interior is complete with palaces and jade buildings, exotic flowers and stones, rare birds and monsters, docks, warships and dragon boats.

Before dawn, the park is already full of tourists. Even though the weather is not good, it started to rain lightly, but the bustle was still unabated.

Especially the east bank, because there are water acrobatics, water puppet shows, diving performances, dragon boat races, and even naval exercises that the common people like to watch.

Shrewd merchants set up colorful sheds on the east bank early to rent out to tourists watching water performances.

And those buildings on Linshui Street were contracted by some powerful merchants early on to open shops, teahouses, taverns, restaurants, and entertainers.

"All the officials and guests, come in and rest your feet, a small shop for tea and soup, a bowl of five cents."

"Guest officer, the small shop's fine wine is called "Zui Chun Lai". Only thirty bottles are available every day, and it will only be sold out."

"Hey, charcoal-grilled mutton, ten yuan a skewer, come and have a look."

In the drizzle of the lake and mountains, the shouts of merchants and the aroma of food came from time to time.

Now Wen Shu, Qin Shan, Wang Ling and some girls from the private school are sitting in the colorful shed rented by Bashiwen on the east bank, eating candied fruit brought from home and food bought from a nearby shop. while watching the puppet show "The Eunuch's Children Staggered Standing" performed by Ikegami with relish.

The renting policy for the color shed is [-] Wen per hour. If you want to continue renting after an hour, you can continue to pay the rent to the person who supervises and manages the color shed next to you.If not, then exit on time, and the manager who collects the money will clean up the canopy and continue to rent it to the next group of tourists.

However, most people rent for an hour.

Because it was exactly one hour after the puppet show on Chishang.So few people watched one episode and went on to watch the next one, and Wen Shu and others were no exception. After all, there were so many lakes, mountains, and beautiful buildings waiting to be admired.

After collecting the uneaten candied fruit, several people returned the rent and left the colorful shed with their umbrellas.

In the drizzle, Wen Shu held a green cloth umbrella and asked the others, "Where are you going next, do you have anything you want to see?"

She was well dressed up today, usually her black hair was only half pulled up at the top, but today she was rarely combed into a double spiral bun, and each of them was tied with a crimson headband that matched the color of her clothes.The clothes on her body are newly purchased long skirts with embroidered leaves and red patterns. In the hazy drizzle, from a distance, it looks like a blooming red plum.

"Go and see the acrobatics. I heard that there are monkeys riding wooden wheels." A little lady suggested.

Wang Ling stretched her neck and glanced at the acrobat performer, then shook her head again and again: "Let's go, the place is already full of people, we may not be able to squeeze in, I think it's better to go to Qiong I heard that the peach blossoms and begonias in the West Garden are in bloom.”

Qin Shan looked at this and that, as if she wanted to go everywhere.The rest of the girls couldn't make up their minds for a moment.

Wen Shu was not very interested in these two places. She had seen the water acrobatics last year, and it was nothing new. She had also admired the flowers in Qionglin Garden the year before last, and she found it even more boring.

Because of the quiet environment and the many exotic flowers and stones in Qionglin Garden, it is even more attractive to literati and scholars, and even some young ladies from wealthy and high-ranking officials like to go there to enjoy flowers.But she didn't make cakes today, and she didn't plan to sell Dan wooden boxes, so she didn't want to go there to make fun of it. Instead, she was more interested in fishing on the west bank of Jinming Pond.

The west bank of Jinming Pond is no more lively than the east bank, and there are many shops.Because there are no performances and few flowers and trees there, there are few tourists and it is a bit desolate, but shrewd merchants can always think of ways to attract tourists.

No, some people adapted to local conditions and introduced the method of paid fishing. You only need to spend fifty yuan to buy a brand there, and you can fish.

As for fishing rods, buckets, stools and other fishing equipment are provided by the merchants, in addition to free tea service.

If you catch a fish and want to eat it on the spot, you only need to pay a little money, and the nearby fish family will help kill the fish on the spot, make sashimi, and enjoy it by the water.

However, Wen Shu doesn't like that way of eating. Relatively speaking, she still prefers to eat cooked fish.Because there are no fish merchants on the shore, if you don’t want to eat it now, you can take the fish to a restaurant on the east coast to cook, or you can take it home and cook it yourself.

Wen Shu went out with her father in the morning, but they separated at the gate of the garden. Her father didn't like to watch acrobatics, so he followed Uncle Sun and the others to go fishing on the west bank early in the morning. By now, he didn't know if he had caught any fish?
She asked everyone: "I want to go fishing on the west bank, can we go together?" After thinking about it,

Everyone shook their heads.

A little lady in an apricot flower shirt curled her lips when she heard the words: "What's so interesting about fishing? I tried fishing once last year, but I sat for two hours in vain. I didn't even catch a fry. It's really boring." , let me say that instead of fishing, I would rather go to Qionglin Garden to enjoy the flowers.”

"Good to enjoy the flowers, let's all go to enjoy the flowers, there are many learned young gentlemen there, you may not know when you will see each other and make a good relationship." The little lady smiled and covered her mouth.

When she said this, everyone immediately imagined, which girl is not pregnant, and most of the people here are unmarried ladies. When they think of going to Qionglin Garden, there is a high possibility of meeting their beloved, and their hearts are surging.

After some discussion, the three young ladies went to Qionglin Courtyard with Wang Ling, while the other two went to the acrobatic side as usual. In the end, only Qin Shan was left to accompany Wen Shu to the west bank.

In fact, in her heart, Qin Shan is not interested in fishing. If she likes it, she actually prefers the east bank, because there are performances to watch, delicious food and fun here. It can be seen that Wen Shu went to that remote and desolate place alone. I was a little worried about going there, so I said I wanted to go to the West Bank as well.

The west bank is a bit far from the east bank, and Yi Wenshu can reach the west bank in two quarters of an hour, but Miss Qin Shan walks relatively slowly, Wen Shu cooperated with her, and it was already three quarters of an hour when the two finally reached the west bank.

After patrolling the fisherman on the bank, Wen Shu finally found her father in front of the innermost river beach.

At this moment, Father Wen was wearing a coir raincoat and a bamboo hat, and was sitting there motionless like a wooden figure.A knee-high wooden bucket stood by his leg, and because he was too far away, he couldn't see if there was any fish in the bucket.

But according to Wenshu's guess, there will never be more than three fish, because her father has never caught more than three fish in all these years.

"Father." She raised her hand happily and shouted, pulling Qin Shan over there.

Father Wen turned his head to look, smiled, and was about to show off to his daughter that he had caught four fish for the first time, when he saw a big dog suddenly popping out from the side of the road. Go to Wenshu and the others.

"A-Ning, be careful!"

"Ah!" A black figure suddenly appeared beside her legs, and Qin Shan screamed in fear and dodged to the rear right.

It's just that she forgot that she was standing not far from the lake at this time, and when she dodged, her foot accidentally stepped on the moss on the stone, the sole of her foot slipped, and half of her body slipped out.

Seeing that she was about to fall headfirst into the river, Wen Shu, who reacted, paled in shock. He hurriedly turned around, grabbed her arm, and at the same time spun around, wrapped her arm around her back, and pushed her away from the bank.

But in this way, her body rushed to the lake, and she didn't choose a good place to stay, or she didn't see clearly in her panic, and she didn't have time to react. The place Qin Shan stepped on.

"呲刀~" The sole of his foot slipped, and Wen Shu fell into the lake uncontrollably.

And Qin Shan, who was pushed away by her, didn't react at all. Even if she did, with her strength, it was impossible to hold Wen Shu.

"Plop!" Huge splashes splashed on the surface of the water, and then there was a scream from the shore.

"No, someone fell into the water, quickly find a bamboo pole."

"Sister Wen, sister Wen!"

"A-Ning, A-Ning." Seeing this, Wen Tai in the distance threw the bamboo pole and ran to this side.

(End of this chapter)