Delicate Flower

Chapter 42 Mezzanine

Yu Yuan returned to the store in the evening. He carried a few lotus leaf bags in his left hand and a glass bottle in his right hand. He saw Yu Wen playing chess in the hall and ran straight to him. He smiled and lifted the contents in his hand, and said: “Uncle, look what I brought back. ?”

Yu Wen smelled a scent of stewed vegetables when he approached. He sniffed deeply and said, “It’s the stewed pig’s head from Zhenbeicheng’s family.”

Yu Yuan laughed and said, “Uncle, your nose is really good.”

“That is!” Yu Wen smiled, “You don’t want to think about who brought you back from Hangzhou Mansion when you ate the braised pig’s head for the first time? If I can’t smell his braised pig’s head, what else would you call it? Old glutton?” As he said, he pointed to the glass bottle in Yu Yuan’s hand: “What’s this? It’s still in a glass bottle. This bottle is worth a few taels of silver. Where did you get it?”

Yu Yuan greeted the boss, sat down on the spring bench next to him somewhat proudly, and said, “You can’t guess this, right? This is called wine. Yao San’er gave me a gift.”

“Wine?” Yu Wen frowned, “Yao San’er?”

“It’s the third kid who lives in the Yao family in the north of the city. I grew up with me and later became a trader with his uncle.” Yu Yuan said excitedly, “I was strolling in the north of the city at noon today. I didn’t expect to meet He’s here. Now he opened a grocery store at Wulin Gate and became a boss. Knowing that I was here with you, he was going to come to say hello to you, but the store came and he couldn’t get out of it. , I gave me this bottle of wine, saying it came from the big food side. Nowadays, rich and wealthy people in Hangzhou give it to you in fashion, saying that it’s a filial piety to you, and I will give you a taste. He bought it too. He is also going to come and visit you tomorrow.”

Yu Wen remembered, and smiled: “It turned out to be him! Back then, both of his parents died. You helped him eat from time to time, but he didn’t expect him to remember you. This is also fate.”

Yu Yuan nodded repeatedly and smiled: “He is really good now, and he bought a small house at Qingchunmen, married a girl from Hangzhou as his wife, and settled down in Hangzhou.”

Yu Wen nodded and invited the boss to have a drink with him: “It’s rare for us to fall in this way, so don’t be polite. We happen to have a taste of this wine together.”

The boss has dealt with Yu Wen several times, knowing that he is a very open-minded person, and this wine has caused everyone to be curious about this wine recently, so it’s not very polite to ask the boss’s wife to add a few dishes, so he and Yu Wen, Yu Yuan moved to the patio, put the braised pork head on a plate, and started drinking.

Yu Yuan holds the pot.

As soon as the wine was poured into the wine cup, Yu Wen smelled a fruity aroma, which was different from the wine he usually drank. He took a deep breath and looked down again. In the white porcelain wine cup, the wine was red. , Like blood, he was shocked, and said: “Why this color?”

Yu Yuan hurriedly said, “It’s this color. Yao San’er even told me before that if it wasn’t for this color, it would be a fake wine.”

Yu Wen nodded and took a sip reluctantly.

The owner of the inn hurriedly asked: “How is it? Does it taste good?”

Yu Wen was non-committal, and said quietly: “This wine is the same as that tea. It has different tastes. I think it is good. You may not think it is good. You have to taste this before you know it.”

The innkeeper felt reasonable and took a sip after a toast… and then he stayed there.

Yu Yuan looked wrong, and said anxiously: “What’s wrong? Is there anything wrong?”

The innkeeper glanced at Yu Wen, swallowed the wine in his mouth, and then slowly said to Yu Yuan, “You will know if you taste it.”

Yu Yuan glanced suspiciously at the two of them, and tentatively took a sip of the wine, but he spit out the wine with a “poof” before it entered his throat.

“What’s this smell?” He curled his eyebrows. “Didn’t it mean it’s very expensive?”

Both Yu Wen and the owner of the inn laughed, and Yu Wen said bluntly at this time: “What famous wine? How can it be compared to our Jinhua wine? However, it’s okay to have a fresh taste. Go, bring your sister and have a glass to taste. It’s a rare trip to Hangzhou Mansion, and you have to see some weird things before this trip is worthwhile!”

Yu Yuan squeezed his eyes and brought a glass of wine to Yu Tang.

Yu Tang looked at Yu Yuan suspiciously: “Didn’t you tell me to fast?”

“This wine is very expensive, just taste it, smell it, you think you can drink it all the way!” Yu Yuan said.

Yu Tang didn’t doubt that he had it, and took a sip.

Astringent, sour and bitter, what kind of wine is this!

Yu Tang got up to beat Yu Yuan.

Yu Yuan and her circled around the round table and said: “It was my uncle who asked me to bring it up for you to taste.”

“Then you can’t do this!”

The brothers and sisters were arguing, Xiao Er knocked on the door outside and said, “Master Yu, someone is looking for you!”

Yu Tang didn’t want to make trouble with him anymore, Yu Yuan straightened his clothes, and asked, “Who is it?”

The second person in the shop said, “I’m a twelve or three-year-old kid. He just said he came to you, but he wouldn’t say who he is?”

Yu Yuan said in confusion: “Who is this?” Then he said to Yu Tang, “I’ll come to see it.”

Yu Tang nodded and sent Yu Yuan out.

After a while, Yu Yuan turned back. He whispered to Yu Tang in a low voice: “Master Qian sent someone to find me. You will tell him when his uncle comes back.”

Yu Wen was drinking with the innkeeper at this time.

Yu Tang worried: “Didn’t you say what’s the matter?”

Yu Yuan shook his head and said, “Don’t worry, I will let someone come to you to report to you immediately if anything happens.”

Yu Tang could only let him go no matter what.

When the second watch was playing, Yu Wen’s banquet broke up. He came to see Yu Tang: “Are you better yet?”

“Much better!” Yu Tang helped his father sit down at the table and poured him a cup of hot tea.

When Yu Wen saw that Yu Tang had done half of the needlework that was left on the table, he couldn’t help but pick it up and watch it in front of the oil lamp: “Oh, I didn’t expect you to do this. This little bug can be made fake, with seven black spots on his back. There’s nothing wrong with the location. It’s great!”

Yu Tang is very good at making insects. In addition to ladybugs, there are also dragonflies, praying mantises, and bees… She does everything very realistically.

Yu Wen said: “This flower is also well done, I look like a pasqueflower. When you go back, I will make a dodai for your mom.”

This is her father’s recognition and affirmation.

Yu Tang was very happy and smiled: “I’m going to make a peony or peony flower for Momma.”

Yu Wen said, “I think your mom looks better when wearing Haitang or cloves.”

Is it true that in the mind of the father, the mother is more like a begonia flower or a lilac flower? ”

Yu Tang nodded with a smile and told Yu Wen where Yu Yuan was going.

Yu Wen was very worried, but it was not easy to show it in front of Yu Tang. He faintly said “I know” and told Yu Tang: “You go to bed early, and remember to make a flower head for your mom tomorrow. We said it was bought in Hangzhou City, and your mom can’t tell the difference.”

Yu Tang responded with a smile.

But tossing and turning at night, I haven’t fallen asleep much.

Before dawn, Yu Yuan came back.

When he entered the room, he also awakened Yu Tang, who was hanging in the heart next door, and she quietly put on her clothes and went to her father’s room.

Yu Yuan came to open the door.

Yu Wen put on his clothes and stood in front of the bookcase with a heavy face, and saw Yu Tang coming in without saying anything.

When Yu Tang approached, he found three unframed paintings on the bookcase. Two of them can be seen as “Songxi Fishing Hidden Picture”, and the other one looks like a mountain and a sea. There are many incomprehensible symbols on it.

Yu Wen said solemnly: “Atang, I really made your guess. There is something strange in this painting!”

It doesn’t need to be said by her father that Yu Tang can also see it, she looked at Yu Yuan.

Yu Yuan’s face is not very good-looking, he lowered his throat and said, “These are the three paintings revealed by Master Qian. The “Songxi Fishing Hidden Picture” is on the upper and lower levels. The middle level is something that I don’t know what it is. Master Qian didn’t even mount it, so let us get it back.”

It can be seen that Master Qian also sees that there is a problem.

Yu Tang pointed to the unknown painting and said, “What is this?”

Yu Yuan shook his head: “I don’t know either.”

Yu Wen stared at the nameless picture, and spit out two words with a sullen face: “Yutu!”

“What?!” Yu Tang and Yu Yuan asked in unison.

Yu Wen explained: “It’s a topographic map of mountains and rivers. In the past, when fighting wars and controlling water, you would need such a map to know whether the surrounding area is mountain or water, mountain forest or plain river.”

Yu Tang thought about going to a Zhaoming Temple and no one was leading and didn’t know where to go. Suddenly, he felt that the person who could paint such a picture was very admirable. Moreover, it must have taken a lot of manpower and material resources, which is very precious. She said: “Did they find this picture?”

Yu Wen and Yu Yuan did not say a word, and acquiesced to her. Yu Wen even said: “Maps are very rare and valuable. They are all controlled by the Ministry of War or the Ministry of Industry, and ordinary people have never seen it before. In the past, generals such as the General Soldier were required to rely on the third-ranking officer to rely on the Ministry of War document. Go to the Ministry of Industry to get it. After the war, the map must be returned intact. It is me, I also heard Lu Xin say it unintentionally.”

When Yu Yuan heard this, he couldn’t help but feel a little horrified, and said, “Where did this painting come out? Who is looking for this painting? How does he know that this thing is hidden in this picture? Why didn’t he openly ask our house to buy it? ?”

No one can answer these questions.

No matter whether Yu Wen or Yu Tang, they have never realized so clearly that their family is in serious trouble.

Yu Yuan said, “Then, what shall we do?”

Yu Wen sat paralyzed on the master chair behind the book case, and said: “You let me think about it, let me think about it… Although I recognize that this is a map, where exactly is the mountainous landform I painted, and what effect is it? I don’t know… If you want to know, you can only find people who have seen maps, even people who are familiar with all kinds of maps…” Then, he pointed to the place where the wavy line represents water in the picture: ” Nothing is marked, and we don’t know whether it’s river water or river water. We hold this painting like a child holding an eighty catty knife. Not only can it not deter others, but it will hurt ourselves.”

People who have seen maps, people who are familiar with maps… Yu Tang’s face suddenly appeared in Yu Tang’s mind.

“Daddy!” She hesitated, “Or, shall we go to Master Pei San?!”

Yu Wen looked at her abruptly.

Yu Tang suddenly felt guilty in his heart, uncomfortable like being stripped of his coat, and said: “Or, you can also find Zhou Zhuangyuan… They are all knowledgeable people, and they must know what is painted on it. …”