Chapter 47
Chapter 45 Eat melon
Lu Ying is a noble lady of a wealthy family. She didn’t know the fireworks in the world, so she set up a secret whistle and was immediately spotted by Wang Daxia, who was in the market.
However, Lu Ying had a straightforward personality, he would correct his mistakes. He didn’t mind that Wang Daxia just teased “that no-brainer”. Of course, he was indifferent to the flattery he took. He only knew how to solve the problem and asked: “It is indeed me. I didn’t think it over well. From your point of view, what is better to replace the tea shed?
With such a humble boss, Wang Daxia didn’t hide her privately, and said: “The tea sheds are all set up. Changing two hosts within a day will cause people to doubt. It’s better to transport a few carts of watermelons and sell big bowls of tea and melons. On this hot day, watermelons are eaten by guests in the morning, midnight and evening to quench thirst and heat.”
Lu Ying told his subordinates, “Buy a few carts of watermelons and transport them to sell.”
Everyone added, “Remember to buy watermelons from Daxing. We in Wanping like to eat melons from Daxing.”
Lu Ying said, “Do as he said.” After thinking about it, she asked Wang Daxia, “What is the difference between Wanping’s watermelon and Daxing’s?”
“Just knock.” Wang Daxia bent her palm and knocked the air with her knuckles. “Just ask, hello, are you from Wanping or Daxing?”
Lu Ying was taken aback, and then he realized that Wang Daxia teased her to play, kicked the oar to him, “Pad your dragon boat!”
Wang Daxia smiled and walked away carrying the oars.
Lu Ying went to greet Lu Bing. Lu Bing’s facial expressions have generally recovered. He walks freely. After more than half a month of raising his face, his face is a little ruddy. He took a self-portrait in the mirror and said, “We will go home together tonight. Staying in the Yamen, I’m afraid my family will be suspicious, but my face is so good, saying that there is no free time to go home when I work in Yamen every day, and I am afraid that I will have to worry about it.”
Lu Bing died of four wives in a row. What he called pleasant was the birth mother of Lu Ying’s five sisters, the Li family. Although Li is a concubine, she has the fifth-rank fate in her body. The fifth-rank fate of the Ming Dynasty is called Yiren, so she is usually called Li Yiren.
Li Yiren was also the niece of Lu Bing’s stepmother, Mrs. Li, and when she was carried into Lu Mansion, she was a concubine.
Lu Bing’s biological mother was the nurse of Emperor Jiajing. She died early. Although Mrs. Li was a stepmother, she took care of Lu Bing and trained him to become a jinshi in Chinese martial arts. Lu Bing respected his stepmother, Lu Bingke’s wife, his eldest son, and his second son all died. Mrs. Li brought his niece Li in for the heirs.
Li gave birth to five daughters in a row, and all of them stood still. It was really not easy, so Lu Bing asked her to give her the fate of the fifth grade pleasant.
Lu Ying said: “I told Yiren that I urged my father to eat regularly and stopped drinking, so his health is better than before. This year’s Dragon Boat Festival, realgar wine is not allowed to drink, and he will drink sherbet with his father.”
Luckily, there was a daughter who took cover. Lu Bing said with a smile: “Just do it. We will go home together tonight. Tomorrow is the Dragon Boat Festival, so we don’t need to be a errand.”
When Lu Ying saw that his father was in good health, he was in a good mood. He went back to deal with his official duties and remembered that Wang Daxia saw through the loopholes in the tea shed. Knowing his weaknesses, he changed into plain clothes and went to the tea shed to take a look.
There are a lot of watermelons in the tea shed, and more guests sit down to eat melons than drink tea. Those peanuts and melon seeds and other roasted seeds and nuts cannot be bought.
In the summer, except for the big family with ice cubes at home, ordinary people will not touch these easily irritated roasted seeds and nuts when eating snacks.
Lu Ying found a place to sit down and asked for two slices of watermelon. When giving the money, he whispered to the seller in disguise, “Remove all the peanuts and seeds.”
Lu Ying was eating melons, watching all directions, listening to all directions, and feeling the fireworks in the city. The world of ordinary people was very different from the environment in which she grew up. He was busy with three meals a day, and was worried about some trivial things she thought. You have to work hard…
In fact, even if you climb to the position of your father, even the emperor, there are things you can’t ask for. Is this the saying in the Buddhist scriptures that all beings are suffering, and only when the four are empty can you escape from the sea of suffering?
Just thinking about it, a familiar person came to buy melons, it was Ding Wu.
Ding Wu was stunned when he saw Lu Ying, and then realized that Jin Yiwei was watching him, and that he was an exile who was going to be sent back to exile.
Ding Wu picked a watermelon, and sat beside Lu Ying as an excuse, and said in a low voice, “I’m helping Banxia making pills at home today. I won’t go except to buy something to eat.”
Lu Ying said, “You went to the bathhouse last night.” Lu Ying has always spoken so directly. Jin Yiwei has been monitoring him and is clear about his schedule.
Ding Wu choked. The drunkard who went to the bathhouse last night didn’t mean to drink, because he found at the dinner table that the boy from the neighbor’s house was obviously “intentional” to Pinellia, so he went to the bathhouse to inquire about Wang Daxia’s details.
But this reason cannot be told to Lu Ying. Ding Wu said, “I won’t go to the bathhouse tonight.” He will wash at home.
Lu Ying said, “You are an exile, go to the bathhouse to ask for news from my men? Don’t do this kind of thing anymore, and return to Tieling with peace of mind. Wang Daxia is my person. Although he doesn’t know how to deal with it, he is not a bad person.”
Lu Ying protected short, even if her father complained about Wang Daxia’s badness, she would go back softly, not to mention Ding Wu, an exile.
Ding Wu paused silently, and took the watermelon to bid farewell.
Back home, Wei Caiwei was making safflower angelica powder for women with irregular menstruation. Ding Wu cut the watermelon and said, “Take a break and eat melon first.”
Wei Caiwei was eating the watermelon. Ding Wu said about the encounter with Lu Ying in the Guapeng of Tianshui Alley, “…I didn’t expect to follow it every time I took a bath.”
I wonder if Lu Ying is a girl. Wei Caiwei said: “General Lu speaks and does things in a straightforward manner. Sometimes she doesn’t speak affectionately, but she is still good. I pretend to be a widow to practice medicine, and she doesn’t pierce it.”
Ding Wu looked at the “spiritual position of the deceased husband Wang Erlang” on the incense case, and said, “You have to write Wang Erlang? This is a coincidence. Wang Yanei has no objection after knowing the truth?”
Ding Wu was leaving the day after tomorrow, and he was really worried about the neighbor, the “great wolf dog” who was staring at his Pinellia sister and staring at him.
“The word’two’ is the simplest, so I wrote it easily.” Wei Caiwei said: “He didn’t ask me to change the name of the lingpai, it should be fine.”
Ding Wu still didn’t worry, “Is it okay, or has ulterior motives.”
“Don’t think about it, eat melon.” Wei Caiwei stuffed a slice of watermelon into Ding Wu’s mouth, “I am a flower from Tieling Ivory Mountain. You have seen a lot of people who like me in Tieling. My beauty can still make money and it’s not me. It’s wrong. It’s normal for the guy next door to want to look at me more, but he is the son of a thousand families. I belong to a female doctor of three aunts and six poems. Like you, I stay single. I don’t want to get married. You and I know what I want. What, don’t get trapped by the world, don’t follow the trend of getting married and having children, why would Big Brother Ding not believe me when you meet Wang Daxia?”
Ding Wu put a mouthful of watermelon water, “Caring is messy, I was wrong.”
Wei Caiwei passed another level. Secretly said: Wang Daxia, you can stop for a while, don’t make Ding Wu suspicious anymore.
The two of them were busy all day, and even for three meals, Ding Wu went outside to buy and eat in the heat, and had no time to cook.
Wang Daxia went home again tonight, and originally wanted to eat dinner, but the two did not start a party today. They have finished eating the meal bought by Ding Wu and are sitting in the courtyard to enjoy the coolness and rest and chat.
Wang Daxia invited the two again, “Tomorrow’s Dragon Boat Festival, the twenty-four guards in the capital will compete in the dragon boat in the moat. You have to see me take first place.”
Ding Wu remembered Lu Ying’s warning and said, “I’m not going.”
Ding Wu will leave the day after tomorrow. Of course Wei Caiwei will not go, saying: “Jin Yiwei has been number one in recent years. If you help out this year, I will also be number one if I don’t see you.”
Wang Daxia was very disappointed, “Didn’t I say it was done yesterday, how can I change my mind.”
Because yesterday I didn’t know that Lu Ying set up a tea shed to monitor Ding Wu, and it was not appropriate to even go to the nearest bathhouse nearby, let alone go to the crowded moat to watch the dragon boat race.
Tomorrow will be a huge crowd.
Ding Wu is not an unreasonable person either. He explained: “Those in exile waiting to be repatriated are not easy to move around.
Wang Daxia wanted to show himself in front of Wei Caiwei and show his heroic appearance in winning the championship. This is a rare opportunity, and I can’t let it go, saying: “You are in exile, and you are not in jail. You don’t need to paint a place in jail.”
Wei Caiwei said, “You are from Jin Yiwei, the tea shed in Tianshui Alley, you know best what is going on. The melon fields don’t accept shoes, and Li Xia doesn’t get the crown. Big Brother Ding stays behind closed doors at home to avoid suspicion and don’t give Jin Yiwei Trouble. How can you blame him for drawing the ground as a prison?”
He he he, he again!
Wang Daxia stomped her foot and ran away!
This is the virtue… Ding Wu really relieved his heart, the frizzy half-sized boy, sister Banxia wouldn’t like it.
Wang Daxia did not return to the house next door, but ran to the watermelon stall at the entrance of Tianshui Alley. Because there were too many customers buying watermelons, Lu Ying had given up selling tea and sold watermelons instead.
Wang Daxia looked to Lu Ying, “Can Jin Yiwei not allow Ding Wu to go out for a tour?”
Lu Ying said, “There is no doubt.”
Wang Daxia said: “Stalking like this makes Ding Wu dare not go out. If Ding Wu doesn’t go out, Doctor Wei won’t go out. No one will watch me rowing a dragon boat tomorrow.”
Lu Ying pointed to himself, “I am not a human? My father is not a human?”
After all, it was a match of the twenty-four guards in Beijing. It was a matter of honor, and the commanders of each guard would still make time to show their faces.
Wang Daxia said: “There is a pergola in the moat. It is a place where the family members of the nobles and officials watch the dragon boat race. I beg Lu to give them two places. I will be responsible for picking them up, so there will be no problems.”
Lu Ying hesitated, after all, it is better to do more than to do less.
Wang Daxia continued to beg her, “I have been training hard for more than ten days, just want to win a game in front of acquaintances, and fight for face. You see, I am upset, what if I influence my performance and fall behind? Jin Yiwei is number one every year, and this year is ten thousand. Don’t lose your reputation.”
Wang Daxia’s three-inch tongue finally touched Lu Ying’s sense of honor, “What nonsense, this year must be the first place, I will pick up the position, and you will pick you up.”
Wang Daxia was overjoyed, “Commander Lu is compassionate, and he is bidding to work for Commander Lu. He will go through all kinds of fire and water, and he will do it!”
“I didn’t let you go through the fire, you row the dragon boat first.”
Wang Daxia ran to announce the good news, “…it’s settled, I will drive a carriage to pick you up tomorrow morning.”
Seeing that it was Lu Ying’s arrangement, Ding Wu did not decline.
Dragon Boat Festival.
There are huge crowds on both sides of the moat, with twenty-four guards in the capital, first divided into six groups, four-four preliminary competitions, the first place in each group will be selected, and the last six dragon boats will participate in the finals.
Wei Caiwei and Ding Wu didn’t need to huddle together with the peaceful people. They sat in a stand on the river beach with a pergola to block the scorching sun.
Today’s weather is extremely hot, sweating under the pergola, there are a few ice bowl sellers pushing carts to sell them, and customers are eager.
Ding Wu got up to buy an ice bowl, but when the dragon boat started, Wei Caiwei never saw him come back.
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