NOVEL NEXT Chapter 186 Qingmei Song
After Zhe Mei and Wan Niang finished singing, Ma Xi brought the boy to them.
"Sister Orimei, this little guy knows some music and he wants to get to know you."
The young man bowed his hands to the two of them and said, "Young student Chu Mian, I am so lucky to have heard the girls' lyrics and music today. I have a self-composed song "Song of the Sea", which I would like to give to the two girls."
Zhemei thanked Mr. Chu, took the tune and hummed: "This is a folk tune. Mr. Chu, we have to practice this tune."
The lyrics of this minor tune are about life on the frontier. The words are simple and catchy.
Familiar with it, I feel that if it is paired with Wan Niang’s heavenly voice, it will definitely become popular.
"Mr. Chu, you must have missed your hometown very much when you wrote this song, right?" Shui Xi asked.
"When you tell me, I really feel homesick. Do you still have food from the north in your store?"
"Yes, baked buns, baked naan, hot dry noodles, that's all, as well as some home-style stir-fries."
As Ma Xi said this, he brought some food cards over.
By dinner time, everyone was feeling hungry before we knew it.
Chu Mian saw the green plum banquet set menu on the food menu, so he ordered carved plum pork and naan and started eating.
Seeing that this young man had a talent for composing music, Mao Xi asked, "Master Chu, can you do me a favor? I'll save you the meal."
"Please say!"
"The Green Plum Banquet has just been launched in the shop. I would like to ask the young master to help compose a folk song with four to six lines that can be sung and include all the dishes in the Green Plum Banquet."
"It's simple. Not only all the dishes, but also how about I include the picking and making of green plums. The song is called "Green Plum Song". What do you think?"
This little brother was still quite good, so Mao Xi briefly introduced the process of green plums from picking to making to Chu Mian.
"In addition to selling fresh plums directly, I also make crispy plums, candied plums, and black plums, which can be eaten directly."
When it came to cooking, Mao Xi talked endlessly, while Chu Mian took a pen and paper and memorized it carefully.
Mao Xi continued: "Speaking of this black plum, not only can it be eaten directly, I also made it into black plum tomatoes and iced sour plum soup."
When talking about sour plum soup, Mao Xi's mouth felt sore due to conditioned reflex. She swallowed her saliva, went to the kitchen and poured two cups of sour plum soup, and drank while talking.
The waiter, Ah Xing, took a bottle of green plum wine from the kitchen: "Shopkeeper, there is also this green plum wine [green drink]."
Chu Mian took a sip of Qingzhu, which was also fruit wine. He had only drank wine before, and never thought there was such a fine wine in Lingnan.
This green plum wine is really fruity, sour and sweet, but not too sweet, and has some light tea fragrance.
After drinking two glasses of green wine, Mao Xi became a little tipsy and talked a little too much.
"The rest is some hard dishes made with green plum sauce and pickled plums. I'll leave it to Mr. Chu."
Mao Xi had just finished introducing all the dishes of the Green Plum Banquet, and Mr. Chu was already tapping his feet to the beat, humming a folk tune from his mouth.
In order not to disturb his creation, Mao Xi invited him to the coffee room.
Half an hour later, Mr. Chu came in front of everyone with his lyrics and music.
Zhemei and Mr. Chu hummed a melody together. The melody was so contagious that even after listening to it several times, Mao Xi started humming along with it.
The next day, Wan Niang sang this "Green Plum Song" in the shop.
This song is lively and cheerful, easy to sing, and diners will occasionally hum along.
Mao Xi asked Brother Ying to get some sugar paintings and give them to the little children in the city, and taught them to sing the song "Green Plum Song".
The little kids spread the song very quickly, and soon brought the song to the streets of Lihua Town, and the Qingmei Feast became very popular.
Combined with Brother Ying's hawking on the streets, more people came to Liuxiang Snacks Green Plum Banquet than before.
Especially some literati, their favorite thing is to come to the shop, order the carved plum balls and a cup of tea, sit in the elegant room of the shop all afternoon, and listen to music leisurely.
The diners in the outer hall really missed Lou Lan'er's storytelling.
It had been less than ten days since she went to the new shop. The uncle who loved to listen to stories was thinking of her and said to Shu Xi: "Shopkeeper, when will this girl Lan'er come back to tell stories for us all?"
"Soon, soon!" Mao Xi comforted everyone, and then set off for the fried chicken shop in Kaitang County.
She took over from Lou Laner and started selling fried chicken in Kaitang County herself.
"Sister Lan'er, the uncles and aunties at the supper stall miss your storytelling. From now on, I will come here to take your place during the supper stall."
During the late night snack stall, many people came to the East Stage to watch the show, and many people ordered fried chicken. Lou Laner stayed in the shop to help for an hour, and she did not leave until the number of people became less.
"Ah Shu, I'm going back first. You should be more careful in Kaitang alone."
"What can happen to me? Don't worry!"
Lou Laner came to Lin Mansion again to spy.
Ever since the last time Lin Qiaoer brought poisonous wine to the shop in Lihua Town to cause trouble, she has stopped.
Lou Lan'er went to Lin Mansion to spy twice, but the other party made no new moves.
That night, she sneaked into the Lin Mansion again, and the entire Lin Mansion was in chaos.
Some of the servants and maids were packing up, while others were carrying their bags alone, as if they were about to leave the Lin Mansion.
Mao Xi found Xiao He, who was preparing to leave through the back door of Lin Mansion with three cooks.
Lou Laner asked: "Miss Xiaohe, what happened to your Lin Mansion? Why did you leave?"
Xiao He stopped, pulled Lou Lan'er to the hidden flower garden, and said anxiously: "The servant said that Mr. Lin is preparing to move his family to Litang County to avoid his enemies, and we are going back to our hometown."
When did Mr. Lin have an enemy? Brother Mu must have found a way to deal with the Lin family.
No wonder none of the Lin brothers and sisters have come out to act like monsters in the past few days.
Lou Lan'er immediately ran back to the fried chicken shop and told Shu Xi the news.
As soon as Mao Xi heard the news, he planned to close the shop early and go to Prince Jia's Mansion to see if Mu Zhiyuan had returned.
Mother Chun from Guosepeng sent a maid to the fried chicken shop and bought twenty portions of sweet potatoes and sweet plums.
Mao Xi asked curiously: "Is there not enough fruit in the fruit cake shop?"
"That's not the case. Some guests from other places came and said they came to eat at your place while watching the theater. They specifically requested to eat your sweet potatoes and sweet plums."
That young master is also a foreigner. It seems that the town and county have been a lot more lively recently.
She plans to cook more northern dishes in the shop tomorrow.
Mao Xi pondered all the way and asked Lou Lan'er: "Sister Lan'er, tell me what you like in Beisu. I'll add more dishes."
Lou Lan'er was familiar with the treasures: "We have a lot of delicious food there, such as kebabs, stewed bones, random stews, cut cakes..."
In the Lin Mansion, Mr. Lin placed poisonous wine in front of his family.
"It's too late. It seems we can't move south incognito. I'll take the first step."
After Master Lin finished speaking, he drank the poisonous wine.
"Master!" Mrs. Lin glanced at the two girls, then drank the poisonous wine and fell to the ground.
When Lin Qiao saw his parents dying in front of him, he cried and said to Lin Wencai: "Brother, I don't want to die, I can't die. Don't we have the Cao Gang and the uncle as our backers?"
Lin Wencai pinched his sister's neck and was about to force-feed poisoned wine to his own sister.
During the struggle, Lin Qiaoer pulled out the hairpin and stabbed Lin Wencai in the throat.
A mouthful of red blood spurted from Lin Wencai's mouth onto Lin Qiaoer's face.
Lin Qiaoer knelt on the ground, looking for the jade pendant on her brother's body.
"Yupei, I want to go to Caobang, I want to find the uncle..."
A dart flew from the darkness and stabbed directly in the middle of Lin Qiaoer's forehead. She fell to the ground and died instantly.
The man in black came to Master Lin's study, found the letter, and burned it together with the Lin family.
The servants and servants panicked and ran away when they saw that the Lin family's young and old had been wiped out. Those who did not escape were buried here together with the fire.
Thick smoke billowed, and the stench from the burning Lin Mansion floated over Kaitang County, attracting people to watch.
No one knew the cause of the fire. Only a few voices were heard shouting: "Fire! Fire!"
It rained heavily the next morning, extinguishing the fire that had been burning all night.
Lin Mansion has long been burned to the ground.