Chapter 34 Section thirty-four

This is a specially arranged temporary hiding place, a small courtyard facing north and south, each with three bungalows.The south room was pitch black, but the north room was brightly lit. When the cotton curtain was lifted, the heat was blowing on the face, and the room was like spring. Immediately, I felt that the leather robe could not be worn anymore. "It's so warm!" Zai Zhen looked around and felt that there was something missing in the house. After thinking about it, he remembered that there is no one in the north that does not have a stove. As long as you enter the house, you can see it. This house is not the case, so he asked strangely: "Where is the stove?"

"There's no stove." Duan Zhigui said, "It's a foreigner's method. He installed a heating pipe. It's cleaner than a stove, and there's no heat." "Oh!" Zai Zhen asked, "Where does the heating come from?" "Outside, boilers are used to heat water, and pipes are used to bring in the hot air." "That's good!" Zai Zhen said without hesitation: "The mansion also has to pretend. Xiangyan, I'll leave this to you." "Yes! I'll do it right away. Beizi please sit in the back room." As Duan Zhigui said, he lifted the curtain of the west room, a girl with long braids, about eighteen or nineteen years old, greeted the door, and shouted with a smile: "Master Zhen!"

Zaizhen's feeling was different immediately, as if he was in the first-class Huayin small class in Bada Hutong.Stepping in and taking a look, there is a big copper bed on the inside, complete with quilt pillows, a dressing table in front of the bed, and a screen hanging on the opposite wall. .A table is placed by the window, but instead of vases, incense burners and other furnishings, there are dried and wet fruits and various foreign wines.In addition, there is a one-legged round table in the middle of the room called "Bailing Terrace". Although the tabletop is made of red sandalwood marble, it feels as moist as jade to the touch, which is naturally due to the heating pipes.

"Her name is Jin'er." Duan Zhigui pointed to the girl and said to Zai Zhen, "Let her greet you! I won't bother you." "Take care, worry!" Zai Zhen said, "I'll go out after a short rest." "Please take a break, Beizi. I will make arrangements outside. Just say that Beizi has already returned to the hotel. I will also greet the guards and attendants well, so there is no need to make them wait. When the time comes, I will personally send Beizi back." "That can't be better!" Zai Zhen once again cupped his hands and thanked him: "I appreciate all the troubles."

"Don't dare to do it, don't dare to do it!" Duan Zhigui asked An to return the gift, then took two steps back and said to Jin'er: "You can greet him well." "Yes!" Jin'er agreed, turned around and said, "Uncle Zhen, take off your clothes!" "That's right!" Zai Zhen said, "You ask someone to bring my clothes and bag." When high-ranking officials go out, as usual, there are personal servants who carry clothes and bags so that they can change into plain clothes when they have banquets. If they stay for a long time, or in the weather of "March and September, dress indiscriminately", they carry more than one set of plain clothes.As for Zai Zhen’s number one trousers, if you’re a guest for half a day, you need to bring a coat bag, because you don’t know what to play. Wen quietly drinks and chats, and when the time comes, he has to change into clothes of the same material. The colors and patterns are the same at first glance, but they are different when you look closely. .This is also "putting on a show", but it is more transparent when placed in the dark than in the open.

Duan Zhigui had a complete set of arrangements for this trip, Zai Zhen's bag had already been brought, and Jin'er waited for him to remove the sable "Crouching Dragon Bag" fox-inlaid fur robe for him, and put on a pair of jacket trousers and a jacket Very thin silk gown.After changing clothes, full of briskness, Zai Zhen walked to the table, poured half a glass of brandy into the open crystal wine glass, held it in both hands, shook it, and drank slowly, but his eyes only followed the brocade. The figure of the child is turning. "how old are you?" "It's a round number once Chinese New Year comes!" Jin'er replied, turning around at the same time.The momentum was too fierce, and the long braid flicked, almost hitting Zai Zhen's eyes.

"So, this year is nineteen." Zai Zhen asked, "Do you have a husband's family?" "I don't know." Jin'er's voice was low and quick, and she turned around to do her work again, cleaning the Bailing Terrace and setting up the cups and chopsticks, two sets in total. "What?" Zai Zhen asked with a smile, "Jin'er, are you going to drink with me?" "Jin'er is so lucky." "I think you look very decent, and you look very lucky. May I be a matchmaker for you?" Said, Zai Zhen pulled her over with one hand, put down the wine glass with the other, and touched her face.Jin'er struggled, but only protected her hair with her hands, for fear of touching the hair.

"Be good, let me smell one." Zai Zhen grabbed her weak point and threatened: "Otherwise, I'll mess up your hair!" Jin'er had no choice but to close her eyes, pursed her lips, let him kiss her, then jumped up and dodged far away. Zai Zhen laughed loudly, took out a coin from his purse, and said, "Come on! for you. " Jin'er hesitated for a while, and finally came over. Zai Zhen took her hand and stuffed the money into her palm, without further wording. "It's gold, isn't it?" "You can't even tell gold?" "It's not that I can't tell the difference." Jin'er said, "I've never seen this kind of money before."

"Let's not say it's you, even the wives and young ladies of the senior official's family have not been seen by many people. This is used by Lafayette in the palace to reward people. " "It turned out to be rewarded by Lafayette!" Jin'er was both surprised and delighted, "Lafayette rewarded Master Zhen, and Master Zhen, you rewarded me again, didn't you?" "You can say that too!" "Then, I really have lost face!" Jin'er clasped the coin tightly in her palms, and said with a smile, "I have to take it home and let my mother offer it in the Buddhist hall."

Hearing this, Zai Zhen was going to give her another one. Just as he was about to reach out for his purse, he heard footsteps outside, and then someone said softly, "Go in by yourself! It's in your interest to serve her well." Before the words were finished, Jin'er had rushed to break the curtain, Zai Zhen watched intently, but felt a dazzling light, which made it hard to look at.Yang Cuixi entered the room and thanked Jin Er first: "Thank you." Jin'er smiled and didn't answer, just pushed her body, so Yang Cuixi turned to Zai Zhen.Before speaking, she pursed her lips and smiled, two deep dimples appeared on her cheeks.

"You must know how to drink. Come!" Zai Zhen pointed to the case and said, "You can choose which one you like to drink." "Where can I choose? I don't know how to drink, and I will give up my life to accompany the gentleman. If there is something that has a lighter taste, Mr. Lao Zhen, please bring me a small cup." "The lightest is wine, red and white, which one do you like?" "I can't tell." Yang Cuixi looked at the foreign wines and said, "Red, green, yellow, and white, all of them dazzle me." "Why don't you have a glass of mint wine." Zai Zhen poured a glass of emerald green mint wine from a gourd-shaped wine bottle and handed it to Yang Cuixi.Jin'er had already moved the fruit plate to the Bailing Terrace: "Miss Yang, come here to drink with Mr. Zhen!" She said, "I have some hot dishes, I'll go and bring them." After finishing speaking, with a flick of her long braid, Jin'er turned away.Yang Cuixi put out all her strengths and served Zai Zhen to drink.After the four were hot fried, a white fish and purple crab hot pot was served, and Jin'er had something to say again. "Miss Yang, feel free to drink slowly with Uncle Zhen, I'm in the opposite room." She pointed to a silk rope in the corner and said, "Just ring the bell to greet me." So with a flick of her long braid, the doors closed tightly, and Jin'er disappeared lightly.Yang Cuixi put the latch on the door, and when she turned around, she was startled by Zai Zhen who hugged her face. "My uncle!" She reproached, "If you touch it, my heart almost jumps out." "Your courage is really good." Zai Zhen touched her chest disrespectfully, like a magnet, and that hand stuck to her chest. "Isn't it, your heart is beating very hard?" Yang Cuixi bowed her back, supported her hands, and got out of his embrace, "Master, don't you want to drink? Please sit here." "Wine is meant to be drunk, and there must be a way to drink it. I will only drink it according to my method!" "Is there a way to drink?" "Of course!" Zai Zhen salivated and said, "How about giving me a leather cup?" Yang Cuixi shook her head and said, "I won't!" "It's very easy, I'll teach you!" As he spoke, he took a sip of the mint wine, brought his lips closer, and wanted to feed it into her mouth.If Yang Cuixi didn't want to, Zaizhen used force.The two wrestled back and forth and onto the bed until he finally let him drink a leather cup for her. "You should know this, right?" Zai Zhen said with a smile, "Just now I counted you as a respect, now you should pay back." "I won't come!" Yang Cuixi pretended to be wronged, "It's better not to have you teach me. I'm at a disadvantage!" "Two are the best!" Zai Zhen threw off the slippers on his feet, flew up with his kick, and kicked the tent hook with a sound, and then half of the tent door was unloaded.