Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 903 Flower Appreciation Party

Zhou Dongtian admitted that this inference was not bad, but it was useless to them.Reasoning is built on the basis of having a wealth of information.They are completely ignorant of the various local figures in Hangzhou, and there may be hundreds or thousands of people who conform to Zhao Yingong's inference.Confucian scholars choose characters and titles for themselves like eating cabbage. There may be three, four, or even a dozen per person. Who knows who this "Longmian Fool" is.

Xu Xu suddenly said: "Could it be Zhang Dai who passed by just now?"

Judging from Zhao Yingong's inferred personal situation, Zhang Dai is quite suitable.But Zhao Yingong denied his guess.He had read "Tao An Meng Yi", and remembered that Zhang Dai's character was "Zongzi", and his nicknames were Tao An, Tiansun, Die An Jushi, etc., but there was no Longmian Fool.

"Let's go back and look for "The Gentleman"." Zhao Yingong said with emotion, "We know too little about the basic situation of Ming Dynasty. It's just a glimpse."

Zhou Dongtian sneered: "It's meaningless to know so much. Anyway, the cannons will clean the ground once they are washed. Why do you care about so many fireworks?"

Several people continued to wait and see on the balcony for a while, and the freshness passed, before returning to the cabin.Meilin was no longer so restrained, and he was talking about the Buddhist statues of "Three-day Zhu" with Mei Yan'er - this is probably a little bit of superficiality he heard in elective courses when he was studying in school many years ago.Mei Yan'er not only listened carefully, but also could match up a few words.Zhao Yingong secretly marveled: the high-class prostitutes in this time and space are indeed a bit low-level.No wonder Yu Eshui said in the course of the training class: The rich people of Ming Dynasty patronize the academy mainly to live a "social life".

It was almost noon, Mei Niang had already brought in the tray with her servant girl, she was laying out the table, and at the same time asked the honored guest what wine to drink?

"I have a rare good wine here, and I got it from someone. Would you like to have a taste, gentlemen?"

Zhao Yingong saw that four exquisite tableware had been laid on the table, and said with a smile, "Oh? What kind of wine is so rare? It's so hard to get it in the best place in the south of the Yangtze River?"

"It's from Guangli, and it's said that foreigners make good wine." Mei Niang said, "Not to mention the benefits of the wine, even the bottles that hold the wine are priceless! Nowadays, if you are not a big boss, you can't get it Woolen cloth……"

Having said that, Zhao Yingong already understood that it must be Guo Yi's "self-made wine".Unexpectedly, this prostitute on the West Lake could actually get the national scholar Wushuang!It is very difficult to get this wine even in Guangzhou—Guo Yi originally engaged in "hunger sales" and took the route of high-end gifts, with a small output.After the distillery at Guangzhou Station was destroyed last year, it has just recovered, and the output is even lower.

He immediately said: "Guoshi Wushuang is too hot-tempered, it's hot now, it's better to use some light Shaojiu."

Mei Niang said with a smile: "Okay, I still have a good Lanling wine here at my house, it's ten years old, I opened it for the master to use." She was modest and humble. It is exquisite in all directions.

Eight exquisite cold dishes are brought to the table, four meat and four vegetables.Snow-white glutinous rice lotus root, bright red Jinhua ham, yellow chicken pine, red watermelon cake... It looks pleasing to the eye.

The wine was also hot, and I immediately ordered to drink and listened to Meiyan'er singing a few tunes. The words were written in a southern accent, and everyone except Zhao Yingong couldn't understand them. They just thought the tunes were nice and random. A few words of praise.

Zhang Dai's boat was on the lake less than 200 meters away from them.After Wu Zhixiang arrived in Hangzhou, he found out that Zhang Dai was quite influential in Fushe. He knew that he liked to be lively, played with gadgets, and had a strong interest in new things.So he changed his original plan, and first tried to win over Zhang Dai in Hangzhou.

Fortunately, Zhang Dai is not a glamorous and arrogant scribe, he is quite free and easy in dealing with people on weekdays, and he is easy to make friends.It didn't take much effort for Wu Zhixiang to present eight pots of Dutch tulips brought all the way from Guangzhou through an acquaintance.Rare "foreign flowers" are very suitable for Zhang Dai's taste.He saw that the other party often came to the door, and he had a lot of respect for him. In addition, Wu Zhixiang's speech was very good, and he brought many anecdotes from Guangdong, especially the recent popular "Australian products", so he respected this new friend. It also gradually warmed up. After coming and going, the two became acquainted with each other.

At this time, Wu Zhixiang, Zhang Dai and a few friends were relaxing on the ship building, and the eight pots of tulips that traveled across the ocean were divided into two rows and displayed in front of the steps.The gorgeous flowers are stretching their colorful petals under the sunny early summer sun.There were bursts of floral fragrance, which floated to the banquet with the warm fumigated wind.A few friends had watched and admired it once, but the people present were not amazed at the brilliant colors of this exotic flower.Criticism--I went out to visit the West Lake by boat today, neither to see the beautiful scenery of the West Lake, nor to watch the dragon boat, but a specially organized "Flower Viewing Party".Everyone also composed a few poems, and now they are sitting and chatting while continuing to drink and enjoy the flowers.

At this time, a table of banquets carefully cooked by the master cooks in Zhang's mansion was already half broken.The servant girl is tidying up and laying out new wine and fruit.

"Beauty is beauty, it's too gaudy." A scribe was already half drunk, commenting on the pots of tulips in front of him, "Red and rhubarb, bright and eye-catching, and an independent branch. This style is out of the ordinary, lacking An elegant and light color..."

Zhang Dai didn't take it seriously: "According to what you said, peonies and peonies are also out of fashion?"

He was a richly dressed Confucian scholar with an intelligent and friendly face and three carefully combed mustaches on his chin.
"Although peonies and peonies are gorgeous, they are so bright that they are not seductive..." This person is still talking about "vulgar", "elegant", "zhengyan", "coquettish" and so on about himself Pinhua tune invented.

"I think Xiongtai's words are biased. There are different kinds of flowers, but they are just natural, so why must there be any difference." It was Sun Chun who spoke.He is an ordinary Confucian scholar who is not surprising.

Although not impressive in appearance, he is a key member of Fushe.

"This statement is wrong—"

The two argued about this, and Zhang Dai's face showed boredom.He took out a bright red cherry from the large Xuan porcelain bowl beside him, picked off the green leaves on it with a lazy and elegant posture, and put it in his mouth.Seeing Wu Zhixiang sitting helplessly, she couldn't help but smile.

In the end, as usual, it was Zhang Dai who came out to smooth things over, saying that all flowers have their own merits, and viewers can have their own preferences, but in fact, it was not Yi Xuanjin who calmed down the debate.After that, they changed the topic from the tulips in front of them to "foreign goods".

"Speaking of this Western gadget, it's not a gold and jade weapon, but it can charm people's hearts." Zhang Dai said with a smile, "A few days ago, Mizhi lost a telescope on this lake. I didn’t get it, and I was so annoyed that I didn’t even want to stay in Hangzhou, so I just set off for Nanjing yesterday.”

"What's the point of a binoculars, why don't you go to the Catholic Church to find one?" said the Confucian scholar who had just commented on tulips.His name is Wen Huai, and he is the growth of Jiaxing Mansion.

"Although the binoculars are not rare treasures, they are not always available." Zhang Dai said, "I often go to the Catholic Church, and I also have friendship with Tang Ruowang. According to him, this object is also a rare item in Folangji, and you must have a boat. How many can I bring here. Where can I look for them in my spare time?"

From the telescope to the recently popular Australian goods.Wu Zhixiang came from Guangzhou and brought a lot of "Australian goods".Recently, I often talked about all kinds of novelties of Australians. For rich children like Zhang Dai, ordinary foreign goods are no longer rare, but the few "Australian goods" that Wu Zhixiang brought out opened his eyes. With a strong interest.

Wu Zhixiang then talked about the ins and outs of the "Australians", their enjoyment of taking and various exotic goods, which attracted several people to listen with fascination.Although they didn't fully believe what Wu Zhixiang said, they had seen all kinds of novelties of Australians for a long time, so they were full of curiosity about this "Australia" that suddenly appeared.

"I really yearn for this Australian porcelain toilet." Zhang Dai said with a smile, "In the old days, some people set up beautiful beds in the toilet, set up beautiful maidservants, and fried it with aloes—it's nothing more than a latrine. So clean and refreshing."

"It's just that it's not easy to build." Wu Zhixiang said, "There used to be a Ziming Tower. Wang Dudu Kun once entered the Ziming Tower and went to see his layout—it's really ingenious, and all kinds of ingenious methods are really impressive. beyond reach."

Now let's talk about the pipelines, valves, machinery for water supply and water storage towers one by one.Wu Zhixiang was very curious about the various facilities in Ziming Building, and had been asking Pei Lixiu all the time in the past.After the Ziming Building was seized, he paid the guards to pay for it, and made a special trip to go in and look up and down the Ziming Building, inside and out.Now let's talk about it.

Zhang Dai listened amusedly, and said with a smile, "Fortunately, Mizhi didn't hear what you said, or he would have to be hooked to go to Guangzhou to see the western scenery right away!" He then shook his head, "If it wasn't for the journey too much Lawton, even my brother wants to see all the rarities of this Australian."

"Why not?" Wu Zhixiang is now putting effort into Zhang Dai's body, and immediately expressed that as long as he intends to go to Guangzhou, he can stay in the "Humble House".

"...As for the road, now there is a prestige stack, whether it is taking a sedan chair or taking a boat, it is more convenient than in the past."

Zhang Dai was about to speak, but Wen Huai said: "Australians claim to be descendants of China, descendants of the Song Dynasty, but they only focus on business and industry, and do all kinds of tricks. Yi, I am afraid that the ancestors of the Song Dynasty will cry in the ground."

(End of this chapter)