The Perfumer Who Wears the Book

After getting off the plane, on the way to the pre-booked hotel, the coldness of the chemical attack in the south did not show. Su Xu even felt a little hot, but after the two of them got the room key and entered the room to rest, they slowly calmed down. Feeling cold from the feet, the whole body seems to be entangled by some evil spirit, and the clothes are also damp with a trace of moisture.

Su Xu had no choice but to turn on the air conditioner, and felt better after turning on the dehumidification function. She looked at Shen Jiarui with some guilt: "I was supposed to go to Hainan, but I came here to suffer because of my father's work."

Shen Jiarui didn't care. He still remembered that before he went to school, he spent a period of time in a southern city and experienced this cold and humid climate. At that time, the place he lived had no air conditioner or electric blanket. It's much better now: "It's good to go out more. Anyway, we are here for sightseeing. It's much warmer outside than in the north. There is air conditioning in the room. I don't feel uncomfortable. Where does Dad want to go? "

"If you have enough rest later, let's take a walk outside and see what the city of Suzhou looks like." Su Xu opened the suitcase while talking, and spread the sheets she brought on the bed .The hygienic problems that have been frequently exposed in hotels over the years have made it impossible for Su Xu to use hotel sheets and quilts without any grievances. She can only bring a few more sheets from home, put them under her body, and cover her body to separate the quilt. .Shen Jiarui also came to help.

"If I had known earlier that I had accidentally booked a double bed room, I would have brought two sheets for a double bed." Su Xu complained as he folded the two single sheets and stuffed them into the head of the bed, "Why? I don’t think so, I remember very clearly, I just booked a standard room.”

Shen Jiarui calmly walked to the end of the bed where the sheets were adjusted. Of course he knew that Su Xu hadn't booked the wrong room, because he did all of this. After Su Xu booked the room online, he hacked into the hotel's website and put The order was changed to a double bed room.He comforted: "Maybe the hotel staff made a mistake, but the rooms are all full now, and there is no way to change the room. Anyway, when I was at home, I slept with my father, and the big bed room is not in the way. Doesn't daddy want to sleep on the same bed with me?" At the end, he widened his eyes and looked at Su Xu accusingly.

Su Xu reached out and rubbed his hair helplessly: "You are paranoid again, of course Dad is willing to sleep with you, it's just a little strange. Okay, do you want to rest for a while, if not, let's go downstairs to find place to eat."

Su Xuding's hotel is in the old city of Suzhou. It does not have the grandeur of the new city, the houses are low and the roads are not so wide and flat, but it has the delicacy and history of Jiangnan gardens that the new city does not have.The two of them wandered along the street outside the hotel, and finally found a small restaurant that was pleasing to the eye, or that Su Xu thought was relatively clean, and solved the problem of lunch.

After the meal, the two of them did not return to the hotel immediately, but continued to walk along the street.The wind in the south and the wind in the north are completely different concepts. The wind in the north hangs on your face, like a slap on the face of a shrew who has just done rough work and his hands are covered with sand, while the wind in the south is warm and humid. It should be winter, but it is icy cold, but it is many times gentler than the coldness of a knife in the north.Su Xu took a deep breath and felt that his brain was much more relaxed.

When I got off the plane in the morning, the sky was still gloomy. In the afternoon, the cloudy sky suddenly dispersed, and the bright sun poured down, making people feel much more refreshed.

As he was walking, Su Xu suddenly smelled a faint fragrance of osmanthus. He suddenly raised his head and looked around, but there was not a single osmanthus tree. In the belt, I saw a large osmanthus tree that was blooming vigorously, and the fresh green leaves were all dotted with small white flowers.He sniffed the smell carefully, and finally came to a conclusion: "This is the Japanese osmanthus among the four seasons osmanthus."

"The young man knows a lot about sweet-scented osmanthus." An old lady with white hair and wrinkled face stood on crutches and said to Su Xu with a smile.

Su Xu smiled and said: "I dare not say how deep I understand it, but I am just interested in flowers and plants."

The old lady looked the father and son up and down, and said: "You two are tourists, and your accent sounds like a northerner." Before Su Xu could answer, she said with great interest: "There are not only Japanese osmanthus planted here, but also Anything else, can you guess what it is?"

The old lady is very familiar, but Su Xu doesn't feel impatient. His grandfather was also like this when he was alive. He often strikes up conversations with strangers. He can talk a lot on his own, regardless of whether the other party likes it or not. Are you listening.When people are old, they will feel lonely and panic more or less in their hearts, fearing that they will be rejected by others, the more worried they are, the more conversations they will have, and they always want to prove that they still have a place to play.Thinking of this, Su Xu patiently chatted with the old lady. Fortunately, the old lady talked a lot, and the content she said was very interesting. Apart from sweet-scented osmanthus, she also talked about a lot of old customs in Suzhou. Information needed now.

"You should come here in summer. Suzhou is more beautiful in summer, and the fragrance of flowers is everywhere." The old lady showed a trace of nostalgia on her face, "When I was still healthy, I went to the street to sell flowers in summer, selling white orchids and Jasmine, jasmine strings are worn on the hands, three yuan for one string, five yuan for two strings, white orchids on the button, one yuan for each (two flowers), when I was young, I still have tortoiseshell flowers, now There are none, even white orchids are rare, houses are being built everywhere, and the buildings are so dense that there is no place to plant flowers."

"It's indeed a problem." Su Xu nodded, "Developing real estate casually, only considering money, not considering the impact on the environment at all,"

The old lady went on to say: "You children, you are old school foreigners, build high-rise buildings, and spray perfume. Let's just talk about that perfume, it smells strong." The old lady showed a disgusted expression, Su Xu was amused, I don't know What is the relationship between building high-rise buildings and spraying perfume? "When did we Chinese use any perfume? It turned out that we put a few flowers on our body and it was very fragrant. Have you ever seen white orchids? It smells sweet, better than perfume It smells a lot, but it doesn't irritate people, and it looks good on the body."

Su Xu nodded hurriedly: "Yes, yes, white orchids are very fragrant, and the flowers bloom beautifully."

"That's right, children nowadays know how to wear those messy things..." The more the old lady talked, the happier she became, and the topic became farther and farther away. Su Xu could still bear it, but Shen Jiarui was already very impatient.He took out his mobile phone to look at the map for a while, and then browsed the webpage for a while. Seeing that the old lady hadn't finished the conversation yet, he started to walk up and down a little irritably, cleared his throat loudly on purpose, and stared straight at Su Xu s eyes.

Su Xu glanced at him comfortingly, patted his head, and after the old lady finished speaking, she said, "Grandma, it's a pleasure chatting with you, but we're leaving, we have an appointment with our friends to go to Tiger Hill Play."

The old lady also knew that she had talked too much by accident, so she smiled embarrassedly and said, "Go, go." She took the initiative to leave in the opposite direction with a cane.

Su Xu looked at the back of the old lady, feeling emotional in his heart, and said: "Father will also become like this in the future. He talks too much without knowing it, and he will make a long speech when he catches everyone. At that time, Jia Rui should not dislike Dad."

Shen Jiarui pulled Su Xu's hand vigorously, made him look at him, and said, "I won't dislike Dad. Dad will grow old in the future, so don't talk to others, just tell me."

Su Xu joked: "Then when I go back, I will ask you to write a letter of guarantee. When I get old, I will frame it and hang it on the wall. If you don't listen to me, I will bring you to the letter of guarantee. "

Shen Jiarui said: "Okay, then Dad also needs to write a guarantee letter. When he gets old, he can only talk to me and not others."

Next, the two stopped wandering aimlessly, but found the nearest station and took a bus to Tiger Hill.

It is said that Fu Chai, King of Wu, buried his father here in the Spring and Autumn Period. Three days after he was buried, a white tiger lived here, so it was named Tiger Hill.It has been a holy place for routing for thousands of years.

According to the online travel guide, the father and son toured in the order of the North Gate, Xiaowudang, and Yunyan Temple Pagoda until they came to the Zhenniang Tomb.

Zhenniang was a famous prostitute in Wuzhong in the Tang Dynasty. She was born in a scholarly family in Chang'an. She was separated from her family to avoid the misfortune of Anshi and fled to Suzhou. She was lured to the brothel of Leyun Tower on Shantang Street. She became a famous prostitute for a while, but she always remembered that when she was young, her parents had decided to marry her, she guarded herself like a jade, and she was only willing to perform.At that time, Wang Yinxiang, a son of a wealthy family, wanted to marry Zhenniang as his wife. Seeing her refusal, he bribed the old bustard with a lot of money and wanted to stay overnight in Zhenniang's residence.The prince repented so much that he spent a huge sum of money to bury his real mother in Huqiu, and vowed never to marry again.

There are folk rumors that jasmine had no fragrance in the past, but after the death of Zhenniang, the soul attached to jasmine, and the flower has a strong floral fragrance, so jasmine is also called fragrant soul, and jasmine tea is also called fragrant soul tea.

Su Xu stood in front of the stone tablet engraved with the introduction of the scenic spot, looking at the tombstone in the small pavilion ahead, his eyes gradually lost focus.

I only arrived in Suzhou in the morning, but after seeing such a little view of the south of the Yangtze River, new ideas have already begun to emerge.White orchid, jasmine, tortoiseshell flower, Su Xu began to conceive the effect of these three kinds of floral and ink fragrances blending together in his mind.And the real mother's tomb in front of him reminded him of Jiangnan's specialty: famous prostitutes and beauties.Gradually, a smell of rouge and gouache emerged in his mind. When he himself went to Nanjing, he bought the kind of rouge used by ancient women in a small souvenir shop beside the Qinhuai River as a souvenir, but it was just some souvenir value. Inferior products with use value, the red in the rouge is not natural enough and too bright, and the sweet aroma that makes people dizzy, but when I think about it now, Su Xu filters out the unpleasant smell, leaving What follows is a kind of glamorous charm, the exquisite tenderness unique to Jiangnan.

But Su Xu still felt that something was missing.

Su Xu took a deep breath.The air is filled with the fragrance of moist grass and leaves, the soil is rich and rich in moisture, the spring water in the ancient well is cool and clear, and a little farther away, the jasmine tea made by the flower farmers living in Huqiu with jasmine scented tea is sweet and bitter. .

found it.Su Xu opened his eyes.Delicate flowers, tea, rouge, and ink, this is Jiangnan.

Su Xu has a new way of thinking and direction, and the next thing to do is much easier.He wandered around the major gardens in Suzhou, visited many flower farmers, and enjoyed Suzhou Pingtan, which was as tender and gentle as a spring warbler, in the teahouses in the streets and alleys. Until he felt that it was almost done, he set off for the next destination, Yangzhou.

When she arrived in Yangzhou, Su Xu found that a strange thing happened again: the standard room she set became a big bed room again.

With my special attention, the probability of such a thing happening is negligible if I book the wrong room twice in a row.Su Xu thought of the notebook Shen Jiarui had brought with him during the trip, and looked at him suspiciously.

Shen Jiarui didn't change his face: "Dad, are you making the bed sheets now?"

Su Xu twisted his nose forcefully, and said, "You brat, you can't sleep with daddy all your life."

Shen Jiarui saw that his little trick had been exposed, so he immediately leaned over and hugged Su Xu's arm, and said sweetly: "Then I will sleep with Dad on the same bed for the rest of my life. Dad, I don't want to sleep alone, I am alone Can't sleep."

Su Xu originally wanted to educate Shen Jiarui, but when the boy opened his wet eyes, dangled around his neck with his mouth pouted, and acted coquettishly with a sweet voice, Su Xu, who was facing such an offensive, was still defeated in the end. , willingly agreed, and let Shen Jiarui continue to sleep with him.

The next day, the two went to Slender West Lake for a tour. When they were looking for a place to rest, they found a small chess and card room. The room was filled with a choking smell of smoke. Several old people were drinking tea and playing Go around the fire. .Su Xu didn't like the choking smell of smoke. Smelling hundreds of poisonous ingredients in it, Su Xu seemed to see colorful poisonous snakes wandering in the air, with their mouths wide open exposing their fangs dripping with venom.

Just when he decided to take Shen Jiarui to leave, Shen Jiarui had already stood behind one of the old men, observing the chess game, seeing the old man think for a long time and drop a move, the corner of his mouth curved into a smile.

This smile was fleeting, but was caught by the sharp eyes of the old man.The old man was not angry either, and said something in Yangzhou dialect with a smoke in his mouth.

Shen Jiarui has taught himself many foreign languages, but he has no research on dialects, so he can only look at the old man blankly.

A middle-aged man on the other side said: "He is asking you, do you think he is going wrong?"

Shen Jiarui looked at the old man's expression again, but did not find any offended expression on his face, and said: "Yes, I think this step is wrong."

Hearing what he said, the old man said something in Yangzhou dialect to the old man who was playing chess with him, and finally said something to Shen Jiarui.The middle-aged man translated: "Uncle Lei asked you, how do you think you should play?"

Su Xu walked behind Shen Jiarui, resisting the urge to cover her nose, and asked, "What's wrong?"

Shen Jiarui glanced at him, smiled, and said, "Play a game of chess." As he spoke, he picked up the chess piece that the old man called Uncle Lei had just put down, and moved it to another position.The few old people around all stretched their heads to look, with surprised expressions on their faces.And the old man surnamed Lei even made a big claim, babbling a lot, the middle-aged man listened patiently, and said to Shen Jiarui concisely: "Uncle Lei thinks you are very talented, if you still have time If not, Uncle Lei hopes that you can finish this game of chess."

Shen Jiarui readily obeyed.Words are like people, and chess is like people. Shen Jiarui has a sharp personality, does things boldly, is merciless in his moves, and is extremely aggressive. Although he has tried his best to suppress the overly strong and cold side of his chess style, he still looks at it. The old man surnamed De Lei shook his head.

It took Shen Jiarui only 10 minutes to complete this game of chess. The old man who was playing chess with him did not expect that he would be defeated so quickly by a little boy.It took a long time for everyone to calm him down, call his family and ask someone to come and take him home.

The old people started a new round of chess, but the old man surnamed Lei did not go to watch the chess, but looked at the father and son with a very satisfied expression, and finally invited them to visit his house.

Faced with the stranger's invitation, Su Xu naturally couldn't accept it from a safety point of view, but the old man surnamed Lei was very persistent, pulling them and refusing to let them go.

Just when the two sides were at a stalemate, a surprised voice suddenly came from behind, with a touch of surprise: "Jia Rui, you, are you coming to Yangzhou to play?"

Shen Jiarui looked back and saw that the person who spoke was actually Zhang Jiyang.