Xue Panzhi's gossip red mansion

In July and August, the wind in the south of the Yangtze River brought a little scorching heat.

After Xue Pan and Xie put aside those government affairs, they each found some things to do.Xie studied the recipes, while Xue Pan resumed his old business, picking up the paintbrush he had put down for many years.He didn't have the idea of ​​writing a book or biography, these things took his brains, and he didn't want to do such sad things anymore.But it would be good if we could leave a collection of stories mainly based on comic strips.There are already many Western painters in Daqing, who combined the realism of Western paintings with the artistic conception of Daqing paintings. The portrait left in the palace was made by Western painters.

Xue Pan recalled that when he was a science student, although he did not study the ancient paintings of his homeland, he also knew that there were not many collections of paintings that could make people understand the customs of the old life at a glance.For example, Qingming Shanghe Tu, such a long scroll showing folk customs is even more commendable.Therefore, Xue Pan intends to go deep into this area.All those fun, delicious, and beautiful scenery are included in the collection, and some marginal notes can be left on the side, so that future generations can have a feeling of truly touching history when they look at it.

"Pan'er, don't you want to go to the river to gather wind? I heard that it's time to pick lotus. Why don't we go together?" Xie walked into the house and saw Xue Pan sitting by the half-open window side.He was holding a writing brush in one hand, resting his chin in the other hand, a patch of ink was rubbed on his face at some point, and the picture of a baby holding a lotus root on the table was short of a poem.Xie smiled and took out the handkerchief, and gently wiped away the ink marks on Xue Pan's face, "You are very careful, why don't you even know that your face is dipped in ink."

"Really?" Seeing the obvious ink marks on the white silk handkerchief, Xue Pan unconsciously reached out to touch his face, but was caught by Xun Shi. It turned out that Xue Pan had rubbed ink on his left hand.

"What are you thinking about, so engrossed?" Xun Shi asked, and pulled Xue Pan to the wooden stand where the washbasin was placed, and dipped Xue Pan's hands in clean water, asking him to wash off the ink first. Don't wait a while and turn yourself into a cat face again if you don't pay attention.

Xue Pan wiped his hands clean and glanced out of the half-closed window, "My fifth brother and I want to go together. It's August, and there are a lot of good things to eat. Just looking at the pond in front of this window, The pond is full of lotus flowers, so it’s a good time to go to the river.”

Since the two had the same idea, they avoided the scorching heat in the afternoon, and when the sun was about to set but the sky was not yet dark, they took the boat and walked to the small river behind Zhuangzi.He didn't bring anyone else with him on this trip, Xue Pan rowed the boat by himself, and was quite skilled at driving it.He didn't even think about his ability when he was a child, and he is not unfamiliar even now. "I learned this boating skill when I was a child. At that time, I always ran to Zhuangzi to cultivate the newly introduced grains. After a long time, I became familiar with the people on Zhuangzi, not only I learned how to swim, and even learned how to catch fish in a boat. At that time, I was only eight or nine years old, and I looked like a child with short arms and short legs. If I hadn’t insisted, the boatmen would not let me What a nonsense, they all thought that I was too weak to row a boat, and wanted to sue my father for making trouble. They didn’t expect that I actually rowed a boat, and it was very smooth.”

Xie listened to Xue Pan talking about his childhood fun, and seeing the trace of nostalgia on his face, he also sighed a little.The two of them met by the river on the outskirts of Jinling.At that time, Xue Pan rushed to the farm so urgently after the flood in order to see if his precious crops were flooded. "Speaking of which, I only learned to swim after the flood. If I say that I still have a lot of skills, I can't guarantee that I will not be in danger after falling into the water, but I can always buy more time."

Xue Pan knew that Xun was thinking of the nasty things that always happened in the backyard, either this one was pushed into the water, or that one was mixed with something in the food.Xue Pan pushed the paddle in his hand and skipped the topic, "Fifth brother, look at the river ahead, do you recognize the plants floating on the river?"

Xie didn't want to mention those unhappy things, so he followed Xue Pan's words and turned to look forward.There are plants similar to lotus leaves floating on the surface of the river in front of it, but when I rowed over to look, I found that these emerald green pieces are not smooth lotus leaves with big beads and small beads falling on the jade plate at all.Unlike the lotus leaf, which is very high in the water, this dark green leaf grows close to the water surface, with many thorns on the surface, densely packed on the leaf surface, and there are many bulges in the round leaf, resembling a honeycomb.

Xun was a little uncertain, he only heard about this thing in the book, and saw that there were some flower buds on the edge of the round leaves, and it had thorns on the outside.There are also some purple flowers that have already bloomed, arranged in three rounds from the inside to the outside, and each layer has roughly four petals.And where the flowers withered, the fruit remained. It also looked like a four-petal mouth, but it did not sink into the water, but also floated on the water.

"I can only guess. Is it possible that this is the chicken head rice mentioned in the recipe? Yang Wanli compared it with pearls in the poetry anthology." Five colors, with more than a thousand leaves on the plate. The night is bright and the moon is for the court to eat, and the Linggong of the Water Palace may be empty at night. It is good to eat jade in Lantian, and it will be compiled into the book of Bigu Chisong.' Am I right?"

The boat arrived here, and the sun was setting. Looking around the entire river pond, wild wild rice plants, water chestnuts and vines, the orange-red afterglow of the setting sun sprinkled on the river surface, which does not have the taste of a water town at the end of August.Xue Pan reached out to pick a gorgon, and put it in Xun Shi's hand, "The berries of the gorgon grow densely with sharp thorns, and grow out of the water, like a rooster crowing. It is appropriate to call it chicken head rice." It's not surprising that I haven't seen them in the north. There are a lot of spongy things in the fruit that looks like a chicken head, so it won't sink into the river. Brother Wu might as well peel it off and have a look."

Xie became interested when he heard Xue Pan's words.He pushed the long-mouthed fruit away vigorously, and saw a nest of round fruits in it.Strangely, one end of the fruit inside is snow white, while the other end is reddish brown.When Xun Shi put the peeled fruit into a small bowl, he found that he was already full of dark purple juice.It was also a moment of bad intentions, Xie took advantage of Xue Pan's inattention, and smeared the dark purple juice on his face on his face.Now Xue Pan looks somewhat similar to the ink cat just now, and Xie deliberately added three purple beards on each of Xue Pan's left and right cheeks.

"Fifth Brother!" Xue Pan was still holding the oar, and there was nothing he could do about this playful Xun.However, he still would not let go of the opportunity of verbal teasing, "If you really have time, you might as well gather more Gorgon seeds. It is said that a pond of cattail is more than a pond of lotus, and the paddy field is full of water chestnut leaves. The most is autumn and August in the south of the Yangtze River. , chicken head rice clam pearl garden. Eating Gorgon is good for a man's health, it is a rare good thing that nourishes the kidneys and strengthens the essence, and nourishes without being heavy."

Xun saw Xue Pan's sudden ambiguous and teasing eyes, and his mind flickered.In the afterglow of the setting sun, Xue Pan, the boatman, had those marks on his face that he had smeared on his face, which made him look cute.Coupled with Xue Pan's teasing and teasing smile, he really looks like a kitten playing tricks.

Xie didn't restrain himself, he took a step forward and wrapped his arms around Xue Pan's waist, lowered his head and kissed him, which disrupted Xue Pan's paddling movements, and he could only sigh in his heart that this man really did whatever he wanted when he came to Jiangnan stand up.What if the boat is unstable and the two of them fall into the river?

"Don't worry, the big deal is to be a mandarin duck in the water. There's nothing wrong with that. We haven't tried it on a boat yet, why don't we try it today?" After the kiss was over, Xie rubbed his head against Xue Pan's ear On the edge, biting it lightly, he really became interested as he spoke, and he had the idea of ​​trying a boat show in a small boat on the river.

It's a pity that there is another one who won't let him mess around. If he really messes around on the water, it will be troublesome if he falls off. "Fifth brother is becoming more and more like a child, and you came up with this idea. If you really want to hear the sound of the river flowing, let's live on the waterside pavilion today."

Xue Pan spoke righteous words, but the blush on his face couldn't go away, because he was holding a paddle in his hand, and couldn't stop the hands groping around his waist.

"Okay." Xie reluctantly agreed, and he was very unsatisfied, but he also understood that they were too old to mess around.But thinking of being in the waterside pavilion at night, with the windows open, listening to the wind blowing and the water moving, my heart will be warmed up after some lingering, that scene is really special.Xie suppressed the enthusiasm in his heart, and said hoarsely, "Then I'll just wait for tonight."

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Not to mention that tonight is a good thing for Xun and Xue Pan, Xun Min wanted to have some fun when he was idle.

Xia Gui's body is still recuperating, Dr. Wang is also getting older, and his apprentice took over Xia Gui's illness, and Gong Han's illness has to come slowly, but fortunately, neither of them is in a hurry.And Xun Yan also faintly wondered if it was okay, after all, Xia Gui would be 26, and if she was pregnant, she would be considered an advanced maternal age, so there must be danger.But Xia Gui has the idea of ​​wanting to have a child. 26 Seven is a bit old, but Xia Gui thought of those female soldiers who were on the battlefield in the past, and many of them were pregnant at an older age, so Xia Gui didn't have a big psychological burden.

The life of Xun Min and Xia Gui is dull but happy.And in the communication between Xun Yan and Xue Xi in the capital, he was vomited bitterly by Xue Xi, constantly thinking about how happy the sour plum soup and glutinous rice balls were, but now he is a caged bird trapped in the capital.As soon as I heard what Xi Yan said about the leisure of the four people in Jiangnan, I wished that the younger generation could grow up quickly, and they could also be freed sooner.

At this time, Xie Yan suddenly remembered that he was called the number one hunk in Daqing in vain. He had never even been to a brothel, and even Xue Xi and Xie Min had been there secretly. How could he and Xia Gui be fooled by those two? How is it compared?

"You mean we're going to go for a walk on the Qinhuai River tonight?" Xia Gui looked at Yun Min who was eager to try, and sighed in his heart. This person is out of tune.The two of them are probably the first couple in Daqing to visit brothels together.But Xia Gui didn't think there was anything wrong. She had been a man for a long time, and she had never been to a brothel, which was also a gap in her life.

Not to mention, to maintain a good mood is conducive to the recovery of the body, think of interesting things to do.So they did what they said, the sky was getting dark, the two had a simple meal, and then went to the most famous painting boat on the Qinhuai River.