Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

As soon as Ximen Qing stepped into the restaurant, Yulan tightly grasped Ximen Qing's hand and led Ximen Qing back to the room.She walked past those coquettish women with her chest upright, like a cute little hen guarding her chicks.

Those prostitutes had no chance to hook up with Ximen Qing, and some turned their attention to Ximen Qing's companions.For the first time in his life, he was surrounded by so many rings of fat, swallows and thin, which made Tang Long and Jiao Ting very happy.

Even brother Qiao Yun had a caring older sister who enthusiastically entered his room and taught him how to be a good man on the bed.

After Yulan and Ximen Qing returned to the room, they prepared fragrant soup and took a bath with Ximen Qing in the wooden barrel.

While massaging and washing Ximen Qing's whole body, Yulan sang some moving songs in Ximen Qing's ear, serving Ximen Qing very comfortably.

This Magnolia is somewhat similar to my Zhang Xixi, both are good at rhythm and have a good voice.However, this Yulan is still a little green when she first knows the taste of love between men and women, and I need to be trained by my senior officials!

Ximen Qing recalled the hot spring scenes in those classic movies in his memory, and his body changed quickly.He hugged Yulan violently, and taught Yulan a new posture in the fragrant soup bucket.

The fragrant springs go into the teeth to rinse the cold jade, and spit it out into the sky as ice and snow.

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When I woke up the next day, the magnolia was like a flower watered by rain, and it became more and more beautiful.She coquettishly pestered Ximen Qing, wanting to go out to play with him.

Ximenqing and Xu Ning made an appointment to meet in Fanlou at night, but nothing happened during the day, so he readily agreed to take Yulan to visit Bianliang City in Tokyo.

Ximen Qing and Yulan got up and packed up, took Brother Qiao Yun and two servants out together, and walked south along Second Tianshui Street.

Because Yulan had already visited Mahang Street yesterday, so Ximenqing took her all the way to Bianhezhou Bridge today.

When they came to the Bian River, they all went west along the river, and first went to the Daxiangguo Temple.

This Daxiangguo Temple is the place where "Flower Monk" Lu Zhishen fled from Wutai Mountain in Shanxi to Tokyo.

Zen Master Xu Zhiqing of Daxiangguo Temple saw that his brother Zhishen was a monk with a big belly, so he didn't dare to leave him in the "Roasting Pig Yard" to run the meat and vegetable business, lest his family suffer losses.

After thinking about it again and again, Zen Master Zhiqing sent his junior brother Jiurou to manage the vegetable garden outside Suanzao Gate.Even this junior Lu Zhishen can't eat much vegetables in a day.

Unexpectedly, instead of stealing some vegetables and selling them at home, Junior Brother Zhishen pulled up the willow trees in the vegetable garden.The tree is not mature enough to be sold for a few copper coins.Those monks who are good at management and calculation in Daxiangguo Temple are puzzled by Zhishen's actions.

That junior brother Zhishen is not motivated, he doesn't think about how to use the vegetable garden to make more income for his family, but he goes to make friends with a bunch of thieves who steal vegetables and settle down.The good monk was wrong, and instead became the leader of the thugs outside Suanzaomen.

What's even more ridiculous is that Junior Brother Zhishen went to imitate the actions of that hero in the Jianghu, rescued Lin Chong's military prisoner, and opposed the imperial court's Gao Taiwei.If the government wants to arrest him, why close Daxiangguo Temple? Brother Zhishen set fire to the house and temple property of Vegetable Garden, and the family fled.

Zen Master Zhiqing, who took in Zhishen's younger brother back then, learned that the vegetable garden had been burned, but he was almost so angry that he vomited blood.

This Daxiangguo Temple is the largest temple in the capital, and there is an endless stream of people burning incense and worshiping Buddha.Ximenqing took Yulan into the temple to burn incense and pay respects to the Buddha, and toured around.

Outside the Daxiangguo Temple, it seems to have become a market, filled with all kinds of sundries and snack stalls.After Ximenqing and others left Daxiangguo Temple, they ate some delicious snacks outside the temple, then walked west along Bianhe Street, and arrived at Tianhanzhou Bridge in a short while.

Tianhanzhou Bridge was built in the second year of Jianzhong in Tang Dynasty. It spans the Bianhe River and is fifteen feet wide, allowing cars and horses to travel unimpeded.It is part of the royal road leading from Xuande Gate of the imperial city to Suzaku Gate in the south of the inner city.

The north and south are connected by the Imperial Road, and under the bridge is the Bianhe River, where water and land transportation converge. Today, Hanzhou Bridge can be regarded as the transportation hub of the inner city of Bianliang, Tokyo.Naturally, this place has also become the bustling commercial place in Bianliang City, Tokyo, second only to Mahang Street.

A place with a lot of people and a lot of money is naturally prone to troubles.On this day, the vicinity of the Hanzhou Bridge is also a place where the rogue settlers are active in discussing life.

A few years ago, this place was once the world of Niu Er, the famous rogue in the capital who settled down in the "hairless worm".

That guy is a man who does not want to die, who only plays tricks, commits murder, and makes trouble in the street.Even for a few lawsuits, the Kaifeng government couldn't deal with him, so people in the city didn't want to provoke him, and hid when they saw him.

That guy was also unlucky, he was drunk one day, and on the Hanzhou Bridge, he saw the "green-faced beast" Yang Zhizai selling the treasured sword.

Niu Er also wanted to die, he fell in love with Yang Zhi's precious sword, and resorted to thuggish tactics, trying to corrupt Yang Zhi's sword without spending money.

Niu Er didn't want his life, and forced Yang Zhi to chop him with a knife, to see if he could kill without blood as Yang Zhi boasted.That fellow thought that Yang Zhi was like everyone else in Tokyo, even if he dared to kill people in the street in the forbidden city, he would be subdued and afraid of him, and offered him the precious sword.

How do you know that "green-faced beast" Yang Zhinai is a stupefied young man with few tendons in his head, he never thinks about things carefully, and he gave Niu Er a few knives on the spur of the moment, knowing that he has seen what it means to kill without blood.

Die before leaving the army, often makes the hero burst into tears.Niu Er, the well-known rogue "hairless worm" in Tokyo City, accidentally crashed his halberd into the sand, failing to achieve his lofty goal of gaining a foothold in Zhouqiao and dominating Bianliang.

Chapter 97 Fan Louhui

Ximenqing knew that the vicinity of Zhouzhou Bridge was a place where Hooligans like to gather, so he also cheered up and paid attention to whether there were those who were not open-eyed around him.

I don't know if it's Ximen Qing's heroic spirit, or Yang Zhi's knife left a deep impression on the rogues a few years ago. Ximen Qing and his party wandered around the Zhouqiao Market for an hour, but they didn't encounter any rogues who made trouble for no reason. son.

Seeing that Yulan was tired from shopping, Ximenqing and the others rented a few donkeys on the side of the street after lunch, and returned to Sangjiawazi near Tushizi on the donkeys.

There are dozens of venues separated by fences and curtains in Sangjia Wazi. There are various performances such as singing, playing the piano, juggling, swallowing swords, monkeys, sumo, etc., attracting many Tokyo citizens to watch.

Ximenqing took Yulan to play in the Sangjiawazi again, and then left the Sangjiawazi and returned to the main store of Gaoyang.

Seeing Yulan smiling like a flower beside him along the way, Ximenqing suddenly thought of those beauties in Yanggu County.Li Jiaojiao, Zhang Xixi, Pan Jinlian, and Hu Sanniang probably haven't seen so many wonderful performances before!In the future, if I have a chance, I will take them out for a walk.

Well, why is there Hu Sanniang? I want to bring the soft girl out to play first!

After Ximen Qing and his party returned to Gaoyang Zhengdian, they met Jiao Ting and Tang Long who had come back earlier and were waiting.

After a short rest, Ximen Qing left Yulan and Brother Qiao Yun in the store, and took Tang Long and Jiao Ting to the fanlou for the meeting.

The three of them came to Fanlou Street not far from the Donghua Gate of the imperial city, and saw the tall Fanlou from a distance.There is a poem that describes the Fan Tower in Bianliang City, Tokyo:

The restaurants in the city are so high that they cook dragon and phoenix flavors.

Gongsun got off his horse and got drunk after smelling the fragrance. He would spend tens of thousands of dollars on a drink.

Invite distinguished guests, attract high sages, and play music and orchestral upstairs.

All kinds of delicacies, railings and painted eaves on all sides.

Fanlou is known as "the best wine shop in the capital". It has three stories high and the fifth floor faces each other.

The restaurants in Bianliang City, Tokyo are all two-story buildings, but this Fanlou is different.Fanlou has five high-rise buildings in the east, west, north, south, and middle.The five buildings are all three storeys high. With such a height, customers who visit the restaurant can have a bird's-eye view of the cityscape of Bianliang City in Tokyo through the windows.

Because the west tower of Fan Tower faces the imperial palace, the imperial court stipulated that civilian drinkers were not allowed to climb to the west tower to look at it, so as not to expose the privacy of the royal family.Therefore, the West Building is not open to the outside world on weekdays. It is a good place for Song Huizong, his entourage and close officials to play and have banquets, and it is also an important place for the Song government to entertain foreign envoys.

Fanlou is not only a commercial restaurant, but also an important winemaking workshop.There are two types of wine produced by Fanlou, Meishou and Hezhi, which were included in the "Wine Names" compiled by Zhang Nengchen, an official of the Song Dynasty, and ranked first in the "market shop" category.Fan Lou pays 3000 yuan in wine tax to the government every day, and buys as much as [-] catties of wine koji from the government every year.During the Renzong period of the Song Dynasty, an imperial edict was issued specifically for Fanlou, allocating [-] small foot shops in the capital to Fan Lou. These foot shops can only buy wine from Fan Lou.

Of the 72 main stores in Bianliangli, Tokyo, only Fanlou has received such care from the royal family.Therefore, it is really not a lie to say that Fanlou is known as "the best restaurant in the capital".

Ximenqing chose to entertain Xu Ning here precisely to show his sincerity in friendship with Xu Ning and gradually win over Xu Ning's heart.

The three entered Fanlou first, and chose a pavilion on the third floor above the middle building.Ximen Qing rewarded the boy who came to serve, and told the boy in the restaurant to wait for Xu Ning, the teacher of the golden gun class, downstairs, and lead him upstairs when he came.Seeing Ximen Qing's generous hand, the young man was so happy that he ran downstairs in three steps at a time.

There are professional singers and dancers in big restaurants in Tokyo. They wear heavy makeup and gorgeous clothes. They are not only bright and charming, but also have a variety of styles.The best geisha in Fanlou in Tokyo is even more beautiful and famous all over the world.

Since Ximen officials come to Fanlou to have a banquet and meet friends, naturally they won't be as shameless as that country mud leg.He chose four beautiful geisha to come in, first played the piano and sang for the three of them, and waited for Xu Ning slowly while drinking tea.

Jiao Ting and Tang Long used to live in the rivers and lakes, living a life without a second meal, how could they have imagined that one day they would also live such a fairy life?Ever since meeting this brother Ximen, the life of Jiao Ting and Tang Long has undergone earth-shaking changes.The two of them were really grateful to brother Ximen Qing, but they had thousands of words in their hearts but couldn't utter them. They just turned into one thought: I will follow brother Ximen for the rest of my life!

After the four glamorous geisha presented a song each, the servant of the restaurant courteously attracted Xu Ning up.

When Xu Ning entered the pavilion, he saw that the delicacies, wines and glamorous geisha were all ready, this Ximen official was really generous and generous.He hurriedly cupped his fists to salute Ximen Qing and the others.