Chapter 100: Sugar (seven)

It was another year of Lanqiu in July, and there was a stream of fire in July. The evening wind brought a hint of the coolness of the river tide, which dispelled the hot air left over the previous two months, which was refreshing.
In Hugua Lane, east of Wolong County, there is a family with colorful lanterns and laughter, which seems very lively.
This house is different from other people's houses. The narrow doors are piled with accumulated stones on both sides. Some of them are carved in a little shape, and some of them retain the original sharp corners. Somewhat chic.
There are two newly hanging red lanterns hanging on the narrow door. The lanterns are dripping with ink, each with a big character: Zhang.
Living in this house is the famous craftsman, Stone Zhang, in Wolong County. Today, it is his sixtieth birthday. In his life, he did not travel around the northeast and southwest. He has seen a lot of dignitaries, and his life is not bad.
Sometimes there is a happy event in the street, very pompous. But Stone Zhang Guoshou didn't have a big deal. His children were young and he was stable and steady. He gave his neighbors in the morning a white peach, but he did not accept birthday gifts.
The real banquet only gathered their relatives. There were not many people and the scene was not big, but they were close to people and naturally lively.
However, the scene is not big, which does not mean that the banquet is prepared casually. The stone smashed a lot of money. I asked the chef at Tianxiangju, Wolong County, to prepare the spoon. The dishes were carefully prepared all afternoon, and Tianxiangju's live dishes were all selected.
Stone Zhang has prepared three tables in the hall. The relatives of the family and two apprentices who have studied with him for more than ten years just happened to be able to fill two tables, and one table is rare, the same size as the other two tables, but only Put four chairs.
In the evening, Stone Zhang also let people take their hands. Between the other two tables and this one, a screen was set up, which seemed quite mysterious.
What is even more curious is that when people put cold dishes and summer snacks, the stones tell them to put them aside, put them aside, don't mix them up.
After all, they are all their own family members, so they didn't mind the move, they just asked Stone a few words with curiosity.
Stone waved his hand and explained briefly: "Grand guest."
When the nearly full moon was reflected in the sky, the door of the house was knocked. Zhang Zhang hurriedly greeted out, and when he saw the people standing outside the house, he laughed and became quite familiar with it: "Heaven seven is here, hiss--how do I think you are taller?"
The person standing outside the door was Lu Yanqi. Over the past ten years, he was no longer too thin and thin. In addition to his eyebrows, there was a shadow, and the blood mole at the forehead was still there. Others are very different from the original. The tall and thin looks are somewhat like Jiang Shining, who was angry with silk books.
"It's you who shrunk a little more," Lu Yan answered, "I saw you at the door of Li's shop last time. You haven't bowed yet."
He still talked coolly at first, but it sounded a little ugly at first, but Shi Changzhang was not accustomed to it.
"You're old, and you don't bend over and bow your head to do this kind of craftwork. I'm too late to bow my back, how can I compare with you." Stone waved his hand and dragged the landing unconsciously. Going into the room, "What about the slippery doll you picked up?"
"Tired to play in the afternoon and rest early, they can't stay here, just a few years later." Lu Yan said.
Perhaps it was because the nineteenth was picked up by the father of the Lu family from the mountain. After Lu was seven years old, he occasionally encountered abandoned children under the Daobian bridge, and they would bring them back and teach reading. Because Fuyi is well-known from far and near, a few more children don't worry about feeding.
Originally, when Zhang Zhang gave Lu Yanqi an invitation, he asked him to bring the three turnip heads on his head, but he refused. The children's temperament had not been turned back in their early years, and they were especially afraid of life.
So Stone Zhang didn't force it, he was a messy character, and likes to do some gossip. At first, when I saw Kuchi's reply, I was a little worried that these children were unfamiliar with him.
Because there are Lu Yanqi.
Shi Shizhang occasionally encountered Lu Yanqi in these years, all with many emotions. He almost looked at a slightly gloomy, guarded young man with his own eyes, and grew into what he is today.
It can be seen that goodwill and tenderness can sometimes be passed on from generation to generation.
"They haven't come yet?" Lu Yanqi followed him into the room and looked up.
His eyes have remained the same throughout the years, neither being completely blind nor improving. However, as he became more proficient in assisting him, these eyes could not hinder his daily life.
Stone Zhang followed him and looked up, shaking his head and saying, "It may take a while."
The other Zhang family members in the courtyard also looked up, with an inexplicable expression. Shizhang Zhang's pair of children came late, the son is older, has passed the age of weak crown, only two or three years younger than Lu Yanqi, but his daughter is still two or eight years old.
She looked up several times, and finally could not help but arched the stone, and asked, "Daddy, what do you always look at in the sky?"
Stone Zhang Chong ’s daughter was so petting. If other people asked, he would be vague. When the little girl asked, he didn't hold back and said quietly,
Wait for the two noble guests.

Little girl: "... Dad, are you eating rice again?"
Stone Zhang couldn't laugh or cry: "Funny."
Lu Yanqi put a cold arrow in a timely manner by the side: "Your little daughter is a blessed person."
Stone Zhang: "..." Am I thankful or not?
While talking, there was a sudden murky thunder in Skyrim.
Everyone in the courtyard was a stunner, and someone murmured, "This thunder really doesn't make sense, how suddenly."
"Whether it is suddenly not flashing, it is a sign of rain, advanced house." Someone greeted.
Stone Zhang and Lu Yanqi both looked up at the same time.
"Come ..." Stone Zhang whispered with joy.
At that time, the black rock beach saved his life. After waking up, he took Landing Qiqi and Xue Xian to resign back to Wolong County. Before leaving, Xue Xian gave them three paper charms. It can be written on the paper note and burned. He can help when he sees it.
After Lu Yiqi went back, he closed the three paper notes properly, and had no intention to use them.
And Shi Zhang has never used those paper characters for so many years, this is the first time. But instead of asking Xue Xian and Xuan Mercy for help, they haven't seen them for twelve years and invited them to a birthday party.
There is a saying in Shijingfang that from the age of sixty, birthdays must be handled properly. After all, are there any 70 or 80 birthday banquets, then it is hard to say. Live a year and a year, some old people no longer see each other, it is time to say goodbye.
However, Stone Zhang was not so discouraged. He chose this year's invitation only because his two apprentices have been teachers since this year. Since then, he has stopped living the carving technique, and if it is placed in the green forest, it will be called a golden basin to wash his hands.
The last thing he spent energy carving is a piece of auspicious jade, which was just completed a few days ago, and wanted to take this opportunity to gift it to his deceased.
Mu Lei rolled all the way from the sky, and eventually hidden at the end of Hugua Lane. Everyone in the court was a little trembling, and hurriedly went back to the room. Zhang Shi turned his head to say hello, and the hot dishes began to go to the table one by one.
The moment was just right.
Tuk Tuk Tuk, the knocking of the door immediately sounded, and Zhang Zhang rubbed his hands and raised his eyes as before, and saw a black and white figure standing by the open door. The expression was very casual, "I haven't seen you for years, why you are getting shorter and shorter."
Stone Zhang: "..." Well, I haven't seen it for years, this ancestor still speaks like this.
It was Xue Xian and Xuan Merce who came.
As soon as they entered the room, the little daughter of Shi Zhang opened her eyes.
The door was not wide, Xue Xian and Xuan Mian walked one behind the other. The little girl was foolishly looking at Xue Xian's face. After a long while holding her father's clothes, she turned around and whispered, "Dad, don't you say that I am carefully married? Can you help me? Pick one that looks so good? "
Stone opened his feet and immediately softened, "Girl, can you save your father a life?"
What kind of ear strength is Xue Xian? Although it is a whisper, it is clear to you. It is naturally comfortable to be exaggerated. He drank the little girl: "This little girl is your girl? She is born like a begonia."
The little girl was stunned by the smile on the corner of his mouth.
As soon as Xue Xian approached, she saw Xuan Merci's face at the back, and she stayed again before God calmed down. After a while, she couldn't help but stunned her sleeves again, "Daddy, this--"
Stone Zhang Sheng was afraid that she would say something like "You can marry like this" again. She quickly stopped her and said, "No way to offend the VIP. Go, go and find your mother."
The little girl glanced at the two nobles secretly again, and went back into the room three steps at a time.
This table separated by the screen, Xue Xian, Xuan Mercy, Lu Yanqi, Stone Zhang, four chairs will be fine.
As soon as Xue Xian sat down, he saw a pile of vegetables on the table. Rarely he smashed a stone and said, "I'm interested."
These dishes are not only arranged according to vegetarian food. Every vegetarian dish inside, every meat dish meets the taste of several people in the seat. When traveling together, every authentic dish that Xue Xian mentioned wanted to eat here. Don't fall.
"And this wine ... I have a friend who is best at making wine. I brought this pot from him specially. It won't be left until later. It's all robbed." Zhang Zhang shook himself. The pot in his hand patted the wine jar next to him and said, "There are more, enough."
In this way, he did not forget the mystery of not drinking, and he was served a pot of good tea.
Xue Xian poured a glass, smelled it, and it was really fragrant. Just smelling it made people feel a little bit sloppy. "What's the name of this wine? If it tastes good, I'll ask for some back."
Stone Zhang replied subconsciously: "This wine, makes the Dragon King drunk."
Xue Xian: "..."
Stone Zhang: "..." Well, let your mouth be quick!
He sneered and explained quickly: "My friend's casual name is not real, not real."
Xue Xian hasn't been drunk so far. He sneered at the name of the wine and said, "It's a try."
This trial was out of hand ...
It's really no joke that people call this name.
When he came out of the stone Zhang's house, Xue Xian still looked plump and handsome, his shoulders were straight, his face was white, his blush was a little calm, and he looked very calm.
He even spit out the stones and said goodbye to Lu Yan clearly, so that even Xuan Merci didn't immediately notice the problem. It wasn't until he came to the end of the long lane of Hugua Lane that the dark dragon was going to return to the Black Dragon and take the wind to take the wind, and then he showed an unusual reaction.
When I saw him in a white mist cage, he turned into a long shadow and flew straight into the sky, aggressively rolled around in the clouds, before he went straight, he rushed back to the ground in a dreary way—over the waves, accidentally Put Xuan Merci in place.
"... Are you really not drunk?" Xuan Mi looked at Xue Xianjingliang's dark eyes, slightly skeptical.
"How can it be." Xue Xian shook his head seriously and rushed to Xuan Xuan mercifully. "Where do you look like a drunk?" After he said it, he narrowed his eyes and laughed, and licked his head. Hypnotic lips.
After licking it for a while, he stood upright in silence, wondering, "Why am I suddenly a little hot?"
Xuan Mian: "..." There is a ghost without being drunk.