Yu Xi deliberately avoided Qi Yan's questions, so she tried her best to bring the topic to the dishes that were full of color, flavor and taste.
"This chicken is the specialty of our restaurant. Please try it and see if it suits your taste." The boss personally prepared the dishes for the 'maids'. With a private wave of his hand, the maids left respectfully, leaving the private room to the two of them. people.
Qi Yan ate the food brought by Yu Xi, and his eyes, which were as silent as a pool of clear water, suddenly showed a ripple.
"Delicious!" The indescribable taste spread in his mouth. Qi Yan didn't have many beautiful words in his heart and couldn't describe the wonderful taste in a coherent manner.
Qi Yan has never eaten anything from Xuanhu Restaurant in his entire life.
"This is so delicious..." Qi Yan took another bite and ate it with satisfaction. Yu Xi sat aside and sipped tea, looking at Qi Yan with interest, as satisfied as a child who had eaten sugary syrup.
After a while, Qi Yan was thirsty and wanted to drink tea. He touched the teapot and found that it was very light inside, and the tea seemed to have been drunk. When Yu Xi saw his actions, she knew what was going on. Instead of asking for tea, she opened a jar on the cabinet.
The red cloth was opened, and the aroma inside instantly overflowed.
"Ah, what is that?" Qi Yan's eyes were attracted: "Wine?"
The corners of Yu Xi's lips slightly raised: "Fruit wine. Would you like a glass?" After saying that, without waiting for Qi Yan's reply, he took two wine glasses, walked to the seat next to Qi Yan, and sat down. Let me share the wine glasses with you.
Qi Yan was a little timid. He looked at the fragrant wine jar and murmured: "I can't drink..."
"Fruit wine is not intoxicating." Yu Xi saw his throat moving slightly, obviously swallowing water, he must be very thirsty.
Qi Yan thought for a while and shook his head: "I'd better buy a pot of tea..."
"High-quality Mao Jian'er, one hundred and twenty taels of silver for a pot." Yu Xi blurted out pretending to be natural.
Qi Yan's eyes widened and he unconsciously touched his money bag: "Why do you suddenly want money?"
"The things I buy you are free of charge. But if it's something you want, it must cost money." A hint of slyness flashed in Yu Xi's eyes: "Tea costs money, wine does not cost money, which one do you want to drink? "
Qi Yan really wanted to bang the table and call for a pot of tea, but he was so short of money. Let alone a pot of tea, he might not even be able to afford a bowl of rice... Qi Yan thought for a moment and finally moved the wine glass in his direction. Take it.
"I drink." Drinking is enough! What an unscrupulous profiteer! Is that pot of tea really one hundred and twenty taels? !
Qi Yan didn't want to test it. Yu Xi filled the bottle with wine and he picked it up and took a sip. The fragrance lingers on the lips and teeth, and the aged and brewed essence blooms in this fruity aroma, as if the best things are left in the aroma of this wine.
Pursing his lips, Qi Yan silently pushed the empty cup in front of Yu Xi: "One more cup."
Yu Xi smiled, and there seemed to be a hint of success in some treacherous plot in that smile, but it was fleeting and left others unable to catch and figure it out.
After a few glasses of fruit wine, Qi Yan felt a little dazed, but even though he was dazed, he didn't forget to bring food to everyone in the prison. In the end, he kept reminding Yu Xi to wrap up the uneaten vegetables and take them back.
The drunken Qi Yan was even more drowsy, but he was less calm and indifferent than when he was sober.
Yu Xi screamed in his heart that he had made a mistake. He was planning to take advantage of Qi Yan's confusion to trick him into signing an agreement to leave the yamen. After all, Yu Xi admires Qi Yan very much and doesn't want him to waste his youth on the dying Daliang.
However, even though he was confused, Qi Yan was still clear and clear to a certain extent.
"I am very happy today." Qi Yan's face was flushed, but he was expressionless: "Thank you Mr. Yu for the banquet."
"Ah... Just be happy." For the first time, Yu Xi was not in a happy mood after her plot failed to succeed.
Carrying two bags of wrapped vegetables, Qi Yan walked out of the door of Xuanhu Restaurant. Seeing Yu Xi following him with no intention of going back, he gradually slowed down and waited until he was walking shoulder to shoulder with her. Asked: "Master Yu, do you want to eat?"
Yu Xi unfolded the folding fan and said, "Well, after you've had enough wine and food, it's good to eat."
Qi Yan felt that this was very reasonable, so he took the initiative to say: "This street is two streets away from the Yamen. In addition to this most prosperous street, it also has a different lifestyle of ordinary people. Although the snacks are not as good as those at Xuanhu Restaurant, It has a long-lasting fragrance, but it’s unrivaled.”
After Yu Xi listened for a long time, he realized that Qi Yan was introducing it to him.
There was nothing we could do about it. It was just two streets away, and when Yu Xi was released from prison, he was picked up by a Chinese sedan.
After all, the lives of the rich and ordinary people are different. Qi Yan thinks so, and so does Yu Xi.
Once you get out of this busiest street, the surrounding scenery changes to another level. The people walking around were all dressed in ordinary linen clothes. The women did not wear many accessories, and the men were simple and strong. Their dark skin color showed that they were working people.
The distinction between rich and poor in this neighborhood is not so obvious. For example, some government houses are also scattered everywhere, but people want to pursue different lives.
Not long after walking with Yu Xi, we were blocked by a group of people in front of us.
Qi Yan always had to avoid situations like this, but he couldn't bear Yu Xi's curiosity, so he was pulled into the crowd.
As soon as the scene inside came into view, Qi Yan couldn't move his steps, as if he had been filled with lead, weighing a thousand pounds. Yu Xi was also stunned, because he never expected that the person he had met a few days ago would be hanging there without a sound at this moment.
In the center surrounded by the crowd was a corpse with its head separated from its body. The body was wrapped in hay and only dried blood could be seen. And the head was hanging on a high branch at the moment, with blood still dripping down the head, which was very cruel.
Qi Yan can never forget this person's face.
It was as if the air around him stopped flowing, and Qi Yan felt it was difficult to breathe. As if someone pushed him, Qi Yan took two steps back and pressed against someone's hot chest.
A warm and cold voice sounded from behind: "There are officers and soldiers here, so don't act strange."
Qi Yan's hand grabbed the hand of the person behind him and held it tightly to prevent him from being impulsive.
—It was that woman who was treated so cruelly. The woman who gave Qi Yan all his property; the woman who claimed to be defecting to her family; the woman who was defiled; the woman whose husband was ruthlessly killed by the authorities.
At this moment, she had the same pretty face as she did then, now extremely pale, covered in blood and serene.