By evening, although the time was slightly different than Wang Yanzhou's estimate, they had arrived at Qinghe County before dark. Tang Chen looked at the colorful lanterns lining the streets, unable to conceal her excitement. She had never seen a proper lantern festival before, and wondered how they celebrated Mid-Autumn Festival. Did they also watch the Mid-Autumn Festival Gala?
"By the way, Huahua gave this to me. It seems she wanted me to come find her when I get here."
Wang Yanzhou took the hairpin from Tang Chen's hand, examined it carefully, and then returned it: "She really does like you, even giving you her personal belongings. There's no rush anyway, let's find a place to stay first."
Tang Chen raised his eyebrows, realizing that the matter was not simple: "How do you know it's a personal item?"
"I've known her for so long, and whenever she's on the water, this hairpin is always on her head."
Tang Chen gazed at the prosperous city, fiddling with the wooden hairpin in his hand. He felt as though Zhang Xiaohua was also a legendary figure. "By the way, who is Huahua? Her fishing boat is too old. And as for the canal transport, she seems to enjoy a leisurely life just like me."
Wang Yanzhou looked at her softly and said, "She gave you this, which means she is willing to tell you. You will know it when you meet her."
"Too."
It was midnight again, and Tang Chen was sleeping soundly in the room of the inn. After hearing the untimely cuckoo calls, Wang Yanzhou got up and left the inn.
Shrouded in moonlight, Qinghe County, like its name, resembled a gentle woman sleeping in the moonlit night. To the southeast of Qinghe County, the city gates had long been locked, and the patrolling soldiers had changed shifts.
Wang Yanzhou stepped on the green tiles of the roof, as light and nimble as a bat chasing its prey on a moonlit night. His agile figure suddenly disappeared in front of the winery in the east of the city.
The workers in the winery had already gone home to rest, leaving only a somewhat lonely candlelight swaying in the breeze.
Wang Yanzhou sat down by the patio in the winery and put the folding fan in his hand back to his waist. "It's so late, what do you want from me?"
"Nothing, I just wanted to have a drink with you."
As he spoke, Yan Shaoqing threw a pot of wine in his arms towards Wang Yanzhou: "Don't worry, I will pay. I also brought dice, want to play a game?"
Wang Yanzhou raised his lips as he took a sip of the sweet liquid. Since he had nothing to do, he might as well live up to the bright moonlight tonight. "What's the bet?"
"If I win, help me find someone."
Yan Shaoqing's words were so familiar. Every time he felt unhappy or doubtful, he would ask me to help him check someone out. Sometimes it was an unrelated passerby, and sometimes it was...
The stakes are relative, and he never makes a deal that would result in a loss: "If I win, do something for me. Don't worry, I won't embarrass you, and you don't embarrass me either."
Yan Shaoqing raised the wine jug in his hand and held it in front of Wang Yanzhou: "A gentleman's word is as good as gold."
Wang Yanzhou smiled and moved the wine jug away from his eyes with his hand: "What a coincidence, I am not a gentleman."
"You are my guest, please go first."
Some people are destined to be a lifelong calamity. Things that were predetermined long ago won't change based on winning or losing a gamble...
After getting up, Tang Chen originally wanted to ask Wang Yanzhou to go downstairs for breakfast, but after knocking on the door for a long time, no one answered. At this moment, Tang Chen knew that Wang Yanzhou must have gone out. Great, that means she can eat whatever she wants, right?
Before she could finish the delicious food served by the waiter in the guest room, a rapid knock on the door interrupted her. "Who is it?"
"The girl is me, Xiao Er."
"What's up?"
The waiter asked anxiously, "Here's your stuff, could you please come out and get it?"
"Oh," the food has been delivered, could it be a courier? I don't think I bought any courier, what could it be?
However, as soon as Tang Chen opened the door, he saw two drunks lying on the stairs in the lobby downstairs, blocking everyone's way and being watched by people.
When the shopkeeper saw Tang Chen coming downstairs, he quickly asked the waiter to disperse the onlookers and explained, "Young Master Wang and this young master came back drunk and kept talking about looking for a girl, so..."
Tang Chen looked indifferently at the two people who had gathered together at some point and carried him out to play, and said, "Boss, could you, little brother, help me carry them back to the room?"
"OK."
However, the second brother was really stupid, actually carrying these two grown men into her room. Tang Chen had no choice but to let the second brother go and make the hangover soup first, while he closed the door and thought of a solution.
Two drunkards reeked of alcohol on the bed, tangled up in a mess, one pulling my hair and the other my clothes. The two became one, and each of them was muttering something in some Martian dialect.
Tang Chen slapped himself in the face: "Fuck, how did you two get together? I'm going to die, what should I do!"
Yan Shaoqing pushed Wang Yanzhou away without warning, sat up, and grinned at Tang Chen: "Come on, Ah Sheng, let's continue drinking!"
"Okay, okay, drink, drink, drink." Tang Chen was just about to help him sit back down, but Yan Shaoqing shook off Tang Chen's hand, tremblingly went to the washbasin, lowered his head, buried his face in it, and said he wanted to drink water.
"That's the water our ancestors used to wash their faces. You can't drink it!"
Before Tang Chen finished dealing with Yan Shaoqing, Wang Yanzhou, who had been lying on the bed muttering to himself, suddenly ran over, picked up a green cake from the table, and was about to put it into Tang Chen's clothes: "Haha, I'm going to put caterpillars in your clothes, hahaha!"
"Oh my god, are you childish? Okay, okay, let go, can we be quiet for a while?"
Tang Chen had just tricked Wang Yanzhou into dropping the snack into his hands when, seemingly due to some glare from the hairpin on her head, he ripped it off and threw it away. That's right, he threw it away: "Hey, what is this? It hurts my eyes. Get out of here!"
"Fuck, you can't throw it away!" Tang Chen howled and rushed to the window to try to save it, but in the end, she only saw her precious hairpin falling to the street, dead and gone: "My hairpin, which is worth so much money, just flew away like that!"
When Wang Yanzhou heard her talk about flying, his mind went crazy. He ran to the window and grabbed it, ready to jump out: "Fly? I want to fly too!"
"Fly your sister, still flying!"
Tang Chen held Wang Yanzhou tightly with one hand, and at the same time, he lectured Yan Shaoqing like a child: "I told you it's just face washing water, can you please not drink it? Ahhhhh, someone come, I'm going crazy!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the waiter appeared with two large bowls of hangover soup, amidst the chaos and anticipation of the crowd: "Here it comes, girl, the hangover soup is here!"
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