Chapter 286 Hu Ji Tavern
Hao Ren came over to stop them: "Okay, go back to your room and rest first. Don't compete today."
Su Zhizhi returned to the house in a good mood, and Xue Che also went back with an unwilling look on his face.
After they both washed up, they heard someone knocking on the door.
Su Zhizhi opened the door and saw Wu Yingniang standing there.
Xue Che saw Hao Ren with his hands behind his back.
The flickering candlelight burned brightly.
Wu Yingniang sat by the bed, holding Su Zhizhi's hand:
"Zhizhi, you're older now, not like when you were little. Mother taught you not to have any intimate behavior with other men."
Su Zhizhi: “Yes.”
Wu Yingniang: "Did you go too far with Ah Che today?"
Su Zhizhi said frankly: "No."
Wu Yingniang: "...Hold your hands."
Su Zhizhi looked at Wu Yingniang with a strange look: "That's not a stranger, that's Ah Che!"
A foreign man is a foreign man, and A Che is A Che.
This is not contradictory at all for Su Zhizhi.
Wu Yingniang was speechless.
When she returned to the room, she met Hao Ren who had just returned from Xue Che.
"What did that kid Ache say?" Wu Yingniang asked Hao Ren.
Hao Ren also shook his head helplessly.
He reminded Xue Che to pay special attention to the differences between men and women in the capital, and even engaged men and women should be careful about the boundaries.
Unexpectedly, Xue Che said seriously:
"Uncle Hao is right. I won't be associating with women when I return to Beijing this time. Well, I will also remind Zhizhi not to get too close to men outside her family."
The rest of Hao Ren's words got stuck in his throat: ...
Wu Yingniang burst out laughing.
They knew that Zhizhi and Ache were together when they were young and had a deep relationship.
Seeing them arm wrestling together again today without any reservations and getting along naturally, Hao Ren and Wu Yingniang wanted to go and test the two children's opinions to see if they had any feelings for each other.
If they really wanted to do that, they would naturally not stop them.
But when asked tonight, the two children themselves were confused.
Wu Yingniang: "Forget it, let them go."
Xue Che had fought fiercely the day before and had expended a lot of energy, so he still slept soundly at night.
The next morning, as soon as he opened his eyes and sat up, he heard Su Zhizhi calling him outside:
"Ache, are you up? We're going out to play today."
Xue Che hurriedly picked up his clothes and put them on, saying:
"I woke up, I woke up a long time ago."
He quickly washed up and pushed open the door. He saw the yard filled with the early summer morning light. Su Zhizhi, dressed as a man, smiled at him in the light.
Xue Che was surprised: "Why are you dressed like this?"
Su Zhizhi smiled mysteriously: "You had to treat me if you lost last night."
"What does treating you to a meal have to do with you wearing men's clothes?" Xue Che looked suspicious. "Where do you want to go?"
Su Zhizhi chuckled twice and said, "Let's go to Hu Ji Tavern!"
A new Hu Ji Wine Shop opened this year on the banks of Qujiang River. It is quite famous. I heard that their wine is as red as cinnabar and its fragrance fills the room.
Moreover, their dancers have graceful dance moves, which often draw cheers from the guests.
Qujiang Lake is not far from Tongjifang where Heishan Prefecture is located, and can be reached on foot.
Su Zhizhi sometimes went to play by Qujiang Lake and passed by this tavern several times.
She had long wanted to find a companion to go and see the fun, but no one in Heishan Mansion was willing to take her, always saying that she was still young.
When Gu Qingning was in Chang'an, Su Zhizhi wanted to take her there, but Qingning shook her head when she heard that they were going to Hu Ji Tavern. Yuan Caiwei had no interest in dancers or wine.
Therefore, Su Zhizhi has not been there yet.
Now that Che was here, she knew she had company.
When Xue Che heard Su Zhizhi say that she wanted to go to Hu Ji Tavern, he shook his head firmly:
"No."
"Absolutely not."
Su Zhizhi nodded: "Okay, then we'll leave after breakfast."
Xue Che: ...?
An hour later.
There was a bustling crowd of people on the shores of Qujiang Lake. Xue Che resigned himself to his fate and walked along the edge of the lake with Su Zhizhi.
He said he didn't want to go, but just after finishing breakfast, he was dragged out by Su Zhizhi.
Before going out, Qiu Jinyu put a fake nose and a few fake moles on his face.
Now I am completely different from when I was a child. Even if I meet an old friend from my childhood, I will definitely not recognize him.
Although Xue Che was born in Chang'an, he rarely went out before he was abducted at the age of six, let alone go to the Hu Ji Tavern.
He had been in the military camp for the past few years and had few opportunities to interact with women. He also didn't drink much and just read books and practiced martial arts.
He knew that some soldiers in some military camps would go to the county music camp for some fun, but he and his son had never been there.
Xue Che had never been to Hu Ji's Tavern, but he could imagine the scene of drinking and having fun, which he was not quite used to.
"Zhizhi, have you been there before?" Xue Che turned to look at Su Zhizhi.
"I've never been there, so I wanted to go and see it." Su Zhizhi said naturally.
Not only was she wearing men's robes, she also had a small mustache on her lips and a fake Adam's apple on her neck.
Xue Che touched his neck and felt that the fake Adam's apple Su Zhizhi was wearing was even bigger than his real one:
"Where did you get it?"
Su Zhizhi pressed the raised end of his mustache with his hand:
"I got this from Aunt Qiu when she was giving you a nose job. You can't throw it away. You have to return it to her when you get back."
Su Zhizhi is tall to begin with, and with the fake beard, fake Adam's apple, and deliberately thick eyebrows, she really does look like a young man with thick eyebrows and big eyes.
When I walked to the door of the tavern, I heard the sound of silver bells and drums before I went in, and the aroma of wine hit me in the face.
A charming young woman with high eyebrows and deep eyes stood at the door of the tavern, with golden bracelets wrapped around her arms and turquoise eyes full of smiles:
"Would you two guests like to come in and try the newly arrived wine?"
"Yes, find us a seat where we can watch the dance." Su Zhizhi pulled Xue Che inside excitedly.
Xue Che followed him in silently.
Su Zhizhi turned around and whispered to Xue Che:
"Ah Che, Uncle Xu said that we should speak loudly in places like this, otherwise people will think we are country bumpkins who have never been here before and might take advantage of us to rip us off."
Xue Che was choked for a moment: "You...you're saying I'm unsophisticated?"
The people in the military camp and the villagers of Montenegro all said that he was a handsome young man.
Zhizhi actually said he was unsophisticated!
Su Zhizhi patted Xue Che and comforted him, "It's okay, we are all a little unsophisticated."
The two followed Hu Ji, who was leading the way, and found a place to sit down.
As soon as Xue Che sat down, he turned his head away from Su Zhizhi.
As soon as he turned his head to the side, a dancer with a slender waist came into his sight.
The dancer walked to a Persian gold carpet in the center of the tavern, and with a touch of her toes, the golden bells on her waist rustled, and her pomegranate skirt suddenly opened up like a dancing flame.
The dancer cast a charming look in their direction.
Xue Che was startled by the flirtatious glance and turned his head back in disgust.
He looked at Su Zhizhi again and was surprised.
In the blink of an eye, a charming Hu Ji sat down next to Su Zhizhi, holding a glass of wine, with a hint of charm and shyness in the corners of her eyes:
"What is the name of this young master?"
Su Zhizhi smiled like a young man: "Sister, my last name is Su."
Hu Ji felt sweetened in her heart when Su Zhizhi called her "sister", and the smile on her face became even more pronounced.
She said in Chinese with a Hu accent:
"I will serve wine to Master Su~ Master Su is so handsome~"
Su Zhizhi saw that the glass cup in Hu Ji's hand was filled with red crystal liquid, like a transparent ruby.
She lowered her head and took a sip from the wine glass that Hu Ji handed to her lips.
"Good wine!" Layer upon layer of fruity aroma spread in Su Zhizhi's mouth.
She didn't drink much alcohol, but she would occasionally taste a little from the adults' cups during the New Year and other festivals.
The wine at Hu Ji Wine Shop is indeed different.
Xue Che saw Hu Ji's dazed eyes and her body leaning intimately against Su Zhizhi. His eyes widened with anger:
“You, you guys…”
He couldn't bear to watch it any longer, so he frowned and pulled Hu Ji away from Su Zhizhi:
"Just drink properly, don't pick at it!"
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