The Golden Age
Chapter 37: Qiuniang
Biquge www.xbiquge.cc, the fastest update of the latest chapters of Sun Moon Fenghua!Qin Xiao was worried about how to find the whereabouts of Han Yunong. He didn't want to take a boat, shook his head, and turned to leave, but he saw the boat girl showing a hint of disappointment.
Chuanniang is nearly thirty years old, but her appearance is not bad. There is a small red mole on the corner of her mouth. Her appearance is beautiful, but the small mole adds a touch of style to her.
When Qin Xiao entered the city, Du Hongsheng introduced some of the city of Kyoto.
Kyoto City has three water systems, and the imperial court has started to build many channels to open up the three water systems, forming a very convenient waterway transportation.
The three water systems are like three giant dragons coiling around the city of Kyoto. There are rivers in the city, and there are avenues in the rivers.
After the southerners entered Beijing, they didn't like horseback riding and couldn't enjoy the scenery by car. Moreover, many roads in the city were congested, so it became a more elegant thing to visit Kyoto by boat.
For those so-called elegant men, letting a five-big and three-thick boatman punt the boat to enjoy the scenery is far inferior to the woman punting the boat. In the earliest days, the boatman was indeed the boatman, but the business was cold. Boats are prosperous, so there are fewer and fewer boatmen in Kyoto, but more and more boat girls. In order to cater to the habits of southerners, many boat girls wear southern women’s clothing and try their best Clean up, so that you can increase your business.
It’s just that holding a boat is also hard work. The average weak woman can’t eat this bowl of rice. The most important thing is that ordinary people will not let the family members of the family come out and show their faces, especially the yellow girls who have not yet come out of the pavilion, let alone do this. thing.
Therefore, most of the boat girls who are punting on the river are at home. They come out to support the family by punting on their own, and they are often married young women.
Qin Xiao was not in the mood to ride a boat to enjoy the scenery, but saw that the ship’s lady was disappointed and she wanted to leave. She couldn’t help saying: "I’m riding out. You can only sit on the boat. You can’t put a horse on it. Throw it here, and it will be stolen later."
"It's not in the way." Chuan's lady's voice was gentle. Seeing that Qin Xiao was only worried about her horse, she immediately smiled: "You tie your horse to a tree. After the tour, I will send you back here. It was the same with previous guests. No one has ever lost a horse. If someone really dares to steal a horse, I will definitely help you find it." Lest Qin Xiao would not believe it, he added: "My brother is a member of the government."
Qin Xiao will be suspicious, wondering how if your brother is really a member of the government, how could you let you be a woman and show your face.
However, he was depressed and hoped to take this opportunity to ask the ship’s lady about something about Kyoto. After thinking about it for a while, he nodded and tied the horse. Suddenly he thought of the boat cost and asked, "How much does it cost to take your boat?"
"It's not expensive, it's not expensive." The ship's lady took the business, and her smile was even brighter: "It costs 20 cents an hour. If you charter a boat, it costs 40 cents an afternoon, which is very cheap."
Qin Xiao thought that the ship’s money was indeed not expensive, but the ship’s lady had already set up the boat board very neatly. Qin Xiao got on the ship with a pony stool in the middle. He approached at this time and found that the ship’s lady’s appearance is not bad, maybe Because of the perennial boating, the skin tone is slightly wheaten, which looks very healthy. The waist is slender, the waist is thin and the hips, and the narrow shirt is tied to the upper body, which also makes the chest look quite plump.
Qin Xiao sat down on the horse bench, the ship's mother put away the boat board, the pole entered the water, the water was rippling, and the boat had left the shore.
"Where are we going?" Qin Xiao asked.
Chuan Niang said: "If the guests have nowhere to go, we can follow Luoshui to the east, passing Taipingfang, Changshengfang and Tsing Yi
There is a Taoist temple in Taipingfang, which is a famous scenic spot in Kyoto. You can enjoy it by boat. If guests want to enter the Taoist temple and incense, I can wait.There are various snack shops in Changsheng Square, and Tsing Yi Square has a beautiful scenery, which is a good place to go.If we take this waterway, we can go back here before dark without delaying our guests."
Qin Xiao smiled and said, "Then go this way. By the way, I didn't ask my sister for the title."
"Sister?" Chuanniang glanced at Qin Xiao and smiled sweetly, but she was very charming, and said: "Others call me Qiuniang, and the guests can also call them like that. Where are the guests? Listen to your accent, it's not like Southern people."
"I'm from the northwest." Qin Xiao said: "This is the first time I have entered the capital."
The boat maidens are agile, the poles enter the water, and they don't use too much force. The small boat descends very quickly. There are many boats on the surface. These boat maidens have very good skills and pass by without affecting each other.
"It's the first time I have entered Beijing." Chuan Niang smiled sweetly: "People who often enter Beijing don't know how to take a boat trip. They have other places to go."
"Is the business bad?"
"The first few years were okay. Now there are more cruise ships and fewer guests than before. There are half a day without work in one day." Qiuniang said: "It takes half a day to find guests every day, but I have very good skills. Can find guests."
"If you can earn thirty or forty pennies a day, you can earn one or two pennies in a month." Qin Xiao said, "I can barely make ends meet."
Datang's exchange rate, one or two silver can be exchanged for a consistent copper coin, which is a thousand copper coins.
Qiuniang shook her head and said, "No, many people don't have business every day, and they are punting boats on the river, and there are hooligans who collect money. If they don't give it, they will have trouble."
"You still have to pay?" Qin Xiao was startled, thinking that at the feet of the emperor, could anyone dare to collect protection fees openly.
Qiuniang said: "They asked me for it, but I didn't give it. They rushed me and worked hard with them." The tone was quite rigid.
Qin Xiao laughed, sitting on the horse stool, watching Qiuniang's soft figure show its curves when punting, especially every time he bends, the waist becomes more slender, and the lines curve downward, but they appear The buttocks were plump and round, wrapped in those gray cloth pants, and they were ready to tear.
He was embarrassed to stare there, watching both sides, indeed, as Qiuniang said, there were many cruise ships on the river, but not many guests.
"By the way, Sister Qiuniang, have you received guests from the northwest before?" Qin Xiao asked, "You can see the guests from Xiling?"
"Yes, but very few." Qiuniang said: "Some guests didn't talk a lot when they boarded the boat, and some talked a lot, but... but their mouths were not very clean, so I didn't care. There was another one the other day. Guests from the northwest don’t know where they are from the northwest. As soon as they boarded the ship, they talked a lot, saying that he was born rich and well-connected in the capital, and said that as long as I am...!" He said: "Anyway, the more I talked, the more serious I was, and I was driven away. I thought people in the Northwest were like that. I saw the guests so gentle and gentle today. It seems that there are still many good people in the Northwest."
Qin Xiao laughed and said, "Do you think I am very gentle?"
Qiuniang glanced back, and smiled Yanran: "The guest is beautiful and gentle, and he looks like a good person."
Before speaking, Qiuniang said: "We are going to the fork road, and there is Taipingfang, I will take you to Ziyang Temple." I was about to drive the boat into the fork road, but I saw a cruise ship on the opposite side. Come here at a very fast speed.
Qiuniang used the pole to stop the boat. At this moment, she heard a loud whistle from the small boat on the opposite side. Before Qiuniang thought about it, Qin Xiao heard a loud whistle also coming from behind. He turned his head and suddenly discovered that not far behind Qiuniang's ship, a small boat was also coming here at extremely fast speed.
Qin Xiao immediately noticed that something was wrong, stood up and stared at the oncoming ship, but he could see clearly that although the man on the ship was wearing a hat, he was a burly man and was obviously a man.
He glanced back and saw that the boat coming from behind was also a boatman, with a big waist and a round waist, very aggressive.
The two boatmen are very good at sailing skills, they double-teamed one after another.
Of course Qin Xiao had already seen that the two small boats were coming towards Qiuniang at this time, frowning, thinking that he had gone against the water in the past few days and everything went wrong, and he had also encountered these incidents in the boat tour.
Qiuniang didn’t react at first, but when she saw the ship behind, she woke up immediately, clenched the brace, and her face faded slightly and panicked. Seeing the two ships getting closer, Qiuniang suddenly bent down and opened. A piece of rag by the foot, took out a kitchen knife from below.
Qin Xiao was taken aback, and immediately understood that it seemed that Qiuniang had also been wary of someone making trouble for her, and even prepared a kitchen knife on the boat.
The empire implemented a knife hunting order, and civilians were not allowed to hide their weapons privately, but kitchen knives were not included in the knife hunting order.
"boom!"
The hull shook violently, and the ship behind was so fast that it had smashed into the stern of Qiuniang from behind. The small boat was not big, so the impact caused the hull to sway, Qin Xiao's body also shook. Unsteady standing and almost fell.
Qiuniang's boat skills are exquisite and she has spent much time on the water. Although the hull swayed violently, although her body shook a bit, she quickly stood firmly, holding a pole in one hand and a kitchen knife in the other, and cursed at the back: "A dog with no eyes, do you want to die?" She was beautiful, but she scolded people, but it was very violent, and her beautiful face was full of anger.
The boatman behind laughed loudly, the struts pushed hard, the hull backed up, and then hit the stern again.
Qin Xiao got ready, spread his legs left and right to stabilize his body, but his face was a little ugly.
Qiuniang is just a boat girl who is begging for life on the water, her status can be said to be extremely low, earning some hard money to support her family, but she doesn't know how to offend these two men, and she comes over to make trouble in broad daylight.
The oncoming ship did not directly hit it. It approached, holding the pole in her hand, but poking straight towards Qiuniang’s plump chest, and said with a weird smile: "Looking at this size, can you pierce it with one shot? Up."
Qiuniang dodged immediately, and the kitchen knife in her hand slashed at the pole. The man on the other side was flexible and opened the pole. When Qiuniang cut a hole, the pole had already come over quickly and slammed it hard. Qiuniang's shoulders, the ship behind just ran into it again. After the force was applied, Qiuniang yelled "Ouch", her feet were unstable, and she had fallen backwards. Qin Xiao saw this, bullying her body in front of her and rested her hand. Staying on Qiuniang's waist, the other hand held her shoulder to stabilize her body.
Qiuniang panted heavily, her chest undulating, Qin Xiao helped her stand, and had already taken the pole in Qiuniang's hand, raised her head and looked at the boatman opposite, with cold light in her eyes.