Rich in grease nozzles, showing off relatives and referring to the official sedan chair;

It's hard to pay for the banquet, and you forget to buy a ticket to watch a play.

The duck rides the gourd, and the yellow wolf wears a top hat.

Indulgence is chic, decadent and arrogant.

Vulgar and elegant, pretending to make people laugh.

Tian Demei was born in a scholarly family, and the master was the only person in the history of Lujiadian. He devoted himself to inheriting his ancestral aspirations, studied hard, and became a talent before he was forty years old. I don't know if he is among the first-class elites in Lujiadian, has increased his social interactions, and is in the midst of his studies against the current, and does not advance and retreat; or whether he is squeezing more and more people to study and become an official, and the competition is more intense, and the tide is rising; or he is too shallow and does not understand the mystery of the unspoken rules; he should have gone to the next level and be loyal to the emperor as an official, but he has been taking the exam for many years, and he has not even crossed the threshold of his grandfather's promotion.

His ancestors handed down two shops selling daily necessities, which were run by his father. Although the original operation was not good, the purchase business was normal, and the family was able to take care of the cost of food and clothing. Since he was a showman, his father and son's face was bigger, his waist was two inches thicker, and he consciously moved smoothly and was expected to be on the emperor's list, so he made preparations early, discussed the secret of being an official, studied the official genealogy and official faction, and socialized all day long with quasi-lifters, quasi-officials, and quasi-official fathers, so he no longer took the ninth-rate cheap matter of doing business to heart.

The town is different from the city, and the customers are mostly neighbors, and they are more free to buy things. Before and after dinner, morning and evening, when there are many customers, he is putting up a music and preaching, socializing, and when he has time to open the store, people are already busy and rarely patronize. In addition, the mind is not in business, the shortage is not replenished in time, and the backlog is not dealt with in time; people buy him without it, and some are of inferior quality and mildew, resulting in fewer and fewer varieties and more and more backlogs. The fewer customers there are, the more unintentional the operation is, and the more the backlog of goods, the more likely it is to mildew; the more unintentional the management, the fewer customers, and the more the goods deteriorate, the less people will buy. Such a vicious circle is to lose money every year. After the death of his father, Tian Demei, as a showman, of course disdained to let go of his body, so he simply transferred the storefront and hung a large banner of "self-cultivation, family, governance, and peace in the world" in the hall, declaring that he would "learn to become a literary and martial artist, and lend it to the emperor's family".

People are iron and rice are steel, and if you don't eat a meal, you will be hungry and panic. Although Tian Demei is an elite first-class, she eats and shit like a slut. The son wants to eat, the wife wants to wear, and the money from the transfer of the store will be spent in less than two years. Seeing that he was nearly sixty years old, there was no hope of becoming an official, he was tired of farming, he was noisy about teaching, and he was afraid of losing money in business, so he had to sell half of his ancestral mansion, leaving only two wings.

Silver is not omnipotent, but the spectrum depends on money, and the fan relies on money. Tian Demei's back is on the tree (front) and the money is tight, and it is inevitable to act instigating. Drinking flower wine with others, he shouted "I pay the bill", that is, he sat still; he went to watch a play with others, and he stepped forward to buy tickets, but there were always various accidents left behind; at the banquet, he said that he was salty and sour, and kept picking thorns, but before leaving, he left the leftovers of wine in his arms......

In this way, he did not invite anyone or invite him to such elegant activities as listening to operas, playing chess, fishing, and chatting every day, and few people asked him to go. He had no choice but to take down the banner of "self-cultivation, family unity, governing the country, and leveling the world" expressing his ambition, and put a painting on the bedside of the general Confucian code of "good will help the world, and if poor will be good alone", he would plant flowers and grass, fight crickets and walk birds, and ignore what was going on outside the window, and only want to play by himself in order to maintain his Confucian style.

In less than two years, the money from the sale of the house was eaten up, and only two dilapidated houses for a family of four were cramped together.

He began to borrow to get by. This time, I bought rice and noodles, saying that I had just donated to the school and used up the cash, and I said that I was investing in a big business and had no cash for the time being; I couldn't help but be addicted to alcohol and had a spare dish of peanuts and beans, a bowl of old soju, saying that I forgot to bring my wallet; and I said that I would return the remaining vegetables and salt the next day...... He owes more than he owes, and he pushes it today, and after it is postponed, and tomorrow and tomorrow, he just doesn't pay it back.

He was so poor that he didn't have the last meal, and he didn't pay back the money he owed people everywhere; his wife got up early to go to the vegetable market to pick up vegetable leaves, and the clothes his children wore were in tatters; and he had to work all day long, full of "three outlines and five constants," "benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom, and faith." In front of people, he talked about etiquette, like a number of family treasures, mentioned the emperor, respected his ancestors, saw gold and silver, disgusted like shit, but secretly loved money like life, and saw money more than his father. Someone once saw a copper coin fall on the ground, and he pretended to fall and snatched it in his hand despite the bleeding from his knee; when he ate a roasted cake and dropped a sesame seed on the table, he also pretended to dip it in his saliva and write, dip it and lick it in his mouth......

It is normal for scholars to be poor, and there is nothing to hate, but it is disgusting to be strong and elegant, and to pretend to be forced everywhere!

The townspeople gradually realized the truth about him pretending to be forced, so they gave him a nickname and secretly called him "pretending to be a showman".

His nickname is spreading more and more, and naturally it is getting harder and harder to borrow.

The family is poor and has many trivial things. The children have to eat, the wives lack clothes to wear, the new debts are difficult to borrow, and the old debts have to be repaid; the children cry all day long, the wives quarrel, fight and make a mess.

He wants to be unruly, but he has no money to "waste"; he wants to be a fighter and break into the rivers and lakes, but he has no strength to restrain the chicken, and he is afraid of losing his life; he wants to be a hermit "picking chrysanthemums under the east fence and leisurely seeing Nanshan", but he has nowhere to hide, and he is reluctant to have his wife and children.

Tian Demei has nothing, only the distress of decadence and loneliness, and the cynical mentality of seeing through the red dust.

On this day, he searched all over the house for a few copper coins, bought a bottle of bad wine, a plate of broad beans, and was sitting on the stone bar at the door to borrow wine to drown his sorrows, and put on a clear and arrogant, uninhibited, and "alone" poor Confucian score, suddenly saw Lu Xing's brocade clothes embroidered, eagles and dogs, with his entourage and bodyguards hugging Pegasus in front and back, envy, jealousy and hatred arose, so he was half-drunk and gave a crooked poem entitled "Shameless", satirizing Lu Xing:

"To make money for prostitutes to set up an archway, pick up girls and be angry;

Hate not to have a wife and concubine as clean as jade, and rape all the beautiful women in the world. ”

The article feels that he is good, and his wife is always strong by others. Tian Demei felt that his suddenly inspired oil crooked poem drew the ugly image of the "flying face" young master who was a person in front of him and a ghost behind him in the town, and he also told the world with profound implications, and the battle was neat, and the words were refined, not inferior to the poet saint Du Fu and the poet immortal Li Bai, so he immediately took out the four treasures of the study, waved his pen on the stone, and called the neighbors and pedestrians on the road to come, shaking his head and chanting. What he said was "asking for advice" and "welcoming advice", but in fact, he was showing off his talent and enjoying the pleasure of being published in the world immediately.

The poem was circulated around the town, and someone presented it to Lu Xing. Lu Xing read it, and when he was passing by that day, he couldn't help but be furious, so he sent someone to call Tian Demei, intending to practice it to relieve his anger.

The mouth scolds the right because there is no power, and the pen is not rich because of the rich;

Speaking of perverts, they are full of anger and secretly stare at women penetrating their pants.

This is the common characteristic of most people who pretend to be literati who have desire but no ability, and have wolf heart but no wolf guts.

Tian Demei saw Lu Xing's invitation, and had already forgotten the indignation when she saw Lu Xing that day. Flattered, he hurriedly changed into Xiucai's "official uniform", which was also his most decent clothes, a straight-fitting long shirt, combed his hair that had not been combed for many days, put on a square scarf that symbolized Confucianism and had two wings on the back of his head, and came to Luxing's mansion with the people who came.

If you want to know what's going on, take a look at the next episode: Face and Money.