The four of them spoke, and after a while, they arrived at the Wangjiang Pavilion, the Wangjiang Pavilion is a pavilion built next to a moat-like river in Nancheng District, Nanshan County, this river is a prosperous area where businessmen on both sides of the river gather, there are still a lot of pavilions like this, some are built by the public to facilitate the government, some are built by businessmen in order to earn money from literati and ink writers or make friends with dignitaries, Wangjiang Pavilion is funded by Wangjiang Tower, for those literati and ink writers to chant poems and endow use.

I saw that as soon as Shen Wenqiu and the four of them came to Wangjiang Tower, Uncle Ming, who was in charge of the shop, stepped forward and said, "Young Master, Young Master Shen, Young Master Liu, Young Master Wang, you are here, the wine and food are ready, please come here." After speaking, he guided the four of them to the backyard pavilion, and in this process, Li Nanxing also casually asked about the restaurant's recent business status.

I want to explain here that Wangjianglou is the Li family's industry, Li Ming is the old shopkeeper of the Li family, and Li Ming followed Li Nanxing's father Li Jiuzhe to the north and south before the Li family was developed, and it is not an exaggeration to say that half of the Li family's industry was helped by Li Ming, so Li Nanxing also respected him very much, and did not dare to snub him, and usually called him Uncle Ming, which seemed closer.

Li Nanxing actually didn't have the heart to help the family take care of the business at all, and it was in vain to ask if he asked, just to make a show, and it was passed to his father's ears through Uncle Ming, which means to say, "Dad, you see that I am not unlearned, idle, and I still care about the family's business!"

Uncle Ming prepared the wine and food for them and left, at this time, there were only four of them in the Wangjiang Pavilion, Shen Wenqiu was a little dissatisfied and pointed to the wine and food on the table and said, "Brother Nanxing, that's all you have prepared." ”

Liu Kaiming was also a little overwhelmed, and said: "Nanxing, your sincerity in asking Qiu to pick up the wind and wash the dust seems to be a little insufficient!"

Wang Zhenxiang said half-jokingly: "I think Nanxing, you shouldn't be reluctant to spend the capital!"

Li Nanxing really felt wronged! He said, "This is just the beginning, and the good show is still to come?"

The three of them were a little curious about what tricks he could play, and looked at him curiously, meaning to quickly say it and listen to it, don't sell the guanzi, but Li Nanxing just sold this guanzi, hung the appetite of the three of them and said, "Let's eat first, and talk about the rest of the night." ”

Seeing that he didn't mean to say, a few people said "cut~~" and sat down to eat.

But as soon as the wine was poured, Li Nanxing said, "Two brothers, don't drink in a hurry!"

Liu Kaiming and Wang Zhenxiang didn't know what tricks Li Nanxing was going to play, so they looked at him suspiciously, and Li Nanxing said: "It's not interesting for us to drink like this, why don't we just play with the alcohol penalty order, how about it?"

Liu Kaiming and Wang Zhenxiang had a headache when they heard the alcohol penalty order, and pretended to be angry and scolded: "Li Nanxing, are you Chengxin and the two of us unable to get along?"

What is this alcohol order?

The wine penalty order is a game invented by the literati of the Southern Ming Dynasty suitable for the literati on the wine table to play, roughly like this, one person takes the lead in the poem, and the others come out of the following, it can be said that it is a pair, it can also be said that it is not, but if it is not right, it will be punished by a cup, this kind of game not only reflects the literary skills of the literati, but also looks very elegant, unlike those coarse people who can only guess the fist as noisy, so it is widely handed down.

Li Nanxing, Liu Kaiming, and Wang Zhenxiang are not the material for reading! The two of them naturally had a headache when they heard this; it was just that they didn't understand that Li Nanxing hated reading more than himself, and that he was playing such a game today.

Shen Wenqiu couldn't look at it anymore, and said, "Brother Nanxing, isn't your joke a bit too big." ”

Li Nanxing said seriously: "I'm not joking, I've been preparing for tonight's show for half a month, and this alcohol penalty is just to exercise the talents of the two brothers, so as to make some preparations for the need to use it at night." ”

When Shen Wenqiu heard this, he looked at the two of them and waved his hand helplessly, saying, "I can't help it." ”

Li Nanxing added: "Brother Kaiming, Brother Zhenxiang, if you don't want to play, then tonight's show is probably nothing to do with you, or after eating like this, I will let Uncle Ming send you back, and I will play with Wenqiu." Li Nanxing's words are a little agitated.

Liu Kaiming was a little unhappy, and finally came out to play, saying that he couldn't cheapen the two boys, so he said: "Okay then! Then, ask Qiu, you start." After speaking, he felt that he was not perfect enough, and added: "Let's start with a simple one, but it's not too difficult!" and warned with his eyes, "If it's so difficult at the beginning, see if we don't clean you up tomorrow;"

Shen Wenqiu smiled and said, "Brother Kaiming, don't be afraid, I'll just start casually and make sure you can face one or two rounds." ”

Shen Wenqiu cleared his throat and said, "One, two, two cicadas." Signaling Liu Kaiming to answer the question, Liu Kaiming thought, asked Qiu this is reliable, this is simple, thought about it, and said: "Four, five, three or two dollars." ”

Shen Wenqiu commented with some compliments: "Okay, the battle is neat, it seems that Brother Enlightened, the pawnshop has done a good job in the past two years!" Then, he turned to Wang Zhenxiang and said, "Brother Zhenxiang, it's your turn." ”

Wang Zhenxiang got up and walked around, his brows were tightly locked, his hand was restlessly opening and closing his fan, suddenly, he noticed that the river was blooming with lotus flowers, and he had an idea: "Yes, eighty or ninety flowers." ”

Shen Wenqiu said: "Although it is slower, it is right." ”

Then, looking at Li Nanxing meant "It's your turn." This Li Nanxing is not much better than Liu Kaiming, and he thought for a while before he said: "Six, seven, eight or two scales." ”

Shen Wenqiu nodded and said, "It's quite reasonable, it seems that Brother Nanxing's work in the past half a month has not been in vain." ”

Li Nanxing was very appreciative of the tsundere and said: "That is, as long as I Li Nanxing wants to do something, that is, I can't do the thing of studying, and the rest is not simple." ”

Shen Wenqiu complimented: "Brother Nanxing is right, everyone is right in this round, if I lose, I will punish myself." With that, he took his glass and drank it all.

Li Nanxing said: "I will pick up this round last, and I will start this round." ”

Li Nanxing thought for a while, as if he felt that something was appropriate, and finally he said: "Wangjiang Pavilion behind Wangjiang Tower." ”

Wang Zhenxiang said: "What kind of poetry are you? ”

Shen asked Qiu and said, "Brother Zhenxiang, since you are out, it is considered to be the first you to come or me first." Hearing Shen Wenqiu say this, he didn't want to say anything, so he said, "It's better to ask Qiu to come first!"

Shen Wenqiu looked at Liu Kaiming, and when he saw him signaling to let him come first, he said without thinking: "Nanshan County, Nanshan Prefecture." ”

The two of them were annoyed for a while when they heard this, how could they let him go first, at this time Wang Zhenxiang couldn't sit still, and said: "Brother Kaiming, I'll come first, and let the elder brother be the younger brother, you say yes!"

After saying this, Liu Kaiming really couldn't wipe his face, so he humbly said: "It should, it should." The itch in his heart was not easy to show, but Wang Zhenxiang seemed to think of it when he heard Shen Wenqiu's answer, and said: "Hancheng Temple on Hancheng Mountain." ”

Liu Kaiming heard this and really thought the same as he thought, there was no way, now he can only think about other things, he thought about it for a long time, but he still didn't come up with it, so he said: "I'll punish myself with a cup." After a drink, he said: "It's my turn, Mo Shanghua is like a fairy mansion." “

No one expected that this was only the third round, and Liu Kaiming would come up with such a difficult question, even Shen Wenqiu was stunned for a moment when he heard it, and then looked at the two of them, meaning "Ask if you come first or I come first." These two people couldn't answer at all, and they asked in vain.

Shen Wenqiu said: "Brother Enlightened, good literature, how about looking at my sentence? ”

Liu Kaiming said: "It's very appropriate and appropriate, just like now these delicious wines and delicacies are our business, and the immortals can't taste it." After speaking, he laughed, and after laughing, he turned his head to look at Nanxing and said, "Nanxing, it's your turn." ”

Li Nanxing and Wang Zhenxiang didn't speak, they drank the wine, meaning "I won't admit the punishment, so it's okay;"

In this way, several rounds were carried out, except for Shen Wenqiu, the three of them did not face each other for a few rounds, a few people ate until it was dark, Uncle Ming, asked someone to hold the lamp for them, and a few people just remembered that it was dark, and there were other things to do tonight, Nanxing was busy telling the guys in Wangjianglou to remove the wine and food, and serve honey and grapefruit water;

Shen Wenqiu said: "It's dark this day, what is the highlight of Brother Nanxing?" Li Nanxing didn't pay attention to him, but looked at the river, as if he was looking for something;

Shen Wenqiu thought he was lying to him, and just wanted to ask Li Nanxing if he was lying to him, when Li Nanxing suddenly said, "Coming, coming." ”

The three of them looked in the direction that Li Nanxing was looking, and saw a few boats with colorful lights rowing towards them, and saw that four or five boats were all large ships of that kind, with the size of this ship, it was naturally possible to build a small room, and there were seven or eight red lanterns hanging on the boat, which looked particularly festive.

Shen Wenqiu said: "Is this the legendary flower boat?" The flower boat is unique to the Nanming Kingdom, and it is a branch industry of the Qinglou, although the Qinglou was originally set up by the government of the Southern Ming Kingdom, but because the Sage of Wen thought that this simple prostitute was insulting to Sven, he proposed to ask the Nanming Jun to improve, and the Jun sent the disciple of the Sage of Wen, his most trusted favorite minister Lan Xunzi to improve, because his teacher did not like it, but the Sage hoped to increase financial revenue through this industry, and then use it to develop public facilities and make the country strong, so Lan Xunzi adopted"Nine" this extreme number, there are nine mansions in the Southern Ming Kingdom, each mansion can only exist in nine green buildings, no more, no less, the number is in line with the king's intentions, but how to communicate with the teacher's mind?

Lan Xunzi thought that he was born as a literati, and the literati were all for the king's advice, so he asked all the women in the Qinglou to have a certain level of education, which was used to exercise the literati's talents, not just the wine pond and the meat forest;

So later Lan Xunzi became the ancestor of Qinglou, it is estimated that Lan Xunzi was afraid of death, and he didn't expect that he would become someone else's grandfather.

Later, due to the development of the Qinglou, the government neither supported nor opposed it, and developed the industry of flower boats, but it was still the most nine flower boats for each Qinglou, and the rules were still the same.