Chapter 20 Making a living
The emperor set up a banquet for the king of Zhenxi to catch the wind and wash the dust, and invited the family of the Zhenxi palace to enter the palace for the banquet.
After Yuanxin left, Menghan had no playmates, stayed alone in the house and was bored, and went out shopping. The days without Yuanxin are really a lot less fun, Menghan thinks that he is so unambitious, I am a young man from the 21st century who has received higher education, and a golden beetle son-in-law spends his days in a mess all day long, will it be too unproductive, I'm too sorry for my college diploma, isn't it? Ahem, although it's just a two-book. I'm sorry that God let me come to ancient times to go through this experience. What to do, what to have fun with. Menghan thought about it and walked into a teahouse, "Huitingxuan".
found an empty table on the second floor and sat quietly, asked for a pot of tea, two plates of snacks, and Menghan listened to the storyteller in the hall downstairs. After a few cups of tea, the storyteller ended with the sentence "I want to know what happens next, and listen to the next breakdown". A few people who gave a reward took out some scattered silver taels, and said impatiently, "Okay, go down quickly," saying that it was more like driving him away.
The stage was empty for a while, and no one came up, some people were in a hurry, and shouted: "Zhou Sipin, why haven't you come up yet?" "That's it, Uncle Ben has been waiting for a while." "I came here to listen to my husband's story, didn't he say it every day?"
Menghan looked around, only to realize that there were many more people now than when she came, and they were all in high spirits, it seems that this Zhou Sipin is quite powerful, Menghan guessed.
In the midst of shouting, a middle-aged man came up and said apologetically, "I'm sorry everyone, Mr. Zhou can't come today, I am the shopkeeper of this teahouse, and the tea is half price today, so it's appropriate for you to see it." ”
Wouldn't it, such a big show? Meng Han secretly exclaimed, I'm afraid that most of this Tingxuan's business was recruited by Zhou Sipin.
Unexpectedly, there were still people in the audience who didn't buy it, and shouted, "Why don't you come, uncle, I waited for a long time, and you can't come and send my grandfather away?" ”
The shopkeeper bowed his hand and apologized, "This master is angry, Mr. Zhou's throat is broken, even if he comes, I'm afraid he won't be able to speak, Ye Haihan, when Mr. Zhou is well, let him say two more paragraphs." ”
"How did he get it, a storyteller doesn't protect his voice well, doesn't he want money?"
"Everyone's forgiveness, Xiao Er, hurry up and add tea to you." The shopkeeper slipped down, and the audience was buzzing, some sighed, some scolded, some stood up to leave, and the shopkeeper shook his head again and again.
When it's time to make a move, Menghan slapped the table and stood up, "Everyone, how about I tell you a story?" "It's not a problem for me Yao Menghan to name a few TV series, novels, and movies that I have watched.
Everyone looked to the second floor, Meng Han was a little nervous all of a sudden, coughed lightly and calmed down, and went downstairs in a chatter.
"You can tell a story?" "The little girl is not timid, do you know whose field you are taking?" "You're young, how many books have you read? What story can you tell? ”
As soon as Meng Han walked on stage, the shopkeeper chased after her, "Girl, don't smash my field?" ”
"Anyway, you don't have anyone to talk about books now, do you, and it's boring for everyone to sit down, so it's better to listen to my gossip. If you think I'm not speaking well, just blast me down at any time. If I speak well and give you all the money, what will happen to the shopkeeper? ”
"All right, girl, please." The shopkeeper weighed it and agreed.
Menghan came to the stage and asked the people who were the most clamoring just now, "The little girl came for the first time, and I don't know what story Mr. Zhou told before, and I don't know everyone's hobbies. What kind of story would you like to hear? ”
"Yo, listen, listen. This girl's tone is not small, as if she can tell any kind of story. Come on, I won't embarrass you, just say whatever you want. ”
"Okay, thank you for this." Meng Han thought for a while, and slowly spoke, "It is said that there is a large family that has a daughter Zhu Yingtai......
Menghan once asked Yuanxin some historical questions, and made sure that the overhead dynasty she came to was different from the history of China, and now she has picked up a big bargain, Chinese folklore stories are a big handful, and I have watched two different versions of the "Liang Zhu" TV series alone. I can't remember Zhu Yingtai's origin, it's okay, make it up, I can't remember some of the plots, it's okay, let's talk about it. I know more stories than you've ever heard of books, right?,Four years of college spent all day in the dormitory watching TV dramas.,You can't watch it in vain.,It's not bad to use some wonderful plots.。 Menghan was secretly proud, and wiped it indistinctly, and used it first if he could catch it. Menghan observed the reactions of the people in the audience while talking, they would be a little impatient when they talked about somewhere, and when they talked about the plot, they would listen to the dim sum in their hands and forget to put it in their mouths, and after a while, Menghan caught the preferences of these people, no matter what the plot of the story is, as long as the audience likes to stuff it in.
After holding on for more than half an hour, let's wrap it up, "The two turned into colorful butterflies and flew away, lingering, chasing each other, flying farther and farther, until they disappeared into the sky." Meng Han gestured, his eyes looked into the distance, and he had already integrated into the story.
After finishing speaking, there was silence, and after a while, some people applauded, and then applauded one after another, and there was an endless stream of rewards, and a person who looked like a weak scholar actually wiped his tears with his sleeve. Don't you want to be so exaggerated, Meng Han pouted.
"Thank you." Meng Han generously thanked him and walked to the stage. The shopkeeper hurriedly stopped in front of her, Menghan knew his intentions, and he was not in a hurry, waiting for him to speak.
The shopkeeper complimented, "The girl said something really good." ”
Meng Han said modestly, "The shopkeeper's fallacy is praised." ”
The shopkeeper took out some broken silver, "This is today's reward, and I ask the girl to accept it." ”
"I said the reward will be yours, and I won't take a penny." Menghan pretended to be high-minded, in fact, he was already moved in his heart, it had nothing to do with greed or not to be greedy for money, and Menghan still cared very much about his first labor fruit that he didn't rely on the pit and kidnapping.
"Girl, where is this, this is what the girl deserves. It's just that I still have a request, and I hope the girl will consider it. ”
"Tell me about it." Menghan is not in a hurry or slow.
The shopkeeper stammered: "If the girl is willing, can you often come to our store to tell stories, the store is willing to provide a venue, arrange a good time for the girl, reward me eight you two, what does the girl think." ”
"This, I want to think about it......" Menghan hesitated.
"Thirty-seven points?" The shopkeeper's temptation.
Menghan didn't reply and continued to think, in fact, what she was thinking about was not about money, but about how many stories she could tell and how long she could last until she ran out of food.
"Four-six! Girl, this is the biggest concession in our store, although the girl went to inquire, it was Mr. Zhou who was famous, and he only took four or six. ”
"Deal." Meng Han happily patted him on the shoulder.
The shopkeeper was overjoyed, "Then please move the girl and come to the inner hall to sign a contract with the store." ”
Still want to sign a contract? It's a business. Menghan muttered in his heart, and went to the inner hall under the guidance of the shopkeeper.
asked Menghan's name, the time was set in the afternoon, the appointment period was one month, the shopkeeper wrote the contract, and left his name "Zhu Zhilai" to Menghan to see. Menghan saw that there was no problem, and took the pen handed by the shopkeeper. With the experience of being ridiculed by Yuanxin for writing last time, Menghan became cautious in his pen, just now his mouth was like a river and his writing was flying, which made people feel that he was still literate and hyphenation, and at this time the handwriting was not as good as the hairy child's loss of people. Menghan thought for a while, and there it was. With a wave of the pen, Zhu Zhilai was dumbfounded: "The girl's calligraphy is really special." ”
Menghan was secretly proud, it's strange that you can understand me when I write English, "If the shopkeeper Zhu is fine, Menghan will leave first." ”
Zhu Zhilai took the reward money and gave it to Menghan, "Please accept it." ”
"Thank you." Menghan went away happily, although a little bit of silver was not much, but it gave Menghan an unprecedented sense of achievement, the first time to be recognized by so many people, rare excitement, this is clearly a small singer singing in a bar. Out of the meeting to listen to Xuan, Menghan walked on the street in a good mood, jumping up and down and couldn't help humming a small tune, "Our motherland is a garden, and the flowers in the garden are so bright......"
After returning to the palace, Menghan began to think about what to talk about next. Folklore seems to be quite popular.,Count the folklore stories you remember.,Menghan went to the courtyard to ask Yahuan Yuliu to find a feather.,The brush won't be used.,It's okay.。 Grinding, taking the feather and dipping it in, wrote:
Tianxian matching, the legend of the white snake, Meng Jiangnu crying on the Great Wall, the female concubine, the peacock flying southeast, the cowherd and the weaver girl.
Yes, and whether Wu Gang cut down the tree because of Chang'e, don't care, use it first. Chang'e? Yes, isn't Journey to the West a good story, I've watched it so many times since I was a child, and it's no problem to tell it a few times. Yes, this is going to be talked about again and again, this is good, Menghan wrote it down.
Then Journey to the West was like a spring, triggering countless TV series that flashed in Menghan's mind, Yang Guifei, Wu Zetian, Dream of Red Mansions, Xiao Li Flying Knife, The Legend of the Condor Heroes, The Condor Heroes, Tianya Mingyue Knife, Smiling Proud Jianghu, Bao Qingtian, I can't resist it, I came up with so many TV series at once, I really didn't go in vain in my four years of college, so I stayed in the dormitory all day watching movies and TV series.
Menghan patted his head, what do you think, write quickly, write quickly, and forget about it after a while. What's more, Huanzhu Gege, Lu Bu Diao Chan, Nezha Legend, is there anything else, can the Three Kingdoms and Water Margin be used? Can I, a girl, control this majestic drama? And there are quite a few episodes that I can't remember clearly...... Don't think about it so much, use it, you don't necessarily remember the rest, you will get tired of talking about some children's love, okay, just talk about it, who is afraid of whom, when the time comes, the soldiers will block the water and cover it, the one who should pull it over, the round one that should be round, the one who should jump over, hahaha, such a talented me.
Meng Han was overjoyed, and laughed wildly with feathers flying in his hands.
After Yuanxin came back, he watched Menghan talking to himself alone in the study outside the window, laughing from time to time, and couldn't help but be curious, what's wrong with her, she has hardly stayed in the study of Qiushuang Courtyard, how can she have a hobby of reading and writing at this time, and she is so excited, dancing and dancing, it won't be that I have convulsions if I don't accompany her in the morning.
Yuanxin walked into the room and saw what Menghan was writing wildly with a feather, and couldn't help laughing, "Feather, you actually use feathers to write, what the hell are you doing with so many pens you don't need?" ”
Yuanxin's smile interrupted Menghan's spring-like train of thought, and said angrily: "What are you laughing at!" It's back! ”
"I'm back, tossing and dying, I came to see you before I changed my clothes, did you say it was easy for me, I hurried back to play with you, and you didn't give me a good face." Yuanxin complained.
Menghan ignored it at all, and continued to write with great interest.
Yuanxin was lying on the desk with great interest and reading Menghan's hard writing, Menghan didn't like to disturb, Yuanxin didn't make a sound, picked up the ink and grinded it, Menghan put down the feather and said, "Don't grind, okay." ”
Yuanxin suddenly became excited, "Okay, show me." ”
Menghan proudly handed the two pieces of paper to Yuanxin, who shook his head again and again, "I don't understand." ”
"From left to right, read horizontally." Menghan took two sips of the teacup.
"Dong Yong's Seven Fairies? The Legend of the White Snake? Meng Jiangnu crying on the Great Wall? What is this? ”
"Don't underestimate these two pieces of paper, I tell you, this is a lot of silver." Meng Han said as he took out the silver he earned from his money bag to show off.
"What? You don't have any money? ”
Meng Han said disdainfully, "Cut, you underestimate this beauty too much." I tell you, these are the wisdom in the brain of this beauty, and I will take you to see and see tomorrow. ”
"Show me insights?" Yuanxin was full of questions: "Although I haven't been back to the capital for more than half a year, I don't need you to show me." When I showed you around the other day, you couldn't even recognize the road. ”
"I said to take you to see it, not to recognize the way, and to see how I use my big moves." Meng Han smiled weirdly.
"What's the big move, tell me about it?" Yuanxin leaned over curiously.
"Don't say it, don't say it, you'll know it tomorrow." Menghan deliberately hung his appetite.
At noon the next day, due to the rules of the palace, the family must eat lunch at the same table, and they must wait for the elders to arrive before they can move the chopsticks. After Menghan waited for the old man to take a seat, he ate non-stop, and urged Yuanxin to hurry up from time to time. The old man, Cheng Zheng, and Yu An stared at the two of them like hungry wolves with blank expressions.
Yu An asked, "Why are you two in such a hurry to eat and haven't eaten in the morning?" ”
"Eat, leave me alone." Menghan didn't raise his head to his mouth to pick up the rice, then put down the chopsticks with a snap, struggled a few times and swallowed, and said, "I'm full." ”
Yuanxin also put down his chopsticks, "I'm also full, let's go first, you use it slowly." ”
After Yuanxin finished speaking, he pulled Menghan and ran out. The remaining three stared wide-eyed, confused.
Cheng Zheng's eyes swept over Yu An, and Yu An said, "I'll take a look." Then he also ran out, "Second brother, you wait for me." ”
"If you don't have an upbringing, you've become what they are." The old man was very dissatisfied.
Cheng Zheng explained, "Maybe they have something, grandpa, let's eat." ”