With the end of the autumn season, the Qinhuai River is lively again, and the most people who come and go are the talents who come to participate in the examination. Naturally, the number of guests on the Sun Moon Boat is also increasing day by day. Almost **** has to accompany guests until late, and sometimes even stays up all night. Xiao Yiran is very uncomfortable with the life in front of him, but he is in it, but he can't help himself.

However, Xiao Yiran has always been very grateful to his mother Zhao Qian. First of all, it was Zhao Qian who raised Xiao Yiran as an adult and taught him many talents, so that he was able to gain a foothold on the Qinhuai River. Secondly, there were originally women who sold themselves to pick up customers in this painting boat, but when Zhao Qian's health was not good, he gradually resold those people to other painting boats, leaving Xiao Yiran with a clean painting boat.

Xiao Yiran still remembers what Zhao Qian said to himself when he died last winter.

"Ran'er, the old body adopted you, although there are plans to sell yourself to pick up customers after you and Lu, but the old body can't wait for that day. In recent years, looking at Ran'er's beauty day by day, there is no smell of fireworks women. Mom didn't think about letting you out of this land of fireworks one day. After so many years of struggle, I finally don't have to worry about this matter anymore.

Seeing that the old body is afraid that it will not survive this winter, fortunately, the old body has no other relatives alive, so I will leave you a clean painting boat. ”

If it was Xiao Yiran, who grew up on the Qinhuai River, he did not resist selling his body for a living in the depths of his consciousness, but after mixing the memory and consciousness of Xiao Yiran of Yanshan Mansion, Xiao Yiran would naturally not take that path again. Even, Xiao Yiran has begun to think about how to abandon his current life of performing arts and find another way out.

ushered in the send-off, singing and dancing every night, Xiao Yiran's days in the painting boat became more and more uncomfortable.

Especially the guests who come to the painting boat, knowing that the Sun Moon Boat only sells their art and does not sell their bodies, they will still make some unreasonable demands after they are full of wine and food. Some people even do something to Xiao Yiran, who is not yet in his prime, including the girl Qingwen and Musk Yue, who are often harassed by guests. Although the three of them were angry in their hearts, they couldn't express themselves. In order to meet the requirements of the guests, they had to send people to find the "Liuying" on the Qinhuai River with a free identity to receive the guests. The so-called "Liuying" refers to a woman who does not sell herself in any brothel or painting boat, and comes alone to make a living as a pick-up.

On the day of August 23, the Sun Moon Boat ushered in the most lively day in Xiao Yiran's memory. A total of four groups of guests came. There are two of them, because the Sun Moon Boat only sells its art and does not sell its body, so they sit down and find other painting boats. However, there were still two groups of guests left, and none of them had any intention of leaving.

One of the guests was four people, all dressed as showmen, and spoke with foreign accents, obviously going to Beijing to take the exam. There are only two people in the other group, who seem to be master and servant, but the relationship seems to be closer than that of master and servant, and these two people are locals by their accents.

At first, the two groups of people were safe and sound, sitting in the living room, and the well water did not interfere with the river water. Each tastes its own tea, and each talks about its own words. It's just that Xiao Yiran is the only one in the painting boat to entertain guests, and the other is Qingwen and Musk Yue. As for the dancing girls, they have never come out to accompany the guests. Therefore, in order to let the beautiful girl in front of them accompany them for a while, the two groups of people gradually had the idea of letting the other group leave. It's just that the two groups of people seem to be more energetic, and no one has the intention of taking the initiative to quit.

Xiao Yiran had to be caught in the middle and accompany the two groups of people around.

It's just that the two local guests will ridicule the four Xiucai from time to time, and the atmosphere in the room is becoming more and more tense. Xiao Yiran thought about it, so he had to call the band and the dancers, so that the attention of the two groups of guests was attracted by the singing and dancing, and the situation improved.

When the song and dance were over, Xu was not used to listening to the four talents, and the two local guests took the initiative to leave. The atmosphere was much better, although listening to the conversation of the four talents, none of the four were promoted, and they seemed to have known it for a long time, and they did not show too much frustration.

From the beginning, Xiao Yiran heard that the accents of the four seemed to be from the Huazhou generation, so he asked:

"May I ask the four gentlemen, but are they from Huazhou?"

"Exactly, we are all from Huayin County."

After chatting for a few words, Xiao Yiran deliberately led the topic to the three sages of Xiabang, saying Bai Juyi for a while, Zhang Renyuan for a while, and finally talking about the famous minister Kou Zhun of the Northern Song Dynasty. The four of them also know the roots, and the conversation is very speculative.

"Sir, in addition to these three sages, have there been other celebrities in Xiabang County?"

Xiao Yiran wanted to know if there was a Lin Chen in Xiabang County during the Northern Song Dynasty, so that he could know that his experience in the Northern Song Dynasty for more than ten years was real and a dream.

"It seems that in addition to the three sages, in the past few hundred years, Xia Bang County has not heard of other famous figures."

"It seems that I have seen it somewhere, during the Taiping Rejuvenation of the Northern Song Dynasty, there was also a Tanhualang in Xiabang County, and later Princess Yinghui, the eldest princess of Song Taizong, was named the captain of the horse, I remember that it seems to be surnamed Lin, but there is such a person?"

Seeing that the four of them couldn't think of it, Xiao Yiran had to simply ask.

The four of you look at me, I look at you, and finally they all shook their heads to indicate that they had not heard of this person. This made Xiao Yiran's heart not only sink, could it be that the thirteen-year experience of the Northern Song Dynasty was really a dream? If only I had the opportunity to read the history of the Song Dynasty, or see the records of Xiabang County. Xiao Yiran still doesn't want to believe that the more than ten years of experience in the Northern Song Dynasty is really a dream.

The four Huazhou talents have been staying in the Sun and Moon Boat until around the time, and they still have no intention of leaving. Staying up late for several days made Xiao Yiran a little unable to hold on, but as long as the guests didn't say to leave, and there was no rule to drive the guests away, he could only accompany them with a strong spirit. Just when Xiao Yiran was chatting with the four Xiucai without saying a word, he suddenly heard a banging sound from outside the painting boat.

Xiao Yiran turned his head and motioned for Qingwen to go out and have a look. After a while, Qingwen came back and said to Xiao Yiran:

"Miss, there's a sampan on the river, and there are three guests on it, so you have to go to our boat."

"Sue them, today's painting boat has been chartered, and no other guests will be entertained."

"I said, it's just that a few people seem to be drunk, and they must board the ship."

Xiao Yiran had to confess his guilt to the four Huayin showmen, and personally came to the port side of the painting boat to check. Seeing that the sampan was close to the boat, paddling along the river with the boat, two of them cried and struck the boat with their oars.

"Guest officer, I'm very sorry, the Sun Moon Boat has been chartered today, please come back another day."

"Presumptuous, it's your honor for our grandson to fall in love with your family's painting boat, how dare you not let Sun Gongzi board the boat and smash this broken painting boat."

One of them scolded Xiao Yiran loudly, and tapped the painting boat even harder. At this time, the four Huayin talents also came out and helped Xiao Yiran and said:

"Where did you get drunk and go out here to go wild? We've already taken over this boat, so let's go wild somewhere else. ”

One of the four talents, with a thick Huazhou accent, echoed Xiao Yiran's words just now and said a word. He didn't say anything, but this speech made the people below hear that they were not locals, and they howled even more unscrupulously.

"You poor and sour talents, dare to talk to Sun Gongzi like this, are you impatient?"

In this way, it caused two groups of people to quarrel. In fact, the four people on the painting boat also drank a lot of wine, and after falling off the list, they were not in a good mood, and with the strength of the wine, they could just vent the depression in their chests. Seeing that the two sides were arguing more and more fiercely, Xiao Yiran didn't dare to let the three people on the sampan below get on the boat. Hurriedly let Qingwen go down and speed up the rocking of the boat so that she could shake off the sampan below. The bulky painting boat, where can the light sampan be rowed, plus the three people on the sampan, it seems that they are determined to get on the painting boat, always close to the port side of the painting boat, and never give up.

About half an hour after the noisy shouting, the four showmen on the painting boat were blown by the cold wind in the middle of the night in late autumn, and most of the wine they drank woke up, and their brains gradually cleared up. I suddenly regretted in my heart, I was a foreigner, and the people below were drunk and playful, so why bother to meet them in general, why not get off the boat and go back to the inn to rest. Thinking so, because the sampan has been following, if you really want to dock at this time, it is estimated that the people on the sampan will not give up.

Seeing that the four people on the painting boat were silent, the three people on the sampan became even more arrogant. kept scolding and scolding in his mouth, and even blamed the sun and moon.

"If you don't let Grandpa Sun board the painting boat tonight, after tomorrow, there will be no more Sun and Moon Boat on the Qinhuai River."

Sun Gongzi, who had been slurring his speech due to drunkenness, finally said a clear word. This made Xiao Yiran listen to it in his ears, and he was inevitably angry. Xindao, what kind of person is it, who has such a big breath?

Xiao Yiran turned his head to look at Qingwen and Musk Yue, meaning to ask the two of them if they had heard of such a grandson in Ying Tianfu. Qingwen and Musk Yue looked far away and said softly:

"Miss, I've never heard of such a person."

Because of the noisy time, almost everyone on the boat ran over except for the person in charge of rowing. Wang's mother, who is in her early fifties, is a native of Yingtianfu, and after listening to Qingwen and Musk Yue's words, she came to Xiao Yiran's side and said in a low voice:

"Miss, there is such a person in Ying Tianfu, and he is nicknamed 'mixed up'. In the early years, he also studied literature and books, and once won the show, but because he gathered a crowd to make trouble after drinking, he was cut off from his fame, and since then he has been eating and drinking and not taking the right path. I heard that this person's ancestors were also well-known figures, and he also had a lot of furniture. ”

turned out to be such a person, Xiao Yiran would not have let him go to the painting boat. As a result, the two sides were at a stalemate. It wasn't until dawn that the three men on the sampan, perhaps tired, scolded the heavens and the earth again, and swore that they would take revenge on the sun and moon boat in the coming day, and turned the bow of the boat to the shore.