Chen Zhengqiu was carried up to the cottage and locked up in a firewood room.

Where has he seen this? He was already frightened, and his whole body trembled like chaff.

After a while, he thought of his parents, and sorrow came from it: I have been studying articles in Lingnan Academy for the past three years, but I haven't had to go home once, and now that my studies have expired, it is to seek fame and a good future for entering the official career, but I was taken captive to the Qilin cottage and became a ghost under the knife of the bandits.

At this moment, the master of the cottage walked in with his daughter and the villager.

Zhai Ding said: "Big boss, it was this stinky boy who almost ruined our good deeds, and now the little one will pull him out and kill him with a knife, lest this decaying god always bring us mildew!" ”

The big boss took the wind lantern from Zhai Ding's hand, walked in front of Chen Zhengqiu to take a photo, and suddenly said: "Huh! This kid has fine skin and tender meat, Si Swenwen, maybe he is still a rich boy! ”

Zhai Ding said: "That's better, let's kidnap him and extort silver taels from his parents, you can earn a lot of money, if you don't give it, it's not too late to tear up the ticket!" ”

"What do you mean by ripping tickets? Do you want to untie the rope and let me go down the mountain? Chen Zhengqiu asked puzzled.

Zhai Ding: "Hey, hey! Laughed: "You idiot wants to be beautiful, tearing the ticket means that if you don't send the ransom money at home, you will be slaughtered with a knife!" ”

When Chen Zhengqiu heard this, he said sadly: "Then I am really dead, my father is just a poor teacher in the village private school, he saves money on weekdays for me to study, in the past three years, he has already been a family with four walls, and he is overstretched, where is there a ransom for you?" ”

"So you're a scholar?" The big boss asked.

Chen Zhengqiu said faintly: "So what? People who are about to die, even if they are only eight buckets tall and full of economy, they can't escape death, sad! Lamentable! ”

"Since you are a scholar, then you will write a picture of the underworld after death, and if the old man thinks it is good, he will set up a tombstone for you, how about it?" The big boss said.

Chen Zhengqiu knew that there was no hope of survival, but he calmed down, and really groaned: "Thousands of layers of yellow sand bury white bones, and a blank of pure land covers the wind and flow!" ”

The big boss said: "A good writer has a kind of 'death and return' spirit, this is like a person who reads, like a man!" ”

Zhai Ding echoed: "It turns out that he is not an idiot, he is a white-faced scholar, a nerd!" ”

The big boss said: "Sing again, the old man will stand on the ground three feet away from the grave for you!" ”

Chen Zhengqiu chanted again: "Go boldly on the Huangquan Road, don't care about what others say!" ”

The big boss thought that he had met a confidant, and he became interested, and said: "Since you are a scholar, how about chanting Du Mu's "Qingming", how about it?" ”

Chen Zhengqiu said: "During the Qingming Festival, it rains a lot, and the pedestrians on the road want to be soulful. Where is the borrowing restaurant, the shepherd boy refers to Xinghua Village! ”

Xiaofeng, the daughter of the big boss, stroked his palms and laughed: "A scholar is a scholar after all, he recites poetry and exports chapters, Miss Ben likes it so much!" ”

When the big boss heard this, he said angrily: "The women's home, there is no reserve at all, people say that women should laugh and not show their mouths, and they can't make a move." But thou hast made a loud noise in front of the living, and what kind of system hast thou become? I shouldn't have brought you here just now, but as soon as you heard that you had caught a little white face on the mountain, you had to come and see what was going on, what a shameless girl! ”

Xiaofeng pursed her lips and said coquettishly: "Dad! Who said that about their daughter? ”

The big boss said: "Alas! It's all to blame for your mother's early death, making you a wild girl with a father and no mother! ”

Zhai Ding said: "Don't blame the big boss, Miss, she stays in the mountains all day, she has been used to playing with uncles and uncles since she was a child, she is a little wild, and there is nothing bad, compared to those deep ladies, but she is much more lively and cute!" ”

The big boss said to Chen Zhengqiu: "The old man always thinks that this poem is a little too fat, can you lose weight on it?" ”

Chen Zhengqiu put life and death behind him at this time, and said: "Then reduce each sentence by two words, the rain is in the season, and the pedestrians want to break their souls." Where is the restaurant, it refers to Xinghua Village! ”

The big boss is just a "half bucket of water", good vassal and elegant, reciting poetry, just thinking it's fun, in fact, he doesn't know much about writing and ink, and he slaps his swollen face and fills his fat.

He praised it and said, "Good! This has become a good poem with one more word and one less word! ”

Chen Zhengqiu saw that he was so good at selling articles, and thought: I blindly please him, maybe I can get someone to keep under the knife, I don't have to die, I have a useful body, wouldn't it be better for him to honor his parents and serve the country every day?

Xiaofeng ignored her father's scolding at this time, and said, "Childe, I can also recite poetry!" ”

Chen Zhengqiu deliberately teased her and said: "Then you chant Wang Wei's "Acacia", how about it?" ”

Xiaofeng said: "Red beans are born in the south, a few branches are sent in spring, I wish you to pick more, this thing is the most lovely!" ”

The big boss said: "This poem is good, but the old man thinks it is too thin, can you fatten it up?" ”

Chen Zhengqiu pondered for a moment and said: "The seedlings and red beans are born in the southern country, and a few branches will be sent when spring comes. I sincerely wish you to pick up more, but it is the most lovesick thing! ”

The big boss said again: "The old man recently came up with an upper link, but he can't get the next link, now it's okay, see if you can get it?" ”

Chen Zhengqiu said: "Then chant out!" ”

The big boss chanted:

The southern kapok is as red as fire

Chen Zhengqiu continued:

Northern apples are as sweet as sugar

When the big boss heard this, he stroked his palms and laughed: "Lingnan Academy is good!" I can teach people like you! ”

"Of course! Otherwise, my father wouldn't have saved money for me to study! Chen Zhengqiu said.

The big boss said: "Slow, the old man still has a sentence on the link?" This sentence is more difficult! ”

"Then chant it and try it, and see if I can make a couplet?" Chen Zhengqiu said.

The big boss chanted:

Three whips of medicinal materials, there is wood is wood, no wood is also talent, talent is world-over, energy is a few buckets and a few liters

Chen Zhengqiu groaned:

Grains and grains, rice is grain, no rice is good, where is the conscience, can weigh a few catties and a few taels

The father and daughter applauded together and said yes, so Chen Zhengqiu was very happy, and he didn't expect to die.

So, he asked tentatively: "Big boss, we have become poetry friends and bosom friends, you won't kill me again!" ”

"Hah! Ha! He laughed and said, "Yes! The two of us have become poetry friends and bosom friends, how can the old man be willing to kill you? ”

When Chen Zhengqiu heard this, he was overjoyed, and hurriedly said: "Thank you for the grace of the big boss not to kill, the villain has been away from his parents for three years, your old man will let me go down the mountain!" ”

But the big boss said: "The old man only promised not to kill you, but he didn't promise to let you go!" ”

Chen Zhengqiu asked in surprise: "If you don't let me go, are you going to imprison me in this firewood room for the rest of my life?" ”

The big boss said: "That's not it, you're only about twenty years old now, and the old man is reluctant to lock you up for decades!" ”

"And what do you want?" Chen Zhengqiu asked.

Yes! What does the big boss want?