Chapter 164: The Lady of Ru
Being invited to be an assistant by a well-known Taoist like Changchun Zhenren should be flattered in the eyes of ordinary cultivators.
But Yang Yun didn't want to accept Changchun's invitation.
Yang Yunxin said: "There is a high probability that there will be problems in the festival tomorrow, I will go there as my own identity, I can advance or retreat, but if I am your assistant, I will be jointly and severally liable if something happens...... I'm not your apprentice, so why should I take the risk with you? β
So Yang Yun refused: "Please forgive me for not being able to obey my fate." β
"Oh!?"
Changchun Zhenren was slightly surprised.
This young man didn't eat his set at all, and he obviously gave him a good opportunity to urge him to take the position, but the other party didn't cherish it at all.
Yang Yun said: "You can't rashly be an assistant to the seniors of other sects without the consent of your master, this is against the rules of the master's sect." β
Of course, Changchun Zhenren heard that this was Yang Yun's excuse, shook his head and sighed: "You have lofty ambitions, your ability is beyond the reach of young students, even if you are a leader in the same way, why do you give up lightly when you are motivated?" Besides, you and I know each other because we are fated, or we can have a deep friendship......"
Yang Yun secretly wondered: "What does he mean by that?" What is the deep crossing method? Do you want me to be his apprentice? This person can find Wu Yuan with superpowers as an apprentice in Shudi, which is very evil in itself...... Could he be able to tell if a person has superpowers? β
Yang Yun arched his hand and said, "Thank you for the weight of the real weapon...... However, he has always kept to himself and did not dare to disobey the teacher's orders. β
"Okay."
Changchun Zhenren nodded, his expression a little solemn. After a while, he suddenly stood up, glanced at Yang Yun deeply, and walked towards the door.
Yang Yun thought to himself: "Is he angry or what?" A senior master, needs to be more serious with a backward like me? What was his purpose in asking me to be his assistant? Just looking for my help? Or do you want to borrow my hand to get closer to Wuzun? β
Yang Yun's mind was full of questions, but he couldn't find the answers.
He was a guest in the end, and when he saw his host leave the table, he naturally stood up.
But seeing Changchun Zhenren open the door, he said outside: "Apprentice, there is still something to do for the teacher, greet Yang Xiaoyou for me." β
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Changchun Zhenren went downstairs.
Hearing the order, Wu Yuan, who hurriedly entered the house, looked at Yang Yun with curious eyes, not knowing what his master said to Yang Yun.
Wu Yuandao: "Why is the family teacher in such a hurry to leave? Are you all done? β
Yang Yun nodded: "It's over." β
"That'...... Why did the tutor look for you? Wu Yuan couldn't help but ask.
Yang Yun replied with a smile: "Is it more appropriate to ask Lingshi about this matter?" There are some things that can't be said behind the back of the commander, this is the least respect for the seniors. β
Wu Yuan was a little embarrassed, his face turned red, and he frowned: "I can see that you didn't have a pleasant conversation with your teacher...... You also know that you have no roots in Luoyang, and your tutor appreciates you and asks you for help, why don't you give face? β
Yang Yun didn't answer positively, just smiled.
Wu Yuan glared at Yang Yun: "The family teacher asked me to go upstairs to entertain you, do you continue to stay here to drink tea, or go back to your restaurant?" β
Yang Yun said: "I still have a lot of things on hand, so naturally I want to say goodbye and go home." β
"Then you can do it yourself."
Wu Yuan was annoyed, and seemed to have completely forgotten that Changchun Zhenren had told her to greet Yang Yun, and turned around and went downstairs.
Yang Yun was slightly embarrassed.
You ask me to be an assistant, everyone is good to talk and discuss, and if the business is not benevolent, leave room for each other...... Why, I don't accept it, and I will be treated as an enemy in the future?
As a Taoist priest who has been famous for a long time, just a little bit of energy?
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Yang Yun came downstairs, and Wu Yuan had already left.
The woman she had seen in the private room before came to see off the guests, and Yang Yun smiled and nodded.
The woman said, "Is the Taoist going to leave?" The first time I came, the concubine was not yet good at entertaining guests. β
Yang Yun waved his hand: "The store is polite, I just came this time to say something, and now that the negotiations are over, I naturally want to leave." β
The woman had a happy smile on her face: "Changchun Zhenren is a Daomen Fang family, and the Taoist can make friends with real people, and I think it is also from a famous family...... The slave family is lonely and unheard, and he has never heard of the reputation of the Taoist chief before, and it is only after he went downstairs that he inquired, only to know the joints...... This is the slave family's fault, why don't the slave family invite the Taoist to go upstairs for a drink? β
Yang Yun suddenly understood...... Wu Yuan had just exited the house with the woman and gone downstairs together, and gave her a brief introduction to his situation.
The woman admired Changchun Zhenren very much, and naturally she also paid great attention to the friends who cultivated around Changchun Zhenren.
Yang Yun waved his hand and said, "I have thanked the store for their kindness, in fact...... It doesn't have to be that much! β
The woman smiled and said, "Why is the Taoist so stubborn? Although the small shop is located in the middle of nowhere, the tea is also well-known near the left, and the slave family wants to ask a few things about the real people in Changchun. β
Originally, Yang Yun didn't want to stay longer, but when he heard this woman mention the real person in Changchun, he couldn't help but feel a little curious. In addition, the teahouse is not far from Shanglinfang, and there may be business contacts with each other in the future.
Yang Yun said with a smile in line with the principle of multiple friends and multiple roads: "The store is so gracious, but it will be disrespectful." β
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Yang Yun and the woman went upstairs again, changed to an elegant room, and put fragrant tea on the table.
The woman performed the tea ceremony in front of Yang Yun, but Yang Yun had a very limited understanding of the tea ceremony, and only appreciated the beautiful demeanor of the woman when making tea, looking at its shape but not the meaning.
The last pair of delicate and white hands brought the teacup filled with golden tea to Yang Yun, Yang Yun took it politely, took a sip, and left a fragrance on his lips.
Yang Yunxin said: "No wonder Changchun real people will come here, the tea is really good, in this era of barren entertainment, it is a good enjoyment." β
"Do you like it?" The woman asked with an eager look.
Yang Yun smiled and nodded: "It's delicious!" It's a pity that I don't know much about the tea ceremony, but I know that this tea is fragrant, and I don't know what is famous in it? β
The woman was praised and said with satisfaction: "This is the tea of the Snow Country, picked once every two years, the slave family once had an old man go to the Snow Country, transported some back, supplemented by the spring water of the Lingshan Mountain in the west of the city, the tea made is rich and mellow, and the life is sweet, although the drink is strong and not bitter, and the people who have tasted it say that it is good." So the slave family opened this teahouse to make a living. β
When Yang Yun came to the Tang Dynasty, he saw the prosperous scene of the prosperous era, and only then did he know that the tea culture of the Tang Dynasty was very different from what he imagined.
In the early Tang Dynasty, drinking tea was just a kind of etiquette popular among the aristocracy, and the main way to make tea was to boil tea, people put the tea leaves into the pot to boil, and then add ginger, onions, garlic, mutton fat, etc., and the taste was extremely strange.
In the Middle Tang Dynasty, especially in the prosperous era of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, the country was rich and the people were strong, and tea entered the homes of ordinary people, but ordinary people thought that boiling tea was too cumbersome, and seriously delayed the time to work, so the merchants tried to fry the tea and sell it, and the people bought the tea and put it in the teapot, flushed it into the boiling water, and drank it directly.
In the twenty-first year of Kaiyuan, Lu Yu, the founder of tea culture, had just been born, and the "Book of Tea" had not yet come out, and the tea culture had not yet been summarized and formed into a system, so various ways of drinking tea were parallel in the world, and the merchants who operated tea shops in big cities were slowly summarizing.
Yang Yundao: "This tea is really good, the store does a good business, it seems that Poor Dao will be frequented in the future." β
The woman asked, "I don't know where I stayed?" β
Yang Yun said with a smile: "Although I am cultivating, I am also contaminated with earthly affairs, and I temporarily live next door to Shanglinfang, just across the street." β
The woman asked in surprise, "Isn't the Dao Chief, the strange person who has insight into the heavens and predicted the movement of the earth in Luoyang in advance, which is rumored by the people of Shanglinfang?" β
Yang Yun smiled awkwardly and nodded, "It's exactly below." β
The woman suddenly realized: "No wonder, Changchun Zhenren is a master in the world, and you are also a strange person of a generation, the slave family has heard that you should run a restaurant in Shanglinfang, right?" β
"That's right, the Drunken Immortal Building is the industry below." Yang Yun still did not deny it.
The woman's face turned red: "But it was the slave family who got the axe in front of the Taoist chief!" β
Yang Yun said: "In the restaurant business, the store is in the tea business, it has nothing to do with it, why do you come to the class to get an axe?" β
The woman sighed: "The slave family has been running a shop here for five years, and in the past two months, I have heard a lot about the situation of the Drunken Immortal Building, and the guests who used to come often also visit it, but I don't know that the Taoist is running it, it is really ...... It's lonely. β
Only then did Yang Yun know that it turned out that Zuixianlou and this teahouse were also potential competitors.
It is good for customers to find a pastime and drink tea, but it is still the wine and food that can move people more and entertain guests more sincerely.
Although the beauty is delicious, ordinary people still want to satisfy their appetites!
Seeing that Yang Yun's expression was slightly embarrassed, the woman was a little stagnant, and asked with a smile, "I wonder when the Drunken Immortal Mansion will resume business?" β
Yang Yun said: "It will probably take a few days, and there is still a public affair in this unknown day......
The woman suddenly remembered something and said, "Dao Master is going to the Great Void Temple to participate in the puja, right?" That's right, Changchun Zhenren said that he was going too, but I didn't expect that Dao Chief, you were also invited at a young age...... It seems that the slave family will have to learn more from you in the future. β
Yang Yun waved his hand: "The words of the shopkeeper make me embarrassed." β
The woman was not so twisted, and pursed her lips and smiled: "The slave family's maiden name is Ru, if the Taoist chief does not dislike it, you can call the slave family Ru girl." β
"Mrs. Ru."
Yang Yun called it so.
The woman's face turned red, and she quickly explained: "The slave family is not a lady...... When he was a child, he promised to marry someone, but his fiancΓ© went out and did not return, and the marriage was delayed, and later his parents died of the epidemic, leaving the slave family lonely and miserable, and he could only make a living by operating a teahouse. β
Yang Yun thought to herself: "It turned out to be a widow who died of her husband...... No, I didn't even pass through the door, I can't talk about widows...... It stands to reason that the people of this era are open, and there is no problem in remarrying, especially if she has not passed the door, how can she be willing to stay alive and widowed? β
"Then let's call you Miss Ru." Yang Yun couldn't figure out some things, so he let it be, anyway, he was not familiar with this woman, and the title was just a code name.
Ru Nu smiled and teased: "The Taoist doesn't seem to be very good at talking to women. β
Yang Yun was teased and looked a little embarrassed.
There are a lot of women around him, but the usual conversation partners are basically little Lori, even if there was a young lady like Liu Qingyuan who was waiting to be married and Yang Yuhuan, who was cautious, she was always a little girl who didn't understand the amorous feelings.
Suddenly talking to a mature and charming woman, Yang Yun was a little uncomfortable, and smiled shyly at the moment, and said, "There are indeed few people like Miss Ru in Xia...... Strange woman has been contacted. β
Ru Nu smiled: "Then why don't you come more in the future?" The slave family also wanted to learn from the Taoist master to make a living, and to seek advice on Taoist things. β
Yang Yun said: "Under the surname Yang, the common name Yang Yun, Miss Ru does not need to be called the head of the Tao, just call the name of the next big name." β
Ru Nu pursed her lips and smiled: "Then the slave family will call you Yang Gongzi." β