Chapter 13 Not afraid of enmity
People are sometimes prone to making cheap mistakes, and the more they can't get or do well, the more they want to try again.
"It's a really good drink, and to be honest, I want to have two drinks, but I don't dare to challenge it again this time. I guess no one would dare to challenge it today. ”
Zhang Fei shook his head vigorously and said: "You guessed wrong, yesterday the audience was not convinced, thinking that your alcohol consumption was too poor, didn't Xu Kai drink very happily, now everyone wants to try it, even I want to see if it is better than you." ”
If you don't reach the Yellow River, you won't die, although there is no such sentence at this time, but Zhu Zai is in such an indescribable mood at the moment.
But immediately he heard from Zhang Fei what frightened him even more, and forgot all about his troubles. His old Zhu family, Huangfu family, and the town navy made Lin Renzhao and Lin Huzi have a feud.
On the evening of the restaurant's opening, too many things happened, like an autumn wind sweeping and shedding many leaves. The embarrassment of Zhu Youcai and others was just the first good show for the restaurant to open.
Zhen Feng easily earned ten yuan of money, and the most important thing is that the performance of so many children of official families has become the freshest and most interesting topic in the entire capital and even the Tang Kingdom, and at the same time, the reputation of the restaurant and wine has spread quickly. In the later transmission of the voice, for some reason, I don't know who spread it, everyone prefers to call this wine "stuffy donkey" rather than "drunk life and dream death", because although those three words are cheesy, they are more vivid, and by the way, those drunk gentlemen are indirectly damaged.
However, this restaurant, which was originally cold in front of the door, was originally unclear to everyone, and now it is still covered. Finally, after Xu Kai unveiled the bamboo hook, everyone knew that a very common restaurant name: Wangjiang Building.
When everyone saw the red cloth of the couplet unveiled, people, including Xu Kai, their eyes widened, they had never encountered this situation, could it be that the craftsman leaked when making it? Unexpectedly, there are only half of the couplets at the entrance gate, that is, only the upper couplet.
But this thought was quickly overshadowed by surprise. Xu Kai looked at Shanglian in a daze and pondered: Wangjianglou, Wangjiangliu, Wangjianglou Wangjiangliu, Jianglou is eternal, Jiangliu is eternal.
Just read it once, Xu Kai felt that the scenes were blended and majestic, and after watching it twice, he found that there were many difficulties. If you want to match the lower couplet, you must match the sentence structure, part of speech, structure, flatness, momentum, and artistic conception, and it must be the same as the upper couplet, through key difficulties such as homophony, overlapping words, and landmarks. In this way, Xu Kai found that it was too difficult to match completely, and after thinking about it a few times, he was not satisfied, so he couldn't help but shake his head.
This coupling is an absolute through the ages, it is rumored that Xue Tao in the Tang Dynasty in Chengdu fascinated the nine Jiannan Xichuan Jiedu envoys to do, it is also said that later generations in order to commemorate Xue Tao built the Wangjiang Tower after someone did. The specific author and time have been thrown into the long river of time by the rolling wheels of history, leaving behind a link that is difficult to complete through the ages.
However, whether it was made by Xue Tao or not, or later generations attached to it, Zhen Feng explained to everyone: "Thanks to the old gentleman and all of you for appreciating your face, witnessing the opening of Wangjiang Tower, this couplet is made by the talented girl Xue Tao, but unfortunately no one has been able to make the next couplet for more than a hundred years." Therefore, our store will put this couplet, waiting for which talented and beautiful woman will continue this century-old fate and achieve a good story. If anyone can be right and neat, and win the approval of everyone, this person will become a guest of honor in Wangjiang Tower, and any food and drink will be free for one year. ”
There was a commotion in the crowd, and some people did not understand the rules of the couplet and scoffed at it. Zhen Feng didn't hear it, the spirits just now were aimed at the fierce and bold people, mainly those who practiced martial arts and the children of gentlemen, and the couplets of the restaurant were aimed at literati and ink writers and literary youths, which happened to be the two main groups of people in the restaurant who promoted words and were fierce.
"Sir, please come upstairs first. If you are interested, you can also go in and see, there is not only a link at the door, there is also a link in the building, as long as someone can come up to a couplet, it is also a guest of the Wangjiang Building. ”
"What!" Xu Kai's eyes lit up, he changed his silence and strode in.
That's the charm of words. The more obsessed the literati are with books, the more unbearable they are for the missing half of the couplet, and the heart is like a one-sided balance, and the golden mean that has always been followed is completely unbalanced at this moment, and the heart is itching like an ant crawling over, and I can't wait to make up the couplet.
It's just that Xu Kai just took a step, and the crowd suddenly became chaotic. A huge voice shouted: "Where is the thief running, catch him for Lao Tzu!" Lao Tzu wants to erode him and skin him. ”
The attention of the crowd was drawn to the oppressive voice, and at the center of the voice was a well-dressed but hideous-looking boy, and more than a dozen guards around him rushed with knives in the direction he was pointing. In fact, as soon as he heard the voice, Zhen Feng knew that the prince of the emperor was coming, and it seemed that the Lian family who saved him that day was also in the crowd.
The crowd quickly dispersed, as the guards drew their swords, and no one wanted to be a fish in the pond that had been caught in the fire at the city gates. Zhu Youcai had a good relationship with the emperor's son, although he was already drunk, but his scholars and guards were familiar with the emperor's family, so Zhu Youcai's four personal guards also grabbed their weapons and rushed forward.
Lian Jiazi did not run away, he stood in place, and the surrounding area centered on him became an open space. He didn't have a sword, and the contradiction that could have been solved with his fists was careless in the face of more than a dozen samurai with swords at the moment. He casually picked up a flat pole carrying water outside the restaurant, and used it as his weapon.
Lian Jiazi put on a posture of a horizontal knife, like a mountain standing still, the flat shoulder crossed his chest, his eyes were fierce and abnormal, and a disdainful word came out of his mouth: "Huangfu Gongzi, last time you bullied a handsome man, a certain family looked disgusting before he stopped it." A certain family doesn't want to make enemies, but they are not afraid of making enemies either. ”
"A certain family doesn't want to make enemies, but they are not afraid of making enemies either." These words won the applause of some people present, and they were too powerful and imposing. Even to everyone, it was the feeling that Lian Jiazi was surrounded by nearly twenty guards who were drawing swords and facing each other.
"Stop! In broad daylight, how dare you ......" An old man's voice came from the edge of the crowd, and it seemed to be a cicada singing insect in the ears of the people on both sides.
When the prince of the emperor was angry, he didn't even look at the others, staring at Lian Jiazi with his eyes, and he had the desire to devour the other party at any time. Before the old man finished speaking, several knives beckoned to Lian Jiazi at the same time.
Lian Jiazi swept sideways, avoiding the blade, hitting the back of the knife, castrating extremely fiercely, with the sword guarding the tiger's mouth, his body tilted to the side, and smashed on his companion. After a counterattack, Lian Jiazi continued to wave the flat pole and said: "This official, if a certain family is willing to fight again, he is really forced to be helpless, and it is difficult to be caught, please forgive me." ”