Chapter Eighty-Five
After eating this tea for almost two hours, the tea guests in the room first made noise, and slowly fell silent, listening attentively to Zhou Qiqiao's story of the white snake. There is love in the world, demons also have love, five hundred years of reincarnation is not stopped, the vicissitudes of life, the water is dry and the stones are rotten, but the grace of saving lives is not forgotten, the bridge is broken, the rain is known, after all the disasters, and finally become a family, this song of love between people and demons, as if compared to all the love stories since the Qin and Han dynasties, is more resonant, making people cry.
Zhou Qiqiao's mouth was dry, but watching the money in the bowl slowly piled up, the refreshment in his heart was really indescribable. Xu You had promised them before that all the money collected during the storytelling process belonged to them. That is to say, in addition to the fixed income of 500 Wen per day, there are additional rewards that can be included in the bag, just look at the feedback of today's tea customers, a rough estimate, even if it is not as much as 500 Wen, it is not too much difference.
At this time, he remembered to go to Xu You, but when he looked around, he didn't see anyone, and he didn't know when the group had quietly left.
Also leaving was Han Qi, he listened to it for half an hour, although he felt very attractive, but at first he suffered a loss from the dispute with Li Fu, and he was always dissatisfied in his heart, and this dissatisfaction also extended to the storyteller, got up and walked to the door, and scolded and said: "What a storyteller, a barking old dog!" The obscene things of people and snakes are all in a rage, and I will sue the county government and treat you for a crime of immorality! ”
He was indignant, while secretly thinking about how to get out of this breath, but he didn't think that as soon as he walked into a small alley, two people in Tsing Yi surrounded him, tied him to the corner from left to right, and hit him with a heavy punch to the stomach, and then did not break up his hands and feet, all greeted him, and these two people obviously have martial arts in their bodies, and they are tricky and painful, and there are no scars outside, they are really experts in black hands.
"Remember, go home and shut up! Otherwise, it would be very easy to sink a family of seven in Qiantang Lake......"
"Yes yes yes I know, I shut up! Stop fighting, let me go. Han Qi was terrified, knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, he had a wife, two concubines, and three sons, exactly seven people.
The East Market in Qiantang City has been crowded since the morning, rubbing shoulders and rubbing shoulders, and there is no end in sight. As the most concentrated place for regional trade, the flow of people has always been the highest in the county and even in the surrounding counties, and there are more than 1,000 people who come here to trade all kinds of goods during the day.
The person who was dressed in the same clothes as Zhou Qiqiao stood on a half-person-high wooden platform in the middle of the market, and was speaking the legend of the White Snake in a clear and clear accent. Around him were first a dozen people, then dozens of people, and then surrounded by three layers inside and outside, and later people needed to hold a stool or masonry to step on the feet to see the people on the stage, as for whether they could hear clearly, it depended on their own ears.
“…… That Bai Suzhen pinched the sword trick, flew into the clouds, and fought with the centipede essence, no less than three hundred rounds, suddenly hidden, secretly came behind the centipede essence, and stabbed him in the waist with a sword. You think how sharp that sword is, it immediately broke through the black armor and sank into the skin, spurting out a stream of cyan blood......"
"Good! Well played! There were earth-shattering cheers around, and the audience's emotions were completely mobilized, and some people even shouted: "Kill him, kill the centipede spirit!" "This is the rhythm of being too deep into the play, and it is about to become a brainless fan.
The storyteller looked at the audience, coughed dryly, and said with a smile: "Let me drink saliva......"
Rumble!
There was another burst of laughter, and the knowledgeable immediately shouted: "Hurry up, sir, this is to moisten your mouth, and if you have money, quickly get a money......"
"And what about you who have no money?"
The man smiled, found two short logs out of nowhere, lifted them to a high place and struck them, and said, "I'll make a special scene!" ”
Not far from the wooden platform, a group of people gathered, led by sitting on the Hu bed, wearing a thin padded crotch in the cold winter, and the two arms were exposed barely.
"What's the mess going on over there?"
"Lord Celebrity, it seems to be telling a story, I just went to listen to it, and it's fucking interesting."
"Story?"
The owner said that he was not interested, touched his stomach, squinted his eyes, and said, "You lazy dog, you still have the heart to listen to the story, hurry up and think about where to get some money for the brothers, it hasn't opened for three days......"
"Hey, the Walker has wronged me." He leaned into the master's ear and said, "Do you know that the guy who tells the story collects money, what is it called, I squeezed to the front and took a look, I'm afraid there are thousands of texts." ”
"What? Can you still collect money for telling a broken story? ”
The master sat up and said angrily: "Okay, where did the Qiang slave come out of my territory to do business without paying a penny, and he is not small!" ”
Qiang slave is a curse, the slave and maid are inferior, plus the Qiang character of the Hu people, it is even inferior. As for the centijin, that is, the protection fee, it is an unwritten rule for these rangers who are mixed in the East Market to gather into a party and collect centigold from merchants.
"Let's go, meet him!"
The master led everyone, holding sticks in his hands, and just walked out a few meters with a fierce momentum, when suddenly a person said coldly: "Zhou Xiang, where are you going?" ”
When the master saw it, his body suddenly softened, and he sneered: "City Order, why are you here?" ”
The supreme governor of a city is the city order, and his subordinates have city officials and clerks, and then there are men and doormen, who are responsible for public security management and other market affairs. Many ranger organizations have dealings with city orders or city officials, otherwise it would be impossible to calmly collect protection fees, which is the same throughout the ages.
This Zhou Xiang's power in the East City is not too big, and he can't get along with the city order, but he has a deep friendship with the city officials standing behind the city order, and he has to get together every two or three days to eat, drink, and prostitute himself, and by the way, the protection fee collected is divided into five, which belongs to the dog meat friends who cooperate with interests.
The city commander ignored him and said, "Come on, take down this group of armed thieves who are messing up the market!" ”
A group of wolf-like husbands and doormen swarmed up, and without waiting for Zhou Xiang to argue, they subdued him and his subordinates to the ground, gagged their hands, and escorted them silently.
The city commander looked at the wooden platform where the storyteller was still lively, and was not disturbed by the movement here, and said, "How many batches is this?" ”
The city official said silently: "The fourth batch! ”
"Okay, there's the last one, what's it called?"
"Zhang Wang!"
Zhang Wang...... Hmph, it's really insulting to the surname Zhang. Let's go and meet the owner of this Shinan! ”
The city official secretly hated in his heart, this arrest was obviously to eradicate those rangers who had no friendship with the city order, otherwise the most powerful Wang Hui and Fei Tong would not be more honest than one today, so that people could not catch the slightest handle, and they must have been notified by the city order in advance before they were hidden and invisible.
What a good means!
From now on, the entire East Market Ranger will be completely controlled by the city order. However, he didn't dare to say anything, because today's action to rectify the market, the city order was ordered by Gu Yun, and he was not in charge of it. He has been an official for many years, and he is well versed in all kinds of doorways, he can be yang and yin, or he can be false and wrong, and it is okay to do it against the city order, but he does not dare to ignore Gu Yun's order.
The fourth surname of Wu County, Gu Lu Zhu Zhang, that is where everyone looks up, he is a small city official, and how many heads do he have to take this risk? So when Zhou Xiang was arrested, he didn't say a word, and he didn't even say a word of pleading.
The same scene, staged in the township market, Li city, grass market and bazaar and other places where people gathered, Xu You arranged people in advance, responsible for setting off the atmosphere, guiding public opinion, applauding when it should be applauded, coaxing when it should be coaxed, the common people have a herd mentality, as long as the first wave of praise is overwhelming, it will be difficult to be stepped on again. The most important thing is to take it down as soon as you encounter troublemakers, such as Han Qi, such as Zhou Xiang, the so-called communication, that's it, you have to be careful both openly and secretly.
Within a day, these people who had heard the legend of the White Snake would return to their places of residence, inform their relatives and friends, and then spread it through word of mouth, and within ten days, it would spread throughout Sanwu.
Communication is a major discipline, but it is nothing more than a wild bombardment, forming the most explosive communication intensity in the shortest possible time, once the initial scale is formed, under the effect of the spiral effect, the effect can be expanded tenfold and hundredfold quickly.
On the way back to Mingyu Mountain, Lu Shuang forcibly suppressed his excitement and said, "Congratulations Xiaolang, congratulations Xiaolang!" ”
Xu You looked up at the mountain road, in the winter, the forest was bald, and the scene of Xiao Killing always made people feel depressed, and said softly: "What a joy? ”
"Xiaolang tried the knife for the first time, and he stirred up the changes in Qiantang, why don't you like it?"
Xu You shook his head and said, "It's just a matter of forcing Liangshan ......"
"Liangshan?"
Xu You smiled: "That's another story of Jin Ge Iron Horse......
When he arrived at the villa, the old god He Weizheng was leaning on the eaves of the west corner to bask in the sun, and the autumn equinox was listening to him on the side: "Qilang is a good person, but the shortcomings are also obvious, that is, the heart is not ruthless enough." ”
"Isn't that something to be praised for?"
"If it is a small farmer's family, the kindness of the heart will naturally be praised by the neighbors, but if you want to achieve great things, you must be ruthless. Qin II Hu Hai won the throne after dozens of brothers and sisters were torn to death, Han lord Liu Bang can push his own children out of the car when he flees, Wu Emperor Liu Che can set up a son and kill his mother when he is about to die, and Cao Qi, the late Emperor of Wei, even whipped his biological mother, you say, if you are a good-hearted person, can you do this? ”
"Xiao Lang naturally can't do this...... However, "the autumn equinox seems to understand whether he understands or not, and said: "If you are not ruthless, you can't do great things, why is Lang Jun willing to assist him?" ”
"That's a good question!" He Wei looked sideways at the autumn equinox and said, "Let's put it this way, if one day, Qilang has to kill you to get out of danger, he is not ruthless, how can he do it?" ”
The autumn equinox was startled, and the fear in his eyes first appeared, and then slowly dissipated, and said: "If there is really such a day, I will make up my own mind, and I will never make Xiaolang embarrassed." ”
He Wei smiled slightly and said, "That's it!" Although Shichiro doesn't have a ruthless heart, he has the courage to make people willing to die. Privately, who like us really likes to follow a ruthless lord? ”
"Not necessarily!"
He Wei and Autumn Equinox turned around at the same time, and Autumn Equinox shouted excitedly: "Xiaolang, you are back." ”
Xu Youqu flicked her forehead and said: "Don't listen to Qiyi's nonsense, there won't be such a situation, it's really to that point, I'm afraid everyone will definitely die, how can you kill one person to get out of danger?" He rebuked again: "Let you teach the autumn equinox to read and read and read and reason, what are you doing with her?" ”
He Wei smiled: "You go out to drink tea and listen to books but don't bring the autumn equinox, I see that she is bored and boring, just chatting, Qilang is not strange." ”
Xu You didn't have a problem with him, and after taking a seat, he talked about what he saw and heard in the Liuqing Teahouse today, He Wei nodded and said: "Southerners love ghosts and gods, and it is expected that the White Snake will cause a sensation, but after the sensation, how to lead the Heavenly Master into the urn will have to be carefully pondered!" ”
In the next three days, the scope of the storyteller expanded from Qiantang to the surrounding areas, and then spread to the southeast on the third day, and then spread to most of Yangzhou in three days, and in just half a month, it caused a huge influence in the Sanwu area. From the farmer who farmed in Qianmo, to the ranger chatting in the market, to the Qinglou Flower Lane, the wine shop went against the journey, almost everyone knew Bai Suzhen, and no one knew Xu Hanwen. There are also those scholars and celebrities, who began to quote scriptures and classics, and studied the names of many characters mentioned in the legend of the White Snake, such as West Lake, such as Tianyun Mountain, such as Bailu Temple, such as Thorn Shi Mumao, such as Taoist Qingjian, and derived a lot of anecdotes for a while, which attracted the world's popularity and fame.
Zhuji is located in the middle of the Puyang River, which is the hometown of Yue and Xi Shi during the Warring States Period, and has been a place of beauty since ancient times. If you want to say that the best place in Zhuji City is the Cuiyu Tower located in the west of the city. There is a dancing girl in the building, named Chunshui, her appearance is as clear and moving as spring water, and her singing voice is even more than Zhuji, as if she turned into a phoenix dancing in the nine heavens, some people say that it is comparable to the Qiantang Song Divine Concubine, which is a double masterpiece for a while.
Eighteen scholars sat around the Cuiyu Building, except for one person wearing an ordinary cotton cloth dress, the others were all silk brocade, which was very bright. Everyone drank together, talked about poetry and painting, and naturally talked about the most popular white snake legend.
"If you want to talk about this white snake, it's really wonderful. I heard the storyteller say that he had spent three thousand dollars on moistening his mouth for a day, and if it weren't for the dark curfew, I really wanted him to finish it in one go. ”
"Who's to say it isn't? You've only listened to it for a day, and I've been listening to it for three days in a row. Hey, I don't know if Bai Suzhen was pressed by Qingjian Daoist under the Yuanyang Jinglu by the West Lake, and he couldn't get out? ”
"Actually, it's strange, the legend of the White Snake is plausible, like something happened in this dynasty, but it's not like it."
"How?"
"First of all, Tianyun Mountain, Qiantang County does have Tianyun Mountain, which is in line with the facts. But there is no Taoist temple in the mountain, and there is no white deer view. Then there is the West Lake, there is only one Qiantang Lake in Qiantang, also called Mingsheng Lake, but it has never been the name of West Lake. Moreover, Mu Mao Thorn History, Mao, Mao also, Mu Mao is a willow, which is obviously ironic Yangzhou Thorn Shi Liu Quan ......"
"Then, how do you solve it?"
"Zhuang Ziyun is arguing for debate, of course we have to meet for debate, Qingjian is probably a static word......"
"Quiet? Could it be Du Jingzhi? ”
"It's hard to say, it's hard to say!"
"We are going to discuss the formation of the association today, this legend of the white snake is just a theory of ghosts and gods, listen to it in vain, and don't believe it. If it weren't for the ghosts and gods to satirize the present, it would be fine, if it was really as you expected, involving the history of the willow thorn and the Du sacrifice wine, how many heads did you and I have enough to participate in such things? ”
"That's right, it's okay, it's okay not to talk about it, it's still important to form an association."
The literati association began in the Six Dynasties, and after the development of the Sui and Tang dynasties, it was already very mature by the Song and Ming dynasties. Jiangdong is also a place where literati come out in large numbers, and the wind of association has almost become a prairie fire, these eighteen people are all natives of Zhuji, because of like-minded people come together, and later decided to learn from the advanced experience of Wu County, Qiantang and other places, form associations and help each other, and promote the fame of literature abroad.
One person stood up, held a wine glass, and said: "Brothers, the younger brother is not talented, I would like to take a name for the poetry society, if it is adopted, how fortunate it is!" ”
This person's name is Kong Rui, the word is end, and he is a side branch of the Huiji Kong family, although he is no longer a door valve, but he is still a family in Zhuji. He was dressed in a red robe, no more than six feet tall, but his face was upright, and he was full of smugness when he looked around, which showed that he was used to being arrogant and indulgent on weekdays.
"Ziduan, you are brilliant in writing, and your name must be excellent, I will listen to it."
"Yuan sighs that you can still 'get lucky', but I'm already 'good now'. Hurry up! ”
"If you say that, Yuan Si and Uncle Young are not as good as me." Another scholar stood up, walked to Kong Rui with a wine glass, took his arm to make a gesture of wine, and said, "I'm 'just a bit of a mouth', three points more anxious than all of you!" ”
The others laughed and fell, Yuan Si and the young uncle glanced at each other, shook their heads together, and said: "You are still powerful at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, willing to bow to the wind, willing to bow to the wind!" ”
There is a poem in "The Book of Songs, Zhaonan", which is a poem about a woman to be married, which is divided into three chapters, the first chapter "Yu Qi Jixi" expresses that the woman still has a calm meaning, and the second chapter "Yu Qi Jinxi" has seen the anxious feelings, and to the last chapter "Yu Qi Qi said", which can be said to be impatient. At the literati gathering, they will not speak as straightforwardly as the mountain village husband, but these three people regard themselves as literati, but they use a woman to marry to pat Kong Rui's ass, which can be seen.
Kong Rui smiled, although he knew that most of these people were flattering, but he was also very happy in his heart, and said: "I had two sentences of residual poetry last night: Hua Xie Xiao makeup is left, and the warbler is sleepy and the song is broken." We are waiting for the association, isn't it for the sake of spending time and moons, and Yan Ji writing poems? Just take the word Qingge in the sentence and make it a Qingge Society, what do you think? ”
"Excellent!"
"Fabulous!"
"Qingge...... The water of the waves is clear, and the song is a song! Ziduan really resigned, I can't wait. ”
Kong Rui turned his head to look at the man in cloth clothes, with a sincere attitude, and said, "No doubt, do you think the Qingge Society is enough to be famous?" ”
This man in cloth clothes was Zhang Mo, who had talked to Xu You outside Wu County that day, he smiled and said, "It's not bad!" ”
Kong Rui was overjoyed and said: "With the five-color dragon luan, the Qingge Society will definitely be prosperous!" ”
Since Zhang Mo has no objections, the name of the Qingge Society has been decided, Kong Rui is the owner today, so he naturally wants to let all the members of the club have fun, and he has already paid a lot of money to leave a gap for a day, and he is not allowed to pick up other guests. This will be a big event, and the spring water is specially called to come in and sing songs.
Chunshui is wearing a thin shirt of green feathers, the fragrant shoulders are slightly exposed, the skin is better than the snow, between the opening and closing of the jade legs, the scenery in the shirt is looming, fortunately there are charcoal basins and red stoves in the room, otherwise it is really necessary to have a demeanor and not a temperature. Her beautiful eyes swept away, and she stopped slightly when she swept past Zhang Mo, and finally landed on Kong Rui, pursing her lips and smiling, bright and bright.
For these Qinglou women who serve in Israel, how to please people's hearts is already an instinct, regardless of appearance and talent, so that the person with the most money can always get the best treatment.