Wang Kai continued: "This cannot be said to be a purely non-governmental activity, because every time the flower list contest is organized by the government, or the government entrusts local wealthy businessmen to organize it on their behalf, no matter what the situation is, public security matters cannot leave the local state capital."

"When it comes to folk activities, in addition to the evaluation of the flower list, there is also the literary meeting, the literary style of Daqi is prosperous, the formal interpretation test, the meeting test and the palace test only focus on the scriptures, but the folk competition is poetry and songs, and the small literary meeting is available at any time, but the large-scale literary meeting held in the name of the government is only held in the state capital where the literary style is more prosperous, and the time is often set in the Mid-Autumn Festival or the Double Ninth Festival, but it is more interesting to combine the literary meeting with the flower list."

While drinking, the four of them listened to Wang Kai's introduction of the anecdote of the Qinglou, but they also listened to it with relish, and unconsciously saw the bottom of a jar and a taste of incense, and the time had reached the beginning of the year.

I just saw Xiao Er coming over with wine, only to hear a burst of beautiful music coming from a corner of the hall.

As the music sounded, a group of young and bright girls in red danced from the northwest corner to the center of the lobby, these girls covered most of their faces with thin gauze, only revealing their eyes and red lips, each wrist was covered with a pair of sterling silver bracelets, the crisp ding dong accompanied by the beautiful dance suddenly brought a fresh breath to the hall, as if the dirty smell of wine and sweat in the hall was also washed away a lot.

Although these young girls covered their faces with thin veils, Liu Fan was sure that these were by no means Middle-earth people almost the moment he saw them, but he couldn't clearly tell whether they were from the natives of the Western Regions, Persia, Great Eclipse, or more distant Europe? The style of the dance is somewhat similar to that of the Uyghur dances of another world, but the differences are also obvious.

Whether it was a high-minded scholar or a military man who was guessing the boxing order, they all stopped talking about the topic in an instant, and then responded with warm applause.

I only heard Wang Kai whisper: "There are many people today, and it is close to the flower list competition, Qinglou also has to understand the talent status of the girls through the performances every evening, the most important thing is the recognition of the audience, so there will be no fewer performances on the evening these days, and it is estimated that there will be at least four or five games tonight." ”

"This first show is always a lively atmosphere, most of the choices are group dances, and the next few are the more famous girls in the building competitive performances, I estimate that the most popular shallow girl in Yihong Courtyard will also be on stage tonight."

"Except for the first performance, after each subsequent performance, the guests will reward the performers according to their recognition of their talents, and finally the ranking of each night will be determined by the number of tips, to put it bluntly, this is a small flower list competition."

Liu Fan interjected: "Brother Wang, is the reward directly given to the silver?" ”

Wang Kai glared at Liu Fan and said: "Then there is such a vulgar person, if you are willing to reward, you just need to say hello to the maid, and the maid will bring the silk flowers made in the building to you, and you decide how many silk flowers to reward the performers, one silk flower and one or two silver, and finally the building will arrange the ranking of tonight's performance according to the number of silk flowers." ”

"Of course, if you have a splendid chest, you can also give a poem in court, and the poem will be appreciated by the three most talented girls in the building, and finally decide how many silk flowers to take, but as long as the maid sends the poem to the three girls after the preliminary review, no matter what, it will be worth ten silk flowers."

As soon as he heard this, Liu Fan was shocked in his heart: "This poem is so valuable, as long as it passes the maid's preliminary examination, it is equivalent to ten taels of silver, strange, it seems that although there are constant wars in this era and the north, it is still a world of literati who value literature and light military force!" ”

Alas, what I studied in another world turned out to be science, but it's a pity that I didn't memorize many Tang poems and Song lyrics, but I also know some of them, and it is estimated that I can't reach five cars of learning, but at least one car still has it.

There is an even more pity, the Tang poems I memorize can't be used indiscriminately, that is, some poems after the Tang Dynasty that I remember, even if I use a few poems indiscriminately, no one will believe me if I say it with my own vulgar appearance!

At this time, Liu Fan glanced at the group dance in the arena and saw that the group dance in the venue had ended, and the girls were leaving, so he had to end the cranky thoughts in his mind, and asked while applauding, "Brother Wang, where are these girls from the Western Regions, they can't see the whole picture clearly when they cover their faces with gauze, and they don't know what they look like?" ”

Wang Kai stared at Liu Fan's eyes and smiled: "Brother, like these exotic styles? Wait a minute, I'll give Ah Xia an explanation, and I'll make sure you're satisfied......"

Liu Fan hurriedly interrupted Wang Kai's words: "Brother Wang, stop, stop, I just want to ask where so many foreigners came from, I'm just a little curious." ”

At this time, I only heard Li Aiguo next to him answer: "Liu Lu, there are too many such foreigners in Liangzhou, although there are also foreign business travelers coming after the founding of the Great Qi Dynasty, but most of them moved to Liangzhou in the pre-Tang Dynasty, and there are even more in the capital Chang'an. ”

A few people were talking happily, when they suddenly heard someone next to them respectfully asking, "May I ask if the two of you are General Liu of the Jincheng Army and General Wang of the Shenwu Army?" ”

The four of them turned their heads and saw three young men standing next to them, one of them was raising his hands to salute Liu Fan, Wang Kai and others, Liu Fan stood up and returned the salute and said: "Exactly, may I ask this brother for advice." ”

I only heard the man say: "In Xia is the Yongchang clan, I faintly heard you talking just now, I guess it may be General Liu and General Wang, hesitate again and again before coming to inquire, please forgive the two generals for being presumptuous." ”

Wang Kai said: "What's this, is there something my brother is looking for us?" ”

"That's the case, the three of us are the sons of Yongchang County, our ancestors have left dozens of acres of thin fields, and we had no worries about life, but in the second and fourth years of the Khitan army ravaged Yongchang, the family had to flee from our hometown twice, although our lives were unhindered, but the accumulation of the family was almost swept away by the Khitan army."

But it was difficult to leave the homeland, and after the Khitan army retreated, my parents still insisted on returning to their hometown. At the beginning of this year, the family thought that the Khitan army must attack again as in previous years, but my parents were old and no longer wanted to leave their hometown to flee, so they gave us almost all the remaining savings of the family, and let us take our younger brothers and sisters to live in Liangzhou to study. ”

"At the beginning of August, when we heard that the Khitan had really gone out of Ganzhou again, the three of us were very worried, thinking that once the city of Ganzhou was broken, our parents would definitely not be protected, so we could only pray for God's blessing day and night."

"In late August, we heard that General Liu and General Wang had blocked the enemy army under the city of Ganzhou, and our hearts couldn't help but be full of hope for this battle, and sure enough, a few days later, we learned that our army had completely annihilated 60,000 people in front of the enemy, and at the end of August, the Khitan army of 100,000 was driven out of Yumen Pass."

"We are ecstatic, we know in our hearts that we should really thank the thousands of soldiers who sacrificed their lives to fight on the front line, no, just now when we heard that it was General Wang and General Liu, we were excited, and wanted to come forward to thank them, but we were afraid that the small people of Shengdou would collide with the general, and we have been hesitant, but fortunately, the four adults did not count the three of us who were presumptuous, please accept the three of us."

Speaking of this, the three of them bowed their heads with their hands on their foreheads and bowed to Liu Fan and Wang Kai.

Not only Liu Fan and Dong Zi were moved by the true emotions of the three, but Wang Kai even had rare tears in his eyes. How many people have always regarded themselves as veterans and ruffians, who are simply equated with ruffians and hooligans, and have never been understood and respected by others, and when they hear that what they do is so respected by others, they are even more excited than the other three at this time, and they hurriedly help the three of them up.

When the group sat down, the three of them remembered that they hadn't introduced themselves yet, so they said anxiously: "Please forgive the four generals, I was a little excited just now, I forgot to introduce myself, my name is Yan Haicheng, this is Yan Haiting, is my own brother, this is Liu Honglu, all three of us are fortunate to win in this year's township tribute, and I came out today to celebrate this big victory in private. ”

After listening to the introduction of the three people, Liu Fan and Wang Kai didn't care about talking, only one of them suddenly laughed and said: "It turns out that you are Yan Haicheng of Yayuan in this year's Xianggong, although you have not been able to meet, but you have heard the name of Brother Haicheng many times, and I met here today, and it is fate, Brother Haicheng, when it comes to thanks, I feel that you should thank me even more!" ”