Chapter 5: Flickering
The young man frowned, he originally saw that Li Jing looked like a scholar and should be a scholar, so he wanted to talk to him, but he didn't expect this guy to talk and act like a ruffian on the street. However, his cultivation was very good, and he couldn't help but be dissatisfied: "I am from Baoning Mansion in Xiachuan, and I came to visit a friend in your place. After arriving at this friend's house, the elders told me that this friend of mine had come to this white clothes nunnery to offer incense. I rushed over without stopping."
"Sao Nian, Lao Tzu believes in you!"
Li Jing said and reached out to pat the young man's shoulder, the young man's face changed, he took two steps back, and two men in black dodged in front of the young man, his eyes showing murderous intent.
Li Jing didn't expect the other party's reaction to be so big, he was stunned for a moment, and then ignored the murderous eyes of the two men, and laughed at the young man, "Lao Tzu believes in your evil spirits, isn't it your Sichuan dialect?" ”
A few black lines appeared on the young man's forehead, but he quickly calmed down, waved the two men away, and arched his hand at Li Jing, "Childe really likes to joke." ”
Li Jing pinched his chin, "I also think I'm very humorous, and very lonely, like a wolf, originally Lao Tzu wanted to sing a song to express my current feelings, but Lao Tzu is afraid that no one will know how to appreciate it." ”
The young man's eyes lit up, he originally planned to say a few polite words, and then stop chatting with the rough man in front of him, but he didn't expect that what the rough man said aroused his interest again.
"Oh, Childe can also compose?"
Li Jing gave the young man a roll of his eyes, "Lao Tzu can not only compose songs, but also lyrics, poems, and compositions, and he can write anything anyway." ”
The young man's forehead once again appeared a few black lines, he forcibly endured the disdain in his heart, and said lightly: "Childe can have a great work, let me feast my ears in the next one." ”
Li Jing touched his shriveled belly, and the meal that didn't even have oil flowers in the morning had already been digested. He smacked his lips, "I have a rule here, if you want to listen to my songs, you must invite you to dinner." ”
The young man stared at Li Jing for a long time, and suddenly said, "You don't want to trick me into inviting you to dinner!" ”
Li Jing pursed his lips, deliberately pretended to be very angry and said, "Haven't you eaten as Lao Tzu?" Look at the four big men behind you, if I lied to you, wouldn't you tell them to beat me! ”
The young man smiled awkwardly, the four men behind him had been arranged by his father to protect him, and he had never thought of letting them bully anyone. Thinking about it again, the guy in front of him seemed to be ridiculing him, quite annoyed, and wanted to leave, but he couldn't help but want to chat with this guy, because he really hadn't seen anyone chatting like this in the Qing Dynasty. He felt that this guy was a bit of the debauchery of the Wei and Jin dynasties, and a bit of the madness and indulgence of the Ming dynasty.
Although he was annoyed in his heart, the strange attraction made him reluctant to leave.
"What if I go to dinner with you, what if my friend is coming out?"
Li Jing heard the young man say this, his eyes glanced at the place selling snacks in front of the nunnery, and he pointed to a stall at random and said lightly: "I'm not a picky eater, it's not bad to eat there." ”
The young man frowned, with a look of disgust, "This kind of place is dirty and messy, how can it be a place to eat." ”
Li Jing gave him a roll of his eyes again, "You invited Lao Tzu to eat, but you didn't say that you would eat it." ”
"Presumptuous, you Diao people dare to speak to my son-in-law like this, be careful that I peel your skin."
A man under the young man finally couldn't listen anymore and shouted angrily at Li Jing.
Li Jing looked the man who was talking up and down, and was startled in his heart, if it was before, he would be the legendary 'meat grinder' in the army, and it would be no problem to send three or four men. But now this small body, I'm afraid that I have more than enough strength.
Thinking about the young man's anger, if he really annoyed the young man and was beaten, there was no place to reason.
Just as he wanted to change his face, he didn't want the young man to be one step faster than him, so he yelled at the man named Shouting: "Don't be unreasonable to this son, and don't apologize to the son!" ”
Although the man looked reluctant, he didn't dare to be disobedient to his master, and reluctantly clasped his fists at Li Jing and said: "My Wang San is a rough man, and if he offends his son, please forgive him." ”
After the man named Wang San apologized, the young man hugged his fists and said to Li Jing: "If you don't discipline you strictly, you can't compensate your son here." ”
Li Jing saw that this young man was so cultured, and thought of the books and movies he had read before, in which the rich second generation and the second generation of officials were more like stupid X, and couldn't help but despise those authors and directors in his heart, and said that those guys must be short and poor like him.
He waved his hand generously and smiled at the young man: "It's all a trivial matter, I won't take it to heart, let's go, let's eat." ”
When the young man saw Li Jing say this, he breathed a sigh of relief, followed him, and walked towards a snack stall in front of the nunnery.
Li Jing walked up to an old man pushing a wheelbarrow, and the wheelbarrow signboard was written in white lacquer: 'Bao Ji Big Sugar Pear Sweet Lotus Crisp Sprout Candy Candy The cart was filled with all kinds of fruits and snacks, as well as a small scale.
Li Jing lowered his head and said, "Sugar skin buds, crispy roots, sweet pears, Daji buns, uncle, this is what you wrote?" ”
The old man shook his head, "I'm a poor man, where can I read and write, I asked Mr. Lishu in the township to write it." ”
Mr. Lishu is also a person who is engaged in writing deeds, which is equivalent to a modern notary, and is usually filled by a well-known scholar selected by the government.
Li Jing said with a smile: "Give me a pound of sugar skin buds to compensate, and is this Daji bun stuffed with meat or vegetable?" ”
The old man was stunned for a moment, and then said, "This little brother, you don't know how to read, I don't have any sugar buds or big bags here." ”
When the young man heard this, he couldn't help but burst out laughing, pointed at Li Jing and said, "This boy is joking with you, he didn't admit his mistake, he just read it the other way around." ”
Nima!
After the young man said this, Li Jing remembered that the ancient and modern readings are opposite. In fact, he has seen a lot of door plaque inscriptions along the way, but he is used to changing it for a while. And Li Jing thinks that 'Sugar Peel Flower Crispy Sweet Pear Daji Bun' also reads like a few kinds of fruit snacks.
His tender face turned red and smiled awkwardly, "Uncle, I'm joking with you, bring me two catties of sweet cake and sprout candy." ”
The old man was stunned again, "Little brother, you are playing tricks on the old man again, but no one has bought so much to eat at one time." ”
Li Jing pursed his lips and said to the young man who was still smiling on the side: "Give money, what are you laughing at." ”
The young man was also stunned, and said suspiciously: "What kind of money?" ”
Li Jing glanced at the young man, "Of course, it's money for two catties of sweet cake and bud candy." ”
"Oh," the young man casually took out a tael of silver from his bosom, threw it on the cart, and asked the old man, "Is it enough?" ”
The old man usually earns a few coppers, where to see any silver, his eyes suddenly lit up, picked up the silver, checked it, bit it in his mouth again, and then smiled: "Enough is enough." ”
When he spoke, he weighed Li Jing two catties of sweet cake and bud skin candy and wrapped them in oiled paper.
Li Jing took it and put it in his arms, he only likes to eat meat, this kind of dim sum thing, if you want to come for your sister. Anyway, there is a person next to him who is stupid and has many masters, and he will not be slaughtered if he does not slaughter it.
Several people came to a food stall with a middle-aged woman and a child about 10 years old. When the woman saw a guest coming, she hurriedly wiped a table and a few chairs.
Li Jing sat down in a big way, and the young man hesitated for a while, then followed. The four big men who followed the boy stood on the young man's side.
"Boss, what's there to eat here?"
The woman rubbed her hands, as if she had not seen the Lord who had come to eat with her attendants, and seemed in a hurry, "Small business, only pancakes and noodles." ”
Li Jing pinched his chin and said, "Then come to a bowl of noodles, and put more meat." The pancakes will be compensated for five first, and they will be filled with meat. ”
The woman was stunned for a moment, and then replied, "This uncle, you can't eat meat in front of the Bodhisattva's door. We're all vegetarian here. ”
"Let's be vegetarian, hurry up and bring it up." Li Jing was not picky, and replied casually.
After a while, the woman brought a bowl of noodles, steaming hot. Li Jing picked up the chopsticks, and was not polite to the young man, he ate it in a big gulp, and soon he ate a bowl of noodles, and even drank the soup.
At this time, the woman brought another plate with five pancakes in it, and Li Jing asked the young man if he wanted to eat it.
The young man said that he would not eat it, and let Li Jing feel free, Li Jing was not polite, and quickly ate all the five pancakes, he touched his belly and had the urge to cry, and said in his heart that Lao Tzu finally ate what people eat.
When the young man saw that Li Jing had finished eating, he said, "Childe, can you fulfill the promise you made just now?" ”
Li Jing reached into his mouth and picked out the vegetable leaves stuffed between his teeth, "Isn't it just singing, brother will improvise a song for you." ”
As he spoke, he cleared his throat and sang: "I live in this tun, and even the first is a native of the tun, don't look at the tunzi is not big, there are mountains, rivers and shuttles......"
The young man frowned, this is the first time he has heard this kind of song, it is like a folk tune, but it is very different from a folk tune, and when Li Jing finished singing, he asked: "Childe's song is not like the tone of Yichang Mansion, but like the tone of Fujian and Guangdong." ”
Li Jing stared at the young man with wide eyes, "How did you hear that?" ”
The young man smiled: "I have traveled to Fujian and Guangdong with my brother, so I can hear the tone of the son." It's just that I haven't heard such a minor tune in Fujian and Guangdong, fresh and rustic. ”
"Even if you have knowledge, this is a minor tune that I occasionally felt when I traveled in Guangdong, and I composed it in Cantonese." Li Jing laughed and patted the young man on the shoulder, and the young man's face showed a flush, but Li Jing, who got carried away, didn't notice it.
"Childe has the ability to travel in Guangdong, presumably from an extraordinary background, just looking at Childe's outfit, the family should not be rich, but what is the difficulty?"
Li Jing pursed his lips, "I said that I was bitten by a spider and it became like this, do you believe it?" ”
The young man was stunned for a moment, but fortunately he was used to Li Jing's weird way of speaking, "Childe really likes to laugh, since Childe can make up his own tune, and the poems are also extraordinary, can you make a poem to listen to." ”
Li Jing was stunned, he had read the novel, which had many protagonists crookedly copying the verses of the ancients, but he was wearing the Qing Dynasty, copying Mao, he remembered that the poems after the Qing Dynasty were the two poems of Lao Mao, did he let him copy the Qin Emperor and Han Wu, and slightly lose the literary style. Tang Dynasty and Song ancestors, slightly less coquettish, a generation of Tianjiao Genghis Khan only knew how to bend the bow and shoot eagles. The past, the number of romantic figures, but also look at the present. This is a great rebellion from the emperor, in the era of Qianlong, when the literary prison was prevalent, three heads were not enough to be cut off.