Xi Yuanxiu, who was freed from Xu Lai's hands, squatted in the kitchen in the backyard, the whole person was like a frosted eggplant, in order to entertain this distinguished guest, everything that could be eaten in the kitchen was eaten, and even the two pig's trotters that Liu Xiao had secretly hidden on his back were swept away by this distinguished guest last night.

Xi Yuan sighed slenderly and said to himself: "I have to be a glamorous beggar again!" ”

He leaned on the dilapidated wooden door of the kitchen, slowly stood up, returned to his house, took off the clothes that had been stained with oil and wine last night, and changed them into slightly riotous clothes, yes, riotous clothes.

Dressed in a pink talent suit outside, the shoes on his feet are embroidered with a plum blossom, and the neckline of the white shirt inside also has a pink plum blossom!

Xu Lai, who had just finished meditating in the house, happened to pass by Xi Yuanxiu's window, and when he saw what he was wearing, he actually learned Xi Yuanxiu's tone and joked: "Are you going to sing in the Qinglou?" ”

Xi Yuanxiu looked at the bronze mirror and said: "From the words you can say, it seems that I am of great significance to your life, you are half right, I am going to the Qinglou, but I am not singing!" ”

Feeling that he had almost cleaned up, Xi Yuanxiu walked out of the house with great interest with his original steps, patted Xu Lai on the shoulder, and threw a wink at him, but because of his action, he walked out of the yamen faster than walking into the courtyard in the house.

Xu Lai, who received the sword in the scabbard, faced Xi Yuanxiu, who crawled out of the yamen with a rolling belt and didn't even dare to look back, revealing a rare smile on his face.

Looking at Xi Yuanxiu's embarrassed back, he said with a little relief: "It's really interesting to know you!" ”

On the day Xi Yuanxiu was dismissed from his official position, he ran home desperately, but he was stopped outside without even entering the main entrance.

He and his father, who was getting into the prison car, looked at each other one last time, and he felt dumb and unable to say anything.

Xi Yuanxiu was escorted to prison with his father, he lost his official position, and the entire Prime Minister's Mansion was sealed, and for a while, there was no place for him in this world.

He ran to the restaurant alone to drink stuffy, and met Xu Lai, who was entrusted to enter Beijing on the second floor, but this man who would go to the top of kendo in the future was very embarrassed at this time.

Because he relieved the beggars in the south of Chang'an, he forgot that his money bag had bottomed out, and he couldn't pay for this meal, so he was pulled by the shopkeeper and didn't let him leave!

Xu Lai, who is not good at talking, doesn't want to argue with this junior in front of everyone, after all, no one will give you casually because of the good things you have done before.

So he decided to go first and come back to pay later.

As he was about to get out, a piece of silver slapped on the table where he was eating.

"What a noise, I paid for it!" The drunken Xi Yuanxiu said as he staggered on the chair next to Xu Lai.

The shopkeeper on the side saw Xi Yuanxiu, changed his face, picked up the silver on the table, and said respectfully to Xi Yuanxiu: "Oh, Lord Xi, please please!" ”

He nodded, and asked the two-faced shopkeeper to add another pot of wine to the table, and then said to Xu with a foolish expression: "You don't need to pay it back, this is all our family's greedy money!" ”

Xi Yuanxiu, who had drunk too much, began to tell this stranger who met for the first time about his experience today, and Xu Lai, who had always been bad at words, had been listening.

The story of these two people began in this restaurant called Drunken Fragrance!

It is said that Xi Yuanxiu, who was scared out of the yamen by Xu Lai drawing his sword, followed a few neighbors in the neighborhood to say hello, then looked left and right, took advantage of people's attention, turned into an alley, took out a white raccoon fur mask from his arms, put it on his face, and somehow had an extra folding fan in his hand.

He turned left and right to the back door of the apricot blossom courtyard, and after knocking on the door, the doorkeeper in the backyard opened the door for him, and he was still teasing a big yellow dog with a bone in his hand.

The teasing dog took the toothpick off his mouth, grinned and began to laugh, and the uncleaned shreds of meat could still be seen between his teeth, and he was knocked on the head several times by Xi Yuanxiu before stopping.

This person put the toothpick in his mouth again, and said with a smile: "Lord Xi, you came a little early this month, what's the matter, you went to Lao Sun's gambling house yesterday again, but I didn't see you yesterday!" ”

Xi Yuanxiu coughed twice, and said impatiently: "Hey, I said Jia Daya, why are you talking so much nonsense, with your kung fu of playing with dogs, hurry up and put that table for me, don't delay my business!" ”

"Hey, come on, you talk a lot of small nonsense, don't talk about the small ones, give you a table!" Jia Daya said angrily.

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Xi Yuanxiu was wearing this weirdly dressed clothes, and followed this Jia Zeming from the backyard to the front hall of this Xinghua Courtyard.

Although this city is a small place, the folk customs are simple, and there are almost no rich and noble families. However, this apricot blossom courtyard is very different from the gray bricks and gray tiles outside, and the layout inside is completely modeled after the Qunfang Pavilion in the capital.

The floor is paved with cyan marble, all the tables, chairs and benches are painted with the paint that was taken back from Yangzhou City, although the pattern is not so big, but it is also a sparrow although it is small, and it is complete, if there are people from the capital to see, they will definitely say that this is a small group of Fangge who are alive and well.

Because Xi Yuanxiu was a frequent visitor, he was not surprised, and sat quietly behind the singing stage on the first floor.

I just saw that Najia Daya moved a storytelling table and placed it in the hall on the first floor of Xinghuayuan, on the stage inlaid with glazed tiles.

took a piece of waking wood from his bosom and put it on the table, then jumped from the table to the bottom of the stage, said hello to a few regular customers who often came to play, and took a chair from the side and put it on the stage.

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"What is this for?"

"I don't know, it's not time for the girl to dance!"

Some people rarely come to see this situation for the first time.

The person on the side said: "Brother face, there are few people who come at a glance, this Xinghualou is a few days at the end of the month, there will be a storyteller wearing a tanuki mask, and the stories are all legends, very interesting, you will see later!" ”

Just when the audience was still whispering, our main protagonist appeared on the stage, took four square steps, and clicked on the stage.

picked up the eye-catching on the table and slapped it on the table, and said: "Storytelling, singing, and persuading people, the three avenues go to the center, good and evil will be rewarded in the end, I am a jade-faced little civet cat!" Throw the fan away.

Seeing that the audience applauded, Xi Yuanxiu slapped the table again and said, "Let's not talk about anything else today, the deep mountains and old forests are too far away from us, let's talk about our seaside affairs!" ”

The people at the bottom asked, "In addition to fish and shrimp on this beach, what is there to say!" ”

"Hey, what we're going to talk about today is fish, but it's not an ordinary fish, we're going to talk about the mermaid in the sea!"

"Don't talk nonsense, I've been on a boat for more than ten years, but this mermaid has never heard of it!"

Xi Yuanxiu saw that the eldest brother below was asking, so he replied: "If you ask the old people in your family, you may be able to know a thing or two, if you have any questions, we will listen and ask, but if you think it is good after I finish speaking, then you have money to hold a money field, and if you don't have money to borrow money, you can also give us a money field!" ”

Xi Yuanxiu also knew that he couldn't talk nonsense, and he didn't talk nonsense, so he started directly.

"If you want to say that this mermaid, it has been recorded since the time when the first emperor of Jingguo did not ascend the throne, saying that the first emperor came to Yangzhou to play when he was still the prince, and he wanted to eat fish one night, but because he came out to play, no one knew that he was the prince, no one was willing to cook it for him, and he was not even allowed to enter the kitchen. To say that this emperor is also a reasonable person, he was not angry, but came to our East China Sea with two entourages! While the two guards were fishing with fishing nets, the emperor heard someone singing a song on the beach under the bright moon, so the emperor walked along the moonlight alone to see who was not returning home at night! ”

I saw the emperor walking and walking, and stopped. For by the moonlight he saw a beautiful maiden singing on a reef by the sea. But the girl also found him, and jumped into the water in horror, and under the light of the moon, the girl who jumped into the sea that the emperor saw with his own eyes, her legs turned into fish tails, and she glanced back at the emperor, and swam towards the depths of the sea! ”

The people below asked suspiciously, "How do you know about the emperor?" ”

Xi Yuanxiu sighed helplessly in his heart, and said in a low voice, "I said that he wanted to worship my brother back then, and you didn't believe me when I said it!" ”

He cleared his throat and said to the people below: "My grandfather set up a stall on the edge of the imperial city to sell things, and this was all from the eunuchs in the palace. Let's not talk nonsense, you listen to the next to say that this emperor, although the fish is eaten, but this beautiful mermaid, but can not forget, day and night to take people to this seaside, but not once, until the night before he wants to return to the palace. He heard the singing again, and he left his guards, and went to the place where he had been that night again......"

By the time Xi Yuanxiu said that the emperor had returned to Beijing and turned against Yangzhou, Jia Daya at the bottom had already filled the money bag in his hand!

Xi Yuanxiu saw that the money was almost up, and his mouth was dry, and he couldn't take off his mask and drink water in front of everyone, so that people would know that he, the magistrate, still came to this green building to tell stories, and he would definitely leave a stench for 10,000 years.

So he ended the matter hastily, and was almost chased to the backstage and killed by the group of people who had just called!

He took the money from Jia Daya's hand, and after coming out of the building of Xinghuayuan, he checked the money bag that was already full of copper plates, took off the mask, and was very satisfied.

However, when he came out of the back door of Xinghuayuan, he saw the ground covered with layers of thick cloth, and he couldn't help but be a little curious, so he thought about walking over and lifting it up to take a look.

Before he took the second step, he heard the scolding behind him, he hurriedly grabbed the door and fled, sneaked back to the county office, and before he entered the door, he heard the screams of killing pigs inside!