Gao Xiaosan was a regular customer of this tea shop, and he walked half a step forward to lead the way, leading Shang Cheng directly to the second floor from the handrail wooden ladder on the side of the lobby.

As soon as I got to the second floor, the lively conversation in the lobby below had subsided a lot. A paulownia oil brushed wooden plank track is polished and clean, and at the end is a huge "pine and cypress evergreen" potted plant, lush and leafy. There are eight or nine elegant rooms in the south, most of which are open doors, and occasionally a few whispers come from the cracks of the doors, which is obvious that they have already been on the tea party. On the north side, there were only two doors, but they were tightly closed, and it seemed that the two large rooms for the hospitality of friends and friends were still empty.

Gao Xiaosan is smart, knowing that the difference between his current identity and Shang Cheng is far away, although Shang Cheng doesn't care much, and still calls him "Little Third Brother" as before, he himself has to be measured, and he has already made up his mind in a turn of his brain, so he took the first two steps to push open a door in the north, turned sideways to let Shang Cheng advance, but said in his mouth: "I have already called the female singer to perform just now, and it is still convenient for the big room." ”

Shang Cheng didn't think about it so much, he stepped in and casually dragged a chair to the side of the long room and sat down, and said with a smile: "Not all the big and small rooms are the same, anyway, it's just the two of us, it doesn't matter how big or small." It's also strange that this teahouse doesn't set up the tables and chairs first, so why do you let the guests move the chairs to sit on their own? Looking up, he saw Gao Xiaosan standing by the door with an embarrassed face, and there was a woman wearing a crimson jacket next to him, holding a chair in his hand and feeling a little at a loss. He stroked the red scar on his face for a moment, laughed and said, "Shame on you." It's the first time I've been to this kind of place, and I didn't know if there were anyone else in the house......"

The maid probably wanted to laugh too, but when she saw Shang Cheng's face, she didn't dare to laugh, lowered her eyebrows and helped Gao Xiaosan put the chair on the other side of several cases, took out a white silk handkerchief from her sleeve and wiped the armrests and backs of the chair, wiped a few more cases, and then spoke to Gao Xiaosan in a soft voice.

Gao Xiaosan said: "...... You have two chairs over there, a few of them," he said, and took out a few copper coins and handed them to the maidservant. "After a while, the show girl from Luohuatai will also come up and sit." He moved his chair to the side, sat down facing Shang Cheng, and asked, "Xiuniang's long chant also has seven or eight points of her master Sang Aiai, what kind of music does the monk want to listen to?" ”

Shang Cheng waved his hand and said, "Whatever." He turned his face to look at the layout of the large room. The private room is not small, the sashes of the three windows are half-supported, and the ** courtyard of the tea house can be seen through the window veil; Because it is late autumn, the withered leaves and yellow grass in one place are empty, and there are few people to see comings and goings. There are four pictures of maids hanging in the window of the private room, and four words are hung on the west wall, "Sit and drink the water." Look at the frying dust. There is no reason to hold a bowl. Send it to tea lovers. "It looks like a poem; On the east wall, the dragon flying and the phoenix dancing are inscribed with the word "tea Zen".

In a few moments, the two women brought to the door with wooden trays of teapots, cups, and various refreshments, and the maidservant girl transferred them to the table. She first poured half a cup of tea soup in each of the two fine porcelain cups in front of the two of them, then took the cups back and forth a few times, and poured the soup in the cups into the small silver basin on the tray, and then refilled the two cups, holding them in both hands and handing them to the two of them.

Shang Cheng smiled and turned back to Gao Xiaosan and said, "These two words have some meaning. ”

Gao Xiaosan stared at the two words for a long time, nodded and said: "Yes, it is indeed good to look carefully, and the pen is quite strong......

Shang Cheng was holding a cup of tea soup, listening to him not knowing how to pretend to be talking nonsense, he looked strange and held on for a long time, a mouthful of water really couldn't contain it all sprayed on the ground, and the hem of his shirt and trousers was also wet. The servant girl hurried over to help. Shang Cheng said "I'll come by myself", took the handkerchief and wiped it, his eyes didn't dare to look at Gao Xiaosan, he shrugged his shoulders and laughed for a long time, and finally said one sentence clearly: "I mean they don't write about the tea in the room one by one, naturally the quieter the environment, the more elegant it looks, the surname Cheng actually ran here to sell cursive, and dared to inscribe his name." Regardless of the title, what he wrote turned out to be 'Tea Zen', Tea and Zen ...... "He didn't know what ridiculous things he remembered, and he laughed as he spoke."

Gao Xiaosan didn't understand what he was laughing at, his face flushed, and when he looked at the payment carefully, he didn't know a few small words, so he looked at the maid.

The maid bowed down and whispered, "It was brought up by Old Master Cheng." ”

"Old Master Cheng? Which old master Cheng? Is that Cheng Qiaocheng? ”

The maid nodded slightly.

Shang Cheng didn't know Lord Cheng Qiao with this inscription, and when he asked Gao Xiaosan, Gao Xiaosan couldn't say clearly, but he knew that this Lord Cheng was a Beijing official, and he suddenly came back to Yanzhou more than a year ago.

Seeing the maid standing quietly in the corner with her head bowed and her eyes down, Gao Xiaosan whispered to Shang Cheng that he heard that this Master Cheng was a popular person in front of the prince, and he was just involved in a big case called "Liu Lingtai Case" in the imperial court, so he ran back to Yanzhou to avoid trouble on the pretext of recuperation.

Shang Cheng has a little impression of this "Liu Lingtai case", a year ago, Wang Zhushu of Yi County was involved in this case and lost his office. He originally thought it was a small public case, but now it seems that this is a big case. But no matter how big the case is, it has nothing to do with him, and he will listen to the excitement at most; Besides, it's not lively today, and I can't hear it one by one, and the junior knows only so much. He changed the topic and casually found the topic to chat with Gao Xiaosan, only to know that Gao Xiaosan not only went to Duanzhou this time, but also returned to Yi County and lived at home for three days.

Shang Cheng asked with concern, "Is your daughter-in-law's health better?" ”

Gao Xiaosan shook his head painfully, drank all the tea soup in the cup, sighed and said, "It's not good, it's not bad, it's still the same." When the Turks suddenly hit Huojiabao, his daughter-in-law was frightened, not only failed to keep her pregnancy for three months, but also left a heart with night sweats and convulsions of her limbs, which would occur every few days, and she took a lot of medicine but did not see any improvement.

Shang Cheng comforted him: "She was just scared, it's not a big problem, she slowly forgot about it after a long time, so it's naturally fine." ”

Gao Xiaosan nodded gloomily.

Shang Cheng gave him an idea: "Why don't you bring your daughter-in-law to Yanzhou?" Yanzhou is a big place, and there are many good doctors, so maybe you can meet a good doctor who can treat this disease. Your daughter-in-law can't stay in Huojiabao every day, and when she looks up when she goes out, she can remember what happened at that time, maybe it's right to change places. ”

Gao Xiaosan smiled bitterly: "I also thought about taking her out, but there are rules in the warehouse, and you can't take a ...... when you go out."

Shang Cheng had no choice but to accompany him and smile bitterly.

Two women came in as he spoke. The former one was a drooping girl who looked like a maid, holding a guqin that was not much shorter than her; She was followed by a tall young woman, about twenty years old, wearing an emerald green shirt with narrow sleeves and a gold wire collar, with a folded skirt of the same color underneath, and a pair of goose-yellow cloth shoes with knotted wool under her feet, and a green veil tied in a brown-red bun from her head to her shoulders, with a high nose and deep eyes, and a pair of light blue eyes like water. The maid didn't dare to look at Shang Cheng more, bit her lip and trembled, and came over to hand over the play sign, asking Gao Xiao to make a tune.

Gao Xiaosan was so depressed by Shang Cheng's words that he didn't have the heart to listen to the song, so he reluctantly smiled and pushed the song card in front of Shang Cheng and said, "It's better to be a monk." ”

Shang Cheng didn't expect that the show girl of Luohuatai turned out to be a bearded girl, and he was surprised for a long time, until the Kabuki's cheeks flushed, and he realized his gaffe and said, "Whatever." ”

The Hu girl had probably never encountered this kind of thing, she looked up at Shang Cheng, and immediately lowered her head in fright, and whispered, "...... Or ask the shopkeeper to order a song. She speaks with a straight and round Shangjing accent, which is a few points stronger than Gao Xiaosan's official dialect.

The top three of the high school picked up their spirits and took the music card and flipped it over, saying, "It's all old songs." What new songs haven't you had recently? ”

""Fighting the Double Tiger" is the tune and lyrics set by the Yanzhou Teaching Workshop this spring, and it is the singing book "Shang Monk Fights the Evil Tiger with His Bare Hands" that spread last year. The book has been presented to the Teaching Workshop Division.,Now it's also sung in Shangjing Plains.,I don't know the high shopkeeper and ...... Has this guest heard of it? ”

Gao Xiaosan and Shang Cheng looked at each other in unison, Shang Cheng shook his head with a teacup, Gao Xiaosan smiled and complimented: "It's still the monk's eldest brother who has the ability, but now he can't leave Yanzhou, and his reputation has gone to the Central Plains......" Shang Cheng shook his head and whispered, "Let her change the tune." Fighting a tiger with bare hands? Still a double tiger? It's a shame that these people can figure it out! Killing two wolves made me so tired that my tongue stuck out for a long time......"

Gao Xiaosan laughed and said to the show girl: "I've heard this song, change it." Is there an update? ”

The bearded girl lowered her head and said, "Yes, there is, but the officials and teachers in the workshop are still considering, and the current rough words and slang are afraid that the guests will not like to listen to them......"

Gao Xiaosan cut off her words and said: "It doesn't matter if the teaching workshop is set or not, it's just a new tune." What is the name of the tune? ”

"The song temporarily has the name of "General Order", and it is also a singing book, and the old song title is "General Zhang Drinks Xiying", which is also about the real people and real things that happened in our Yanshan......"

"Then listen to this "General's Order". Gao Xiaosan said.

Shang Cheng heard the original name of the song, his heart suddenly moved, and he interjected and asked, "What kind of real person is it?" ”

Hu Nu glanced up at Shang Cheng slightly, and said in a soft voice: "The General's Order says that in April this year, General Zhang bravely set foot on the enemy camp overnight and beheaded three Da Samu of the Sudden Dogs......

Gao Xiaosan took a sip of tea and sprayed it all on the ground, and looked at Shang Cheng speechlessly. Isn't General Zhang in this "General's Order" the monk in front of him who can't tell the truth or falsehood?

Shang Cheng was not surprised. He had heard "Monk Zhang Fighting Wolves" in Quzhou, and before asking Hu Nu what to say, he had already guessed that most of the "General Zhang" in "General Order" was himself. His own affairs were being sung again, and he couldn't help but feel a little drunk in his heart, and said with a smile: "You just sing this "General Order". ”