Chapter Eighty-Four: The Orchid Shop
As the economic and cultural center of the Tang Dynasty, Chang'an is equipped with ample entertainment facilities.
Taverns and tea shops are all over the neighborhood, and the competition is particularly fierce.
In order to attract customers, the major taverns and tea shops have all come up with strange tricks.
Or spend a lot of money to buy a speaker, or invite a beautiful wine lady to attract customers.
One of the most popular is the Orchid Restaurant.
Orchids are good at singing and dancing, and are exotic.
Compared with the reserved nature of most Han women, the open and bold orchid is obviously more attractive to tourists.
The beautiful orchids and exotic songs and dances made many dignitaries and nobles, literati and scholars, and heroes forget to return.
Located in the west city of Chang'an, Persian Hu Guan is one of the largest orchid restaurants in Chang'an.
The laughter in the tavern is endless.
The biggest feature of the orchid restaurant is that there is no private room, it is a lobby.
An extremely large lobby with a high platform on the left and right in the middle, on which three teams of orchids sing and dance.
A bold and open-minded woman of different races, dancing a Western dance on a high platform.
Then countless seats surround the stage, and the closer you get to the stage, the more expensive the seats become.
In the east seat, which is closest to the middle stage, the two sit opposite each other.
A middle-aged man, and a manager in his fifties.
The middle-aged man respectfully said to the steward: "Steward Li, don't worry, I, Cai Laosan, have been in Chang'an for many years, and I rely on my eyesight and connections." You can rest assured, this time you are picking rare good players, especially today's Chen Shiwu, which is even more unusual. His knife, you can't imagine how swift and accurate it is. If he wants to cut off your thumb, his knife will never cut you anywhere else. ”
This Cai Laosan is an old fritter in Chang'an, and he and Sai Meng taste Wu Xuan are two extremes.
Wu Xuan is full of friends all over the world, fighting righteousness and squandering money, while Cai Laosan is a well-known iron rooster who does not pull out a dime.
But Cai Laosan's rivers and lakes have a wide range of roads, from the heroes of the rivers and lakes to the rats who steal chickens and dogs.
He is like a headhunting company in later generations, which specializes in recommending people who can afford money, serving them, and making profits.
Steward Li's identity is not simple, he is the well-known housekeeper of Huo Guogong's Mansion.
Huo Guogong is also Wang Maozhong.
Wang Maozhong has a heavy responsibility, responsible for the travel safety of Li Longji's Feng Chan, and his status has been improved in vain, and he is now a man of the year in Chang'an.
But he also knew that he was two pounds, and the soldiers under his command back then couldn't beat the four generals under Pei Min's command with two hundred, and he laughed at the world.
Although Pei Min strongly recommended it at that time, Li Longji also learned about the matter.
But a pig is a commander, and he can't train a soldier like a tiger and a wolf.
After so many years, the strength of the Central Army has not improved much.
If you really want to fight, the 70,000 Longyou army is enough to clean up the hundreds of thousands of soldiers in Guanzhong, and even the Liangzhou army doesn't need to be called.
Fortunately, Wang Maozhong also knew his own shortcomings and knew that his soldiers could not be on the stage.
So he came up with a solution!
It's better to fight bravely!
How can the soldiers compare to the Jianghu people?
Competing in martial arts and kung fu, where are ordinary people the opponents of Jianghu people?
Wang Maozhong moved the idea of inviting the people of the rivers and lakes to fill the scene, and asked the trusted Steward Li to recruit heroes who can fight.
Steward Li found Cai Laosan, who has a wide range of connections, for some reason.
Wang Maozhong's biggest advantage is that he is not greedy for money, and his biggest disadvantage is that he has a good face.
Wang Maozhong was a great minister in the Tang Dynasty and a meritorious hero of the Tang and Yuan Dynasty. Every time Li Longji held a banquet and discussed rewards, he sat with the kings in front of the palace, and his status was remarkable, so his family was rich and his hands were extremely generous.
Cai Laosan received a large amount of money, but he hated that he didn't worship Steward Li as his father.
Steward Li listened to Cai Laosan's boasting and asked, "Is it really so powerful?" ”
Cai Laosan smiled and said: "It's more real than real gold, Steward Li has to believe in my professional vision." This Chen Shiwu is a member of the Chen family in Jiangnan, and the three pests knife handed down by the family is a must in the world. Not long ago, he competed with Cao Mang, the famous Thunder Sword of Chang'an, and took him down in only twenty moves. You must know that this Cao Mang is a famous martial arts celebrity who has been famous for 30 years, and he was a character who could fight with Pei Guogong, the world's first sword, for 30 years. Chen Shiwu defeated him in 20 combinations, which shows how powerful his sword is. ”
Steward Li shouted: "So Chen Shiwu is more powerful than Pei Guogong? ”
He didn't understand the affairs of the rivers and lakes, and he had never heard of Chen Shiwu. But in Chang'an, there is no one who has not heard of Pei Min.
Pei Min can only defeat the opponent in thirty combinations, Chen Shiwu can win in twenty combinations, isn't it even better?
Cai Laosan smiled awkwardly, a little unable to blow it down, and hurriedly said: "You can't say that, when Cao Mang fought Pei Guogong back then, Guogong was only in his early twenties, and he didn't have the strength he has now." However, since Cao Mang lost to Guogong that year, he has seen Guogong fight the butcher Liu Guangye, and he has benefited a lot, and his kendo cultivation is one step better. No one could have imagined that he would lose to a nobody. In short, this Chen Shiwu is not an ordinary person, and the price cannot be less than 1,000 yuan. ”
"So expensive?" Steward Li was taken aback.
At this time, the price of goods was extremely cheap, and a bucket of rice could be bought for only six or seven cents.
It has always been a thousand texts, and a thousand guan is undoubtedly an astronomical number of high-level high-level high.
But thinking that his master's family was rich and rich, and there was no shortage of this thousand, Steward Li admired Miaoman's orchid with his eyes, and said lightly: "As long as he is worth a thousand, there will never be less than one of you." ”
Cai Laosan's eyes narrowed with laughter.
Suddenly, his eyes lit up and he said, "Here, he's here!" ”
As he spoke, he pointed his hand to the outside of the house.
Steward Li looked at it curiously, and the eyes that were originally expecting it were immediately put down, and the person who came was actually an ordinary-looking young offspring, still looking left and right, just like a hillbilly who had never seen the world.
Cai Laosan didn't care so much, waved his hand, and shouted: "Brother Shiwu, here, here!" ”
"It's coming!"
Pei Min waved his hand, reciting the poems of his apprentice Li Bai in his mouth, "The silver saddle is white-nosed, the green land is barrierd with mud brocade, and when the drizzle and spring breeze fall, wave the whip and drink the orchid!" ”
And read lightly: "Orchid looks like a flower." When the spring breeze is laughing. Laughing spring breeze. Dancing clothes, you are not drunk and want to return home. ”
Pei Min has been in Chang'an for so many years, and it is the first time he has come to this legendary orchid restaurant, and he can't help but look left and right, and he is not interested.
Pei Min! Pei Guogong!
This status is too noble, and access is greatly restricted.
Jiao Chen was worried that her husband was bored, so she spent her efforts to make him an extremely exquisite human skin mask, so that he could put aside his status as a prince of the state, avoid all disputes in the court, and relax and relax.
Pei Min naturally did not live up to the good intentions of his beloved wife, and gave himself a name, called Chen Fifteen.
Chen is the Chen of Jiao Chen, fifteen is the composite number of small seven and small eight, and seven plus eight equals fifteen.
It's just that for some reason, it may be a slip of the tongue, or the influence of the accent.
Chen Shiwu called others Chen Shiwu.
Anyway, they are all blind names, Chen Fifteen, and Chen Shiwu are no different.
Pei Min simply made a mistake and really became Chen Shiwu.
The Qin Emperor Sword he took advantage of was also replaced by a Tang knife that could be used as a sword.