"Haole------ the two distinguished guests wait a minute, the little one will go to Zhang Luo, and make sure that the two young masters are satisfied." Seeing Liu Fan and Chu Minghui's ordering, Xiao Er knew that a distinguished guest was coming, and shouted enthusiastically, and the shopkeeper ran towards the back kitchen.

After a while, the shopkeeper came to the table with six plates and a pot of wine: "Come on, our restaurant's signature dishes, butter boat duck, pine mandarin fish, Biluo shrimp, yellow braised river eel, snowflake crab soup, and concubine chicken." You will be served with a pot of aged sorghum wine, two of you, please use it slowly. ”

After the dishes were brought to the table, the shopkeeper stepped back, looked at the dishes in front of him, and smelled the oncoming aroma, Liu Fan and the others were not polite, picked up the chopsticks and enjoyed them happily.

The two of them were still holding chopsticks and soup spoons, but after eating a few bites, they all started directly, and the diners next to them shook their heads and laughed when they saw the appearance of the two.

I saw Liu Fan holding a duck wing in his left hand and a chicken leg in his right hand, gnawing on it with oily mouth. Chu Minghui, who was opposite, picked up the porcelain bowl containing the snowflake crab soup, and drank it directly to his mouth.

"Big brother, you taste this concubine chicken, it's old and fragrant, what, you leave me some soup, let me taste what it tastes like." Liu Fan said with bulging cheeks.

Hearing this, Chu Minghui handed the remaining half bowl of soup to Liu Fan, and dragged the plate of concubine chicken in front of Liu Fan to the front: "This chicken is really so delicious?" Then I'll taste it. ”

The two of them were eating vigorously, suddenly, they heard a noise from the window, and after a while, many passers-by ran along the street towards the riverbank, seeing this scene, Liu Fan and the two diners in the hall all turned their eyes to the opposite side curiously, I don't know what happened outside?

Just when everyone was puzzled, suddenly, the shopkeeper who was in charge of soliciting customers outside the door ran back from outside. After the shopkeeper returned to the restaurant, several customers who were eating couldn't help but ask, "Hey, Xiaoer, what's going on outside?" What's the mess? ”

Hearing someone ask, the shopkeeper looked at everyone excitedly, and introduced endlessly: "You guest officers must not know yet, right?" Today is the day of the Red Sleeve Building and the Shujian League Biwen Dou Poem, and the two sides agreed to compare Wen Dou Shi from Hanshan Temple tonight, and the losing side shall not compete with the winner for resources.

This red-sleeved building was created by Yu Ning'er, who is known as the first talented woman in Suzhou, so the red-sleeved building only recruits those talented women. The Book Sword League was formed by He Qingming, the son of our prefect, and he invited all the famous scholars in Suzhou Mansion into the Book Sword League.

Originally, the two societies were in their own way, and no one was in the way of anyone, but then I don't know why? The Red Sleeve Building and the Book Sword League have taken a fancy to the viewing lake at the foot of the Hanshan Temple, where there is a passenger boat that can accommodate nearly 100 people.

That passenger ship was the imperial ship that the emperor took when he visited Suzhou, and after the emperor left, he rewarded the monks of Hanshan Temple, and then somehow? Yu Ning'er and He Qingming all took a fancy to this passenger ship, and both wanted to contract the passenger ship, the two sides didn't want to let each other, no one refused to retreat, and after a stalemate, the two sides decided to compete with each other.

According to the agreement between the Red Sleeve Building and the Book Sword League, the two sides each came out with three people to compete in the literature, three games and two wins, the winner enjoys the right to contract the passenger ship for one year, and the loser is not allowed to lease the passenger ship, if the loser is not satisfied, the competition can be re-launched in the next year. The Red Sleeves Building has been winning for three consecutive years, and this year is the fourth year, no, the two sides have started to compete again. ”

"According to what you say, this He Qingming's strength is obviously not able to fight against Yu Ning'er, and he has actually lost to Yu Ning'er for three consecutive years, if this kind of strength continues, this year's competition, it is estimated that the Shujian League will have to lose to the girls in the Red Sleeve Building." Chu Minghui sighed while commenting, it seemed that he was very displeased with He Qingming.

"This guest officer doesn't know, I heard that Gongzi He specially invited Xu Xiaofeng to the Shujian League for the sake of shame this time." When the shopkeeper said Xu Xiaofeng, there was a burst of exclamations around him: "Is that Xu Xiaofeng Xu Xiucai, who is known as the third in Jiangsu and Zhejiang County?" Unexpectedly, Gongzi He invited this person over, amazing. ”

"Big brother, is this Xu Xiaofeng very famous?" Looking at the exclamated expressions of the diners around him, Liu Fan couldn't help but ask Chu Minghui.

"This person has some real talents." Chu Minghui nodded in agreement and responded: "This Xu Xiaofeng is a talent and fame, and his ink and ink danqing can be called the pinnacle, this person is not shallow in knowledge, and he is a popular candidate for this year's imperial examination, He Qingming recruited him to the Shujian League, it seems that he is determined to win this competition." ”

Speaking of this, Chu Minghui looked at Liu Fan with a look of encouragement: "Brother, we have almost eaten now, do you want to go over and join in the fun?" ”

"Let's not go to Wanbaolou to find Shen Wansan?" After Liu Fan finished speaking, he glanced at Chu Minghui: "Can you hold up this body?" ”

"I'm fine." Wiping the oil stains on the corners of his mouth, Chu Minghui pointed to the empty plate in front of him, and quietly pouted at Liu Fan: "What about this meal?" I didn't bring any money. ”

"It's okay, let's just give that horse to the hotel, that horse belongs to the Hongru Society, we can't ride it anymore, don't you don't like the Suzhou prefect, then let's leave the horse here, and when Hongru finds it, let's lead them to the government to toss." After speaking, Liu Fan shouted to the guy: "Xiao'er, settle the bill." ”

"Okay." In response, the shopkeeper calculated from the counter, and then ran to Liu Fan and said, "Two guest officers, you two have spent a total of sixteen taels of silver." ”

"Okay, I got it." When the words fell, Liu Fan pointed to Chu Minghui and said to the shopkeeper: "This is the son of our governor of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, who came to Suzhou Mansion to play today, because he came in a hurry, so our son forgot to bring money, so we will give you our own horse, which can be regarded as a discount for tonight's meal."

Later, we will go to He Zhifu as a guest, because our son has too many acquaintances in Suzhou Mansion, and it is estimated that someone will come to you to inquire about our whereabouts, if someone comes to the store to ask where we are, you can take them to the government to find us, and then you can lead the horse by the way, so that our son can redeem the horse. ”

"This ......" Hearing Liu Fan's words, the shopkeeper was a little embarrassed, hesitated for a moment, and then went to the counter to find the shopkeeper to report the matter.

The shopkeeper has been through ups and downs for a long time, and after listening to the advice of the shopkeeper, he glanced at Liu Fan and Chu Minghui, and saw at a glance that Chu Minghui and Liu Fan had extraordinary backgrounds, especially the momentum of the superior on Chu Minghui's body, and after a little groaning, he commanded Xiao Er:

"Now the market price of a horse is about thirty miles of silver, and the two young masters have consumed sixteen taels of silver from the store today, go, go to the treasury and get fourteen taels of silver, and then give the fourteen taels of silver to the two young masters, and say that it is the change in the store."

After a while, the shopkeeper came to Liu Fan and Chu Minghui with fourteen taels of silver, and said the shopkeeper's words to the two of them as they were, looking at the fourteen taels of silver found in front of him, Liu Fan couldn't help but chuckle: "This shopkeeper is quite good at being a man, with this vision, no wonder this Qingxiang Building can last for a hundred years." ”

praised it, Liu Fan saw that Chu Minghui was a little embarrassed, he had to take the silver himself, and after stuffing the silver into Chu Minghui's arms, he asked the shopkeeper to convey his gratitude, and then, Liu Fan dragged Chu Minghui out of Qingxiang Building and came to the street, the two of them identified the direction, and then followed the crowd.

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Hanshan Temple is located in Gusu Lane, although it is outside the city but close to the city wall of Suzhou Mansion, the temple inside the temple is majestic and majestic, the Daxiong Treasure Palace, the Tibetan Scripture Building, the Bell Tower, the Tablet Corridor, the Fengjiang Tower, the Frost Bell Pavilion and other palaces are all the monuments of the previous dynasty.

There is a village named Jiangqiao Village in front of the mountain gate of Hanshan Temple, there are two drum towers at both ends of the village, the left side is the Fengjiang Tower, the left side is the frost bell tower, the opposite side of the two drum towers is the small West Lake, this small West Lake is the branch of the West Lake in Suzhou, and the beauty of the scenery is no less than the big West Lake.

At this time, on the shore of this small West Lake, there is a huge painting boat about 100 zhang long, two stories high, and very luxuriously decorated on the outside. On the grass of the stone steps on the shore stood two groups of people with distinct distinctions, and on the left were all girls, all of whom were beautiful and charming. On the right stood dozens of scholars, all dressed in long robes.

Just looking at the lineup of the two sides, you can know that the girls on the left should be the beauties of the Red Sleeve Building, and the scholars on the right must be the talents of the Shujian League. In addition to these two groups of talented and beautiful people who participated in the Biwen Dou Poem, there were also a circle of people standing around to watch the excitement, and now everyone was whispering and commenting on the talents on the scene.

In front of the red-sleeved building camp stood a woman about twenty-eight years old, wearing a pink gauze skirt, graceful and slender, and looking like a fairy, this person was the owner of the red-sleeved building, Yu Ning'er, followed by two beautiful, tall girls, they were a team of twins, the sister is called Liu Fei, and the younger sister is called Liu Na.

The leader of the camp of the Book Sword League was dressed in a green shirt, with a tall figure, although he looked personable, but his lips were thin and shallow, his eyes were frivolous, and at first glance he was a cold-hearted, bitter and mean person, he was He Qingming, the leader of the Book and Sword Alliance, and behind him stood a young scholar in coarse linen clothes, this person was the famous Xu Xiaofeng.

In the middle of the two students stood an old monk with gray eyebrows, the old monk was wearing a robe, his expression was serene and quiet, and his appearance was strange and simple, after seeing this person, Chu Minghui showed a surprised expression: "Huh? Isn't this the presiding officer of Hanshan Temple, Venerable Qihong? This person is a high-ranking monk who rarely touches on mundane things, so how did he come here today? ”

Not only Chu Minghui recognized Master Qihong, but many people in the crowd around him recognized his identity, and when they saw Master Qihong appearing here, everyone exclaimed a trace of surprise, and they all talked about why Master Qihong came here? Just as everyone was talking, Master Qihong took the lead in speaking:

"Amitabha, the old man Qihong to the donors of the ceremony, the old man since four years ago after the meditation retreat, will no longer interfere in the temple things, half a month ago, the old man occasionally had an understanding, only to appear out of the customs, and then out of the customs, the old man learned that the monks in the temple are greedy for a moment's money, actually leased the boat in front of him to others, but also caused the school to fight.

Hearing this news, the old man felt deeply guilty, this painting boat is given by the emperor, it should be convenient for thousands of pilgrims, but the monks of this temple will take this boat as their own, and even openly lease the fee for profit, this move is against the monk's practice, I heard that today is the date of the Red Sleeve Building and the Book and Sword League than Wen Dou Poem, so the old man took the initiative to go down the mountain today to visit here.

Lao Ga came here today for two purposes, first, the old man asked himself to study a little subset of scriptures and history, if both sides do not give up, Lao Ga is willing to be a middle referee, and appreciate the literary brilliance of the talented people under the mountain. For the second purpose, the old man announced that since this year's competition, this painting boat will no longer be rented, and the painting boat will be free for pilgrims to travel all year round. ”

"What? The boat will no longer be rented out in the future? ”

"Great, Master Qihong's move is immeasurable."

"Really? Then we can also take the painting boat in the future? ”

"It seems that this is the last confrontation between the Red Sleeve Building and the Book Sword Alliance."

"yes, I don't know if it's the Red Sleeves Building that wins this time? Or is it a counterattack by the Book Sword Alliance? ”