Chapter 45: Sing a double reed
On the street, the voices of people are boiling, there is an endless stream of travelers, the beginning of the year is in front of you, and the festive color has filled the entire Jialing City. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info The people walked down the street with happy faces, buying meat and fruit cakes for the New Year, taking back the new clothes sewn by the tailor shop, picking out two or three beautiful peach charms, and walking in the streets casually while laughing, looking back at the bustling and hustle and bustle around them.
"You guy, why are you so rude, childe, can't I afford to buy a few pieces of paper from you?"
In the crowd, a roar sounded, and immediately led the people around, this is obviously a conflict, there is a conflict is to watch from the excitement, what is more fun than watching the excitement?
Soon, a corner of the street was surrounded by three layers inside and three layers outside, although I didn't understand what was happening, but the people on the periphery were all tiptoeing and stretching their necks, trying to figure out where the excitement had happened and how much they had missed.
"Wow!"
I saw a young man in white with a handsome face shaking the paper fan, he didn't seem to notice the cold and biting, but now the soldiers like to shake the fan like this, even if it is shivering from the cold. The young man has an elegant temperament, and he should not be wrong with a scholar. And judging from his dress, he is still a child of a big family, and opposite him, there is a man in black clothes and a cold face, with two pieces of rice paper in front of him, but they are rare red.
The rice paper was buckled backwards, and the black handwriting could be vaguely seen from the back, and the onlookers probably understood that the young man in white wanted to see what was written on the rice paper, but was rejected by the man in black, so he became angry.
The fan shook and closed it again, and the young man in white paced back and forth a few steps, and shook the fan away, "No, everyone is here today, you might as well testify, this guy has a big tone, and he actually said that these two pieces of rice paper are worth fifty taels of silver, and I will take a look at what kind of gold hook and silver painting this is, and it can be worth so much silver!" ”
Fifty taels!
Although it was to watch the excitement, but when they heard fifty taels, a group of people around them all gasped, and at the same time, they became more and more interested in the two pieces of rice paper, and even many people began to coax, all of them wanted to see what words were written on the rice paper.
The constant sound of coaxing made the young man in white show a smug look on his face, closed the paper fan, hugged his fists with everyone, and then strode forward, took out a silver ingot and threw it on the side of the rice paper, "This is ten taels of silver, I don't believe it today, and someone can write a few words to be worth fifty taels of silver!" ”
As he spoke, he took a brush from the writing stall on the side, and the down-and-out scholar who set up the stall had already been interested, and many people looked at him with the young man in white, his face was slightly embarrassed, and he hurriedly picked up the inferior ink block and grinded it in the inkstone.
When the young man in white bowed slightly, the scholar grinded more and more, and after a while, he saw that the ink was half full of inkstone, and the young man in white waved his pen, and soon wrote it, threw the pen into the pen holder that was stained with ink and did not see the original appearance, and blew it with rice paper, and then everyone also saw the words he wrote.
"Well frogs can't talk to the sea, and they can't be confined to nothingness."
Laughter and light boos came, and the young man in white raised his head like a victorious general, shook the paper fan, and handed the paper to the man in black, "Look at the handwriting of this son, how much worse is it than your fifty taels?" ”
As he spoke, he closed the paper fan, pointed to the ten taels of silver that shone on the ground and attracted the attention of countless people, and said, "This silver should be my bet, if this son's words are not as good as you, it will be yours, if you lose, hehe......"
Strange smile, the young man in white, glanced at the onlookers again, and the coaxing was continuous, he coughed lightly a few times, "If you lose, when you see this son in the future, you will bend down and salute, and say, 'Your calligraphy is amazing'?" ”
The young man in white smiled and rolled his eyes, as if he was excited about the final veil of a reserved but contrived street hustler, while the onlookers did not expect his conditions to be so simple, although they felt strange, they still watched intently, for fear of missing the wonderful scene where the man in black was smashed below.
The man in black still had a cold face, but this time he sighed and shrugged his shoulders with the young man in white, who immediately lifted the red rice paper on the ground and looked at it, this look didn't matter, he almost fell to the ground while squatting.
His face was pale, and after a long time, he saw the young man in white get up and saluted very solemnly, "A certain person who doesn't know Mount Tai has a lot of offense, and I hope Mr. Don't blame it, such a shocking work, don't say it's fifty taels, even if it's a hundred taels, it's worth it." ”
After that, I really had to take out a few sets of silver from my arms, and finally took off the ancient jade hanging around my waist and put it in front of the man in black, "Come out to play, there is not much silver on my body, counting the jade pendant, this is about a hundred taels of silver, and I hope Mr. Don't blame, I will take this masterpiece away, thank you Mr. for cutting love." ”
This sudden change made the onlookers scratch their heads, and they all stretched their necks to see what was written on the red rice paper, but fortunately, as they wished, the young man in white showed the handwriting written on it when he carefully rolled up the rice paper.
'Smooth sailing, good every year', 'all the best'.
These two sentences seem to be auspicious words, but the most important thing is that the handwriting is very different from what is usually seen, thin but without losing muscles and bones, stroke by stroke, like a knife cutting a sword, and the words are like jade hooks.
Ordinary people may not know the beauty of this word, but there are people in the crowd who have read but have already been stunned, and only after a while did someone come back to their senses and say, "This kind of calligraphy handwriting is thin, to thin without losing its flesh, hidden in the inside, exposed in the partial, the bones are beautiful, the fun is hazy, it is a great work of everyone!" ”
As soon as these words came out, there was a slight commotion, but the ordinary people did not find it very strange, and they did not even understand why such beautiful characters were written on red rice paper. At this age, when have you ever seen someone with calligraphy and paintings hanging on a red background?
"This earth-shattering work with red is really full of joy, I have to go back and stick it on the door of my house, I will definitely have good luck in the coming year, maybe I can win the champion!"
The words of the young man in white seemed to be talking to himself, but word for word came into the ears of the people around him, so to speak, they did understand, this dazzling red looks festive and extraordinary, and the strong and powerful font is like a sword like a knife, which can naturally drive away evil spirits and avoid disasters, and that auspicious words are not a sign of good luck?
For a while, many people were moved, and even more pinched the newly bought peach charm in their hands, thinking about whether it was time to go back and return it, and the big deal was to ask the seller for a copper plate, they couldn't afford the word 100 taels, but they could still write two stickers outside the door when they went back to paint the scoop according to the gourd, and it was also glorious to think about.
"Wait, this is for you, I bought a couplet, how can I have less horizontal batches, I'll give it to you."
The man in black, who had not spoken, took out a piece of rice paper one inch wide and one foot long from his arms, with the same handwriting on it that read: 'Ji Xing Gaozhao', the young man in white saw it, and hurriedly put it away happily, and then carefully protected the red rice paper in his hand and squeezed out the crowd.
It turns out that this is a couplet, and the couplet has to be crossed.
While the onlookers were still in astonishment, the men in black had gone somewhere, but they were deeply impressed by the couplet just now, and they were talking nonsense, but they hurried home, and the more clever scholars trotted away, they wanted to flip through the scrolls of the sages, and find some such auspicious words, maybe they could make a fortune.
Looking back at the people with different expressions, Ma Xiu walked forward leisurely, this Yusheng was really, he actually asked him to act on the street, but it did suit his appetite, looking at the completely stunned appearance of the people around him, Ma Xiu had a spontaneous sense of satisfaction.
However, he also had to admire Liu Xi.
actually came up with the so-called couplet, just now, Ma Xiu can conclude that it won't be long before the entire Jialing City is full of couplets. And this couplet that changed people's lives may really be passed down from generation to generation as Liu Xi said, so wouldn't he want to leave a reputation in history?
I couldn't help but get excited, and my steps were a little brisker.
Not far from him, a simple and antique painted carriage surrounded by auspicious clouds stopped at the place where the couplets were sold before, the brocade curtain with gold piercing was lifted, and a pretty face poked out, blinking and looking at the street with big eyes, and finally fixed on the white-clothed figure that leaped forward, and suddenly the cherry pouted.
Immediately put down the curtain of the car, the car was decorated with dozens of pearls, and the girl sat on the brocade stool in the car, "Sister Ming, Meng'er saw that horse embroidered, and he was the one who bought the couplet here just now." ”
In the car, Li Ming, who was reading a scroll by the small stove, suddenly turned red and lowered his head, while Li Mengxiao on the side stomped on the jade bead phoenix dancing shoes on his feet, and said softly with a little annoyance, "I don't know if that guy has come to Jialing City." ”
On the side, Li Ze, who was eating cakes with his head down, looked up at the two daughters with different thoughts, scratched his head for some unknown reasons, and simply didn't think about it, and lowered his head and ate snacks very happily.