Chapter 43: The Variety of Life
The cool breeze has a letter, and the autumn moon is boundless....
The faint mist has not yet been evacuated, but the Chunfanglou side has already been crowded, and the bustling literati, peddlers and pawns are bustling back and forth, so lively.
Of course, in the crowded crowd, there are also many young ladies with light veils covering their faces, surrounded by maids and servants, secretly observing their favorite young handsome men.
"Miss, you see that is Su Qinglin Su Gongzi with Jiangning Yongju!"
Under the willow tree in the distance of Chunfang Building, there are seven or eight soft sedan chairs of different colors parked.
Outside, a maid in green dress was leaning against the curtain of a dark red sedan chair to introduce her young lady to the onlookers in front of her.
"Is that the son of Su Qinglin Su who 'a sea of gold is full of mountains, and red leaves are like blood and autumn frost'?" An exclamation suddenly came from inside the soft sedan chair, and a fat face full of pockmarks came out from the shaking of the curtain.
"Yes, that's him!" The more the maid spoke, the more energetic she became, and suddenly she was surprised when her eyes flickered: "Miss, Miss, look, Zheng Qiufeng and Zheng Gongzi are actually here!" ”
She danced and looked at the white-clothed scholar who was looking at the two couplets hanging in front of the door of Chunfang Building, and her eyes were full of Venus, as if she saw her husband-in-law, and she was half excited.
Listening to the maid's introduction, the pockmarked young lady suddenly became interested, disgusted that the curtain was an eyesore, so she simply pushed the curtain aside, and actually watched with the maid generously.
"Hmph, I don't look at my own appearance... It's shameless! ”
On the other side, there was a soft snort in the sedan car....
"Yes, such a is embarrassed to come out and be embarrassed, today is really unlucky!"
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However, at this moment, an exclamation suddenly sounded.
"Look, Wu Yuebai and Wu Gongzi are also here!"
With the exclamation, the crowd was in a commotion again, and I saw that in the path along the river, a handsome boy was walking slowly.
I saw him folding his fan and smiling, without any sense of pretentiousness between his lines and steps, his face was as usual in the eager eyes of everyone, and a breeze shook his robe gently, indescribably chic.
This person is Wu Yuebai and Wu Gongzi, who are known as the little poetry saints.
Suddenly, with the appearance of Wu Yuebai, the entire crowd immediately fell into a panic.
"Brother Wu, you are here too?"
"Wu Gongzi was present with Liu Duanyang and Liu Gongzi yesterday, and he must have already had a second couplet for those two couplets at this moment, right?"
"Wu Gongzi Xiaosheng...."
"I have long heard that Wu Gongzi's poetry is a must, and today I see that it is really like his name"
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Standing in the corner of the second floor, looking down through the window, from a few people at the beginning gradually turned into a sea of people, Zhang Yi had already shown a smile on his face.
These people are a lot of money!
Seeing that the crowd is getting bigger and bigger, the scene is getting hotter and hotter. hot, until young celebrities like Wu Yuebai and Liu Duanyang arrived, Zhang Yi felt that he should play.
And outside the door, as Zhang Yi saw, it was already full of literati.
In the commotion, suddenly, only to hear the sound of 'squeak', the door of Chunfang Building has slowly opened, and a little man in a green coat and hat has walked out of the door in full view.
Suddenly, the scene, which had been noisy just now, immediately quieted down.
No need to ask, everyone knows that this little guy is the owner of the two couplets in front of the door - Zhang Yi.
If in the past, as scholars with a high sense of superiority, they naturally disdained a small servant, but now it is not.
After all, Zhang Yi's two upper couplets are still hanging in front of the door, but no one has ever made a lower couplet for so long, which makes people have to pay attention to it.
Even many speculators who originally wanted to pinch soft persimmons to make a name for themselves secretly retreated.
It's just that now Liu Duanyang and Wu Yuebai and even a lot of celebrities have gathered together, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a rare event in Jiangning in recent years, and they naturally don't want to miss it.
Anyway, being idle is idle, it's better to take a look, in case something big happens in the middle, as a member of the scene, it's better to boast about the capital in the future, isn't it?
"Ladies and gentlemen, lords and misses! Welcome to Chunfang Building! At that moment, Zhang Yi stepped forward quickly after going out, stood in front of the door under the two couplets and made a circle to the people outside, and said loudly: "Yesterday, because of a little misunderstanding with Liu Duanyang and Liu Gongzi, but I don't want the little brother to make a mistake for a while, Wang said that he challenged the scholars with two couplets, and now I am really ashamed to think about it, please don't take it to heart!" “
After all, Chunfanglou is in business, how can he do business if he offends the scholar?
Therefore, Zhang Yi apologized above, and said that there was a misunderstanding between him and Liu Duanyang, in addition to wanting to win people's hearts, he also didn't want to offend people too much.
After all, although the literati are light, it is only for the literati themselves.
In the case of outsiders, they are extremely xenophobic.
Thinking of the circle, Zhang Yi suddenly remembered the star circle of later generations, which seems to be very similar to now!
It is said that your circle is really messy, this Jiang Ning said that it is not big, it is not small, maybe a certain son is good in that building, and yesterday he was playing a game with someone next to him!
Thinking like this in his heart, Zhang Yi did not show anything on his face.
Looking at the whispers below, Zhang Yi knew that although the contradiction with these scholars had not been completely resolved, Ying Xiangfen had won at least a little, and as long as there was something nice to hear later, he should come back.
Immediately afterwards, Zhang Yi said: "But although I had a misunderstanding with Liu Duanyang and Liu Gongzi, I never thought that the little brother actually had two occasional uplinks, although I didn't dare to call them absolute, they are also two rare and superb uplinks!" ”
"Well, these two couplets are indeed the best in the couplets, Zhang is ashamed of himself!"
Zhang Yi said, and a middle-aged Confucian student immediately stood up.
"Yes, even Liu Gongzi can't come out of this couplet, it's really extraordinary!"
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Suddenly, many scholars began to talk.
After all, they are all scholars, and those who dare to come to Chunfanglou are also some self-sustaining and have some skills, in their opinion, whether it is "smoke lock pond willow" or "waiting for the lamp to ascend the pavilion to attack the book", that pair of Shanglian is ashamed of themselves.
Of course, there are a very small number of people who are extremely disdainful of life.
If these two couplets were from celebrities, they would have taken it for granted, but now they are actually saying it from the mouth of a mere Qinglou servant, doesn't that mean that they are not even as good as a small servant?
So immediately someone was not angry and said: "That little guy, do you know that you just got it by chance? But for the sake of your sincerity in apologizing, this son will not care about you, as long as you announce the two upper and lower links and then admit defeat, I will forgive you? ”