Chapter Ninety-Six: Celebrating Birthday with Poetry
I'm afraid of the cold. Dare to ask your surname, Taifu? ”
"Mr. is wearing a fox fur and saying that it is cold, then I should freeze! Don't you have the surname Li, your name is Yuliang, what about you? ”
"Long admiration! The surname is Wu and is called the second friend. When the middle-aged man who admired the snow heard the words "Wu Ciyou", he quickly turned around and glanced at him, and then sat back at the table, eating and drinking as if no one was around, but his eyes kept glancing to this side. Li Yuliang's gaze also jumped, and he looked at Wu Ciyou from top to bottom. When he was about to be questioned, Wu Ciyou called the bartender loudly: "Take a jar of Lao Shao wine, and then ask for four plates of snacks, a little more exquisite." ”
"Huh? Mr. Wu asked for so much wine at once, the amount is amazing! ”
"Hey, all brothers in the four seas. Since they are seated with you, they ought to drink together. Will you not give me a cup of wine? Yuliang smiled, got up and poured a large glass and handed it over. Wu Ciyou drank it all with a smile, "Okay, Brother Yuliang is also a refreshing and open person, just let it go." If you're drunk, you don't have to go back, stay with me tonight in this Windward Pavilion store. How about we stay up and sleep all night talking? A red cloud flew on Yuliang's cheeks, calmed down, and said with a smile: "This is not a matter of consumption, I already live in this store?" At this time, the snow outside the building was getting heavier and heavier, and the sky and the earth were white. It's just that the water in the river seems to be exceptionally clear, flowing slowly to the southeast. A branch of red plum is exposed on the wall outside the pavilion, which looks even more delicate in this wind and snow. Li Yuliang saw that Wu Ciyou was in a daze, so he smiled and said: "Mr. Wu, such a good scenery, why don't you chant a song too?" "Shhhh Seeing that the altar was about to open. Let's listen to them, and enjoy the snow and chant poetry, isn't it also good? ”
Li Yuliang turned his face to look and saw a gentleman standing by the window holding his beard and waving his head to chant:
Light makeup and light plain crane forest red, moved into the decadent pulsatilla.
You should laugh at the old peaches and plums in the West Garden, and wait for the spring breeze with a strong and uniform color.
As soon as the groan fell, the forty-year-old man on the opposite side laughed and said, "What a 'strong and uniform color for the spring breeze'!" Huang Tai Chong Huo xìng has not been removed, should you be ashamed to dare not bloom peach and plum,"
Hearing the words "Huang Taichong", Wu Ciyou's eyes lit up, and he didn't expect to meet Huang Zongxi, the head of the world-famous "Three Yellows of Eastern Zhejiang" here! While pouring wine for Wu Ciyou, Li Yuliang asked with a quiet smile: "What is this bad old man chanting?" I didn't even hear the word 'snow'. Wu Ciyou smiled and said, "Oh, I'm talking about that red plum!" Don't interrupt, let's listen. ”
Unexpectedly, Huang Zongxi over there was on the rise, and was interrupted by the voices of Wu Ciyou and Li Yuliang, and he was very unhappy, so he shouted here with the tone of looking for a child:
"Hey, since this benevolent brother knows poetry, please move the bottle to teach, but why is he whispering and commenting. Could it be that the laughter is not good in the rhyme! ”
The question was asked abruptly and with great pride. Li Yuliang was about to have a seizure, but he saw Wu Ciyou standing up with a smile, holding a full glass of wine, and stepped forward: "Dare to ask, is Your Excellency Mr. Taichong, who is famous in the mountains and forests?" No, Wu Ciyou, Shicai and this little brother were eating and chatting, and inadvertently, disturbed Mr. Huang's Yaxing, I am really ashamed, this is an apology! ”
As soon as the words "Wu Ciyou" came out, everyone in the audience pushed up and came up to salute. I saw a young man who stepped forward, bowed deeply and said, "In Xia Li Guangdi, it is the student of Mr. Ling Zunwu in Fujian. I have heard for a long time that my brother is talented, and I didn't expect to meet here. Please be bowed by the little brother! ”
Wu Ciyou didn't even dare to say it, and while returning the salute, he asked: "Oh, I don't know it's Brother Guangdi, forgive me for being rude." Where is my father now, and how is he doing? ”
"The teacher went to Fujian to study since the year before last, and this fashion is there. The old man is in good health, the younger brother resigned from the teacher, and entered the Beijing will test, before leaving, the teacher earnestly instructed, if he saw the brother, tell him what he meant, so that the brother can do it himself, and he does not have to think about family affairs. After speaking, everyone in the audience was introduced to Wu Ciyou one by one. It turned out that all the scholars and celebrities present were famous. There is also Nan Shi who was called "Nan Shi and Northern Song Dynasty" in the poetry circle at that time.
Li Guangdi smiled and said to Wu Ciyou: "The younger brother passed by Anqing, which coincided with Mr. Huang's 40th birthday. ”
Wu Ciyou has long known that Huang Zongxi, as the head of the Three Yellows, is humble on the outside and arrogant on the inside, and he is as big as the sea and has a quirk. From the sentence in his poem just now, "strong and uniform color for the spring breeze", we can see the meaning of his lonely self-appreciation and ridicule of the world's people seeking fame. thought to himself that if you want to win over the poets here, you must start with Huang Zongxi first. He walked up and said with a deep salute: "I don't know the joy of Mr. Taichong's birthday, and I am offended by Shicai, please forgive me." ”
Huang Zongxi also returned the salute with a smile: "Don't dare, don't dare, I don't know that I am the son of Wu Lao Xiangguo, it was really rude just now." Today in Xia Chen, I am deeply honored to have the emperor here, haha......"
"Brother Huang has won the award. Brother has the honor to celebrate Brother Huang's birthday, rude to offer, willing to borrow the four treasures of the study, for the brother inscription, in order to express the meaning of celebration. ”
As he spoke, he walked to the side of a few cases, picked up the pen, and with a wave, wrote down a poem of stacking mountains and mountains. When everyone saw it, they all praised it, and Huang Zongxi was also very happy, Wu Ciyou abandoned the official and went into hiding, which was originally in line with his spleen, and saw him treat people so humbly, and he admired it even more, so he invited Wu Ciyou to sit together: "Thanks to Mr. Mo, Huang has nothing to pay tribute to, a glass of wine, and the right to wash the dust for Mr." Wu Ciyou took it and drank it all.
Li Yuliang laughed secretly in his heart, this old man Huang was scolding us arrogantly just now, but in a blink of an eye, he called Wu Ciyou Mr., it seems that this Mr. Wu is worthy of being the emperor's teacher, and there is really a lot of knowledge in his stomach. She turned her eyes to see that the middle-aged man sitting in the east window was also staring at Wu Ciyou intently, and her heart was shocked, so she stepped forward and said: "This benevolent brother, sitting alone and drinking by himself, it seems that he is not all the way to them, but like a person who practices martial arts, the younger brother is polite." "As he spoke, he bowed.
The middle-aged man was a little embarrassed when he suddenly asked, and came back to his senses and smiled: "Little brother, you have good eyesight!" Busy with their hands, the two felt that each other's internal strength was profound, and they couldn't help but feel cold! .
Chapter 13 The idiot scholar Lei Luo knows Yun Niang, Lingqing Monkey, and sincerely worships the master
At Wu Ciyou and Huang Zongxi's poetry meeting, Li Yuliang suddenly found that the middle-aged man sitting under the east window was staring at Wu Ciyou intently, so he hurriedly went over to greet and answer. Li Yuliang was secretly amused, and reported his name and said: "The little brother Li Yuliang is naughty and loves to do things that make others unhappy." General Huangfu came from afar, all the way, and it is not easy to sit on this cold bench here today! ”
One sentence broke the sky, and Huangfu Baozhu no longer concealed it, and smiled coldly and sneered: "I am really ashamed to be praised by you, if you guess well, the famous Yunniang Taoist on the rivers and lakes also came here to bother with the emperor's teacher, which is incomprehensible." ”
"Okay, happy, come, a cup of General Poor Daojing, I wish you success."
"Don't dare, let's have a drink together, each for his own master."
Seeing off Huang Zongxi and others, Wu Ciyou stood on the shore, overlooking the lonely sail and blue waves, the vast snowy scene, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion in his heart. Li Yuliang, who came with him to see off the guests, suddenly smiled and said:
"Mr. Wu, just now you splashed ink and recited poems in couplets, so full of pride, why, but now you are silent?"
"Alas! Little brother, you don't know, I was going back to Yangzhou to pay a visit to my father, but I met the junior brother just now, and I learned that my father had gone to Fujian. I wonder if the gathering of the world is so unexpected, and I don't know where to go. ”
"Alas, what's there, Ling Zun is not in the mansion, you are just wandering around outside. I also came to Anqing to join my relatives, if Mr. doesn't dislike it, let's play together. ”
"Oh! You also have this Yaxing. Okay, little brother, let's talk about it, where do you want to play! ”
"Hmph, I'll say it, right to your heart. It's not too far from the Gunzhou Mansion, so how about we go to the house of Sage Confucius to pay homage to it, and then go to Beijing together? ”
"Wow! Little brother, do you want to do something for the imperial court? I have a few friends in the capital who recommend you to them, and with your cleverness, you will be successful in a few years. ”
"I'm not going, sir, you are the emperor's teacher, why don't you stay in the capital and become an official? If you become a big official, I will make you a personal entourage, do you want it? ”
"Haha...... if I'm not an official, you won't follow me?" Wu Ciyou felt that this little brother was childish, innocent and naughty, and he really liked her a little.
"Hmmm! As long as Mr. doesn't let me go, I'll follow you wherever you go. But sir, why don't you stay in Beijing as an official, but run out to play in the mountains and rivers? ”
Listening to Li Yuliang's more and more childish he asked, Wu Ciyou couldn't help laughing: "Haha, you don't understand, this makes everyone have their own ambitions." ”
"Hmph, isn't it? I see, you must have run out because of the great things that did not go well in your marriage. ”
"Huh? How do you know? ”
"I can see it. You don't live in the capital, and you don't want to go back to Yangzhou, you don't have a wife, or you ......"
"Ring! It's childish! Wu Ciyou interrupted Li Yuliang's words, "Forget it, let's not talk about this." Let's go for a walk around the city. However, I said it in front of me, I was wild and had never liked so much etiquette. Since you and I are companions, I don't dare to call myself a teacher, let alone take you as an entourage, so let's call each other brothers. ”
This is exactly what Li Yuliang is thinking. After half a day of contact, she seemed to have a little more in her heart, and after listening to Wu Ciyou's open-mindedness, she happily replied: "Okay, okay, little brother obeys, Brother Wu, please!" ”
"Haha...... with your naughty little brother as my companion, I seem to be getting younger too. Walk! Wu Ciyou said that he was going to pull Li Yuliang. Yuliang grinned and ran to the front.
The two went to the temple fair, and Wu Ciyou bought two bottles of wine on the street, ready to go back to the store to drink for a long time. As he was walking, he suddenly heard a burst of shouting, mixed with shouting and scolding.
When Wu Ciyou turned around to look, he saw a thirteen or fourteen-year-old unkempt hairy boy squeezed out of the pile. Holding a scallion pancake in both hands, he tore and bit hard. Behind him, a lanky man like a rolling pin chased after him with a flint stick......
Wu Ciyou was surprised and puzzled, so he asked the guy in the shop. The man said, "Alas! This child, his father asked Zheng Chunming, the shopkeeper of this shop, to force the debt to death. and sold his mother to Guangdong. Now Zheng Chunyou, the brother of Boss Zheng, has become the official of the Western Election and released the prefect of Gunzhou. Boss Zheng has become the big incense head at Zhong Saburo's meeting again, and his power is getting bigger and bigger. This kid is also a tough temper, and he will make a fuss at the door of his shop every few days. Alas, if he refuses to go away, he will have to die in front of Boss Zheng's store sooner or later......"
Wu Ciyou was stunned when he heard it, and when he turned around, he disappeared Li Yuliang, turned around and saw that Yuliang had squeezed into the crowd and blocked the rolling pin. He was afraid that Yuliang Xiaoli would suffer a loss, so he didn't care about talking to his buddy, holding a bottle of wine in one hand, and hurriedly squeezed into the crowd.
Li Yuliang bent down and dragged the hairy boy, and turned his face to the "rolling pin" and said: "He is a child, you, how can you fight to the death, what should you do?" "People on the street used to stand in a circle, watching the fight from a distance, but when they saw people coming out to hug the grievances, they gathered more around. Wu Ciyou's easy to squeeze in front of him, pulled the child in front of his eyes, and persuaded the "rolling pin" with a smile: "How much can he eat from you, just like this?" Killing people can't be too much! As he was talking, the kid in his arms slipped out, and he slammed his head against the belly of the "rolling pin", knocking him on his back and facing the sky. The hairy boy chewed the oil cake "phew" in his mouth and spit on the "rolling pin", and scolded in his mouth: "Your little master green monkey can't be killed, the green monkey lives for a day, and your old Zheng wants to live here!" ”
The "rolling pin" was furious, and as soon as he turned over, he raised the fire stick and threw it at the green monkey, and the green monkey screamed, and lay on the ground with a mouth gnawing mud, and when he got up, his face was full of blood but he jumped to his feet and cried and scolded. "Huang Laosi, you kid fight. If you can't kill me, I'll be your master, if you die, I'm your shopkeeper Zheng Chunming's master. His dirty, coarse, meaty, and vegetarian ones were all served outward, causing the people around him to laugh.
"Rolling pin" sneered and picked up the iron rod and hit it again, but was grabbed by Li Yuliang: "Stop, you can't fight anymore!" ”
"Why not? Kill this naughty beast and kill only a dog! As he spoke, he drew the fire stick, who knew that he had earned two pieces, and the iron fire stick seemed to have taken root in Yuliang's hands, and he couldn't pull it anymore, and his face turned red when he landed.
Li Yuliang said coldly: "I said you can't fight, you can't fight!" I don't believe he's even a dog. How valuable can you be, aren't you just a three-way running buddy? With that, Huang Laosi staggered back five or six steps before he stood firm.
"Ho! Something strange happened in Anqing Mansion today! With this shout, a sturdy man in his thirties broke in with four guys, looked at Yu Liang and scolded Huang Laosi: "Are you really talented?" Such a child can't handle it - come on! Tie the green monkey to the back of the store, return to the Lord Zheng Xiang in the evening, and then make a fall! ”
Yu Liang took a step forward and said with a sneer: "It seems that this Anqing Mansion is also a store opened by your family?" "As he spoke, he had to do it.
Wu Ciyou didn't want to cause trouble, so he pulled Yuliang behind him and said, "Alas, brother, why bother! As he spoke, he asked Huang Laosi: "This kid eats your cake, I will pay for it, how much should it be?" ”
Huang Laosi turned out to be timid. Now that the helper came, he became angry again, and looked at Li Yuliang and said with a stiff neck: "One cake a day, three years - ten taels!" ”
The green monkey roared, "You are talking nonsense! His feet jumped and he was about to run out, but he was held down by Yuliang.
Wu Ciyou saw that this group of people was bent on making trouble, and he was afraid that Yuliang and the green monkey would suffer a big loss, so he took out two pieces of silver of five taels from his waist and threw them to the ground, and pulled the green monkey with one hand and Li Yuliang with the other, and said: "Ten taels is ten taels." Let's find a place to eat. ”
Li Yuliang pondered, looked at Wu Ciyou and said with a smile: "Okay, listen to the eldest brother, you can't be angry with them, let's go!" ”
As soon as the morning of the second day dawned, Wu Ciyou got up and paced to Yuliang's room, and saw that the green monkeys outside were sleeping deeply, so he called Yuliang through the curtain, "Get up, we should go on the road today." After calling twice, I didn't see Yuliang answering, and I was about to go out, but I saw Yuliang coming in from outside, and said with a smile: "On the road?" Where to go? Wu Ciyou said: "Gunzhou Mansion, didn't you say it well yesterday?" ”
"Big brother, let's delay another day, my little brother accidentally asked someone to sweep a stick yesterday, and my arm hurts a lot today, I want to take a look at Langzhong." Wu Ciyou was honest, and he didn't see that Yuliang was making trouble. I thought to myself, "Yo, yesterday, why didn't I see my brother suffer?" Ah, I'm just a doctor. The two of you are resting in the store, and I'll catch yào for you, and I'll be back in less than an hour. Li Yuliang stroked his right arm with his hand, looking a little painful, and inhaled cold air, "Then it's a big brother." ”
As soon as Wu Ciyou left the store, Yuliang pushed the green monkey: "Get up!" Fast! ”
The green monkey rubbed his eyes and sat up. Said in a daze: "It's still early!" "Wild monkeys who don't have a chance! Yesterday's beating was in vain? Come with me! The green monkey got up with a bone, put on the new clothes that Wu Ciyou had given him, lifted his pants up with his elbow, wiped his face and said, "Yes! And trouble them! "Say, two