Chapter 44: Suzhou (2)
Entering the courtyard, with the central axis as the line, paved with pebbles, the two measurements are artificially dug streams, the stream is planted with peach trees, although it is late autumn now, but Chen Yu seems to be able to feel the peach blossoms in the courtyard in early spring. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
On the central axis stands a pavilion that is open on all sides, the bamboo curtains on the four sides of the pavilion are rolled up high with coarse cloth hemp rope, and a stone seat is arranged in the pavilion, and a few jugs of wine and a few porcelain cups are placed on the table.
There were four people seated around the table, ranging in age from the oldest to the eighty-year-old and the youngest in his twenties.
Chen Yu came to the side of these people under the leadership of Tang Bohu, and he hadn't sat down yet, but when he saw that one of them had six fingers on his hand, he asked with a smile: "But Qiantang Chen Yu Chen Tingyu?" ”
"Exactly!" Chen Yu replied, and at the same time had a conclusion in his heart, presumably this is Zhu Yunming, who is known as the Four Great Talents, because he gave birth to six branches in his hands, and called himself Zhishan.
"Mei Xiang, come, make tea." Zhu Yunming smiled, and his eyes leaked a cunning that he didn't want to imitate at his age, as if he wanted to play tricks on Chen Yu.
Mei Xiang glanced at Zhu Zhishan and said with a smile: "I know, soak it." ”
It didn't take long for the little maid called Chunxiang to bring a few cups of tea, and then Zhu Yunming smiled and said: "The conversation between me and Mei Xiang is a mystery, please answer a seven-word poem before you can drink tea." ”
The rest of the people shook their heads and said with a smile: "Zhishan is going to be in trouble again, and everyone who sees this stinky problem will be teased." ”
"There is little frost in the late New Year, and the grass and trees in the world know when spring arrives. I felt that the business in front of me was full, and the east wind blew the water and the green was uneven. Chen Yu said with a smile: "This plum fragrance, come, can be cracked as "spring arrives", tea, people's grass and trees, plum fragrance answers, knowing is knowing, together it is "spring to the world grass and trees know""
"Haha, Miao Miao, Miao Miao, Miao Ji, worthy of being Tang Ziwei's good apprentice." Zhu Zhishan applauded.
Tang Bohu also smiled: "That's natural, but this "bubble" is redundant?" Tang Bohu asked with a smile when he heard Chen Yu's crack.
"Teacher, didn't you listen to the maid say, soak it? Together, they bullied me. Chen Yu also smiled.
After Chen Yu finished answering, the three people who were drinking tea almost squirted out, and the older one said with a smile: "This little guy is so funny, not that nerd." It's really like Ziwei said, but he is a clever person. ”
"Tingyu, come, introduce you to the teacher." Tang Bohu said: "This is a few of our teachers, Mr. Shen Zhou Shitian, Shen Zhou, and Shen Qinan. ”
"The student has admired Mr. Ishida's name for a long time, and I have long heard that your painting is a must in Wuzhong, and I have long been envious, but now I have seen the real face, which is the luck of the student." Chen Yu said.
Shen Zhou is good at calligraphy, calligraphy and painting, he is the founder of the "Wu School", and together with Wen Zhengming, Tang Yin, and Qiu Ying, he is known as the "Ming Four Families". What's even more powerful is that among the four great talents, Tang, Zhu, and Wen are all his apprentices.
"I won the second place in the township examination at a young age, and my future is limitless." After speaking, he seemed to think of something again, and said to Zhu Zhishan on the side: "Don't be discouraged, try to win it in one fell swoop this year, as well as Changgu." ”
"Tingyu, this is Zhu Yunming, the word Xizhe, the number Zhishan!" After speaking, he pointed to the youngest and said, "Do you remember Xu Zhenqing, who said that he would try with you next year before he left?" ”
It turned out to be Mr. Zhishan and Mr. Changgu of "the article Jiangzuo Jiajiayu, the smoke moon Yangzhou tree tree flower". ”
"This sentence Mr. doesn't dare to be, I have already been hit by Mr. Zhishan's body, every time there are poetry riddles and lantern riddles, none of them can be lifted, but Tingyu is so talented at a young age." Xu Zhenqing said.
"Well, you can't talk about this literary talent, if you want to say that Mr. Hengshan is no longer below everyone, but this ridiculous imperial examination ......"
"Drink for pleasure today, and don't talk about these unpleasant things." It is called the Tao of Mr. Hengshan.
After that, the six people began to drink, these people are all people who write about talents and rich people, this drinking room is full of wine, witty words, regardless of age, nothing to do with wealth, quite a kind of indifferent fame and fortune, the fun of seclusion in the landscape.
After a while, several people were very drunk, and Tang Yin took care of these mentors and friends to sleep in several dilapidated houses in Taohuawu.
The only people who weren't drunk might be Chen Yu and Tang Yin, Tang Yin made a few pots of tea, and then asked Chen Yu, "Something?" ”
"Huh? How does the teacher know? Chen Yu asked in surprise.
"After more than ten years of ups and downs, everyone in this world has already seen through it, can't you still see this little bit of your mind?" Tang Bohu said.
Well, it's really too young, Chen Yu originally thought that he had deliberately hidden it deep enough, but he didn't expect that this old fox could still see through it at a glance.
"Don't be surprised, this skill is not something that anyone can see, look at a person's heart, look at his eyes first, although you hide deep enough, but those eyes still betray you." Tang Bohu poured Chen Yu a cup of tea, and drank the steaming coarse porcelain cup himself.
"The students do have problems." Chen Yu is also slightly drunk now, and he didn't feel that there was anything wrong with Tang Yin's action of pouring tea for himself, so he picked up the teacup and drank it, and while drinking, he told a little bit about the situation at home before he came to Suzhou.
"So you're here to escape?" Tang Bohu said: "Dodging is not a way after all, you will have the idea of escaping a little thing, how to be an official in the future?" How to benefit the people? A few years ago, the teacher suffered from all kinds of wrongs, torture, and even doubted life for a while, these years all day long, playing, but I feel that there is also a different taste, when you understand the meaning of existence in the world, you will feel that nothing can be confused with you. ”
"This is what Brother Yangming said when he went to Beijing for the teacher, and he said it with me in the examination room, and the teacher thinks it makes sense, if you have the fate, you can meet that Mr. Wang Yangming."
"Eh, Master of Science Wang Shouren?" Chen Yu was shocked, this name has the same meaning to Daming as Yu Shaobao!
"Then should I admit it?" Chen Yu asked.
"As a teacher, you can only say the point of view of being a teacher, and admit that it is a great merit for her to give birth to you, and the parents of the body and skin, how can it be more important than this blood relationship!" Tang Bohu said: "Isn't this a kind of life experience? ”
Chen Yu nodded as if he didn't understand, and fell asleep groggily.
Early the next morning, Chen Yu patted his dizzy forehead, came to the well, fetched a pot of water and drank it.
But found that in the pavilion, Tang Bohu was holding Danqing, looking at the distant mountains, painting the "Autumn Morning Mountain Fog Painting" very seriously, Chen Yu also looked over with his eyes, but saw the misty mountains, a winding path looming in the fog, there was a woodcutter on the road, carrying the firewood that had been cut down on his shoulders down the mountain.
Chen Yu came to Tang Bohu's side, but saw a rich and chic, majestic painting of the Foggy Mountains leaping in between, and the long-term travel life made Tang Yin's paintings have a trace of heroism that Wu Di painters do not have!
The strokes are very serious, and after writing, he used the handsome Zhao calligraphy to put on a small poem of his own. In the end, the "Peach Blossom Nunnery Master" was signed.
"Up?" After Tang Yin made the payment, he asked Chen Yudao on the side.
"Yes." Chen Yu replied: "Teacher's painting has the style of the Song people, but it also integrates the brushes of the Yuan people, which is really a masterpiece!" ”
"I just like it, I want to study what I like, this is my Tang Yin's style, since you know how to appreciate it, I'll give this painting to you." He smiled and said, "Let's go, the teacher will take you to the market to eat something, so that you can appreciate the meaning of Suzhou." ”
"Hey, I've already seen it." Chen Yu sighed.
"How?"
"As soon as I arrived in Suzhou City, I had a trick to cheat, fortunately there was a reminder from the Taoist chief, so I was not deceived, but who knew that it didn't take long for me to lose my wealth again, and I was still thinking about bringing something to the teacher, but who knew that in the end I came empty-handed."
"It's really pitiful, but a young merchant like you is simply a sought-after commodity in Suzhou, whether it is a trick or a place of wind and moon, they all love people like you." Tang Yin said with a smile.
Chen Yu saw Tang Yin joking with herself, and felt in her heart, is this really the original teacher Tang Yixun? is a little more like a suave talent, and Tang Yin's travels in the past few months have changed Tang Yin a lot, but this kind of Tang Yin is obviously better than that Tang Yiyun, which is also what Chen Yu wants to see.
It was still early, and the two came to the market, so Tang Yin took Chen Yu to a soup dumpling shop, and he told Chen Yu that this shop was famous in Suzhou.
Chen Yu hadn't heard Tang Yin praise a steamed bun shop so much, and couldn't help but be curious, so much so that he wanted to taste how delicious the steamed buns in this shop were.
Tang Yin took Chen Yu around and around, and finally arrived at the location, Chen Yu, who was already hungry, saw the people in line in front of this steamed bun shop, like a deflated ball, he said: "There are too many people, I'll wait or change it, right?" ”
"How can I change it? There is only this one in Suzhou that is the most famous and delicious, and if you don't eat this soup dumpling shop in Suzhou, it is equivalent to never coming to Suzhou! Tang Yin said: "Wait! ”
Chen Yu felt that since Tang Yin said so, then grieve his stomach, wait a little longer, I waited for an hour, and finally vacated the empty space, the room was not big, but the layout was very decent, the two came to a corner of the corner, and ordered two soup dumplings and two bowls of porridge.
Tang Yin said: "Tell you, don't be burned for a while, this soup is very thin, there is pork in it, but it is more of a layer of soup, the first time I came to eat it, I was scalded by the soup and a mouthful of bubbles, you have to have a snack when you eat." ”
"Thank you, teacher." What soup dumplings haven't been eaten? Jinling, Suzhou, Wuxi, but there is no soup dumpling that Chen Yu has not eaten in later generations, so Tang Yin is too worried.
After a while, I saw a little lady walking over with two baskets of soup dumplings, only to see that Tang Yin's three souls had gone to Qiluo, staring at the back of the little lady for a long time without making a single movement, until Chen Yu asked him to eat it while it was hot, he picked up the chopsticks and stuffed a crystal clear soup bag into his mouth.
Chen Yu pursed her lips and smiled, looked at the little lady behind her again, and had an idea in her heart.