Liu Xu and Xu Jin'er wasted a lot of effort before they found the Ning family painting boat with red lanterns of the word "Ning" hanging from the many painting boats docked on the riverbank.

The Ning family is a well-known cloth merchant in Qingzhou, with a lot of money, and rents a building boat painting boat, which is very high-spirited.

Xu Jin'er handed over the invitation, and the old servant of the Ning family led her up to the second floor of the painting boat.

On the second floor, I saw the warblers and swallows in the hall, and the group of female porridge and porridge, as if I had arrived in the daughter country. It turned out that Ning Xin'er and her good sisters gathered here. Only Ren Yuyan is married, and his minister Ji Wei is also a scholar. The rest of the women are unmarried, and now it is the Mid-Autumn Festival and the happy festival, and all the women will gather in the Ning family painting boat to join in the fun.

When Liu Xu and Xu Jin'er came in, the women were commenting on a lyric.

When Xu Jiner introduced Liu Xu to the women, the women commented on Liu Xu for a while.

"Ah, Sister Jin'er, you are very handsome, although you are not a jade tree in the wind and suave, but you are also a talent."

"Liu Gongzi, it is said that the abacus and soju were both invented by you, have there been other inventions recently?"

"Liu Dacaizi, the poem "A Cut of Plums" you wrote for Sister Jin'er is really good, is there a good poem today?"

The atmosphere of the Song Dynasty was enlightened, and the Mid-Autumn Festival was a carnival, and the women had no scruples for a while, commenting and asking questions to Liu Xu. Liu Xu was a man in the entire hall, and it was extremely embarrassing to be surrounded by a group of beautiful women to comment and ask this and that.

Fortunately, a savior came at this time!

"Yo, Erlang, are you here?"

"Ah, it's Brother Ning, I'm here to disturb you."

At this time, it was Ning Hao who came in. Liu Xu's search for the shopkeeper of the wine shop was what Toning Hao was looking for. Ning Hao was unsuccessful in studying and didn't like business, so he was sent by his father to the Xu Martial Arts Hall to learn art. Although Ning Hao is a gentleman, he is cheerful and righteous, and Liu Xu is also a master who cannot be written or killed, and he has a common language. The two have become friends since they dealt with Liu Xutuo Ning Hao to find the shopkeeper.

I saw Ning Hao holding a tray with a few snacks on it, and entered the hall to put it on the long case for the women.

"Brother Ning, with such a beautiful day, why didn't you go to Qing'e, the restaurant, and find a few close friends to have a good time?"

Ning Hao smiled bitterly and said: "Alas, Erlang, it's hard to say anything, isn't this a group of ancestors who have captured strong men and prepared wine and food for them?" My father couldn't stand the noise, so he went to Wu Shibo's painting boat to drink tea, and I couldn't get out? ”

"What are you two muttering? Liu Erlang, come and make the first word for all of us", Ren Yuyan shouted to Liu Xu and the others, Ren Yuyan, who was already married to a wife, was like Xu Jin'er and her sisters in the lead.

"The little brother is only a shallow learner, so he really has no words to do?"

"The song "One Cut Plum" you made is very good, what is the sparse learning, you obviously look down on us women!"

"Little brother doesn't dare!"

"Sister Su Wen Jin'er said, Erlang's cooking skills are very good, Sister Yuyan, it's better to let Erlang go and help me make a few drinks and dishes first, and then come back to compose poems later", Ning Hao relieved Liu Xu of the siege.

"Exactly, I'll go make a few drinks and dishes for you first", after speaking, Liu Xu hurriedly escaped with Ning Hao.

Painting boats, string edges, and the bright moon is in the sky.

Liu Xu stroked his forehead with his hand, and said to Ning Hao in pain: "This group of women is really difficult! ”

Ning Hao also said like a toothache: "I feel the same way, I feel the same way!" ”

Suddenly, Ning Hao pulled Liu Xu and said: "While there is no one, hurry up and slip away, you and my brother will find a Qinglou to drink and talk happily, and by the way, I will see the gentleness of the beauties and the romance of the scholars in Qingzhou." ”

"Very good, slip!"

Ning Hao took Liu Xu off the painting boat and went straight to a green building.

When he arrived downstairs, Liu Xu looked up at the plaque, and it turned out that this green building was called Yanlai Building. The most famous green buildings in Qingzhou are Zuiyun Building, Xiaonanguo, Wenrouju and Yixiang Building. Every year in Qingzhou, the Oiran is selected from these four green buildings. These four green buildings are famous, and the red girls in their buildings are also famous, and it is not that they can be invited to accompany guests if they have the money. Although Ning Hao is the son of a rich businessman, he has neither the fame of a scholar nor the power of an official, so it is difficult to see those red girls in the fourth building. And this Yanlai Lou is a Qinglou with a slightly worse reputation, but it is just a little worse, and it is also a high-grade Qinglou in Qingzhou City, and the cost of drinking flower wine to find a girl here is not low at all.

Entering the building, I saw that it was very lively, and there were some scholars in the hall who were drinking and composing poems, and of course, girls were indispensable to accompany them, and the lyrics and songs were harmonious. Looking at the second floor from the patio in the hall, there are also many people talking, laughing and drinking, from time to time someone chanting poetry loudly, and intermittently there are also girls' singing.

Ning Hao saw that he often came here, and he was very familiar with the mother in the building, and as soon as he met, he said: "Yo, Chang's mother, I haven't seen you for a few days, your body has plumped up a lot, it seems that you have been moisturized a lot in the past few days!" ”

"Oh, my eldest son Ning, I haven't seen you for a while, don't laugh at me! Who is this child? It looks like a jade tree in the wind. "Liu Xu has been rich recently, and now he is wearing a brocade robe, with a folding fan in his hand, and he already looks good, but he really feels like a jade tree in the wind.

"This is my brother Liu Erlang! You've got a good business tonight! Hurry up, find us a more elegant place, call Miss Ziping and Miss Huan'er to chat with us, and by the way, you tell Evian that I am here. ”

"There is still one on the second floor of the place, but Evian is accompanying Cao Gongzi and his party in Cao Mansion, and Ziping and Huan'er are at the seat of Professor Zhu Wenli Zhu of the Mansion School. Why don't you look for another girl? ”

"Didn't Evian make an appointment with me a long time ago? Cao Gongzi, it's Cao Yun, a good boy dares to rob me of a woman. I'll go up and see, what kind of ability does he have? You find a girl to accompany Liu Erlang, he is a great talent, he will serve you well, maybe he can fill in a good word for you. "Ning Hao heard his sister say that Liu Xu wrote a poem for Xu Jin'er, which is an absolutely good poem, and the artistic conception is quite high. Ning Hao himself had a headache when he saw the books, but he knew that his sister's talent was still quite high, and the person who could get his sister's praise was definitely a talent.

"I'd better accompany Brother Ning up, it's boring for the younger brother to drink by himself. Just happened to meet Brother Ning with the elegance of Qingzhou scholars. "Liu Xu really doesn't worry about Ning Hao, this Leng Touqing, he can't study, and his martial arts are still good, but don't go up and disagree with people and get into a fight. Today's saying is that talented and beautiful people are vassals and elegant, in order to show their grace, if they are rude with others, they will lose adults.

"Fart scholar, that Cao Yun is a vulgar person, wait for me to go up and ridicule him."

Liu Xu followed Ning Hao up to the second floor, and several screens partitioned it, dividing the hall on the second floor into many parts.

Ning Hao glanced at it for a moment, then locked on to a seat by the window and went straight over. The location of that seat is good, you can watch the scenery on the Nanyang River from the window. Liu Xu was afraid that Ning Hao would be rough with others, so he followed closely.

At the window, a temperamental beauty in a lake-green shirt was commenting on a lyric work in front of everyone, which seemed to be a song "Sauvignon Blanc", and a scholar shook his head and chanted:

"Sauvignon Blanc, Sauvignon Blanc, kneading flower notes without poetry, dewing laurel branches.

The star laughing idiot, the moon laughing idiot, still asking if the Yiren know, the wind shakes the willow silk. ”

"Evian, thank you for the poem", the temperament beauty in the green shirt blessed with a salute.

A scholar with a good appearance said: "Brother Guangwen's "Sauvignon Blanc" is soft and beautiful, and it is good. However, the laurel branches and willow silk are suspected of being repeated for the tree, and the dew is difficult to see on the branches, and it is less beautiful, so it is better to change to begonia or chrysanthemum flower branches, so that there is less suspicion of repetition, and it is more beautiful. ”

The person who wrote the poem just now is also a talented man in Qingzhou, surnamed Xu Mingwei, the words are widely heard, and he silently tasted it and said: "The dew dips the begonia branches, the wind shakes the willow silk, and the artistic conception is indeed more beautiful, thank you Brother Lin for the axe." "The scholar who commented on the poems was named Nie Feng, Zilin.

"This word is composed by Evian girl, and it must be good", a young man echoed, the young man was dressed in a splendid scholar's robe, but he had less literati temperament and more of the second ancestor's tired appearance.

The crowd was singing and singing in harmony when a voice interrupted them.