"Huh? What do you mean by this? Xiao Wang looked at Xiao Chen with a sneering smile and asked.

"Brother Wang, don't you see that those novels are all written, the hero saves the beauty, and in the end, he doesn't all hug the beauty. Let's follow suit! ”

"Yikes! Why did you forget! Brother, I tried my best to go to the advanced tricks, although this trick is a little clichéd, but the effect is okay, dissatisfied with the virtuous brother, you said, big brother I often use this trick when I am in the capital to coax those little ladies, a coax a quasi! Haha~ Even if this little lady of the Zhang family can, she is also a woman, no, a woman has no resistance to this trick. Xiao Wang slapped his thigh and said in surprise: "Huh~ But how did I hear that this little lady of the Zhang family often lives in a simple place, and this opportunity is not easy to find?" ”

"Hey, hey! If we don't have a chance, we can create! ”

Then the two conspired for a long time before leaving satisfied.

Time flies, time flies, and the annual Spring Festival is coming again. This year, Jinling has the strong assistance of Siqi Group, and every family has happily had a prosperous year, even beggars can eat a mouthful of hot rice and drink a mouthful of fresh soup.

After Chinese New Year's Eve, the Lantern Festival, the favorite of the ancient people, was ushered in. Usually, everyone is busy with their livelihood and has no time to play, but this night is different, and the big families have decorated the city with their hearts in order to please the lottery. Lanterns, lion dances, and duet songs are overwhelming, and the Great Song Dynasty government also strongly supports this kind of folk entertainment.

In particular, word games such as guessing lantern riddles and couplets are all the rage, and awards are also set up to encourage and guide everyone to participate. This is also one of the favorite games of many young men and women, and many speed dating originates from this, which is much more reliable than the blind date programs of later generations.

"Miss, do you think I'm so good-looking?" Xiao Taohong wore a new dress and circled in front of Zhang Rou.

"Beautiful, beautiful! Stop! You've been around for a long time, are you going to get rid of a golden beetle son-in-law when you're dressed so beautifully today! Zhang Rou quipped.

"Miss~, you make fun of people again, they want to follow you and serve you for the rest of your life!" Little Peach blushed and said strangely.

"What a fool's talk! When the man gets married, the woman gets married, and when you find your own wishful husband, I will definitely prepare a rich dowry for you, Miss! ”

"Woo~~ I don't want to leave you!" Little Peach lay in Zhang Rou's arms and cried.

"Alright, alright! Today is the Lantern Festival, let's be happy, go find the second and third misses, and I'll take you out to have fun. By the way, let Ah Fu bring a few family members to follow. ”

After hearing this, Little Peach ran out happily again. Zhang Rou looked at the child crying fast and laughing easily, and couldn't help but smile and shake her head.

In the evening, Zhang Rou took her two younger sisters and Xiao Taohong out of the gate, and the chief manager Ah Fu followed closely behind him with a few young and strong family members. Mrs. Zhang was old and not as playful as a child, so she stayed at home to worship the Buddha.

Everyone came to the most prosperous Qinhuai River, along both sides of the river to watch the beautiful night scene, everywhere is brightly lit, the lanterns are dense, so not spectacular! The painting boats in the river shuttle back and forth, forming a beautiful scenery. The whole city seems to have gathered here at this moment, and everywhere there is a great flow of people, and all kinds of cheers, songs, and the sound of pianos and flutes gather together to play a scene of paradise on earth.

The girls who have been at home for a long time are like birds out of the cage at this moment, and the warblers and swallows have attracted many students. Those students also want to take advantage of this opportunity to show the results of their years of hard work, and never give up any opportunity to show their talents.

When ordinary people saw Zhang Rou and his entourage, they all avoided it to show their gratitude to Zhang Dashan. However, many self-righteous students like to seize the opportunity to look ahead, trying to attract the favor or appreciation of the famous Jinling "strange girl", once successful, it is enough to brag about it for a long time.

Finally, an old man broke through many obstacles, rushed to Zhang Rou, tidied up his messy clothes, and then said with a decent gentleman: "Excuse me Zhang Niangzi, Xiaosheng is polite, I am Lu Xiaofeng, who is known as one of the four talents of Jinling, I have a little experience with the pair, and I hope that the little lady will not hesitate to give advice!" ”

Zhang Rou came to the Song Dynasty for more than ten years, and she read a lot of books in this era when she was bored, and she also dabbled in couplets, but she rarely had the opportunity to play.

Seeing Zhang Rou's response, the young scholar Lu Xiaofeng was extremely excited, and the opportunity was rare, so he said straight to the point: "Then we will take this scene as the theme, Xiaosheng is out of Shanglian, please advise?" ”

"Please!" Zhang Rou replied lightly.

Lu Xiaofeng looked up at the bell tower, thought for a moment and said: "Little lady, listen, my Shanglian is: stars in the sky, salaries in the ground, people in the center, and the meaning of the words is different." Please! ”

After speaking, he looked at the surrounding onlookers proudly, and was very satisfied with his uplink, and the surrounding crowd was also full of admiration. Being able to come up with such a couplet in such a short period of time at least shows that he is not a straw bale.

Zhang Rou listened to the couplet, and also praised the couplet in her heart, and also looked up at the surrounding scene, and suddenly a swallow that returned from eating gave her inspiration, and said after a little tidying up: "The goose between the rocks, the swallow in front of the eaves, the weir edge eagle, the species are different." ”

"Good~good~good!" Hearing Zhang Rou's next link, everyone tasted it and applauded. Only the last word in the upper link is homophonic, and this lower link is on the next level, the three words of the rock eaves weir are homophonic, and at the same time, they are also homophonic with the wild goose.

Lu Xiaofeng was also taken aback when he heard this link, but he was not discouraged, thought about it and pointed to the bridge under his feet and said: "Little lady, pay attention, Xiaosheng still has a couplet: the lake is empty under the Jiuqu Bridge, and the empty pot is under the bridge to get wine." ”

This couplet is much more difficult than the previous couplet, not only taking homophony, but also reversing the upper and lower sentences, and the location and scene correspond to each other, which is perfect. Many scholars around him also frowned when they heard this, sighing!

Zhang Rou was also surprised when she heard this, racking her brains and looking around. Just when she was at a loss, there happened to be a big rich family not far in front, the courtyard was standing, the word pottery courtyard was written, and a drunkard lying under the wall.

Looking at this situation, Zhang Rou blurted out: "Tao is drunk in front of the house, and the drunk picks peaches in the front yard." ”

Everyone silently recited this couplet, and after a moment of reminiscence, the applause was thunderous, and the noise was not stopped.

Lu Xiaofeng bowed to Zhang Rou with a red face and said, "The little lady is worthy of her name, Xiaosheng worships!" ”

Zhang Rou also bent her legs and said: "Accept and promise, Mr. Lu is very knowledgeable, and he will definitely be on the gold list in the future!" ”

"Thank you!"

After Lu Xiaofeng finished speaking, he walked into the crowd, and the people around him slowly dispersed, but these two peerless couplets did not disappear and have been passed down to future generations. Many years later, when Lu Xiaofeng met Zhang Rou again, he was indeed named on the gold list, which is all a later story......

After this little episode, everyone restrained a little, after all, they came out to see the scenery, and they couldn't be caught all the time.

"Boom...... Crash! ”

Suddenly, a young man who was busy rushing out of the crowd rushed out, and a group of people behind him chased him with sticks, as if he were in a no-man's land, and he was extremely arrogant. But this young man ran into the unsuspecting Zhang Rou, and before the family behind him could react, Zhang Rou and Xiao Taohong were knocked out and fell into the dark Qinhuai River.

After this drastic change, Ah Fu reacted and immediately screamed to the family: "Go and save Miss...... Fast! ”

Just when everyone was rushing to rescue and was about to jump into the river to catch people, a flat boat appeared at the location where they fell into the water, and a young man who looked like a scholar with a fan on the boat jumped into the icy river without hesitation, looking for the person who fell into the water.

At this time, Zhang Rou, who was stimulated by the cold river water, reacted and hurriedly pulled the sinking little peach. Due to the fact that both of them sank to the bottom of the water when they fell, and the influence of the current, Zhang Rou dragged Xiao Taohong from the bottom of the water when she was already some distance away from the place where she fell into the water. Everyone's eyes were fixed on the place where they had fallen into the water, and under the cover of darkness, no one noticed that two small black dots were struggling to swim to the shore not far away.

In the anxious waiting of the crowd, the young man rushed out of the water, but it was empty. Ah Fu was very excited when he saw this situation, and was about to take all the family members down the river to look for him, but a weak voice stopped him in time.

"Ah Fu, come here, we are here, our clothes are wet, and Xiao Taohong is frightened, we have to go home immediately!" Zhang Rou commanded the anxious Ah Fu.

When Ah Fu heard this, he immediately ordered the family to prepare to protect everyone home, and suddenly remembered something, and turned to Zhang Rou and said, "Miss, just now a son went down to the river to save you, look ......?"

Zhang Rou looked into the river and saw a man in a white shirt trembling and climbing up from the riverbank, and it seemed that there was a curse coming from his mouth. She walked in front of him and saluted deeply: "Thank you for saving your life, dare to ask Brother Taigao's surname, the little girl will be very thankful!" ”

Brother Gongzi, who was still full of dissatisfaction just now, hurriedly replied when he heard this: "Don't dare to be, don't dare to be, Xiaosheng's surname is Wang, his name is Xuan'en, and he didn't help much, I can't stand it!" ”

"Brother Tai has the intention of saving people, and he deserves to be worshiped by the little woman, and he will be thanked again another day! There is some inconvenience today, and the little woman will leave first! Zhang Rou said with a smile.

"Walk slowly!"

"Ah Fu, if I'm not mistaken, the one just now should be the son of the prefect's family, right?" On the way home, Zhang Rou asked the official behind her.

"Miss Hui. That's the only son of the prefect. ”

"What is this character?"

"The new prefect has been in office for more than half a year, and I haven't heard that this son has anything out of the ordinary, but I heard that he is better with the son of the defense envoy, and the two often linger together between Qin Huai." Ah Fu thought that his young lady had any ideas, after all, according to ancient times, her age should also talk about marriage, so he had to mention it superficially.

When Zhang Rou heard this, she didn't say anything, and walked straight home. When I got home, the servant brought Jiang Shui and Zhang Rou's master and servant to ward off the cold. Zhang Rou comforted Xiao Taohong for a while before she calmed down, and the two took a hot bath before going to bed.

"Big brother, come and change your clothes." After Zhang Rou and his party left, Chen Xiaowei led a group of people to surround Wang Xuanen and came to the nearest ** to bring him dry clothes to change for him.

"Uncle him, I'm so angry!" Wang Xuanen shivered and changed his clothes, and kept complaining.

"Big brother, what's wrong? Didn't the little lady of the Zhang family thank you personally? Chen Xiaoqi asked puzzled.

"You don't know, we all miscalculated, I didn't expect this little lady to know how to water, she took her maid to the shore by herself. We've all worked in vain, giggle...... I'm cold! Xiao Wang said angrily while covering the quilt.

"Big brother don't be discouraged, although you can't save her yourself, this effect is greatly reduced. But it's not completely useless, seeing that he can endure the cold and thank you in person, the little brother thinks it's still worth it. It's a big deal, let's find a chance to come back a few more times in the future. ”

What the virtuous brother said is not unreasonable, she also said that she would come to the door another day to thank her! Yikes! Worst! I haven't told her where I live! Xiao Wang said and jumped up from the bed suddenly.

"Big brother, go in quickly, don't get cold, you are concerned about it, just big brother, your name, won't she find someone to inquire casually?"

"That's right, no one knows me in Jinling, no one knows, no one knows! Okay, okay, let's all disperse! Brother Xian, call a beautiful one for your brother to warm the bed! Most of the people were tired after the excitement, and Xiao Wang yawned and said to everyone.

"The ...... of the Little Brother Province"