Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Crab Club
There are more than ten miles from Dayu Mausoleum to Shanyin County, Yang Shangyuan's servants go back and forth for an hour at the earliest, Zhang Yuan of course they are impatient to wait here, Zhang Yuan arched his hand and said: "Brother Yang and we will climb Yudi Mountain together, Chongyang can avoid disasters." β
According to legend, the Eastern Han Dynasty Runan Huan Jing had to meet the immortal Fei Changfang, Fei Changfang said that on the ninth day of the ninth month of September, there will be a big disaster in Huanjing's family, as a sac full of dogwood to tie the arm, climb high and drink chrysanthemum wine, can avoid disasters -
Yang Shangyuan was in a bad mood and sneered: "Today, I won't climb to see what disasters can happen." The heart said: "I will stay at the foot of the mountain, you can also accompany me, I can't get out of the evil spirit in my heart, and I will disgust you." β
Zhang Cao was about to get angry, Zhang Yuan stopped and said: "Since Brother Yang is unwilling to ascend, it is up to him, let Feng Hu, Nengzhu and these palanquin men accompany him, when to see Yinzi, when to let him go." β
Zhang Cao smiled: "Yang Shangyuan, do you think that if you don't leave here, you can drag us down, Shanyin idiot, you are the first." "Tell Nengzhu and them to watch Yang Shangyuan, even if the official messenger comes, they will not let go, and they will not release the person until they receive the silver.
Yang Shangyuan said angrily: "Your Zhang family is too deceitful! β
Zhang Cao said: "Speak benevolence and righteousness to gentlemen, and use domineering to despicable villains like you, which is a stick - let's go." β
The student who had a good relationship with Yang Shangyuan interceded for Yang Shangyuan, held Yang Shangyuan's hand and said, "Brother Shangyuan, let's go up the mountain together." β
Yang Shangyuan was also afraid of being surrounded by a group of house slaves, so he pretended to be reluctant and followed him up the mountain.
When the onlookers saw Yang Shangyuan's grizzled appearance, they laughed again, and they all dispersed and went up the mountain in separate ways.
There are two roads on the incense burner peak from the Dayu Mausoleum, the sedan chair road and the screw road, the sedan chair road is easy to walk, the screw road is difficult, Zhang Yuan they take the screw road, the screw road is more than 1,000 stone steps circling and swirling, the side of the mountain road is the cliff, the rock is abrupt, quite precipitous.
Zhang Dai, Zhang Cao, Zhang Yuan, and Zhang Zhuoru walked in front, Yang Shangyuan dragged behind in a dead and alive manner, and then there were more than ten people from Zhang's domestic servants and the dining class-
Zhang Dai shook his head at Zhang Yuan and Zhang Cao and said, "One person is in the corner, and the seat is not happy." β
Zhang Cao smiled: "Otherwise, looking at Yang Shangyuan's harlequin appearance, it makes me happy." β
The six students were indeed embarrassed and unhappy at first, but they came up on a dangerous road, passed the Half Moon Rock, Nanzhen Palace, Cuiwei Pavilion, and arrived at the peak of the incense burner, looking at Huiji City from afar, and they were all talking and laughing, except for Yang Shangyuan, who had been gloomy and contrasted sharply with the sunny weather.
After only staying for a while, there were more and more tourists on the peak, Zhang Dai said: "Yudi Mountain is too close to the city, and the mountain has become a sight to behold." β
Zhang Cao said: "Let's hurry down to Cuiwei Pavilion, and wait for the pavilion to be occupied again." β
Zhang Dai said to the Shanyin Zhusheng who climbed the mountain together: "Brothers, I want to set up a crab club today, and I invite you brothers to have a good meal." β
Golden autumn September, river crab and rice sorghum with fat, it is a good season to eat crabs, these students go up the mountain to see Zhang's servants carrying several loads of wine and vegetables, among them there is a servant two big baskets are large dishes of river crabs, long heard Shanyin West Zhang Ku kitchen essence in Jiangzuo, Zhang Rulin also authored the "History of Food" four volumes of monographs on food, Xizhang banquet people envy, so these students just heard the word "crab meeting", they felt that the bottom of the tongue was shengjin, the index finger catastrophe, and said in a loud voice: "Fortunately, fortunately, bother, bother, bother." β
Everyone went down to Cuiwei Pavilion, there is a stone outside Cuiwei Pavilion, several zhang wide, smooth and clean can sit, those Zhang's servants carry two stoves, dozens of catties of charcoal, and pots and pans, the rest of the wine and dishes are listed on a stone, and pick up the mountain spring water from the Nanzhen Palace, and soon make a fire to cook the crab, the river crab does not need salt and pepper and the five flavors are complete, the boiling water is boiling, the crab meat fragrance floats out, the river crab should be eaten while it is hot, the cold has a fishy smell, Zhang Dai four people and seven students sit on the ground, hold the crab and chew, the back shell of the river crab is like a palm and the grave rises, the purple ao is like a small fist, lift off the back shell, The greasy accumulation is like jade fat and amber crumbs, and the luscious and plump is not up to the eight treasures of land and waterββ
Eating crab alone is less tasteful, with fat duck, cow cheese, amber cockles as accompaniment, vegetables and vegetables are boiled with duck juice cabbage color such as jade version, Bingkeng bamboo shoots, fruits have Xie orange, wind chestnut, wind ling, autumn white pear, wine is chrysanthemum wine.
That Yang Shangyuan sat dry and didn't eat at first, his cold eyes were opposite, and his awe-inspiring temperament was like Bo Yi and Shu Qi not eating Zhou Su, but seeing that the Zhang brothers and the other six students were eating greasy and happy, he couldn't bear it, and his saliva was about to flow out, and he said in his heart: "Why don't I eat, I lost one hundred and fifty taels of silver in vain, and if I don't eat, I will lose even more." "I took a river crab, struggled to open the shell, ate the crab roe, didn't eat the legs, and threw it away, so it was better to waste my heart like this-
Zhang Dai and Zhang Yuan didn't pay attention to Yang Shangyuan's ridiculous and despicable behavior at all, they sat on a stone, but more than ten people in the dining class had already staged a play in Cuiwei Pavilion on slightly higher ground, flute pipes and sheng flutes, melodious and beautiful, today it is a small drama, only three roles of Sheng, Dan and Jing, called "Dressing and Holding the Halberd", based on "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", about Lu Bu and Diao Chan in the back garden of the Prime Minister's Mansion Fengyi Pavilion private meeting, just by Dong Zhuo crashed, Lu Bu escaped, Dong Zhuo threw a halberd to stab Lu Bu miss-
Wang Kedian pretended to be Diao Chan, Pan Xiaofei wore high-soled boots and pretended to be a tall Lu Bu, Ma Xiaoqing played Dong Zhuo, Pan Xiaofei played this Lu Bu was very anxious, teasing Wang Kedian in every possible way, touching his chest and kissing, touching his skirt and legs, everything, making him shy, making Wang Kedian shy, that kind of flattering attitude of wanting to refuse and welcome, although he knew that Wang Kedian was a young man, it also made people feel excited.
The visitors of the incense burner peak and the incense burner peak can not walk, gather around the Cuiwei Pavilion to watch the play, see the wonders, hear the Jiaoyin, cheer thunderously, the Taoist priests of the Nanzhen Hall are shocked to run over, thinking that the mountain has collapsed, but see that it is acting, and just stand there to watch, giggling and laughing, and have long forgotten the "five colors make people blind, and the five tones make people deaf" forget aside.
This is said that the jade mountain is the Zhang brothers in the limelight, the people under the mountain can not come up, the people on the mountain can not go down, almost caused chaos, until the end of the afternoon, the tourists gradually dispersed, Zhang Yuan and others are full of wine and food, help each other down the mountain, to the Dayu Mausoleum, Yang Shangyuan's housekeeper and two servants have been waiting for a long time, presenting three ingots of silver, are fifty taels of one ingot-
Yang Shangyuan ate too much river crab and duck, and at this time his stomach was swollen, and he kept burping, and said: "Zhang Jiezi, uh, I understand, uh, one hundred and fifty taels of silver, uh, a lot of points, hum, there will be a period later, uh." "Arch your hand, and you have to get on the sedan chair and go.
Zhang Yuan was careful to observe, and saw that Yang Shangyuan's servant's eyes were a little cowering and flickering, and he thought that there must be a reason for it, so he said: "Wait, I want to inspect the silver." β
Yang Shangyuan's face changed, and he forced himself to calm down: "One hundred and fifty taels, it's not less, you can find the hawker over there to weigh it." β
Zhang Yuan asked: "Such a big silver is cast by the government silver bureau?" "Silver ingots minted by the Silver Works Bureau have an inscription number.
Yang Shangyuan said: "This is a broken silver cast, and the silver and weight are the same as the big silver of the silver bureau. β
Zhang Yuan said: "Then follow me to the county yahu house for identification." β
Yang Shangyuan shouted angrily: "You deceive people too much, I have given the silver and you still don't let me go, I will fight with you today." "Zhang Ya and claws rushed over and was about to fight Zhang Yuan.
Zhang Yuan flashed to the side, and he had already stepped forward to intercept Yang Shangyuan, Zhang Yuan saw that Yang Shangyuan was furious on the surface, and panicked inside, and was very annoyed when he expected that this silver was fake, and said angrily: "Yang Shangyuan, I really underestimated your shamelessness, first I wanted to play tricks, and if I couldn't get rid of it, I wanted to use fake silver to fool me, there was nothing to say, and I went to the yamen." β
Zhang Cao asked Feng Hu to smash one of the big silver ingots with a stone, and smashed it back and forth, and the silver ingot suddenly cracked three petals, but inside was black lead, and it was indeed fake silver filled with lead.
Privately minting fake silver, this crime is not small, Yang Shangyuan collapsed on the ground all of a sudden, begged for mercy again and again, and was willing to pay two hundred taels of silver.
Zhang Yuan said coldly: "It's time for you to be an evil pit person, and you should go to the official to see him." β
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Today's tickets are a bit small, pitiful.