Chapter 7: Yizhou City

Huang Shiyun pondered in her heart, looked at Daodu Erniu, and said slowly: "Erniu, can you also comment on my poems?" ”

"Sister Huang!" Du Erniu had a good relationship with Huang Shiyun, and she didn't want to hurt her, so she took her hand and said with a smile: "I'm talking nonsense, and you will laugh when you say it!" ”

Huang Shiyun sighed and said, "You are so talented, you should laugh at us, let's talk about it, I want to hear it." ”

Du Erniu stuck out her tongue a little embarrassed and said, "Okay, I'll just say it casually." Sister, you are not allowed to laugh at me. ”

"Commenting on poetry is the rule of our poetry club, everyone can say, what are the good jokes? What's more, you commented on Tang Gongzi's poem, which is sharp and accurate, presumably my poem also has a lot of flaws, although you say it bluntly. Although I am not talented, I also have a belly that I am happy to smell it. ”

"Okay then." Du Erniu picked up Huang Shiyun's poem manuscript and read it gently, "There is only one place in my sister's poem that needs to be considered. ”

"Where?"

"This sentence: 'Mangshoe' is all over Longtouyun'. Mango shoes are straw sandals, but, Sister Huang, the daughter of your big family, how have you ever worn straw shoes? The flat-headed people or the wandering monks who traveled all over the world wore it. ”

Huang Shiyun was stunned for a moment and said: "I just used this word to set off the hard work of looking for spring all over the world, if I want to replace it with embroidered shoes, I don't have that kind of artistic conception, but I forget my identity." Alas! It's me who didn't think it through. You're quite right. ”

Du Erniu stuck out her tongue again, held her arm affectionately, and said with a smile: "Actually, my sister's poem is very well written, I can't find spring, I went home to smell the plums, only to find that spring is on the plum blossoms in my hands,—— aren't we like this in many things?" I searched hard, but in the end I found that I was by my side and didn't know it. My sister's poem contains a deep Zen principle, if it is given by a bhikshu, it will be perfect, it can be said that it is not inferior to my poem! ”

Huang Shiyun was stunned for a moment, looking at Du Erniu in front of her, this limerick poet girl can fully understand the artistic conception of her poem, this insight alone is already extraordinary! Where did she know that this was what Xiao Jiading told Du Erniu just now.

After a while, Huang Shiyun sighed and said, "I'm really convinced!" Erniu, if I say that the first two poems are still a little bit unbelieving that you wrote them, but now, you can see the deep meaning of my poems at a glance, and this insight is extremely extraordinary! Today I lost and I was convinced! - Bring the wine! ”

Huang Shiyun drank it in one go, and just finished drinking, she already wanted to vomit, but she desperately held back, picked up the second bottle again, and poured it down, only a small half of it, and then felt dizzy, and couldn't hold on anymore. The whole person also collapsed on the grass.

It was rare to see the first talented girl in Yizhou drunk on the spot, and the young ladies giggled non-stop, Jiang Chengqian said: "Miss Huang, go on!" You are the penultimate one, but you want to drink three seas, this is only a little more than one sea, come on! ”

Du Erniu saw Huang Shiyun drunk like this, she had always been good friends with Huang Shiyun, and she couldn't bear it, so she sprinkled her anger on Tang Rongxuan, and when she saw him standing awkwardly on the side and didn't take the initiative to drink, she personally poured the wine of the four major wine bottles, picked up a glass and sent it to him: "Tang Gongzi, I am willing to lose the bet!" You're not going to be a sala, are you? ”

Everyone coaxed, Tang Rongxuan had to drink it, he was already drunk, and after only drinking two large wine bottles, he had already vomited all over the ground. Fell to the ground and only hummed.

Du Erniu finally caught this opportunity to raise her eyebrows and take revenge, where would she let it go, with the help of the maid, she forcibly poured the remaining two seas into Tang Rongxuan, and now, Tang Rongxuan even vomited out the bitter gall, drunk like a dead dog!

Huang Shiyun struggled to drink a big bottle of wine, and then vomited so much that she was drunk into a puddle of mud!

The others and the surrounding people who admired the flowers and spring saw the embarrassment of the two of them, and they all laughed.

Mrs. Ji said: "Okay, don't drink it anymore, it's all over the place, how can you enjoy the flowers?" That's it for today, we also enjoyed two wonderful poems by Erniu, and it was worth the trip. Let's go back! ”

Everyone laughed, and carried the two people who were so drunk that they didn't know what to do with them into the carriage, singing songs and walking back.

Du Erniu took advantage of the convenience and ran to the riverside to thank Xie Lu and Xie Xiao Jiading, but he was no longer visible. I can only wait until noon the next day to make an appointment to meet.

Xiao Jiading found that Tang Rongxuan and Huang Shiyun were so drunk that they didn't know who was going to know, so he knew if their poems would continue. So he quietly left the river and walked to the city alone humming a little song.

He hadn't been in the county town yet, and when he just crossed over, it was outside the county seat, and when he was about to enter the city, he was regarded as a monster by passers-by, so he was a little weak-hearted, so he didn't go into the city, but went to the village to find clothes. Now that you have a coarse cloth shirt, you don't have to worry about it.

He swaggered towards the city, arrived at the city gate downstairs, looked up, and there were two big black characters written above the city gate hole - Yizhou!

There were a few soldiers under the gate, but they did not make any checks on the people who came in and out, and did not even look at them, but only sat there and bragged. So he entered Yizhou City without any hindrance.

When you enter the city, the streets are bustling with pedestrians, and it is very lively. There are many shops on both sides of the street, and large curtains of various sizes of blue and white cloth float on both sides, and it is written that so-and-so wine shop, inn, shop, etc., this is called "Qiwang". At first glance, it is very lively, a bit like the flags of all nations on a ship.

In the Tang Dynasty, except for the special commercial districts of the capital Chang'an, which was divided into the east and west markets, other states and counties did not have such strict division of commercial districts, and all kinds of shops were scattered all over the city.

This Yizhou City is equivalent to the current prefecture and city level, under the jurisdiction of 16 counties, Yizhou City is the seat of the Yizhou Governor's Office, that is, the seat of the regional government. In addition, there is a county-level yamen called Shaocheng. The county government is in the east of the city, and the government is in the west of the city.

At the end of the Sui Dynasty, Shu became a large rear, almost not suffered from the looting of soldiers, and refugees from many places fled here, so in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, the densely populated and economically prosperous degree of Jiannan Province in Shu was comparable to that of Chang'an and Jiangnan.

He walked the whole city all over, enjoyed the scene of the prosperous era of the early Tang Dynasty, was dazzled, but also made his legs sore, and did not realize that when the sun set in the west mountain, he came to a street near the Ya of Shaocheng County, ready to find an inn to live in, and then finish eating.

There is an inn at the crossroads, which looks good, and the cyan flag reads "Youpeng Inn". stepped in, and the shopkeeper came over with a smile and greeted: "Lang Jun, do you want to stay in the store?" ”

Called "Lang Jun" by a man with a hippie smile, Xiao Jiading almost vomited, but fortunately, he studied legal history in the end, and he also knew a little bit about relevant historical knowledge, in the Tang Dynasty, young strange men were generally called Lang Jun, and the meaning of "Lang Jun" at that time was not what the later wife called her husband.

Xiao Jiading stabbed and said: "Live in the hotel!" ”

"Okay!" The shopkeeper glanced at him again and said, "What kind of room do you live in?" ”

"What kind of rooms do you have?"

"Chase shop, two pens per person. Downstairs four people shop, each three Wen, upstairs four Wen. ”

Xiao Jiading thought for a while and said, "Isn't there something going to the room?" ”

"Going to the room?" The shopkeeper glanced at him again, although he was wearing a coarse cloth shirt and looked like a farmer, but his bearing was extraordinary, and he didn't dare to underestimate him. With a smiling face, he said: "There is one room, and one room costs thirty wen." ”

Xiao Jiading thought to himself, on the first day of the Tang Dynasty, he couldn't wronged himself, the so-called poor family was rich, so he lived in this legendary upper room and saw what it was like. Then he said, "Come to an upper room!" ”

"Okay!" The shopkeeper hurriedly welcomed him in, came to the counter, and shouted at the shopkeeper in the counter: "This Lang Jun wants to go to the room!" ”

The shopkeeper changed his smiling face, picked up the pen to register, and said to Xiao Jiading: "Langjun, how many days will you stay?" ”

"Stay one day first. More on that tomorrow. ”

"It's good, thirty wen."

Xiao Jiading lifted his clothes, revealing the consistent money wrapped around his waist, took out thirty copper coins, and pushed them to the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper saw that he was wrapped in thousands of dollars, and he did not hesitate to take out the money, he was very generous, and he didn't dare to underestimate it, so he hurriedly collected the money, nodded and said, "Lang Jun upstairs, please!" ”

Next to him, there was a capable shop Xiao Er, who was responsible for taking care of the distinguished guests, nodded and said to him: "Uncle, please come with me." - Do you have any luggage? The small ones will move for you. ”

lived in the upper room, the title was changed from Lang Jun to uncle, this treatment has improved very quickly, rich is good, he pouted and said: "No luggage!" ”

"Oh, uncle, please! - The little one's name is Li San, what does the uncle command, although it is called the small one. ”

Saying that, Li San led Xiao Jiading to step on the wooden stairs, went upstairs with a bang, came to one of the rooms, pushed open the door, and said, "Uncle, do you like it?" ”

Xiao Jiading glanced at it, there were two suites inside and outside, the outer room was an antique meeting room, and the inner room was a bedroom, and the furniture was complete. Push open the window, you can see a back alley, not far from the tall courtyard of blue bricks and green tiles, from the direction of the yamen.

Xiao Jiading pointed his hand and said, "That's Shaocheng County?" ”

"yes."

Xiao Jiading nodded, looking at the roofs of the buildings, if he wanted to go in and become a member there, in addition to relying on Du Erniu's relationship, he had to spend money. As the saying goes, "the yamen is open, and if you have reason and no money, you can't come in", this is the case when you enter the yamen to fight a lawsuit, and it is even more so when you go in to seek a job.

But now I don't have enough money in my hands, and this money is not enough to make a relationship. You have to find a way to make money.

How to earn this second pot of gold?

Xiao Jiading had no idea, so he said to Li San: "Okay, that's it." ”

"Gotcha. The small one will make you tea and wash it with water. ”