Today, Chao Gai is wearing a moon-white robe, a jade belt around his waist, a white mink fur outside, a folding fan of ivory bone in his hand, and a handsome face, the son of a rich and noble family, graceful and suave, provoked the young women and girls on the road to throw flattery at him, and some of them boldly stuffed their own personal handkerchiefs into Chao Gai's hands, which just entered the city for less than half an hour, Chao Gai's hands were stuffed with handkerchiefs sent by the girl, and he was embarrassed to take it, and he was afraid of hurting the girls' hearts. Embarrassed.

Mi Sheng next to him looked at it with a hot eye, and complained beside him: "My brother has received so many handkerchiefs, why didn't anyone give me one?"

Zhang San, who was next to Mi Sheng, heard it, laughed heartily, laughed for a while before stopping, patted Mi Sheng's shoulder, and said: "Brother Mi Sheng, that Brother Chao Gai is handsome and chic, and his temperament is extraordinary, if the girl likes it too, but Brother Mi Sheng, your respectful face, let alone give you a handkerchief, is that the girls are frightened when they see you, where do you dare to approach."

When everyone heard Zhang San's words, there was another burst of laughter, which made Mi Sheng depressed.

Everyone walked around again, Chao Gai stopped and said to them: "Tonight's Chinese New Year's Eve, you don't have to follow me, look around, it's all a holiday, Xiaoyi follows Mi Sheng, don't let him make trouble, meet tomorrow at the inn outside the city, go early and return early, the military division is still waiting in Liangshan."

A few people were naturally happy when they heard it, especially Mi Sheng's grinning mouth couldn't close, Chao Gai asked a few more words, and let them go, Zhang San and Li Si grew up in Bianliang, Tokyo, and there was nothing to go about, so they followed Chao Gai.

Chao Gai and the three of them walked for a while, and they found that the front was unusually lively, noisy and shouting, as if they were holding some kind of event, and there were many people around who walked in that direction together, and Chao Gai and the three of them followed the crowd over.

Come to the front, only then do I see, this place is a place of the green building of the Goulan wine shop, see the two lines are the smoke moon card, come to the middle, see a hanging green curtain, hang the bamboo curtain inside, both sides are full of green yarn kitchen, hang two cards outside, there are five words on each card, write: "Song and dance fairy, romantic flower moon kui." ”

Set up a ring in front of the door, there are people on it to ask questions, only the correct answer can enter, in the past this ring is not, only today, it is said that it is the stunning woman Li Shishi in this green building here to put the three rings, as long as the three rings can be with the famous prostitute Li Shishi in Beijing, such a good thing provoked Tokyo Bianliang to get the official and nobles to follow, so there are so many people outside this door.

Chao Gai knew Master Li, but he didn't expect that Master Li at this time had not hooked up with the Merry Emperor Song Huizong, thinking of this stunning beauty who was famous in history, Rao is Chao Gai couldn't help but want to take a look, and listened to the scholar next to him talk and said that this Master Li is now only selling his art and not selling his body, but he is a beautiful woman with a bottom line, a famous festival, a beautiful appearance, and a culture.

Li Shishi, a singer of Qinglou in the late Northern Song Dynasty, was a native of Bianjing. It is mostly seen in wild histories and notebook novels. It is rumored that Master Li was deeply loved by Huizong of the Song Dynasty, and was favored by the famous poet Zhou Bangyan of the Song Dynasty, and it is said that he had an affair with Yan Qing in "Water Margin", and the legend is that he loved Yan Qing. Master Li was originally the daughter of Wang Yin, who ran a dyeing house in Bianjing City, and when she was three years old, her father sent her to the Buddhist temple, and the old monk made a roof for her, and she suddenly cried. The old monk thought that she was very much like a Buddhist disciple, because everyone called the Buddhist disciple "Shi", so she was called Master Li. A year later, my father died in prison for his crimes. She gradually became beautiful and fair-skinned, and was adopted by Li Yun, who ran a brothel, and taught her to play piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, singing and dancing. For a time, Li Shishi became a famous prostitute in Bianjing, and was the object of competition between literati and scholars, princes and grandsons, and was quite famous among the official eunuchs, and the story of her and Song Huizong was also passed down as a good story, and even Song Huizong heard his name and wanted to kiss Fangze. Gao Yu and Wang Hao naturally instigated Song Huizong, and swore that they would not leak the news. At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, Song Huizong was exiled, and the whereabouts of Master Li became a mystery for the ages.

Chao Gai and the three of them were tall and big, and they easily lined up the crowd and came to the front, and immediately saw a young guy about thirty years old in the ring, foaming on the stage, talking endlessly.

Listened for a while. Chao Gai then understood, this first level is the couplet, the couplet is passed down in the five generations after the Shu lord Meng Chang, after the Song Dynasty, the folk New Year hanging Spring Festival couplets have been quite common, Wang Anshi's poem "thousands of households on the day, always replace the new peach with the old charm" sentence, is the true portrayal of the grand occasion at that time. Because the appearance of the Spring Festival couplets is closely related to the peach symbol, the ancients also called the Spring Festival couplets "peach symbols".

Chao Gai listened again, during this period, there were also many people in the ring to challenge, some people were invited to pass through, and some people did not pass, and walked out of the crowd dejectedly, in summary, win less and lose more.

"Is there any talented hero who comes up, my family Li Shishi girl is a heavenly country, to be able to meet with the teacher girl is also a blessing from eight lifetimes of cultivation, the small one does not have that literary talent, otherwise the small one will come up to try it, the land of the capital has been able to come out since ancient times, and which talented hero comes up to try, as long as you have three couplets to enter the building." As soon as the little guy on the stage saw that no one came up, he said something demagoguery.

Chao Gai looked at the novelty below, and when he stepped onto the stage, he arched his hand towards the little guy and said, "Let's try it below."

"I don't know the name of this official?" The little guy also saluted Chao Gai and asked.

Chao Gai smiled slightly and said: "In Xiachao Liang is a merchant on the ground, today the saint is happy with the people, admired here, saw the excitement here, and also wanted to give it a try."

"That's good, Chao Daguan, the small ones don't waste time, and this will begin." The little guy made a gesture of please towards Chao Gai.

Chao Gai walked to the long table in the ring, on which were placed three couplets in turn, all of which were upper couplets, and next to each pair of upper couplets was a blank piece of paper used to write the lower couplets.

Chao Gai looked at the three pairs of upper couplets, and the first one said Beads and Beads; The second is the flowers, flowers and leaves, green and red, but Si Xiangwei is deliberately supportive, not teaching rain and wind, clear and cold; This third couplet is written Canghai Day, Chicheng Xia, Emei Snow, Wuxia Cloud, Dongting Moon, Peng Liyan, Xiaoxiang Rain, Wuyi Peak, Lushan Waterfall, the wonders of the universe, painting Wu Zhai Wall.

After reading it, Chao Gai smiled slightly, confident, and lifted the brush to brush the three couplets without pause.