Chapter 5: The Golden Prisoner's Cage
I walked from Hongqiao to Sweet Water Lane, and once again passed by the lively Goolan tile shop.
On the stage, the play of Yunlongzhai Cui Shaoyun and Cui Zhai is still being performed against Liao, and there are several people who look like sons in the seats below.
I only heard the people in the audience talking about Master Li's beauty and songs.
These gentlemen only know how to indulge in pleasures, where do they understand the hardships of people's livelihood.
In this world, the situation is changing, the general trend is coming, and it is devastating.
It's useless to lament, I'd better go find Miss Li first.
With the poems and the money, I should be able to meet Master Li.
I gave the waiter a piece of silver, but the waiter only promised to help me pass the word.
In order for him to help me give the poems to Master Li, I had to give him another ingot of silver.
If you can see Master Li, you won't lose money by spending these two ingots of silver.
After a while, the waiter came down from upstairs, told me to go in with him, and told me not to make a noise.
I followed the waiter upstairs, walked a little way in the corridor, and finally came to the door of Master Li.
The waiter knocked on the door several times, like some code. A maid opened the door from inside the room and left with the attendant.
I walked inside, closed the door, and looked around.
I saw that the color of the house was crimson, the red candles were shining, and the air was filled with the smell of incense.
I heard only the parrot chirping.
"Come on! Come on! ”
"Childe, you're here. The poems were given away, and the teacher thanked them. ”
The parrot began to cry again: "Good poetry, good poetry." ”
The teacher can be a peach blossom for the face and jade for the muscle, and he can't describe it with all his might.
Wearing a blue-and-white dress that is completely different from Xue Qing, he wears several golden hairpins and golden garlands on his head.
Looking back and smiling.
If I want to praise Master Li with a poem praising Xue Qing's appearance.
Only "makeup stands up for the spring breeze, and a smile is less." "It's best to describe it.
"Teacher, girl, I have to thank you in advance for being willing to see me. Is this your parrot? ”
"This parrot was given by someone else, and it is named Yu'er."
For some reason, standing in front of Master Li now, it seems that he is looking at an extremely beautiful fantasy.
A brief loss of consciousness seems to have been frozen for a long time. After relieving himself, he remembered the purpose of his coming to Master Li.
"The teacher girl really lives up to her reputation, but it's really not easy to meet each other."
Master Li pursed his lips and smiled: "Childe said he was laughing." You're only seeing me for the first time, and you're just coming in the door, so how do you know that I'm worthy of my name? ”
Some things may still be in my memory, but it is not convenient to say.
"Childe's poet teacher has already read it, novel and chic, not informal, although there are a few unqualified laws, but the teacher likes it very much."
"Thank you, girl. It was all improvised, and I shouldn't have been ugly, but in order to see the teacher, I had no other way. I said helplessly.
"Childe is humble. It's just that there are still some difficulties in the poems, and the teacher doesn't understand it very well, so he has to ask for advice in person. ”
"Poetry is not in a hurry. Actually, I came to you to hear you sing a few songs, and I've read a lot of poetry in books. But the words are written for the music, and if you just read the words, it may not be too regrettable. ”
Shi Shi nodded.
"Shishi understood. The drinks on the table are all newly added, and then let the teacher sing and dance to cheer up the son. ”
I heard the parrot crying, "Sing!" Sing! ”
Now, I finally have the opportunity to listen to the real Song Ci once.
I sat down on a stool next to me, and Master Li slowly moved to a circular red carpet and began to perform songs and dances.
Chilling cicadas,
To the long pavilion late,
The showers stopped.
The tent of the capital is empty,
nostalgia,
Lan Zhou prompted.
......
"Teacher girl, this song "Yulin Bell" is really a thousand kinds of style, and who is it said to, no wonder it is passed on as a beautiful talk in the market."
"Childe has won the award, but practice makes perfect."
It's a pity that although Liu Qi's words can be passed down through the ages through paper. But how should the singing of this song be preserved? ”
The teacher smiled and dipped me in a plate of wine.
"It can be passed down from generation to generation through sheet music, or it can be sung from generation to generation by generations of Kabuki."
I shook my head.
"It's so difficult, and it would be a pity if thousands of years later, all the scores were lost, and no one could sing them anymore."
"It doesn't hurt. Words and songs are the things that people today have to send their feelings, and maybe people thousands of years later will also have their own things to send their feelings. ”
I took a sip of my glass.
"Well, what the teacher said is reasonable. But if there were still people looking forward to the present at that time, and they couldn't listen to the lyrics and songs, wouldn't it be very painful. ”
The teacher looked out the window and said, "Such a person can be regarded as a bosom friend." But life is geometric, a thousand years is too long. ”
We drank and chatted.
I don't know why the wine is lighter, but the taste is more mellow. Before you know it, a long time has passed.
Suddenly, there was a knock on the door, first nine times in a row, and then five times in a row, and then stopped.
"But the prince is here?" Shishi asked.
The waiter said: "Miss Shishi, Wang Gongzi sent someone to ask, is it convenient for Miss Shishi tonight?" ”
"When you speak for me, say that I am occasionally feeling cold, that I am unwell, and that I am afraid of being contaminated with the Holy Communion."
The waiter said again: "Master girl, this prince is not an outsider, we can't afford to offend, or are you thinking about it?" ”
"You just go and talk back. If the prince is to blame, I have my own way. ”
"Well, in that case, I'll go and talk back." With that, the waiter left.
Master Li's gloomy face stretched a little, but he still raised his wine glass and drank it all.
I hold a wine glass in my hand, and there are a thousand words that I can't say, and this prince is probably the saint of today, but I have to pretend that I don't know.
"Teacher, why are you suddenly unhappy? Who is this prince? ”
Master Li sighed and said, "No one in Sweet Water Lane knows that this prince is the current saint. ”
If it is really Song Huizong Zhao Ji, looking at it this way, everything that comes to my mind has been fulfilled one by one.
"If the teacher girl doesn't want to see it, then she won't see it."
The master sighed again and said, "If it weren't for Prince Wang, I am afraid that I would be jealous and difficult to move in this Sweet Water Alley." ”
"I didn't expect the teacher to have so many hardships in her heart."
I saw the parrot crying: "Bitter! Bitter! ”
"Yu'er has a lot of mouths." The teacher said a little angrily.
Master Li stood up and walked to the parrot's cage next to him, his fingers lightly touching the birdcage with a sad expression.
The parrot in the cage suddenly jumped up and looked around, a little distracted.
"The master is just a caged bird, although there is no wind or rain, but he is not free."
I shook my head and looked at Master Li gently.
"Don't be presumptuous, the teacher and the girl are unparalleled, and they will definitely go down in history. I just don't know if I think about leaving this Sweet Water Alley? ”
The teacher shook his head, looking a little lonely.
"People in the wind and dust, why bother to cut off their roots. The son talks extraordinary, and he will definitely be able to achieve great things, and he doesn't have to worry about his teacher. ”
"You and I are acquainted today, even if it is a friendship in the rivers and lakes, I have something I want to send to my teacher."
"Childe, please speak."
I looked out the window: "Compared to true freedom, the glitz and stability in front of me may be nothing. I know that there are many difficulties for the teacher, but the most difficult thing is that there is one thing that makes you decide. ”
"There is also a lack of such a person. Teachers have read countless people, but they have never met someone worthy of trust. ”
I looked at Shishi with a smile.
"I believe that the teacher girl will definitely meet such a person."
Let's raise a glass and drink together.
Master Li sat next to him, playing the pipa, and the rhythm was mournful.
After the song is played, there is silence.
"It's sparsely populated outside in the dead of night, I'm afraid that there are strong people on the road, so please ask my son to bathe and change clothes."
I hurriedly shook my head and said, "No, no, teacher, you and I are meeting for the first time, so it's not appropriate." Besides, if someone finds out, it will inevitably be discussed, and I am afraid that it will affect the reputation of the teacher. ”
"Childe is telling the truth."
I nodded.
"What I said is all from the bottom of my heart, the talent of the teacher and the girl is rare through the ages, and you must cherish yourself."
The master pursed his lips and smiled: "Thank you, Childe." You are the first person to do this to me. ”
Master Li sat down, cut the orange in the fruit bowl, pinched a petal with his fingers, peeled it, and handed it to my mouth.
I tilted my head slightly and opened my mouth.
Suddenly, there was a jolt on the beam.
"There's someone on the beam!" I shouted.
"Who is it?" Shishi asked.
I saw a handsome and handsome young man, suddenly jumping off the beam of the house, standing in front of us, laughing.
"Haha, a big man, twisting and pinching! If it were me, I would have washed it up and laid down under the beauty's tent. ”
I asked, slightly angry, "Who are you?" Hidden on the beam of the teacher's girl's room, she is still talking nonsense here. What is the intention? ”
The boy looked at me for a moment.
"I'm here to see the teacher. Besides, why should I answer you when you ask so many questions at once? ”
"Dare to ask this son's name? Why is it hidden on the beams of the teacher's house? The teacher asked when he saw the young man.
"Or is the teacher girl soft-spoken, how is it like you?"
I wanted to say more.
"My name is Wen Rou, and I came to the capital to find my senior brother, but I heard people talk about Master Li and Master Li for three days."
I stifled a smile.
Gentle? A teenager still has such a name.
"I just thought, what kind of person is this Master Li, who can fascinate all the men in the world?"
"Childe smiled, the teacher is also a mortal fetus, and what outsiders say is really too good."
"I don't laugh, I don't laugh, this time I've seen it. A man who is not fascinated by Master Li, I have to wonder if he is a man. ”
Suddenly tenderness turned to me
"This son is also interesting, I finally met Miss Li, but I just wanted to listen to the music, but I didn't have any feelings for others. Well, it's a rarity. ”
"What, what do you think of me, what's wrong with that? Besides, it's too rude for you to hide on the beams of the house and peep at others. ”
Gentle said a little angrily.
"Who are you to teach Ben a lesson...... Ben Gongzi! If it weren't for the fact that you're serious, I'd be really welcome. ”
"It seems that this son is also a funny person, why don't we have a drink together."
Master Li walked to the side, lit a few more candles, and then poured three glasses of wine, and the room instantly brightened.
Gentleness wandered around me, looking at it carefully.
"Huh, let me think about it...... Have I seen you somewhere? ”
"Have you seen me? Is it on the streets of Bianjing City? ”
Gently clapped your hands.
"I remembered. Are you being chased by the guards of the Imperial City during the day, the one who runs faster than a rabbit? ”
I'm so angry that I want to hit someone.
"It's not that they are arrogant and unreasonable, and they want to ask for bribes from me, but I can't beat them, so I have to run away."
"(whispering) Haha, for the sake of you amusing me during the day, you were so fierce just now, I won't bother with you."
I clasped my hands in front of my chest: "(whispering) Every word you say to me is like a thorn, where have I offended you?" ”
The teacher looked back at us.
"Are you two really meeting for the first time? I sound like a rival in my previous life. ”
"The teacher girl is really gentle and bold, don't blame me for hiding on the beam, and don't be afraid that I'm a bad person."
Gentleness suddenly reached over and approached me, lowering her voice.
"Do you want to go to the Imperial City? I'm planning to go to the palace tomorrow night to have fun, do you want to join us? ”
"(whispering) Can you really take me into the palace? I have something very important to do in the Imperial City, if you can help me, I owe you a favor! ”
(whispering) Who is rare! I'm not here to help you, but I'm afraid that one person will be too boring. If you want, see you outside the palace walls tomorrow night after dark. I'll go first! ”
Gently pushed open the window, flew out, and disappeared without a trace in the night.
"He's gone? What a strange person. ”
I nodded, yes, that's weird.
"It's like a child who hasn't grown up yet, although it disturbs the teacher and the girl, but there is no malice."
"There is no disturbance, such an innocent and somewhat brutal temperament is also enviable."
I looked at my teacher with an envious expression.
"The teacher girl is so generous, the night is dark, I should also leave."
"Since Childe said so, I can't keep it. Childe's words, the teacher will remember it. ”
"Thank you, Miss Shi, tonight's song, unforgettable in this life, Miss Shi must be cherished, we are destined to see you again."
With that, I was just about to set off.
"Childe, I don't know your honorific title yet."
"My surname is Nangong, and my single name is Jie. There will be a period later. ”
The teacher was a little surprised, but he didn't speak, just waved his hand like me.
"There will be a date later."
After saying that, I took the baggage and Xue Qing's sword and left Sweetwater Alley.