Chapter 5: The Contest
Since that day, Du Huanting has reined in her modern temper and lived a fairy-like leisurely life in the Prime Minister's Mansion for a few days, she even thought, this Du Liniang is really in the blessing and does not know the blessing, such a life like a fish in water, how many modern people can't ask for it?
However, there is a fly in the ointment, that is, Du Huanting's personal freedom is restricted----- she was punished for thinking about it for a month.
During the month, she noticed a hole in the corner of the back garden. After many comparative estimates, she came to the conclusion that she could understand people. A month later, the confinement was lifted, and Du Huanting took advantage of Chunxiang's wife to call her away and got out of the hole.
Outside the cave is a remote and uninhabited path.
Du Huanting was setting off fireworks in her heart, shouting long live freedom.
In the distance, a man on horseback caught a glimpse of the whole process and left quietly. Du Huanting took off the cloud shoulder skirt, revealing the plain cloth inside, and wiped the ash on her hands on her face, pretending to be like a civilian woman who worked day and night.
After the successful change of clothes, she was relieved to boldly walk down the street. At this time, a group of passers-by passed by with laughter and laughter.
Du Huanting overheard their conversation.
Passerby A: "This spring breeze building is magnificent, no wonder it is famous in the capital." ”
Passerby B: "The house has a strange trick every year--- more and more prosperous, and the simple place to eat is stunned for them to play with a flower." ”
Passerby C: "What do you mean by that?" ”
Passerby A: "This is another storytelling contest, upstairs and downstairs are full, everyone stretches their necks, up their ears, and listens to the story!" ”
Passerby B: "This story must be legendary, unheard of and unseen, which attracted a large audience." ”
Passerby A: "The best thing is that the winner gets----- dragon and phoenix are auspicious!" ”
Passerby C: "Hey, this is a royal treasure, and it's worth a lot!" ”
Passerby A: "Let's go!" It's time to miss the show. ”
After listening to their conversation, Du Huanting played the drums happily in her heart and thought: It's not easy to come to the Yuan Dynasty to play, how can you go back without some antiques? Royal treasures, isn't that a chance for God to give her a chance to get rich overnight? In case you wake up and are beaten back to your original shape, you will have considerable savings.
So, she followed behind passers-by A, B and C, walked through two alleys, and came to a very lively restaurant.
The restaurant is luxuriously furnished, with two floors. On the porch, in hot gold letters, was written on red paper: Four big characters of the Night of Legends. There are two tables in the middle of the first floor, one of which is a colorful porcelain bowl --- dragon and phoenix. There was a man standing on a table telling a story. The audience at the bottom is in a circle in each row, increasing layer by layer. Spectators on the second floor crowded into the hallway, clinging to the guardrails. Even the stairwells up and down the stairs were full of people.
Du Huanting finally found a place where she could not only see the person who spoke clearly, but also hear the story she was telling.
Before the man could finish speaking, there was a boo from the audience, thinking that his story was not exciting enough, so the man was booed off the stage, and another man with a beard came up to continue the story.
He cleared his throat, slapped the table vigorously and said, "What I am going to talk about next is a real person and a real story. There is a daughter in the Du family, who came back from the dead, and her temperament changed greatly after her birth. The six relatives don't recognize it, and they are crazy and stupid. First, he beat the mage and disrespected heaven and earth. Later, he abused his subordinates and forced them to kill themselves......."
There was an uproar below, the audience whispered, everyone knew who the protagonist of this matter was, and they only felt that the person who told the story was commendable and courageous.
The beard continued: "After this woman's great change, she ignored etiquette. There are no three obedience and four virtues, and everything you say and do is beyond human reason, which is really strange---"
Du Huanting finally couldn't help it, she let out a loud boo, and everyone turned their heads to look at her.
"Go down! What nonsense? Miss Du was misjudged by quacks! Full of nonsense, don't stand there and be embarrassed if you can't speak---"
Du Huanting whistled, causing everyone to laugh, seeing that this woman was so arrogant, the beard was extremely angry, he said unconvinced: "You have the ability to talk about ---, you can tell -----" Du Huanting is for this champion, she is gearing up, telling a story of heart change without changing body, and from time to time she also slapped the table a few times to render the atmosphere of the story, which made the audience listen to it very obsessively.
Seeing that the audience was so engaged, Du Huanting was ecstatic, as if "Dragon and Phoenix Chengxiang" had fallen into her pocket.
Sure enough, after she finished speaking, the audience burst into applause and applause, wave after wave.
"The girl's story is so beautiful that it seems like I've experienced it myself." Suddenly, a deep voice sounded, and everyone followed the voice, and a man stood around the corner of the second floor. He was dressed in green clothes, with a majestic spirit, and a sword behind him.
Du Huanting was about to humble herself with a false praise or something like that, but the man's star eyebrows suddenly raised and lamented: "It's a pity that it didn't move me at all." ”
As soon as she heard this, Du Huanting knew that this person was here to smash her field.
"What do you mean?"
The man came downstairs, walked up to her, and said, "There are two things that I think are good stories about. One is truth, which is best derived from the small things in life, so that it can be vivid and easier to move people's hearts. The second is fun, which should make people laugh and be interested. ”
The audience applauded in approval of the man's remarks.
Du Huanting saw that the limelight was stolen by this man, glared at him fiercely, and asked, "So can you tell the kind of story you are telling?" ”
The man smiled playfully and said, "There is really a thing, today I rode through an alley, and the alley was empty, except for the sky, and there were walls on all sides. At this moment, a woman's head suddenly appeared" He paused deliberately, looking at the reactions of everyone, including Du Huanting, who looked at him curiously, eager to hear what was going on.
"She actually crawled out of the dog hole under the wall----- this is really the strangest woman in the world I have seen in the next place."
Speaking of this, everyone laughed happily, but Du Huanting couldn't laugh, her face suddenly turned red, and her cheeks were so hot that she could cook eggs on them.
"Does the girl think my story fits the first two points?" The man said to Du Huanting with some pride.
Du Huanting was a little impatient, she didn't want to wait any longer, so she decided to strike first, in full view of everyone, she picked up the colorful porcelain bowl on the table and rushed straight out of the door.
No one expected this astonishing move. By the time they reacted, the man had already chased him out.
"Thief ---"
"Thief! There are thieves ----"
The teahouse owner cried out heartbrokenly, the colorful porcelain bowl was shot away, the audience exploded the pot, everyone wanted to help the shopkeeper recover the porcelain bowl, but there was no trace of the two outside the door.