Chapter 37: The Great Song Magic Show (Part II)
Northern Song Dynasty World, August 15 afternoon.
The Mid-Autumn Festival Poetry Festival in Quanzhou City is an annual event, and students from Fujian's famous academies come to the city, and the local academies in Quanzhou are all dispatched.
The official scholars, governors, and judges will all come out, and other local celebrities, tycoons, and the Oiran of the major Qinglou will participate.
At that time, the scholars will show their masterpieces, and they will be evaluated by the respected Confucian predecessors, and the top ten will be ranked. This is a good opportunity for scholars to increase their fame and get close to officials and Confucians. Even if you can't make it into the top ten, as long as you can get familiar with your seniors, you will benefit a lot.
The names of the Oiran of Qinglou from all over Fujian Road will also be present to select the total Oiran. Merchants can pay for colorful flowers to give to their names, and scholars can also convert their poems into colorful flowers. Ten yuan is a colorful flower, and a poem that is rated as "medium" can also be converted into a colorful flower, and a poem that is rated as "superior" can be converted into three. In the end, whoever has more colorful flowers will be the Oiran of the year.
In the Northern Song Dynasty, it was not a disgraceful thing to visit the Qinglou, and it was very common for literati in this era to visit the Qinglou, and it could even be regarded as quite "elegant". It is also the norm for a woman from a green house to attend the poetry meeting.
The poetry meeting did not officially start until the moon came out in the evening, but the green garden, where the poetry meeting was held in the afternoon, had already gathered many people, most of whom were civilians who came to see the excitement. As soon as they entered the Jade Garden, they immediately felt that this poetry meeting was different from the past.
The green garden is newly decorated, with a lot of cabinets under the shade of the trees for people to rest, and lanterns are hung everywhere. If all these lanterns are lit at night, the whole Emerald Garden will be brightly lit. There are also many reception maids with oblique stripes on their bodies, who are always on hand to guide guests and provide free tea from time to time.
There were a lot of people sitting on the table under the tree, and they were chatting: "Which business is hosting this time?" I'm willing to spend money. ”
"It was hosted by the Mo family, and it was nothing, but the Mo family pulled a rich man to participate, if there was no help from that person, how could there be such a scale? How can you set up a table for people to rest for free? How can there be so many reception maids? How can there be such a clear guiding sign? Although these are small sections, it shows that the organizers provide such intimate service, which is really rare. ”
"Big Rich? It won't be the head of the Liang family, I heard that the Liang family has moved to Kaifeng Mansion. ”
"Of course it's not the Liang family, it's the owner of the Treasure Pavilion and the photo studio."
"Huh? It turned out to be Li Gongzi's handwriting, no wonder, no wonder. To be able to think so thoughtfully and caringly, I should have thought that it was him. I admire his original measures in the photo studio, immediately give a voucher with a number written on the door, line up with the number, call the number to take pictures when it is your turn, no need for guests to stand in line and wait, you can sit and rest, and even go out for a walk and come back. ”
"Yes, how intimate this is, people's photo studios don't worry about the source of customers at all, and they think about the guests everywhere, which is the style of a real big business. With this thought, Li Gongzi should have a lot of money. No wonder Li Gongzi earned this family business at a young age. ”
"I heard that Li Gongzi will send someone to perform a big trick in a while."
"I've heard about it, and it's really exciting. No, there are so many people, let's go there early, otherwise there will be no place, and it will be too far away to see clearly. ”
In the emptiest and flat part of the Jade Garden, a high platform was erected in the middle, and lanterns were hung around it. In the evening, this high platform will be used as the main venue for poetry appreciation, and a large juggling performance will be held here before the poetry meeting begins.
Rows of chairs are placed under the main table, and in front of the first four rows of chairs there are tables with fresh fruits and teacups. In the first two rows, there are labels on the tables, such as: "Lord Huang of Zhizhou" and "Lord Zhang of Xuezheng".
There are some people sparsely seated on the chairs, these are the owners of some small businesses in Quanzhou City, and they will not miss this kind of occasion to expand their contacts. At least I can get in touch with other owners who are familiar with each other.
There was a circle of people standing around the chair, but at this moment, only a few long-term workers of the Li Mansion were busy on the high platform, hanging lanterns one by one and pulling up large curtains.
Suddenly, a large group of family members drove up in a few carriages and stopped at the outermost part. An old man over half a hundred years old and four suffocating girls got out of the car.
"Look, that's the great butler of the Treasure Pavilion." Some sharp-eyed people recognized Ding Fu.
The surrounding crowd immediately paid attention, "This is the great butler of the Rare Treasure Pavilion?" It looks ordinary, but it really responds to that sentence, people can't be good-looking. ”
"I heard that Li Gongzi was going to gather the financial resources of several businesses to open a winery, and asked the shopkeeper of Cui Ji Ya to invite the owners of some businesses to let them taste overseas wines. As a result, Li Gongzi couldn't see him, and they tried their best to see this big butler Ding. ”
"Steward Ding has also become a hot figure in Quanzhou shopping malls, how many business owners want to see him."
"It is said that at the wine tasting meeting, as soon as the shopkeeper of Cui Ji Yaxing opened the wine bottle, the aroma of the wine wafted out dozens of feet away, and the smell of the wine alone made people drunk."
How did Zhao Xiucai, who was present, describe the aroma of wine? Drifting ten miles in the wind, it can lead the gods down to earth. ”
"So amazing? If only I could take a sip of those wines, I'll be satisfied. ”
"Think beautifully, can you afford the things of the Treasure Pavilion? Unless you have a good birth in your next life and are born into a wealthy family, you can only look at the treasures of rare treasures. ”
The proprietors of the various businesses sitting on the chairs in the field had already stood up and came over to greet Steward Ding. "Elder Ding, it's early." "Ding Lao, I heard that the trick performance to be held was arranged by Li Gongzi himself, and Li Gongzi himself can also act?"
Mei Lan Zhuju and the four maids commanded a group of family members, moving speakers, batteries, microphones and the like out of the carriage, placing speakers around the high platform, and connecting the batteries. They have learned how to connect the speaker from Li Hao, and they have tried it on several times.
The merchant looked at this series of strange devices in amazement, "Ding Lao, what are these?" Is it also used to perform tricks? ”
Ding Fu smiled and said, "Please sell the old man for the time being, and you will know the use of these things in a while." ”
With the passage of time, more and more people entered the venue, and after dusk, seventy percent of the chairs at the scene were sitting, and the outer crowd was dense, surrounding the high platform. The yamen also sent thirty or forty yamen to maintain order on the spot.
Li Hao came quietly in an ordinary carriage, and the carriage stopped at the corner of the green garden. Li Hao jumped out of the car, looked around, and headed for another carriage not far away.
Mo Shiyun's personal maid knocked on the car door: "Li Gongzi is here." ”
The car door opened, Mo Shiyun's small hand lifted the skirt slightly, and got out of the car lightly, with indescribable gentleness and elegance.
Li Hao was stunned when he saw it, since she first met Mo Shiyun, she has been wearing men's scholar's clothes, this is the first time Li Hao has seen her wear women's clothes. When she wore men's clothes, Li Hao already felt that she was extremely beautiful, and after changing back to women's clothes, she was a nine-day fairy who came to the mortal world.
Seeing Li Hao staring at him blankly, Mo Shiyun smiled slightly and said softly, "You don't know me." ”
"You should have changed back to this outfit and stopped wearing men's clothes. That's beautiful, especially when you're smiling. What does that mean? The slender waist jade belt dances the sky veil, and looks back and smiles better than the stars. In the future, I have to carry a digital camera with me and turn on the smiley face detection to take pictures automatically. ”
The two of them came to the high platform and sat down on the two reserved seats in the fourth row. Along the way, Mo Shiyun attracted countless eyes, and Li Hao finally understood why she often wore men's clothes.
At this time, the curtain on the high platform was slowly lowered, blocking everyone's sight, and a soft voice floated out of the speaker, playing the classical song "Spring River Flower Moonlight Night".
The Song people present had never felt the sound effect of the surround sound, and they were shocked when they opened their mouths one by one, and the scene was shaken. Everyone looked around to see who was playing such a nice tune.
"Who played this tune? It's so good. ”
"Who is this playing? It's a heavenly sound. ”
Suddenly, someone shouted, "It's that box that makes a sound, oh my God, a box that makes a sound!" Ahh I guess there's something wrong with my ears, I actually hear the sound of the box. ”
"yes, I heard it too, it's really a box making a sound, how is this possible?!"
"It's amazing that there are such overseas treasures in the Treasure Pavilion, why haven't I seen them take them out and sell them."
There was an overwhelming discussion at the scene, but it couldn't hide the music of the speakers.
Amid the music, the curtain slowly opened on the high stage, and a magician in a robe walked to the middle of the stage. Then the music stopped, and the magic trick went to the center of the stage and bowed to the audience.
He straightened up and shook the magic wand in his hand slightly, and the magic wand instantly turned into a bouquet of flowers.
"Wow!" The audience exclaimed.
"How did this change, does he really know how to spell?"
"It's amazing, the tricks I used to watch were all hidden, but this has changed directly."
The discussion in the audience merged into a huge wave, but the magician on the stage did not seem to be affected at all. He stretched out his empty hands and spread his fingers so that the palms and backs of his palms could be seen to make sure there was nothing.
The magician clenched his fist in one hand and pulled the other hand out of his fist and pulled out a red silk scarf.
"Wow!" There were shouts like landslides and tsunamis in the audience.
Li Hao shook his head, this kind of little magic is just a warm-up for the opening, just so shocked, after a while, you will see how many pieces of living people will be dismantled, what kind of expression is that?