Early spring in the imperial capital of Bianliang is the best season of the year. The willow trees of the Sui embankment have just budded, and when viewed from a distance, they are like smoke and fog, and they are beautiful.

In this beautiful spring, there is a poignant story to tell.

The early spring of the rich and noble is beautiful and painting, but the early spring of the poor is green and yellow, and it is starvation.

Liu E was born in Shudi, an orphan, and was fostered in her mother's house since she was a child.

That year, there was a famine in Shuzhong, and Liu E, who had escaped, was separated from her family, and she met her fellow villager Gong Mei on the road, so she took it upon herself to marry the silversmith Gong Mei.

Gong Mei has some crafts, and is best at making silver jewelry. There is a famine in Shu, starvation is everywhere, and ordinary people can't eat, how many people in the township come to make silverware and jewelry?

The townsman said: "Bianliang City is rich, there are many nobles, and there is gold and silver everywhere. Gong Mei and Liu E fled from Shu to Bianliang City, Tokyo.

For the first time, how could it be so good to live, Gong Mei couldn't get a job, and the two of them were very anxious.

On that day, the two of them saw a singer recruiting to sing drums and books in the Xishi tile shop, and Liu E wanted to try it.

Gong Mei was honest, although she didn't want Liu E to do this kind of singer business, it was better than starving to death together, so she agreed.

The smart and beautiful Liu E works very hard, during the day she teaches and teaches drum books, and at night Liu E asks Gong Mei, who is not very literate, to teach her to read and write, and soon she will be able to read the record book by herself, and she can memorize a drum book story in one day.

Liu E is smart and capable, refreshing, her voice is very magnetic, as crisp and clear as hers, and she is very suitable for singing drum books.

Therefore, she sang more and more popular in the tile shop, and within a year, she became the top brand in the Yangjia tile shop in the West City, and she came to listen to her singing drums every day, and people who supported her flocked to her.

At that time, the commission was very high, and although Liu E sang hard, the monthly "buying money" was only enough for daily food and drink, and it was still difficult to get by.

On that day, Liu E met a nobleman and privately rewarded Liu E with a silver ingot, but was caught by Yang Diantou and insisted on Liu E handing it over. Liu E was not convinced and quarreled with Yang Diantou.

Although Liu E is spicy, she is only a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl after all, and she can not be persecuted by a few men in the tile. They insulted Liu E in a long way and "prostitutes" in a short way, and all the silver ingots were taken away.

The more Liu E thought about it, the more aggrieved she became, and she cried outside the tile gate. At this time, I happened to meet Sikong Qi, who always came to listen to drum books on weekdays.

Sikong Qi asked: "Why is Mrs. Liu crying here?" Rouge is crying. ”

Liu E often came to listen to drum books, but she didn't know her name, so she didn't see it. She recounted what had just happened.

Sikong Qi said: "The head of the shop is really too deceitful, see that I will come back for you." ”

Liu E hurriedly stopped: "Your nobleman, you have taken the lead for me today, and I won't be able to make a living here tomorrow, so it's not cost-effective." ”

Sikong sighed: "How dare people not bow their heads under the low eaves!" Alas! ”

Liu E saw that Sikong Qi was upset with herself, and her heart became a little closer. Listening to his accent, he seemed to be from Shu, so he asked, "Where is your hometown?" Listening to the accent is also like a country accent. ”

Sikong Qi said: "It is Chongzhou, Xishu, I used to listen to Liu Niangzi singing drums, often mixed with the local sound, knowing that it is a fellow villager, very happy, so I often come to listen." ”

Liu E saw it, it was indeed a fellow villager, and she forgot the unpleasantness just now and was happy

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said: "Great, I am a native of Shuhuayang, it's really not far away!"

In the book, it is sung well, "A long drought and a sweet rain, and a foreign country meets old acquaintances" are all joys in the world. It is my luck to meet you today. I just don't know the noble surname? ”

"Mrs. Liu is too polite, my name is Sikong Qi, and I am ranked third at home, you can call me a San Lang."

"Then where does it make Mr. Sikong a noble person at a glance, different from us lowly servants."

Sikong Qi lamented: "How can life be humble and noble, they are just people who have fallen to the end of the world." ”

"Why is Mr. Sikong so depressed? I fled from Shu, often hungry, but still hard work, Mr. is dressed luxuriously, why sigh? ”

"I am a descendant of Sikong Shu in the Tang Dynasty, and now I have also found a petty official, although I don't worry about eating and drinking, but I am subordinate to others, I can't glorify my ancestors, and I can't comfort the people, how can I not lament?"

Liu E listened to Sikong Qi's statement and sighed: "Mr. is a person with great ambitions, and he is really different from us ordinary people. We can eat a full meal, and we are too happy to think of the sorrows of so many countries. ”

Sikong Qi also felt that it was too much to say these big things to this young lady who had just met, so he smiled and said: "Isn't what Liu Niangzi sings in the drum book all about the rise and fall of the world?" ”

Liu E also smiled when she heard it: "It's all sung for the rich and noble, just for fun." ”

The two talked and laughed, and talked about a lot of things in their hometown, quite a bit of seeing each other and hating each other, and before they knew it, it was dark.

Sikong Qi said: "It's dark today, I'll send Mrs. Liu home." At night, the brothel is opened, and there are often prostitutes and customers coming and going, and it is not safe for you to walk alone. ”

Liu E was very moved when she heard this, so she allowed Sikong Qi to send her home.

Outside Liu E's house, Sikong Qi gave Liu E a small silver ingot, and said: "Liu Niangzi, listen to you sing drums every day, I like it very much, although sometimes rewarded, think about it has been taken away by the store. ”

Liu E felt that Sikong Qi was very thoughtful, and she had a good impression of him, accepted the silver tael, and was deeply blessed, and said, "Thank you so much Mr. Sikong for your kindness." Knowing him today is indeed the happiest day I have had in a few months. ”

"It's also the happiest day I've had in months." Sikong Qi stretched out his hand to help Liu E, but he felt that it was inappropriate, and his two hands were stretched out in the air empty.

At this moment, I saw Gong Mei standing outside the door in a daze, looking at Sikong Qi and Liu E, holding a bucket in her hand.

Sikong Qi said goodbye to Liu E with interest, "Mrs. Liu, I'll go back, you take care, I'll listen to you sing the drums another day." ”

Liu E said politely: "Mr. Sikong walks slowly." ”

After entering the house, Gong Mei said angrily: "It's okay if you sing outside, you have brought people to the house." ”

It turned out that since she called Bianliang City, Gong Mei couldn't get a job, and she relied on Liu E to feed her, and she was already unhappy in her heart, but Liu E was very good to him, and he didn't know how to attack.

Today, I saw Sikong Qi dressed extraordinarily, it was obvious that Liu E had met a nobleman, and she was even more unconfident. suspected that his wife was cheating, but there was no evidence, so he had to complain with a gun and a stick.

Liu E comforted him and said: "Brother Mei doesn't need to provoke me with words, you naturally know that I didn't do anything to be sorry for Brother Mei."

Today I'm with Yang

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There was a quarrel at the store, and they robbed me of the silver that a noble man rewarded me, and you said that although the market in Bianliang is prosperous, there is no fairness at all. When I went out and met this Mr. Sikong, I saw that it was a fellow countryman, and I continued to do some homely things, and now I am in a better mood.

He was afraid that I would be in danger when I came home that night, so he sent me here. Although I do singing for a living, I am not a prostitute, and I will not be in the same league as the other women in the tile shop. ”

Gong Mei was a little embarrassed when she saw Liu E say this, and said: "Sister E, it's not that I don't believe you, it's just that people outside are sinister, it's all Brother Mei, I am useless, I can't shelter you from the wind and rain, but let you show up as a woman, alas, I ......"

Gong Mei is honest and accepting, and he doesn't know how to say it.

Liu E said: "Brother Mei doesn't have to give up on himself, I have learned a lot of truths by singing drums, and the prince will have a kind of Xiangning?" Maybe one day we will also soar and make those little people who bully us and look down on us die! ”

Gong Mei smiled and said: "Your words will also comfort me and believe that we are as poor as grass mustard, when will we be able to soar!" ”

"Thirty years in Hedong, thirty years in Hexi, how can you say many things accurately?"

Liu E didn't care, and went to cook in the kitchen, and Gong Mei continued to make his silver jewelry under the lamp.

Since that day, Sikong Qi has been listening to Liu E singing drums almost every day, waiting outside the tile shop gate, and only handing over the drum money to Liu E in person.

The two of them will walk back to Liu E's house along the Sui Embankment, where the willows on both sides of the river are green and the scenery is charming. They looked at the willow trees in the Sui Causeway, from budding to flourishing, and then to withering yellow leaves and snow-covered branches.

Liu E and Sikong Qi became more and more involved in each other the more they chatted, and slowly became old people who had nothing to say. Sikong Qi added a touch of color to Liu E's miserable and gloomy life, and he warmed and illuminated her life like the red light of the sunset.

The father of Sikong Qi, Sikong Jie, is the former minister of Meng Chang of Hou Shu, because of the state of Shu, Meng Chang entered Beijing, was named the Duke of Qin, Sikong Jie's family moved from Shu to the capital.

Although Sikong Jie is a civil official, his son Sikong Qi was good at martial arts when he was a child, and often slept with knives, guns and sticks, and was called a martial idiot. His father couldn't, so he had to send him to Wudang Mountain to learn art.

When he returned to Bianliang City at the age of eighteen, a set of "Zhenwu Liuhe Fist" shocked the capital, and he won the title of martial champion during the martial arts examination, and was named the inspector of the city patrol department.

But after all, he could not escape the shadow of the old ministers of the country, he was not taken seriously, his promotion was limited, and his defeated generals were proud one by one, rising step by step.

Therefore, he was even more obsessed with martial arts and indulged in refining all kinds of strange weapons.

When he was twenty years old, the family set a family affair for him, and the daughter was the grandson of Chai Rong of the Later Zhou Dynasty and the eldest daughter of Chai Xiyu, the king of Qi, Chai Xiang, known as the Lord of Cheshire.

Later Zhou Chai Zongxun Zen Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin meritorious, so the Chai family was still crowned the king and marquis, Chai Xixu was Chai Zongxun's brother, was named King Qi.

This Chai Xiang is competitive and domineering, although he is a woman, he also likes to play with guns and sticks, so no one dares to come to the house to propose marriage at the age of eighteen or nineteen.

Sikong Jie and Chai Xiang's father Chai Xizhu are good, and they recounted that the two children love martial arts, so much so that they feel that it is a beautiful conversation and a match made in heaven, so they want to get married.

But since Sikong Qi met Liu E, all his thoughts have been on Liu E, her smile, her hearty and stubborn personality, like a tenacious grass, made Sikong Qi feel that there is light in life, and he has the courage and hope to live.

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