Chapter 3 The Northern Song Dynasty's Rivals
After bullying the tsundere's 'quasi-concubine', Jiang Chen was in a good mood.
While admiring the customs and people of Bianjing, while looking for ways to make money, at noon, I had walked from the outer city to Panlou Street in the inner city.
Although I thought of a lot of good ideas to make money along the way, it was a pity that I was penniless and had no cost.
He was hungry and thirsty, and secretly worried, when he suddenly saw his cousin walking towards him with a food box, and he was immediately happy.
"Cousin, fate! I just missed you, and I saw you! ”
Jiang Chen hugged his cousin's shoulders affectionately.
Belch......
"Why are you here?"
My cousin had a ghostly expression on his face, and said very unawares: "I just bought candied fruit for the guest, and I am in a hurry to send it over, and I will talk about it when I have something to say when I go home." ”
As he spoke, he shook off Jiang Chen's arm and walked quickly into the Moon Tower on the side.
"I have nothing to say to you, I'm hungry. Cousin, please invite me to a bowl of noodles! ”
Jiang Chen stuck to his cousin's back like a candy.
"Hmm......
Do you really want to eat me? How can people like us afford to eat the food in Mochizuki Tower? ”
My cousin is angry!
This little bastard ate his whole day's rations at a meal last night, grabbed porridge and drank it this morning, and made his baby daughter cry angrily, and now he still has the face to let himself invite him to eat noodles?
It's just too much of a bastard and so shameless!
"How much money can a bowl of noodles eat you? It's stingy!
Forget it, let's have a bowl of tea! ”
Jiang Chen glanced at his cousin with disdain, found a vacant seat a little closer to the storyteller in the hall and sat down.
"You ......"
My cousin trembled with anger.
However, after a while, he still brought Jiang Chen a bowl of hot tea.
Just as he was about to leave with a dark face, a bald middle-aged literati at the next table suddenly stopped him, and said with an unkind face:
"Liu Laohan, what are you thinking about my relationship with your widow niece? Why are you still refusing to give me an answer? ”
Well?
Jiang Chen immediately frowned and looked over.
The cousin was even more displeased, waved his hand and said, "Mr. Lu, my niece has already rejected your matchmaker, and now she is married to a wife, so you don't have to mention this matter again." ”
"Nonsense!
How can she, a woman, make her own decisions about marriage? It's just out of place! ”
Lu Wenbin slapped the table and stood up, and asked angrily:
"Who is she married to?
Zhang's subordinates said that she wanted to marry a scholar, but she refused to be a concubine, could there be a better scholar than me who was willing to marry her as a widow? ”
"Are you good?"
Jiang Chen stood up with a cold face, and said lightly: "In Xia Jiangchen, it is the father-in-law of the Liu family." I don't know what you think is better than this old man?
If you're older than you, or if someone has less hair on the top of your head, you're going to have to bow down! ”
"Hahaha......"
Everyone looked at the young and handsome Jiang Chen, and then at the older and bald Lu Wenbin, and they couldn't help but burst out laughing.
"You ......"
Lu Wenbin's face turned blue with anger, and he stared at Jiang Chen with hatred in his eyes and said, "You are such a young scholar that you are willing to marry a widow?"
No wonder she rejected my kindness.
But there is one thing I don't understand, how touching is that little widow? can make you so ignorant of self-love, you can't even care about your reputation and future! ”
Hearing this, everyone looked at Jiang Chen with gossip on their faces.
One of the old scholars was even more angry: "I don't want to study hard and make progress when I am young, but I destroy my reputation for the sake of women, and I simply read the books of sages in vain!" ”
Not......
Seeing this, my cousin lowered his head with a weak face.
Jiang Chen smiled lightly, and arched his hand to the old man and the onlookers:
"Ladies and gentlemen, I can't hide it, my wife is the daughter of my cousin, and the elders of both sides have already had an oral marriage contract. I went to Beijing this time because I heard that she had become a widow and wanted to come to quit her family, but ......"
As he spoke, he suddenly said with a moved face: "But when I heard my cousin say that she violated the marriage contract in order to fulfill her filial piety and save Chongxi, the nephew of the Zhang family's housemother, I couldn't say anything about quitting my family."
I kept asking myself, is it wrong for her to be filial? Is it wrong for her kind-hearted desire to save people?
Ladies and gentlemen, please answer me! ”
Uh, this ......
Everyone was stunned!
My cousin was stunned!
Lu Wenbin was dumbfounded!
The old man who accused Jiang Chen bowed his hand with shame on his face and said:
"I didn't expect Mrs. Zun to be such a filial and good woman; Jiang Gongzi did not hesitate to be famous for the sake of trustworthiness! The old man lost his words just now, and asked Jiang Gongzi to atone for his sins! ”
"You're getting old!"
Jiang Chen hurriedly stepped forward to help the old man up, and replied: "The elder is willing to teach the younger generation, which is the blessing of the younger generation. The so-called if there is a change, and if there is none, it will be encouraged. Don't dare to give you a salute! ”
"Good! Good!
is so trustworthy and sensible at a young age, the children can be taught, the children can be taught! ”
The old man patted Jiang Chen's shoulder with a relieved face, and then reprimanded Lu Wenbin, who was embarrassed: "A woman's name is more important than life and death, and you are casually slandered when you are rejected, is it a scholar's doing?" ”
"I just mistakenly believed the villain words of the people of Zhang's house."
Lu Wenbin was scolded so red-faced, and the strange eyes of the people around him made him feel like he was on pins and needles, and he couldn't help but stalk his neck.
"Humph!"
Seeing that he knew his mistake but did not admit it, the old man snorted coldly in disgust, turned his head and smiled at Jiang Chen:
"Jiang Xiaoyou, Wu Yuquan of the contemptible Jiuzhai Publishing Society, these are my best friends. If you don't dislike it, why don't you come and sit down with me and have a drink? ”
"This is an honor for the younger generations! I've seen all the gentlemen! ”
Jiang Chen arched his hand, stared at the four-color dim sum fruit plate on the table, and moved over.
Just as he was about to start eating, there was a sudden burst of applause on the second floor, and then countless copper coins and scattered pieces of silver were thrown onto the small high platform in the hall.
Well?
Is storytelling so profitable?
Jiang Chen's eyes were hot for a while.
couldn't help but ask Wu Yuquan: "Old Wu, I don't know what rules and requirements there are for telling stories here?" The juniors just have a few novelties......"
As he was talking, Lu Wenbin suddenly stood up, and said in a loud voice of disdain:
"What novel words can you have as a yellow-mouthed child? It's just that I've listened to a few country jokes and whimsically want to make money!
Hum!
I advise you to save it! Not everyone can come to the building! ”
After that, he walked up to the high platform with a sneering face, slapped the small wooden plank, and talked about the White Snake.
After listening to a few words, Wu Lao shook his head boringly, and asked Jiang Chen, "Jiang Xiaoyou, do you really have a novel script?" ”
"Of course!"
Jiang Chen smiled confidently and said, "Just talk about this White Snake Story, the younger generation has a different version called the Legend of the New White Lady." The white lady inside is not only not vicious and terrifying, but is also a Daoist fairy who is dedicated to repaying her kindness and having a bodhisattva heart.
is the so-called: flute is a life-saving song, and the fate of three lives is determined in this love.
Thousands of years have passed in the mountains, and the bright moon has seen the flowers fall again......"
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