Don't talk about what you were passionate and upright when you were young, Qin Hui, who is in his twenties, is already good at observing words and feelings.

This has something to do with his family background, his father was a selection officer and served two terms as a county magistrate in the mountains. It is estimated that he didn't catch much oil and water, so he died, and his mother took him and his younger brother to his uncle.

Perennial sent people under the fence, but also taught the village school to subsidize the family, and he was quite talented, Qin Hui was inferior and arrogant and self-interested.

When he was a rural teacher, it is estimated that he was tossed by the bear children, and he left two residual poems angrily: If you get 300 acres of paddy fields, you will not be the king of the monkeys.

Even the entourage who went to Beijing to take the exam was borrowed from his uncle's house.

At this moment, between the conversations, Qin Hui was already carefully observing.

He felt that Zhu Ming should be the son of a big family, although he was dressed ordinarily, he carried a sword, an iron spear, an iron mace, and a bow and arrow.

In addition, Zhu Ming speaks "Spanish", and most of them belong to the children of Jiangmen - the children of Jiangmen can also take the imperial examination, and the way of the teacher is to become a military attache in Enyin first, and then change to a civil official in the examination, and he has always had the status of a civil official.

Looking at Li Hanzhang, Bai Chongyan and Ling Guxu, they are all dressed well, and they must have some backgrounds.

Either way, make a good relationship first.

With the intention of making friends, Qin Hui went back to the room to put down his luggage, took out some snacks, and ran to knock on the doors one by one. The first thing he knocked on was Zhu Ming's house: "Brother Chenggong, this is a preserved fruit brought from Jiangning, just a small gift, not a respect, thank you for giving up the guest room." ”

"Well said." Zhu Ming didn't say much.

Qin Hui is a sensitive and delicate person, and when he noticed Zhu Ming's alienated attitude, he subconsciously thought that this was the coldness of the children of the family.

So, he casually chatted a few words, and went to knock on the other room.

This product deliberately made friends, and he spoke well, Li Hanzhang, Bai Chongyan, and Ling Guxu all had a good impression of him.

When Bai Sheng came back from fostering the horses, Zhu Ming threw the preserved fruit over: "You can try the things from the south." ”

Bai Sheng quickly opened the paper bag, sat down around the table with Shi Biao, and ate snacks happily.

Looking at the bed in the room, it was no problem to sleep two, but it was too crowded to sleep three, Bai Sheng said: "Big brother sleeps on the bed, and I make a bunk with a stone." ”

"Okay, after the Lantern Festival, there will be a vacant room." Zhu Ming is not hypocritical.

After a tiring journey, they ate some dry food and fell asleep.

"Puff puff!"

Early in the morning, Li Hanzhang shouted outside the door: "Da Lang, go out to eat, I want to go to Tokyo today!" ”

After Zhu Ming finished washing, he ordered: "Shishi, you are guarding the luggage in the inn, and I will bring you food back later." ”

"Okay, I'll wait." Shi Biao nodded and said.

Zhu Ming only took a sword out of the house, went downstairs to meet everyone, and Qin Hui's house was actually there.

First walked around the city, and soon saw a food stall and a wooden sign that said "all fifteen wen".

"Let's eat here." Ling Guxu proposed.

There were many small horses next to the stall, and Li Hanzhang moved one to sit down: "One for each person, I'll treat you!" ”

This is a breakfast made of all kinds of offal boiled in water, with the heart and lungs and small intestine being the majority, and there is no large intestine. Maybe you put some powder in it, and the soup looks thick, and it comes with a small bowl of rice.

Bai Sheng quickly finished the rice and teased in a low voice: "Tokyo people just can't do it, and breakfast is very small, how can you fill your stomach?" This price is also expensive, what is the value of the water, fifteen yuan can buy a few large bowls of rice in Xixiang. ”

Zhu Ming smiled: "A few more bowls of rice!" ”

Qin Hui ate slowly, looked at Xue Daoguang curiously, and asked Chen Yuan again: "Haven't asked Mr. Daming yet?" ”

Chen Yuan said: "Chen Yuan, Nanjian people. ”

Qin Hui lived in the countryside of Jiangning (Nanjing) all the year round and had never heard of Chen Yuan's name.

Lao Chen is only famous in Fujian, Suzhou and Hangzhou, and when he goes to lecture in other places, he first reports the name of the teacher, and then the name of his uncle, so that people will treat him as a famous Confucian.

"It turned out to be Mr. Chen's face-to-face and long-admired his name." Qin Hui opened his eyes and said nonsense.

After breakfast, packed a few more portions, and asked for more rice, everyone strolled back to the inn.

You can take your time in Tokyo, but you have to hurry up to set up a stall.

According to Bai Chongyan, the stalls are in short supply during the Lantern Festival, and the merchants have already spent money to buy them, so it is impossible to let people set up stalls for free. Therefore, in the days when the Lantern Festival Lantern Market was opened, there were only about ten days left before the exam to sell goods.

Everyone took the goods, went around the city to the south, and entered the city through the Dailou Gate.

After walking a short distance, I saw both sides of the Cai River, and all the people were set up stalls.

Guozijian, Taixue, and Wuxue, these schools are all surrounded by the Cai River, and the scholars feel that there is a cultural atmosphere here, and they will not be ashamed even if they do business.

"There's a seat over there!" Bai Sheng shouted.

Everyone excused each other, and finally guessed the winner of the boxing, so that Gu Xu occupied the stall.

After walking for a while, one after another, everyone found an open space.

Zhu Ming spread a layer of linen, poured dried shiitake mushrooms on it, and put out the hundred-year-old Ganoderma lucidum specially offered by Dean Zhu.

Qin Hui is not far from the side, and this product is selling private salt.

Obviously, private salt is better to sell, because the price is very cheap, and many Kaifeng citizens sneak here to buy salt.

The scholar in the stall next door was reading a book, and Zhu Ming said casually: "In Yangzhou Zhu Ming, where is your Excellency's hometown?" ”

The scholar put down the book: "Lin Xun, from Hezhou." ”

Grass, it turned out to be a "fellow"!

Zhu Ming's father and son claimed to be from Guangxi, and this Lin Xun happened to be from Guangxi.

Zhu Ming glanced at his stall, okay, it really belongs to local specialties, all kinds of animal skins and bones, and some group teas.

Lin Xun seemed to be introverted, so he only said one sentence and continued to read.

With the passage of time, there were more and more stall stalls, and both sides of the Cai River were crowded, not to mention thousands of people.

There are also many people who buy things, and the prices here are cheap.

"How do you sell this mushroom?" A customer asked.

Zhu Ming was also reading, and Bai Sheng was in charge of selling goods: "Eighty Wen!" ”

"How much?" The customer didn't understand because Bai Sheng's accent was too strong.

"Eighty Wen." Bai Sheng gestured.

The customer shook his head: "It's too expensive." ”

Bai Sheng hurriedly said: "It's not expensive, this is dry goods, not weighing them." ”

The customer scolded and walked away, probably saying that Bai Sheng was poor and crazy.

Not long after, another man about thirty years old came, with a treasure knife hanging from his waist.

The man asked, "How many years is this Ganoderma lucidum?" ”

"To say the least, there are a hundred years." Bai Sheng said nonsense.

The man asked again, "How much?" ”

Bai Sheng said: "Three hundred." ”

"But I'm a fool." The man shook his head repeatedly.

Zhu Ming suddenly said: "Your Excellency's knife is good, and the scabbard is python skin?" ”

The man smiled: "Your sword is not bad. ”

"Can you borrow a knife and take a look?" Zhu Ming asked.

The man pulled out the knife from the sheath, but he didn't hand it over to Zhu Ming, he just held it himself.

Zhu Ming took a closer look: "Hundred steel knives? ”

"Almost." The man was quite complacent.

Zhu Ming asked, "Your Excellency is a sergeant?" ”

The man laughed at himself: "My name is Yang Zhi, and I am poor and eighty-one." Xianggong is a person who should take the exam, and he carries a sword with him, and it seems that he is both civil and military. ”

Listening to this person's self-reported name, Zhu Ming looked carefully, and there was no birthmark on his face, the nickname of the blue-faced beast must be fake.

Two more men came over, and one of them said, "Brother Yang hasn't bought salt yet?" We both bought both. ”

The man introduced: "These two are my brothers, one is called Lin Chong and the other is Sun Li. ”

Forehead...... Zhu Ming's mind was a little confused.

This leopard head Lin Chong and sick lieutenant Chi Sun Li, why did they meet the blue-faced beast Yang Zhi in Tokyo?

The reason is simple, they were all the leading soldiers in Tokyo, and when they were later sent to escort the birth of the sun, the twelve of them were also brothers. And Yang Zhi is the eldest brother, Li Jinyi (Lu Junyi's prototype) is the second brother, and Lin Chong belongs to the third brother. Hua Rong is the fifth, Chai Jin is the sixth, Zhang Qing is the seventh, Xu Ning is the eighth, and Guan Sheng is the ninth...... (From "The Remains of Xuanhe of the Great Song Dynasty").

Zhu Ming couldn't help but look at Lin Chong a few more times, and wanted to ask him if there was a beautiful lady in his family.

But looking at what he is wearing, he knows that he is not a rich man, and the head of the 800,000 forbidden army is even more nonsense.

"You are all good men, I will be cheap, fifty yuan a pound can be taken." Zhu Ming said.

Sun Lixi said: "This price is good, so I will come for ten catties!" ”

Lin Chong tugged at Sun Li's sleeve: "These scholars, it's not easy to go all the way, give us a cheap price, just buy two or three catties, don't delay him in business." ”

"Brother Lin is right." Yang Zhi made a decision, and one person bought a catty.

Watching Bai Sheng get on the scale, Zhu Ming felt a little funny.

I traveled all the way to Tokyo by myself, just to sell shiitake mushrooms to the heroes of Liangshan?

Before the heroes left, Chen Yuan began to do ...... Well, it's time to start lecturing.

He picked the place with the most people, stood on the guardrail of the Baokangmen Bridge, and said in the void: "In Xia Chen Yuan, Nanjian people, I have realized something recently. What is Tao? The daily use of the people is the ......"

For fear that the people who bought things would not understand, Chen Yuan also explained in detail: "The people's clothing, food, housing and transportation all contain the avenue. This is what is said in "Zhou Yi", the people use it every day without knowing it, so the way of a gentleman is rare. Confucius's knowledge is profound, and it is also plain, and the old peasants in the countryside can understand it......"

The first to be attracted were the scholars who set up stalls by the bridge, staring at Chen Yuan like watching a monkey show.

"That's Mr. Motang, our Great Confucian of Southern Sword Prefecture!" There was a scholar from Fujian, who recognized Chen Yuan at a glance.

As a result, the Fujian scholars stopped looking at the stalls and handed over the stalls to the entourage to deal with.

Fujian also belongs to the imperial examination province, and there are quite a few scholars nearby, and they have gathered around to listen to the lectures.

Chen Yuan's lectures must take into account both the scholars and the people.

For a while, I will quote the scriptures, and for a while I will speak in the vernacular, and explain in simple terms the three theories of my book, Taoism, and square.

And there are a lot of examples, sometimes talking about physics tips, sometimes telling ethics stories.

The relationship between social ethics also belongs to the daily use of the people.

The scholars of the provinces who watched the monkey opera at the beginning were gradually attracted by that set of theories, and from time to time they quoted the classics of the sages to question them.

Chen Yuan answered them one by one, showing a super high foundation in scripture.

Later, some scholars simply asked about the meaning of the scriptures, which had nothing to do with the content of the lectures, and only regarded Chen Yuan as a free teacher of scriptures.

Yang Zhi, Lin Chong and other big-headed soldiers also stood by the bridge and listened with relish.

In less than half an hour, it caused a traffic jam and the Baokangmen Bridge was completely blocked.

(End of chapter)