Chapter 140: The Twelve Lents of the Red Chamber
Hook the fence and add fragrance to the red mansion.
The entertainment places at the feet of the Son of Heaven are naturally not comparable places.
The goulan in Luoyang City cannot be called a "courtyard", and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a district. If you really want to visit it all over, even if you look at it, it will take more than an hour.
In addition, the Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, the atmosphere of the festival is fermenting, and all large and small opera troupes, from south to north, gather here, and the means of circulating silver are strange, dazzling and breathtaking.
"Vase girl, hey! Come and see the girl who grew up in a vase since childhood! β
"Beautiful snake! Beauty Snake! It only costs 30 cents to open your eyes! β
"Childe, come in and take a look, I guarantee that you will linger and touch its ass!"
"Whew! Song is reading Spring and Autumn! How can you do such a dirty thing as touching your ass? β
After all, Song Che is rich and noble, and the money bag on his waist is rattling, and he is the object of greeting wherever he goes.
It's a pity that Shen Wenjun couldn't go along, otherwise she would definitely be happy here.
Walking through the bustling city, turning into the depths of the hook column, a magnificent, colorful building comes into view, you don't need to ask for directions to know, there is the largest green building in Luoyang City - Red Mansion Twelve Lent.
The high-end club, Bai Ding stopped, and the people who came and went were all luxurious celebrities, among which there were the most literati and scholars wearing Confucian robes and hairpins.
The true colors of men, celebrities and gentlemen, wind and snow, are reasonable.
Everyone is a hand-cranked paper fan, with a jade smell hanging on their waists, and they enter the Red Mansion in groups, but Song Che has a bulging ash jar, which is somewhat out of tune.
"Those who enter the Red Mansion, please invest one or two silver, always money."
At the gate of the Red Mansion, two maids in the flower season each guard two large boxes, and guests need to throw in tickets to cross the threshold.
The largest green building in the capital only charges one or two silvers, is the threshold too low?
Song Che took out a tael of silver and threw it into the box, and asked the maid: "Little girl, a tael of silver is a pass?" β
The maid smiled: "This is the first time the official has come to the Red Mansion, right?" One or two pieces of silver is just a festive money that crosses this big threshold, there are twelve courtyards in our red building, then there are twelve thresholds, the official likes which courtyard girl, so he looks for the archway to find them, and the tickets range from thirty to fifty. β
No wonder it's so cheap, it turns out that there is hidden consumption.
"I do have a favorite girl, but I only know her name, I don't know where she is, your red mansion is so big, how can I find her?" Song Che asked.
The maid said: "After entering the courtyard and going west, crossing the Qiushui Lake from the bridge corridor, you will see a small building of Ruyi, there is a Dr. Liu in the small building, he is an official sent to the Red Mansion by the Department of Education, and is in charge of the registration and dispatch of the female dependents of the Red Mansion, you can ask him for inquiries. β
"Thank you, girl, for your advice."
Song Che followed the guidance of the maid, entered the courtyard and went to the west, he didn't know if he didn't go, the more he walked, the more he was amazed, the outside of the Red Mansion was majestic and magnificent, and there was a hole inside. Whenever I thought I was going to the end, I crossed a bridge corridor and turned over a rockery, and it suddenly opened up again.
Song Che walked briskly for more than a quarter of an hour before he could find the Ruyi small building.
In the courtyard of the small building, a large group of people gathered, all of them elegantly dressed literati, they talked and laughed with each other, as if they were waiting for something.
"Excuse me, I'm here to find Dr. Liu." Song Che wanted to squeeze through the crowd, but was pushed out, and there was a Confucian saying:
"We're all here to find Dr. Liu, don't think about cutting in line."
Song Che wondered in his heart, thinking that these people didn't line up, so why not cut in line?
It's not that there is prejudice against people who "wear glasses", Daliang Fenghua emphasizes literature and light martial arts, and has raised a lot of poor and sour Confucians, and those who are full of mouths are also arrogant, but they are actually mediocre and proud, and bullshit is not!
"I'm here to check Dr. Liu's household registration, aren't you too?" Song Che asked again.
"Check your account? Hahaha......" The crowd laughed.
"Look at his appearance, he is an ordinary man, the threshold of this wishful building needs to be raised."
"We are waiting for the crowd to gather here, to negotiate elegance and recite poetry, why don't you go to the Ouchi Palace if you want to check your household registration?"
"Don't pay attention to it, it's insulting."
It is no wonder that the Great Liang Dynasty was bullied everywhere, and most of the people who brought disaster to the country and the people were these poor and rotten Confucians, flies and dogs, and barked wildly.
"Look, Dr. Liu is finally out!"
I saw an old man in a Confucian robe who was over fifty years old, with a blue face, holding a picture scroll and stepping out of the door, he was proud and proud, and had three points of literati style.
Dr. Liu cleared his throat and said to everyone first: "The golden sentences of tonight's poetry meeting are written by Miss Langyue herself, and the old man is the examiner. β
"Don't say that you have a good time with Miss Langyue, even if you can say a word to her, you can count it as no regrets in this life!"
"I've been speculating about the poetry of the moon girl for more than half a year, and I am the beauty tonight!"
The Confucian scholars rubbed their hands and couldn't wait.
Dr. Liu spread out the scroll, revealing four rows of dragons flying and phoenixes dancing, with poems:
The green tile and red mansion fall and fly flowers, how old is the green silk and white hair?
There is no regret in this life, and there is a fate in the next life.
"Harm! This...... It's a love poem! β
"In my opinion, Miss Langyue is bored in this red mansion for too long and is unwilling to be lonely, so she came out with this golden sentence to find her lover!"
"What's so hard about that? And I wrote a poem: Xiaosheng has no talent, please come to yourself, find a lover and be happy, uh...... Uh-"
"Okay, Brother Wang, you can chant these two sentences, even the five-year-old scholars in the academy can chant, or listen to my quatrain: The beauty of the Red Chamber is drunk with dreams, the green silk and white hair are made by me, I have no regrets in this life, and I will continue to be the front in the next life! How about the sentence? β
"Such a verse, dare to call itself a quatrain? People write the seven laws, you chant the five laws, the donkey's head is not the horse's mouth, don't be ashamed, or look at my ......"
The Confucian scholars scrambled to be the first to come up with sentences, some of them were limericks, some of them were saliva songs, and some of them could only spell out two sentences, and a small number of people could make them neatly.
"In my opinion, let's stop tonight, Miss Moon's golden sentence is indeed not something that ordinary people can match." Dr. Liu waved his hand in disappointment, put away the scroll, and planned to go back to his room.
"Wait."
Aunt Song spoke up, "Doctor, listen, I have a few poems hereβ"
"A few more! You, an ordinary man, also know poetry and songs? Don't be smiling and generous! β
Before Song Che could speak, some Confucian scholars questioned it.
Of course, Song Che won't tell these mediocre talents, he was also a representative of the Chinese class when he was in elementary school!
Song Che ignored the doubts and ridicule, and chanted loudly:
"Ten miles of Pinghu is full of frost, every inch of green silk is sad for the Chinese year, and the moon-shaped single looks at each other, only envy the mandarin ducks and not the immortals...... The poem is called "A Chinese Ghost Story". β
At this moment, the most powerful response is a good poem.
The Confucians secretly speculated to themselves, but no one dared to refute it.
Dr. Liu frowned, savoring it.
"Not satisfied? I still have poems," Song Che paused, and then chanted: "There are beautiful ladies in the boudoir, and the people in the room poison my intestines, and the phoenixes and phoenixes return to their hometowns, and travel all over the world to seek their phoenix...... The poem is called "The Phoenix Seeks the Phoenix". β
Anyway, it's not a regular dynasty, and these great poets won't jump out to collect copyright fees, and the ancient poetry reserves in Song Che's mind are completely fine with chanting more than a dozen poems in one go.
"Dr. Liu is still not satisfied? I'm alsoβ"
"Satisfied! Extremely satisfied! Such a good sentence is rare in the world, so don't be too widespread! Dr. Liu personally went down to the eaves, pulled Song Che and walked to the house.
On the walls of the house, there are poems and paintings, and the signatories are all talented women in the Red Mansion, such as Langyue, Linghua, and Hanxiang.
The Red Mansion is not a vulgar prostitute butcher house, where poetry and songs, dance and music, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, all kinds of things.
Dr. Liu sharpened his ink and wrote down the poems that Song Che had chanted earlier on rice paper, and when he was finished, he looked up and asked with a smile: "I don't know what is the name of the son?" These two poems of yours should be on the list and invited to be enjoyed by literati and writers. β
If you name it, it will really be plagiarism, and it will be a bit offensive to embezzle other people's verses, Song Che doesn't want to be a thief, he shook his head and said: "I don't like fame, the doctor can be named 'nameless'."
Dr. Liu exclaimed: "How many literati and writers in the world are looking forward to one day being famous in the world, and there are not many people in the Liang Dynasty who are as indifferent to fame and fortune as Gongzi." β
The doctor didn't insist on it, and finally wrote an anonymous name, and then he took a purple token and handed it to Song Che: "Show this purple gold order, all the courtyards of the Red Chamber can be unimpeded, and they are all guests and seats; The girl of the moon is in the 'September Fasting', she loves to make friends with literati and scholars, and she will definitely be favored by her with her child's talent. β
Listening to the maid who guarded the door before, the threshold of each courtyard in the Red Mansion is less than thirty or forty times, although this purple gold order is only valid for one night, a trip can save a lot of money;
As for the girl who made the moon, to be honest, Song Che has never lacked confidants around him, after all, he is a married man, and he has too much intersection with the woman in the dust, and his conscience can't get over.
"When I visited Xiaozhu, I actually wanted to ask Dr. Liu to help me find someone," Song Che said: "She is my distant cousin, who was imprisoned in the Red Chamber as an official prostitute a few days ago because her father committed a crime. β
"Can she be surnamed Cao?" Dr. Liu asked.
Song Che said: "It's Cao Lin." β
Dr. Liu sighed lightly: "Coincidentally, she is serving in September. β
She ...... How are you doing? β
"The ladies in the Red Mansion, even if they serve tea and water, wash and sweep the floor, they don't have to worry about food and clothing, those who accept their fate are doing well, and those who refuse to accept their fate love to practice themselves, alas."
Dr. Liu's two sighs are enough to explain everything.
Although Cao Tian is not a member of the court, he is also a person who can enter the house, Cao Lingui is an only daughter, which is a pearl in the palm of her hand, but now she has plummeted and become the lowest prostitute in society, such a huge contrast, most of them will be difficult to accept.
Song Che thanked him and quit Xiaozhu.