Chapter 12: The Second and Second Floors

Li Chou didn't sleep all night, and his heart was surging wildly.

Hearing movement outside the room, Li Chouxin also got up from the side of the bed, pushed open the door and walked out.

Outside the house, Ling Ziwei was watering flowers in the yard, her purple sleeves swaying gently in the wind, a strand of hair hanging down from the side, looking at the eyes, coupled with last night's experience, Li Chouxin's heartbeat couldn't help but speed up.

"Morning, sad boy." Ling Ziwei greeted Li Chouxin politely when she saw Li Chouxin walking out of the door.

Li Chou was stunned, "...... Morning, crape myrtle girl. ”

"What are Childe's plans for today?" Ziwei asked.

"Miss Ziwei, don't always shout at the son, call me sad brother in the future." Li Chou looked at Ziwei.

Ziwei blushed and said, "I know, sad brother." ”

Li Chouxin continued: "Ziwei, I want to go out today to familiarize myself with the situation in this Eling, so that it is convenient to act. ”

"Sad brother wait for me for a while." After Ziwei finished speaking, she ran to the house.

After a while, he changed into men's clothes and walked out of the room, "Worried brother, let Ziwei accompany you, so you can take care of it." ”

Li Chou saw Ziwei's expectant face, so he nodded, "That's fine." ”

The two were about to go out, and Zhu Wei also changed into men's clothes and shouted in the back: "Brother and sister, wait for me, people want to go too." ”

In the end, the two had to take Zhu Wei out together.

The three of them got out of the pharmacy and walked to the most lively place in Oroling, and on the way, Li Chou also bought breakfast for the two girls.

There was nothing unusual along the way, and as I continued walking, I was suddenly attracted by the bustle in front of me. When the three of them heard the sound, they saw that the roadside in the middle of the three-way road was full of people, and the voices of people were boiling.

Li Chouxin took a closer look, and his heart was full of doubts, how could it be so lively this early morning? Slowly raise your eyes, in front of the crowd is a particularly conspicuous building, three stories high, richly decorated on all sides, every corner is hung with copper bells and lanterns, and then look at the plaque, the three words "two or two floors" on it make people confused.

Li Chou looked at Ziwei suspiciously, but Ziwei also understood.

"These two floors are actually Hu Jin's industry, but they are all handed over to Yan Zefa to take care of, saying that it is a green building and never allowing guests to spend the night here, saying that it is a restaurant but there are singers and dancers to drink together, and entering the store must consume more than two taels, drink more than two taels, the most important thing is that the current owner of this building is also called two taels, is the daughter of Yan Zefa."

After listening to Ling Ziwei's introduction, the doubts in Li Chouxin's heart were solved a lot. "This building is a novelty, and business must be good on weekdays, right?"

"That's not necessarily, because the consumption level is stuck there, ordinary people are not willing to spend these two taels of silver to eat this meal, most of the children who come are rich children and dignitaries, and few ordinary people come and go." Ling Ziwei explained.

Li Chouxin looked at this building and couldn't help but feel that there must be some ulterior secret, so he also stepped forward to check what was so lively in the crowd. Zhu Wei also tightly pulled the sleeves of Li Ke and Ziwei on the side, for fear that they would be squeezed away by the crowd if they were not careful.

"I am the chief gentleman on the second and second floors of the preface three autumn, on weekdays in the building to chant poems for the pastime of visitors, today, entrusted by the landlord, here to set up a ring, to meet friends, of course, if you think you can't write, there is a martial arts next to you, if someone can beat me or win in that martial arts, tonight's two floors will go in and out, consumption is free, and you can meet with the landlord." I saw a man standing in front of the door and said loudly.

Li Chouxin looked at the man, and saw that the man was emaciated, with a hint of rickets on his back, dressed in a cyan long robe, with a shriveled melon seed face, a pair of mustaches and the beard of the chin were connected to the chest, his eyes were not big but there was a spirit, he was holding a puff fan in his hand, and he was holding his beard in one hand, which looked a little literati.

"This order is terrible, I heard that in the early years, I was a jinshi, and he was a good hand at making a fuss, but then he was removed from his official position because of his personal life style, and he was demoted to his hometown, and he was never hired, so he ended up here, fortunately he was appreciated by the landlord to stay on this second and second floors for eight years, to say that this Erling City, no one can compare with him." The melon-eating masses on the side are about to strip off the old bottom of the third autumn.

"Don't make a noise, the competition will begin, you should choose Wubi or Wendou as soon as possible, please be ready after choosing." Xu Sanqiu said solemnly.

"Is this order really that powerful?" Li Chou asked curiously towards Ziwei.

Before Ziwei answered, Zhu Wei grabbed the words, "Of course, don't look at this old man ugly, but it's really a little ink, a few years ago, we had a champion in Oroling, I heard that Xu Sanqiu is the most literary person in this Erling, the champion didn't believe it, he wanted to find Xu Sanqiu to compete, and in the end he was humiliated, and then he couldn't stand the fingers of others, and he jumped into the Oring River and committed suicide angrily. ”

"Let's go, let's go, it's impossible for my brother to be comparable, if you want to be happy on the second or second floors, go to the side of the martial arts, my brother will definitely be caught." That Zhu Wei looked at Li Chouxin with a wicked smile.

Li Chouxin wanted to take this opportunity to go into the building to have a look, but when this little Zhu Wei said this, she really wanted to enter the second and second floors to be chic and happy, and she was a little embarrassed for a while.

Ziwei saw the clue and asked Li Chouxin in a low voice, "Brother Chouxin, do you have any plans?" ”

Li Chou didn't hide it, "I don't think it's so simple on the second and second floors, so I want to take this opportunity to go in and investigate, but I'm afraid that your sisters will misunderstand, thinking that I want to have fun, so I'm embarrassed." ”

"I know that my brother is not that kind of person, if my brother's doctrine is certain, then go up and compete, I believe that my brother's martial arts competition will have no problem." Ziwei said with a smile to her sorrow.

Li Chouxin said: "Wubi's words are easy to expose strength, so I decided to fight." ”

As soon as these words came out, the two sisters Ziwei and Zhu Wei were stunned, and looked at Li Chouxin incredulously.

"Worried brother, don't ask for hardship for the sake of face, I think you can still compete in a down-to-earth manner, so we won't have to see you embarrassed later." Ling Zhuwei said.

Ziwei nodded in agreement.

Li Chouxin saw that the two were worried, and said slowly: "No problem, I'll see how I perform later." ”

At this time, Xu Sanqiu said: "Who dares to fight with me? ”

Li Chouxin slowly stepped forward, "I'm willing to give it a try." ”

"If you are coming, please tell yourself." Xu Sanqiu looked up and down at the handsome young man in front of him.

"In Xia Li's sorrow, I send my sorrow and Mingyue's sorrow, the pharmacy merchant." After Li Chouxin finished speaking, the audience laughed.

"This herb vendor has also come to join in the fun, not to study pharmacology and come here to compare the literary style, funny! Let's see how he ends. ”

"That's it, this is a hairy boy who doesn't take Mr. Xu in his eyes at all, he really doesn't know the height of the sky."

"That's it, it's ........"

For a while, everyone in the audience saw that it was a medicinal herb vendor who was on the field for a competition, and suddenly exploded.

Li Chouxin said: "Since ancient times, heroes don't ask where they come from, I think literati should be the same, right, Mr. Xu?" After speaking, his eyes looked at Xu Sanqiu like a torch.

Xu Sanqiu looked at Li Chouxin's eyes, but felt a strong sense of oppression, and was shocked in his heart, and said: "What Brother Li said is that whether it is true talent and real learning or indiscriminate filling will be known later, please don't be impatient." ”

"Dare to ask Mr. Xu, what is the content of the competition?" Li Chou asked the preface Sanqiu seriously.

Xu Sanqiu looked at Li Chouxin in front of him, and always felt that he had an indescribable feeling, but this feeling made him feel extremely bad, "Literati, if you can just read and write, and recite poetry, then you can't be considered a literati, you can only say that you are not illiterate, a real cultural person is not proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but there are three things that must be possessed, that is, poetry, calligraphy and painting, poetry is poetry, calligraphy is poetry, calligraphy is calligraphy, and painting is of course painting." "The third autumn head is an authentic introduction.

"Mr. Xu, don't go around in circles, what is it like? How else can it be compared? The spectators on the side really couldn't stand a mother-in-law like Xu Sanqiu.

"Don't worry, today we will compare poetry, calligraphy and painting, but it is not just poetry, calligraphy and painting, it is divided into three steps. First of all, write a poem on the topic, and then write the poem on paper with no font limit, and the third is to paint with poetry, and express the artistic conception in the poem in the form of a painting. "The third autumn of the preface is not sold after all.

"Mr. Preface, please ask for a question." Li Chou looked at Xu Sanqiu.

Hearing this, Xu Sanqiu stroked his beard with one hand, looked at the clouds with his head half-tilted and thought for a moment, and said slowly: "I will take the guest house as the theme, compose poems each, and then write them out with my most proud calligraphy, and finally paint, and the final result will be voted by everyone present to choose the winner." ”

As soon as Xu Sanqiu finished speaking, I saw the attendants on the second and second floors carrying two desks out of the door, respectively placed between Xu Sanqiu and Li Chouxin, there were all kinds of brushes of thickness and size on the desk, and a stack of good plain paper was laid on the desk, just waiting for the two to start creating.

I saw that Xu Sanqiu took the lead in exerting his strength, while fanning the pu fan, while pacing back and forth with his beard, as if he had inspiration, he chanted after a while:

When you are young, you don't have to worry about the east of the river

Wake up from a dream and live in a brocade building

Singing to beg the audience

I don't know where to go

Xu Sanqiu can be regarded as expressing his inner emotions vividly, it seems that although he has been worry-free about food and clothing on the second and second floors over the years, he has also ended up with a pleasing job, and he wants to come out, but he doesn't know where to go.

Li Chouxin listened to the poem of the third autumn and nodded, "The experience of living on the second and second floors of my guest house is so entrusted, I not only write about the frivolity of youth, but also write about the sadness of the future, which can be regarded as a good poem." ”

When everyone in the audience heard this, they applauded and said, "Mr. Xu, if you write it yourself, it is much better to write." ”

After a commotion, everyone's eyes focused on Li Chouxin, but Ling Ziwei and Ling Zhuwei on the side were extremely embarrassed, for fear that Li Chouxin would make a fool of themselves.

Ling Zhuwei also leaned up: "Brother Worried, I don't think it's okay, forget it, it's much better to admit defeat now than to make a fool of yourself later, you better go to the martial arts competition." ”

Ling Ziwei pulled Ling Zhu Wei: "Zhu Wei, don't disturb the thoughts of the sorrowful son, maybe he can write poems, if he can't write it, it's okay, and no one will take it seriously, besides, the sorrowful son ......"

Before Ling Ziwei finished speaking, she only heard Li Chouxin groan:

Gorling wine with crape myrtle

When will it take to go back and forth?

But make this night long drunk

Returning to another country as a hometown

Li Chouxin had just finished chanting, and everyone on the side praised one after another: "A good sentence makes tonight a long drunken guest, and another country will also return to his hometown." "This person is much stronger than Xu Sanqiu in terms of heart and mind.

At this time, Xu Sanqiu was also shocked by Li Chouxin's poem of living in a foreign country, he has been writing for many years, and he has never encountered such a tricky opponent, and the next calligraphy and painting can not relax his vigilance, and he must come up with the strongest means.

Ling Ziwei and Ling Zhuwei were still looking at Li Chouxin in front of them in a daze at this time, with a look of disbelief, and in a moment, Li Chouxin was able to write such a poem, which really made the two of them just arrive in surprise and surprise, and when they came back to their senses, Ling Zhuwei suddenly said: "Sister, did you mention you in Brother Sad's poem just now?" ”

Ling Ziwei's face suddenly flushed, thinking back to Li Chouxin's poem just now, the first sentence was "Gorling wine with Ziwei", is the sorrowful son really talking about himself, what he wants to express is that he came to Oroling and has wine to accompany him? The more crape myrtle thought about it, the faster her heart beated.

Xu Sanqiu asked without giving up at this time: "Li Gongzi, since you have written a poem, let me tell you what it means." ”

Li Chouxin looked at everyone and looked puzzled, so he explained: "Goring wine with crape myrtle, from the south to the north, when to return, which means to come to Oroling, although it is a foreign country, but there is wine and crape myrtle accompaniment, from the south to the north, I don't know when to return." After that, Li Chouxin looked at the crape myrtle and explained: "And this crape myrtle can be a crape myrtle flower in full bloom, and of course it can also be a person."

"But let the drunken guest tonight be long, and the other country will also return to his hometown. It means that since you have come to another country, as long as tonight's wine can make people drunk and not want to wake up, even a foreign country can be regarded as a hometown. ”

After Li Chouxin finished explaining, everyone applauded, and Ziwei was also dizzy by the explanation just now, and her face was hot.

"My sad brother is too partial, he actually wrote about his sister, and he wrote it so emotionally, it's too partial, hum!" Ling Zhuwei said with an unhappy face.

Xu Sanqiu saw that Li Chouxin stole his limelight, and said disdainfully: "Although the poem is good, if you want to win the competition, you have to look at the performance of the next two games. After that, he looked at Li Chouxin with contempt on his face, and he also picked up the pen and put pen on the paper.

Li Chou saw that Sanqiu began to write in a good manner, but he was not in a hurry, took off the wine jug on his waist and took a sip, seeing that everyone was confused.

Xu Sanqiu soon presented his writing works in front of everyone, only to see that the word pen is calm and free, and the whole picture looks very harmonious, which can be regarded as a good product.

Xu Sanqiu was immersed in everyone's praise for a while, and raised his hand from time to time to thank him.

Li Chouxin also put away the wine jug, stepped forward to remove a piece of white paper from the desk and threw it into the air, others unconsciously thought that Li Chouxin was going to give up the competition, just when everyone shook their heads, the paper actually stood vertically in the air and spread out, Li Chouxin dipped in ink and jumped with a pen, above the air, waving the ink, stunned everyone, in a moment, a few lines of big characters jumped on the paper, although there is no sequence of three autumns as continuous, the situation is strange, the amplitude is uncertain, but very calm, generous, solid, but in the meantime it continues to exude a sense of informality, transcendence, It's amazing.

Li Chouxin slowly landed, and the paper on which the poem was written also fell, Li Chouxin held it with one hand and showed it in front of him, only to hear the sound of clapping his hands and shouting for a while.

Seeing that Li Chou was so attained, although he was not convinced, he naturally knew the victory or defeat, and stepped forward and said: "Li Gongzi is really hidden, and his attainments in martial arts must be not ordinary." ”

Li Chouxin said: "Mr. Xu is looking at the bottom, but he only worshiped a master in the early years, and he only learned three or five tricks. ”

Seeing that Li Chou was reluctant to show it, Xu Sanqiu said: "Today's third round doesn't need to be compared, judging from the comparison of the first two games, it was Li Gongzi who won, and then going down is just a humiliation for Xu Mou, Li Gongzi's attainments far surpass Xu Mou, and Xu Mou is obedient." ”

Li Chou saw that Xu Sanqiu was like this, and said politely: "Mr. Xu's words are serious, Mr. Xu is also a treasure knife, and it is just a fluke in the future, so I will have a chance to learn from each other in the future." ”

"As long as Li Gongzi is willing, that's natural." Xu Sanqiu said as he wanted to invite Li Chouxin to the second and second floors.

Li Chouxin waved his hand and said: "It's too early to enter the building, and besides, I wait for the first time here, and I want to get familiar with it during the day, so I will temporarily bother Mr. to write it down first, and when the sun is thin, I will come to get drunk with Mr. ”

"It's okay, it's so good, then Xu Mou is waiting for Li Gongzi to come when he arrives." The third autumn of the preface returned.

Li Chouxin turned around, took the second daughter of the Ling family and quickly left the crowd, and began to wander around, very leisurely.

And the scene that happened downstairs was naturally also seen by Yan Erliang upstairs, and he became interested in Li Chouxin, so he ordered the secret guard behind him: "Go and find out who this Li Chouxin is?" ”

On the way, Ling Ziwei suddenly asked with a worried face: "Worried son, do you really want to go to the second and second floors tonight?" ”

Li Chou replied: "Naturally, since these two floors are related to Hu Jin and Yan Zefa, there is nothing wrong with going to walk around, maybe you can find out something." ”

Zhu Wei said with a strange face: "My sad brother wants to go to the flower bar, and just a poem made my sister fascinated. ”

When Ziwei heard this, her face, which had not long regained her calm, turned red again.

Seeing this, Li Chou said with some embarrassment: "You little girl, you see that your sister is embarrassed." Don't worry, I'm just going to go in and investigate, and it won't be like you say. ”

After a day of shopping, Liu Chouxin is also familiar with this Orochi. In the evening, after Li Chouxin sent Ling Ziwei and Ling Zhuwei back to Sanmiaotang, he changed his clothes and was about to rush to the second and second floors.

When they were about to go out, the Ling sisters were talking and laughing in the courtyard, and when they saw Li Chouxin, they were about to go out after changing their clothes.

Ling Ziwei stepped forward and said, "Worried son, be careful, the second and second floors should not be as simple as they seem." ”

Ling Zhuwei suddenly interrupted: "Sister, what are you worried about what he is doing, you see that he has also changed his clothes, he must be going to drink flower wine, what danger can there be in drinking flower wine, right, sad brother!" ”

Li Chouxin looked at the second sister, smiled, and said: "It's okay, I'm measured, I'm just going to see today, if I can get any results, it's better, if not, it will be a lot more convenient with this doorway." ”

After that, Li Chouxin went to the second and second floors to go to the appointment of the Japanese and thin West Mountain.