Chapter 33: Fame
Purchasing supplies is not a problem for me, I used to stay in the theater troupe of Rolling Floor, and I am very familiar with daily necessities, especially helping logistics stones to organize supplies frequently, and settling is different from wandering, some things are fixed.
However, Azhu is not in a hurry to help me buy things, but wants to eat Meimei first. The first thing that took me to the No. 1 restaurant in March City: Heavenly Fresh. There are two signature dishes in this sky, called Baiyu Tuzhu, and the other is not a dish but soup, called Phoenix Soup. This 100 fish spit beads are particularly peculiar, it is a hundred kinds of fish face meat spelled together, each fish face hides two fish eyes under it, although it is a hundred fish spit beads, but usually do it is ten fish spit beads, only when the big pomp is really hundreds of fish face meat, delicious, the ingredients come from the Erlong River outside the city.
Phoenix soup is a kind of pheasant that is common in this Daguang mountain range, the scientific name is long-tailed chicken, commonly known as the earth phoenix, the soup made by this chicken is delicious, the internal organs are picked, all rely on the broth to cook, the ingredients are only one kind, it is the water onion that is abundant here, drink a sip of the whole body is comfortable, fatigue is eliminated, and has a nourishing effect.
This heavenly fresh, there are four floors, eight big guises, when the meal is full, you have to get the number outside to queue, it is the first restaurant in March City, the business is booming, as high as the officials and nobles, as small as the common people, plus the merchants, as long as you have silver can pay for the signature dishes of the heavenly fresh.
What I didn't expect was that Ah Zhu actually loved to drink, and his little face was red from drinking, although I also accompanied two glasses, but I was not strong enough to drink, and my little face turned red after two cups. No wonder she put the whole wine glass next to her when she spoke, it turned out that she wanted to drink when she had the silver. Not only love to drink, but also thieves can drink, the big head of the jar drank a big jar in one breath, breathless, face does not change, this amount of alcohol shocked me speechless, in the end if I didn't pull her out of the restaurant, but also shouted to move the fresh wine vat in the sky.
Passers-by pointed and said, "This little Taoist priest is actually a Taoist priest who is greedy for wine." ”
But we didn't go far, and just as we walked by, four scholars stopped our way.
The four of them are all holding folding fans, either open or closed, with a face of pen and ink, wearing black, yellow, blue, and green four-color Xiucai robes, and at first glance they are learned talents. The black caftan silk painting crane, the crane is vivid, leading the neck to sing, the yellow caftan is painted with plum blossoms, looming, the cyan caftan is painted with porcelain, a large vase, the vase is painted with a beautiful tray, ornamental porcelain, the green caftan is a little bamboo, lightly embellished.
The four of them are handsome and in the prime of their youth, but the appearance of the hippie smiling face is slightly cynical and disrespectful, among which the crane robe Xiucai has a big mole on his forehead, and there is an inch-long black hair on the mole, which is a little funny to look at. I have been messing with Master for a long time, and my skill in understanding people's faces has naturally improved slightly, and I directly judged that these four people must be extremely talented, but because they are used to promiscuity, they will habitually meddle in things, and it seems that they want to find us trouble.
Sure enough, the crane robe Xiucai asked, "Since the two little Taoist priests are cultivators, why do they drink alcohol?"
Although Azhu has seen a lot in the market, he often chooses to escape in the face of danger and trouble, but it is different for me, my master and I want to make a name for ourselves here, I am a senior brother, especially a new junior sister who dares to hold my arm, so naturally I have to show it. The so-called troubles and risks are also opportunities and challenges, and the troubles in front of us are opportunities. These four people are obviously famous talents, so this opportunity can be regarded as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and I will definitely give Shangyunguan a name.
I smiled slightly: "The Tao is between heaven and earth, there are all things in heaven and earth, wine is one of all things, if you don't understand everything, how can you cultivate the Tao? If you understand the Great Dao but don't know the small reason, how can you achieve the integration of heaven and earth? Therefore, how can a Taoist priest understand the subtlety of wine if he does not drink. Buddhism has a cloud: wine and meat pass through the intestines, the Buddha stays in his heart, then we cultivators must integrate into the world, in order to understand the suffering of the common people, in order to help the world with the fruits of cultivation. If you don't know what wine tastes like, how can you explain the way of wine and meat to the world?"
The four Xiucai listened to my answer, looked at each other, and then laughed, and my words just now also attracted many passers-by to stop and come to watch.
"Haha...... Ha ha...... Interesting...... It's so interesting!"
Laughing, except for the crane robe Xiucai, the other three stood aside, leaving the crane robe Xiucai alone, it seems that the reputation of four dozen and one is damaged, and I am regarded as a little child, he folded the fan to his waist and said: "Do you know the mystery of wine? Since the Tao is so good, the wine must also be very understanding, it is better to listen to it." ”
How do I understand wine, and the wine power is average, but Azhu's wine power is very strong, and I don't know if she understands wine, but sometimes you don't understand things and answer positively will be laughed at, I rolled my eyes and thought to my heart: "How can the mystery of wine be said with the mouth, and the mystery of wine is drunk with the mouth." ”
As soon as I replied, several onlookers shouted together, "That's good!"
He robed Xiucai praised: "Clever! I just don't know where the little Taoist priest came from, why did he pass by here, why have he never seen it?"
If you answer the other party's question head-on, the easier it is to fall into the trap, as the so-called Xiucai encounters the soldier is unreasonable, I will simply come to a question that is not answered, since it is a cultivator, it is necessary to be mysterious, I raised my neck and said: "This small path was born between heaven and earth, is born and grew up in the monk, early regarded the sky as the father, the earth as the mother, the river as food, the mountain as the bed, you ask me where I came from, I came from the Tao, naturally I have to walk in the Tao." It's you talents, who are idle all day long, rampage on the road, standing in a row, blocking others from walking, and affecting the path to walk in the middle of the road. Even if you are an idle person like you, even if you have gained fame, what contribution can you make to society? Will you become a producer if you have gained fame? No, you may become a person who does great bad things with a salary. ”
"Good! That's right!" These words won the hearts of the people, and some people applauded.
Hepao Xiucai was slightly embarrassed and said: "If I become an official, I must be a good official." ”
"Then you have to be admitted to the lifting of people first!"
"If I am admitted to the promotion and become an official again, I will be a good official. ”
"Good officials, good officials, why do you all have mules and horses after you become officials, wives and concubines are in groups, enslave others, travel with carriages and horses, and sleep with wide clothes. Do you pay more than the peasants and workers? Why do the peasants and workers in the workshops pay their whole lives and not enjoy all of this? You can enjoy everything even though you don't do anything? Why do you have to let the sects and cultivators fight to the death when the foreign enemy invades and the world is in chaos, while you sing and dance to level the peace, and look at the three attics on the March Lake, are they built for the common people? Is it true that the great chaos in the world is caused by the peasants and workers?"
"The child doesn't understand the middle room, so he dares to speak wildly?"
"Don't tell me that kind of rat goes into the study - chewing words, I'm not talking about wild words, I'm talking about the voice of the people! When society becomes this kind of giver who pays more and has nothing, and those who don't pay more have everything, this society will be sick, and there will be problems in this country that cultivates immortals. ”
"Then what does this have to do with your cultivation?"
"Of course, it has a relationship, the Tao is not only the Dao of Heaven and Earth for immortal cultivators, but also the Dao of the country and the way of the people between Heaven and Earth. It's not right for my little Taoist priest to take a sip of wine, so how many of you who have gained fame are pursuing the road of serving the people? Just look at how many Qing officials in the world are there, and how many of them are for others when they get fame? Don't think that you can point fingers at others after reading the books of sages for a few days, first of all, you have to be a person who knows how to be loyal, righteous, filial piety, and love the people like a son, first of all, you have to be in awe of the homeland, the heavens, the earth, the mountains and rivers to be worthy of speaking, the cultivator is also the people, and the cultivator is also the mountains and rivers, you are just a little show and is so arrogant and blocking the way, what is the difference between the wild dogs that block the way, such a low-level person, give me a dodge!"
"Good...... That's a great thing to say! Where is this little Taoist priest, what a sharp mouth!"
"Little Taoist priest with sharp teeth!"
"I ...... Yes, the cultivators of the Cloud Temple, Yun Zhongzi is also, my master Ding Yuanzi is a master of the Tao in the world, if there is a questioner, you can go up the mountain and ask. ”
"Haven't you heard of Shangyunguan?"
"It can't be the Seven Mile Temple, right?"
I shouted, "The old master of Qiliguan has been seated, and my master has changed the name of Qiliguan!"
I shouted, and suddenly the crowd was like a tide, and there was a loud noise, discussing the past Dingzhenzi, that Dingyuanzi must be a junior or something, it turned out that Dingzhenzi was a stupid Taoist, and so on.
The three words of Shangyunguan immediately spread throughout March City. In particular, there were two little Taoist priests in Shangyunguan, who went down the mountain to eat and drink, and spoke wildly, but they spoke deeply in the hearts of the people, and his master must be an even more remarkable figure.
To be honest, I'm not strict at all, I don't think it's completely right, but ordinary people often like to hear it.
The surrounding people gossiped, making the crane robe Xiucai look helpless, and he said cheekily: "Don't go, since it is said that there is a way in wine, then let's fight for wine." ”
"Fight hard, who is afraid that you will not succeed? It depends on whether you are a scholar who can swallow rivers or we who are cultivators can drink the lakes and seas. I, let my junior brother drink with you. I don't bother to taste wine with you, hum!" "My hum is like a child's milk, after all, I am still in the period of voice change, and sometimes there is a child's voice, this hum, makes the surrounding people laugh. Then there was a burst of shouting voices: fighting, drinking, coughing, these people, they like to watch the excitement, lest the world will not be chaotic.
Just walked out of the door of the heavenly fresh, there were many people at the door of the heavenly fresh, I heard that there was a fight for wine, and more people came over with hula and cheered, and it was lively.
Wine fighting, fist fighting, fighting methods, etc., are also commonplace in the world of cultivating immortals, and it is normal for the two parties to disagree with each other, and it is normal for the restaurant to fight wine, which can increase the prestige and popularity of the restaurant. But if you fight wine indoors, it is easy to fight out of anger and knock over the tables, chairs and benches, so the shopkeeper heard that there was a good show, and directly moved out some dilapidated tables and chairs after asking the shopkeeper for instructions, and it doesn't matter if these tables and chairs are smashed, anyway, drink more wine, then the wine money will be doubled, and whoever loses will pay, this is the rule.
Xiucai is better to bully, if it's a demon hunt or something, I have to speak a little measured. These young talents are mostly stupid people in the play, but in fact, those who have read poetry and books are well-informed in the books, but they lack some practice. I suddenly turned my studies directly to social topics, which made them a little busy and confused, and finally they had to fight for alcohol.
I'm just in the aura period, a few shows are also at the level of the aura period, and the highest level of the spirit root is the crane robe show level five spirit root, in the world of the demon envoy and the immortal emperor, no one dares to kill people in the street, no matter how angry you are, you have to endure it, at most fighting wine, fighting cards, guessing boxing, etc., no matter how good he is, he can't treat me as an orthodox Taoist, not to mention that this small path is immediately famous, who dares to mess with me? Of course, over time, there are big and small contradictions between the people, and they are used to not doing it easily, this is the true face of the world of cultivating immortals.
The crane robe Xiucai said: "First go to the three altars and eighteen miles of red!"
As soon as my junior sister heard that the wine house was fun, anyway, the senior brother has money, drink enough, I saw a trace of cunning joy on his face, and I also felt that he really made the best use of his talents.
The junior sister shouted: "I want the eight altars of old Jinsong." ”
At that moment, my face turned green when I saw the crane robe.
Women are born with three points of wine, I believe it. Not to mention that the show is green, a long black line was drawn on the faces of the onlookers.
Lao Jinsong was domineering when he heard the name. However, the name of Eighteen Miles Red is not bad, which means that after drinking this wine, the face is red and strong after walking eighteen miles. Lao Jinsong is a famous domineering wine in March City, and ordinary people drink a cup to get it, and my junior sister will call it Eight Altars when she comes up.
There are some rules for this bucket of wine, if the three altars can't even drink the three altars, the eight altars will be counted as winning even if they drink five altars, but if the three altars of the three altars are drunk, the people of the eight altars will only win after drinking the eight altars, and if they only drink seven and a half altars, they will be considered lost.
As soon as the wine jar was put on the table, the table was tilted, and Xiao Er put the wine jar on the ground without recruiting, and the masses supervised.
When I saw this posture and this influence, how could I make full use of it, I thought of some of the techniques I learned from Xinxi, and remembered that Master Kong Zhi led me to set up a bureau for ten thousand foreign people, I suddenly thought about it, and hurriedly stopped: "Alas, wait, what's the point of let's fight who can drink? Let's make a bet, it's interesting." ”
As soon as the crowd heard this, they had fun again, and several people coaxed: "Okay, bet, bet." ”
"Everyone, be quiet, let me explain. This fight is really boring than winning or losing, so it is better to make a harmless bet. If you lose, you will go up the mountain and kowtow to my master, and kowtow to my Taoist ancestor Daojun Shangxiang to confess your guilt, saying that you insult the Taoist and are a guilty person, and I hope to forgive. If we lose, we will go to the Confucian temple and kowtow to your Confucian sages to confess our sins, and say that we Taoist priests should not drink. What do you think?"
"Okay! I'm a bet!"
"Big brother, okay? Look at the little Taoist priest who came up to the eight altars. ”
"What's not going to work, can a manly fight wine turn back?"
I felt that this was not enough, and said, "We can gamble again." Although I have not been cultivating for a long time, and I have only received less than one-tenth of the master's true transmission, I still have the ability to do some ordinary things, and I see that you have a black cloud on your face, and there will be disasters in your family in the near future. But if you do not believe, then the whole city will oversee whether I am allowed or not. If I win, you only need to go up the mountain to confess our mistake to Daozu twice, and if there is no disaster in your family recently, I will come to the door to apologize, strip off my pants, and let you spank you a hundred times. ”
"Haha......" everyone laughed, this kid bet is really interesting, and he also has a spanking.
"Okay, that's a good bet. The Crane Robe Taoist priest said, "Even if I lose the fight, I will definitely not have that calamity, and I don't believe that there is anything I can do in my family to meditate and cultivate? Xiao'er, you are a fool, what kind of cloud view are you, ah, it turns out that the original view of the Seven Mile View is not spiritual, I don't believe that you can still have such ability as a little Taoist. ”
Another Xiucai asked: "You said recently, then there must be a deadline, and ten days is also called recently." ”
"Just six days! There will be calamity in six days, and how can I, a cultivator, talk nonsense. ”
"Okay, drink first! Even if I lose the fight and confess my guilt, I won't lose it, as long as I can spank your ass. Ha ha...... Drink!"
The crane robe Xiucai is also refreshing, first open the altar to drink, the wine is like rain, and it is really a good wine showman, pouring it in a big gulp, and the whole wine tank is a mouthful. But Ah Zhu didn't disappoint me, she grabbed a jar of wine and poured it into her mouth like crazy, stepped one leg over the bench, and poured the wine into her mouth like a spring.
In a blink of an eye, both sides had a jar of wine, wiped their mouths with their sleeves, and looked at each other with their lips pursed, seemingly aggressive, but in fact, their mouths were numbed by the first jar of wine. The two of them looked at each other, and there was a spark of wine fighting. Fighting, it's about momentum. As soon as the second jar of wine was served, the audience immediately applauded, not to mention the three altars, this ordinary person had to get drunk on this altar, not to mention the famous eighteen miles of red and old Jinsong.
Sure enough, the two of them drank the second altar together, and then the third altar, and the Xiucai lived up to expectations and drank it all. Ah Zhu Santan Lao Jin didn't know where to drink, a little girl is so massive, don't you go to the toilet?
The crane-robed Taoist priest behind the three altars shook a little, and it seemed that it had come to an end. And Azhu continued to the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh altars, until the eighth altar was also a little shaky, but she seemed to pretend, mostly to make the audience cheer up, and to have a colorful head, so that she could drink more energetically, drink more flavorfully, and hide people's eyes, otherwise his massive amount is too suspicious of cheating.
Sure enough, I saw in the smile on the corner of her mouth that she enjoyed the pleasure of drinking.
With the last sip of wine in his stomach, the crane robe Xiucai immediately smiled and said: "This little Taoist priest is really a good hand in wine, brother, I will take it." ”
"You, don't treat yourself as a brother first, if you lose, you have to be willing to gamble and lose, you are the little brother. First, you want to go up to our cloud temple to worship our three Taoist ancestors, and second, hurry up and go home to meditate, if there is no disaster in your family, don't say that I will let you spank your ass a hundred times, even if you beat enough, you can do it. ”
I say this, I also have the bottom in my heart, even if my plan fails, I am a fighting mage, you can fight it casually, and I should exercise my flesh and skin. However, this plan cannot fail, because it is related to the reputation of my Taoist temple, and if this matter is not done well, even the master will punish me, and if I don't have some ability, I won't dare to be so arrogant. But don't look too confident. Thinking of this, I said: "If I miscalculated, then please ask my brother to lightly open the flowers, how will I marry my mother-in-law in the future." ”
The crowd of onlookers burst into laughter again. In the end, I want to settle the wine money, these eleven jars of good wine are also worth a little silver, generous, give me a good reputation for Shangyunguan, but I thought about a small problem, the mistake I once made, that is, the wealth is not exposed, this is the first time to come to March City, it is better to be low-key, and today it has been too high-profile.
"That, talented man Xiucai, since you lose, don't forget to pay the wine money on the losing side. ”
That Xiucai laughed: "Little things, I want to go to your Dao to see what the new view master looks like." ”
As soon as he finished speaking, two people squeezed in from the crowd, and I saw that they were my two stupid junior brothers, Tong Hai and He Bao.
Outside the country, I should call each other by Taoist names, this is what the master instructed me, and these two stupid roe deer are orthodox Taoists, so they naturally know some basic rules, so Tong Hai and He Bao are both in their early twenties, Tong Hai suddenly shouted: "What is Senior Brother Yunzhongzi doing here?"
I'm still doing much, of course I'm doing a big thing here, but it's the two of you who have just come down the mountain.
"Oh, junior brother Haizhongzi and Baozhongzi, you are also here, what about the carpenter?"
"The carpenter has gone to call the other craftsmen, and the two of us are going to buy some materials to renovate the temple. ”
When the people of March City heard it, yo, Qiliguan is going to make a big move, this is also news, the broken Taoist temple climbs the mountain so high, and it is dilapidated for many years, and finally someone repairs it, the people of this March City do not like incense, but the previous Dingzhenzi did not break into the name, which is disliked. Now that a master is the master, he has to rebuild the Taoist temple, and this eighty percent is invested by high-ranking officials and nobles, and when it is repaired, it will be necessary to see what changes there are.
I have also heard some information from people talking about it, such as the idea of investing in high-ranking officials and nobles, and I hope that this information will be useful in the future after being conveyed to Master, and I will keep it in my heart one by one.
"Let's go, let's go to my house first!" said Xiucai, "You said that my family had a disaster, but you didn't even know where my house was." ”
"I don't care where your house is, and where your house is, if I look at you like this, there will be disaster. "I pretended to be sophisticated, as if I knew everything.
Na Xiucai paid for the wine, and was helped away by the three brothers, vomiting. Seeing that everyone dispersed, I immediately sent two stupid junior brothers to follow that Hu San, saying that Hu San looked very shrewd, don't cut corners or anything like that.
I turned to Ah Zhu, who was in a bit of a daze, and said, "I didn't expect my sister to drink so much, those two are your other two senior brothers just now, a little stupid, but fortunately, they are quite obedient." ”
"Ah, why don't you introduce it to me?"
"There are too many people here, and I'll introduce them when I get to the Taoist temple. The Taoist temple should be rebuilt...... "In short, I will briefly introduce the construction, and the master and I are the real leading actors, and they are all supporting roles." However, I promised Azhu to have his own house, and he was so happy, he was really fed up with being an orphan for so many years.
Then I asked, "Do you know where the four Xiucai live?"
Azhu patted his chest and said, "Don't talk about these four showmen, I know where all the showmen in this city live." The four of them are self-proclaimed four prodigal sons, in fact, they are four straw bales, the crane robe is called Li Yunhe, is the eldest of the four, their family lives in a house in the southeast of the city, and some bamboo is planted in front of and behind the house, forming a small bamboo forest, there is a chessboard in the bamboo forest, and there are cranes, their family ...... Hiccup!"
She finally hiccuped and choked back.
"That junior sister took me to their doorstep to have a look. ”
"Okay......! Wrap it up on me!" "My sister is also slightly drunk, but it seems that she likes this kind of pretending to fart, but in fact, it doesn't seem to be drunk, she walks lightly, there is no difference from usual, and her back is really like a boy, maybe it's a relationship that she is used to camouflaging.
The southeast of the city is not far from this restaurant, and soon arrived, and I saw a small bamboo forest in many houses in the distance, which seemed a little abrupt, and the elegance made the surrounding houses look very vulgar, and they made themselves look nondescript.