Chapter 119: Couplet

Entering the gate, the lobby on the first floor of the restaurant is very spacious, with dozens of scattered seats, crowded with drinking merchants and gentry, and the box door upstairs is hung with woven gold red cloth curtains and pearl curtains, and bursts of laughter come from there.

Everyone drank and had fun, no one paid too much attention to the two, Yin Mengfu led the stone to squeeze through a few scattered seats, found an empty seat and sat down, and shouted a few times before a shopkeeper wearing silk came to greet them and filled them with a cup of tea.

"Two, what do you want to eat? First of all, the price of our immortal dwelling food is very expensive, you have to weigh the plate fee in your waist, otherwise you will offend the two of you later." The shopkeeper is not very old, a round face is full of pockmarks, from a distance it looks like a baked cake, while talking and staring at the two of them, seeing that he is young, ordinary clothes, not like a dignitary, but like a shabby scholar, the right hand of the stone is red and coiled, and like a cripple, he is afraid that the people who come will not be able to pay for the meal, and the pockmarks on his face are twisted into a ball.

Shi saw him staring at his palm, and he didn't mind, along the way he gradually got used to this kind of look, Yin Mengfu sneered, and said: "You little two, you have such a big mouth, and you are not afraid to blow away you, a full house?" As he spoke, he took out a silver ingot of ten taels from his bosom.

When Xiao Er saw the silver, he put his mind at ease, and the pockmarks on his face also bloomed, and he said: "The small one has many mouths, and there are many offenses, in our store, there is a roast duck that is the most famous, and the duck is home-raised, which is guaranteed to be fat and tender, and the condiments are good, how about you two taste it?"

"Okay, it's up to you, and then a pot of good wine will be blanched. Yin Mengfu and Shi nodded in confirmation and ordered.

The baked cake Xiao Er called the dish to retreat, the stone tasted a sip of tea, felt that the tea taste was fresh and refreshing, by no means ordinary tea, and secretly admired the immortal residence was really extraordinary, and when he turned his head to look, he found that there was a carved luodian screen in the lobby of the restaurant, on which the solitary peak was painted, and the sunrise was like fire, but he looked closely at the couplets on both sides of the screen, but there was only one upper couplet.

"Senior Brother Yin, look at that screen, why is it missing?" Shi pointed to the screen with his hand.

Yin Mengfu nodded, "I saw it too, it's indeed a little weird." “

When the baked cakes were served, Yin Mengfu asked under the pretext: "Little Er, your business in this store is prosperous, why are you a little unelegant?"

Xiao Er didn't understand, and after finishing the food, he stood aside and said, "Crazy, who is crazy?

The stone pointed to the screen again and said: "That screen only has the upper link, not the lower link, but it doesn't know the elegance?"

"Oh, it's that, you don't know, this is also a feature of our store. Xiao Er stood up straight, and said loudly: "Look carefully, the two of you read carefully, this couplet is written "There is a maple on the peak, a swarm of bees on the maple, the wind beats the bees, and the bees fly away in all directions." According to the ancestors of our shopkeeper, there has been since the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, and the legend is a Taoist immortal who has a title, just because we have a Lufeng Mountain five miles away from Tongcheng, there is a Dugu Peak on the mountain, and there is a large maple tree around the peak, and there is an iron pot-like honeycomb on the tree, which is based on this, and it has been hundreds of years now, and no one can come out of the next couplet. “113

The stone read the couplet again, peak, maple, bee, wind, homonyms, and there are references, it is really good, no wonder for hundreds of years, no one can get it.

"What if someone comes out right?" Yin Mengfu poured himself a glass of wine, and his eyes didn't look at Xiao Er.

The baked cake Xiao Er was not surprised, and said: "I can see a lot of Wensheng Gongzi who is talented and eight buckets, and he has a lot of boasts, and he can really come out of the one without it, the shopkeeper of our store has ancestral training, if anyone can come out and link it, not only will he send ten taels of gold, but he can also inscribe his name on the screen for people to admire." “

"In this case, can you borrow pen and ink? Yin Mengfu had already drunk the second glass of wine, and the wine was up, so he took advantage of the situation to fill a cup of the stone, and persuaded the stone to drink it.

"Pen, ink, paper, inkstone are readily available. Xiao Er turned around and went to the back of the screen to get a square plate, with a pen holder, an inkstone, and a piece of paper.

Yin Mengfu took the pen and paper, dipped it in the rabbit pen, thought for a while, wrote a line of words on the paper, did not add points, threw the pen on the table, and drank a glass of wine.

Xiao Er took the note and read in a low voice: "Under the rock, there is a group of meanders, smoky and meandering, and the meanders avoid climbing on both sides." Oops, yes, but what does that mean?"

Yin Mengfu stood up, pulled Xiao Er to the window, and pointed to the kapok tree, the fire under the tree had not been completely extinguished, and white smoke was emitting, "Look, isn't there a group of worms under that tree?" “

Peaks, maples, bees, and winds are indeed good for rocks, wedges, winds, and smoke, and they can be called geniuses.

Xiao Er suddenly realized, holding a note and shouted: "The shopkeeper has it, the shopkeeper finally has it!" The unaware drinker thought that the shopkeeper was pregnant, and felt very surprised, and the shopkeeper Wang Jun, who was settling accounts behind the counter, saw Xiao Er's crazy appearance, and went up with a mouth, "What are you shouting about, who has it, how old am I, besides, I'm a man, what are you shouting about?"

Xiao Er took a mouth, and he didn't mind very much, so he quickly showed the lower link in his hand to the shopkeeper, pointed out the window, and repeated Yin Mengfu's words, the shopkeeper Wang understood, and was immediately overjoyed, after so many years, there was finally a lower link, just because of this pair without the next link, his ancestors for three generations have fallen into a nickname called "touch the blind", this time he was finally relieved, he hurriedly came to the stone and Yin Mengfu's seat, bowed respectfully, and said: " Two talents, my ancestors set the rules back then, who can come out of this link, send ten taels of gold, but also the inscription lettering, now the next link has come out, please leave your name, the shop is also good for the two of them to be famous. “

Yin Mengfu is drunk at the moment, the stone also has three points of alcohol, the two of them rely on the strength of the wine, with the king shopkeeper to the screen, Yin Mengfu took the giant pen in the small second-hand baked cake, flew into the air, waved his wrist, and put the next book on the left side of the screen, the handwriting is vigorous, such as swimming in the water, into the wood for three points, the strength is pressing, after landing, he handed the pen to the stone, "Senior brother stone, how about you add a horizontal batch?"

"It's better to be respectful than to obey!"