May of the fifteenth year of Zhengde.

Spring flowers are blooming, and the smell of zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival permeates the entire Hanshui Basin.

At this time, a small town near Hanshui, which is usually sparsely populated and called 'Luohan Temple', suddenly became lively for a while.

It turned out to be the Wudang sect hundreds of miles away, and now it is about to take advantage of Zhang Tianshi's birthday in mid-May to hold a Taoist fasting ceremony that invites the world.

At the crossroads of the town, there is a hotel with a plaque named "Juxiang Inn", although it is old, but the self-brewed chrysanthemum wine in the store is famous, and it is already full at this time.

On a wine table in the middle of the inn, although there were only a few plates of zongzi on the table, a group of people were talking around it.

A young man dressed as a shopkeeper, holding half of the leftover zongzi in one hand and holding a chair with the other, squatted on the stool, while eating, he kept making noise, and he didn't like to spray saliva to the surrounding crowd, and his voice was very loud.

I only heard him say, "Do you know why this fasting ceremony is rare in a hundred years?"

"No, no, isn't it just a fasting ceremony, yes, yes, what's there to see, what's the matter with Guan, Guan, Guan, what is the matter with our people, you are really eating the food of the poor, the emperor's heart, be your second child, and bring me another pot." A half-drunk young man in Tsing Yi next to him suddenly interrupted.

"Today, the proprietress allowed me to rest, what do you know, what else can you do besides drinking, even the beautiful little lady of the childhood sweetheart has been abducted and run, and I don't dare to find someone to fight hard, what use are you? If I were you, I would have committed suicide by jumping into the river."

There was a burst of laughter from the spectators.

The half-drunk young man in Tsing Yi was silent, and quietly went to the counter to get a pot of chrysanthemum old wine and drank it alone.

"Don't pay attention to him, it will affect my master's mood to talk about things, let's continue." Xiao Er shook his head and said with a sneer.

"Do you know who is invited to this fasting celebration?" Xiao Er had already eaten the zongzi in his hand at this time.

"Isn't it just those rivers and lakes with their own factions, otherwise who else can there be, you can tell me about the other important people this time, and you won't be treated badly if you talk well."

A white young man dressed as a boy and holding a green jade folding fan walked in, followed by a white young man who looked like a scholar. Immediately afterwards, an ingot, five taels, white flowers, and silver were also thrown on the table.

Xiao Er's eyes lit up, and he immediately snatched the silver that had just fallen from the table and quickly put it in his pocket. His expression of surprise quickly changed to joy, and then he said:

"This son wants to know, so let me tell you in detail."

The folding fan boy and the white scholar beside him also found an empty seat at the nearby table at this time and sat down.

"First of all, Shaolin Huanzhen Zen Master, Emei Jinguang Master, and Kunlun Xumi Real Size Sect Heads will come to watch, in fact, the host is the Governor Jiang who is above 10,000 people under one person in the imperial court. The most incredible thing this time is that the Yangming Daoist of Jiuhua Mountain will actually be present this time, or with the Ziyi real person who is the head of Wudang. Xiao Er said that he felt very thirsty, and drank a cup of himself.

Yangming Daoist He Xu is also a generation of mental masters, who once realized the Tao in the dragon field, and has countless disciples, most of his life has entered the officialdom. He once served as a sergeant, and served as the director of the Criminal Department, the Military Department and the Shangshu of the Nanjing Military Department. Because of his opposition to Jiang Bin, he later became a monk and entered Taoism, and studied both Buddhism and Confucianism.

Someone next to him whispered:

"I heard that Daoist Yangming and Ziyi Zhenren, their two senior brothers, have always been at odds with that Governor Jiang?

"The purple-clothed real person is jealous of the fame and talent of the junior brother above it, but he is also a righteous gentleman, I really dare not say it, I dare not say it, I dare not say it, I am afraid that I will not be on my neck tomorrow." Xiao Er was halfway through speaking, and the flamboyant atmosphere at the beginning slowly became low.

"Aren't you talking about Jiang Bin, the big bastard who instigates the emperor to do all kinds of evil and amusement all day long? What are you afraid of, you dare not say, I dare to say, this person is a scoundrel, a scumbag, a sinner of my Ming Dynasty, I will one day take his head to sacrifice all the people in the world who have been mutilated by him. At this time, the half-drunk young man in Tsing Yi, who had not spoken for a long time, shouted loudly, and he was still half-drunk and half-speechful before, and he spoke so smoothly at the moment.

Xiao Er was so frightened that he immediately jumped off the stool, looked nervous and kept kowtowing forward with fear, and read in his mouth: "Governor Jiang, it wasn't me, it's not me, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't say it, if you hear it one day, look for that Du Don't forget, yes, it's that Du Don't forget, it's him, it's him."

"That's right, I dare to say it, even if Jiang Bin comes, I dare to scold him, he has the ability to kill me, kill me, I can be free, I don't want to live for a long time, I will come here tomorrow to scold him, I will wait for him to arrest me, isn't it just a beheading, the man's head can be broken and bleeding, the body is unyielding, I ......." Du Yi, a half-drunk young man in Tsing Yi, did not forget to carry a wine jug and shouted while drinking, and the words in his mouth seemed unwilling to stop.

"Xiao Er, you are still not a man, I think it is a shame for you to be a timid like a mouse, a wolf like a tiger, and it is a shame to live, besides, the Governor Jiang you said is thousands of miles away from Yingtianfu, how can you control the mouth of a nobody, or the little brother in Tsing Yi next to him speaks straightforwardly, is not afraid of the powerful, has courage, has blood, dares to speak and dare to be, I like this." Without waiting for Du Yi to finish speaking, the scholar Bai Jing next to Brother Gongzi, who had not been seated for a long time, couldn't help but start to interject.

The white scholar was about to say more, but when he saw the young brother next to him, the white scholar suddenly sank his head and was silent.

At this time, the drunken young man in Tsing Yi said to the shopkeeper:

"Today, today, the wine money is owed first, I, I will pay tomorrow, again."

He quietly walked out of the inn, carrying half a pot of wine alone, swaying left and right and walking into the alley.

Before I knew it, it was evening, and outside the town, in a thatched hut near the Han River, on top of a collapsed seat, a drunken young man was talking to himself and scolding:

"God, you will always be unfair, just this year, my parents left me, when I was a child, I dreamed of serving the country and Rong Ma all my life in the imperial examination, because of the darkness of officialdom, Sun Shan, and finally even my childhood sweetheart Yingying, you also married someone else because of my failure, why is this? Why is this happening to me recently, why do I have to bear it alone, I don't want it, I don't want it."

This drunken boy is the one in the inn, although he has woken up three minutes drunk at this time, he still looks dazed.

I saw him continue to say:

"Yingying, do you know how much I like you? I know that I grew up in a fisherman's family, and my family was poor. In order to make me literate and learn more, my parents took out all their family savings and sent me to the town academy at the age of ten. I met you when I first entered the academy, and I fell in love with you, you know? I know that you are a member of a family and look down on me as a poor boy, but I know that you are not such a girl, why are you married to someone else now? When I went to look for you, you ignored me, and pretended never to know me, I have been begging you, and you finally came to me, asking me to recognize the reality, saying that I am not worthy of you at all, what did I do wrong to make you do this to me, I really, I am not willing to lose you like this, I am really unwilling, unwilling......" After speaking, Du did not forget and began to fall asleep again.

Du did not forget to be born in a fisherman's family in Luohan Town, since childhood with his parents fishing for a living, when he was ten years old, he met a passer-by in a nearby academy, and felt that this son could be made, after repeated persuasion with Du's father and Du's mother, he introduced it into the nearby academy, and now it has been 7 years, and the academy teacher offended Jiang Bin, the powerful of the dynasty, because of his drunken gaffes, has been closed for half a year, and now it is a thing or a person.

Du does not forget his real name Du Shilang, who belongs to the tenth generation of the Du family, so Shilang. I didn't forget that it was renamed to thank the passers-by for helping him enter the academy to study.

Du did not forget to enter the provincial capital last year to participate in the autumn examination, but because of the relationship between the powerful and powerful, the name fell to Sun Mountain, and Du did not forget to return to his hometown and became a laughing stock for everyone. Even Yingying, who was a childhood sweetheart in the academy since childhood, thought about marrying in the autumn exam and the first time, also remarried someone else because he failed the autumn exam.

Therefore, Du did not forget to hang his head all day long, use wine to kill his sorrows, and get drunk and dreamed of death.

In the eyes of outsiders, I don't forget to be a poor sour boy, every time I go to the Juxiang Inn to drink, I don't have money to give, and I go to drink for nothing every day, and every time I drink it, I say that I will pay the bill next time, and the proprietress never asks him for money, and treats him like a son. In fact, I don't forget that every time I buy alcohol, I will secretly overpay, and the proprietress is secretly happy and doesn't want to ask more, and often accompanies her to act.

Du Bu Bu is actually curious to follow a group of tomb robbers, the tomb robbers found the tomb of the Chu King of the Warring States Period, and it was actually on the mound near the fishing village where Du Bu Bu lived, and the group of tomb robbers killed each other in order to fight for the countless gold and silver treasures inside, and finally these treasures naturally belonged to Du Bu Buyi.

Du did not forget to tell anyone, one day he was happy to tell Yingying, but that day Yingying told him that she was going to get married, and she was also married to the son of the local prefect.

As a result, Du was overwhelmed with grief and did not mention it to Yingying. Maybe he told Yingying, Yingying would not marry someone else, but he knew that he couldn't do this, and he was unwilling to exchange money for a woman's lifetime companionship.