Chapter 5 First Arrival in the Land of Lu
Zhang Xun paid the price of twenty years of life and finally went to the world, looking at his naked upper body, fortunately there was no one here, so he changed into a set of scholar clothes and walked towards the border of Lu State. While walking, I thought about how to start reviving Wendao, and now I am twenty-five years old, not to mention fame, I don't even have an identity, so I can only go to the Temple of Literature to see if I can get the approval of Confucius.
It is just past the time of the child, and it is only thirty miles away from the border pass of the Lu State, and Zhang Xun's current foot strength is only half an hour's thing. But it was still early in the morning, Zhang Xun scattered, thinking that ten years of loneliness was coming to an end, and felt that the air around him was full of the smell of freedom. Just stop and go, when the day was about to dawn, Zhang Xun came to the gate of a small city called Laiwu on the border of Lu State, did not rush in, first took a few pieces of jade from the jade space and he cut a few bamboo Lou made of purple heart bamboo in the purple heart bamboo forest last year, and then took out a set of ancient books more than 3,000 years ago, four books and five classics, after all, he is a scholar, so it is like! After all, as long as he enters the city, he will have to deal with others. Because the outside of this Laiwu City is only a terra nullius, there are no facilities such as moats, and there are no officers and soldiers at the city gate on weekdays to set up card checks, but it is very convenient to enter the city, but this is only the outer city, and there are restrictions on entering the inner city. However, Zhang Xun does not have silver and copper coins on his body at the moment, fortunately, although the outer city is a secular place, most of them are some peddlers and pawns, but the popularity is still good, he is the first time to see people in this other world, and it is now the morning market, there are still a lot of people, some excited, began to use their own sensory perspective to contact the world, after all, there is no one in the paradise of the free house, through the drunken Taoist (encountered the "Milky Way Nine Heavens Waterfall" That natural feng shui bureau, feeling that he was a chess piece, buried a thorn deep in Zhang Xun's heart, although the inheritance was broad and profound, he benefited a lot, and he did not resent the drunken Taoist, but if he was willing to call the drunken Taoist master, he couldn't call it anymore. He can only learn about this Wenchang continent from the collection of books, or the historical records of more than 3,000 years ago, which must be out of touch with the actual situation. Now that he has come to Laiwu City in person, strolling through the streets of the market, listening to the various shouts of hawkers, and seeing the antique buildings on both sides, Zhang Xun feels very comfortable, this is the real Wenchang Continent, and his own experience in the first ten years is just like a special map that accepts the inheritance when playing online games. As the crowd walked forward slowly, about the time of a stick of incense after walking through a crossroads, the buildings on both sides of the road were much higher-end, and there were no vendors, Zhang Xun knew that this should be a commercial area, and it was also a good place for him to understand this Laiwu City and inquire about the news. However, first of all, he still found a reliable pawnshop to sell those ancient jade, or he is now penniless, let alone doing things, and he can't live anymore. Of course, if you want to sell ancient jade at a good price, of course, you have to go to an antique shop or find a big buyer who likes to collect, but Zhang Xun knows that when he first arrived in Laiwu City, he can't enter the inner city at present, and the inner city is where celebrities and wealthy businessmen live, and a few pieces of ancient jade have to be cheap pawnshops.
Just at the intersection, Zhang Xun saw the street sign and knew that this road was called Wenxiang Road, which was the most prosperous place in the outer city, but it was quiet in the middle of the city, and it was quite popular with some frustrated poor and sour talents in the outer city and some vassal and elegant gentry, and it was indeed developing well. There are a lot of pawnshops on Wenxiang Road, but there are only three that are really up to the grade, in fact, these three are antique shops, just because only the inner city can operate antiques and register as pawnshops. The largest one is naturally Wenxiangju with the same name as Wenxiang on this road, and the other two with a slightly worse reputation are Wendaozhai and Yifeng Pavilion. Zhang Xun has a quirk, as long as he has a choice, he will not look for the most famous and powerful. (In his previous life, he didn't use Intel, but AMD, and he didn't use a mobile number, but a Unicom one.) Zhang Xun came to Wendaozhai first, walked to the counter, the shopkeeper didn't ask, ordered the guy to have a pot of good tea, and then led Zhang Xun to the private room next to him and sat down before asking: "May I ask what is the name of Mr." Zhang Xun replied: "Don't be expensive, surnamed Zhang" and then took out a jade Buddha ornament from the bamboo basket and put it on the table. The shopkeeper understood that this was Zhang Xun testing his eyesight, and he could see that it was easy to talk about, and if he couldn't see it, he could only invite him to come out, so he was a person who was introduced, and he couldn't get any benefits. At this time, the guy also brought the tea and poured it for Zhang Xun and the shopkeeper respectively, and then withdrew. Zhang Xun casually sipped the tea and waited for the shopkeeper's reply. This shopkeeper's surname is Liu, his name is Fusheng, he is forty-eight years old this year, and he has been the shopkeeper of this enlightenment for eighteen years. Liu Fusheng nodded to Zhang Xun, and picked up the jade Buddha ornament to look at it carefully, the Buddha statue has nothing to say, it is the Maitreya Buddha who has the name of "big belly can be tolerant"; And the jade Buddha ornament is engraved with four big characters "the first year of Wenchang" with a small seal, the more you look at it, the more Liu Fusheng can't help himself. Zhang Xun came here to sell this jade Buddha ornament in exchange for some silver taels, so that he could settle down in Laiwu City. At this moment, the shopkeeper basically saw the origin of this jade Buddha ornament, and he didn't want to make any extraneous branches, coughed, and then made a three-way gesture. Liu Fusheng knew that this was Zhang Xun's offer price of 300,000 taels of silver, estimated the market, and nodded and agreed. Zhang Xun told Liu Fusheng that he was a student of a hermit in the nearby mountains, and now he was ordered by his teacher to enter the WTO to gain fame. Liu Fusheng is also a wonderful person, he knows the elegance when he hears the string song, and said with a smile, this matter is easy to do, leave it to me. Half an hour later, Zhang Xun walked out of Wudaozhai with 300,000 taels of silver tickets and identity certificates from Yutong Qianzhuang (the second-ranked Qianzhuang in Lu State, and all cities in the territory have semicolons).
Zhang Xun knew that if he wanted to inquire about the news, in addition to the Qinglou, that is, the restaurant, the teahouse was suitable. And the restaurant and teahouse are undoubtedly restaurants more suitable for Zhang Xun, Zhang Xun himself is a person who loves wine, not to mention, the key is that he first came here, he didn't know a friend, drinking alone, it is normal, and it is weird to taste tea in a teahouse alone. Zhang Xun first found an inn to live in, took a bath, changed into a set of clothes worn by a merry and talented person to attend the poetry meeting, and pretended to take out a folding fan from the jade pendant space, this folding fan is made of very good material, it is left by the drunken Taoist, the most rare thing is that the fan is blank, he painted bamboo on the one hand, and wrote the poem "Yong Fan" by Li Yu, the queen of Li in the Southern Tang Dynasty, "Let the moon in your hand, shake the wind full of arms." It is indeed very elegant, Zhang Xun likes it very much. After looking in the mirror, he really looked like a merry man, and happily closed the door and went to drink.
Zhang Xunxian asked the inn's Xiao Er, knowing that in this Laiwu outer city, the most famous restaurant is located on the central axis of the drunken fairy building, especially the drunken fairy building proprietress (female boss) He Xinlan's self-brewed jade pot spring wine is a must, people who have tasted it say good; Zhang Xun had no wine or spicy joy in his previous life, so he called a carriage and went happily. When he arrived at the Drunken Immortal Residence, he gave the coachman five taels of silver and turned around and walked into the Drunken Immortal Residence. Xiao Er greeted him and asked, "This son is the first time to come to Drunken Xianju, what do you want?" Zhang Xun first asked for a private room on the third floor, and then ordered boiling water cabbage, mapo tofu, and back to the pot meat, and then asked Xiao Er to come to two signature Lu dishes casually and stepped up the stairs to the private room on the third floor, opened the window, and looked down on the outer city, not to mention, this antique town style is really good. After admiring it, he returned to his seat and sat down, and soon, the dish came up, and Xiao Er asked: "Childe, don't you have some wine" Zhang Xun raised his hand to stop Xiao Er's introduction, and said: "My son knows the rules here, the jade pot spring brewed by your young lady is limited to ten tables of guests every day, and each table has two pots." Is that right?" Xiao Er replied: "Then I don't know if the son is going to bid with money or write poems and articles that satisfy my young lady?" Zhang Xun handed the folding fan to Xiao Er and said, "Give this folding fan to your young lady, she is satisfied with your invitation to come here, and if you are not satisfied, you will come and return the folding fan." Then he ignored the little two and began to eat. Xiao Er reluctantly retreated, thinking to himself, "Which son is this, I want to provoke the attention of the young lady, so that I can hug the beauty." But I still found Miss's personal maid Miss Bihe, said it and handed her the folding fan, Miss Bihe took the folding fan, waved Xiao Er back to work, and walked to Miss's room. I knocked on the door and entered the room, and saw that the young lady was embroidering, and I didn't know if I should talk about folding fans now. Fortunately, He Xinlan is a beautiful lady and knowledgeable, and when she saw the personal maid like this, she put the embroidery aside, and said with a smile: "You Nizi, you and I are the master and servant, and we are really sisters, what do you have to say?" Bihe first handed the folding fan to the young lady, and then repeated what the little two said to her. He Xinlan opened the folding fan, and "let the moon in her hand, shaking the wind and full of arms." As soon as she saw it, she liked it, and good words and poems are better. He instructed Bihe to go and get two pots of self-brewed jade pot spring first, and she accompanied Zhang Gongzi on her behalf, and she came later. Bihe answered yes and went out. He Xinlan turned the fan around, and saw that this painting was also very good, and felt more and more that this Zhang Xun Gongzi was not simple, so she closed the folding fan, walked to the mirror to make up her makeup, and left the room to see Zhang Xun in the private room.
At this time, in Zhang Xun's private room on the third floor, Zhang Xun did not rush to open the wine jug, but asked the Bihe girl for the four treasures of the study, Bihe is also a person who likes literature, and went to get a set for her own use in person, and when she came back, she saw that her own lady had arrived, and she was a little embarrassed. He Xinlan couldn't bear to see her maid embarrassed, so she asked Zhang Xun: "What ink treasure does Zhang Gongzi want to leave behind?" Zhang Xun replied: "Miss He, I saw that your restaurant didn't have a poem describing wine, so I made one, I hope you like it." At this time, Bihe had already prepared the pen, ink, paper and inkstone, Zhang Xun walked over and picked up the pen and wrote Li Bai's famous article "Will Enter the Wine" in one go, and chanted while writing, as if this poem was really made by himself. After Zhang Xun finished writing, He Xinlan's eyes changed when she looked at him, bowed to Zhang Xun, and said: "Childe is really talented, and the little girl Xinlan thanked Childe for giving him a poem." He turned around and explained that Cuihe would immediately go to frame it and hang it in the front hall of the restaurant after the handwriting was dry.
Zhang Xun said at this time: "Miss Xinlan, would you like to have a few drinks with me?" He Xinlan was naturally willing, so they chatted while eating and drinking. In the end, when Zhang Xun asked where there was a courtyard for sale, and he wanted to prepare for the imperial examination in the spring of next year, He Xinlan said that the courtyard where she lived was empty next door and could be sold to him. Zhang Xun naturally agreed, and even the servants asked He Xinlan to help him recruit him. I made an appointment to meet tomorrow morning, and then I said goodbye and went back to the inn.