Chapter 111: Teahouse
The sun was shining and the weather was just right.
On the bustling and lively street, a young boy walked with his own guards. Brother Gongzi seems to have never seen the world, and after running, he is very curious about what he sees. When you see a candy seller, you go up and have a chat, and when you see a cookcake seller, you have to buy two. He didn't pay any money, he just took it and left, but fortunately, the guards around him handed over the money in a timely manner, otherwise he would probably be chased and beaten.
"Ruyi... The young man tried to keep his eyes open so that he could look "watery".
"Temple... Son. Xu Ruyi looked at Zhu Yunwen helplessly: "I can't help you carry things, you can only rely on yourself.."
Zhu Yunwen has a large bag in his hand, and a windmill is still inserted behind his neck, full of interest, but he is also wheezing.
"I really can't carry it... Zhu Yunwen's voice was pitiful.
"That's not going to work either. Xu Ruyi said seriously: "I explained to you before, this is for your safety." If something happens, I can only protect you empty-handed, and if I'm like you, what if something happens?"
This reason had been told to Zhu Yunwen before, but he obviously didn't listen carefully. I could barely get it just now, but this time it's really not good.
"I don't care. Zhu Yunwen glared: "Help me carry it, this is an order!"
"Command... Xu Ruyi scratched her smooth chin, looked left and right, and stretched out her hand to point to the teahouse next to her: "Why don't we rest first?"
"Uh... It's good. Zhu Yunwen nodded, but still emphasized unrelentingly: "You have to help me carry it after the break, and it will be okay to carry a little less." ”
"Let's talk about it. Xu Ruyi dealt with it casually, and the two walked into the teahouse one after the other.
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"I saw Jigong Living Buddha smiling, patting his head, popping three times, and showing three lights on the top!"
On the innermost stage of the teahouse, behind a small table, a middle-aged storyteller is telling the story of "The Legend of Jigong", which happens to be talking about Jigong pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, and he has just opened his big mouth, which has caused a lot of tea customers to applaud.
The story of Jigong has been circulated since the Southern Song Dynasty, and there are many folk stories and legends, some are true, some are false, but some are not, everyone goes to the body of Jigong Living Buddha. Some stories are about solving cases, while others focus on gods and demons. The people loved to hear it, and this story was also the story that the storyteller told the most.
"Okay!" As soon as the two of them sat down, Zhu Yunwen also shouted hello, his voice was louder than anyone else, I don't know how long he thought he had been listening, but in fact...
"We've just come in. Childe, which one of you are called?" Xu Ruyi looked at Zhu Yunwen helplessly.
He suddenly found that during the time he seemed to have been out with Zhu Yunwen, he had been helpless a lot.
"God has been friends for a long time. Zhu Yunwen explained dryly, and then turned his gaze to the storyteller on the stage, and listened with relish.
The corners of Xu Ruyi's mouth twitched, there were still about two hours before the palace was closed and locked, and he was not in a hurry, but the situation was not right, how did a good "Kangxi Weifu Private Interview" become "Qianlong Goes to the South of the Yangtze River".
"Childe. Xu Ruyi said in a low voice: "Shouldn't we go and observe the people's feelings for a while?" ”
"No hurry, no hurry. Zhu Yunwen's eyes dodged.
When he came out before, Zhu Yunwen was actually really ready to observe the people's suffering, but as soon as he came out, he was fascinated by the world of flowers outside. To say that the emperor's family also has the helplessness of the emperor's family. From childhood to adulthood, Zhu Yunwen has been locked in the deep palace. The son of an ordinary rich family can occasionally go out to the streets, but he really never comes out to play. So, what I thought and thought, I slowly went astray: 'I'll relax today, and then ask Ruyi to take me out to 'observe the people's feelings' in two days, isn't it better? Anyway, I didn't do anything serious today, and the reasons are ready-made. ’
On the stage, after the storyteller finished speaking, he arched his hand to the tea guests in the audience, and said with a smile: "There is no other person, the three old and the four young bosses, the apprentice, I look at the living people with my feet, and the city wall is so high that it all depends on the help of friends." Your good friends who have walked a thousand in the south and eight hundred in the north, stabbed a knife and burst out with purple blood. My level is limited and my learning skills are not high, but the child still points to this to eat. Nothing else, you take the money and the surplus throw a melon and two dates to the child, go home and pick up the porridge bowl and don't forget your benefits. Speaking of which, the middle-aged man gestured to a little girl in the audience.
The little girl stood up, pulled up the hem of her blouse, and turned the tables from table to table. The little girl is about fifteen or sixteen years old, and she looks average, not good-looking, just an ordinary person. With a twisted whip on his head and a sweet smile on his face, it is very comfortable to look at. It's a... Very clean little girl. Clean, this is the most appropriate word Xu Ruyi thinks.
"Ruyi, reward~" Looking at the little girl in front of him, Zhu Yunwen raised his hand and slowly stroked his sideburns, revealing a smile that he thought was kind and chic. Although Xu Ruyi felt that he looked very stupid, he still reached out and took out a few pieces of loose silver from his arms, and was about to pick a small one, but he didn't expect Zhu Yunwen to snatch it all, put it on the little girl's clothes, and glanced at Xu Ruyi with slanted eyes: "It's not easy for people to come out, you give a little more fear or something." ”
"Thank you, uncle, for the reward. The little girl smiled sweetly, bent her knees slightly to Zhu Yunwen, blessed for a moment, and then looked at Xu Ruyi, a trace of blush floating on her face.
But Xu Ruyi frowned, this silver is a lot, about four or five taels. It's not that he is reluctant, but he remembers Ouyang and his father in his heart, and it is really not a good thing for the poor to have too much money in their hands.
But since the money has been given, there is no reason to ask for it back.
"This Nanjing City can be regarded as the foot of the Son of Heaven, I hope it's okay. Xu Ruyi said secretly.
"I won't come out with you next time. Zhu Yunwen said depressedly: "Your appearance is too seductive, and you have stolen the limelight from my son... ”
"Childe, what kind of jealousy are you and I eating. Xu Ruyi smiled bitterly and laughed at herself: "Can anything happen to my body... ”
The little girl received a circle of reward, then walked to her father on the stage and put the silver into her father's arms.
The storyteller seemed to be surprised by the amount of the reward, and whispered to the little girl, and then saw the little girl pointing her finger to Zhu Yunwen's side, the storyteller nodded, sent the little girl down, and said again: "Since a few masters appreciate their faces, the villain naturally has to work hard." said words of thanks, and specially bowed to Zhu Yunwen to thank him: "Just now "The Legend of Jigong" said almost, next, let the villain tell you a story that has recently been obtained, and I haven't seen Mingchang yet." If it is good or bad, please bear with me. ”
"You've taken my light. Zhu Yunwen raised his eyebrows at Xu Ruyi proudly.
It's a new story based on a rumor, and it's not perfect, but it's interesting, at least that's what he thinks.
Kuaiyu is a storyteller in Beiping, who is not easy to do business and has too many peers, so he took his daughter all the way to Nanjing. At the foot of the Son of Heaven, the first good place, is also the first-class prosperity in the hearts of the people of the world.
On the first day I came, I was not famous, so I was not qualified to tell stories in a big restaurant. Walking through the streets and alleys, it was not easy to find the shopkeeper of this small teahouse, who was willing to arrange an hour for himself every day to try a month's work first.
There aren't too many guests today, probably only thirty or forty people. I originally thought that I wouldn't be able to earn a few children today, but I didn't expect that my daughter took a turn below and received more than five taels of silver, which was rewarded by the same table. If you look closely, it doesn't look like a bad guy with some evil spirit, which makes the fast mouth fish very happy, and there is no other skill, so let's take out the story of the bottom of the box that I am ready to press. Anyway, there aren't many people, and when I talk about it in the future, it's not bad for this little deal.
"Smack"
The fast mouth fish fell on the wrist and knocked the "poor fall" (the scientific name of the storyteller is the poor fall) on the table, suppressing the noisy sound in the teahouse.
"Storytelling, singing, and persuading people, the three avenues go to the center, good and evil will be rewarded in the end, and the right way in the world is the vicissitudes of life. After a set poem, the voice of the fast-mouthed fish sounded in the teahouse, telling the story.
The story isn't complicated, but it's quite interesting. It is said that one day, a county official found that his official seal was missing, so he scattered three classes of officials to arrest quickly, and mobilized the open and secret forces of the whole county to help find it. Unexpectedly, in just a few months, four or five official seals were found from the county, as well as seven or eight seal thieves. The county officials checked them one by one and found that the official seals were all fake. In the end, the matter got big, and the court sent someone to investigate, but I didn't expect the county official's wife to take out the official seal, it turned out that it was because the two of them quarreled, and the county official's wife was not happy, so she hid the official seal and wanted to scare him.
The story is funny and absurd. The official seal of the official is linked to their life, and if the official seal is lost, there is no need to ask for the head. So this story is very fake, but the story is good, just listen to it.
It took about an hour for the fastmouth to finish the story. It's just a simple version, lacking a lot of details, but the effect is still good, and the tea guests present laughed again and again, and the applause rang out from time to time.
"This official is really confused, he was played by his mother-in-law, I really laughed to death. Zhu Yunwen smiled and leaned back together, very unimaged.
Xu Ruyi couldn't help but laugh, the story was still average, after the information explosion era in his previous life, his laughter was cultivated very high, it was difficult for anything to make him laugh, his smile was mainly for Zhu Yunwen.
"Bang!"
The sound of kicking on the door sounded, and everyone turned around, only to see the door of the teahouse flickering back and forth, and two ruffians stepped in and were standing at the gate.
This is not absolute. But most of the time, some people can roughly tell their personality and occupation from their appearance.
For example, the two at the door, hanging their arms, with their arms open, their short clothes are not dirty, they are clean or not, and there are a few openings up and down. With a few sweat stains on his face, a big mouth, and a mouthful of yellow teeth, he kicked the door first, although the door was originally open.
This is the ruffian. You can't go wrong.
"Ruyi, they are also coming... Tea drinker?" Zhu Yunwen showed a puzzled look on his face.
"So, I should take you out and have a look. Xu Ruyi patted his head speechlessly: "This is a hooligan, a scoundrel, a wicked person, who makes a living by bullying others." ”
"Wouldn't it, you can make a living by bullying people?" Zhu Yunwen couldn't believe it: "At the feet of the Son of Heaven, there are still such people, what is Shuntianfu Yin doing to eat?!"
Zhu Yunwen knows the existence of criminals, but he can't understand the existence of gangsters, and he can support himself by bullying people, which is not mentioned in the book.
"It is precisely because of their existence that there is Shuntianfu Yin, otherwise, what else would Shuntianfu Yin do?" Xu Ruyi pursed his lips and said in a low voice: "More is better than less, let's see, there are many kinds of gangsters who bully people, there are many rules, before we understand it, let's not make extraneous branches" Seeing that Zhu Yunwen was still indignant, Xu Ruyi said eye-to-eye again: "Listen to me, it may not be a good thing to act rashly." ”
"Oh. Hearing Xu Ruyi say this, Zhu Yunwen had no choice but to nod a little depressedly.
"Shopkeeper's. The ruffian, whose face was a little dark, exclaimed, "When the sesame seeds bloom, will there be two more grains on the cake?"
An old tea guest and his companion at the table next to Zhu Yunwen explained in a whisper: "The sesame seeds are blooming high, what this person means, he has recruited a new storyteller, and he wants to earn more money." ”
The shopkeeper greeted him from the counter inside, with a smile on his face: "Niu Er, your ears are smart enough, but this storyteller starts on the first day today, do you want to come back tomorrow, you won't want to break the rules, right?"
"What are the rules for dividing money?!" The black-faced Niu Er didn't answer, but the companion next to him took a cavity first, and reached out to push the shopkeeper.
It's just that before his hand touched the shopkeeper, Niu Er's wrist was grabbed in mid-air. I saw Niu Er frowning and said: "Hammer, you are new to the industry, you don't understand the rules, didn't you tell you, everything is up to me?"
"Oh. The man who called the hammer said yes and put his hand down.
"Shopkeeper's. Niu Er smiled and said: "Since it is the venue that just opened today, the money will not be collected, and I will come back tomorrow." However, the two taels of red light that opened the door still have to be left for your old man. ”
As he spoke, Niu Er took out a knife from his waist with his right hand, which was not big, two inches long.
The shopkeeper looked at him coldly and did not speak. The tea guests present were also quiet, and this meeting was more interesting than listening to a book.
"Times", the knife fell, and Niu Er pulled a cut on his left hand.
"Second brother!" the hammer snorted, "What are you doing?"
"Do you think our gangsters' jobs are so good?" Niu Er glared, and then commanded: "Stretch out your hand." ”
"Huh. The hammer rolled up his sleeves and stretched out his two hands.
There was another sound, and blood splattered.
Niu Er casually shook the blood on the knife and inserted it back into his waist.
The shopkeeper nodded: "Okay, I left two taels of blood." At this time tomorrow, add another copy of the regular money, and yours is indispensable. ”
"It's a deal. Niu Er didn't say much, and turned away with the hammer, blood dripping on the ground, leaving two blood lines.