"What song do you want to listen to?" Ba Jinlun pretended to be calm and picked up the teacup, and was about to drink it all, finally remembering that he was pretending to be a vassal and elegant scholar at this time, so he had to take a sip lightly, and carefully put the teacup on the bamboo table.

"Then ask the girl to play a song "Yangguan Three Stacks" for Xiaosheng. He searched his stomach and finally came up with a song title.

The woman said softly, "Then the slave family will be ugly." ”

The woman behind the bamboo curtain stroked the strings, and a gentle and smooth sound sounded from the bamboo house. Ba Jinlun didn't know what to appreciate, he only pretended to be intoxicated and half-closed his eyes, nodding slightly to the beat.

The woman played a passage, and suddenly her mouth opened softly, and she sang to the sound of the harp:

"In the spring of the Qinghe Festival, the rain in Weicheng is light and dusty, and the guest house is green and willow-colored. Persuade you to have a glass of wine, and there is no reason to go out of Yangguan in the west! Frost night and frost morning. Travel, travel, cross the Guanjin for a long time, and melancholy this body. After hardships, hardships, hardships, it is advisable to cherish itself, it is appropriate to cherish itself. ”

Although the woman's voice was cold when she spoke, she could sing the song, but her voice was extremely mellow, even Ba Jinlun, who was unlearned and unskilled, was also very comfortable to listen to, and unconsciously immersed in it, and when he came back to his senses, he heard the last sound of Yaoqin, and the song had been played.

He hurriedly stood up and bowed, and said: "The girl is both singing and singing, and Xiaosheng's admiration for the girl is like a surging river......

I only heard a dinging sound in the bamboo house, and it seemed that the woman had struck something, so the maid smiled and made a regular salute to Ba Jinlun, "My young lady invited my son into the house to see me." ”

Ba Jinlun was in high spirits, thinking that it was finally time to play meat, so he forced himself to hold back his excitement, walked to the bamboo curtain in four directions, and said again, "Forgive Xiaosheng for being rude." Then he lifted the curtain and walked in.

I saw the woman in white kneeling behind Yaoqin, without powder, her face was not beautiful, but the proportion of her facial features was just right, and there was a dusty temperament between her eyebrows and eyes. When she saw Ba Jinlun coming in, her cheeks were slightly red, and it seemed that she didn't expect that the person who came was a young scholar from Yushu Linfeng.

"Xiaoqing, change tea for Childe. The woman said. The little maid called Xiaoqing answered, and went to the back of the courtyard with a tea tray.

The two looked at each other for a moment, but no one spoke, and finally the woman smiled and said, "Isn't it the first time that Childe has come to the Red Sleeves?"

"Red sleeve move?" Ba Jinlun was a little at a loss, if the woman threw the brocade and pounced on him, "Brother, sister's heart", he knew that he should directly pick up the gun and get on the horse. However, although this woman is by no means a good family, this demeanor is not like an ordinary Qinglou woman, but it makes him not know what to do.

"Girl, Xiaosheng is from Suzhou, passing through here, so I really don't know ...... this red-sleeved trick," he hesitated.

"The red sleeves are talking about this alley, and there are all independent courtyards in the alley, like slaves, and there are twelve in this alley. The woman put her hands in her sleeves, stared at Ba Jinlun's face and said, "Slave Qiuniang, there are two in twenty this year, I don't know what to call the son." ”

"Xiaosheng...... Xiaosheng's ......" Ba Jinlun never expected the other party to ask for his name, and said in his heart, "This prostitute, do you still have to report your surname?" But for a while, he couldn't make up a decent pseudonym, so he had to be in a hurry, and said: "Xiaosheng's surname is Dongfang, and his single name is a sword character." ”

Bang dang - I saw the little maid Xiaoqing approaching the bamboo house with freshly brewed tea, and when she heard the words "Oriental Sword", she knocked the tea tray to the ground as soon as she missed.

Qiu Niang also covered her mouth in surprise and said, "Could it be that Gongzi is the new talent in Jiangnan known as 'Mr. Qingpu', Dongfang Jian Dongfang Gongzi?"

Ba Jinlun waved his hand and said, "Where is it, Xiao Sheng is just a Jianghu person in the Book and Sword Alliance, and the girl must have made a mistake." ”

Qiu Niang was surprised and delighted at first, and then said with a sad face: "Why should the prince deceive people again, who doesn't know that Dongfang Gongzi is both civil and military, not only a master of swordsmanship, but also Xie Yuangong of the Nanzhili Township Test in the third year of Yongping." The slave family heard that the son will go to Beijing next year to participate in the examination, why is he not at home at this time to study and come to Wuchang City?"

Xiaoqing interjected when she heard this: "Miss, with the great talent of Dongfang Gongzi, he must have already become a bamboo in his chest, this journey of thousands of miles is like reading thousands of books, how can the son read dead books at home." ”

Qiu Niang smiled: "Yes, yes, Qiu Niang was overjoyed when she saw her son, and she even forgot such a simple truth, she really deserved to fight." You girl, go and make a good pot of tea for Dongfang Gongzi again. ”

Ba Jinlun listened to these two women, you and me, and when he talked about Dongfang Jian, a blue-shirted scholar, he was still a character who made countless women dream, and his heart suddenly became unhappy.

But after thinking about it, if he didn't borrow the name of this Oriental Sword, how could this Qiu Niang be so good at talking and easily go back to the inn with him?

So, he pretended to be modest and said: "The girl has a good reputation, the people in the south of the Yangtze River are outstanding and talented, and the little life is just a fluke, so she has a little false fame, and she never dares to be arrogant." ”

He was about to find an excuse to ask Na Qiu Niang to go back to the inn with him, or even if he let Xiaoqing, a little girl, go, he would be on a good trip, but he saw that Qiu Niang said happily: "Today, I have a fate to meet Dongfang Gongzi, and the slave family has recently composed a new song, so I will play it in Gongzi, and I hope that Gongzi will not hesitate to give advice." ”

After that, Qiu Niang's eyes closed, pondered slightly for a moment, her fingertips swiped on the strings, and a good song slowly came out.

Ba Jinlun is sitting like a needle at the moment, let him point and play the piano, it is better to give him a broken bowl and let him play a song "Lotus Falling", at least when he was mixed with the beggars, he listened to the beggars sing this song in a trick.

He desperately filled in the words and sentences in his stomach, trying to make up a few decent comments, but the song that Qiu Niang played this time was not long, and as soon as the piano stopped, Qiu Niang looked at him expectantly with a pair of wonderful eyes.

Ba Jinlun opened his mouth, but there was no dry goods in his stomach, so he had to grin and praise "Seconds!"

But like Qiu Niang, what kind of man has not seen it, seeing Ba Jinlun's expression, he has doubts in his heart, "I have heard that Gongzi's calligraphy is a must in the south of the Yangtze River, and a pair of "Mysterious Tower Tablet" has Liu Gong's eight-point fire, can you leave a pair of Gongzi's ink treasure for the slave family today, and when the slave family is lonely in the future, there is a good miss." ”

Qiu Niang's words were lingering, but in Ba Jinlun's ears, she complained bitterly. That Xiaoqing had just come in with a tea tray, and when she heard Qiu Niang say this, she immediately went out to get a set of four treasures from the study.

Seeing that Xiaoqing consciously began to study ink, and this Qiu Niang stared at herself intently, without blinking her eyes, where could he still pretend, Huo Di stood up and arched: "The girl must have made a mistake, Xiaosheng's surname Dongfang is true, but this 'cheap' is the 'cheap' of **, not the 'Mr. Qingpu' that the girl said." Xiaosheng still has important things to do, so I will leave!"

With that, he flicked his sleeves and was about to go out.

"You stop me!" Xiao Qing threw the inkstone in his hand, "What a bold thief, he dares to deceive and attract Red Sleeves." ”

"Xiaoqing must not be rude. This Qiu Niang is very well cultivated, and said without hurry or anger, "Since you have entered my small courtyard, no matter whether the son is the 'sword' of the sword or the 'cheap' of the **, he is a distinguished guest of the slave family, and please don't worry about this ignorant maid." It's getting late today, why can't the son stay in this small courtyard of the slave family?"

Ba Jinlun saw that the dashing boy couldn't pretend anymore, so how dare he stay here, and said stubbornly: "Xiaosheng does have something important to do, another day, another day." ”

Qiu Niang was not reluctant, she stood up and saluted. The little green pouted and stepped forward, spreading his little hands, "Then please ask the son to meet the money." ”

"What kind of money?" Ba Jinlun vaguely felt that something was wrong.

"Knowing money is paying, son, you listened to my girl's two songs, and drank a pot of tea, a total of thirty-five taels of silver. Xiaoqing hurriedly walked to the door and stared at him suspiciously, "Childe, you won't be repaying the debt, right?"

"Thirty-five taels, are you robbers?" Ba Jinlun jumped up and threw away the image of Najia Gongzi somewhere, not to mention that he didn't bring any money out today, even if he brought money, he wouldn't pay thirty-five taels of silver for two songs and a pot of tea.

Xiaoqing sneered, "Where did you come from, and you don't ask what kind of place my red sleeves are, how can ordinary people come to the door here?" That is, the prefect of Wuchang Mansion wants to invite my young lady to the banquet to sing a song, then it will cost ten taels of silver a song, your face is bigger than the prefect, and you really think that you are Xie Yuangong?"

"Hmph, don't come with me to this set, don't think that I don't know, you guys are **naked slanderers, just these two broken tunes, a pot of rotten tea, give two taels of silver, it's already considered a master to give face. Ba Jinlun was like thunder, he was the only one who slandered people, but today he was slandered, how can he not be annoyed.

"That's good, son, you should take out two taels of silver for the slave maid to see. Xiaoqing squinted at him, with a sneering expression.

Ba Jinlun was speechless suddenly, his face flushed, and he became angry and embarrassed.

Suddenly, he heard the "ding" sound twice, but saw that the autumn girl was covered with frost, shook her jade hand lightly, knocked on a copper pipe, and said: "Uncle Chai, I am unlucky today, and I have not come to the door with long eyes, and I have to trouble your old man to train and train." ”

As soon as the words fell, there was an old man in a dark house uniform in the room, and the eyes of the gloomy owl shot straight at Ba Jinlun.