There are several plump plantains planted in the courtyard, and the raindrops hit the banana leaves with a crisp sound. Xu Fengnian and Xu Pu, who met in a foreign land, took two stools and sat at the door. Xu Fengnian smiled suddenly, seeing Xu Pu's suspicious gaze, he said with shame: "Uncle Xu should also know that I used to spend money to buy poetry. I remember once I spent about two or three hundred taels of silver to buy a seven-character quatrain, and there was a sentence in it that the sound of the rain hitting the plantain was bitter. A bloody head said that this is the language of moaning without illness. I improvised it and said how loud it is to modify it into a rain-beating thin shirt. The second sister was still not satisfied. People were beating people, there were patters in and out of the courtyard, and I asked her how this poem was, haha, I didn't expect that after the second sister beat me up, Jinkou opened her mouth and said two words, not bad."
At first Xu Pu didn't comprehend the essence of the three folded characters "Papapapapapapapapa", and he was a little puzzled. Then he smiled, squinted at the gray and gloomy rain, and said softly, "It's not bad."
Just as Xu Fengnian was about to speak, Sweet Potato held a satin embroidered umbrella and walked into the courtyard of Qingzhai Zhai. After closing the umbrella, he stood upside down at the door. Xu Fengnian remembered his mother's teaching when he was a child that umbrellas should not be turned upside down. Go and turn the small umbrella upside down. Er smiled, spoke humorously, and said softly: "It's almost done. Although it can't be said that everyone is happy, but the general direction has been negotiated, and the details will be left to them to go back to the mansion for private consultation. Anyway, there are only a few pieces of meat on the board. Cutting it off is a matter of who falls into the bowl. The servants guess that it is necessary to rely on women of the right age in the family to marry, so that everyone can be relieved when they become in-laws. busy."
Xu Pu laughed it off.
Xu Fengnian glanced at the sky and asked, "Would you like to go for a walk?"
Xu Pu smiled and said, "It's good to have a good time. I'm tired from walking. I can go to the general's place to rest. I also have a few pots of green ant wine that I don't want to drink. Warm it up and eat it. It's very good to drive away the cold."
There was a worried look on the sweet potato face, Xu Fengnian said with a helpless smile: "Do you really think I am a muddy Bodhisattva and a paper tiger, too coquettish to see the rain?"
Hearing this, Sweet Potato no longer insisted on his own opinion, and the three of them, with two umbrellas, walked out of the Qingzhai where the plantains were swaying, and the Giant Immortal Palace that returned to peace and tranquility. The wine shop where Xu Pu is located is on the main city road, just walk straight, and the heavy rain washes away, and blood and conspiracy also fall into the sink. However, the city ban is much stricter than usual. There have been several remnants of treason who escorted loyal servants at home, disguised themselves and tried to escape from the city. Killed on the spot, God knows if there are any escaped fish, I am afraid that only from the revenge after several years of painstaking efforts can we know.
Moreover, this thick blood account will probably be imposed on Xu Fengnian in the future. At this time, the three of them were walking on a dark street with few people. In front of a scallion pancake stand with a big umbrella, the time-honored stall has been selling scallion pancakes for decades in Dunhuang City. It is not afraid of the deep alleys, and word of mouth spreads it. Even at such times, there are also greedy diners who come to buy pancakes and devour them. Xu Fengnian and his party of three stood in line at the end, during which time some common people came, and a few of them knew Xu Pu who had been selling wine for some time, and knew that he once married a beautiful and beautiful daughter-in-law with a surname, and then He ran away to live with the eldest son of the Duanmu family, only envious of mandarin ducks but not immortals, and they all secretly pointed at this middle-aged man with a smile. Xu Pu, who wrote in calligraphy, begged for the Spring Festival couplets. He missed the old feelings and felt dissatisfied at the moment. He stopped the teasing of those acquainted diners. He jumped in line and came behind Xu Pu to greet him. My dear girl, did you buy green onion pancakes? Be careful to grow too fat, and you won’t be able to get married in the future.”
The fat businessman laughed and said: "My girl is not fat. She looks like me. It doesn't matter if she doesn't get married. It's fine if she gets married. Old Qiao, I've been working in the dark to make money. What are you trying to do? My children live a more relaxed life, by the way, brother Xu, I bought a new house in the east of the city, and I have to ask you for a few couplets later, can you help me write more boldly?"
Xu Pu nodded and said, "That's no problem. Remember to come and drink often. Without you, Boss Qiao, to support the scene, the restaurant can't go on."
Surnamed Qiao patted Xu Pu on the shoulder, and said boldly: "This is no problem. It just happened to coincide with the happy housewarming. I wanted to go to your place to discuss it. I bought all the drinks from your shop, okay? But it's okay, but You have to give me a good price for Old Joe."
Xu Pu nodded with a smile and said, "Boss Qiao is an expert, if I dare to sell it at a high price, I won't be able to do business in Dunhuang City in the future."
Sweet Potato stood with an umbrella, turned to look at the pair of middle-aged men chattering politely, with some interest. Xu Fengnian turned around and saw that the businessman probably saw that he was dressed brightly and brought a stunning maidservant with him. With a coy attitude that wanted to be close but didn't dare to make mistakes, he took the initiative to smile and said, "This is Boss Qiao? I'm Uncle Xu's distant nephew came to Dunhuang City to do some porcelain business. Uncle Xu often said that thanks to Mr. Qiao taking care of the shop all these years, it was a joy to move back home. Among other things, I happened to have some porcelain bowls and plates on hand, which can be regarded as countertops. , give Boss Qiao a dozen sets when he comes to the door."
Boss Qiao said with surprise on his face, "Really?"
Xu Fengnian smiled warmly and said, "If you fool Boss Qiao, my nephew will not be scolded to death by Uncle Xu, seriously."
Boss Qiao’s family is well-off. It’s not that he really cares about the dozens of sets of porcelain dishes. It’s just that seeing this pair of masters and servants is amazing. They want to make money by snowballing money in business. Those who have done business know that many times in this world where people are inferior to others, if those high-ranking Bodhisattvas in the temple feel that you are lowly and ashamed, no matter how much real money you have, it is useless. You can't even enter the temple with a pig's head on. Meeting a rich and powerful person who is easy to talk to is really unprecedented compared to meeting a young oiran while visiting a brothel. The reason why Boss Qiao got close to a down-and-out scholar like Xu Pu was that he still had some small calculations in his heart. He was a businessman, and he had a natural inferiority complex for those scholars who had ink in their stomachs. It was hard to catch one. Those who are down and out, always a little bit complacent, want to shake off their own richness, invite Xu Pu to write Spring Festival couplets and drink in the mansion, why didn't they have the little thought that made Xu Pu feel ashamed after seeing the mansion
After Jinyi Sweet Potato bought three scallion pancakes wrapped in oil paper, Xu Fengnian and Xu Pu bid farewell to Boss Qiao and left.
Fatty didn't dare to look at Sweet Potato at that time, but now he looked at her graceful figure vigorously when he was free, swallowed hard, thinking how could Xu Pu have such a wealthy relative
Walking on the turbulent spring rain in the alley, Sweet Potato smiled and said, "Great Governor, it won't take long for the Yuwen family to regret it."
Xu Pu smiled slightly and shook his head.
Xu Fengnian asked: "What happened?"
Sweet Potato glanced at Xu Pu, who smiled and said, "But it's okay."
Sweet Potato then slowly said: "Once upon a time there was a woman from the Yuwen family who was very discerning. She fell in love with the Governor, she eloped and broke up with the family, married the Governor, and became the proprietress of the wine seller. Later, for some reason, she returned to the family. .”
Xu Pu said flatly: "She remarried to the eldest son of the Duanmu family. Don't blame her. There are several women who are willing to grow old with a man who is not motivated. To be honest, she was willing to accompany a poor scholar like me to buy rice, oil, soy sauce, vinegar and tea. , has already impressed me, and I have been feeling guilty all these years, and feel that I owe her too much. There are a few young men and women who are not in the right family, and they can really get their heads together. Even if there are, they are mostly just in the novels of gifted scholars and beautiful ladies. Duanzi, moreover, the man in the book has to be the number one scholar in high school, and then he can be proud. Like Xu Pu, who can squander the dowry of a hundred taels of gold, in terms of common sense, he can't be the man in the book .”
Xu Fengnian smiled lightly and said: "These women seem to be singing and crying, but in the final analysis they misunderstood both men and themselves. When they were rich and wealthy, they didn't know the world. The rouge sandalwood couch, I have really endured hardships with men, and then I gradually realized the power of yellow and white vulgar things. Not to mention anything else, I chatted with close friends in the boudoir, and heard them talk about delicacies from mountains and seas every time, and the latest clothes were not enough to wear. The style is old again, and the woman who fell off the branch and turned into a sparrow may not really want to enjoy this kind of enjoyment, but she always feels uncomfortable. Over time, it will subtly change, and then go to see the good-for-nothing man next to her, and know his poems and books Talent can't be turned into a wife based on her husband's value, and even her own children will suffer and suffer in the future. Naturally, her mind has changed. Back then, those who turned their heads to ask their husbands, and the thrush's eyebrows were not fashionable, quietly became disgusting. "
"Uncle Xu, if my guess is correct, did she always talk to you and joke with you when she went to see her old friends? After a few years, she became more silent and then sent you some Inexplicable little temper, in the end, why don't I tell you these things at all?"
Xu Pu was stunned.
Obviously caught by this young man's words.
"Uncle Xu, you have to feel guilty. In reason, no one dares to say that you are wrong, but if you are too guilty and get caught up in it, you will be a little petty. Take a step back and say, that woman married a good man , This is much more fulfilling than any self-pity and self-pity that can be turned into a memory. If you really want to blame it, blame my master. If he gave you the status of a general of Dunhuang City, there will be so many bad things."
Xu Pu was stunned for a long time, but did not speak.
Sweet Potato sighed softly: "If that woman hears the young master's words, she will feel ashamed."
Xu Fengnian laughed at himself and said: "I'm such a vulgar man who spoils the scenery. She probably doesn't like to dirty her ears, and won't listen to half a sentence."
The famous spring and autumn general dressed as a middle-aged scribe sighed: "His Highness's seemingly frivolous words have untied Xu Pu's heart too much."
Xu Pu smiled and said, "Drink those jars of green ant wine later, and scold Li Yishan well."
The three of them went to the small wine shop at the gate of the city.
At this time, white clothes entered the city.
None of the dozens of people at the city gate had a whole body.
Meet on a narrow road.
Xu Pu looked at the man in white from a distance, took a breath, and said in a deep voice, "Luoyang, the devil!"