Capital, outside Huiyou Building.
A loud sound of gongs suddenly sounded, causing people passing by on the street to stop and look sideways.
A man wearing a short green cloth jacket with a shrewd look on his face pressed his right hand on a gong held in his left hand to silence the reverberation of the gong. He cupped his fists and bowed his hands to the crowd of people attracted. , said loudly:
"Dear guests, our store has hired a new storyteller, Mr. Sun. He is best at telling anecdotes about martial arts and rivers and lakes. He is guaranteed to be exciting and exciting. Mr. Sun is about to start his lecture right now. Please come to the side of the store. Eating, drinking, and listening to books at the same time is really a great thing!"
Now is the year of spring. Not only scholars from all over the world gather in the capital, but also scholars from other three religions and nine streams have come to join in the fun with various purposes. Dragons and snakes from all directions are gathering in Zhongzhou.
After hearing this guy's propaganda, many people became interested at that time. Besides, it was almost noon. As long as they had a lot of money, they all wanted to have lunch, so they went to join in the fun and hear something new. Yes, they all walked into the Friends Building at that time.
As the crowd poured into the restaurant, there was a young Taoist priest with a smile on his face and a handsome young man with a cold expression, but it was Hu Long and A Fei, the master and disciple.
At this time, it had been two years since A Fei became a disciple, and Bai Feifei had died of illness more than a year ago.
After burying his mother, Ah Fei's temperament became even colder. Even when facing his master Hu Huan, whom he had recognized in his heart for a long time, he didn't smile all day long, couldn't say more than three sentences, and just focused on practicing swordsmanship. The pain of studying is almost crazy.
Hu Long knew that if things continued like this, sooner or later, this child would turn into the ruthless swordsman in the original novel who was alienated and even hated the world. Only when he met the man who also suffered great pain but always treated the world with love could he gradually Awaken the warmth frozen in your heart.
But now that I am the master here, I can't wait ten years for others to take over.
After making a decision in his heart, Hu Long waited for Ah Fei to mourn his mother for a full year, and his martial arts and swordsmanship were considered to be successful under his teaching, so he proposed to take Ah Fei to travel around the world to increase his knowledge.
Ah Fei originally intended to mourn for three years, but was moved by Hu Long's question, "Do you want to settle accounts with the man who made your mother suffer all her life?" He paid homage in front of the tomb and followed Hu Long with his tattered iron sword. Out of the wilderness.
After the two masters and apprentices entered the customs, they also experienced some ups and downs along the way, and witnessed several joys and sorrows in the world.
Hu Yuan reasoned with the situation, not only teaching Ah Fei some experience of traveling in the world, but also enlightening him on some principles of human nature. Finally, some initial results were achieved, and some of the child's ideas were no longer too extreme.
As soon as their master and apprentice arrived in the capital today, they caught up with the excitement.
Just now, when Hu Long heard that the storyteller was an old man named Sun, he became interested and dragged Ah Fei in, who was not interested in it.
The master and apprentice sat down at a table in the corner, and a waiter came up to wait on them. Hu Long casually ordered a few dishes, and specifically ordered five kilograms of Shaoguo wine, which was said to be the restaurant's signature.
The waiter had seen a lot of the world, and although he was a little suspicious of Hu Long's drinking capacity, he didn't say or ask any more questions. He agreed, turned around, and soon brought all the food and drinks.
Although A Fei was cold-tempered, he still knew how to respect his teacher. At that time, he stood up, picked up the five-pound wine jar, and poured a full bowl of wine for his master, but not a drop overflowed the edge of the bowl, showing a very good skill. Hand strength and wrist strength.
Hu Long nodded with satisfaction, held the edge of the bowl with three fingers, raised the wine bowl to his lips, raised his head and drank it all.
This Shaoguotou wine is the ancestor of Erguotou in later generations. It is customary to brew it from sorghum in the north. It is the most spicy and powerful. When it enters the throat, it feels like swallowing the edge of a knife, so it is also called "Shaoguo Liquor".
Ah Fei poured three bowls of wine for Master.
The first two bowls of Hu Long were as dry as before. Finally, I was a little over the alcohol addiction, and then I slowly started to taste the fourth bowl of wine with the dishes.
A Fei just started eating with a bowl of rice in front of him.
Different from Hu Long's heroic demeanor, he chewed every mouthful of food carefully and swallowed slowly, as if he wanted to convert every piece of meat and every grain of rice into strength and store it, and would never waste any of it easily.
At this moment, the storyteller has not yet appeared, and the diners in the hall are chatting with each other, toasting each other, and the roof is almost lifted in the noisy atmosphere.
Suddenly, a high-pitched shout came from the door: "Master Li Xunhuan of Baoding Prefecture, Mr. Tang Yintang of Suzhou Prefecture, and Mr. Wang Shouren of Shaoxing Prefecture are coming to our 'Huiyou Building'!"
Following this shout, the guests in the hall were quiet for a moment, and then "boom" broke out into a more lively noise than before.
Hu Long then heard one of the four scholar-looking young men at the next table say in a slightly excited tone: "It's the right time to come to the 'Huiyou Building' today. It doesn't matter what the book will say later. It's just that It will be a worthwhile trip to see Tang Yin and Li Xunhuan, two great talents from the north and the south, gathered together."
Another person asked curiously: "I also heard that Li Xunhuan was a famous romantic talent in Northern Zhili, and Tang Yinze was known as the first of the four great talents in the south of the Yangtze River. The two of them, one from the south and the other from the north, both took the exam for the first time and took the exam in succession. Winning the first prize in the provincial examination, everyone is determined to win the first prize in this subject when they enter the capital. They are supposed to be in the same boat, so how could they appear together?"
Another person explained: "Brother Zhang just arrived in the capital today and didn't know anything. A few days ago, in the largest brothel in the area, Qinfang Pavilion, these two talented men had a gambling fight over the courtesan Liu Ruyan.
"They first wrote poems and couplets to determine the winner, and then competed in the four arts of piano, chess, calligraphy, and painting. As a result, Mr. Li won the piano skill and calligraphy, but Mr. Tang won the chess skill and painting skill. It was still difficult to distinguish. Down.
"In the end, Miss Ruyan personally came out to mediate between the two of them, and the two talented men had already cherished each other. They immediately turned their hostility into friendship and became a good talk among the people."
At this time, the last person asked weakly: "Brothers, Li and Tang are both talented people in the world. Who is Prince Wang Shouren? Or maybe I am ignorant, why have I never heard of his name? ?”
The other three were silent for a moment, and one of them answered vaguely: "I have never heard of this person, maybe he is a friend of one of the two talented men."
Then he turned the topic back to Li and Tang, and talked enthusiastically about the details of their gambling and talent competition in the brothel. I don't know if they were present at the time or just heard it from hearsay.
While everyone was talking about it, the waiter had already led the way with a proud expression on his face and invited three young men to come in.
There was a man in his twenties, who was dressed in rich brocade clothes. At first glance, he was a member of a noble family. His appearance was handsome yet heroic, especially his beautiful eyes that seemed to be able to talk. They seemed to be green, as if they were blowing in the spring breeze. The willow branches are gentle and flexible, and like the sea water under the summer sun, full of pleasant vitality.
The man in the middle is about the same age as the former, and wears a scholar's green shirt. Although he can be regarded as having a straight face and a talented appearance, he is more than inferior to the former. However, the corners of his eyes and eyebrows always have a wild and unrestrained temperament, which is quite good. A little bit of the ability to win over a girl's heart.
The person at the end was already twenty-seven or eighty years old, and his appearance was as ordinary and lackluster as the gray cloth robe he wore.
But Hu Long, who was holding the wine bowl, first paid attention to this person, not only because he guessed that he was Wang Shouren, Mr. Yangming, who was revered by later generations as the first sage of the Ming Dynasty, but also because he had been promoted to Innate With his spiritual sense in this realm, he could sense the pure Qi in the other person's body and every movement he made - this was the second innate master he had encountered since coming to this world!
