When Jiang Shuo was confused, he saw a huge boat approaching in the direction of Hun Weiming's finger. At this moment, the moon tide was rising, and the river water from Guazhou Ferry poured into the canal. The tide pushed the boat upstream, and it came very quickly. In a moment, it was gone We arrived on the river in front of He Xun Tower.
This painting boat is very tall, with five floors of small buildings on the boat. Although each floor of the boat building is much shorter than the buildings on the ground, the five stacked floors are also spectacular. They are not much shorter than the He Xun Tower. The upper door is wide open, candle shadows are swaying inside, gauze curtains are fluttering, and maids can be vaguely seen coming and going, and the music of silk, bamboo and pipa is heard, creating a beautiful scenery.
Hun Weiming cupped his hands at Dou Tinghui and said, "I'm just catching the tide to leave the city. Thank you Dou Sanlang for your kind hospitality. I'll say goodbye later." He showed his skills and said, "Young Master, everyone, please!"
After saying that, he jumped out of the building first. At this time, the boat was still far away from the building. Hun Weiming jumped with all his strength, but he was still more than ten feet away from the boat. He saw a long pole protruding from the boat building, and it was attached to Hun Weiming's side. , put him on the boat.
Everyone upstairs was a hero, and they immediately jumped out together, using their toes to tap their strength, and landed on the boat one after another.
Jiang Shuo was the last one to jump out, and the long pole stretched out again, but he became more playful. He twisted his waist in the air, drew an arc in the air, avoided the long pole, and landed steadily on the boat. His elegant figure was as straight as a big bird, which caused a burst of colorful sounds on the boat upstairs.
Everyone clasped fists and bowed to Dou Tinghui and Liu Yan on the painted boat, but the boat did not stop for a moment and continued to go up the river. After a while, the river twists and turns and the two people on the upper floor of He Xun disappeared. Everyone then walked into the painted boat. Jiang Shuo saw The interior of this boat is vast and beautifully decorated, and is no less impressive than the He Xun Tower.
The ship building on the boat is arranged in a zigzag shape. The surrounding pavilions are very exquisite with carved beams and painted buildings, separated by gauze screens. Looking at the furnishings and utensils in the house, they complement each other. They are luxurious and elegant. There is a garden in the middle. At this time, It was mid-spring, and there were some exotic flowers and plants planted in the garden, which looked very beautiful under the candlelight.
Everyone looked at him in amazement, and Nan Jiyun said: "Brother Hun, I was mistaken. I only thought that you only know how to do business, but I didn't expect that you are also an elegant person."
Hun Wei said clearly: "Hey... how do I understand this? This boat is managed by Shi Niang." He shouted: "Shi Niang, come and meet me, the leader of the Jianghu Alliance and the leader of the Cao Gang."
Hearing the sound of jingling rings, a young girl emerged from behind the gauze screen, saluted everyone and said "Blessings", but she smiled and said: "I only heard that the Jianghu Alliance has a new leader, named Jiang Suzhi, but I don’t know when there was another Cao gang.”
Xiao Dayou saw that this girl was very beautiful and attractive, and said to Hun Weiming: "Brother Hun, you can do it. I heard that in ancient times, there was an emperor who hid his beauty in a golden house. You hide your beauty in a golden boat."
Hun Weiming said hurriedly: "Old Xiao Xiu wants Meng Lang, which is rude to the beauty. This is my niece, her name is Yu Lanchu."
Nan Jiyun said: "I've never heard that Brother Hun, you have a niece."
Hun Wei said clearly: "Nan Ba, you don't know something. I have an older sister, called Aunt Hun. Otherwise, how can I be the second eldest child and still inherit the family business? My sister married Fu Fu and Yu Shen, a tea merchant in Liang Dynasty. This is her daughter. Lan Zhou is the tenth in the wife's family. We all call her Shi Niang. In fact, she is the eldest daughter in the Yu family." He turned to Yu Lanchu and said: "This is the leader of the Cao Gang and the leader of the Jianghu Alliance. The same person is Young Master Jiang Shuojiang. Don’t say you don’t know about the Cao Gang. Before tonight, even the heroes in the world didn’t know about the Cao Gang. But from today on, the Cao Gang will definitely be something that everyone in the world cannot underestimate.”
When everyone heard what he said, they naturally moved to both sides, letting Jiang Shuo in the middle. Jiang Shuo had not yet gotten used to this feeling of being surrounded by stars, and felt awkward and awkward for a moment.
Yu Lanzhu said in surprise: "I didn't expect that the young master is so young and looks younger than me."
Jiang Shuo was embarrassed and didn't know what to say, so he answered smoothly: "How old is Sister Yu? What is Lan Zhu?"
As soon as he said this, the group of heroes burst into laughter. It turned out that asking the woman's age and name was all about asking for marriage.
Nan Jiyun smiled and said: "Young Master, you need to change your habit of asking girls by their names when you see them. I heard that you were like this when you first met Xiang'er..."
Jiang Shuo waved his hands in embarrassment and said, "Okay, okay, Brother Nan, I already know I was wrong."
Yu Lanchu said, "It doesn't matter. Since all the children of Jianghu are so particular, my word Lanchu means Mulan boat." There was a bookcase in the boat, and Yu Lanchu picked up a pen and spread it on the table. Write the word "Lanyu" on the paper.
Jiang Shuo saw that the two characters were written in a strict, plump and powerful way, and he sincerely praised: "Sister's handwriting is really beautiful, does the two characters Lan Zhao have an origin?"
Yu Lanchu smiled and said: "This is Langya Yan Zhenqing's style of writing. Yan Gong has a five-character sentence: 'Looking at Lan Zhao, Yiyi out of Liucheng', there is the word 'Lanyang'." Then she wrote on the paper again. I wrote these two poems.
Jiang Shuo said: "This style of writing is very different from other calligraphy styles. The writing style is like writing seal script, with strong bones and awe-inspiring spirit!"
Yu Lanchu said happily: "Young Master actually knows calligraphy? This Yan style was created by Yan Gong, and it has only been created for five or six years. Yan Gong was a Jinshi in the 22nd year of Kaiyuan. In the 26th year of Kaiyuan, Yan's mother, Mrs. Yin, died of illness. The Duke lived in Dingyou's home in Luoyang for three years. During this period, he realized this style of writing. His face and body changed from thin and hard to plump and powerful, and his body was broad and powerful. Young Master, you said that "the bones are strong and the spirit is awe-inspiring". It can be said that it is worthy of the praise. That's wonderful." He then asked, "Young Master, can you write?"
Jiang Shuo said, "I don't know how to write in Yan style, so I'll write in Mr. Taibai's cursive style." After saying that, he picked up the pen that Yu Lanchu had just used, and Yu Lanchu said, "I'll help you polish it."
Jiang Shuo said, "No need." He wrote a little bit along the way:
A lotus-picking girl from Yexi River sings a song when she sees a guest. She laughs into the lotus flowers and pretends to be so shy that she cannot come out.
This is the third part of "Yue Nu Ci" written by Li Bai. Jiang Shuo used his half-dry pen to write wildly and freely. By the time the last word "来" was exhausted, only a piece of white was left, and the pen broke the meaning. It was quite strange. Chic and indulgent.
Xiao Dayou punched Lu Yuxuan and said: "Look at my young master, Lu Lang, you claim to be a romantic, but you don't have the ability to write and write, do you?"
Although Lu Yuxuan regarded himself as a scholar, he usually only read military books and tactics, or books about the Spring and Autumn Period, etc. He did not have a deep understanding of poetry, songs, and calligraphy. He smiled and said: "Young master's literary talent How can Xuan be so romantic?"
In fact, Jiang Shuo is not a man of literary talents. He only knows one trick, which is Li Taibai's calligraphy and Li Taibai's poetry. He has no other special skills, but he used both of them today.
The Yan style regular script written by Yu Lanzhu is square and dense, while the Li Bai cursive script written by Jiang Shuo is eccentric. They seem to be very different, but inside they are both strong and elegant. This song "Yue Nu Ci" is even more wonderfully chosen. Yu Lanchu is from Fuliang, west of Jiangnan Province, and also belongs to Yue region. "A girl picking lotuses in Yexi River, singing songs when meeting guests" can be regarded as a compliment.
Yu Lanzhu looked at the jade face and said, "Young Master Jiang is indeed handsome and charming. I admire him."
This made everyone laugh again, and Hun Weiming said: "Okay, we have met and the words have been written. Let's arrange some food. At Dou Sanlang's banquet, I only drank wine and didn't eat anything. "
Xiao Dayou also said: "Yes, I am just busy competing, quarreling, making pacts, and making alliances, and I, Old Xiao, am also hungry."
Yu Lanchu said: "I am from Fuliang, so I will invite you to tea."
Xiao Dayou hurriedly waved his hands and said: "Young lady, did you hear it wrong? Our bellies are not full yet, but you are asking us to have tea?"
Yu Lanchu said with a smile: "Brother Xiao, don't be busy, I can fill my stomach with tea." After that, he called the maid and led everyone to sit in another pavilion in the painting boat.
There was a complete set of tea sets in this pavilion. Yu Lanzhou invited everyone to sit on the couch, and she used a silver wormwood shaft to crush the tea cakes in the gilt silver tea trough with Hongyan pattern. Although White Dew Tea is not as good as Purple Bamboo Shoot Tribute Tea from Guzhu, Huzhou, its warm nature makes it suitable for drinking after drinking."
After grinding, there was a gilt silver crane-patterned tea sieve, and it was poured into a large tile bell. At this time, the water on the small stove next to it was also boiling. A maid poured the boiling water into the tile bell and set up a charcoal basin. On top, add peanuts, sesame seeds, walnuts, red dates, almonds, longan and other things. When it boils, add salt, ginger slices, cinnamon, dogwood, mint and other spices. After boiling again, take out the bell from the charcoal basin. Come on, now the room is filled with fragrance.
Yu Lanzhu poured the tea soup into a large bowl, and the maid held it in both hands and brought it to everyone. Jiang Shuo looked into the bowl, which was half thin and half thick, like a bowl of porridge.
Yu Lanchu said: "This is 'Ming Porridge', please use it."
It turns out that this way of eating tea is not the ordinary way of making tea, but a blind tea porridge made with fragrant tea as bait. Everyone raised their bowls to drink, but they felt that the fragrance was lingering under their teeth, and the meaning was still unfinished. Xiao Dayou asked for more three times and ate three large portions. Wan Cai was satisfied, and everyone laughed again.
After tea, it was already late at night. Yu Lanzhu asked the maid to lead everyone downstairs to rest. Jiang Shuo asked Hun Weiming: "Brother Hun, I didn't hear the sound of oars when I was on the boat. Why does the boat keep going upstream?" "
Hun Weiming smiled and said: "Young Master, I don't know that at the mouth of Yangzhou's river and out of the sea, there is a tide in the sea at night, and the tide rises all the way to the mouth of Dogwood. At this moment, the tide is pushing the boat. Young Master, go to sleep peacefully, and dawn will come." "Zuyukou and Shanyang Road are wide and there is no need to change boats. A painted boat can reach Hongze directly."
Only then did Jiang Shuo realize that Hun Weiming had been in a hurry to jump onto the boat from He Xun Tower, not only to show off his martial arts skills in front of Dou Tinghui, but also to catch the trend and not dare to let the boat stop for a moment.
The maid led him to an elegant room and stood up to say goodbye. Jiang Shuo saw that the bedding and quilts were also clean and elegant. He lay on the couch and heard the sound of a piano playing outside. He expected that it was Yu Lanchu playing the moon while holding the piano. But he didn't know much about music theory. He thought that if Grandpa Xiang'er or Master Ge were here, they would know the meaning of the music. After running around for a day, his head hit the pillow and he fell asleep after a while. He heard the girl's music while he was half asleep and half awake. The singing voice came faintly:
There is a Ximulberry tree, and its leaves are in trouble; seeing a gentleman, how happy is it?
There are mulberry trees in Xi, and their leaves are fertile. Why not be happy when you see a gentleman?
There is a mulberry in Xi, and its leaves are quiet; when you see a gentleman, you will have a good sound.
I love you in my heart, but I don’t care about the distance? Hide it in the center, and never forget it!
