Chapter 13 Gentleman's Tea
"good--"
"The fish sinks and the geese fall, and the moon shuts and the flowers are ashamed!"
"good--"
"Play..."
Cai Yan's little hand hurt, but his second uncle Cai Bian was a little funny. What does it mean to "sink fish and goose, and hide the moon and shy flowers"? It's not like a charming person at this time.
Cai Bian and Tang Ke felt funny, but a group of scholars who supported Ling Xianger were very angry. With Cai Bian and Tang Ke, two senior scholars who left the court, were present, and others did not dare to ridicule them in the court, so they had to secretly resent and curse, and secretly wondered how to find justice for the goddess. However, the old rich men who were unscrupulous in the hall were all shouting.
"The fish and geese fall, the moon is ashamed of flowers... The fish and geese fall, the moon is ashamed of flowers..."
Ling Xianger's aura is not mentioned. First-class, second-class, third-class, and four-color. She can compete for the candidate for the flower courtesan. Needless to say, her character depends on who can speak her life experience is more pitiful and inspiring. Then each flower building promotes respect for the elderly and love the young, actively donate to build bridges and pave roads, and even more, there are those who use the beauty of finding a happy guest to make achievements. In short, it is just about how to say it, how to win sympathy among the people, and then the score is made by the old man in the front row.
The first and second rhymes are basically the same. The judges in the front row all gave high scores. What they really compete for is the three talents and four colors. In front of them is a display of talent, not a display of beautiful and charming colors. Cai Yan took the lead, and a group of people started clamoring for "The fish and the geese are falling, and the moon is shy of flowers." Wouldn't it be said that Ling Xianger's beautiful colors cover up her talent? If she waited for the "four colors" evaluation, she would not be able to compare with others...
Ling Xiang'er was secretly angry. In front of so many people who made excuses, she was helpless. She lowered her body and glared at Cai Yan very angryly.
Cai Bian stroked his beard and smiled, nodded and said, "Although this woman cannot make the fish and geese fall to the ground, it is difficult to find beauty in the world, and the sage is considered a good idea."
Tang Ke looked at Su Zhen, nodded and smiled, "Little Five, the boy boy, don't know the taste of a beauty. Yuandu's words...hehe... the old cow chews peonies~"
"Ha ha……"
Cai Bian couldn't help but laughed.
"Childish fun! Childish fun!"
"Ha ha……"
The old man laughed loudly, Su Zhen's face turned pale, and he felt extremely regretful that he offended the two big bosses because of his great-grandson. If he wanted to make up for it, he couldn't speak in front of countless people, so he could only smile with embarrassment.
Although Cai Yan is only six or seven years old, his soul is already adult. He is not a fool, and he knows what happened in Hangzhou without leaving the mansion.
But I don’t understand that the Su family is running him a little bit, and he is so obviously opposite to the Cai family. Isn’t that afraid that Cai Jing, who is in Bianjing, isn’t he afraid that Cai Jing, who is in Bianjing?
Cai Yan looked like a boy who was in trouble and drooped his little head, but he thought about the recent actions of the Su family, and did not realize that someone had changed on the flower table.
"When will the bright moon come? I will ask the sky with wine..."
The gentle melody was like drizzle moistening things silently. Cai Yan suddenly looked up and saw a woman on the stage singing "Song of the Water Melody" softly. The woman was wearing a long and clean sand. There was no idea when the room had become dark. A huge moon slowly rose on the flower platform. Before the flower, the woman was like Chang'e in the moon palace, with a faint homesickness and sorrow lingering in people's ears...
"Young Master! It is the Fujian courtesan invited by our Baihua Pavilion, Wu Ji!"
Green Tao's face was flushed, but Cai Yan looked at the fairy-like woman on the stage in a daze, hazy, but she reached out but couldn't reach...
"...I hope people will live long and share the beauty of the moon with thousands of miles away."
The sound of the beams never dispersed, the lights were bright, there was no trace of people on the stage, and only the immortals left in everyone's hearts were gone and Xiao Se sighed...
“What a pity…”
Cai Bian sighed softly, Tang Ke shook his head helplessly, and countless sighs continued to dissipate for a long time...
When Mama Su saw countless people sighing, she felt anxious and hurried on stage and said with a smile.
"Xiang'er's dance and Miss Wu's songs are all like a fairyland. After all the dances, we should let the guests have a tea and a cup of tea. Please invite Miss Dong Xiang'er in Baihua Pavilion~"
Cai Li's mouth curled up, and before he could speak, Lu Tao cursed in a low voice.
"shameless!"
Cai Bian and Tang Ke looked at each other for a while and smiled.
The way they eat and the little tricks, they can only fool the common people without thinking. However, they are not very useful to the old foxes in the front row. They all shook their heads and sighed slightly. The moment Baihua Pavilion decided to withdraw, Baihua Pavilion gave up the competition for this year's courtesan.
Dong Xianger and Ling Xianger are all proficient in dance. They originally offered a dance song, but after Baihua Pavilion retired from the competition for the courtesans, their talent display turned into tea art and tea.
The tea art of this era is very different from that of Cai Huang. In my impression, the tea is clear tea, and it is enough to brew tea leaves with water. However, the tea art that Dong Xianger showed in front of me was not like this, but "shopping tea".
Lu Tao likes to make some tea when he is fine, but he doesn't like it very much. He looks like milky white tea is similar to milk and it tastes good to drink, but he always feels he's cheated.
The tea leaves include green tea and black tea. Cai Yan was very suspicious whether it could be made white with a brush, but the green peach did make milky white. Later, he found out that the reason was the tea cake used. The tea cakes made after baking and crushing them also contained flour, sesame, sugar or salt. However, he did not like such tea and was more willing to drink boiled water or clear tea.
When he saw Dong Xianger wearing a big white dress and using a brush to brush tea, he lost the desire to take a sip, but Lu Tao couldn't turn his eyes, fearing that something had been missed.
A large bowl of milky white tea was divided into ten cups of ox-eye tea cups. The little maid held the tea and water to the judges in the front row. Cai Yan also divided a cup, but he was sent to Lu Tao...
"I don't like it very much, please drink it."
"Young master, this... this is the Tuanlong tea that the lady couldn't bear to drink!" Lu Tao knew that he had become ill and disliked the white tea. Thinking of the preciousness of Tuanlong tea, he still used his own opinion to persuade him in a low voice.
Cai Bian and Tang Ke were both stunned, but Dong Xianger on the stage was anxious.
"Young Master, but Xianger tea is not good in color and it is difficult to enter?"
Cai Yan was stunned and hurried to see the tea in front of Lu Tao...
"It's quite white..."
Cai Yan suddenly understood and smiled with a fist, "Miss may have misunderstood. It's not that the girl's tea is not good, but me... but that I like gentleman's tea more, which can quench thirst."
"Gentleman's Tea?"
Dong Xianger was puzzled, Cai Bian and Tang Ke seemed to understand something, and stroked their beards and smiled without saying a word.
Cai Yan scratched his head and said, "A gentleman is as light as water. Mencius said that wealth and honor cannot be lustful, poverty and humbleness cannot be moved, and mighty and force cannot be betrayed. This is called a gentleman. A gentleman's tea is green and righteous, light and bitter and fragrant, just like a gentleman's openness... Then what, in fact, I am just lazy, the girl's tea is very good, it is white, tender and delicate..."
The more I talked, the more embarrassed he became, so I just snatched the tea in front of Lu Tao and drank it all. Shut up and didn't dare to say anything again. Dong Xianger opened her mouth but didn't know what to say, but Cai Bian nodded and smiled.
"A gentleman is open and honest... What the younger brother said is right. It was originally green and mellow, but now it is turbid and has a different color, but it is not the gentleman's tea..."
"Second uncle, my nephew is already in trouble. Aren't you applying ginger water to Miss Dong's eyes?"
Cai Huang was helpless.
"Ha ha……"
Cai Bian laughed loudly and raised his hand to drink all the tea in the cup.
"A gentleman is a gentleman, how can he be contaminated by external things? If the mind is really clear and dusty, it is also because of human beings, not the cause of external things!"
Cai Huang looked solemn, and raised his thumbs up, praising him: "The second uncle is a gentleman, and his nephew is ashamed of his ability!"
Even though Cai Bian was serious, he couldn't help but laugh and scolded: "Slip-headed boy, because of your words, Miss Dong suffered undeniable grievances. You can't leave and punish you to give a poem in public..."
"My nephew should run away... That girl Dong, Cai Yan can't guarantee anything else, but there is one thing that can guarantee that the girl is free in Baihualou!"
"If you have a husband you like, you are willing to take you as your wife. No matter who you are, even if you are just a beggar, the Cai family will give you fifty acres of fertile land and a thousand guan of silver as a dowry for your parents' family."
"If you are bullied, you have nothing to say, beat him!"
"From now on, the second uncle won't accept the girl as his adopted daughter, and the girl is also Cai Yan's sister, poetry and other things... forget it."
As he said that, he was going to pull Lu Tao away first, just the little ink in his stomach, so don’t be embarrassed.
Everyone looked strange, but a group of women behind the flower stage seemed to be in a frenzy, and they all opened the gaps in the curtain to peek at them, trying to get a glimpse of the appearance of the Five Yanei heroes.
Once you enter the world, you are like a sea of people. Once you become a prostitute, even if you are a courtesan with a greater degree of freedom, your identity will not change at all. Ten courtesans marry into wealthy families and become concubines. In the end, nine will return to Huajie and Liuxiang, and be forced to retake their old careers by life. The remaining one will die of depression in the gifts to each other. However, Cai Yan's public promise today is different. No one dares to underestimate the power of the Cai family, even if he is just a young child in front of him.
Dong Xianger was happy, and there was no previous embarrassment or complaints?
...
Su did not go to Cuiyun Tower. Seeing Qiuyue sorting out the account book, she knew that she was a little absent-minded and said softly: "Madam, don't worry too much. With the second master, no one dares to make things difficult for the young master."
Mrs. Su threw down the account book that she couldn't see, sighed, and said, "I know that no one dared it, but I'm still a little worried... By the way, have you found out, why is the Su family dirting my son?"
Qiuyue said hesitantly: "It was roughly clear that the master wanted to issue salt banknotes again. Mr. Su Second Master, the old man was worried that the millions of old banknotes in his family would be invalidated. He wanted to take the first to occupy Yancheng salt when the master reopened the salt banknotes. He was also worried that the wife would compete with the Su family, so... so he thought about forcing the wife to leave, as if... it seemed that the eldest master also participated in it..."
There was silence in the study...
"The madam Cuiyunlou... and that girl Gu Qin, who was sent overseas together, will never enter the Song Dynasty in her life!"
Listening to the words without any emotion, Qiuyue's body trembled slightly for no reason and said hesitantly: "Madam, news came from Cuiyunlou, saying it was the prefect Xue..."
"I'm interested in Gu Qinniang? So what?"
Su was angry and his son saved the person. Although the rumor was Cuiyunlou and the Su family took the lead in releasing it, what happened to Gu Qinniang?
Su was angry, angry Gu Qinniang sat down and watched her son suffer inexplicable stigma because of her, and she had no choice but to do anything about the people behind her, but these pawns must be cleaned up!
This is her attitude!
Su suppressed his anger and said, "Tell Cai Jiu that the Cai family does not occupy salt production in Yancheng on the surface. In private, no matter what means he uses, my wife must take down all the salt. If he can't do it, don't blame me for replacing people!"
"snort!"
"Old master, the Su family did it. Don't blame Mei Niang for being a second. Don't think Mei Niang dares not do anything wrong!"
Su was angry. Qiuyue did not dare to say much, so she had to bow her head to agree. At this moment, Chunhua hurried over and delivered the latest news from Cuiyunlou to the book case.
After seeing the ten lines at a glance, the previous sorrow turned into a helpless and bitter smile.
"My son is still too kind..."
"Gentleman tea...is not delicious in this world..."
Chapter completed!