There was only a small boat moored next to the water shore. The boatman standing at the bow looked at Li Xiaotian and shouted: "Do you want to take a boat?"
Li Xiaotian scratched his head and said awkwardly: "I am a candidate who went to Kyoto to take the national exam. I have to take a boat to Kyoto Shangancheng, but my money has just been stolen and I don't have money to pay the boat fee. Can you please help the boatman take me along the way?
Don’t worry, I will pay back twice as much when I come back. I am grateful for my kindness to help the exam.”
The boatman sneered: "Young man, it's not that I don't help you. We are relying on this to make a living by walking on the water. If everyone is like you, wouldn't I want to drink the northwest wind?"
Li Xiaotian said that just now. He was so shameless in the face of the boatman's decisive rejection. Besides, he heard the boatman's tone and his expression, even if he begged again, he would probably be disappointed.
I had to look at the rolling river at will, and it was so desolate.
At this moment, a man's voice suddenly floated out of the cabin: "Let him get on the boat, I'll leave his boat fare."
The boatman was happy to earn one more fee and said, "You are lucky and someone will help you get it. Why don't you come up quickly."
Li Xiaotian was overjoyed and thought to thank this timely helper.
When I got on the boat, I saw a young man sitting in the cabin and cooking wine. He was in his early twenties, with a national face and a high nose bridge, giving people a sense of roughness and generousness.
Li Xiaotian quickly bowed and thanked him: "Brother, I am generous, Li Xiaotian will never forget you."
The young man fiddled with the wine pot and said, "It's all wandering children, all candidates, all fate, just a simple task."
The three of them were all warm and moved.
The young man said and poured two glasses of wine on the small square table, "Brother, don't stand there, sit down and drink a glass of hot wine to warm up."
Li Xiaotian has not drunk any wine since he was a child. The young man helped him so much that he naturally would not refuse. He picked up the wine glass and drank it all. He tasted the wine for the first time and drank it so urgently. The strong wine was rushing from his tongue to his throat.
Li Xiaotian was choked and burst into tears, coughing several times, looking a little embarrassed.
The young man knew that it was his first time drinking, so he said, "Brother, please feel free."
After saying that, the young man also drank a drink directly, and then introduced himself: "My surname is Han, and my name is Yi Shuo."
After the wine was in his stomach, his mouth tongue returned to calm. Li Xiaotian praised: "Han Shuo, a good name, if you can get such a wonderful name, I believe Brother Han must have come from a scholarly family."
Han Shuo teased: "There is no question of a family of scholars, butchers. My father read a lot of books in his early years and took several national exams, but he failed the exam and was disheartened, so he went from the industry of killing pigs and buying meat.
Later, I put my hope of getting a good fortune in the exam. It was very strict for me to educate me, but it also benefited me. Later, he unfortunately fell ill and died. In order to make a living, I inherited his mantle and studied while being a butcher.
Fortunately, he was not disappointed and was recommended by his teacher to take the national exam."
Li Xiaotian was touched by Han Shuo's optimistic attitude towards life. He secretly admired him, saying, "It was me who said it was so cruel that Brother Han talked about the sad past. I will punish myself for a cup of punishment."
After saying that, Li Xiaotian drank another drink, and with the lessons of the past, he drank slowly this time and did not make a fool of himself.
Han Shuolang smiled: "It's not a problem. The past is so surging, and I don't want to leave day and night. I appreciate Brother Li's pleasure. It's your first time drinking, you're still strong wine. If you haven't drunk two glasses, you will be a wine fairy who can eat wine in the future."
Han Shuo's words made Li Xiaotian sigh at his open-mindedness and smiled and replied: "I have met a close friend for a long time, and everyone is drunk."
"What a long time to meet a close friend, everyone is drunk." Han Shuo laughed heroically, and suddenly became elegant and interested, and suggested, "In the past, there was a glass of water flowing in sang. Now I want to sing wine. I wonder what Brother Li thinks?"
Li Xiaotian happily agreed: "This discussion is very good!"
"Then I'll throw my bricks and make me feel better." Han Shuo paused, took a sip of wine, looked out the cabin, and said loudly, "There is a river of water."
Li Xiaotian took a short sip and continued: "Two sails walk among the clouds."
After hearing this, Han Shuo praised: "What a saying goes, two sails are in the clouds, it is wonderful, it is wonderful!"
After saying that, Han Shuo continued, "Lying drunk in the fairy boat."
"Very wonderful, very wonderful!" Li Xiaotian also praised, thought for a while, and replied, "A joke about merit and fame."
"Excellent, happy!" Han Shuo was overjoyed and drank two drinks. "This is to meet a confidant when he drinks, this is to sing wine. If you have this experience in life, even if you haven't made it to the list, how happy it is!"
Li Xiaotian looked at Han Shuo's heroic and unruly appearance, and felt respectful in his heart, and sighed: "The world is so big that you can get a confidant, what else can you ask for!"
The sky is like a river, and two sails are walking among the clouds.
Lying drunk in the fairy boat, laughing at merit and fame.
Although it is an impromptu work of wine and singing, it is definitely a top-notch work. If it is not very talented and like-minded, how can the two of them work together to create such a masterpiece?
Just two lines of poetry, but one leaf can be seen through the autumn, and the two have learned about each other through this poem, appreciate each other, and regard them as confidants, which have the same effect as the mountains and flowing waters. The way for scholars to make friends is
So simple and elegant.
Meeting an old friend in a foreign land, no, it should be meeting a confidant in a foreign land. It is a great blessing in life. Just a poem is naturally not enough. So, the two of them utter a sip of hot wine and spit out a poem. The wonderful sentences are endless.
There is a unique charm on the flowing blue waves.
After drinking for a few rounds, the poetry excites gradually end.
The two of them drank happily and were a little drunk, so they began to talk about the world again, whether they were chores of life, encounters along the way, or lofty ambitions, or criticize current affairs. The more they talked, they felt that they were like-minded and each of them was.
Appreciating the other party's talent argument, it is a sign of meeting too late. Taking advantage of the alcohol, they all mentioned that they wanted to become sworn brothers. When they thought of talking and doing what they said, they each poured a glass of wine and finished their worship.
The oath was made, and then the cup was sprinkled into the river, completing the swornship ceremony in a casual manner.
Han Shuo was older than his elder brother, and Li Xiaotian was younger than his younger brother.
Han Shuo knew that Li Xiaotian was penniless, so he took out two silver coins and handed them to Li Xiaotian. Li Xiaotian was about to refuse, but Han Shuo forced him to Li Xiaotian and said, "When you go out, you always need some money to stay with you. If you feel sorry for it,
When it is developed, just give more interest."
Li Xiaotian experienced all the weather along the way and was cheated of all money in Pianzhou. Suddenly someone was talking about it, and he felt a warm current in his heart. He was very moved, his eyes were wet, and he drank three glasses of wine to express his gratitude.
Kyoto Shangan.
As a capital of a country, Shang'an City is far from comparable to other state cities. Its area alone is less than four times larger than the largest state city Li Xiaotian has seen along the way. The city walls are all made of high-quality blue bricks.
, thicker and taller, above the city wall, if other cities are observation decks, then Shang'an City is simply a observation deck, with flying tiles, spacious and luxurious, and the guards are more solemn and solemn. The face project is still an internal project. Look at it
, magnificent.
The prosperity in Shang'an City is no more. To make a simple comparison, Lijiagou is a country bumpkin compared to Wenzhou, while Wenzhou and Shang'an City are local buns. The gap can be seen.
Li Xiaotian and Han Shuo entered the city and immediately found an inn to settle down. Because they were drinking and singing on the boat, chatting and laughing for a long time, they were exhausted, so they went back to their rooms to rest. There were still two days before the national examination, so they made an appointment for tomorrow.
Let's have fun together to visit Kyoto.
The next day.
Li Xiaotian and Han Shuo went out of the inn together early to appreciate the style of the capital. After visiting for most of the day, I felt that the capital was really terrible. Although I wandered around for two or three, I have to say that as the most prosperous autumn country
The scenery in the city is still very good. The Fairy Lake with the water mirror reflecting the willows, the exquisite Wenqu Street of the Four Treasures of the Study, and the open Talent Building that climbs up and looks out at the distance. However, there are too many people visiting, and it seems that they are all participating.
The candidates who took the national exam first entered the capital, it seems that everyone has a bit of the same idea.
No matter how good the scenery is, people are shoulder to shoulder, a little noisy and noisy, and it looks a bit boring. Just a quick look, it makes people feel happy. Li Xiaotian and Han Shuo decided to return to the inn to nourish their spirits and prepare for tomorrow's national exam.
Drive! Drive! Drive!
On the commercial street, a man was riding a horse and rushing around. Wherever he passed, he was in a mess. He didn't care about it at all, but instead whipped his horse. Look at him wearing brocade clothes and silk, the horse was white all over, galloping vigorously.
You can tell that it is a rare horse breed that is selected from thousands of miles away. It can be seen that its status is either rich or noble. After all, not everyone can ride a horse in Kyoto.