Early the next morning, Su Jin dressed up deliberately, discarding the luxurious robe, the gold tie, the purple belt with gold, and the black and translucent pigskin boots.
Su Jin's dress today is that of a gentle scholar, wearing a blue cotton Confucian shirt and a square hat. The prop in his hand is a volume of annotations on the Analects of Confucius. The only luxury item left behind is a big gift from Yan Biyun on his waist.
Su Jin originally wanted to discard the Sanyuan jade pendant as unworthy, but this jade pendant has a good fortune. This is the first step in preparing for the imperial examination, so naturally he needs to be well-spoken.
Naturally, you need to prepare some gifts for your first visit. After hearing from Mr. Bao that Mr. Tixue was an old man over sixty years old, Su Jin ordered Xiao Sui'er to prepare two large cloth bags of walnut powder, peach cakes, loose bean cakes and other loose items.
Soft pastries that are easy for seniors to eat.
After everything was prepared, he looked around and asked the ladies whether their clothes were appropriate and whether the gifts were appropriate.
Xiao Sui'er originally thought that the young master's study exam was just a whim, and even Rou Niang Huan Niang felt deep down that Su Jin was hot-headed. However, seeing that Su Jin attached so much importance to this visit, it seemed that he was taking it seriously.
"Do you really want to take the No. 1 exam?" Xiao Sui'er asked with her little face raised as she helped Su Jin sort out the buttons under her ribs.
Su Jin said with a smile: "Children, if they say it out loud and make people laugh, they still take the first prize. Is the first prize as easy as that? I am going to worship the mountain and squeeze the single-plank bridge."
Xiao Sui'er pouted and said, "I'm not a child anymore. Besides, can the young master still succeed in whatever he wants to do? I don't believe it."
Su Jin's heart felt hot, and he stretched out his hand to flick her face and said, "Based on your words, I can't embarrass you."
When he looked up, he saw Rou Niang and Huan Niang looking deeply at him. Su Jin understood their thoughts. Their lives revolved around him, and they would unconditionally support every decision he made.
"This is the driving force for men to move forward." Su Jin sighed in his heart, who can disappoint the silent eyes behind him?
The street was very lively. Although it was early in the morning, people were taking advantage of the cool morning air to come out to buy and sell items. Occasionally, there would be groups of people gathering together and making loud noises from time to time. Su Jin knew that it was Guan Pu.
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People in the Song Dynasty loved gambling. Apart from the familiar dice, cockfights and cricket fights, ordinary people's favorite was Guanpu. The secret of Guanpu was that you could gamble at any time and anywhere, from cars, horses and boats to carrots and cabbage.
The gameplay of the last pounce is also very simple. For example, if someone wants to buy a chicken, the chicken vendor will ask: "Do you want to pounce?"
Naturally, the buyer wants what he wants, so the two parties agree on the price and odds. If the chicken price is ten cents, then take ten cents of copper coins and throw them in the earthen pot or directly on the ground. The money will be given according to the odds corresponding to the number of heads and tails agreed upon by both parties; if
If the buyer throws six pure characters (reverse) and four characters (front), he will take away the free chicken without spending a penny. If he throws pure or muddy characters, he will pay ten times or twenty times, and the highest odds can be up to
Thirty times.
If the buyer hands over the Huagai and throws a Hun character, and the odds of Hun Chun or Hun character are agreed to be twenty times, then the buyer needs to pay twenty times the original price, two hundred Wen, to buy this chicken whose value has skyrocketed and take it home.
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The imperial court had strictly prohibited gambling, but how could gambling among the people be banned? The government turned a blind eye. This was similar to the sound of mahjong played in every household on the streets in later generations. In fact, it was also good for public security, and idlers had nothing to do.
Wandering around and causing trouble in the streets will bring instability to society, so it is better to let them have fun.
As for those people who gamble excessively and use their wealth, real estate, world, wives, and concubines to gamble, that is another matter. There are always good and bad sides to everything, and no one can demand perfection.
Su Jin stuck his head out of the car window and watched the person who hit the target laughing with joy, and the person who lost the fight looked dejected. It was secretly funny to him. Ordinary people in the city may feel happiest at this time. Su Jin felt more and more that the people of this era were
Authentic and credible.
When the car arrived at the gate of Bao's Mansion, the porter's boy went in to inform Mr. Bao. After a while, Bao Zheng came out of the house neatly dressed. A boy had already come to the big car. Bao Zheng and Su Jinlue exchanged greetings, got in the car and left first.
, Su Jin got on the cart and ordered Xiao Zhuzhu to follow Mr. Bao's mule cart. The two carts were twenty steps apart and drove toward the west.
The mule cart slowly traveled westward, gradually moving away from the central city. The road was no longer a bluestone avenue, but a gravel path that could only accommodate two vehicles. The scenery on both sides was also very different. The shade of the trees was denser, the grass was deeper, and the birds were
Birds were frolicking on the branches on both sides, and occasionally a gray rabbit jumped out of the grass and disappeared quickly.
Su Jin was a little confused when he saw it. How could there be such a place in the city? Su Jin had been looking around all the way there and had not left the city gate. How could such a remote and quiet place come to be?
After asking Xiao Zhuzhu, Xiao Zhuzhu was familiar with this place and replied: "Master, this is near Shushan Lake in the west of the city. There is a small corner of Shushan Lake in the west city. It used to be on the lake and twenty miles away on the other side of the lake.
There were bandits in Dashu Mountain, so the families who originally lived here gradually moved eastward, and the place gradually became cleaner. You see, the long grass is almost as deep as the people."
Su Jin said oh, it turned out to be a place close to banditry. No wonder the population is sparsely populated. Maybe although the banditry has been eliminated now, the west city has gradually become depressed, and people are no longer willing to move back. It is a pity that such a quiet and refreshing place is abandoned.
What a pity.
Su Jin also looked at the problem from the perspective of modern people. In later generations, cities were highly developed and densely populated. There were crowds of people everywhere, and it was rare to find a clean place. Not to mention there were so many grass, trees, wasteland, and horns in the city.
Every corner has been turned into steel and concrete by the calculating developers, and people are used to gray, white, and black buildings everywhere, so Su Jin was naturally a little surprised to see this place within the city wall; in fact, these were simply not enough in the eyes of the Song people.
Surprisingly, these places are just barren mountains and mountains, and no one has any special thoughts about them.
Just as he was thinking about it, the carriage shook and started to go downhill. Su Jin held on to the wooden ribs of the carriage and stuck his head out to watch. The scenery in front of him suddenly became clear. A clear water stretched across his eyes. In the distance, the white mist steamed and he couldn't see the other shore.
There is a high mountain lying in the distance, hazy for at least dozens of miles. It must be the Dashu Mountain in the west of the city. It is in this Dashu Mountain that Scarface Hei Qi once gathered people to roar.
Bao Zheng's car stopped in front. Su Jin quickly ordered the car to stop. When he got out of the car, he saw Bao Zheng smiling and saying: "Mr. Su, how is the scenery here?"
Su Jin praised: "The lake is bright, the mountains are bright, and the mist is shrouded in mist. It is a place where gods live."
Bao Zheng said: "It's well said. This place deserves to be called the residence of gods. It's a pity that the disaster has affected it, but no one lives in the residence of gods. It's sad."
Su Jin knew what he was referring to and kept silent.
"Sir Tixue is so interested in choosing this place to build his residence. He has great foresight and is very lucky."
Su Jinxin said: This Mr. Lu is really a unique person. He doesn't look like he is in the officialdom. Officials and gentry of all sizes in Luzhou City gathered together to buy land and build houses by Xiaoyao Lake in Xiaoyaojin. But this Tixue
The adults have gone to live in Xicheng, far away from the bustling city. I hope that not only the place of residence is different, but also the people are not the same.
"The carriage can rest by the lake and eat some grass. Not far from here is Mr. Lu's residence. How about you and I taking a stroll along the lake?" Bao Zheng asked.
"It's very good. I can walk here with you. It can be said that 'my heart is flying in the clouds and people are walking in the paintings.' Your Excellency, please!" Su Jin stretched out his hand to ask Bao Zheng to go first.
Bao Zheng was in a good mood today and said with a smile: "What a 'heart is flying in the clouds, and people are walking in the paintings.' Although I don't admire poetry very much, your eloquent talent makes me very happy.
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Su Jin was so ashamed that he didn't know whose poem these two lines were, so he pirated them without thinking. It was really shameless and shameless.
The two of them walked along the lake, pointing out the scenery and chatting. A few servants followed them from a distance and did not dare to disturb them. There were also fishing boats coming and going in the mist on the lake. Several songs came from far away on the lake, and they sounded gentle and simple.
, Su Jin listened carefully and only heard the song singing:
"The little carp has red gills and swims from the east of the lake to the west of the lake; the west of the lake wants to eat Ganoderma lucidum grass, and the east of the lake wants to eat green cattail moss. If it wasn't for you, little lady, I wouldn't be able to come over, brother."
Bao Zheng and Su Jin heard it interesting, they looked at each other and smiled, full of joy.dd