Over the past two years, Yan Qing has become more like a beautiful girl, free and suave, while Xu Guanzhong is elegant, handsome, and graceful, just like a good young man in troubled times. Xiao Tang and the two of them are a "prodigal son" who is easy-going and easy-going.
An "Exiled Immortal" who is indifferent to fame and fortune, and a heroic and free-spirited "Ren Xia" can be said to complement each other.
"Brother Xiao, the preparations are almost complete. Your husband, Mr. Lu, and other distinguished guests who are staying behind will definitely arrive on time." Yan Qingxing said hurriedly.
"Okay, thank you for your hard work, Xiao Yi." After Xiao Tang said this, he looked at Xu Guanzhong and smiled: "Guanzhong, why are you following Xiao Yi out again? Don't you need to prepare for the provincial examination?"
Xu Guanzhong frowned and said: "Brother Xiao, please stop teasing me. No matter how hard Guanzhong studies, how can he surpass those students who are studying in the Eight Elements?"
Xu Guanzhong's eight-element subject selection is actually a trick created by the powerful Prime Minister Cai Jing this year. It advocates having excellent qualities such as filial piety, brotherhood, compassion, loyalty, etc., and is guaranteed to be admitted to the imperial college.
Scholars cultivate their virtues and practice "good customs and understanding of human relations". To put it bluntly, local officials can circumvent scientific examinations to do favors and deceive.
The entire Song Dynasty was not a fool to hope for a scholar with a good reputation. This was actually opening the door for the children of powerful officials, just like the filial piety and integrity system in the Han Dynasty, which made it easier for family members to monopolize, flatter each other, and commit fraud.
Xu Guanzhong had been with Yan Qing for a long time and only liked to be carefree. In addition, he was still at a rebellious age in future generations, so the idea of seeking fame became less and less.
This kind of thing cannot be forced, let alone Xu Guanzhong, who is committed to the officialdom and greedy for power? Xiao Tang stopped mentioning the matter and said: "You will be busy in an hour, and Xiao Yi will have a good rest first."
Get off."
Xu Guanzhong's frown suddenly opened, and he said with great joy: "Xiao Yi and I have been waiting for this day for a long time. Just as we both wanted, let alone being busy for a few days, even if we did it in our previous life, we wouldn't find it hard."
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"Look at you, you ordered Xiao Yi and Guan Zhong to keep them busy all day long, and you are here practicing martial arts in a leisurely way..."
At this moment, Su Jinniang walked out gracefully from the inner courtyard. She was wearing a soft goose-yellow long dress and her hair was in a bun. She looked more tranquil and gentle than before, like a fresh and delicate narcissus.
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Yan Qing laughed and said, "Sister Su, we also enjoy it, not to mention that no matter how tired Xiao Yi and Guan Zhong are, it will be fine just because of my sister."
Su Jinniang covered her mouth with a smile and said sweetly: "You can talk, and there is some iced pear juice in the room. You and Guan Zhong, Master Xue Yong, Manager Shi or Xiao Yi, go and drink some."
Xu Guanzhong winked at Shi Yong and Xiao Yi again, and walked towards the inner courtyard after informing him. Xue Yongben wanted to say a few polite thanks to Su Jinniang, but Yan Qing grabbed him and followed Xu Guanzhong and others in.
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Only Xiao Tang and Su Jinniang were left. Su Jinniang shook her head and sighed: "I really don't know how you can have so many weird ideas in your head? But they are all very popular."
What Su Jinniang said about Xiao Tang's weird ideas was that he tried to open a few dishes to sell in restaurants in the past two years, and the sales were extremely prosperous. Although in the Song Dynasty, there was no introduction of pepper and other seasonings, so later Sichuan cuisine
There is no way to make famous Hunan dishes, but Xiao Tang watched a lot of programs introducing Chinese food in his previous life, so he asked a famous chef in his own restaurant to make a dish that was not available in the Song Dynasty but is now known to everyone:
bj roast duck.
Although roasted duck existed in ancient times, it did not go through the process of fattening ducks in the Liao and Jin Dynasties, and the preparation method of barbecued pork stew oven in the early Ming Dynasty, and the ingredients required for production: fat duck, sweet noodle sauce, and noodle pancakes (called lotus leaf pancakes in the Song Dynasty)
At this time of year, everything was ready. After several attempts, the taste was almost exactly the same as the most delicious roast duck that Xiao Tang tasted in his previous life.
Originally, when Xiao Tang was naming the roast duck, he thought of Damingfu. Although BJ, one of the four capitals of the Song Dynasty, was not the same place as the later ones, it was still appropriate to call it BJ Roast Duck. But then Xu Guanzhong suddenly suggested: "Brother Xiao
, why not call it Xiao Tang Roast Duck?"
When Yan Qing heard this, he immediately praised him. The delicacy Dongpo Pork created by Su Shi during the Yuanfeng period made his already famous name even more famous all over the world. If this dish had been named after Xiao Tang, wouldn't it be more famous?
Greatly enhance his reputation throughout the Song Dynasty?
Xiao Tang thought about it again and again, and decided to name it Ren Xia Roast Duck. In this way, when people in the world taste this delicacy, most people will think of him. Furthermore, he will think of other meanings of the duck later... and put his name with the duck.
Put them together, it would be awkward no matter what Xiao Tang thinks.
In addition, Xiao Tang tried to change the rules of Cuju at Damingfu Yuanshe (Cuju Society, called Qiyun Society in the Southern Song Dynasty). According to the current football playing method of five people in a small field and eleven people in a large field, because of the increase in rhythm and physical confrontation, it also
Cuju has become popular among the members around Daming Mansion, and there are also novel ways of playing darts, which are similar to the way darts are thrown when gambling. The Song Dynasty, which was originally prosperous in business, was very curious about entertainment projects among the people. Once Xiao Tang launched these ideas,
It was promoted immediately.
However, this time, Xiao Tang played a bigger role. He planned to set up a band to introduce later Chinese-style pop music, as well as martial arts film and television drama soundtracks, etc. into the Goulan Washe of the Song Dynasty.
And today is the first day of the Damingfu Music Concert he plans to open.
More than two years ago, when he was on the rise, he sang a martial arts-style song and was unexpectedly praised by Deng Fei, Yang Lin and others, so he came up with this idea. Later, after some careful consideration, maybe this idea can really come true:
Before the Song Dynasty, the ritual music of the Zhou Dynasty and Pre-Qin Dynasty, the Yuefu in the Qin and Han Dynasties, and the Liyuan Music Department in the Sui and Tang Dynasties... were basically dominated by palace music. In the Song Dynasty, the music had been widely spread among the people, Baile had emerged, and entertainment venues
From the palace to the palace, it was mainly dominated by tile houses and hooks and railings, including songs, dances, operas, dramas, etc. "Officials all promoted the harp and harp, and focused on music to govern the people." At the same time, the Song Dynasty also started a trend of restoring the elegant music. Memorials were made to Confucius' elegant music.
There are various styles of chimes, chimes, harp, sheng, and panpipes, which can be said to be both elegant and popular, and the king and the people are happy for it.
But in addition to the erotic tunes listened to by traffickers and footmen, popular songs such as "In the Brothel Room and the House" still have to highlight the word "elegance". Lyrics are written by great lyricists such as Liu Yong and Zhou Bangyan, and among the brothel rooms
The oiran arranges the sounds and rhymes and sings them. In other words, it is the connotation of the words, which is far more important than the melody of the music. How about the ancient music? The woodcutter Zhong Ziqi heard the music of the luther player Boya's high mountains and flowing water, and Zhong Ziqi died.
Hou Boya regretted not having a close friend, dropped his qin and cut off the strings, and never played again for the rest of his life. This also shows that the music at that time paid great attention to the connotation and foundation, and it lost its popular appeal because it was too specific.
However, the popular music of later generations has a series of characteristics such as popularity, popularity, fashion, novelty, toxicity, entertainment, commerciality, and participation. In the 1980s, Hong Kong and Taiwan martial arts movies and TV dramas were booming, and at the same time, they also created
It has a large number of popular film and television drama soundtracks and theme songs, as well as famous Japanese musicians such as Soujiro, Yokoyama Aoji, and the Twelve Women's Band, which played traditional Chinese folk music in the form of popular music in China at that time...
Because it is necessary to highlight the elements of Chinese style, most of the instruments used in the music are traditional Chinese instruments, and percussion instruments such as the current drum set, Xiao Tang has tried to replace them with musical instruments such as leather drums. Basically, Xiao Tang The band musicians that Tang now employs can basically perform 90% of most popular soundtracks and music.
Some original ancient songs, such as the 96 version of Swordsman and the Chinese Qin and Xiao Ensemble were adapted from the Pu'an Mantra written by Zen Master Pu'an during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and the theme song of the Once Upon a Time series "A Man Should Be Strong" was adapted from the Tang Dynasty royal music "Jiang Ling". The re-arrangement has enhanced the popular elements a lot.
It's just that... in the Song Dynasty, musicians did not write music notation according to "Suolami Soulasi", and Xiao and Tang could neither write staff nor follow Chinese Palace, Shang, Jiao, Zheng and Yu Wu. When Xiao Tang first tried to perform the performance, he could only grab a pipa player and dictate it, and then grab a flute player to hum a minor tune, which made the musicians stare. At first sight, I thought my employer was crazy.
Fortunately, Yan Qing was good at playing, singing and dancing. Xu Guanzhong was good at playing the piano and was also proficient in music. Both of them were smart. They understood Xiao Tang's intention and played it first. Those musicians gradually got an idea. Five days and ten days later, Days, half a month... This orchestra has been able to roughly produce the effect Xiao Tang requested.
Su Jinniang had also listened to the fresh and melodious Xiao song adapted by Xiao Tang. After listening to it, she really felt intoxicated, but she really didn't understand how the man who was about to marry him could have so many people. of fantastic ideas?
Xiao Tang quietly looked at Su Jinniang, who had doubts in her eyes, and smiled without answering. He just gently raised his hand and combed away some of Su Jinniang's hanging hair.
Su Jinniang sighed and said: "I know you have a lot of ideas. It can be seen that you are practicing martial arts, taking care of the affairs of the house, and busy with this and that. After all, you are not iron-clad, and you don't have many ideas to rest."
Xiao Tang joked: "There is nothing I can do... In a few months, I will marry a big girl. If I don't work hard, how can I raise her to be fat and white?"
Su Jinniang laughed out loud: "Do you raise pigs? Who is so fat and white? Who would want to marry you?"
"But I just want to marry you..." Xiao Tang took Su Jinniang's hands and said softly: "When you marry into my family, Xiao Lang will no longer be a stranger."
"That's nonsense." Su Jinniang rolled her eyes at Xiao Tang and said, "That's not what the poem says."
Xiao Tang chuckled and said: "Yes, I am not Xiao Lang, I am your future good official and husband."
Even Su Jinniang, who has become much more restrained in the past two years, couldn't stand hearing Xiao Tang's flirtatious teasing. Her cheeks were slightly red and she spat: "Okay... What nonsense are you talking about in broad daylight?" , you should be well prepared."
Xiao Tang let go of the slightly embarrassed Su Jinniang and said with a smile: "Then I will talk nonsense to you tonight. Now...your good husband is going to a concert."
