The more Hawking thought about it, the angrier he became. He scolded Cui Jiuming all the way from Sangyuan Town to Chengdu. This shows how deeply this incident had a profound impact on Hawking, the warm-hearted little bully.
Chengdu was a prefecture and city of the ancient Shu Kingdom, located in the center of the Chengdu Plain. In the Qin Dynasty, after Li Bing and his son built the Dujiangyan Irrigation System, they created the Chengdu Plain, merged with Ba, and Shu became the Shu prefecture and built the city, and today's Chengdu was born.
Looking from a distance, the six-foot-high city wall towers majestically, and there is an endless stream of people and merchants coming and going. The prosperity of Chengdu amazed these people who came from the small county of Wenshui.
Cui Jiuming arrived very early and led the shopkeepers of major shops in Chengdu to greet Su Ren outside the city gate. Since Gou Tianming came to Chengdu, Cui Jiuming has been looking forward to Su Ren's arrival all the time. Today, he got his wish and feels very happy.
Happy.
"Fat Cui, if I don't want to destroy you, let me get rid of this bad breath in my chest!" Hawking saw Cui Jiuming in the crowd at a glance, got off his horse and rushed towards Cui Jiuming.
The businessmen who had been smiling, patting their clothes and tidying up their hair just now hurriedly moved out of the way, exposing Cui Jiuming. No one knew what was going on, and all of them stared with wide eyes, incomprehensible.
Gou Tianming quickly stepped forward and hugged him: "Xiao Jinzi, you are crazy!"
"It's this bastard who caused my eldest brother and me to be embarrassed in Mulberry Town. If I don't kill him today, it won't make me feel better." Huo Jin refused to give up: "Old Gou, let go, let go!"
Cui Jiuming broke into a cold sweat. Seeing Hawking like this, his legs trembled with fear. Everyone in Laojun's audience was reasonable, but the little bully Hawking was only 250.
Cui Jiuming bowed repeatedly: "Brother Huo, please spare your life! I really don't know where I offended my brother, even if I want to beat him or kill him, let me know how to kill him!"
"You idiot, you are still pretending! Lao Gou, let me go, I will beat him to death today."
Many people gathered at the gate of the city, each standing on tiptoe to look this way. The crowd gathered more and more, blocking the road tightly.
Su Ren slapped Hawking on the back of the head: "You're done, you idiot! Get out of here!"
After receiving the order, Gou Tianming and Huang Shisan quickly carried Huo Jin out of the crowd. Even so, Huo Jin wanted to scold him again, but Su Ren glared at him and then shut up.
Cui Jiuming was panic-stricken. He looked at the direction in which Hawking was dragged away and asked Su Ren: "Sir, what happened? Where did I offend Brother Huo? He hates me so much?"
Su Ren then roughly told what happened in Sangyuan Town and said with a smile: "Don't take it to heart, sir. This kid has never experienced this. He always thinks that he is still the little overlord of warm water, but he forgets that he has already left the warm water."
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"Oops! This old Wang, I thought he was a person who could be entrusted with big things, but I didn't expect to do this." Cui Jiuming quickly saluted Su Ren: "Sir, don't worry, I will definitely give you an explanation for this matter, please tell Huo
Brother, this is my fault, I will definitely come to apologize someday."
A large group of people were fighting at the city gate, seriously affecting traffic. It was time to leave the city, and many people began to complain. A middle-aged Confucian scholar wearing a long gown walked through the crowd and came to Su Ren and Cui
In front of Jiu Ming, he looked at the two people for a long time.
"You two, there is something wrong with being so ostentatious. Talking here will hinder the people walking together. Could you please leave the road and go to the field over there to set up the Dragon Gate Formation?"
Huang Shisan was standing behind Su Ren. When he heard this, he suddenly slammed his big ax on the ground, glared with a pair of bull's eyes, and grabbed the middle-aged scholar's collar: "What did you say? My husband wants to be here. It's right there, and you, a Confucian scholar, should take care of it?"
Huang Shisan looked ferocious. He opened his mouth and washed the middle-aged scholar's face with his saliva.
The middle-aged Confucian scholar was not impatient: "Who are you? I didn't talk to you, please let me go."
Su Ren looked back and saw that this middle-aged Confucian scholar did have some integrity, but he was wearing a little less clothes. The weather was getting colder and colder, and he was wearing a thin gown all over his body. His face was blue from the cold, and his lips were white. Here just now There was almost a fight, and everyone who saw it ran away. Only he came up to argue. Su Ren became somewhat interested in this man.
Huang Shisan had already raised his fist, but was stopped by Su Ren: "Look at you dressed as a Confucian scholar, you have some character, but do you dare to use the same name?"
The Confucian scholar straightened his clothes: "Why don't you dare? I didn't even feel panicked in front of the late emperor. What fear do I have when facing a wicked servant like you? My surname is Sima, my given name is Xiangru, my courtesy name is..."
Su Ren's eyes widened, and his jaw almost dropped. The man standing in front of him was a real historical celebrity, much more famous than the prefect Wen Dang. One song was "Shanglin Fu", the other was "Feng Qiuhuang", two There are not many people who have not known it for thousands of years.
"Sima Xiangru, Sima Changqing?" Su Ren didn't wait for Sima Xiangru to say anything, grabbed his hand and shook it vigorously: "Nice to meet you, nice to meet you! I've heard about it for a long time, I've heard about it for a long time!"
Sima Xiangru didn't expect that this person actually knew him. He was so enthusiastic all of a sudden that he didn't know how to answer the question: "Uh! Do you know this young master?"
"Hahaha, I don't know you!" Su Ren said straightforwardly: "Although I don't know Mr. Sir, his name is very familiar to me. I didn't expect to meet you today. I am really lucky. Today, there are only two people in Shu who can compare with the world's great talents. One is Wen Dang, the prefect of Shu County, and the other is Sima Xiangru, a great scholar. I never expected that I would meet Mr. Sima when I first came to Chengdu. How lucky I am!"
"Shopkeeper Cui, can you find a good tavern, I'll be the host, and invite Mr. Sima to have a few drinks together?"
Cui Jiuming quickly agreed. Just now, he was worried that Su Ren would offend Huo Jin because of the affairs of his family's shopkeeper in Sangyuan Town, and Su Ren didn't know how to deal with him. Now, things have turned around. Su Ren is suddenly so interested in this poor scholar, so he has to behave well. , maybe that matter can be solved.
Cui Jiuming dragged his fat body and quickly led the way: "The best pub in Chengdu is the Baifu Building on Yongning Street. I have already reserved a seat there. You two gentlemen, just follow me. I have arranged everything." !”
"Then there is Mr. Laucui!" Su Ren smiled and turned to Sima Xiangru with a gesture of invitation: "Sir, please!"
Sima Xiangru was unwilling to go at first, but when he looked at Huang Shisan behind Su Ren, he swallowed his words again. Although he was not afraid of death, it still hurt to be beaten! There was a rude man standing behind him. If he didn't know what to do, , I will definitely not show mercy. Since I was invited warmly, and the young master is not an ugly person, it doesn’t hurt to go there.
Cui Jiuming dispersed the merchants, big and small, and sent people to lead Huo Laosi, his family, and luggage to the yard he had prepared for Su Ren. He was busy with Zhang Luo and waited until he arrived at Baifu Tower. By the time I arrived, I was already sweating profusely and my feet were blistered.
Cui Jiuming was complaining incessantly. He wanted to sit down and rest for a while, but when he turned around and saw Hawking's eyes, he hurriedly ran inside: "Shopkeeper, there are guests! Where are they all? There's no one to say hello?"
Baifu Tower is a two-story building. The restaurants in the Han Dynasty were similar to those in the Qin Dynasty. All kinds of music, chess, calligraphy and paintings were included in it. There was no lobby, and each private room was semi-enclosed, just like today's teahouses. There were many people coming and going.
Zibaijia, everyone is vying to discuss everything from the most common chess game to court policies. You can often hear those high-minded talkers shouting and blaming each other.
We sat down in a private room facing the street on the second floor, and the waiter served wine and food. Su Renqiang asked Sima Xiangru to be the first seat, and he and Cui Jiuming accompanied him on both sides. The rest of the people were waiting, sitting or standing, and the private room was packed.
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"The Master's "Zixu Fu" is famous all over the world, and I have been reading it for a long time. In it: Zhang Jun is evil and hurts personal justice. Neither of them can be done. And if Mr. Zhang does it, it will be lighter than Qi and more burdensome than Chu. This sentence says
As ambitious as you are, I admire you the most." Su Ren kept talking nonsense and vividly described Zixu Fu, which he happened to read somewhere, and Sima Xiangru suddenly felt like he had met a close friend.
Sima Xiangru had a rough life. When he was young, he was recruited by Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty because of his talent. Unfortunately, Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty had no feeling for Ci Fu. Then he went to the Liang Kingdom with the King of Liang. After many years, he could not get into the elegant hall. Now, he has reached middle age.
Back to Shuzhong. When I came to Chengdu this time, I wanted to recommend myself to the prefect Wen Dang, but unexpectedly I met a close friend here.
Sima Xiangru had a drink and said: "Young Master has overestimated your merits. After all, his poems and poems are trivial. He can't stabilize the country. He has been running around for half his life and is still alone. This is a joke to the Young Master."
"Sir, you are wrong. His reputation for talent and learning is unparalleled in the world. Everyone who hears this long poem praises it as marvelous and exquisite. It shows that you are a learned and talented man. How can you say that you cannot stabilize the country? It's just that you haven't met Bole yet."
Sima Xiangru smiled bitterly: "To be honest, I came to Chengdu because I wanted to recommend myself as a disciple of the prefect. I just heard that the young master is a disciple of the prefect..."
"This matter will be taken care of by me. Sir, please wait for the good news!" Su Ren picked up the wine glass again: "Sir, please drink this glass to the full to show my respect for you."
Su Ren had a purely bad taste, and what he knew about Sima Xiangru was to seduce Zhuo Wenjun, a widow. Such enthusiasm was purely for nothing to do, and he was full of food. If you want to gain a foothold in the Han Dynasty, how can you do it if you don't know the three religions and nine schools?
, although Sima Xiangru is now a down-and-out Confucian scholar, who knows whether history will go awry because of his arrival.
Isn't there also "Shanglin Fu"? If Liu Chehui has a good eye, he can catch this thread. It is definitely better to provide help in times of need than to add icing on the cake. As the saying goes, people who don't care will use it three times, just treat today's meal as an upfront investment
If you don’t have to spend any money yourself, why not?
Su Ren's praise of Sima Xiangru made Leng Jun sneer. He seemed to see the Su Ren who was kneeling at Chang Shi's feet again. While drinking, he said to Huo Jin beside him: "Did you see it? Your elder brother is trying to pull someone into trouble again.
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Huo Jin's mind was not on Sima Xiangru and Su Ren at all. He kept staring at Cui Jiuming coldly, which made Cui Jiuming panic. (To be continued)
