"When I hit the bamboo board, it made a loud noise. When I looked back, I saw a goose with a sharp beak, and the carp was jumping wildly, wildly!"
The chirping allegro sound quickly attracted a crowd of onlookers. The allegro player was a storyteller. Strange to say, he was standing at the gate of Lu Mingcheng's mansion, and many people gathered around the gate of Lu's house. People passing by, the gatekeeper in front of Lu's house led the storyteller aside, so as not to hinder the people in Lu's mansion from entering and leaving, and then they lay down in the gatehouse and listened to the book quietly.
If you talk about other storytellers, they like to stay in teahouses when they drink tea. Anecdotally, more and more people were attracted to watch. Many people even moved small benches and sat next to the gentleman. The gentleman was standing under the shade of the wall, and what he said was heartfelt.
At this time, what the storyteller was talking about was an anecdote about Jianghu. The protagonist in it was Zhou Changsheng, who had the same name and surname as Ling Yunfeijian, the third master in the world.
I heard him say: "It was mentioned in the last book that Zhou Changsheng was seated in the Sanqing Palace. Suddenly, his heart became confused. Zhou Changsheng pinched his fingers and calculated that he knew that there were saints born in the world, which might disturb his practice." , Zhou Changsheng¡¯s evil started from his heart, and his anger grew to his gallbladder. He flew through the clouds and came to a dense pine forest. He said that the pine forest is a good pine forest. Beast, he continued to walk forward along the place he had figured out, and suddenly saw a large lake surrounded by more than 300 people. More than 300 people were fishing together with fishing rods. A golden carp was caught in the lake. This carp is very strange. It can understand human nature and speak out people's words. It is rumored that eating a bite of fish can make you fly into the clouds and become a feather. However, the carp also understands its own situation. At this time, it is exhausted. Swimming to the surface of the lake and looking at the crowd, the carp wept and moved around, wanting to go into the water to catch the carp and make soup."
At this time, the anxious crowd shouted: "Sir, don't joke with us. The carp is already in the water. How can it cry?" The point was all on Li Yu, and he was not interested in who Zhou Changsheng was at all.
The storyteller continued: "Everyone, don't worry, just listen to me slowly. This carp is a small carp seedling that Duke Li Zongye met a lakeside when he saw a fisherman several decades ago. Li Guogong couldn't bear it. , thinking how such a small seedling can be served on the dining table, it is better to let him live for a few more years, and simply got this carp seedling from the fisherman. Be careful, I can save you once today, but if I¡¯m arrested again in the future, I won¡¯t be able to save you.¡± Then, Li Guogong passed a golden elixir gifted by someone outside the square along the mouth of the fish, and the fish ate it. After taking the elixir, he suddenly opened his spiritual wisdom, knowing that the person in front of him saved him, the little carp chased Li Guogong's footsteps along the lake, but people are on land and fish are in water, this elixir is called Baji Qiyun Pill, Someone gave Li Guogong to prolong his luck, but because of missing this elixir, Li Guogong will be downcast in the future, I said this, everyone should understand, right?"
Someone next to him continued to intervene: "So that's the case. When we heard the stories of Li Guogong from our parents and grandparents, we all felt that such a person with such outstanding political achievements was not appreciated by His Majesty, but was exiled instead? It's a pity that Li Guogong was an upright official all his life, and he didn't get the posthumous title he deserved in the end."
"Don't worry everyone, Li Guogong's book is not what I want to talk about today. If everyone is interested, I will tell you another day. And I said that Zhou Changsheng saw the carp in the lake, and he also had a plan in his heart. He has a sky-high cultivation. Because, it is not difficult to capture the carp in that lake, but in order to deceive people, there were more than 300 people sitting by the lake. What happened? It turned out that these people who came were embroidered clothes of the imperial court. Among the more than 300 people, there were important criminals wanted by the imperial court. Everyone by the lake was shocked and resisted one after another. Zhou Changsheng picked a leaf from the forest and fled away. On the other hand, by the lake, all 300 people died, and the embroidered clothes suffered heavy losses. The lake was blood-red, but the embroidered clothes became greedy again. It¡¯s a wave of ups and downs, going to the rivers and lakes to embroider clothes, Zhou¡¯s family is hiding from disasters all their lives, let¡¯s look at the carp as if he knows it, and he has to listen to what happens next, please break it down next time.¡±
"Okay! You have to come tomorrow. I'll ask my father to come too. I want to hear what happened to Li Guogong's carp." The crowd left the field, and many of them were still excited, turning around to look at the carp. They looked at the storyteller, but the gentleman didn't move at all, dissuading them from turning around.
Until the crowd dispersed, he picked up the bamboo board and started beating again, jittering??, Li Tang has often heard Jiang Feier tell him dark things about the Spring Festival in Jianghu, so he guessed wildly based on what he knew before, but he didn't expect it to be right.
Mr. Storyteller said with a smile: "Baihao Bodhisattva is worthy of being a well-known talent all over the world. I specially used the Spring Code to encrypt it, in order to let you, a smart person, appear, and make those who don't understand retreat."
"Are you not afraid of being listened to by others?" Li Tang's voice sank, and his attitude also became cold.
"Why don't you be afraid, but what can you do if you are afraid? I can't tell the concierge of the Lu family that I want to see you. What's the difference between that and telling the world? Some things still need to be kept secret. The fewer people who know, the better." good."
The Lu Mansion is not a remote place, and there are people coming and going in front of the door. Li Tang looked around to make sure that no one was peeping here, and then he pulled the storyteller closer to him and said with a smile: "Then let's stand here with such great fanfare. Didn¡¯t the communication in front of Lu Tongpan¡¯s mansion already let the passers-by know that we have this discussion? Mister must also be a smart person, how could he not have thought of this, could it be that there is some reason for doing this on purpose?¡±
"Baihao Bodhisattva, don't do this, it is easy to misunderstand others."
"Misunderstanding? You are clearly a practitioner. Why are you pretending to be a storyteller and a makeup dealer to lurk in the market? What is the reason?" Li Tang took the storyteller's pulse and checked carefully. Most of the recovery in the past few days, I can clearly feel the vitality flowing in the storyteller's body, he clasped it tightly and dare not let go, because the position of the wrist pulse is the place where the vitality must pass, just hold it here , this hand cannot exert force.
The two of them were almost close to each other, and the storyteller didn't change his face, and whispered: "Baihao Bodhisattva doesn't want to know what I'm here to tell you today?"
Li Tang looked at him coldly and said, "Needless to say, the goose's beak is sharp and the carp is alluding to me, and the goose's beak, if I guess correctly, should be the goose with embroidered clothes and censors." Lingdao, what is your relationship with them, and how did you know the whereabouts of the embroidered censor, tell me, and I will spare you!"
"Li Jinli, I am also very sad about Liu Tong's death. He and I are brothers who died together. We are both old-fashioned embroidered clothes that were selected by your father. It's just that I was selected at the age of sixteen, and Liu Tong entered the embroidery at the age of ten. Yi, I believe that Li Jinli and Liu Tong have been together for so long, so they should know something about Liu Tong, yes, I am also embroidering clothes." This person was Wei Wei who entered Nie's house that day and chatted with Nie Wenzheng for a quarter of an hour. town envoy.
"Who are you?"
"Yu Zhendong."
Li Tang quickly recalled in his mind what he had talked with Liu Tong before. In just a few words, Li Zongye did chat with Liu Tong about a man named Yu Zhendong, saying that he had a character that ordinary people could not have, but at that time he did not Knowing what this person does, he just learned that this Yu Zhendong is also an embroiderer.
I saw Yu Zhendong take a step back, put a step away from Li Tang, and said slowly: "Now there are two factions sneaking into Yongping, not only Yongping City, but even the embroidered clothes of the imperial court are divided into two factions. They want to kill you, while the other faction wants to protect you. Those who protect you are our old people. Recently, the commander-in-chief has already attacked us old people. That¡¯s all I can say, and you have to do everything yourself.¡±
As he said that, Yu Zhendong took another two steps back, and shouted loudly: "Ah, so Baihao Bodhisattva wants some boxes of rouge to give away, okay, okay, in the future, just find a servant to give orders for such things, and you don't need to call me personally!" , then I will go to prepare the goods first, and I will deliver them to you in a while, and I will take my leave."
Yu Zhendong left, while Li Tang was lost in thought. He didn't expect that the whereabouts of the embroidered clothes that he couldn't get in every possible way would be learned of the secret on this occasion and at this time.