The huge contingent of envoys led by Zhang Shangying, Zhang Shuye, and Wu Haogu finally settled down in the pavilion next to the Cheongju Prefecture Ya. Although Qingzhou City was only a small city, it became a necessary place for Song and Liao envoys to pass through after the Yellow River was diverted to the north, so two magnificent pavilions could only be built in the already small city, one was used to welcome the dignitaries from the Liao State, and the other was mainly for the Song Dynasty missions to the north.

The two pavilions and the Qingzhou Mansion are all on the same north-south street, the government is in the middle, the guest house where the Liao envoy lives is in the north, and the pavilion where the officials of the Song Dynasty live is in the south.

The three buildings are lined up, basically occupying the west side of the street. On the east side of the street, there are rows of shops and wine shops, which is very prosperous and lively. There are also a lot of cars and pedestrians coming and going on the street, most of them are merchants from the north and south or guards hired by the merchants. In addition, there are some local civilians or garrison soldiers in Cheongju, who will also carry goods and snacks and sell them along the streets. The noisy and noisy sound of the market is not much better than the inner city of Kaifeng Mansion.

Wu Haogu once again slipped away from the endless banquets - the drinking banquets of the Song Dynasty bureaucrats really made Wu Haogu, a "future man", a little unbearable. The delicacies of the mountains and the sea, singing and dancing, and the beauty accompanying the wine or something. As an official, you have to enjoy it properly. But the time of this banquet is really a bit long, the luncheon can be eaten until the evening, and the dinner party will often stay all night, it is simply eating and drinking with life, and I don't want to think about eating so much oil and water, how much exercise can be consumed? Moreover, the civil officials of the Song Dynasty also liked to play poetry and songs while eating and drinking, and how many glasses of wine would be fined if they couldn't come up......

This really makes Wu Dalang's head big, how can he handle that bit of ink? Don't say anything about "copying poems" to become celebrities, who can really memorize so many poems? And it's the end of the Northern Song Dynasty now, and the year of memorizing the poems is too early to be used.

And what's even worse is that now the Song Dynasty bureaucrats and scribes are no longer popular in writing poems at banquets, and it is not a banquet given by the emperor, so it is easier to make poems that are sycophants.

After all, there are only four common forms of "rhythmic poetry": Qi Qi Qi Harvest, Qi Qi Ping Income, Ping Qi Income, and Ping Qi Ping Income. There are also several categories such as "five words and eight sentences", "seven laws and seven sentences" and "coupling sentences". Wu Hao has studied in ancient times, and he finally knows a little. On the basis of the meeting, you can use "copying poems" to pretend to be forced, otherwise you can't figure out the five words, seven laws, and couplets, how to pretend?

But the scribes played "filling in the words" at the banquet, and paid attention to "using words to enjoy themselves", that is, filling in the words according to the tune, and the "filling in the words" of "filling in the words and willow three changes according to the order" was played in this way.

To play lyrics, the attainment of literature and poetry is only one of them, and you must also have a very high level of ancient music cultivation. According to Wu Haogu's knowledge, in the last years of the Northern Song Dynasty, there were more than 1,600 "word cards" (also known as "song cards") that could be used to play lyrics...... It is still possible to pretend to be forced by "copying poems", and it is nonsense to pretend to be forced by "copying words", and more than 1,600 music cards can be clearly distinguished? I can't figure out the music card, what words do you fill in? When people come out with a "hairpin head phoenix" music card, you can take "Qinyuan Spring. Snow to go to the top account?

However, Wu Haogu is not completely unable to deal with it, he is "the first person in the painting", "painting with poems" or "painting with words", which is also a program in the banquet activities of scribes. The specific way to play is that Zhang Shangying and other great literati fill in a word card, such as "Nian Nujiao", "Yulin Ling" or something, and then Yan Po'er and others will play and sing.

It was impossible to memorize so many scores, so Yan Po'er and the musicians who followed her all brought the scores. And when Wu Haogu waits for them to play and sing, he can quit to compose and paint (according to the content of the word card), usually not by himself, but by letting Du Wenyu write on his behalf, so that he can sneak out and do his own business.

And Wu Haogu's own business is mainly to complete his famous painting "Famous Trick Yan Xixi (Yan Po'er's stage name is the same as her daughter)", which is an oil painting, and it can take time to paint.

However, today he sneaked away from the reception banquet held by Cheongju Zhizhou for Zhang Shangying, not to paint, but to meet someone with Lin Wancheng.

"Old Lin Sect Leader," Wu Haogu, who had changed into civilian clothes, said to Lin Wancheng, who quietly slipped out of the pavilion with him, "Have you seen the horse man in person?" ”

"See," Lin Wancheng said, "it's exactly the same as you painted." ”

"The Liao people in the guest house are not suspicious, right?"

Lin Wancheng shook his head and said, "Of course there is no suspicion, the little old man pretended to be a restaurant guy to enter." ”

Lao Lin Jiaotou pretended to be a takeaway guy who went in with wine and food...... Not to mention, he pretends to be quite similar, and I don't know if he worked in a restaurant in Kaifeng Mansion when he was young?

"That's good." Wu Haogu nodded.

When the two were talking, they had already arrived outside Xiaofan Building, the largest restaurant in Cheongju City. This small Fan Lou was built in imitation of the Fengle Building (Fengle Lou was formerly known as Fan Lou) in Kaifeng Mansion, and the main dish is also Kaifeng cuisine, but there are also improved Liao dishes - the kind of Liao cuisine that eats meat in buckets.

When the two walked into the building, a little two came to meet them, and after singing a fat song with the two, he smiled and said: "The two officials came just right, today there is an Oiran from Kaifeng Mansion to perform, that is the lady who has been on the "Oiran" album, the two of you want to find a good seat?" ”

"No, just be quiet."

Wu Haogu knew Qiao Jinniang, she spent 3,000 yuan to get on the "Oiran" album (bought a trick), and it was Wu Haogu himself who painted her a portrait.

Moreover, Wu Haogu also made a photo contract with her - that is, if the beautiful golden lady becomes popular in the future, she will have to be a model for Wu Haogu or Wu Haogu's designated disciple for free. This is a method used to praise Zhang Zeduan and Du Wenyu, to give famous artists a photo brush or oil painting, and then take it to Christie's auction, maybe it will become popular.

As for the further unspoken rules, it's just a matter of whether Wu Haogu wants to or not......

Therefore, others are rare this "fake Oiran", but Wu Haogu doesn't take it seriously, it is the hand of most of the real Oiran, and he also wants to hold it.

Lin Wancheng handed the little two copper plates to the welcoming guest at this time, and said, "Give me a private room, and there will be a person surnamed Ma who will come out to look for us later, and you tell him where we are." ”

"Whoa." Xiao Er answered, and handed Lin Wancheng a small flag with black characters on a red background, with the words Tiansan on the second floor written on it. This is also the practice of Fengle Building, because Fengle Building has five buildings, so it is necessary to use small flags to point out the direction to customers, and the little two on each floor of each building also know where to take the guests when they see the flag.

Wu Haogu and Lin Wancheng went upstairs, Lin Wancheng handed over the small flag to another junior, and then led him into a private room where you could see the house outside the window.

"Although this Qingzhou city is broken, the people's houses are very good."

After sitting down in the private room, Lin Wancheng looked at the house outside the window and commented.

"This guest officer doesn't know anything," said Xiao Er, who came in with Wu Haogu and Lin Wancheng, "Our small city of Qingzhou has developed in the past twenty or thirty years, and it is a first-class good place on Hebei East Road." These houses outside are all newly built in recent years, and most of the owners are military generals in Qingzhou Liuzhai and the state city. ”

"The generals are also rich?" Lin Wancheng asked.

"That's right," Xiao Er said, "Now the Yellow River will beat us in Qingzhou, and there are always tens of thousands of goods coming and going along the Yellow River a year, how can we not send them?" ”

Wu Haogu and Lin Wancheng glanced at each other, and when they looked at the current Qingzhou City, they could imagine the future Jiehe Commercial City!

The money is great!

"Let's wait for someone," Lin Wancheng took out two more copper plates and rewarded this little two, "Let's serve a pot of tea soup first." ”

"Whoa."

Xiao Er arched his hand, and then turned around and went out.

"Dong Weng," Lin Wancheng said in a low voice, "It seems that your Jiehe Commercial Market is really promising, no wonder the Liao people want the lion to open his mouth." ”

Wu Haogu smiled: "I want a lot of money before the business market opens, do you really think that the official's money is blown by the wind?" ”

"But if you don't give money, how can this commercial market be opened?"

"Who says I don't give money?" Wu Haogu sneered, "I just don't give money to the Great Liao Imperial Court." ”

Lin Wancheng frowned slightly, and just as he wanted to speak, he remembered Xiao Er's voice outside the door: "Two guest officers, there are two guest officers surnamed Ma who are here." ”

It should be the centaur who is coming.

Wu Haogu said: "Please." ”

Then I saw that the door of the private room was pushed open, and first Xiao Er came in with a teapot and a bowl, and then Ma Renwang led a tall young man in.

Wu Haogu looked at the young man and found that he was wearing a blue robe, with a sachet tied around his waist, a peony inserted in his sideburns, his skin was also very fair, he had five locks of beard, and his facial features looked elegant and gentle, as if he was a scribe of the Song Dynasty.

"Outside the horse," Wu Haogu stood up and arched his hand at the horseman, and then looked at the young man and said, "In Xiakaifeng Wu Haogu, don't you know the name of the high surname?" ”

The young man showed a bright smile, took two steps forward and arched his hand: "In Xia Pingzhou, Zhang Jue is Ma Liangsi's classmate. ”

Zhang Jue?

Of course Wu Haogu knows this name!

In history, the Yanyun Han generals who raised troops to return to the Song Dynasty because they wanted to save the Yanjing people who were plundered by the Jin people were later betrayed by Wang Anzhong, the Xuanfu of Yanshan in the Song Dynasty, and beheaded and dedicated to the Jin people.

And in this time and space, Wu Haogu learned from Ximen Qing about the situation of the Zhang family of Pingzhou Yifeng to which Zhang Jue belonged. The Zhang family in Pingzhou, like the Ximen family and the Murong family, their ancestors are all Youzhou town generals. However, the Zhang family mixed very well in the Liao State, because when the Bohai royal family Dayan Lin raised troops to revolt, he met Zhang Jie, the deputy envoy of the Jiedu from the Zhang family of Pingzhou Yifeng, in Shenzhou, and was deceived by Zhang Jie's deception, and finally defeated in Shenzhou, and then began to go downhill. Because of this merit, Zhang Jie was promoted to the envoy of the festival, and the Zhang family of Pingzhou Yifeng also became a first-class Han family in Yanyun that can be compared with the Yan four families.