Sangjia tile is the most lively of the many tile gous in Kaifeng Mansion, located at the intersection of Panlou Street and Mahang Street, not far from the palace Dauchi.

Although it is located in the most prime area of Kaifeng Prefecture, it has been able to occupy a large area because Sangjia Wazi was opened very early and existed at the beginning of the founding of the Great Song Dynasty. Inside the tiles, wine is fluttering and shops are lined up.

Two gravel-paved roads that can accommodate two horse-drawn carriages in parallel cross each other in Sangjiawazi, forming a crossroads, and the roads are lined with hook fences on both sides. The so-called hook bar is equivalent to the theater of later generations. It is to build a shelter from the wind and rain, surrounded by board walls on all sides, and there is a door on one side for the audience to enter and exit. Colorful paper billboards called "zhaozi" or "tricks" are usually posted at the entrance to announce the performance to the audience. Some of them hook the head of the door, but also hang "flags, accounts, frames, backrests" and other decorations or performance utensils to attract a wide range of people. There is a stage and auditorium inside the fence. The stage is generally higher than the ground, and the entrance of the stage is surrounded by a railing, which is also the name of the hook railing.

The programs performed in the Goolan are also varied, including miscellaneous plays, history telling, palace tunes, puppet shows, shadow plays, hybridization and wrestling and other tricks. Among them, the most popular are miscellaneous dramas, palace tunes and wrestling.

The so-called miscellaneous dramas are operas, such as "The Dealer Doesn't Know the Hook Column" and "Han Zhong Lidu Delan Caihe" The two dramas have been performed for a long time in the tiles of Kaifeng Mansion.

On the other hand, Zhugong tune is a kind of rap, usually composed of two parts, rhyme and prose, and the performance takes the form of singing and speaking.

The audience faced by the acrobatic drama is mainly the people of the market, and the actors are also men and women, old and young. The audience of Zhugong tunes is relatively high-grade, mainly literati, and the performers are mostly kabuki. Not only is there a special hook bar in the Goulan tile lane for performing the Zhugong tunes, but most of the female dancers (prostitutes) who work in the 72nd floor of Kaifeng and various green buildings can also sing the Zhugong tunes. Many scholars and bureaucrats are also proficient in the tunes of the palaces.

Chen Youwen, who had just returned to Kaifeng Mansion in a gloomy manner, was also a scribe who liked the tunes of the palaces, and there was a concubine in the family who was good at singing the tunes of the palaces, named Gao Zhenzhen, and Feng Erniang, all of whom were born in the Qinglou. It's a pity that Feng Erniang survived, gave birth to a son, and changed the big house. And this Gao Zhenzhen has served Chen Youwen for fifteen years, and he has no son and half a daughter, and the Chen family still has an eldest woman in charge......

But Chen Youwen still likes this little concubine who can sing, even if she is not young for a long time, and she is still very fat - not plump, but fat! is the same as a, her figure and appearance cannot be compared with Feng Erniang.

But Chen Youwen just likes this fat man, Feng Erniang is like that, he still can't look down on it!

After returning to Kaifeng Mansion, he didn't take this "old concubine" to visit the tiles all day long, listen to small songs, and have an attitude of eating and waiting for death.

Today's weather is sunny, the wind is beautiful, and it is a good day to go shopping, after Chen Youwen got up, he took "Gao Fat Fat" (originally called Gao Zhenzhen, after getting fat, Chen Youwen often called her Gao Fat Fat) out of the door, and went straight to Sangjiawazi.

When he arrived at the Goolan called "Sanchuan", which he likes to go to the most on weekdays, before he reached the door, he saw a surging crowd.

Chen Youwen said: "Really, who is on stage today in the three-pass hook column? ”

"It seems to be Yan Qiqi."

"Yan Qiqi? Sounds familiar......"

"It's Yan Qiqi, who is as good as he can be, and later went to open Yihong Courtyard."

It turned out that it was Liu Wuji's old lover who took the stage on the three-setter hook column today. She was really popular back then, but she was not reserved enough, she was too coquettish, and she gained a reputation as a good person. But she enjoyed it, and later opened the Yihong Courtyard in the north of the city, and became a bustard selling meat, becoming a laughing stock in the Qinglou world, but also famous.

Chen Youwen frowned slightly, "She won't eat on the three-pass hook bar, right?" ”

"How is it possible, this is an inner city, she is not afraid of being caught and going to Kaifeng County to fight the board?"

"That's right, so why are there so many people here?"

Gao Fat said: "Master, don't guess, let's go and see." ”

"It's fine."

Chen Youwen nodded, and squeezed into the crowd with Gao Fat, and after entering, he realized that the people who were crowded here did not enter the hook bar, but hugged outside the hook bar to look at the few "paper lists" posted on the wall. There are also a few people who look like idlers, with a stack of tricks in their hands and distributing them, and one of them is also stuffed with two for Chen Youwen.

"It's ......"

Chen Youwen unfolded one of the tricks, and after only one glance, he was taken aback.

The trick is painted, to be precise, a bust of a beautiful woman, although it is only a line drawing, but this simple line outlines a lifelike portrait.

These facial features, this hair, and this demeanor are simply painted alive!

"Isn't this Master Li?" Gao Pang Pang and Master Li were familiar with each other, but they just glanced at her husband and immediately recognized them.

That's right, this is Master Li!

Chen Youwen also recognized Master Li, and when he looked at it again, he found that there was a text printed on the right side of Master Li's portrait. The general idea is that on December 20 before the New Year, Zhao Xiaoyi's "Li Shishi Photo" and Wu Haogu's "Mo Niangzi Dance" will be sung and sold on the ground floor of the middle building of Fengle Building, and there will also be calligraphy and paintings of famous artists, which will be sold together in Fengle Building......

Wu Hao Gu!

It's Wu Haogu again!

This trick must be based on Wu Haogu's painting stereotyped printing, right?

The printed ones are so good, what should the paintings look like?

Other than that...... The words on the trick seem to be offered by the king!

Of course, Wang Xianzhi died early, so it can't be written by himself. But those who can imitate Wang Xianzhi's characters to this extent are probably not ordinary characters, right?

Also, Who is Zhao Xiaoyi?

can paint Master Li, and can also hang out Master Li's paintings to sing and sell, and his surname is Zhao ...... This "Zhao" is definitely not Zhao Tieniu's Zhao, most likely Zhao Kuangyin's Zhao!

Who is this man?

It won't be ...... Duan Duan Duan Wang Zhao Ji, right?

Thinking of this, Chen Youwen panicked, Kaifeng Mansion can't stay, and if he stays any longer, he will die!

Just when Chen Youwen was thinking about selling his property and fleeing to other places immediately, someone suddenly shouted to him: "Isn't this Chen Jiangshi?" I'm going to look for you? ”

Catch me?

Chen Youwen is also a thief, and he hears "finding" as "catching", and thinks that the magistrate of Kaifeng Mansion brought someone to catch him, the "Liangshan thief", and he doesn't care if the concubine is fat and fat, so he turns his head and runs away. I don't know if I was in a panic, ran in the wrong direction, and collided head-on with the person who called him.

The man was almost knocked over by him, but fortunately there was an entourage around him to help him, but the man was not angry, and still asked softly: "Chen Jiangshi, what's wrong with you?" I haven't seen you for many days, so I don't have to give it to me like this? ”

Chen Youwen looked at the person in front of him fixedly, it turned out to be Liang Shicheng, a nobleman in the palace.

Chen Youwen hurriedly saluted: "Liang Daguan, I didn't stand firm below, and I slipped and ......."

"It's okay, it's okay." Liang Shicheng smiled, waved his hand and said, "I'm looking for something about you." ”

"Looking for me?" Chen Youwen was stunned, he is not a person from the Hanlin Painting Bureau now, what can Liang Shicheng do with him?

Liang Shicheng smiled and said, "It's inconvenient to talk here, so come with me." ”

……

When Liang Shicheng and Chen Youwen met, Wu Haogu was drawing a bow, a soft bow played by a child, he pulled it away, put on a feather arrow, and then shot it out with a bang, hitting the bull's-eye more than a dozen steps away, but the arrow did not pierce the wooden target, but bounced off and landed gently.

"It's quite accurate, but it's a little less powerful......"

Tong Guan on the side frowned and said, "Chongdao, your strength is not enough, you still have to practice." ”

Wu Haogu shook his head and said with a smile: "Brother Gangfu, my strength is not small, but it is not the strength to draw the bow, but the strength to hold the pen. ”

Tong Guan frowned, Wu Haogu obviously had no interest in practicing martial arts, three days of fishing, two days of drying nets, it was rare to come to the west of the city Qionglin Garden to practice with himself. Fortunately, he didn't really want to train Wu Haogu into a military attaché, just to familiarize him with military affairs, and don't draw out of bounds when the time comes.

"Okay, that's it," Tong Guan shook his head, "you just shoot a few arrows...... Now I'm riding back to the city with my family, and I'm also practicing equestrianism by the way. ”

Wu Haogu's equestrianism is better than archery, after all, he went to Haizhou once, and he basically rode a horse along the way, which can be regarded as some practice.

At that moment, the two of them each rode a horse, went out of Qionglin Garden, went east along the Bianhe River, and entered the outer city of Kaifeng Mansion after a while.

On the way to the inner city along Bianhe Street, Tong Guan said seemingly unintentionally: "Chongdao, Chen Youwen is back." ”

Chen Youwen?

This guy didn't die in Hengshan...... By the way, the Battle of Hengshan was a great victory for the Song Dynasty, and there were not a few deaths at all.

"Oh." Wu Haogu just responded, noncommittal.

He had actually asked people to inquire, and Zhao Tieniu had already sold his family property and went to Liangshan. However, this matter did not involve Chen Youwen......

Moreover, Chen Youwen is now an official or a civil official...... It's not easy to get killed.

"I heard that the two of you have some festivals?" Tong Guan asked.

Wu Haogu smiled, "Small things are not enough to worry about." ”

"That's good." Tong Guan smiled, "Let me tell you, this time to make Liao, he is also an attaché." It will go in the name of the Hanlin Picture Bureau. ”

What the?

He also went to Liao?

That's good!

Wu Haogu sneered in his heart, but his face was still silent, "He is waiting for the edict, then he is ......"

"You go in the name of a military attaché," Tong Guan said, "don't use the name of Wu Haogu, you can use the pseudonym Pan Xiaozhong." ”

Tong Guan is an old spy, he has traveled to Liao Country many times, and he is responsible for collecting intelligence, so he naturally has already thought of an infiltration plan.

Although Wu Haogu has not been famous for a long time, his fame has risen rapidly, and it will inevitably attract the attention of the Liao people, so Wu Haogu must not be allowed to make Liao with his real name.

At the same time, because the Song Dynasty has always had a tradition of sending "spy painters", it is necessary to arrange a big painter to play cover, and Chen Youwen, who has just returned from Hengshan, is undoubtedly the most suitable candidate.