Chapter 201: The beginning and the end

Regarding Su Dongpo's question, Zhan Qinqin lowered her head and smiled slightly, and replied: "There is also a difference."

Su Dongpo asked in surprise: "Why?"

Zhan Qinqin said: "Your lyrics must be made of two generals, copper pipa, and iron chaom boards, and sings my husband's 'The river goes east and the waves are thousands of times'. However, Liu only uses fifteen or sixteen little girls to sing his 'The morning breeze and waning moon on the willow bank.'"

Su Dongpo applauded and laughed, "Liu is better than me."

Zhou Bangshi was not ashamed of face, so he clapped his hands and recited: "Youren's phrases are made of Baotan, and Liu Yong's lyrics are worse than Zizhan. A song that goes east is not as good as the willows and the morning breeze is broken."

Everyone smiled bitterly.

This is the value of Su Dongpo. Everyone present was watching him make fun of him, but no one's laughter was louder than him. His proud laughter was the most heartwarming.

If the person being teased was Chen Yiyi, she would probably hate you to death, instruct the students to kill you, and find all the opportunities to scold you to death; if it was Jia Yi, Liu Anshi... But Su Dongpo smiled, and he pointed at Zhou Bangshi and laughed.

Su Dun was puzzled. Amid the laughter of the crowd, he asked curiously: "Legitimate Father, why are you laughing? Are you laughing so happily?"

"Others laugh at me, but I laugh at myself." Su Dongpo laughed and picked up Su Dun, walked towards the end of the embankment under the sun, laughing while walking, without any worries.

The others present did not move. They smiled and shook their heads while tasting new tea as if nothing had happened. Zhao Xing was originally going to follow Su Shi, but when he saw Su Shi's free and easy back, he stopped and walked out of the pavilion with joy. Looking at the beautiful West Lake, his heart was full of satisfaction.

This year is still a disaster year. Thanks to Su Dongpo, the people in Hangzhou have wheels that can extract groundwater to resist drought, and the surplus food and grass last year is quite sufficient. Therefore, although Hangzhou has encountered the third consecutive disaster year, the people who are traveling around the shore of West Lake are all in peace.

The singing in the pavilion revived, and the singing was Bai Chuchu, the leading official prostitute in Hangzhou. This girl was nicknamed "Nine-tailed Demon Fox" in Hangzhou. When Zhao Xing saw Bai Chuchu's charming look, he almost suspected that Pan Jinlian was depicted in Bai Chuchu's image.

If you analyze Bai Chuchu from the perspective of modern people, it can be said that Bai Chuchu is a person who is very good at body language. She will use her body to make various charming postures. Those charming postures are hidden but not revealed, which makes people feel that they are attracted subtly like drizzle. No, strictly speaking, they are seduced. Before you know it, you will think that this woman is extremely cute, like a treasure, just want to hold it in your hands to care for her, and want to get close to her, dissolve in her body, and wish you could not be two people and be one person.

Bai Chuchu's singing skills are different from Liao Xiaoxiao, but her slightly low and hoarse voice sucks people's ears like a stone, which makes people afraid of missing a word and worrying that they missed the expression of the beauty. The people in the pavilion are already unscrupulous. Only Zhao Xing, who has seen Ye Yuqing and Ye Zimei's singing, can control it. He listened to the song with half of his ear, and the other half of his ear is listening to the sound of willows on the dike.

At some point, Zhan Qinqin walked out of the pavilion, bowed to Zhao Xing, and said, "Master, why don't you go in?"

Zhao Xing looked at the actor who played "Xiuxiu", and his heart was filled with gentleness, and asked casually: "I have watched all the dramas you brought. When will I play "The West Chamber"? I am looking forward to seeing Cui Yingying."

Before Zhan Qinqin answered, Qin Guan leisurely walked out of the pavilion with a cup of tea. When he heard the second half of Zhao Xing's words, he proudly drank the tea in the cup and said: "No problem, I didn't say that the "West Chamber" was played on July 7th, there was no problem. July 7th will definitely allow you to see "West Chamber"."

The most popular dramas in the Song Dynasty were "The Disciples of the Animal Sect Stand in the Wrong Man" and "The West Chamber" and "The Yu Guanyin". Liao Xiaoxiao brought this troupe back from the capital. Originally, they were the last two dramas, but Zhao Xing never asked them to express "The West Chamber" because he learned from other channels that at this time, the "The West Chamber" was basically still using the novel "The Huizhen Ji" by Yuan Zhen of the Tang Dynasty (also known as "The Legend of Yingying").

The original work of "The Legend of Yingying" is a story about a man who is unfaithful and abandons the whole time, causing insults and harm to a woman. This is a love between a "talented man and a beautiful woman". Zhang Sheng and Yingying fell in love for a while, but finally betrayed her. Zhang Sheng is a Confucian scholar who plays with women without shame. He abandons Yingying from the whole time, which is completely in line with the etiquette and morality of Confucianism. He is even praised for reforming and restoring moral ethics.

By the Song Dynasty, the "Book of Yingying" was no longer in line with the moral foundation of the Song Dynasty. People in the Song Dynasty were extremely disgusted with the praise of the beginning and abandonment. Many people have already started to revise the "Book of Yingying". However, due to the limitations of literary level, or because of the education they received since childhood, their adaptation still cannot escape the condemnation of their parents' orders. They tried their best to turn around this topic, but the plot was very stiff.

Zhao Xing sometimes wondered, and reasonably, Liao Xiaoxiao was also an elopement in others. How could she like such a drama that abused and elopement? He stopped the troupe from singing "The West Chamber", but unexpectedly, Qin Guan highly praised his behavior.

At that time, Qin Guan was drunk. He said angrily, "I wrote a book called "Teaching and Trailing" eight years ago, despising Zhang Sheng who had been abandoned. How can you be like this? Because of your trust, Yingying believed in Zhang Sheng's affection, and instead was criticized. Zhang Sheng's treason was praised by others.

Yuan Zhen is a man who abandons the beginning and the end. He wrote this legend to reversal black and white, and to justify his untrustworthy and righteous behavior. People do not know that they actually regard abandoning the beginning and the end as a treasure, which is a great hatred."

Mao Pang was also present at that time. He seemed to have discovered a soulmate and immediately said to Qin Guan: "Scholar Qin also wrote "Teaching and Tracing" to despise Zhang Sheng, and I have done this."

As soon as they said this, the two dogs and men immediately hooked up and became more and more enthusiastic. In the end, they decided to join forces to modify a new version of "The Legend of Cui Yingying".

When Zhao Xing heard it from the side, he immediately agreed loudly. In order to show his support for Qin Guan's work, he decided to take over all the work Qin Guan should do. After that, Qin Guan and Mao Pang began to make every effort to revise the "West Chamber", while Zhao Xing kept guiding the two to revise the "West Chamber" with a kind of evil deed of tampering with history. Whenever the two completed a new song, he was always filled with a sense of accomplishment.

Unfortunately, he didn't know that he did this just following history. In real history, it was Qin Guan and Mao Pang who started to use the knife to "The West Chamber". Since them, countless talented men have devoted themselves to it. They have revised it for a hundred years and finally modified the "The West Chamber" into the version seen by modern people.

Qin Guan was a passionate poet, and Mao Pang finally created the poems of the Song Dynasty, which were passionate and elegant. The new scripts modified by the two teamed up to have an 80% modern feeling. This is enough. Although the concepts of the Song Dynasty were very open, under the long-term education of the foolish people, they still had some inherent precepts in their minds. These precepts could not be surpassed in just a few months. Therefore, after seeing the revisions of Qin Guan and Mao Pang, Zhao Xing had already recognized the revisions of the two, and the rest was rehearsal.

There are more than 3,000 lyrics in the plays modified by Qin Guan and Mao Pang, which are mixed with sitting and reciting singing. There are 15 repertoires and 15 scenes. In ancient China, such many scenes have been transformed into a masterpiece. Since the beginning of that year, Zhan Qinqin and the others have started rehearsing. Now, listening to Qin Guan’s words, it is estimated that the new play has been rehearsed and is waiting to be adjusted.

Zhao Xing and Qin Guan whispered the rehearsal of the drama. Zhan Qinqin sang a soft sermon from time to time, thinking that it would be fun. Mao Pang could not sit still in the pavilion when he heard the familiar tune. He picked up a thermos, got out of the pavilion, pretended to refill the water for the two of them, and interrupted, "I heard that Lord Zhao was looking for someone to draw the set, so we were just waiting for the set of the adults. When the set of the adults is ready, we will start the show."

At the end of Sudi, a team of bright Japanese women carrying bamboo umbrellas and carrying food. The sound of wooden clogs came here with a crisp sound. On the way they walked, some soldiers who were working were singing Song Dynasty love songs with their voices. The brothers and sisters shouted loudly, and the Japanese women laughed crisply, responding to the singing while speeding up.

Originally, the Su Dike was made of rammed earth, and Zhao Xing participated, and the road was changed to a stone road. The wooden clogs were stepped on the stone slab. The charm of the Song Dynasty made Zhao Xing stop and talk. He watched the Japanese women walking towards him with an admiring smile.

Qin Guan never forgot to show his charm to women at any time. This young, beautiful, lively and cheerful team of Japanese women immediately attracted his attention. He turned around, pulled out the golden folding fan from behind his waist, opened the fan with a loud bang, and waved the fan like a hard-working little bee, whistling, and posing in the most handsome posture, appearing to the Japanese women with a smile, which really caused the Japanese women to scream.

Mao Pang finished his move, and Qin Guan snatched the limelight. He sighed, took a voluntary step back, shook his head, and said half-compromisingly and half-criticized: "How can a man in the world steal the limelight from Qin Guan in front of women? I admit defeat, Brother Zhao, come on."

Zhao Xing shrugged and spread his hands to admit: "I can't snatch Qin Guan."

Zhao Xing was wrong. Although the women were screaming at Qin Guan, some of them even had their arms weak and abandoned the bamboo umbrella they were holding, they did not stop at their feet and walked towards Zhao Xing at a straight line.

Qin Guan was angry, and he shook his fan and said, "You are here to deliver lunch to my brother Zhao Xian. Are you there one for me?"

The Japanese girls agreed verbally: "Of course, how could we leave Mr. Qin?"

Qin Guan asked with a smile: "What food should I eat today?"

"Yellow Cyclone, taro Cyclone, sea bass Cyclone, and a few sashimi. Bachelor's Day, come, the one we are most satisfied with today's meal is the Orchid Cyclone. Unfortunately, there are not many, so the bachelor's Day must grab it."

After hearing today's meal, Zhao Xing frowned. A group of people had already emerged from the grass pavilion. Tang Di asked at the top of his voice: "Is there any golden sunflower? Is there any chili pepper? Is there mustard? Is there any soy sauce, don't forget soy sauce."

The group of Japanese girls spread out a few straw mats and opened the food box on the embankment. They first took out one and placed it alone in a Vietnamese mahogany lacquer box. Then a Japanese girl carried it and knelt in front of Zhao Xing. She raised the table and held the food box on her head, waiting for Zhao Xing to eat, while the others surrounded the Japanese girls and snatched the remaining food.

Celery, also known as dried croaker, is also called "cooked". In ancient times, it referred to fish or other foods pickled with salt and rice flour. In the Song Dynasty, it evolved into rusty meat. "Zhongfulu" records three parts: dried croaker, vegetables and sweets, and there are more than 80 methods of cooking. Among them, folk families in Jinhua and Quzhou during the Song Dynasty like to eat it.

Legend has it that during the Han Dynasty, fishermen on the seaside used this sour rice ball as food for food when they went out to sea because it was easy to keep fresh. Since the Three Kingdoms immigrated, the method of making this food has been introduced to Japan and has become a favorite way of eating. By the Song Dynasty, this food began to become popular among the people.

Initially, when "钟" was introduced to the people, the Japanese did not know how to pronounce the word. After eating a bite of rice ball, they would shout "very sour". This is said in Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty's "钟" is annotated in modern Latin pinyin, which is "susi" or "sushi". If it is annotated in Chinese characters, it is "sushi". Over time, "钟" is pronounced as "钟" in Japanese and is called "susi" in Chinese.

The dish "钟" was not well-known in the Song Dynasty because there were too many famous dishes in the Song Dynasty, which flooded the "钟". Because of this, every time Zhao Xing ate "钟", he always couldn't understand why modern young masters always felt that they had unique culture and unique taste when they ate Japanese "so sour" Chinese "sushi"...

Well, he admitted that they felt right. This thing is indeed cultural. It is just a thousand years of Song culture, more than 1,200 years of Tang culture, and more than 2,000 years of Han culture. But do they know these?

In modern times, the way of eating sushi remains in the style of the Song Dynasty - that is, the food is made without salt, and when eating it, you should dip it in soy sauce or seasonings. According to the way you eat it in memory, Zhao Xing pinched a ball of orchid, dipped it in a little golden sunflower, took a piece of sashimi dipped in soy sauce and mustard and wrapped it into the rice ball, put it in his mouth, then closed his mouth and chewed it slowly. He looked like he was back to a modern tea restaurant...

The Song Dynasty believed that chewing vegetables was indecent. The dishes must be kept in their mouths and chewed with their mouths. They cannot make chewing sounds and cannot see their teeth. This is the table etiquette of the Song Dynasty and the etiquette required for modern times when eating sushi. As for grabbing a piece of dish ball and biting like gnawing sheep's hooves, it is a tradition brought by the Hu people. The Song people always seem so gentle and elegant.

Yes, gentle and elegant. At the beginning of the banquet, there was a little thoughtful atmosphere. When everyone sat cross-legged on the straw mat, there was only a chewing sound left on the scene.

Everyone present was officials and gentry. In this place where cultural people gather, everyone was afraid of their own demeanor. You should know that Su Shi's big mouth is famous in Asia, and Qin Guan's recklessness is not much lighter than Su Shi. If you accidentally show your timidity, these two people will write it in poetry with a big pen, which will be infamous for a thousand years.

Several Japanese girls were walking around the table like flowers and butterflies. They used court etiquettes with the Han and Tang dynasties to pour wine and tea for the officials. The Song people paid attention to not speaking before eating, not talking when eating, and only made a hundred poems when drinking. Now it is time to eat, so everyone is only concerned about eating. Zhao Xing put a few rice dumplings and slightly filled his stomach. He was worried that Su Shi hurried to the end of the dike.

Originally, the embankment was about to be completed, but Su Shi was overly pursuing perfection. He also felt that the willow planting on both sides of the strait was asymmetric and the stone paving was uneven, so he was reworked. Fortunately, Hangzhou had sufficient funds for repairs. As long as there was money to make money, the soldiers didn't care. They didn't care how many times they reworked. Anyway, the wages were calculated based on the day.

Hangzhou is considered a good place, and it is labor-for-relief. Work is paid for money and has to be put on other places. This is their labor. Not only does it work for free, but it also brings its own tools and dry food. In this case, the soldiers of the wing wished they had work all summer.

Su Shi was at the end of the embankment, and he was squatting in the ground and chatting with an old farmer. While working, the old farmer was briefly introducing the harvest and grain output to Su Shi. Su Dun was squatting at Su Shi's feet, looking at the rough feet of the old farmer with big eyes curiously.

Taking advantage of Su Shi's questioning, Su Dun suddenly interrupted and asked in a speechless manner: "Legitimate father, why don't he wear socks? I think everyone, no matter men, women, young and old, there is no barefoot. The big guy said that his feet were bare and he was prone to cold and diarrhea."

Su Shi had not answered yet, and the old farmer laughed: "Little Sheren, that's the habit of a rich family. Can I compare with Zhao Laohu's family in Hangzhou? I'm 60 years old and haven't worn socks for sixty years. I haven't been tired of it. Tell you, a person is a bullshit, how blessed he is, and what kind of life he lives, otherwise he will be a short life, a young man..."
Chapter completed!