Chapter 4 For the first time, the heroic words feel the wind and dust, buy drunk and mourn, the sound moves the strings, and the audience is full of sorrowful autumn

According to legend, Beijing, which has been down for hundreds of years, has now been changed to Beiping, and has lost its honorable title of "the first good district".But there are many great buildings and long-standing cultural achievements left here, which are still worth nostalgic.Especially the good weather, which cannot be bought with money in other cities.It's not as bitterly cold as outside the Great Wall, nor as bitterly hot as Jiangnan; for three hundred and sixty days, except for a few days when it was windy and dusty, the weather was sunny.When it comes to rain, the streets are muddy, the houses are moldy and damp, and being unable to go out for a long time is one of the most distressing things for southerners.People in Peiping are overjoyed when it rains.This is because there is not a single rain in ten or twenty days. After the rain, it will be clear immediately, the sky will be clear, the dust will not rise, and the air in the city will be very fresh.People in Peiping are inversely proportional to those in the south. Although the house is small, the yard must be big.The word patio is not universal.Because every house has a big yard, there are trees everywhere.After the rain and fog, you go to the west mountain and look down at the old capital. The towers and palaces are all half-hidden and half-hidden among the green trees, and you feel that the rain in the north is welcome.The south is afraid of rain, and what is most afraid of is the weather in Huangmei.From the beginning of April to the middle of May in the lunar calendar, it rains almost every day.But in Beiping, the sky is still sunny, and the temperature here is low.At that time, just after the begonias were in bloom and the willows were thick, it was the golden age. Those who don't like to travel will inevitably want to see Sanhai and go to the park at this time.Because of this, people from other places wait until April, when the trees everywhere in Beiping are green, and then come to visit.At this time, there was a young man who was very good at traveling. He traveled from Shanghai to Beijing.

This was the first three years before Beijing was changed to Beiping, around the end of April, and he lived in a very delicate upper room.The room was painted vermilion, with four red pillars on the ground along the corridor; outside the corridor, there was a large yard, and a wisteria flower was placed on a flat shelf. Drooping in the leaves.There are many pots of oleander on the steps and along the corridor, and the flowers are clustered on the branches.The young Fan Jiashu was leaning against a red pillar, watching the wisteria flowers on the trellis, being blown by the wind, knocking away the bees standing on the flowers, and then flying back again, which was very interesting.He held an open and rolled book in his hand, but put his hands behind his back.The courtyard was silent, only the sound of bee wings vibrating, buzzing continuously.The sun passed through the wisteria trellises, forming patterns all over the ground. When the wind blows, the patterns move all over the ground, but there is a delicate fragrance that sticks to people's clothes.Jiashu felt very comfortable and kept standing still.At this time, a servant came over and said, "Master Cousin! Today is Sunday, why are you alone at home?" The family tree said: "I have visited all the places of interest in Beijing. Your grandpa and grandma asked me to go to Xishan yesterday afternoon Go, I went there the day before yesterday, and I didn't want to go, so I stayed. Liu Fu! Can you take me somewhere to play?" Liu Fu said with a smile: "Our uncle is going to Xishan, there are rules, Go on Saturday afternoon and come back on Monday morning. If you don’t go this time, he will still invite you next time. This is how foreigners do it. If you don’t understand how our uncle learned it! In fact, on Saturdays and Sundays in the theater garden The famous actor is exposed; the movie theater also changes movies, which is just for fun." Jiashu said: "We are used to living in that foreign house in the Shanghai Concession, and we don't think it is as elegant as a Chinese house. Such a good yard, look, with red windows. The white screen window, facing the full frame of flowers, looks like a picture, and reading books at home is not bad." Liu Fu said: "I know that Master Biao likes to play with the scenery. There is a Shuixin Pavilion on the overpass, you can go there." Jiashu said: "Isn't Tianqiao a place where people from the lower classes go?" Liu Fu said: "No, it is surrounded by water, there are flowers and pavilions in the middle, and there are beautiful girls singing a cappella there." Jiashu said: " Why have I never heard of such a place?" Liu Fu said with a smile: "I will never wrong you. There are also flower sheds and trees there, so I like to go there." Hearing what he said so well, Jiashu said: "It's boring at home too. Hire me a car, and I'll go right away. Is there still time?" Liu Fu said, "It's too late. There are teahouses and restaurants there. If you are thirsty or hungry, there is a place to rest. When he said that, he walked out of the gate, hired a rickshaw for Fan Jiashu, and let him go to the overpass by himself.When Fan Jiashu usually goes out for sightseeing, he is always accompanied by the protagonist's cousin, Tao Bo, so he is a bit restrained after all.Today, I can go for a walk freely, which is more enjoyable, and I don't feel lonely.Sitting in the car, go straight to the flyover.When we got there, the car stopped, and the surrounding area was filled with the sound of clappers, huqin, gongs and drums.In front of me, there are three or four high-rise wooden houses along the way. There are many red cards hung in front of the buildings, which are marked with gold or black letters: what dog meat tank, dolls are born; ".After paying the fare, I walked over and saw that there were many stalls beside the gatehouse.As far as I am concerned, there is a large flat-headed wheelbarrow, with many black spots piled up on the board, which are the size of a rice bowl, and thousands of flies are just flying around there.Two snow-white knives were placed in the black block, and a person stood by the car, took the black block, and cut the knife randomly on a wooden board, cutting many purple slices, and put a small piece of rotten old newspaper on it. for people.Probably selling sauced beef or cooked donkey meat.In another stall, a large iron pot was placed on the ground. There were many black and long strips in the pot, which looked like dead snakes with their scales peeled off. straight out.It turned out that it was the boiled sheep intestines that northerners like to eat.Jiashu frowned, turned around and looked, but there were several dirt alleys, both sides of the alleys were full of reed sheds, and in the front two alleys, from a distance, there were many red and green hanging in the reed sheds. Clothes, probably the most famous Yiyi Street.There is an alley here, and there are a lot of people coming and going.At the entrance of the alley, there are piles of old shoes on the gray ground; there are also a few grocery stalls, with kerosene lamps, foreign porcelain basins, and copper and iron utensils all over the floor.From here, there is Lupengdian in the south, and a large and wide ditch in the north. There is black mud in the ditch and blue water flowing.It stinks.The family tree thought: Since the Shuixin Pavilion has the victory of flowers and trees, of course it is not here.Turned around again, walked up the street, and asked a policeman.The police told him that going south from here, Luxi is Shuixin Pavilion.

The city of Beijing is a square place, with streets and alleys running from north to south and from east to west.People's houses are also quadrangle courtyards.So people who come here, no matter they are old or young, know all directions, and when they talk, they don't care about up, down, left, or right, and only talk about east, west, north, south.After hearing what he said, the family tree walked straight forward and spread out many reed sheds, and there was a wilderness.There is a ditch on the west side of the road. Although it is not clear, it is not smelly.On the other side of the ditch, there are a few willow trees that are more than ten feet long.From one side of the ditch to the other side of the ditch, you can't go across. There are two flat wooden bridges at the north and south ends. There is a small reed shed at the end of the bridge.People in the past all paid four coppers on the side of the bridge and bought a small red paper to enter.In this way, it is to buy a ticket.When the family tree arrived here, he had to go and have a look, so he paid four coins to buy a ticket to cross the bridge.On the other side of the bridge, some puddles were dug on the flat ground, and the calla genus was planted in them, but there was no garden.After passing the puddle, there are five or six large reed sheds, and there are many tea seats in them.There is a juggler in every shed.Pass through these reed sheds, and pass another ditch; here is a shallow pond, in which some lotus leaves have newly grown.On the other side of the lotus pond, there is a wooden house with four or five green trees growing obliquely outside the house. Under the tree, there is a shelf of pumpkins holding some melon and bean vines.The wooden house was painted with blue paint, with two pairs of Hunan curtains hanging down, following the wind, one could hear the sound of strings and strings from a distance.Jiashu thought: This place is somewhat interesting, let's go and have a look.Walking along a road, the wooden house is open to the south, facing the red wall of Xiannongtan, there is a clump of ancient cypresses, dozens of seat heads are placed in the house, and there is a low platform in the north, with seven or eight beautiful flowers. The big drum girl, sitting there, sings the big drum book one by one.Jia Shu wanted to sit down and rest for a while, but all the seats were full, so he turned around and walked back.The so-called "Shuixin Pavilion" is nothing more than that.This kind of scenery does not seem to be worth nostalgia.First came in from the east, and then went out from the west.When you get here, there is a row of tea sheds; when you pass through the tea sheds, there is a lot of noise. From a distance, you can see some singing big drums, some selling interpretation, some wrestling, some ventriloquist, and some talking cross talk.A cloth shed on the left is surrounded by a circle of people, and a wooden shed on the right is also surrounded by a circle of people.This is a real low society club.On a mound in the north, surrounded by people, the laughter was the loudest.Jiashu stepped forward to take a look, and saw a bamboo pole and picked out a piece of ragged blue cloth, which was as dirty as a child's diaper.There was a small table under the blue cloth, surrounded by three or four children playing gongs and drums and playing the huqin. When the blue cloth was lifted, a black man in his forties came out, wearing a gray cloth long gown with a straw tied around his waist. He wore a rope, a hat made of cigarette paper boxes on his head, and a black beard hanging from his mouth.In fact, it was only forty or fifty ponytails. He walked to the table and stared at it, and everyone who saw it applauded.He stretched out his hand and took off his beard and said, "I haven't sung yet, how can I start screaming? Huqin is here, and I don't have time to speak." He hung up his beard and sang again.Everyone laughed when they saw it, and Jiashu thought it was funny, so he just stood and watched.After standing for a long time, I felt a little tired. Looking back, there was a teahouse, which was still clean, so I stepped in and found a seat to sit down.A piece of red paper was pasted on the pillar, with a large line written on it: "One water money for each person." Jiashu felt that it was very cheap, and it was a teahouse that he had never been to in his life.A clerk came over, put a white porcelain pot on the table, and asked, "Sir, did you bring any leaves?" The family tree answered no.The clerk said, "I'll give you four hundred packs of money! Fragrant slices? Longjing tea?" This is the tea that Beijingers drink, not by the catty, but by the pack.A bag of tea leaves weighs about a penny.Usually it is a pack of several coppers, also referred to as a pack of hundreds.One hundred is a copper plate, regardless of the name of the tea, the tea leaves that have been soaked and added with jasmine are called Xiangpian; those that have not been soaked and have no flowers are collectively called Longjing.Although Jiashu is from Zhejiang, he has been here for a long time, and he knows the reason very well. At that time, he agreed to the word Longjing, because he said: "You only need one copper for water, why spend four coppers to sell tea for people to drink? The man laughed and said, "You are from the south. I don't understand. You bring your own leaves. We only need one leaf. If you eat our tea and we only charge one penny for water, then you have to sell it to my wife." "Jiashu heard what he said, and said with a smile: "If all the guests bring leaves, and you all only charge one penny for water, don't you want to lose a lot of money?" "Look, we don't rely on selling water here." The family tree looked towards the backyard, where there were two wooden racks with many kinds of weapons inserted, some stone pier locks randomly placed, and a pair of heavy loads. In addition, there is a heavy room, where a group of people drink tea and chat.On the door of the house, a banner was written and pasted there, which read "Make friends with martial arts".At this moment, someone came out, took the weapons from the shelf, and practiced dancing in the yard.Jiashu knew that this was a club for general martial artists.In the school, Jiashu originally had a martial arts teacher who taught martial arts. He had always been interested in this. Now he encountered such a club with many martial arts, and he was very happy to visit.Suo Xing moved his seat and approached the railing in the backyard. First, he saw a few middle-aged people practicing knives and sticks in the yard. Finally, an old man in his fifties walked out, wearing a purple floral sweater. , A large belt is tied across the waist.On the board strap, there is a cigarette pouch and a small bag; underneath are green cloth trousers, and the leg wrap is tied to the knee. From a distance, he touches his arm and is full of energy. When he comes closer, he has a long face and a high nose. There were only a few whiskers left on his mouth. As soon as he walked into the yard, he rolled up his sleeves and stood firm. Holding a stone lock in one hand, he bumped it a few times, and then lifted it into the air. After lifting it up, he looked down. Once it fell, after it fell, I looked up again and saw that the stone locks weighed about seventy or eighty catties each, and two of them weighed more than one hundred catties.This upward movement was not surprising, I saw that he lowered his hands and raised his right hand again, the stone lock flew out and rushed straight over the ridge of the roof.When the family tree saw it, he was startled. Unexpectedly, the stone lock had just passed the ridge of the roof and fell straight down on the top of the old man's head. on his right shoulder; at the same time, he threw out the stone lock in his left hand, and also supported his left shoulder.After seeing it, Jiashu couldn't help but secretly marveled.Seeing that the old man was doing nothing, he lightly threw the two stone locks to the ground, a group of teenagers present yelled for a while, and two more applauded.When the old man saw people praising him, he just smiled slightly.There was a middle-aged man who sat on the heavy wooden bar and said with a smile: "Uncle! You are very happy today, let's play with the big guy." The old man said: "You first play and show me." The man really Turning around, he took the wooden bar with both hands, picked up the heavy load, and slowly lifted it up to his shoulders. He gritted his teeth and blushed. No way." The old man said: "Look at me." Stepping forward, he flattened his hands and lifted the burden to his stomach, paused, then raised his hands upwards, flattened his chin, and paused again , with both hands straight, raised above the top.There are two large stone plates at both ends of the burden, which seem to be like two pieces of millstones. The wooden pole is as thick as a teacup, and is inserted in the center of the stone plate.A millstone always seems to weigh two hundred catties, and it is even more difficult to install it on both ends of the wooden pole.It takes four to five hundred catties of strength to handle this move.Jiashu couldn't help but patted the table and shouted: "Okay!" The old man put down his heavy load and looked at Jiashu. He was wearing a blue lake crepe jacket with a fountain pen holder hanging on the lapel. On his face, he wore a pair of round-frame glasses with tortoiseshell rims. Although the hair on his head was parted neatly, it was curled up and a little disheveled. He was clearly an aristocratic college student. Why did he come here?I can't help but look at the family tree again.Jiashu thought he was being greeted, so he stood up and greeted him with a smile.The old man smiled and said, "Sir! Do you love this too?" The family tree laughed and said, "Love is love, but you don't have the strength. You can lift this heavy load. Is Gui Geng over fifty?" The old man smiled and said: "Fifty or so, it looks like I'm born again!" The family tree said: "I said so. It's rare for a sixty-year-old to have such great strength! What's your surname?" The man said his surname was Guan .Jiashu poured a cup of tea and sat down with him to talk, only to find out that his name was Guan Shoufeng.He is from Shandong, and he makes a living as a surgeon in Beijing.Then he asked the name of the family tree, how did he come to this kind of teahouse?The family tree told him his name, and said: "I live in Hangzhou. Because I am going to Beijing to take the university entrance examination, I am now tutoring homework. I live at my cousin's house in Dongsi Santiao Hutong." Shoufeng said: "Mr. Fan! It's a coincidence. We are still neighbors. I also live in that alley, what is your house number?" Jiashu said: "My cousin's surname is Tao." Shoufeng said: "Is that the red door Tao's house! That's the gate of the big house! Listen Said that their masters and wives are all abroad." The family tree said: "Yes, that is my uncle. He is a consul general and took my aunt. My cousin Tao Bohe is also working in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; but at home It’s okay, it’s not a big house. Where is your house?” Shoufeng laughed loudly and said, “People like us, how can we talk about the house! The place where I live is a big courtyard. You are from the south. I probably don't understand what a large courtyard is; it means that there are more than a dozen families living in a courtyard, and they can do everything. How can you think of such a place as a mansion?" Jiashu said: "Then It doesn't matter, the quality of a person's character doesn't depend on the house where he lives. I also like to talk about martial arts, since we live in the same alley, I will definitely go to see uncle one day." Hearing his address, Shou Feng stood up and stretched his arms. He scratched his hair randomly with his hands, then cupped his fists and said, "My husband! What do you call him? I really don't dare to do it. If you don't mind, I will visit you someday." He also said: "When it comes to practicing moves, you have to listen to them, there are plenty of them..." When he said that, he patted his belly belt and said: "Don't call it that." Jiashu said: "You old man, but there are only a few Money, you can’t wear well, eat well, you can’t do big things, can’t you lose your age for the sake of being poor? I’m only 20 years old this year, and your old man is over 60 years old, 40 years older than me, follow It’s not considered polite for your old man to call you uncle!” Shoufeng slapped the table, turned to those who were drinking tea, and said, “This gentleman is refreshing, I have never seen such young masters before.” Jiashu also felt that this old man was very angry. Frankly speaking, he talked with him for a while, and since the sun was setting, he gave tea money and went home, and arrived at Tao's house.The servant Liu Fu came in to serve the tea, and asked: "Master Biao! Is the Shuixin Pavilion okay?" The family tree said: "Shuixin Pavilion is fine, but I met an old man who practiced martial arts in the small teahouse and he talked very well. Good. I want to learn some skills from him, maybe he will come to see me tomorrow or the day after tomorrow." Liu Fu said: "Oh! Master Biao! You are new here, so you don't understand the situation here. Tianqiao is a place with low-level teachings, what? There are people who look like them, how can we talk about friendship with them?" The family tree said: "What's the matter? The place over the overpass, I think, although it is a gathering place for people from the lower class, there are many good people among them. The old man is very forthright, and he speaks very rationally." Liu Fu smiled and said: "Is there anyone who can't speak?" Jiashu said: "You haven't seen that person, how do you know that person is good or bad? ? I know, you must see the one who rides a car with a horse, that is a good person." Liu Fu didn't dare to argue too much, so he just went away with a smile.

In the morning of the next day, the owner, Tao Bo, and his wife had already returned from Xishan.Tao Bohe rested in the upper room for a while, and hurried to the yamen; Mrs. Tao went out again because she had an appointment in the morning.Jiashu was alone at home, and felt very bored. He thought that since he had a date with the old man and wanted to visit him, he might as well finish this sentence while he had nothing to do today. Whether he is good or bad, he must not break his promise He, lest he say that I look down on people.Yesterday Guan Shoufeng also said that his family lived at the east entrance of this alley, in a broken-down building with two locust trees at the door, so it was easy to find.So he took some pocket money with him and went out.Walking to the east entrance of the alley, there really is such a place.He knows the rules in Beijing, no matter whether the door is open or not, one must knock on the door before entering.Because there was no iron ring on the door, he only knocked on the door twice.At this time, a girl came out, about eighteen or nineteen years old, with her braids and a horizontal bun on the back, only a few short hairs in the front, a round face, and she was wearing a blue cloth dress, which lined her hands. Her face was still fair, with a red thread in her hair, and a piece of white cross cloth in her hand. When she came out, she saw that Jiashu was dressed so gorgeously, so she asked, "Who are you looking for? This is a courtyard, not a residence." "Jiashu said: "I know it's a courtyard, I'm here to find someone surnamed Guan. I don't know if you're at home?" The girl looked Jiashu up and down, and said with a smile: "My surname is Guan, your husband Is your surname Fan?" The family tree said: "That's right. Uncle Guan,..." The girl quickly caught up and said, "It's my father. He mentioned it when he came back last night. Now at home, please come in and sit down." The girl Guided in the front, led to the door of a south house and shouted: "Father, come quickly, that Mr. Fan is here." Shoufeng opened the door and came out, clapping his hands repeatedly: "Oh! This is not bad, there is really no room. You can sit down." The family tree smiled and said: "It's okay. I said yesterday, everyone, don't stick to your appearance." After hearing this, Guan Shoufeng had no choice but to lead the guests in.Jiashu looked inside the room, and there was a painted statue of Guan Yu in the middle.On an old god table, there is a pair of foreign iron five offerings, bows, arrows, knives and sticks on the wall, and two badger skins. On the wall below, many bunches of dried herbs are hung, and two Dried gourds.To the west is another square old wooden table with many bowls and pots, and a mud stove is placed next to it.There is a bunk on the east side. Although the bedding is made of cloth, it is still clean.In a room to the east, a red cloth door curtain was hung, and the red was half gray.In this way, the father and daughter are the two houses.Shoufeng asked Jiashu to sit on the bunk, and the girl went into the room and brought out a teapot.He smiled and said: "What a coincidence, the stove went out, so go to the small teahouse across the street to find water." Jiashu said: "You don't need to bother." "Jiashu said: "That's not it. When we make friends, we don't care about eating and drinking. As long as we get along with each other, it doesn't matter whether we drink tea or not. You're welcome. If you want to find food and drink, I don't care I will come to this large courtyard. There is no water, so there is no need to spread it." Shou Feng said: "That's good, there is no need to spread it." The girl held a teapot and was in a dilemma.After all, she felt that when someone came, there was no cup of tea, which was too outrageous.I still went to the small teahouse to make a pot of water.After searching for a while, I found a teacup and a small rice bowl, poured tea and put it on the table, then gently said to my family tree: "Please drink tea!" I went into the west room.Shoufeng laughed and said, "You don't need to drink this tea. Not only do we have no running water here, we don't even have sweet well water. This is the water from the bitter well, which has a slightly salty taste." The girl replied in the room: " No, this is brewed in the teahouse at the entrance of the alley, it’s tap water.” Shoufeng laughed and said, “Tap water won’t work either. Our tea is too bad!” When he said that, Jiashu had already taken a sip from the teacup , smiled and said: "People can talk wherever they want. When they drink salt water, they naturally drink salt water; when they drink sweet water, it's good to practice salt water. It's just that Uncle Guan didn't meet the opportunity. If you were born fifty years earlier, with such great abilities, not to mention being an official, even if you go to the escort agency, you can still take care of your food and clothing. Like us young people, who have no ability at all, relying on the few money left by their ancestors, they just wear clothes and eat well. Alright, no uncle can rely on his ability to drink a bowl of salt water with peace of mind." Speaking of this, he only heard the sound of the button, and Shoufeng stretched out his big palm, and just slapped it on the table, shaking the tea bowls on the table fall down.He raised his head and smiled and said, "I'm going to die. My little brother! I have never met anyone who said that I spoke so pertinently. Aunt Xiu! You bring me my money pocket, I want to invite this Mr. Fan to drink Two cups, making such a good friend." The girl agreed in the room, then took out a small blue cloth bag, and said with a smile: "Don't ask Mr. Fan to go to the Shandong Second Meat Shop, I will pick it up today. You also took the one dollar you came to work with." Shoufeng smiled and said, "Mr. Fan, even my daughter is willing to invite you, so please don't be polite." Jiashu said with a smile: "Okay, I'll just bother It's gone." Guan Shoufeng put the money pocket on his body, and led the family tree out.Walking to the entrance of the alley, there is a small shop with a narrow facade. The entrance is a coal stove. There is a big pot on the coal stove, which is steaming. Looking inside, it looks like a dark alley.Shoufeng pointed in and said, "This is an Erhu shop run by Shandong people. It only sells some noodles and steamed buns. My daughter is afraid that I will invite you here." Jiashu nodded and smiled.On the street, Shoufeng found a small Sichuan restaurant, and the two went in together.After taking his seat, Shoufeng said first, "Let me have a catty of flower carvings first." Then he said to Jiashu: "I don't understand southern dishes, please ask for it. If you can't eat too much, you don't need it, but if you don't have enough, you are being polite. It's not fun, and it's not interesting." Because of this man's bold temper, Jiashu really did as he said.After a while, the food and drink came out, and there was a wine glass in front of everyone. Shou Feng said: "Mr. Fan! Can you drink it? If you know it, three cups are toasted to you. If you don't know how to drink, I'd like to offer you a glass. But tell the truth." Jiashu said: "Three cups can be accompanied." Shoufeng said: "Okay! Everyone drink as much as you can, I want to be polite, you are an old bastard." Jiashu smiled and drank three cups with him first.The old man drank a few glasses of wine, and when he was happy, he talked about everything.He said that when he was a young man, he had been a hawker in the green forest outside the mouth for more than ten years. Because he was chased by officers and soldiers, his wife and two sons were killed.I only brought my daughter, Xiugu, who fled to Beijing and quit.When I was in the green forest, I never killed a single person, and my family was ruined. I can't do murder, so I changed to a surgeon in Beijing, doing things to save people, to make up for my fault.Xiu Gu came to Beijing when she was two years old, she is now twenty-one years old, and she has washed her hands for twenty years.Fortunately, when they were drinking, it was not when they were seated, and there was no one upstairs, so Shoufeng had a good talk, and when the conversation was over, his face looked like a god at home.Jiashu said: "Uncle Guan! Didn't you say that you can't stop until you're drunk? I'm going to be drunk, how are you?" Shoufeng stood up suddenly, swayed twice, put his hands on the table and laughed: "It's three catties, it's time to drink." Drunk. Drinking should only be enough. If you drink alcohol and vomit, it is a crime. What do you mean? Let’s go back and drink next time if we have money.” I took out the money in my pocket, and there were ten more Beijing coins (note: one hundred copper dollars), all of which were poured on the table, and I counted them as tips for the clerk.Jiashu accompanied him downstairs and wanted to hire a car for him on the street.Shoufeng raised his arms and said with a smile: "Little brother! You think I'm drunk? Just kidding." He walked away with his head held high.From this day on, Jiashu had frequent contacts with him, invited him to drink a few times, and bought some cloth for Xiugu to make clothes.It's just one floor, the family tree often visits Shoufeng, but Shoufeng doesn't visit him.During the three days, Jiashu never met him, and when he visited him again, the father and daughter had already moved away.I asked the neighbors in the yard, and they all said they didn't know.His girl said that she was going back to Shandong.Jia Shu originally thought that this old man was a rare figure in the world, but now he disappeared suddenly, especially strange, and he was reluctant to part with him.

One day, the weather was fine and there was no wind and sand, so I went to the old teahouse in Tianqiao to find the trace of Guan Shoufeng.According to the story in the teahouse: One day I sat here for a while, and I just sighed, and then I didn’t see him again.When Jiashu heard about it, he was even more surprised.Walk out of the teahouse slowly, and walk along the juggling field at the entrance of the small teahouse.Going south from here is the outer altar of Xiannongtan.In the weather in April, the reeds in the altar are about a foot high, and they are green and green, reaching the city wall in the distance.Inside the green reed, there are a few large yellow boundary lines drawn on the road surface, which are going from outside the altar.There are two main roads in the altar. On the other side of the road, there are some ancient cypresses on the three sides and four on the right. In the middle of the ancient cypresses, there is a bell tower extending into the air.Under the bell tower, there is an open space, fragmented, and some people made a few piles and reunited there.As soon as the family tree saw it, he walked over slowly.When I went there to watch, it was also a bit of juggling.On the pedestal of the south bell tower sat a man in his forties, holding a handful of shamisen and playing there.He has a small yellow face with a short beard, thick eyebrows and deep eye sockets. He looks very dirty. The black cloth jacket he wears shows strips of scorched yellow. color.Because of this, even though he held the sanxian, no one went to listen to it.Jiashu saw that he was in a hurry, the left hand that was pressing the strings was up and down, busy, but the tune was very pleasant to the ears.I thought I played it so well and no one paid attention to it, so I felt wronged for him, so I couldn't help but go forward to see how he was doing. The man played for a while, but no one came forward, so he put down the three strings, sighed and said: " This year..." Before he could finish the sentence, Jiashu felt sorry for him, and gave him a handful of copper coins on his body, and said with a smile, "I'll open it for you." The man took the money and let out a wry smile. The tree said: "Sir! You are really a good person. To tell you the truth, it's not like this every day. I have a niece who hasn't come today..." At this point, he stretched out his right palm, raised his eyebrows, and looked far away. He looked at him and said, "Here we come, come here! Don't go, sir, you can listen to her singing, you can't go wrong." While speaking, a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl came, her face was slightly sharp, but she was white. She was red and delicate, with hair combed, her eyebrows long, and her white skin was exposed through the sparse hairnet.The old blue bamboo cloth gown on his body is clean and tidy; he holds a small drum and a bamboo drum stand in his hand.She approached and said to the man: "Second Uncle! Has it opened yet?" The man pointed his mouth at the family tree and said, "It's not that this gentleman gave me two pennies, even if I didn't get a penny." The girl said to Jiashu nodded with a smile. She set up the drum stand and put the drum on it, but kept looking at Jiashu all over her body.Looking at her face, she couldn't help but be amazed, thinking why there are such people coming to patronize such a place.The Sanxian player took out two drum sticks and a pair of clappers from a blue cloth bag beside him, and handed them to the girl. The girl took the drum sticks, and before they played a drum, there were already seven or eight people surrounding them. watch.The family tree wanted to see how the girl sang.Just stood there without moving.After a while, the girl played the drum board and played the sanxian for a cross, then the player who played the sanxian stood up and said with a smile: "My girl, I am just learning a few sets of books, so I can't sing well, everyone. Forgive me a little. We are trying to make ends meet, everyone please sit on the steps on the grass. Now let her sing a piece of Daiyu’s sorrowful autumn. That's right." After speaking, he sat on the stone steps and played the sanxian again.The girl beat the drums repeatedly, and her eyes slipped on the family tree a few times before she knew it.When Jiashu saw her, he guessed that she was a smart girl.Although she is very plain, she has a charming attitude that can attract people. Now she can't help sneaking her eyes, it seems that she also knows what he means to pity her, and she is even more unwilling to leave.There are one or twenty listeners around.Sure enough, they sat down on the grass and on the steps.After all, Family Tree was too embarrassed to sit down. Seeing an ancient cypress with a crooked trunk beside him, he put one foot on it, supported his head with his hands, and watched the girl sing.The man who played the three-stringed zither first got two shillings from the family tree, and now he sang with the girl, working even harder.The sanxianzi played each word very sadly. The girl lowered her gaze and sang down slowly. Two lines were: "In the clear and cold Xiaoxiang courtyard, the westerly wind blows the green The screen window; the lonely Miss Lin thought to herself under the window: Who knows the heart of the daughter's family at this time?" She sang the last line, dragging out a long ending, but her eyes were on the deep eyelashes. Turn towards the family tree.Jia Shu hadn't expected what this girl meant to him before, but now judging from what she sang, it seemed as if she was talking to him, so he couldn't help being moved.This kind of big drum lyrics was originally popular, but since the girl sang melodiously and added the sanxian, the tone was so sad that the people listening all lowered their heads and listened silently.After singing, a few people stood up and splashed the dirt on their bodies, chatted up and walked away.The sanxian player put down his instrument, took out a small wicker tray on the steps, and asked everyone for money.Some are for one elder son, and some are for two sons. After collection, there are only more than ten sons.Because the family tree stood a little further away, he gave him two more coins just now, and he was embarrassed to come over to ask for more, but now he shook the wicker plate and felt that the money was too little, so he smiled at him from a distance, and then walked up to him.Jiashu knew that he was here to ask for money, so he reached out and took it out on him.Unexpectedly, all the change on my body has been spent, only a few foreign dollars, and since people come to ask for money, I feel embarrassed if I don't give it.He took a piece of cash without hesitation, and threw it into the wicker plate. The silver dollar fell on the copper plate, and there was a clang.The man who played the sanxian was overjoyed to see Jiashu's generosity, forgot all about it, handed the wicker tray to his left hand, squatted down, and with his right hand hanging down, he greeted Jiashu.The girl also showed a very surprised look, holding the drum stand with her hands, and only looked at the family tree intently.It was not a show of favor for the family tree to give this one dollar. Now that the girl looks at her like this, she must have misunderstood, so I am embarrassed to look at it again.The man who played the three-stringed zither put a piece of stubble on his beard and almost stood up with a smile, and just thanked the family tree.He took the money and went, but the girl took a step forward, looked sideways at the family tree, and said a few words to the three-string player in a low voice.He nodded his head several times, but asked Jiashu: "What's your surname?" Jiashu said: "My surname is Fan." Sorry, and the people who listened to the book haven't dispersed yet, and I lost a dollar, which is enough to attract people's attention, and it's even worse to talk to them.After saying this, he walked away.From the bell tower to the gate of the outer altar, it was about a mile away, so I walked slowly.When approaching the gate of the outer altar, someone suddenly shouted from behind: "Mr. Fan!" Jiashu looked back, but it was a fat middle-aged woman who caught up with her, raised one arm, and looked away from the distance. Shadow waved.The family tree didn't know her, so why did she know her surname was Fan?Feeling very strange, I stopped to see what she had to say.If you want to know who she is, tell me next time.