Chapter 14 third quarter

Standing high on the pinnacle of Tokyo society are those imperial relatives, rich and powerful, great nobles, and big bureaucrats who have been fattened by the common people and have suffered from severe obesity.Due to their different status, it is rare for them to go to temple fairs and watch dramas.They have other places and ways of seeking pleasure.Cai Jing, the grand master of the dynasty, proudly said one day: "The old man is honored as an official, poetic and wine-like, and has thirty-three caves of heaven and wonders. How can he be mixed with the world and show up in the world?" .

In the Xuanhe period, it was especially advertised as "Happy with the People". During the Lantern Festival, on the big archway outside the Xuande Gate facing Da Nei, there is a gold medal with the six characters "Xuanhe and the People".During the few days of the carnival, there was indeed such an atmosphere. The common people could even faintly hear the laughter and cards of the concubines leaking out through the heavy bead curtains from the Xuande Tower. The sound of chattering.However, both sides understand that the temporary promotion of ordinary people to "imperial" audiences, allowing them to have fun with officials and even the royal family, is only limited to specific times and specific occasions.That is, the imperial court needs the people appointed by the imperial court to prove that its achievements in rule are indeed as good as it appears on the paper, and to dress up a colorful world of singing and dancing.

But a signboard is still a signboard, and does not represent the substance. Even if it is filled with gold letters, it will not fill the insurmountable gap between officials and ordinary people.What Cai Jing said is the truth. The places where officials are willing to go and often go, the so-called Thirty-Three Caves, are places that ordinary people cannot enter.Immortals are different, the social ladder has set up many obstacles for them, and at the same time, they can't take out the waist card that can go anywhere without hindrance - silver ingots.Before the passport was invented, it was this waist card that replaced it to perform its duties.For example, to appreciate the Lantern Festival, ordinary people had to crowd around the Yu Street and Zhouqiao Street outside Xuandemen.Such a squeezing method is said to be unseemly.According to incomplete statistics, during the ten nights from the ninth to the eighteenth day of the lunar new year, as many as 5000 to 6000 shoes were trampled off every night. , In addition, he lost his headdress and loosened his turban, and Ketou was spinning in the street with his feet. What kind of official does this look like?They enjoy the privilege of appreciating lanterns, and they can set up a temporary tent on a designated lot according to their grades to come and enjoy the lanterns.Some officials still find it uncomfortable to watch, and would rather transfer this privilege to their colleagues, and book a pavilion facing the street in the Fengle Building at the corner of the Dahuo Store on Mahang Street, sit down and watch the lanterns firmly, and take care of themselves. Drinking and listening to music, are they afraid that they won't be able to show their badges?

Fenglelou, formerly known as "Fanlou", is a well-known high-end restaurant all over the country, and it is truly "the first building in the world".It originally consisted of five two-story buildings with the same format, independent of each other, and only accessible through the ground floor.Last autumn and winter, it was greatly renovated. Not only was the paint reapplied, but the shopping mall was completely new, and all three floors were renovated.Flying bridges and exposed ladders have been added between each floor, which can not only walk through each other, but also lean on the railing to overlook.Except that the ground floor is all used for scattered seats, there are dozens of large and small pavilions on the second and third floors of each building, all of which are open.The forehead is embroidered with bead curtains, green and red are dancing, and the decoration is very magnificent.

Every Lantern Festival, high-profile officials have already booked the pavilion, and when the deadline comes, they will bring their family members, singing girls, or invite a few colleagues and friends to come here to have a drink.This is worthy of being the Dragon Gate of the Lantern Festival.They are condescending, and at a glance, they can all clearly see dozens of Aoshan lighthouses built outside Xuandemen and on important streets.Huge dragons and phoenixes are pierced on the Aoshan Lantern Tower, and lamps of various sizes are embedded between their mouths, eyes, ears, noses, scales, and wings.They flutter their wings and raise their heads to the sky, as if they all have the potential to soar.There are all kinds of lanterns hanging around them: there are groups of Taiping lanterns all over the world, universal celebration lanterns, and individual lanterns with the characters of "Fu", "Shou" and "Xi". There are lanterns, Changfangsheng lanterns, plum blossom lanterns, crabapple lanterns, peacock lanterns and lion lanterns that are complicated to make, and watermelon lanterns and gourd lanterns that are simple but lifelike.To put it a bit exaggerated, all the tangible and visible things in the sky and the world have been reproduced in the lanterns.Some of these lamps are as large as several feet, some are small enough to be pocket-sized, and some require many people to act together to wave them.Once they are lit, a bright world emerges in an instant, illuminating the thousands of households and the ingeniously crafted Aoshan Lantern House in the cave, and you can see everything at a glance.

At this time, priceless glazed lanterns, lotus root silk lanterns and brocade boneless lanterns were also lit on the upstairs of the Xuande Gate in Da Nei, which was far away.These kinds of specially made high-end lamps were made by the Sansichang Palace in Liangzhe, Fujian and other roads, and sent people to pay tribute to the imperial court for the imperial court to "have fun with the people".Among them, one kind of glazed lamp is said to be made by pounding agate and amethyst into powder, boiling it into a paste, adding spices, and kneading repeatedly.The three-month land tax income of a state in Nanjianzhou, Fujian is just enough to make and pay tribute to this pair of glazed lanterns.They are ignited and hung on the highest point of Qionglou Yuyu, crystal clear and transparent, like two artificial bright moons rising in the sky.

Tassel pendants made of gold, silver, pearls and jade are also hung on the four corners of Xuande Tower. When the breeze passes, knocking on the gold and jade, it seems that a fairy music floats from the palace of Ruizhu in the sky. At this time, the officials sitting on the Fengle Building looked up at the three bright moons in the blue sky competing for brilliance in the ten thousand hectares of Qiongtian, and looked down at a piece of melting lights covering the entire Tokyo city with a layer of silver and golden brilliance. Seeing the peaceful scene of the gangsters coming and going downstairs, I really feel ecstatic.

The immortals in the Ruizhu Palace may not necessarily meet by fate, but the immortals in the world can meet at any time, but the immortals also need that waist card.At that time, in addition to several high-end restaurants such as Fengle Building and Changqing Building, the officials liked to wander around Dongjier Lane and Xijier Lane on weekdays to go to "Huixian" (Tokyo people deliberately call them "sisters"). Alley), it is really a place where immortals gather and the eyes are full of pink and dai.The famous singing girls Cui Nianyue and Zhao Yuannu both lived in Dongjieer Lane.The two of them live next to each other, but they set up their own families. They hear the sound of chickens and dogs, and they never communicate with each other.The meeting between the two of them is limited to the third party's social occasions.The strange thing is that when they met, they were a pair of close sisters, who greeted each other with care and whispered softly.But this does not prevent the two of them from competing against Douyan, making their peers jealous.Behind their backs, they always inquired about another recently added headgear, clothing, furnishings, and what new tricks have been discovered in terms of singing, string music, food, wine and delicacies?When the opponent surpasses himself, he must do everything possible to learn, imitate, and compete until he surpasses the opponent.The same fate and the same life experience made them love each other, and the same occupation and equal status made them jealous and compete with each other. This is really a strange pair of sisters.

Needless to say, both of them are very attractive to the powerful, civil and military officials of the dynasty.Their two black-painted gates are made of magnets, and once the iron boots of the rich and powerful pass through here, they have to be sucked in. Gao Qiu, who has become the object of hatred of the people of Tokyo, is a frequent visitor here.Gao Qiu was born in a shabby household in Tokyo, and spent many years in the neighborhood. Later, he became a servant of Wang Jinqing's son-in-law.All his life, Gao Qiu had an indissoluble bond with East and West Sister Lane.The only difference is that in the first half of his life he was fooling around here, working as a errand for bawds and prostitutes (this was an inevitable product of the society at that time, there were hundreds or even thousands of gangsters like him in the neighborhood of Tokyo), and in the second half of his life he was Became a high-ranking official, but became a wealthy guest here (this was a special product of the society at that time, and it took countless accidental factors to make up for a gangster in the neighborhood to climb to such a high position as the Taiwei).He often stepped into Cui Nianyue's door with his right foot as soon as he stepped out of Zhao Yuannu's door with his left foot, to balance the balance of power between the two.

Officials go to the geisha houses and pavilions with good friends to have fun, drink and buy laughs, or invite geisha outside to serve cups, dance and drink, which not only does not need to hide, but becomes a pursuit , Mutual boastful love affairs.Those fledgling officials who not only want to go to the hotel to have fun, but also are afraid of being criticized by others, who cover up and hide their heads and show their tails, are utter fools! Since Zhenghe, Chonghe, and Xuanhe, the word "rhyme" has suddenly become popular in Tokyo society.Beautiful women are called "Yunzhi", novel clothes are called "Yunhua", beautiful fruits are called "Yunmei". It cannot be described.It rhymes with heaven and earth, rhymes with people and things, and all of them rhyme.This emerging "Yun" word is popular all over the city, and it seems to have the potential to replace the word "Youba" passed down from generation to generation.Even Dazai Wang Fufengchi wrote the article "The Tomb of the Noble Concubine of the Ming Festival" also used the phrase "the six palaces call it rhyme".Back then, Cai Jing was summoned, took a glass of wine from the emperor, and wrote flatteredly in his imperial poem: "Meet Concubine An in Yuzhenxuan." Now this epitaph is not written by imperial edict Cai Jing, And letting Wang Fu lead the manuscript naturally aroused his resentment.One of his people seized this opportunity and lashed out at Wang Fu for writing this commonplace word into the inscription on the stele to desecrate the imperial palace.In fact, Cai Jing's faction also used this word themselves.Factional attacks are self-excluded, as long as you catch the other party's braids, even if you have the same braids on your own head.Unexpectedly, the official himself also liked this common word in the market. Wang Fu’s sentence may have been inspired or modified by the official. He justified it by citing classics, and ordered the attacker to answer: "What is the vulgarity?"

When this rhyme became popular all over the city, all kinds of people had various understandings of it.Some people simply think that it is "rhyme" as long as they wear strange clothes and show off in the market. It's too presumptuous, rhyme means high-class and elegant, and you can talk about the word "rhyme" only if you have high-end taste. Going to the Gesi Hotel is certainly romantic and has become a fashion, but it should be more elegant. It is best to hold a high-level banquet in your own mansion and invite some noble families and scholars of letters. Naturally, there will inevitably be some clear guests and helpers to accompany you, talk about ancient and modern poems, recite poems and compose Fu impromptu, and fill in the two sentences as you please. The first little word, this is the real love affair.Of course, the banquet can’t be so elegant and boring. There is a procedure for everything. climax. The demeanor and dress of the house prostitutes, in accordance with the standards of high-ranking nobles, can also be called very "charm". They wore the most popular topknot at that time, a Hehuan jacket woven into the pattern of the word "heart", a pleated Lingbo skirt, and a pair of high-top crested shoes interlaced with red and white two-color grosgrain. .This kind of two-color limelight shoes was called "wrong to the end" at the time, and if you can't name it, you can't even be a person who is familiar with the Tokyo market.People in Tokyo are good enough, and if you make a mistake, you will be wrong to the end. This is the spirit of the times at that time. The house prostitutes walked gracefully to the front of the banquet, persuaded the guests to drink the cups in front of the door with a charming smile, poured a round of hot wine for them, then tapped on the sandalwood board, slowly opened their red lips, and used a sluggish, Sometimes it’s an extremely slow extended tone singing Zhou Xueshi’s "Unforgettable": Domestic prostitutes especially like to sing this song, because it is a portrayal of their life, expressing their pain, thoughts, life and ideals.When they sang overtime, they dazzled their starry eyes affectionately, hoping to find a real "Zhou Lang Zhiqu" among many guests.If they really met him, they would really like to tell him their heartfelt songs.Don't look at them now covered in silk, who knows that they were forced to sell here under the heavy whipping of taxes and debts, forced to smile in front of the host and guests, but behind their backs were tears of misery ?But how can they be their own masters!Slowly said that such a Zhou Lang could not be found, even if he found it, he disappeared like smoke just as soon as there was a seedling in his heart.She inquired about him through various lower-level organizations, and unknowingly lost weight because of him, but she was still worried that Zhou Lang, the object of fantasy, was as passionate as she was, and lost weight in order to find her. The house prostitutes are Huang Yinger in the master's cage who know how to be elegant. They exist only to let the master and his guests have a taste of elegance together.They only have one cubic foot of air to breathe, and they are really suffocating. They wish to fly out of the cage, but they don't think that even if they fly out of this cage, they will still be locked in another cage.Their fate has long been forged. The guests also like this piece of music, because they may wish to make a cameo appearance of Zhou Lang, who knows the song occasionally.They still have a surplus of birdcages in their own home!It doesn't cost a lot of money to act on the occasion, say a few words that you know "heart", and fill in a new lyrics. Just steal a girl's heart, why not do it?They use cheap sympathy to deceive the love that the courtesans fantasize about, and they just meet each other's needs and meet their own needs. But their sympathy is cheap after all, and their love only exists in fantasy.Only the cruel real life shatters their fantasies little by little, and wears away their youth inch by inch, making them gradually untenable on the singing and dancing red poles, and finally become a filth of clothes. The love affair really came to an end when he saw the greasy, wrinkled old woman.In the wrinkles on the faces of these old women, it is deeply engraved that they were exploited and ravaged.The life that was finally thrown into the dustbin like a broken drum, through which to see the opposite, does not also reflect the empty, boring, corrupt and sinful life of the upper class characters! The dignitaries and dignitaries in Tokyo (including, of course, the dignitaries and dignitaries from the outer roads) are always empty and soft in their hearts.The background of all their lives is some mirage and stage set.Their two legs stood in a pile of light clouds.Both their selves and their footing are empty and weightless.Without these luxurious food and living, without these frivolous singing and string music, without fighting for power and interests, fighting each other, flirting, cheating and buying and selling relationships between men and women to fill the gap in their hearts, they will appear even more. Nothing left. They chase after this kind of life day and night, and they use a visible and invisible knife to scrape off the flesh and fat necessary to maintain this kind of life on the common people, trying to enrich themselves, but the gap in their hearts is getting bigger and bigger. enlarged.For this reason they are all the more frenzied in their pursuit of pleasure, in order to prove their superiority, at least in riches and splendor, if they had nothing else to boast of.