When the sword comes out of Emei, I will be the front

Chapter 77 Mr. Xiang has white hair and is full of pride
  Jin Mingjun and Sanhua looked at each other for a moment, then shook their heads and said, "This cat is so ugly."

The cat rolled its eyes, unable to move them up, and looked at Jin Mingjun with its two thin white eyes.

Jin Mingjun was so angry that he secretly itched his hands and said angrily: "Hey! You spent fifty taels of silver to buy snake gall just to feed it? This ugly cat can buy several litters for five taels of silver."

The man hugged Sanhua tightly and argued: "Although it is not a human being, it is my only confidant in this world. If nothing else, the reason why I was bitten by the snake this time was to save me. I was with the girl just now I said I am willing to pay fifty taels of silver because I only have fifty taels of silver, otherwise it would be five hundred taels or five thousand taels. As long as I can save its life, I am willing to do so."

Mo Qi listened and praised: "Did he get bitten by a snake to save you? In this way, he is a righteous beast. Even if it were me, I would have to spend all my money to save him."

The man nodded and said: "The gold and white jade buy songs and laugh, and when you are drunk, you will light up the prince. The wise and powerful people in the world, Qingyun guest, will never go against the king's heart!"

Mo Qi's cultural foundation is not as good as Yin Liu's. He listened half-informed and said doubtfully: "Is this... a good thing?"

Ye Guhong smiled and said: "This brother is reading a poem by Li Taibai, which means that money is nothing, power is nothing, listening to music and drinking is the right thing to do. Although there are many good men in the world, I think you are the most pleasing to me!" "

Mo Qi was overjoyed and said with a smile on his face: "I think this brother is also very pleasing to the eye. How interesting is it to see a cat in his arms? I would never have imagined that he would play with a monkey in his arms. For this reason, I Then he is far inferior to him. Brother, I am in Wudang Mo Qi Mo Sheng Gu, and I would like to ask you about Gao's name!"

The man was surprised and said: "It's Wudang Mo Qixia in front of you? Oops, I'm disrespectful. My surname is Tang, and my last name is Gong. I am originally from Shanyin in Kuaiji. Because I offended the Yuan Dynasty, I could not leave my hometown and fled to the world. Go up. But I don’t know what to call these friends?”

When Yin Liu and others heard that he had "offended Yuan Ting", they did not dare to look down upon him, so they all knew him by name.

When Tang Gong saw that they were all decent disciples, he was filled with admiration. He quickly put the fat cat back into his arms and said with cupped hands: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I didn't expect that I was so lucky today to get to know all the famous heroes from Wudang and Emei. I also thanked you all for helping me save my life." Ah Hua! This is just an invitation rather than a chance encounter. Tang wants to sit down for a while and have a drink and talk with you. I wonder if he will be blessed with this?"

Jin Mingjun stared at him and said, "Hey, didn't you just say that you only have fifty taels of silver?"

Tang Gong was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said: "Yes, not much, not much."

Jin Mingjun chuckled and said: "Aren't you using these fifty taels to buy snake gall with me? Now that the snake gall is given to you, the silver will be given to me. Since the silver is given to me, what are you using to treat us to a drink?"

Ye Guhong couldn't laugh or cry after hearing this. He was about to speak when he heard Tang Gong burst into laughter and said confidently: "What's the point of just drinking money?"

As he spoke, he reached into his sleeve and took out a roll of paper. He took out a piece of paper and unfolded it. It was two feet wide and four feet long. It was a standard four-foot piece of paper.

He said to Mo Qi: "Mo Qixia is tall and tall. Please help me get this piece of paper."

Mo Qi didn't know why. He held the top of the paper with both hands and raised it. The paper hung straight down like a waterfall.

Tang Gong took out a few half-bald brushes and a few pieces of dry paint from his sleeves. He used the remaining shochu Hu Daniu had just used to dissolve the paint. He held the pieces in his left hand and held the pen in his right hand. , dipped in paint, looked at the paper and started painting.

I saw a brush in his right hand, each with a different color on his left hand, and quickly moved it between his five fingers, drawing a stroke here and a stroke there. After a while, under a clump of blooming peonies, a plump three-flowered flower appeared. Sit down, raise your palms, squint your eyes, stick out your tongue and wash your face, you are so alive, full of form and spirit!

After Tang Gong finished painting, he took out a pen, moistened his tongue, and wrote a poem with his hand next to it. What he wrote was——

"The raccoons are so affectionate, and the cicadas hug their lips. The peony frame warms the spring day, and the fragrance of mint intoxicates Xiaoqing. I wash my face frequently with my palms apart, and attract the children to call themselves by name under the window. The stream fish does not hesitate to buy it from morning to night, and wins It’s a peaceful night in the study.”

Yin Liu read it and praised it repeatedly: "Good poem, good calligraphy! The writing is really good!"

After Tang Gong finished writing, he wrote his name, surname and date, put away his pen, washed his hands with the remaining wine, took the painting back and said with a smile, "Look at Tang going to get wine and food!"

As he spoke with confidence on his face, he entered the hotel proudly and called out: "Second brother, please come over to your boss. I have a business to discuss with him."

Seeing his expression, Xiao'er didn't dare to look down on him and quickly asked his boss to come forward.

Tang Gong showed the painting to him and said with a smile: "My boss, I want to entertain friends, but unfortunately I am short of money. I want to use this painting of civet cats and peonies to exchange for a banquet for you. Is it possible?"

The owner took a closer look, shook his head repeatedly, and sneered: "Not to mention that the cat you drew is so fat that even the mice will be hard to catch. You just said, 'Cats come to poverty, dogs come to riches.' Do you know? I am open for business here. What I want is for guests to come from all over the world and wealth to Sanjiang to buy your cat paintings. Do you think your business is too good? Go, go, don’t change, don’t change.”

After saying that, he stretched out his hand and pushed Tang Gong out.

Everyone was dumbfounded when they saw him entering in a confident manner and then stumbling out in a panic.

Tang Gong blushed, coughed, and pretended to be meaningless: "That's it, this store doesn't know the goods, let's find another one..."

Ye Guhong laughed, stretched out his hand to take the painting, and said with a smile: "Brother Tang, you are ridiculous. These businessmen only know how to make profits, how many elegant bones can they have in their body? Your poems and paintings are extremely elegant. As the saying goes, The goods are sold to a knowledgeable person, so they should be sold to an elegant person like my younger brother. I think your painting is excellent, worth at least fifty taels of silver, Senior Sister Jin..."

Jin Mingjun glared at his junior brother in a rare moment and said: "Junior brother, he didn't give me the fifty taels he bought for snake gallbladder, so why should we give another fifty taels away? They say that master doesn't know how to settle accounts. Junior brother, you are really master's disciple!" "

As he was talking, something suddenly occurred to him. He looked around and stamped his feet: "Oh, that hunter is selling snakes for five taels. You want ten taels to buy them. We agreed to let him take us to the place where we caught the snakes. We just followed this guy to save them." That fat cat and those two hunters took the opportunity to escape." Tang Gong said quickly: "It's okay if they escape. Tang knows where this kind of snake is found. Let's eat and drink and lead you there."

After saying that, he took out a large fifty tael of silver from his arms, waved it in front of Jin Mingjun, took it back, and said with a smile: "Okay, now that the money and goods are gone, let's go have a drink and eat and drink up this ingot of silver." Let’s give it up.”

Jin Mingjun said unexpectedly: "Hey, you are a poor and generous person. No wonder my junior brother is attracted to you."

Su Qingmeng, who was next to her, pulled her and whispered: "Junior sister, don't be so arrogant. This Mr. Tang is a real elegance. You talk about money and don't talk about money, but you have insulted his elegance."

Jin Mingjun had no one to fear except his master and younger brother, so he immediately joked: "Oh, if someone writes your name on your clothes, it is elegant. If it is tattooed on the flesh, wouldn't it mean that Li Taibai was reborn and Su Dongpo was reincarnated?"

Su Qingmeng's face turned red and she was about to reprimand when she heard Tang Gong say: "Hey, how did you know that I stabbed my flesh?"

As he spoke, he pulled up his sleeves, revealing a thin but strong forearm. Sure enough, there were two rows of tattoos on it, exactly the same sentence: When you are drunk, you don’t know that the sky is on the water, and the boat is full of clear dreams overwhelming the stars!
  Su Qingmeng groaned, her cheeks burning like fire.

Just listen to Tang Gong say: "This poem was written when I was very drunk on Dongting Lake when I was passing through Longyang County last year."

As he spoke, Man Sheng chanted: "The west wind blows the old Dongting waves, and Mr. Xiang's hair turns white all night long. When he is drunk, he doesn't know that the sky is in the water, and the boat is full of clear dreams that overwhelm the stars."

Then he laughed and said: "Especially the last two sentences, they are actually Tang's proud work. Tang was shameless and claimed to be comparable to the ancients, haha, so he stabbed his arm on a whim when he was drunk."

As she spoke, her eyes turned around, and she suddenly noticed that Su Qingmeng's pretty face was almost red. There were tears in her eyes. She suddenly realized that she clasped her fists and said, "But I have offended Su Nuxia unintentionally." Name taboo, disrespectful, disrespectful."

Su Qingmeng had just heard him read "The King of Xiang has many gray hairs overnight", and suddenly he remembered that since he came to Emei, he had devoted himself to learning arts, and unknowingly, he counted on his fingers and found that he was already twenty-seven years old.

In the past, when I thought about missing the age of marriage, I didn't think anything of it. I just thought that in a few years, I would be ordained and become a nun at worst. But today, I suddenly felt sad. I couldn't explain why I was feeling uncomfortable. I was just filled with discomfort. For a moment, I felt sad. It's crazy.

It wasn't until Tang Gong apologized to her that he realized that he had lost his composure. He quickly wiped away his tears and said with a smile: "Mr. Tang's poem is so good. The west wind blows the waves in the old Dongting, which makes my little girl feel a lot of emotions. That's all. Let's go and drink."

At that moment, everyone found a tavern. Tang Gong simply threw the big silver coin on the counter and ordered: "The oldest wine, the best dishes, the freshest fruits, the rarest preserves, just bring them up." !”

This kind of arrogance made everyone feel good about him.

As soon as they were seated, the shopkeeper presented them with various fresh and dried fruits, tea, honey and drinks. While Mo Qi was eating and drinking, he asked Tang Gong how he had offended Yuan Ting in the first place.

After hearing this, Tang Gong's eyes turned red and he sighed: "I am still indignant after hearing this! Near Tang's hometown, there are the tombs of the emperors and concubines of the Song Dynasty after the Song Dynasty's southern migration. A few years ago, the Yuan Dynasty sent a group of demon monks , explored the location of the mausoleum and stole all the treasures inside. The corpses of the emperor and empress were opened to grab jade, and their abdomens were disemboweled to retrieve pearls. The bones were randomly discarded in the wilderness."

"My father was filled with grief and indignation when he heard about it, so he gathered local heroes, broke into the mausoleum at night, took back many bones, and buried them elsewhere."

"Originally, the matter was settled here, but unexpectedly, a group of demon monks came back to collect the bones of the emperor and empress, and built a white tower in the Lin'an Forbidden City to suppress them. When they saw that there were no bones left, they were furious. They found out about my family and asked us to explain. At the place of reburial, my father was fierce and led me to fight to the death with all the demonic monks. I hate those demonic monks. I don’t know where they invited a few powerful masters to fight. My father and all the lofty ideals were all killed in the battle."

At this point, Tang Gong burst into tears. He took out the fat cat from his arms, held it and stroked it slowly, and said sadly: "Tang was very lucky. He was struck by his opponent's sword and fell into the moat. Fortunately, he was washed to the shore by the waves, but... My Ahhua came here following the smell, licked me awake with her tongue, and went to someone else's house to steal dried fish for me to eat. Then she managed to survive. She didn't dare to stay in her hometown for a long time, so she wandered in the rivers and lakes, and has been wandering to this day..."

After saying this, everyone showed admiration. Yin Liu clasped his fists and said, "Unexpectedly, this is the reason. Brother Tang, Zun Weng, and even many other heroes are all righteous men! I wish I had not known it earlier, otherwise we and Wudang Disciple, I will definitely go and help you with the boxing."

Mo Qize murmured: "I think Brother Tang is thin and thin. He is just a scholar, but he is also a practitioner. No wonder you walk very nimble."

Yin Liu suddenly slapped his legs and shouted: Ah! I went to the south for a few years to do business, and I heard someone mention a name called "Six Chi Swordsman" Tang Liu Chi. Could it be Brother Tang? "

Tang Gong looked surprised, nodded and said: "I didn't expect that this little reputation would reach the ears of Wudang Yin Six Heroes."

Jin Mingjun asked curiously: "Why are you called Six Idiots?"

Tang Gong smiled slightly and said: "In his whole life, Tang only loved raising orchids and cats, painting and writing, practicing swordsmanship and drinking wine. People say that I am an orchid madman, a cat madman, a painting madman, a book madman, a sword madman, and a wine madman."

Ye Guhong said with a smile: "No wonder he can write such wonderful sentences as 'When you are drunk, you don't know that the sky is like water'."

Su Qingmeng was originally listening with rapt attention, but when she thought of the last sentence, her face suddenly turned red again.

　It was a righteous act of Tang Gong's father, Tang Yu, Lin Jingxi and others decades ago to collect the bones and bury them in the Imperial Mausoleum of the Southern Song Dynasty.

　　Due to the needs of the plot, the time point was changed, and even Tang Gong was involved. The novelist said that there is no need to go into details.

　　
  　
  (End of this chapter)