Zhang Shangying, Zhang Shuye and Wu Haogu's team of ambassadors finally settled in the inn next to the Qingzhou Prefecture Office. Although Qingzhou City was just a small city, it became a must-pass place for the envoys of Song and Liao Dynasty after the Yellow River diverted north. Therefore, two magnificent and magnificent inns could only be built in the already narrow city, one for the guests from the Liao Kingdom, and the other for the Song Dynasty envoys to go north.

The two inns and the Qingzhou Prefecture are both on the same north-south street, with the government office in the middle, the Ying Guesthouse where the Liao envoy lives is in the north, and the inn where the Song Dynasty officials live is in the south.

The three buildings line up in a row, basically occupying the west side of the street. On the east side of the street, there are shops and taverns, which are bustling and lively. There are also many cars, horses and pedestrians coming and going on the street, most of which are merchants from south to north or guards hired by merchants. In addition, there are some local civilians or garrison soldiers from Qingzhou who also carry goods and snacks and sell along the street. The noisy and noisy sound of the market is no less than the inner city of Kaifeng Prefecture.

Wu Haogu once again ran away at the endless banquet. The banquet activities of the bureaucrats of the Song Dynasty really made Wu Haogu, the "future man", a little unbearable. Delicacies, singing and dancing, and beauties accompanying wine. As an official, you have to enjoy it properly. But the banquet is really a bit long. You can eat lunch until the evening, and the dinner often lasts all night. It is like eating and drinking with your life. You don’t think about how much exercise you need to consume? Moreover, the civil officials of the Song Dynasty like to eat and drink while playing poetry and songs. If you don’t meet, how many glasses of wine will be fined...

This is really a big head of Wu Dalang. How can he deal with his little ink? Don’t say that he “copied poetry” and became a famous scholar. Who can really memorize so many poems? And it is the late Northern Song Dynasty, and it is too early to memorize poetry and cannot be used.

What's even more terrible is that it is not popular to write poems at banquets of bureaucrats and scholars in the Song Dynasty. It is not a banquet given by the emperor. It is easier to flatter the poems.

After all, there are only four common rules for "regular poetry": min starts and closes, min starts and closes, min starts and closes, quasi-finishes, quasi-finishes, and quasi-finishes. There are also several major categories such as "five-character, eight-verse", "seven-character, seven-verse" and "couplets". I have learned Wu Hao's ancient capital, and I finally know a little. On the basis of knowing, you can use "copying poems" to show off, otherwise you can't figure out the five-character, seven-verse, and couplets, so how can you pretend?

The literati plays "compose lyrics" at the banquet, and emphasizes "using lyrics according to music", which means filling in words and sentences based on the tune. This is how "compose lyrics" of "compose lyrics according to the order Liu Sanbian" is played.

To play with lyrics, the attainments of literary poetry are only one of them. You must also have a high level of ancient music cultivation. As far as Wu Haogu knows, in the late Northern Song Dynasty, there were more than 1,600 "ci card" (also known as "qupai") that can be used to play lyrics... It is still possible to use "copy poems" to show off. It is nonsense to rely on "copy lyrics" to show off. Can more than 1,600 tunes be distinguished? Even if you can't figure out what lyrics you have? People have a tune card with "Chaitoufeng", can you use "Qinyuanchun. Snow" to pay the bill?

However, Wu Haogu was not completely unable to deal with it. He was "the first person in the painting". "Painting with poetry" or "Painting with lyrics" was also a program in the banquet for scholars. The specific way to play was to fill in lyrics cards such as Zhang Shangying, such as "Nian Nujiao", "Yu Linling", etc., and then Yan Po'er and others played and sang.

It is impossible to remember that so many music scores are not possible, so Yan Po'er and the musicians who followed her are all carrying the scores. When Wu Haogu was playing and singing, they could leave to make composition and painting (draw according to the content of the ci card). Usually, it was not written by himself, but asked Du Wenyu to write on his behalf, so that he could sneak out to do his own business.

Wu Haogu’s own work was mainly to complete his famous painting "The Famous Art Yan Xixi (Yan Po'er's stage name is the same as her daughter)". This is an oil painting, and it takes a lot of time to draw it.

However, today he sneaked away from the welcoming banquet held by the Qingzhou Prefecture for Zhang Shangying, not for painting, but for meeting someone with Lin Wancheng.

"Teacher Lao Lin," Wu Haogu, who had changed into casual clothes, told Lin Wancheng, who followed him out of the inn, "Did you see the horse people personally?"

"See you," Lin Wanchengdao, "it's exactly the same as what you've drawn."

"The Liao people in the welcome hotel did not arouse suspicion, right?"

Lin Wancheng shook his head and said, "Of course there is no suspicion. The little old man pretended to be a restaurant clerk."

Teacher Lao Lin pretended to be an old guy delivering food and came in with wine and food... Not to mention, he pretended to be quite similar. I wonder if he worked in a restaurant in Kaifeng Mansion when he was young?

"That's good." Wu Haogu nodded.

When the two were talking, they had already arrived outside Xiaofanlou, the largest restaurant in Qingzhou City. This Xiaofanlou was probably built imitating Fengle Tower in Kaifeng Prefecture (Fengle Tower was originally named Fanlou). It also specializes in Kaifeng cuisine, but there are also improved Liao cuisine, which is the Liao Dynasty cuisine that eats meat in one bucket.

When the two walked into the building, a waiter came towards him, sang a fat look with them, and said with a smile: "The two officials are here just right. Today, there is a guitar from Kaifeng Mansion to perform. Who is the lady who has been on the album of "Guiya". Do you want to find a good seat?"

"No need, just be quieter."

Wu Haogu recognized Qiao Jinniang. It took her three thousand silks to enter the album of "The Courtesan" (I bought a trick) and was a portrait that Wu Haogu personally drew for her.

Moreover, Wu Haogu also signed a photo contract with her. If the beautiful golden lady becomes popular in the future, she will have to be a model for Wu Haogu or Wu Haogu's designated disciples for free. This is a way to make Zhang Zeduan and Du Wenyu famous. She paints fine brushwork or oil paintings for famous artists, and then takes them to Christie's auction, and it might become popular.

As for the further unspoken rules, it is just a question whether Wu Haogu wants to think about it...

So others rarely like this "fake courtesan", but Wu Haogu doesn't take it seriously. He just wants to hold on to most real courtesans.

Lin Wancheng handed the waiter to the welcome couple and said, "Give me a private room, and a man named Ma will come to see us later. Tell him where we are."

"Here." The waiter responded and handed Lin Wancheng a small flag with red background and black letters, with the words "Three or Four" on the second floor. This is also the way of Fengle Building. Because Fengle Building has five buildings, it is necessary to use a small flag to point the direction to customers. The waiter on each floor also knew where to take the guests when he saw the flag.

Wu Haogu and Lin Wancheng went upstairs, Lin Wancheng handed the small flag to another waiter, and then led it into a private room where the private house could be seen outside the window.

"Although this Qingzhou city is broken, the people's houses are pretty good."

After sitting down in the private room, Lin Wancheng looked at the house outside the window and commented.

"This guest official doesn't know anything," said the waiter who brought Wu Haogu and Lin Wancheng in. "Our small Qingzhou city has been developed in the past 20 or 30 years. It is a first-class and good place on Hebei East Road. These houses outside have been newly built over the years, and most of the owners are military generals in the Liuzhai and Zhoucheng in Qingzhou."

"The military general is so rich?" Lin Wancheng asked.

"That's right," Xiaoer said, "Now the Yellow River will hit our Qingzhou. There are always tens of millions of goods coming and going along the Yellow River a year. How can we not ship it?"

Wu Haogu and Lin Wancheng looked at each other, and when they looked at the current Qingzhou City, they could imagine the future Jiehe Market!

The money is a great future!

"Let's wait for someone," Lin Wancheng took out two more copper coins and rewarded the waiter, "Get a pot of tea first."

"Here."

The waiter bowed his hand and turned around and went out.

"Dongweng," Lin Wancheng whispered, "It seems that your Jiehe Market is really worth it. No wonder the Liao people asked the lion to speak loudly."

Wu Haogu Yixiao: "I want so much money before the market opens. Do you really think that my official’s money is blown by the strong wind?"

"But if you don't give money, how can this market be opened?"

"Who said I won't give money?" Wu Haogu sneered, "I just don't give money to the Liao court."

Lin Wancheng frowned slightly. Just as he was about to speak, he remembered the waiter's voice outside the door: "Two guests, two guests with the surname Ma are visiting."

It must be the horseman.

Wu Haogu said: "Please."

Then I saw that the door of the private room was pushed open. First, the waiter with a teapot and a tea bowl came in, and then the horse man Wang led a tall young man in.

Wu Haogu looked at the young man and found that he was wearing a long blue gown, a sachet tied around his waist, a peony in his temples, his skin was also very white, he had five strands of beard, and his facial features looked elegant and gentle, as if he was a scholar from the Song Dynasty.

"Master Ma," Wu Haogu stood up and bowed to the horse man, then looked at the young man and said, "Wu Haogu is in Kaifeng, isn't you satisfied with the name of Gao?"

The young man smiled brightly and stepped forward and bowed two steps, "Zhang Jue in Xiapingzhou is Ma Liangsi's classmate."

Zhang Jue?

Of course Wu Haogu knew this name!

In history, the Han general of Yanyun, who had risen to return to Song because he wanted to save the people of Yanjing who were looted by the Jin people, was later betrayed by Wang Anzhong, the Xuanfu of Yanshan in the Song Dynasty, and his head was beheaded and presented to the Jin people.
Chapter completed!