Chapter 59 The Master
The building is over, the river is vast and the Dongting Pavilion is open. The geese bring sorrow away, and the mountains carry the beautiful moon.
I stayed in the clouds and received a cup from the sky. After getting drunk, the cool breeze blew and danced back to my sleeves.
This is a famous work written by Li Bai, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, and it is precisely because of this poem that Yueyang Tower is named today.
Yueyang Tower was originally built during the Three Kingdoms period and was built by Lu Su, the general of the Eastern Wu. It was originally used as a military tower, and was also called the "Military Tower". It was called the "Baling Tower" during the Western Jin Dynasty and Southern and Northern Dynasties. It was not until Li Bai of the Middle Tang Dynasty wrote poems that it was called the "Yueyang Tower".
After Yin Zhiping took Li Mochou off the boat and went ashore, he headed straight to Yueyang Tower.
The Yueyang Tower is now rented and opened as a restaurant, and the business is very prosperous. Yin Zhiping took Li Mochou into the building and went straight to the top. Yueyang Tower is three floors high, and the consumption level on each floor is different. The third floor is the highest consumption. Even if you don’t have any wine or food, you only need to occupy a table.
Yin Zhiping did not bring much silver with him when he went to Zhongnan Mountain, but because he had great martial arts, he borrowed some money from corrupt officials or wealthy families when he had no money. He never lacked money. The money came easily and he spent it happily. At this time, he threw twenty taels of silver to the friend who greeted him, and asked him to serve good wine and food.
This is not the time for meals, with fewer customers. The third floor is the most expensive floor, with even fewer customers. Yin Zhiping and Li Mochou went up the top floor. He glanced at it and saw that there were guests on the three tables, all of which were by the window.
There was only one person sitting on the table on the first right, but a nun wearing a black monk's robe. She looked about thirty years old, with clear eyebrows and clear skin, and quite beautiful. Although it could not be compared with Li Mochou's beauty, it also looked quite flavorful. However, her expression was cold and there was a bit of anger between her eyebrows, which seemed difficult to meet.
When Yin Zhiping saw a nun, he was a little stunned. Then he suddenly remembered a joke he had seen online in his previous life. He couldn't help but blurt out, "Master, you're done with me."
Fortunately, he knew it was not a time to play, and the nun seemed to be able to make jokes. When he said that, he quickly swallowed it back.
The girl in black turned her head and looked at them. Seeing that they were wearing Taoist clothes, Yin Zhiping wore a long sword around her waist, and a look of shock and suspicion flashed in her eyes, but she didn't say anything. She turned her head and looked at the 800-mile Dongting scenery outside the building.
"Huh?" Yin Zhiping took the joke and suddenly noticed that the girl in black had a snow-white whisk on the table. He couldn't help but make a sound in surprise and turned his head to look at Li Mochou. Seeing that Li Mochou was also looking over there, he obviously also noticed the girl in black and the whisk on the table.
Li Mochou saw Yin Zhiping's desire just now, and saw him exclaiming again and asked softly: "Do you recognize this nun?"
Yin Zhiping shook his head and replied, "I don't recognize it."
Li Mochou asked again, "Then why do I think you were a little reluctant to speak when you were facing the nun just now?"
Yin Zhiping said: "I just suddenly thought of a joke about a nun, and I couldn't help but want to say something."
While they were talking, they had already walked to another table by the window. After Li Mochou pulled open the chair and sat down, he continued to ask: "What a joke?"
Yin Zhiping said: "Forget it, this joke is a bit cold, and you may not be funny if you say it. But the nun seems to be a man in the world, and she seems to be a whisk. I have heard someone say that it is a person who walks around the world, and it is best not to provoke him easily."
Li Mochou asked, "What three types of people?"
Yin Zhiping said: "One is a woman, one is an old man, and the other is a monk." He actually didn't say this from anyone, but he didn't remember any martial arts novel in his previous life.
Li Mochou thought about it carefully and said, "This is indeed a bit reasonable."
Yin Zhiping said: "Of course it makes sense. For example, if you are both a woman and a monk, it is very difficult to mess with. The nun like you, if you occupy two types of things, it will definitely be difficult to mess with."
"Like me?" Li Mochou said to himself, and his eyes suddenly lit up, and he said, "After you say that, I suddenly remembered that I am the nun in front of me."
"Who?" Yin Zhiping asked.
Li Mochou said, "I don't know the name of this person. People in the world call her Master Shengyin, nicknamed Juehu. I heard that she likes to wear a black monk's robe and also makes a whisk. And I heard that she was also hurt by love, so she became a monk. It is said that she is also cruel and ruthless, but she doesn't kill innocent people indiscriminately, but she often kills all over the family by killing her. Therefore, she calls her Juehu, which means she is a Juehu. Some people in the world have compared her with me, but her reputation is far less than mine."
"I'm dizzy, what's the point of this? Do you think this is a good reputation?" Yin Zhiping couldn't help rolling his eyes at her. He silently recited the words "Sage Master of the Essential Hands" in his heart, feeling quite familiar. He vaguely remembered that there seemed to be such a character in the original book, but he couldn't remember the specific situation. It seemed that he had just appeared and mentioned a few sentences. Anyway, he was not the main character.
The table where the two were located was two tables away from the table of the nun in black, which was about ten steps away. Both of them were talking and lowering their voices, and they didn't expect the nun to hear it.
Li Mochou snorted, said nothing more, turned to see the scenery outside the window, and Yin Zhiping also looked out the window.
Yueyang Tower is built close to Dongting Lake and is known as "Dongting the world is under the water, Yueyang is under the sky". It is also the best viewing point to enjoy the scenery of Dongting Lake from Yueyang Tower. Looking around, you can see the 800-mile Dongting Lake with a vast atmosphere. The lake surface is a vast and endless. The surrounding mountains are surrounded by arches, ethereal and majestic, and the grand view is imposing.
On the Yueyang Tower, you can also see Junshan Island in Dongting Lake from afar. It is the main gang of the largest beggar sect in the world today. Huang Rong won the position of leader of the Beggar sect on Junshan back then.
Thinking of Fan Huang Rong's heroic appearance back then, Yin Zhiping pulled his eyes back. On the three tables where people originally had people, except for the female nun in black who was suspected to be the sage-shared Master, the guests at the other two tables looked ordinary and ordinary, not people from the world.
On one table were two scribes, drinking and discussing poetry; on the other table were middle-aged couples, wearing gold and silver, looking very rich, with a few maids and servants beside them.
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It is actually quite difficult for me to understand that famous buildings like Yueyang Tower have always appeared as restaurants in novels. For example, Yueyang Tower was already a famous building in the Tang Dynasty, with an extraordinary status and has always been repaired and maintained by the government. I really imagine that someone would open it into a restaurant.
Chapter completed!