Chapter 7: Tailoring (This chapter is free)

Seeing him coming back, Liu Ye stood up from afar to greet him. Tang Song nodded with a smile, and then sat down next to the stone table under the shade of elm.

Because of her relationship with Zhuang Haishan, Tang Song had a very good attitude towards Liuye. After some idle articles, he learned that Mrs. Tang promised twenty coins in front of the Buddha while she was in the Lumen Temple a few days ago and copied a great vow of "Diamond Sutra". The incense and oil money was donated to the temple that day, but the "Diamond Sutra" was not finished until today. So she ordered Liuye to come to the Buddha to burn it. She took this opportunity to come to Zhuang Haishan.

During the gossip, Liu Ye kept showing Zhuang Haishan's eyes, but Zhuang Haishan was hesitant and refused to say it. Tang Song saw them so anxiously. After waiting for Zhuang Haishan to see that he still refused to say it, he simply said directly: "Liu Ye, you are not an outsider, just say anything."

Liu Ye was so happy, and he didn't feel embarrassed when he heard this. He gave Zhuang Haishan a blank look and said, "I really have something to cause trouble to the young master. This fact is not easy to start. If I really want to say it, please don't blame me."

I guess what she was going to say was really difficult, so when Zhuang Haishan saw her open his mouth, he forced himself to stop her words, but buried his head deeply in front of his chest.

"Is she trying to ask me to let Zhuang Haishan go?" Tang Song guessed in his heart, but his expression did not change on his face. He nodded with a smile, "Just say it."

"I have a little sister..." After Liu Ye spoke, Tang Song realized that she was wrong, but what she said was really something Tang Song could not even imagine.

During the Tang Dynasty, everyone in the world was divided into three categories: official, good man, and bitch. Among them, the lowest status was naturally the "bitcher". All the official and private servants who were not in their own hands belonged to this. Among the "bitcher", there is another type of person with a particularly low status and a particularly miserable experience, which is the "Lehu".

The Le House is often a criminal minister of the previous dynasty or a family member and descendant of the criminal who committed the ten major crimes of corruption. According to the Tang Dynasty, if ordinary untouchables redeem their personal status, they can go to the official office to complete the procedures, and then they can turn from a bitch to a good man, and they can engage in other industries at will and intermarry with the good man or even study the imperial examination. However, once they enter the Le House, according to the court's regulations, they will never be changed. Even if their personal status is in their own hands, they cannot go from a bad man to a good man, and they can only be slaves and prostitutes for generations. Apart from this, they are not allowed to engage in other industries to support themselves, and they have no right to participate in the imperial examination, and they can only intermarry with the untouchables.

The so-called "marriage as a person" in the Tang Dynasty is from this. This means that unless the dynasty can be changed, the Lehu will never make a fortune forever. It can be said that this is the most tragic and miserable group. Liu Ye was born in the Lehu family. He only knew that his mother and not his father since he was a child. After his mother, who was a seven-year-old prostitute, passed away, her sisters lived with her uncle. However, her uncle was also from the Lehu family. He could barely make a living by working as a musician in a brothel. He had a low status and poor family background, and was unable to support them. In desperation, he handed over Liu Ye to sell and left his younger sister Liu Mei by his side to raise him.

Liu Mei has been with her uncle who is a musician since she was a child. In addition, she is smart. Over the years, she has mastered all kinds of musical instruments and practiced them well. She is also very good at singing and dancing. She is beautiful. It can be said that the little lotus has just begun to show its sharp corners and is already charming. Many brothels have already wanted to include it under their belts, and promised to praise her as the leading Hong Agu in Xiangzhou within three years.

Unfortunately, Liu Mei had no such thoughts, but was determined to attend the Longhua Conference held by the State Council soon.

Speaking of the Longhua Club, Liu Ye's face showed a fleeting look, "The competition in the Longhua Club is fierce, and the little girl Quwu can deal with it. Only this song... If you sing the old words that everyone is familiar with, you will have no chance to make a comeback, but you will have a good new lyrics... We have both low status and no large amount of money to buy good lyrics, so we can only get under the name of the young master."

Only then did Tang Song understand what Liu Ye meant, and asked him to write new lyrics for his sister Liu Mei to attend the Longhua Club. This was just like whenever there was a major event in later generations, those singers must ask someone to write new songs a long time in advance. However, Liu Mei did not want to enter the brothel and had no money to ask someone to write them on her behalf.

Seeing that Tang Song was speechless after he finished speaking, Liu Ye said anxiously: "Recently, the name of the young master has been circulated in Xiangzhou City, and even the county magistrate has praised him very much. Even though I am in the deep house, I have heard a lot. I hope the young master can help me, so don't refuse."

After being kicked by Liu Ye with his leg under the stone table, Zhuang Haishan, who had been lowering his head, raised a bitter face and looked at Tang Song pitifully. He is the nerdy personality of Young Master Su Zhi. In the past, scholars may have wasted a little time, and they were even reluctant to leave the study room, let alone distracted from doing such a thing. Although there have been some changes in the past few days, they are probably unwilling to agree to this matter.

Besides, he knew the young master’s background before that even if he reluctantly agreed, he would be difficult to write any good poems. How should he explain to Liu Ye at that time? He said that the young master tried his best but his ability was not good? Listen to the people in Xiangzhou City who praised the poem "Politics for Advocating Learning" and the young master, how could Liu Ye believe his explanation?

On one hand, there are the willow leaves in love, and on the other hand, there is the young master who has grown up together for ten years. Oh... it’s really hard to be a human being when you are stuck in the middle!

Just when Zhuang Haishan was in a difficult situation and Liu Ye was about to ask for trouble again, Tang Song smiled slightly and said, "I have agreed to this matter."

Upon hearing this, Zhuang Haishan's bitter face suddenly became dull, and he looked at Tang Song in disbelief. Liu Ye looked happy and said thanks in disbelief.

The singing of ancient karaokes was different from the popular songs in later generations. They actually sang literary works from the previous or the current dynasty. The first purpose of these literary works was written at that time was also to sing, rather than the recitation of later generations when people learned Tang poetry and Song lyrics. It was only because the ancient gongzi scores that recorded music were not easy to preserve than words, so after hundreds or thousands of years of circulation, only the poems of the characters were lost after the music score was lost. For example, there were only a few beautiful Song lyrics, only some of the poems of the Baishi Taoist Jiang Kui were passed down to later generations together, which could be regarded as the complete original version of Song lyrics, and there were only dozens of them.

For example, the brothel singers during the Han Dynasty mostly sang folk songs of the Han Dynasty with Qing Shang music, while the singers and dancers in the Tang Dynasty sang Tang poetry with Yan music, and the Song lyrics of the Song Dynasty. As for the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, and the Yuan music and other scattered operas appeared, there is no need to mention it.

After all, Liu Ye just asked him to prepare two poems for Liu Mei. What's the difficulty? Although the pirated version just gave him a painful lesson, since he could help Zhuang Haishan to make a big frown in front of Liu Ye, and to help such a poor woman, he wouldn't care.

"I and Haishan are called master and servant, but in fact they are more in love than brothers. Liu Ye, you have such a relationship with him. In this way, they are all family members. Don't say two families. If you thank you again, I will really leave." After Tang Song smiled and said these words, Liu Ye did not thank you again. He looked at Zhuang Haishan with a smile, and Zhuang Haishan's eyes were red at this time.

"Liu Ye, you are solemnly speaking, Longhua will probably be extremely important to Ling Mei. And since I have done this, I really don't want to live in vain, so I feel a little embarrassed."

"If you have any difficulties, just say it."

Seeing Liu Ye's face tightening, Tang Song smiled and waved his hand and said, "Don't be nervous. I mean I have to see Ling Mei with my own eyes, especially after listening to her singing, I only know what kind of poems she is suitable for. This poem also has many differences such as bold and elegant, gloomy and tragic, vigorous and tragic, fresh and natural, just like making clothes with a variety of styles, you must always tailor your clothes."

Liu Ye heard Tang Song say it well, and he had never heard of those bold and elegant words, so he felt more relieved about his talent. At that moment, the two thin eyebrows on the distant mountains suddenly smiled into the shape of the real willow leaves. "Young master knows so much, of course there is no problem with this. I will go down the mountain to inform her to come here to receive education."

Liu Ye was a stingy person and did what he said. He got up and gave a big gift to Tang Song. Then he gave Zhuang Haishan a wink and left hurriedly.

"Why don't you go and see him off?" Tang Song ordered Zhuang Haishan and rushed to chase him like a rabbit.
Chapter completed!