At first glance, that teenager’s complexion is slightly dark, a dress pulp washed are a little white, but also leaked two holes, looks like a countryside poor boy.
However, if you look closely, you will be able to find details that were once missed.
That young man, simple clothes, but not shocked by honour and disgrace; simple face, but that pair of black eyes turn is full of spirit; especially that corner of the mouth from time to time hooked up the arc, in the face of all kinds of contempt contempt, as if always with a smile.
This teenager, must not be simple.
“Is it okay to be right like this?” Zhu Pingan looked at the shopkeeper beside him who was dumbfounded, slightly tickling the corners of his lips as he asked softly.
The shop chap gulped a mouthful of saliva and busily nodded his head, his eyes were a little dull.
“So that means I can stay for a day with free food and lodging?” Zhu Pingan revealed a naive smile, a very sunny feeling.
The shop chap nodded dully.
“That’s really appreciated, you people of the capital are just good. The first day I came to the capital, I was shown the generosity of your capital people.”
“Then I won’t be polite, bring me five or six of your signature dishes, the ones that have good flavour and pick the expensive ones, and look to serve me five or six of them.”
“Oh yes, please bring my horse to the backyard again, and don’t lose the things on the horse’s back, that’s all I have. If you can, help me move my things to the room you have reserved as well, well, pick me a good room, spacious and sunny.”
“Oh, please.”
After Zhu Pingan nodded his head at the shopkeeper, he slightly hooked his lips, revealing a few white teeth, and arched his hand towards the shopkeeper in a series of pleas.
After saying that, Zhu Pingan sought out a table and sat down.
It was only at this time that the shopkeeper realised why Zhu Ping An said the sentence “Anyway, I still have to untie it” when he tied the horse to the flagpole, and that was what he meant now.
Looking at the simple young man sitting at the table, the shopkeeper’s face reddened so much that it felt hot.
The crowd in the lobby was at the moment when Zhu Pingan made his second couplet. The gazes towards Zhu Pingan were already very different from the beginning, but when Zhu Pingan ordered five or six of the expensive signature dishes from other people’s shops without any reserve at all, and asked the shop boy to move the things to a good room, the gazes of the crowd towards Zhu Pingan once again changed once more.
Why does it feel so unproductive.
As if he had never seen the world.
It’s a shame.
The crowd looked at Zhu Pingan with a hint of contempt. They came to this inn to the couplet is not aimed at what people say food and lodging free of charge or something, they are aimed at the couplet to come, simply did not put what free food and lodging or something on the heart. It is on the couplet, there is no like Zhu Pingan so is to pick expensive dishes, and is to pick a good room to live in. People at most is to order a pot of fragrant tea, tea only, what dishes ah room ah, all played open, do not lower my taste.
The gentleman’s style, how can there be a heavy profit!
Zhu Pingan does not care about the eyes of the crowd, in the dishes have not yet come up, will be on the table of the teapot with a hand pick up, so that the cup of tea poured a cup of tea, slightly tasted.
Eh? He is tasting tea!
Maybe we were wrong about him. It’s also true that at the beginning, that shopkeeper was so contemptuous and despised him, so he ordered a few expensive dishes and a good room, which is also a small punishment for that shopkeeper. The point of ordering food and housing and so on is not to be drunken, right?
The crowd’s view of Zhu Pingan had subtly changed again, and many of them stepped away to try to make friends with Zhu Pingan.
Right at this moment, only a thud was heard.
Then the crowd was surprised to see that the teenager sipped a mouthful of tea. With a gulp, he drank the tea in his hand in one go, drinking it like a cow. After finishing a cup, that teenager poured another cup, followed by another thud. He drank it again like a cow.
Erm, it turns out that just now that was not tasting the tea, but rather tasting the tea hot or not!
Really haven’t seen the world! What a pity, what a pity!
The crowd couldn’t help but shake their heads and sighed, and those people who had taken a step to prepare to go and befriend Zhu Pingan. All of them also stopped their steps one after another!
“Heh heh heh, this teenager is so spontaneous.” The teenager who was not badly dressed twisted his head and spoke softly with the teenager next to him, called Wensheng, with a smile.
“Rather, he resembles you in a few ways.” The teenager called Wen Sheng smiled faintly.
While the people in the lobby were whispering or giving Zhu Pingan sideways glances, the dishes ordered by Zhu Pingan had already come up, and this inn’s speed of serving food really stood up to its exceptionally prosperous décor and specifications.
A plate of roast duck with a small bowl of sweet sauce and accompanying vegetables, a stack of explosive tripe, a fried liver, a bird’s nest, a plate of red simmered abalone, and an anti-seasonal veggie stir-fry with greens.
The most expensive dish here is perhaps the inconspicuous veggie fried greens. In Daming, with the improvement of vegetable cultivation technology, the capital area has begun to use greenhouses to grow vegetables. According to the literature: Wang Gua out of Yanjing is the best, planted in the fire room, forcing the birth of flowers and leaves, the beginning of February will bear small fruits. However, this use of greenhouse planting of greens, its production costs are very high, the sale price is very expensive, only the rich and powerful, wealthy merchants and tycoons can enjoy, the common people, almost impossible to eat in winter.
Zhu Pingan hadn’t eaten anything for a day since the morning, and his eyes were glowing when he saw such a sumptuous, colourful and flavourful table of food.
Therefore, as soon as the food was served, Zhu Pingan took a pair of chopsticks and feasted on it.
Err.
Eating is really degrading
Inside the hall, they were still waiting for Zhu Pingan to continue the couplet, although their feelings towards Zhu Pingan were not very good, they were still sure about Zhu Pingan’s level, but they saw that Zhu Pingan ate it in a Kangkang manner.
As it turns out, he only knows how to read those two couplets.
Looking at Zhu Pingan’s degrading eating style and the speed at which a plate was bare in the blink of an eye, the crowd could not help but shake their heads.
The appetite was still really good!
Not much later, the crowd saw that Zhu Pingan had eaten almost the entire table’s worth of dishes, this teenager didn’t look tall or fat, but his meal size was really big!
After Zhu Pingan had eaten his fill, he drank another cup of tea, burped with satisfaction, fished out an equally pulpy white handkerchief from his pocket, and wiped his mouth.
“This meal tastes really good, I really can’t leave.”
Then the crowd saw a scene that they would never forget, only to see that the well-fed and well-drunk teenager finished lamenting, then he looked up at the couplets, and after flattening his mouth, he corrected all the remaining four couplets in one breath:
“Lonely and cold window, empty widowhood; far and near, the road is free.”
“An inch of earth is a temple, and a poem is written next to the temple, which says: The bright moon sends the monk back to the ancient temple. The two trees are the forest, and the forest shows the prohibition, which says, “The axe and the catty will enter the forest at the right time.”
“Water with insects is turbid, water with fish is fishing, water water water, rivers and lakes; Day is manifested by karma, day is bright because of the moon, day day day, sun and moon stars crystal.”
After finishing the couplet, Zhu Pingan nodded, flattened his mouth and muttered to himself, “This should make it possible to stay for a few more days.”
After saying this, he inadvertently swept a glance at the astonished crowd in the lobby, the corners of his mouth slightly hooked up as a bright smile flickered.
Without eating so much, how would one have time to conceptualise.
These people really think that they have done it all in one go, huh.
