At sunset, in order to avoid violating the night ban, Wang Shizhen and Zhang Siwei went away together, and agreed to lead Zhu Pingan to enjoy the capital city in a few days.
At this time, the inn is also a lot less people, left behind and Zhu Pingan the same, are also in the inn to stay overnight.
When Zhu Pingan was about to get up and go upstairs, the innkeeper led the shop boy over, the innkeeper was a long-sleeved old man, about fifty years old, not bad in speech, arched his hand and apologised to Zhu Pingan:
“This gentleman, it’s all because of the old man’s poor discipline, much offence, the old man on behalf of the proprietor to make amends to the gentleman, this kind of unseemly fellows, this shop will also clean it out to correct the shop rules, I also hope that the gentleman to bear with me.”
As soon as the shopkeeper had finished speaking, the shop mate next to him was busy making amends to Zhu Pingan, his expression was like the end of the world, “Your Excellency, I have eyes but I don’t recognise Mt Tai! I was blind to the fact that I was looking down on others, and I bumped into you! Your Excellency, please spare me this time~! ~I’m sorry! ~I’m sorry.”
Looking at the shopkeeper who arched his hand in apology, as well as the shopkeeper who seemed like the end of the world, Zhu Pingan was first stunned, then he hooked his lips and shook his head with a smile.
The matter has already passed, besides, he didn’t suffer any loss, in addition, there is also a month of free food and lodging, how would he still care about this small matter. Then look at the shopkeeper’s face of doom, about should also remember this lesson, why need to drive people to the end.
So, Zhu Pingan arched his hand to the shopkeeper’s salute, shook his head slightly and smiled unconcernedly, lightly letting go of the shopkeeper who was looking down on him.
“I’m relying on your shop’s blessings to have a place to stay, Ping An is not even close to being thankful, so why would I say I’m offended. As for this fellow, a small punishment will suffice, and it won’t be too late to expel him if he makes another mistake in the future.”
Hearing Zhu Pingan’s words, the shop mate next to him who was like the end of the world breathed a sigh of relief and gratefully looked up at Zhu Pingan, ashamed and remorseful.
“Your Excellency is kind and generous. Rare in the world.”
The shopkeeper looked at Zhu Pingan with a sigh on his face and said sincerely. If Zhu Pingan’s talent had shocked the innkeeper just now with the couplet, then at this moment. Zhu Pingan’s person had once again shocked the innkeeper.
“Don’t be quick to thank the gentleman, if it wasn’t for the gentleman pleading for you, I would have expelled you from the shop.” The innkeeper turned his head to the shop mate next to him and reprimanded him.
“Many thanks to Gongzi’s generosity, I will definitely change my ways. Gongzi’s great kindness, I’ll knot the grass and ring the ring. I won’t forget it.”
The shop chap’s face was red, his gaze towards Zhu Pingan was full of shame, and he was very grateful for Zhu Pingan’s generosity.
“The customer is the Jade Emperor, don’t do it again in the future.”
Zhu Pingan shook his head unconcernedly, patted the shop chap’s shoulder and said.
The customer is the Jade Emperor, hearing this, the eyes of the shopkeeper on the other side lit up, seeming to be quite touched, and then looking at Zhu Pingan’s gaze. It was even more respectful.
Zhu Pingan also saw that the shopkeeper had remorse and helped him speak to the shopkeeper. Zhu Pingan’s tolerance for people is not unprincipled accommodation, not to mention the compatibility of good and evil, but rather the unity of tolerance for others and criticism of mistakes, if the other side of the stubbornness of the other side, he does not condone the connivance.
After this incident, the shopkeeper was like a new person, after leading Zhu Pingan to his room, he immediately flopped downstairs to give Zhu Pingan a bucket of hot water and sent it to Zhu Pingan’s room.
As soon as Zhu Pingan entered the room. Then he couldn’t help but praise the inn’s grand gesture.
The room was decorated with carved beams and was roughly divided into three parts, the bedroom, the living room and the balcony, and as soon as he entered the room, he could smell the faint sandalwood fragrance filling his body. Room decoration is also extremely luxurious, gold carved flowers in the white stone between the enchanting rage, the living room there is a small rockery bonsai, about the scene of the water flowing goblet, other such furnishings are also numerous.
The most valuable thing is that the room is luxurious but not lacking in comfort. The porch and foyer stretch to the north and south, and the tables and chairs in the room are also arranged to give people a comfortable feeling, and all kinds of living facilities are not one and the same.
The room may be a hidden underground dragon between the walls, and the room is as warm as spring. Zhu Pingan leisurely walked to the balcony, and sure enough, he saw the small chimney made of glazed tiles exposed on the outer wall, the location was quite hidden. Sure enough, this inn’s proprietor is really willing to spend money. Ground dragon is our country’s ancient working people’s ingenuity, the room walls into a hollow “sandwich wall”, commonly known as “fire wall”. Under the wall, there is a fire escape, and the charcoal outlet for adding fire is set under the eaves of the veranda outside the house. When charcoal fire is burnt in the charcoal port, the heat can be warmed to the whole house along the wall. In order to make the heat circulate smoothly, there is an air hole at the end of the fire escape, and the smoke is discharged through the air outlet under the foundation. By circulating the heat, the whole house will be like spring in all seasons.
Of course, this is also very expensive, the average person can not afford to use.
The city will play!
But it’s very satisfying.
After strolling around the room with satisfaction, Zhu Pingan took a hot bath to soak off all the dust from the journey. After the bath, he changed into thinner, cleaner clothes, and took out the books, pens, and ink that he had brought in his travelling bag and put them on the desk, putting them away neatly.
Then, picking up the oil lamp, he sat in front of the desk by the window, laid out the pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and recorded what he had seen and heard recently in a thin book.
After writing down the insights, Zhu Pingan then casually opened the Analects of Confucius, from which he found a sentence, and then tried to break the eight-legged essay. In Daming for a long time, the eight-legged essay this style of writing is also familiar with, eight-legged essay is the more you do the more you can do. The pen grinding, pinch the time to finish writing a eight-legged, and then by the light of the written eight-legged carefully read, on its shortcomings seriously modified.
When this eight-legged revision perfect, the entire capital has been shrouded in infinite silence and darkness.
Lights out to sleep, a good night’s sleep.
The next day before dawn, the time is about six o’clock or so, Zhu Pingan had already got up and washed up properly, slung his school bag, clamped a black wooden board and went downstairs, out of the inn and walked along the street. At this time the night ban has ended, the Ming dynasty night ban regulations are very clear, one night three o’clock to sound the evening drum, start the night ban; five o’clock three o’clock to sound the morning drum, the end of the night ban. Three o’clock on the fifth watch, that is, about 5:10 Beijing time.
Outside, the sky was not yet light, and in this season, the capital city did not light up until about seven o’clock. But despite the fact that it was not yet light at this time, there were already quite a few people on the streets outside, and Zhu Pingan walked aimlessly forward with his cloth bag slung over his shoulder and a black wooden board clamped to it.
Turning left and right somehow made his way to West Chang’an Street, which is close to Xiyuan, and most of the people who live on this street are high-ranking officials and dignitaries.
At this time, the eastern sky is slightly red in the black, the sky is gradually brightening, but visibility is still not great.
Hazy red dots appeared in front of the head of Chang’an Street, and five or six rays of light appeared, coming from south to north. When the people nearby saw the bright lights, they consciously moved to the sides of the street to avoid them, and Zhu Pingan was also pulled to the side of the road by a white-bearded old man reaching out.
As the red light drew closer, it was realised that it was six large red lanterns.
Six large red lanterns around a eight people carrying curtains covered sedan chair, sedan chair on both sides and stand along with the satchel guards, sedan chair on both sides also followed by two holding a large red lantern maidservant.
Zhu Pingan slightly narrowed his eyes and watched this row of sedan chair slowly walking.
Almost in front of Zhu Ping An, Zhu Ping An heard an old man’s cough coming from the sedan chair, after coughing, he saw a lantern-carrying maid naturally stretch out her jade hand to open the side window curtains of the sedan chair, and then elegantly bent her knees, her pink face rising up by forty-five degrees.
Almost at the same time, the side window of the sedan chair revealed half of the old man’s face, very kind eyebrows.
Then, a spitting sound was heard.
As if they had cooperated for tens of thousands of times, the maid outside the sedan chair with a forty-five degree upturned pink face and lightly opened her vermilion lips, then she swallowed the old man’s spit into her mouth with a mouthful of thick access.
Then the cloth curtain closed and the sedan chair continued on its way.
Vomit.
This scene appeared too suddenly, with no defence at all reflected in the sight of Zhu Pingan on the street, causing Zhu Pingan to diaphragmatically dry-heave.
A satchel guard standing beside the sedan chair heard the sound and glared hard at Zhu Ping An, his eyes full of warning, before continuing forward with the sedan chair.
True Nima, the city will play!
Zhu Pingan looked at the distant sedan chair, in his heart 10,000 grass mud horses whistled past!
