Chapter 424: Plain Talk

On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, Huixian Tea House in Bianjing City.

Today is the last day of business in the first year of Zhiping. After closing time, we will close down.

The teahouse was crowded with people. Except for the three rows of seats at the front, the back was densely packed with people. Even the aisles were full of people.

In front of the dining room, there is a square table, a chair and a gavel.

When the time came, an old man came out from behind the scenes, bowed his hands to everyone, and then sat down.

Knocking on the alarm: "There are many old and young men here. Today is the last chapter of "War in Weibei". If this book is not finished, I guess there will be many old men who come to the old man's house on New Year's Eve."

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The crowd burst into laughter.

The old man said: "Stop chatting, here we come!"

After saying that, he knocked the gavel with a "snap".

Audiences familiar with this passage immediately responded: "Before the Han Dynasty!"

"The general laments! Beside the Jing Canal!"

"Withered horse in the grass! Knead the withered skull!"

"The hungry eagle under the sun! The rotten saliva!"

The audience's roar grew louder and louder, and finally almost toppled the roof tiles.

"Xiaoyujiaochi! Suibeiqi!"

"Eternal decay! Weinan smoke!"

"Chasing the good news of spring! Killing the remaining snow!"

"Dare to believe in the world"

The old man made a fuss here, dragging out a long sound in his mouth, and turned the tree in his hand, but it wouldn't fall down.

Everyone was holding their breath and preparing to shout the last three words, but now they were all holding it in their stomachs.

The long sound seemed to go on forever, and a fat man who was holding back his face and flushed finally couldn't bear it any longer and spurted out with a "poof" sound.

Everyone couldn't help it anymore, they gasped in unison, and then burst into laughter.

The old man just finished his last words and was stunned: "I dare to believe that the world has changed to a young man!"

Amidst the roar of laughter, the old man's voice seemed to have a magical power, and every word was clearly sent to everyone's ears.

"Okay!" The crowd burst into applause, not only for this uplifting poem, but also for the old man's unparalleled skill.

But the old man rolled his eyes: "Every time I open the book, I have to read Xiao Su Tanhua's poem. Isn't it interesting?"

Everyone is shouting: "Interesting"

The old man looked helpless: "Well, everyone likes to hear this, so the old man has no choice but to say this. Who asked everyone to reward this chewed grain? I'll leave it to you soon."

After he finished speaking, he was stunned: "When telling stories, you can't make up nonsense. This plain talk is not groundless. It is the real thing that happened in the present day."

"The old man has an unsatisfactory apprentice named Yin Changmai. He works as a grain chewer at the Weizhou wharf. Every day, he writes letters about piles and piles that happened in Weizhou and delivers them to the company's mail truck for delivery to his home.

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"It's different from the report to the court. It's not big or small. Even though it's long-winded, it still counts as Zhou Xiang."

"I therefore narrated it into a short story, called "The Battle of Weibei," which only talks about the war that took place over the past six months!"

Everyone cheered in unison again.

The old man said: "There are many new faces here, and there are also a few scholars in yellow shirts. I think they are the ones who came to join the Jinke. Therefore, I have to explain a few words to let the new guests know the outline."

"It is said that in the seventh year of Qingli in our reign, a child prodigy descended from the sky and landed in the land of Tianfu in the Song Dynasty, southwest of Bashu."

"The child prodigy's surname was Su, whose name was Mingrun. He could speak at the age of three and wrote poems at the age of five. By the age of five and a half, he had been able to take in dozens of orphan children and teach them to be self-reliant. Renzong Jinkou's innate benevolence and various miraculous powers,

I can’t say enough about myself.”

"It is said that the child prodigy grew up to fourteen years old. He was familiar with classics and history, and was proficient in etiquette and justice. He knew astronomy at a high level and geography at a low level. He was a first-class talent in our Song Dynasty! In the sixth year of Jiayou's reign, he went to Beijing to take the exam, and Emperor Renzong selected him as the first-class talent.

The three second-place finishers, everyone calls them Xiao Su Tanhua because of their young age. Compared with him, to be honest with you, the old man has lived like a dog at his age."

Everyone laughed.

The old man continued: "Xiao Su Tanhua governed Kuizhou for a term, managing the military and the people. It was a combination of government and people, and both Han and barbarians were happy. Due to the urgent situation in the West, the imperial court promoted him to the position of Privy Councilor and Vice-Capital, and transferred him to Weizhou."

"When Xiao Su came to Weizhou to explore flowers, he saw that droughts and floods were frequent and the people were struggling to make ends meet. He couldn't help but feel depressed. One day while walking by the Jing River, he saw a ruined temple..."

After speaking, his voice turned lower: "Xiao Su Tanhua used a folding fan to gently sweep away the spider dust on the temple plaque... Oops!"

The loud and clear sound came suddenly, and not only one or two people were frightened. A businessman took a sip of tea and touched the back of the person in front of him, and he apologized and wiped it hurriedly.

After the audience was shocked, they couldn't help but burst into laughter: "Hey" and booed all over.

The old man chuckled: "This has nothing to do with the old man. I want everyone to blame Xiao Su Tanhua. That's what he called him at the time."

The crowd cheered even more vigorously: "Hey"

The old man was shocked: "It doesn't matter at this glance. I can see a public case from four hundred years ago! It turns out that the plaque on the temple actually has the five characters Jinghe Dragon King Temple!"

"Why is it said to be a public case? It turns out that during the reign of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, because Yuan Shoucheng was able to calculate the location of the Jinghe River Aquatic Tribe, the Dragon King of the Jinghe River was deeply angry. He turned into a scholar in white and went to Chang'an City to trouble Yuan Shoucheng and asked him to calculate the number of rains tomorrow.

He counted the time and warned that if he made a mistake, he would be driven out of the city."

"As a result, the heaven suddenly issued an imperial edict, requiring the Dragon King to rain tomorrow, and the time point was exactly as calculated by Yuan Shoucheng!"

"The Dragon King of Jinghe was unwilling to admit defeat and secretly changed the timing of rain, thus violating the rules of heaven."

"Yuan Shoucheng asked him to seek help from Tang Emperor Li Shimin. Tang Emperor promised to save him, but in the end he was beheaded by Wei Zhengmeng, the heavenly official of the human world."

"After the Dragon King died, his soul kept pestering Emperor Tang, and finally took Emperor Tang's soul to the underworld to confront him."

"The Yin Division favored the Tang Emperor and allowed him to return to the Yang Dynasty. The Dragon King's soul became resentful and often caused trouble in the Jing River, causing frequent floods and droughts."

"Xiao Su Tan Hua also came to the world when the Star Lord came to the world. He knew the reason by counting with his fingers, so he filled in the Qing Ci to express his gratitude to the Heavenly Lord, so as to absolve the Dragon King of his sins and return him to his rightful place. He also rebuilt the corridor temple and built a golden body.

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"Therefore, the weather in Jingyuan this year is really good. The neighborhood is full of cattle and sheep, and the warehouses are full of rice and wheat. The government and the court have also shown grace and pardoned the money and grain sent to Weizhou, and the people will live a good life."

"Everyone, it seems that we, the Song Dynasty, are unlucky to have an unreliable neighbor named Xia Guo."

"The leader of the Xia Kingdom is about the same age as Xiao Su Tanhua, but his character is completely different."

"Not to mention having an affair with my cousin-in-law, for the sake of the throne, my cousin-in-law sold her husband to seek glory, and the libertine killed his mother and uncle. In the end, the adulterer became the king and the mother-in-law became the queen! Everyone, fortunately we are all Song Dynasty

If you are from Xixia, you will not be able to stay in this room!"

The ordinary people in the city, regardless of other things, felt that such rhetoric to resist the enemy was particularly relieving, and couldn't help but cheer.

Yin Laochang continued: "Such a couple, coupled with such bad intentions, see that their neighbors are doing well, and they don't want to be like Tanhua Lang who opened canals to encourage crops, promote business, benevolent and righteous, and act rationally.

The government is safe for the people, and there is only one word that goes back and forth in my head!"

"So the Lord of Xia ordered 70,000 elite troops, and the Iron Harriers and Bazi Poxi troops went into battle together. As soon as the wheat in Weizhou is ripe, they will join the invaders!"

"This leads to the two stories of the Longju Dynasty and the Song Dynasty and the Five Little Chaos."

"Although Xiao Su Tanhua is a civil servant, his military management is also extraordinary. He led the volunteer army to resist, and then the flying army captured five passes, Shimen killed two generals, and Shuiluo captured the deputy commander in Sanzhe script."

"Although Xiaosu Tanhua is very resourceful, he is still a civil servant after all. Twenty thousand Xiang troops fought against 70,000 Xia troops, but he was outnumbered. So he lost five passes in a row, was forced to approach Weizhou by the Xia people, and was trapped in Dun'an Village

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"We stopped here in the last chapter, and today we will continue with the last chapter of "War in Weibei""

After saying this, he was stunned: "Tanhua Lang is trapped in Anzhai, and Lady Shi breaks the formation at Liupan Mountain!"
Chapter completed!