Three Kingdoms.

  Chapter 2281 Money to spend and no money to spend

  The conflict between Mi Heng and Pang Tong seems to be very simple.

   It seems like they casually said what are you looking at when they met on the street, and then exploded in the blink of an eye.

When Pang Tong went to Zuo Fengyi to meet Mi Heng, it was not because he valued Mi Heng's name and made a good response, but he came to Mi Heng when he was dealing with official business, and told Mi Heng to restrain himself when he arrived in Chang'an. It may be somewhat late to say that Mi Hengdu did not talk about this matter until he arrived in Chang'an.

  But Pang Tong didn't expect that Ni Heng didn't want to restrain himself at all, so he directly replied to Pang Tong, "Meat eaters are despicable."

  So the two naturally broke up unhappy. Although Pang Tong did not turn his face and stop Mi Heng from entering Chang'an because of this, the words Mi Heng said seemed to be spread "inadvertently"...

   Those who heard it were elated and clapped their hands.

  The image of Mi Heng as a fighter has also been erected more and more among the children of Chang'an gentry.

  『Meat Eaters Despicable』, that's right, none of the above is a good thing!

   After all, this is in line with the needs of the public. The phrase "meat eaters despise" is almost a conventional chain of contempt even in later generations. Then we can cite many examples, such as Zhang Zhao who persuaded Sun Quan to surrender to Cao Cao, Qin Hui who persuaded Zhao Gou to kill Yue Fei, and the four big families who wanted to make a fortune when the country was in crisis, and those who wanted to face foreigners. Some "ethnic" capitalists who kneeled down and licked every drop, or unexplainable groups, etc. These people often only care about whether their own interests are damaged. As for the country, what does it have to do with them?

  From a certain point of view, it seems that there is nothing wrong, but only these people, can they represent all "meat eaters"?

   doesn't seem to be able to represent all of them.

   It's just that some ordinary people don't know how to think about this answer. And some people who know a little bit deliberately lure ordinary people to think in a crooked way, so they don't care about the reason, just like saying that Pang Tong is fat, so Pang Tong must be lazy and incompetent!

  For Mi Heng, he didn't care about Pang Tong's ability or not. He just subconsciously resisted Pang Tong's request, just like his resistance on Cao Cao's side.

  Although Pang Tong's body shape is indeed easy to misunderstand.

In the eyes of many people, fat people are fat because they eat too much and are lazy, and then they must be associated with words such as simple-minded, greedy for money, lustful, stupid and incompetent, etc. Some people even plausibly express that fat people can't even manage their own flesh. How can one manage a team, or even a place?

   But in fact, this kind of rhetoric makes no sense at all, because a thin person can definitely manage the team well and do all the work well?

   In fact, whether a person is fat or not is very simple, that is, the food intake is greater than the consumption, and the person gradually becomes fat. Of course, at the moment of the big man, the fat intake of most people is not enough.

  Because Pang Tong likes to eat fatty meat, and he also has this condition to eat fatty meat, so he eats much more fat than ordinary people, so he is naturally fat.

Pang Tong likes to eat fatty meat, not because he was born with it, but because of some things in his childhood. These are all negative effects left by the body due to the stimulation of green onions when they were young, but in fact these people are not allergic to shallots, but similar to allergies. Simply put, when these people eat instant noodles, they often forget the ingredients in the instant noodles seasoning package. , in fact, there are also onions...

  Pang Tong is a son of Ponzi. If he hadn't shown his intelligence, then Pang Tong would have to go to the fields and work hard like most of the offshoots of the family, and then he might not be able to support himself.

  If a certain family in a family becomes stronger, perhaps the people in this family may benefit from it, especially those who have some relatives with this family, but most of the ordinary people who have no connection will get limited benefits. It's like Jack Ma, the later generation, is as rich as an enemy country. Did all the people surnamed Ma in the whole country get rich immediately?

From a certain point of view, Pang Tong was lucky, and at the same time, Pang Tong was also smart. He knew what he got hard-won, so he cherished it, and even suppressed his own nature to conform to some recognized standards at the time, and these suppressed to the point of Fei Qian here, when Pang Tong gained freedom in the matter of food intake, he began to rebound, and the rebound was even higher than the original depression...

   This kind of rebound after loss is like fat after losing weight, it will bounce back more quickly and stubbornly.

   As a result, Pang Tong inevitably gained weight, just like a freshman in his freshman year.

  The same is true for Ni Heng.

Because of the flattery and admiration originally in the plain, after the loss of Yecheng, Mi Heng was like a spring that was pressed to the bottom. All the way to Chang'an.

Even because of some things in Yecheng, Mi Heng is more eager for attention than when he was in Pingyuan, he likes the feeling of being noticed, and because of this desire, he sometimes does things that even he himself cannot understand . Then in the eyes of ordinary people, it is like seeing a person who started to retch after eating a mouthful of green onions. No way, I vomit after eating an onion, what kind of onion is this? Poisonous onion? I think it's all just pretending? It’s okay for me to eat, and it’s okay for you to eat, why does he eat like that? Must be pretending...

  So, fat people look down on those who can't eat onions, and those who can't eat onions despise fat people.

  This chain of contempt is everywhere, not only for fat people, but also for people with similar allergies, and these gentry children in Guanzhong also have it.

It can be seen from the people in Chang'an who rushed to meet Mi Heng that the acceptance of Mi Heng in Chang'an City is very high, and there is even a feeling of "Oh, you finally appeared", and these The hidden meaning behind the behavior is naturally that these Guanzhong gentry children were suppressed by Fei Qian before, and now seeing a person like Mi Heng who "dare to rebound" and "rebounds sharply" is in front of him, he is overjoyed .

Especially when the children of the Guanzhong gentry learned that even Pang Tong had become "self-closing" by Mi Heng and didn't want to see Mi Heng, they became more and more happy. Naturally, they became more and more enthusiastic about Mi Heng, vying to invite her, even if Mi Heng sat at the banquet for a while, it seemed that the host of the banquet was very capable and capable.

  Then the matter of Ni Heng's hatred of the black fat man will be spread again and again in various forms in public or private occasions...

"do you know…"

  『I heard that...』

  『Meat eaters despise...』

  『Ooh, haha…』

  It was very joyful, as if the streets were full of my own people, and there were good comrades with common aspirations everywhere. After all, the children of the Chang'an gentry don't dare to jump around. The lessons learned from the past are there, but they can order others to jump...

  『Go ahead, pretend to be dead, anyway, it doesn’t matter if I die. 』

  Thus, although Mi Heng didn't have much money, he didn't have to worry about food and drink for a while after arriving in Chang'an.

   "Black Fatty" is equal to "Meat Eater Despicable", it is spread in Chang'an...

  Compared to the hustle and bustle of Mi Heng, Tian Yu is relatively quiet and simple.

Especially in a place like Chang'an, whether it is the current Han Dynasty or the later dynasties, it is basically a place where various high-ranking officials and dignitaries and their second generations gather. , no one will pay attention to it.

However, this also gave Tian Yu a calm environment, but the price of goods in Chang'an made Tian Yu a little worried. Although Tian Yu still has some money on him now, it is unlikely that he will not even have food at the moment, but people always You have to think about the future. It is impossible to say that you can always expect the pie to fall from the sky.

  So Tian Yu was thinking about how to make some money.

   It is of course best to sneak into the Hussar General's Mansion. This is the consensus of almost all the gentry's children. Among other things, as long as you enter the Hussar General's Mansion, you don't have to worry too much about basic necessities, food, housing, and medicine.

   Clothes, issued by the General's Mansion. Needless to say, food, no place to live, there are dormitories in the official residence of the general, buses for travel, medical clinics for sickness, and the salary is higher than that of ordinary civil servants...

   But the bar is too high.

   Not only do you need to register in advance, but you also need to pass the exam, and the number of people enrolled each year is not large.

  Even so, at this time of the year, students from all over the world will come to Chang'an one after another, just to compete for a position in the general's mansion, even a small secretary.

  Tian Yu also signed up like an ordinary gentry boy, and while waiting for the exams in late autumn and early winter, he walked around, watching the governance situation under the hussars, to gauge whether Fei Qian was a hero in his mind.

  But there is still a period of time between now and the beginning of winter, so Tian Yu has been a little worried for the past two days, where to find some small money...

Of course, if there is really no money, Tian Yu can go directly to the big noble family in Shangguan, just report his name and hand over his name badge. If you need a card, you will naturally get some emergency money when you go back.

   It's just that the money is not taken unconditionally.

Most of the time, the money does not expect to get anything in return. Even when the borrower wants to pay back the money, he will be scolded and scolded, which is considered a humiliation by the original owner. Nothing is obtained for no reason. The reason why there is no need to pay back the money is because the favor needs to be paid back.

   "Human favor" is sometimes worthless, and sometimes it is worth ten thousand gold.

Tian Yu didn't want to owe favors to others, so he naturally had some headaches and worries. Before he got paid, Tian Yu's food and beverage standards gradually shifted from ordinary hotels to more ordinary wine shops, and finally to street stalls …

   Today is neither the fifth day nor the tenth day. Therefore, there is no big collection of serious classics, but because Chang'an is Chang'an after all, the surrounding area of ​​Shifang is still very lively. If there is a big gathering, and people from the smaller surrounding counties and villages also come to Chang'an, not only the city of Chang'an will be full of people, but even the general mausoleums will be crowded.

  The place where Tian Yu lives is just an ordinary mausoleum, but there are still densely packed shops on both sides of the street, and the atmosphere of fireworks in the market is stronger than that of Chang'an City. After all, there are palaces and general hussars' mansions in Chang'an City, so it will naturally be more solemn.

  Tian Yu walked slowly on the streets of Lingyi. There is no specific market place in Lingyi, the shops are all on the street, and the streets on both sides are full of all kinds of restaurants, shops, and workshops of gold, silver, copper, iron and tin, and antiques that are not of high grade There are also bookstores, jewelry stores, silk shops and so on.

  In addition to the high-flying store fronts, there are one or two recruiters at the door of almost every store, with their sleeves rolled up and their voices raised, greeting passers-by as if singing an aria.

   There are even some stores that hire female recruits.

Because it's not yet autumn, the weather is still relatively hot, and the sweat on the face of these smart-talking girls inevitably permeates the face, making the face flushed with rouge. It may be a bit embarrassing, but it is also more gorgeous and harmonious. Come alive. Some idlers and prodigals just teased each other along the street in groups of three or four, and then these recruited girls did not flinch in the slightest, laughing and making noise, making laughter everywhere.

  The busiest and most crowded are not the shops on these streets, but the opera shops,

  Gambling in China has a long history, so there are many tricks.

  During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, people in Qi State were addicted to gambling. Whether it was among the upper class aristocrats or the lowly common people, gaming has become an inseparable part of daily life.

  The famous gambling story in Qi State is undoubtedly Tian Ji's horse racing. The upper-class nobles like horse racing, while the lower-class people love to play "cockfighting" and "running dogs". Liu Bei liked "cockfighting and running dogs" when he was young. Even in "Zuo Zhuan" there is a special pen and ink written about how to cheat in "cockfighting"...

  At present, "Liubo" has gradually given way to "Tianpu". Even when the store was negotiating the price, the two sides could not settle down, even if they simply judged the winners and losers based on the game of "Xi Pu", there were many people who were happy when they won, and stomped when they lost, but so many people never tired of it.

   Tian Yu stood in front of the Puxi shop, hesitated for a moment, took two steps forward, but stopped again, then thought for a while, gritted his teeth, turned and entered the Puxi shop.

  As soon as the heavy door curtain was lifted, the rolling sound was as real as it was, and Tian Yu almost fell into a tumble.

  In the huge Puxi shop, there are a lot of people, gathered in one place in piles, and then shouting everything, jumping when excited, and don’t even care about the crooked clothes...

  The most lively place is the gaming area of ​​Jipu. When Tian Yu came in, some people were having fun, and many people gathered around, shouting "Lu Zhi", and the sound almost lifted the roof.

  樗Pu, also known as "Pu Xi", uses a set of five throwing tools made of wood. The two ends of the throwing tool are round and sharp, and the middle is flat and wide, like a squashed almond. Each throw has two sides, one painted black and one white, with a calf painted on the black and a pheasant painted on the white.

  How to play? It's a bit like flying chess of later generations.

Throw "five woods" in turn, and then arrange them according to the colors to get different "colors". It is called "Owl" or "calf", and it is a miscellaneous color. If you get the expensive lottery, you can throw it in succession, or hit the horse, or pass the test, but you can't with the miscellaneous lottery.

The "Lanke" in the legends of later generations is actually "Xiapu", which first appeared in the strange talk at the end of Jin Dynasty. It is said that when someone was riding a horse, he saw two old men playing with "Xiapu". During the middle game, I suddenly found that the whip had rotted, the horse had become bones, and when I returned home, all relatives had died...

  Tian Yu looked around, and instead of going to the other side of the shop, he walked to the other corner of the shop.

  This is the pitching area.

  Compared with Pupu, it is relatively quiet here, perhaps because the project of throwing pots was originally part of the etiquette of the gentry, and there are often games of throwing pots when banquets are held.

At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, throwing pots was relatively simple. Later, during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, a comedian surnamed Guo revolutionized the way of throwing pots. He removed the red beans that were originally in the pot, and then cut the bamboo into sagittal shapes for use. throw. Since there is no padding to cushion, the arrows are easier to pop out of the jug, so there is more to play with...

  Tian Yu is good at throwing pots, so he wanted to use this skill to make some money, and throwing pots is basically an elegant activity, so it is relatively respectable.

Tian Yu sat on the side of a throwing pot, then took out some coins from his arms, thought for a while, and kept some, but after putting two Zhengxi silver coins on the side of the throwing pot, he took the throwing arrows aside Box to pick and throw arrows...

  For serious pitching, there must be an officiant, a shooter, a musician, etc., but since it is in a poker shop, of course a lot is saved, only the referee and the opponent are needed.

  The referee is of course the person in the poker shop, who is responsible for providing the equipment, and naturally has a choice. After seeing Tian Yu put down the bet, he stood before the pot and started to solicit the bettors.

   Naturally, there are people in the Puxi shop who make a living by throwing pots, just like there are some fishers in the guts of later generations. When they saw Tian Yu pressing down two silver coins, their eyes lit up, but they also hesitated. After all, I don't know Tian Yu's background. If he wins, it will be fine. If he loses, it's not a small sum...

  But after all, someone still felt that he was skilled, so he stepped forward and sat opposite Tian Yu, and then took out two silver coins from the purse, and put them on.

Seeing that the bet was established, the clerk in the poker shop who was temporarily serving as the referee yelled loudly, and while collecting the bets of the two people in front of the throwing pot, he reiterated the rules of throwing arrows, such as two people's knees should not leave the ground , You can't touch the pot with your arms, you can't fall to the ground, you can't throw arrows, and so on.

  Tian Yu nodded slightly to show his understanding, and placed the four arrows in front of his knees.

   Tian Yu's opponent stared at Tian Yu, and also selected four arrows, and placed them in front of him.

   After the two sides were silent and bowed slightly to salute, the pot-throwing competition to determine the ownership of the four silver coins began...

  (end of this chapter)