Three Kingdoms

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

It seemed like they would casually say "what are you looking at" when meeting on the street, and then in the blink of an eye, it would break out.

Pang Tong went to Zuo Fengyi to see Mi Heng, not because he valued Mi Heng's reputation, but because he was doing some official business, he went to see Mi Heng and warned Mi Heng to be more restrained when he arrived in Chang'an. After all, if I'm afraid it's a little late to say that you didn't talk about this until Mi Heng arrived in Chang'an.

But Pang Tong didn't expect that Mi 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 on bad terms. Although Pang Tong did not stop Mi Heng from entering Chang'an because of this, it seems that what Mi Heng said was "inadvertently" spread...

Those who heard it were elated and clapped their hands.

Mi Heng's image as a fighter has become more and more established among the Chang'an gentry.

"Meat eaters despise", that's right, none of the above are good!

After all, this is in line with the public's conceptual needs. The phrase "meat eaters are despised" has become almost a conventional chain of contempt even in later generations. Then there are many examples that can be cited, 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 major families who wanted to make a fortune during the national crisis, as well as those who wanted to face foreigners. Certain "national" capitalists or unspeakable groups who knelt down and licked every drop away, etc. These people often only care about whether their own interests are harmed. As for how the country is doing, what does it have to do with them?

From a certain perspective, there seems to be nothing wrong, but can these people represent all "meat eaters"?

It seems that not all can be represented.

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 wrongly, so they don't care about any 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. He just subconsciously resisted Pang Tong's request, just like he resisted with Cao Cao.

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

In the eyes of many people, fat people are fat because they eat well and are lazy, which is why they are fat. This is inevitably associated with words such as being simple-minded, lustful, stupid and incompetent, etc. Some people may even plausibly say that fat people cannot even manage their own flesh. How can you manage a team or even a place?

But in fact, this kind of argument 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. It means that the food intake is greater than the food consumption, and the person gradually becomes fat. Of course, in today's modern world, most people's fat intake is not enough.

Because Pang Tong likes to eat fat meat, and he has the conditions to eat fat meat, he consumes much more fat than ordinary people, and he naturally becomes fat.

Pang Tong likes to eat fat meat. This is not because he was born with it, but because he was influenced by some things that happened when he was a child. For example, some people refuse to eat onions to death. After eating them, they will feel retching and nausea, which is like morning sickness. Most of them These are all negative effects left on the body due to the stimulation of onions in childhood. However, in fact, these people are not allergic to onions, but are similar to allergies. To put it simply, when these people eat instant noodles, they often forget what is in the instant noodles seasoning packet. , in fact, there are also onions...

Pang Tong is the son of Pang family. If he hadn't shown his intelligence, then Pang Tong would have had to work hard in the fields like most of the other family members, but he might not be able to support himself.

If a certain family in a family becomes stronger, perhaps the people in the family may benefit from it, especially those who have some relatives with this family. However, most ordinary people who are not related will receive limited benefits. Just like in later generations, Jack Ma was so rich that everyone in the country became rich immediately?

From a certain perspective, Pang Tong was lucky. At the same time, Pang Tong was also smart. He knew that what he got was hard-earned, so he cherished it very much and even suppressed his nature to conform to some of the standards recognized at the time. These suppressed Feiqian here, when Pang Tong was free from food intake, he began to rebound, and the rebound was even higher than the original depression...

This kind of rebound after losing weight is like fat after losing weight. It will rebound more quickly and stubbornly.

Therefore, Pang Tong inevitably gained weight, becoming as wide and fat as a freshman.

The same is true for Mi Heng.

Because after losing the compliments and admiration in the plains in Yecheng, Mi Heng was like a spring that was pressed to the bottom. When he got the outlet to vent, he naturally bounced up regardless, and then All the way to Chang'an.

Even because of some things in Yecheng, Mi Heng is even more eager for attention than when he was in Pingyuan. He likes the feeling of being noticed, and because of this desire, he will do some things that even he himself can sometimes find difficult to understand. . Then in the eyes of ordinary people, it is like seeing a person who started retching after taking a bite of green onions. No way, you will vomit after eating an onion. What kind of onion is this? Poisonous onions? I think it's all just an act? It's okay for me to eat, and it's okay for you to eat. Why does he eat like that? It must be pretending...

As a result, fat people look down on those who can't eat green onions, and those who can't eat green onions despise fat people.

This chain of contempt is everywhere, not only among fat people, but also among people with similar allergies, but also among the gentry children in Guanzhong.

From the people in Chang'an who rushed to greet Mi Heng, it can be seen that the acceptance of Mi Heng in Chang'an City is very high, and there is even a feeling of "Oh, your boss has finally appeared", and these The hidden meaning behind this behavior is naturally that these children of the Guanzhong gentry were suppressed by Fei Qian before, and now that they see someone like Mi Heng who "dare to rebound" and "rebound sharply" in front of them, they are overjoyed. .

Especially after these disciples of the Guanzhong gentry clan learned that even Pang Tong had been reprimanded by Mi Heng and became "autistic" and unwilling to see Mi Heng, they became even more happy. It felt like there was finally something like this in the sky and the earth. Naturally, they became more and more enthusiastic about Mi Heng, vying for invitations. Even if Mi Heng sat at the banquet for just a moment, it was as if the host of the banquet was very capable and capable.

Then the incident of Mi Heng attacking the black fat man will be spread again and again in various forms in public or private occasions...

"do you know……"

"I heard..."

"Meat eaters are despicable..."

"Oh, haha..."

It was very joyful, as if the streets were full of my own people, and there were good comrades everywhere who shared the same aspirations. After all, the children of the Chang'an gentry don't dare to jump around. There are lessons for the past, but they can make others jump...

"Go away, pretend to be pretentious, seek death, anyway, it won't happen if I die." 』

Therefore, although Mi Heng didn't have much money, he didn't have to worry about food and drink at all after arriving in Chang'an.

"Black fat man" is equivalent to "meat eaters are despicable", so it became popular in Chang'an...

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

Especially in a place like Chang'an, whether it was the Han Dynasty or later dynasties, it was basically a gathering place for various dignitaries and second generations, a small descendant of the gentry from a remote place, or even a descendant of the poor. , even more 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 had some money on him, he would not have to eat at the moment, but people always You have to think about the future, and you can't always hope for pie to fall from the sky.

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

Of course, the best thing is to sneak into the Hussar General's Mansion. This is the consensus of almost all the nobles. If nothing else, as long as you enter the Hussar General's Mansion, you don't have to worry too much about food, clothing, housing and medical practice.

Clothes are sent from the General's Mansion. Needless to say, there is no need to talk about food. There is no place to live. There are dormitories in the general's mansion, buses for travel, and medical clinics for illnesses. Moreover, the salary is higher than that of ordinary civil servants...

But the threshold is too high.

Not only do you need to register in advance, but you also have to pass an exam. At the same time, the number of people recruited every year is not large.

Even so, at this time every year, students from all over the country would come to Chang'an one after another in order to compete for a position in the general's palace, even a small assistant secretary.

Tian Yu also signed up like an ordinary nobleman, and then while waiting for the exam in late autumn and early winter, he walked around and looked at the management situation under the hussar to measure whether Fei Qian was a hero in his mind.

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

Of course, if he really ran out of money, Tian Yu could go directly to a big noble family in Guanzhong. He only needed to tell his name and hand over his name. If the owner was willing to meet him, he could pay his respects. There was no need to say anything about borrowing money, not even an IOU. If you need to get one, you can naturally get some emergency money when you go back.

It's just that these money are not taken unconditionally.

Most of the time, the money is not expected to be repaid. 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. However, in fact, in this world, Nothing is obtained for free. The reason why you don't need to pay back the money is because you need to pay back the favor.

"Favor" is sometimes worthless, and sometimes it is worth tens of thousands of dollars.

Tian Yu didn't want to owe others favors, so he naturally had some headaches and worries. Before there was any income, Tian Yu's catering 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 large collection of serious works, but because Chang'an is Chang'an after all, the surrounding areas are still very lively. If there really is a big gathering and people from 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 tombs 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 the city's fireworks is stronger than that of Chang'an city. After all, there are palaces and general offices in Chang'an City, so it will naturally be more solemn and solemn.

Tian Yu walked slowly on the streets of Lingyi. There is no specific market in Lingyi. The shops are all on the street. The streets on both sides are full of various food shops, souvenir shops, various gold, silver, copper, iron and tin workshops, and not many high-end antiques. There are also bookshops, jewelry shops, silk and satin shops, etc.

In addition to the high-flying shop fronts, there are one or two salesmen in front of almost every store, rolling up their sleeves and raising their voices, greeting passers-by as if singing an aria.

There are even some stores that hire female market recruiters.

Because it has not yet entered autumn, the weather is still relatively hot, and the pink faces of these smart-talking market girls can't help but have a light sweat penetrated into their pink faces, turning them red with rouge. They may be a little embarrassed, but they are also more beautiful and harmonious. Come alive. Some idle men and libertines were teasing them one by one along the street in small groups, and then these market-recruiting girls did not flinch at all, laughing and joking so that there was laughter everywhere.

The most lively and crowded ones are not the shops on these streets, but the play shops.

Gambling in China has a long history, so there are many types of gambling.

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

The famous gambling story in Qi is undoubtedly Tian Ji's horse racing. The upper-class nobles like horse racing, while the lower-class people like to play "cockfighting" and "running dogs." When Liu Bei was young, he liked "cockfighting and running dogs." There is even a special chapter in "Zuo Zhuan" about how to cheat in "cockfighting"...

At the moment, "Liu Bo" has gradually given way to "Ai Pu". Even when the store was negotiating prices, the two sides couldn't come to an agreement. Even if they just decided on winning or losing based on a game of "Chinese Pu", many people would be happy to win and stomp their feet when losing, but so many people enjoyed it endlessly.

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

As soon as the heavy door curtain was opened, the roaring sound seemed to be real, almost knocking Tian Yu over.

Inside the huge play shop, there were crowds of people, gathering in piles in one place, shouting and shouting, jumping around when they got excited, not even caring about their clothes being askew...

The busiest area was the gaming area in Aipu. When Tian Yu came in, some people happened to be having a lot of fun, and many people gathered around, shouting "Lu Pheasant", and the sound almost lifted the roof off.

Ai Pu, also known as "Pu Opera", 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 flattened almond. Each throwing tool has two sides, one side is painted black and the other side is painted white, with a calf painted on the black side and a pheasant painted on the white side.

How it is played is somewhat like the flying chess of later generations.

Take turns throwing "five woods", and then arrange them according to the colors to get different "colors". The highest level is all black, called "Lu", four black and one white is called "Pheasant", followed by Lu, the other four It's called "Xiao" or "Calf", which is a variety of colors. If you get the lucky lottery, you can throw continuously, hit the horse, or pass the level, but you can't get the mixed lottery.

The "Lan Ke" in the legend of later generations is actually "Ai Pu". It first appeared in the ghost stories in the late Jin Dynasty. It is said that someone encountered two old men playing with Ai Pu while riding a horse, and couldn't help but get off his horse to watch, and then In the middle of the game, I suddenly discovered that the riding whip had rotted and the horse had turned into withered bones. When I returned home, my relatives were all dead...

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

This is the pot throwing area.

Compared with Aipu, it is relatively quiet here. Perhaps because the project of throwing pots was originally part of the etiquette of the nobles, the game of throwing pots was often played during banquets.

In the early Han Dynasty, throwing pots was relatively simple. Later, during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, a actor named Guo innovated the method of throwing pots. He removed the red beans that were originally in the pots, and then cut the bamboo into sagittal shapes. Throw. Because there is no padding for cushioning, the arrows are easier to pop out of the pot, so there are more ways to play...

Tian Yu is good at throwing pots, so he wants to use this skill to make some money. Moreover, throwing pots is basically an elegant activity, so it does not lose his status relatively speaking.

Tian Yu sat next to a tou pot, and then took out some coins from his arms. After thinking about it, he kept some, but after placing two Zhengxi silver coins next to the tou pot, he took out the tou arrows on the side. Come to the box and pick out the arrows...

For a serious game of hut, there needs to be an officiant, a shooter, musicians, etc. But since it is in a hut shop, of course it saves a lot, only the referee and the opponent are needed.

Of course, the referee is someone from the poker shop who is responsible for providing the equipment and naturally has the tap. After seeing Tian Yu placing the bet, he stood in front of the throwing pot and began to recruit people to bet against him.

Naturally, there are people who make a living by throwing pots in the play shop, just like there are some people who fish in the belly of later generations. When he saw Tian Yu pressing down two silver coins, his eyes lit up, but he also hesitated. After all, I don’t know where Tian Yu came from. If I win, everything will be fine. If I lose, it won’t be a small sum...

But after all, someone felt that they were very skilled, so they stepped forward and sat across from Tian Yu, then took out two silver coins from the money bag and deposited them.

Seeing that the bet was established, the guy in the throwing shop who served as the temporary referee started shouting loudly. While collecting the two people's bets in front of the throwing pot, he reiterated the rules of throwing, such as the two people's knees must not leave the ground. , the arms cannot touch the pot, the body cannot fall to the ground, the arrow cannot be thrown at people, etc.

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

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

Then, after both parties were silent and bowed slightly forward, the pot-throwing competition to determine the ownership of the four silver coins began...