Zhao Gang was idle and went to Dandong again on Double Ninth Festival. Dandong in Jiangcheng was pleasant in the climate, elegant environment and beautiful scenery; Yalu River was rippling blue waves, and the crisp singing of a woman came from time to time on the river. It was Double Ninth Festival, and the streets were filled with flowers, embellishing the huge Jiangcheng into a golden city. Zhao Gang felt itchy, with thousands of taels of silver notes in his arms, and his eyes were shining. Others were tall, with a red dogwood on their faces and a long black suit, which made them look more handsome and extraordinary. The women on the street were mostly smiling and conveying feelings. Zhao Gang was very happy when he saw it, and his face looked like a gentleman, walking on the street without looking sideways.

Unexpectedly, at noon, a thin layer of clouds was laid on the sky. After another moment, the clouds became thicker and thicker, and it was about to come. Zhao Gang's stomach had already sang an empty city plan and dared not hunt for beauty along the street. He saw a restaurant not far away with "Taibailou" written on it, and walked over quickly.

When you get closer, you can't help but make people shine. Facing the Yalu River, facing the Cuiping Mountain, surrounded by pines and cypresses, it is a magnificent and magnificent "Taibai Building" with a brilliant golden wall.

From a distance, Taibai Building is a little higher than the surrounding buildings. When he entered the restaurant, Zhao Gang discovered that the building was divided into three floors, one floor is a hall, two floors are a building, three floors are pavilions. The front and back are divided into two courtyards, the front and the front are restaurants, and the back are accommodation places. The bottom floor of the main building is made of bluestone, the second and third floors are made of wooden structures, with golden edges inlaid with golden edges, and the hip roof is paved with yellow glazed tiles. The simple tiles and dripping water decorations are made of turtles, fish and beasts. The shape is ancient and elegant, upright and spectacular, giving people a solemn and solemn feeling. A pair of stone lions squatted on both sides of the door, with fine carvings and lively shapes. The corridors on both walls of the entrance are embossed with Li Bai’s life inscriptions. The plaque of "Taibai Building" is hung high under the eaves of the third floor. The font is vigorous and powerful. It should be written by a famous artist, but Zhao Gang did not understand the font. He could only see the character "Zhang" in the signature, and the characters behind cannot be identified no matter what.

It was already a little late when Zhao Gang came. The first floor was already full. The waiter led him to a vacant seat on the second floor. Seeing that the pavilions in the third floor were empty, Zhao Gang asked, "Brother, can there be a vacant seat on the third floor?"

As soon as these words came out, the people who were eating on the first and second floors were quiet. Zhao Gang was shocked for some reason.

The waiter replied: "I'm so sorry, this uncle, you can't go inside the third floor."

Zhao Gang said strangely: "I don't like to hear these words. Do you think the old man has no money?"

After saying that, Zhao Gang slapped a silver bill of 100 taels on the table.

Zhao Gang from the second team bowed and told the story of Taibailou.

When the waiter talked about the whole story, Zhao Gang knew the rules of Taibai Building. It turned out that the first and second floors could be used as long as they had money, but the third floor was different. It only opened three days before the Double Ninth Festival every year. However, if you want to go upstairs, you need to answer the three questions about hugging the master first. If you answered, you can not only go upstairs, but also give them a big gift. When the waiter preached the "big gift", his expression was strange, but Zhao Gang did not pay attention. Later, when he understood, he could only smile bitterly at the waiter's cunning.

At first, everyone tried it happily, but after repeated trials, no one passed it for a few years, so they slowly gave up. Today, when they saw a foreigner dressed in a martial artist, he wanted to go to the third floor to drink, he couldn't help but shake his head.

Zhao Gang knew the whole story. He was not interested in the exam at all, but when he saw everyone's expressions of contempt, he felt arrogant. He said to the waiter loudly: "Where is the test question? Take it quickly, don't delay the uncle's drink!"

When the waiter heard this, he went to get the test questions. Most of the people around him thought that Zhao Gang would not be able to pass it. He was bored and had already opened the plate. He could not pass the first level with ten compensation and one bet. Zhao Gang was even more angry when he saw it. He took a thousand taels and put them on the table, and said loudly:

"Everyone, Zhao is put here one thousand taels. If I can't pass the three levels, I will lose. That hero will bet with me."

Now, all the drinkers in the restaurant took the silver and piled it on the other side of the table. After a while, thousands of taels of silver were piled up.

At this moment, the waiter had already brought a piece of paper over. Zhao Gang took it and saw a question: "I don't know the number of things. There are two left in three or three, three left in five or five, and two left in seven or seven. How much is this thing?"

This question is not difficult for Zhao Gang. In Zhao Gang's view, this is just a system of three-element equations. He has calculated the numbers with his own silence and wrote more than 23 crooked and slanted characters on it.

When everyone saw that his name was ugly, some people laughed out loud, while others thought he was writing randomly, so they waited to see his excitement.

Shortly after the waiter went there, he walked to Zhao Gang with a manager's side. The manager took a scroll in his hand and handed it to Zhao Gang, saying respectfully: "Young Master, since you have solved the first question, you will give this little thing to the young master as a lottery ticket. Please accept it with a smile."

After hearing the words of the manager, everyone was shocked and realized that they had passed the test. This was really unexpected. A few good things took out the seats and asked Zhao Gang to take them. At the same time, they took a picture scroll and showed it.

The scroll was only more than two meters away, and it unfolded in a short while. Zhao Gang didn't know how to draw, but there was a sense of arrogance and murderous aura in the painting, which made Zhao Gang unable to control himself.

There was a sound of gasping in the air next to me, and a middle-aged scholar watching chanted loudly:

"When you are drunk, you can look at the sword with a lamp, and you can dream of blowing the horns and camps. You can split your troops in eight hundred miles, and you can turn the sound of fifty strings. You can draw soldiers on the battlefield. The horses are made of fast, and the bow is as fast as thunder and strings, and you can clear the affairs of the king and the world, and you will win the reputation of your life and come back. It is a pity."

"This is the map of King Yue's military order." For a moment, the restaurant was in chaos, and everyone rushed over, wanting to take a look at the legendary famous paintings.

Zhao Gang was so anxious that he was afraid that these people would ruin the painting. Fortunately, they were all scholars, but although they were crowded, they were not frivolous. After seeing the painting, they would disperse.

At this time, everyone wanted to see if this foreigner could answer the second question correctly.

The second question is not many, ‘What is the most important thing in the country at present?’

Zhao Gang smiled, it was just a child-level question. He waved his hand to write the word "industry". The word was still very ugly, but everyone dared not underestimate it.

After a while, the manager turned around and said to Zhao Gang softly: "Young Master, I'm sorry, I didn't answer correctly this time. But I said that you have extraordinary knowledge. If you can answer the third question correctly, you can go upstairs to talk."

Zhao Gang was dissatisfied and bowed to the manager: "What is the answer to the second question? If you can tell me, I will be grateful."

The manager turned over the back of the third question. Zhao Gang saw that it was the answer to the second question: "Education is the foundation of a country."

Zhao Gang was speechless, and the injustice in his heart had long disappeared, replaced by a kind of admiration. In order to meet this sage faster, Zhao Gang hurriedly started the third question.

The same as the first two questions, the third question is only a few words "Borrowing the Scenery to Saying My Thoughts"

Zhao Gang was in trouble. As a modern person, he was not good at poetry. After thinking about it, there was no poetry that could match the surrounding scenery.

Zhao Gang was so anxious that he rubbed his hands. The manager beside him looked at it and quietly took a hand stove over: "Uncle, it's snowing now, but it's a little cold. You used this hand warmer and you'll be energetic after you warm it up. Look at the weather, it's a bit more glorious."

When Zhao Gang heard what the manager said, he felt that there was something in his words, and most of them were giving guidance. However, Zhao Gang had too thin foundation and could not even make a word. Seeing Zhao Gang's appearance, the manager knew that Zhao Gang didn't understand what he meant, so he said again:

“Sometimes, snow is also a kind of landscape….”

The words in charge suddenly activated Zhao Gang's inspiration. Zhao Gang stood up excitedly, picked up the brush, and started writing wildly, and in an instant it was done.

“The scenery of the north is filled with ice for thousands of miles and snow falls.

Inside and outside Wangjiang City, there are only the wild and wild;

The river suddenly lost its surging surging."

The in charge nodded slightly. It was not easy to be able to fight in a hurry. It was okay to look at the artistic conception, but there was a couplet from Emperor Qianlong.

"Yao and Shun were born, Tang and Wujing, the five hegemons and seven heroes, Chou and the duke of Yi Yin, was considered to be a trick, and the rest were called generals, but they were just chess-shaking and shouting as slaves;

"The four books say, "The Five Classics are quoted, and various schools of thought are mixed. Du Fu and Li Bai can sing a few random words, and in addition, they are chewing words, and most of them beg for lotus flowers along the streets."

Before, I guess the artistic conception has been written, and it is difficult for future generations to surpass it. Let’s take a look at it.

"The silver snake dances in the mountains, and the wax figures are galloping, and I want to compete with the heavens.

On a sunny day, I look at the red dress and it is very enchanting."

The manager shook his head. He originally said that he would suppress it first and then raise it, but these sentences were written too peacefully. It was so difficult to raise it later. This word is mostly a bit of a slight beginning and a few more words. Seeing Zhao Gang wrote a few more sentences, he took a few casual glances.

"*, attracting countless heroes to fight.

He cherishes Qin Emperor and Han Wu, and loses his literary talent;

Emperor Tang and Emperor Song Zu were slightly inferior to each other.

Genghis Khan, a genius of a generation, only knew how to bending a bow and shooting eagles.

All have passed, and the wind and liu characters are still looking at the present day.”

The manager next to him was stunned when he saw the third sentence. After reading it, he was speechless. This word is truly a masterpiece of history. It not only surpasses the predecessors in artistic conception, but also matches the scenery very well. However, this word vaguely means to be the best, but it cannot be viewed by others.

The surroundings were already full of shock. Some people had already picked up paper and pen and copied the eternal good sentence. The in charge of the business hurriedly put it away and hurriedly sent it to the third floor.

After a while, the manager looked happy and walked to the spacious place on the second floor and said loudly: "Everyone, today I am so despicable that I like to welcome the distinguished guests, this guest...

Speaking of this, the manager remembered that he didn't know the guest's name and asked in a low voice: "Is this guest's surname?"

Zhao Gang also answered in a low voice. The in charge was surprised and asked: "Why is your name the same as the hero of the great destruction bandit Du Lishan a few days ago?"

Zhao Gang waved his hand: "Brother, I dare not hide it from you. I am a mere person. However, the merit of suppressing bandits is not just the next one. Without all the brothers to fight the enemy, I can't beat the bandits by just my own strength. Please keep my identity confidential."

The in charge respected him even more. After saying a few words, he took Zhao Gang to the third floor, leaving a look of envy.

The in charge took Zhao Gang to the largest room and retreated. Zhao Gang hesitated for a moment and knocked on the door gently.

After a long time, a young woman opened the door. The woman had a pretty face and tall figure. She glanced at Zhao Gang with her big eyes, and a red glow suddenly appeared on her face. She stretched out her hand and pointed to the window, and then quietly retreated. A black and thin middle-aged man stood in front of the window and looked into the distance with his railing. Zhao Gang was a little disappointed. He originally thought that the pretty woman was the poster, and he had already thought of having both talents, but he didn't expect that the poster was a middle-aged old man.

When the middle-aged man turned around, he was the one in charge just now. Zhao Gang changed his mind and understood, and couldn't help but complain: "Why did this guy dress up as a manager to lie to me!"

The middle-aged man smiled and bowed:

"I Zhang Jian, I saw General Zhao's quick thinking just now, so I was curious. Please don't blame the general. I prepared some wine and food. If the general doesn't dislike it, how many drinks should I drink with him?"

Zhao Gang knew Zhang Jian, but he didn't expect to meet this famous talented man in the late Qing Dynasty in Dandong. He was extremely happy and said hurriedly:

"It turns out that Teacher Zhang is here, and student Zhao Gang is polite." After that, he was about to perform the ceremony of apprenticeship.

Zhang Jian smiled and stroked his beard: "General Zhao, how can you afford it..." He helped Zhao Gang up while saying that, but he was slow to move. Obviously, Zhang Jian also admired Zhao Gang very much and intended to take him to his disciples.

When Zhao Gang saw him, he immediately seized the opportunity and performed the ceremony of apprenticeship. Zhang Jian helped Zhao Gang up with a smile and said:

"You don't have to be too polite to your disciple. You have already set up a banquet for your teacher, so you should welcome you."

After saying that, Zhang Gang pulled into a hall opposite the river. The scenery here was very different. Looking out through the window, I saw the river water like a train, with white sails dotted. It made me feel refreshed and as if I had entered a fairyland.

In the hall, there was a table of Eight Immortals, and all kinds of dishes were slowly set up. Seeing Zhang Jian coming, the table started immediately. The two of them had extraordinary knowledge and chatted while drinking, and they had a very speculative conversation.

Before he knew it, he was almost drunk, and Zhang Jian asked:

"Where is my nephew living now? Is the high hall good? Do you have a wife now?"

Zhao Gang's heart was shocked, "Good guy, I'm here to find out." Fortunately, he had already compiled a set of family backgrounds and thought about it for a while to answer Zhang Jian:

"The student is from Zhili. In the eighth year of Guangxu, my parents suffered from plague and both passed away. I made a living by begging. Later, I defected to Admiral Ye Zhichao. My family was poor and I had never married yet."

Zhang Jian was happy after hearing this and said to Zhao Gang:

"Since that's the case, I want to tell you a marriage, how about you?"

Zhao Gang hurriedly stood up and saluted Zhang Jian respectfully:

"The students all follow the teacher's instructions."

Seeing Zhao Gang respectful, Zhang Jian couldn't help but feel proud and said to the maid standing beside him:

"Call Pin'er here."

After a while, a woman walked in quickly with the sound of the ring-peeping sound. Zhao Gang only saw one side, and was vaguely the woman who opened the door just now. Zhao Gang thought that this beauty would become his wife in the future, and could not help but be keen on her heart.

The woman walked up to Zhang Jian and whispered:

"Master, the eldest lady said that I have to say a few words to my son-in-law first."

Zhang Jian's face became gloomy when he heard this:

"The parents' orders cannot be tolerated by her. Today is too hasty. Tomorrow is auspicious day, so you two will worship the heaven and earth."
To be continued...