Chapter 10 Banquet
The two quickly returned the gift and exchanged names.
Xu Xian secretly admired the precociousness of the ancients. This Pan Yu looked to be only sixteen or seventeen years old. In modern times, he was still an ignorant high school student. But judging from Pan Yu's speech and behavior, he was already quite classy. Even though he only spent a moment with him, he felt very
A feeling of spring breeze. Coupled with the handsome appearance, people can't help but think of the four words "a gentleman is like a jade".
Pan Yu talked and laughed freely. Although his target was Xu Xian, he would never make Wang An feel the slightest neglect. He also secretly looked at Xu Xian. Although his appearance was just average, his eyes were clear and burning, with an air of magnanimity.
Rare among these scholars...
And he always felt that there was a distinctive temperament in Xu Xian's behavior, but he couldn't tell the specifics. Pan Yu didn't know that modern people's souls naturally carry modern habits, shrugging when they are helpless,
The way he chooses words and sentences, and even has a bit of Western humor, makes him stand out.
The so-called temperament is the comprehensive sense that these little things come together to give people. If a person is dressed in rags and sits motionless on the roadside, there are still people who can see something remarkable from his "deep eyes"
That's the biggest joke in the world.
"From now on, we will all be classmates. Today I am hosting a party, and I would like to invite you all to get together. I wonder if you two are willing to give me a favor?" Pan Yu's eyes flickered, and finally landed on Xu Xian's face.
"Thank you so much, Brother Pan. I've been hungry for a long time." Xu Xian said with a grin. Now he feels a little bit like when he was in school. It's normal to have dinner together.
Pan Yu was stunned. He had to say some polite words at this time, but he didn't expect Xu Xian to be so direct. He also smiled and said: "Brother Xu, I'm very happy. I'll go and invite you to see who else comes. To be honest.
, I’m a little hungry too.”
Wang An blushed a little next to him, and after Pan Yu left, he complained again.
Xu Xian said rudely: "Eat what you have, why talk so much!"
Wang An sighed repeatedly, but Xu Xian was helpless. The mistakes and omissions in the exam just now were completely forgotten.
Jintian Academy is not far from the West Lake. On the Wangyue Tower by the lake, everyone sat down one after another. The banquet had been set long ago, and soon the table was filled with dishes.
Xu Xian is a glutton. Although some of them are from poor backgrounds, Xu Xian is originally a modern person. Although his family background is average, it is normal for him to go to a restaurant and eat some meat. Ever since he time traveled, he has been like this
My sister supports the family, and it is good to have food to eat. If there is any objection, Xu Xian feels that it is not a human thing to do, so he not only wants to eat, but also eats happily. But this kind of life is really difficult. Xu Xian
Looking back on the past, I turned my grief into appetite. I picked up a chicken drumstick and ate it with big mouthfuls. I vowed that I would eat chicken drumsticks every time I became rich in the future.
Everyone else was talking about the bright future and the national economy and people's livelihood. Xu Xianwu fought with the chicken legs and made a great wish to study in order to eat chicken legs. Fortunately, there were so many people, everyone only focused on expressing their own opinions and didn't pay much attention to others.
Only Pan Yu glanced over at him from time to time and found it interesting. He had also seen crazy people who didn't care about other people's opinions, but this was the first time he had seen such crazy people. After a while, even he secretly suspected that the chicken legs were really that good.
It was delicious. I tried one of them, but it still tasted the same as before.
With so many people, naturally they couldn't just sit and eat, and scholars couldn't guess at guessing games like the people in the market. So someone suggested reciting poems and gambling, and everyone responded.
Pan Yu was the first to be the host. He was not polite and stood up generously. His face was already extremely handsome. After drinking, his face became flushed, like a white jade dyed with clouds, just like the person in the painting. Not yet.
Everyone who was reciting the poem was already moved by his graceful appearance. After reciting the poem, it even attracted applause from the whole hall. Even Xu Xian stopped and said hello in the middle of his busy schedule.
It was Xu Xian's turn to write a poem, but he put down his chopsticks with a smile without thinking about it. Others thought he was confident, but they didn't expect Xu Xian picked up the wine glass and poured himself three cups. Then he said to Dan Wang An next to him: "That's right.
You are."
Everyone was stunned. At this time, they were going to say something about the situation of not being able to think well today. This person was not polite and picked up the chopsticks again.
So he was drinking like this, and Xu Xian drank wine as soon as he came. He didn't mix it in writing lyrics or doing things, he just ate and drank there.
In ancient times, due to limited wine-making technology, the wine taste was very light. Moreover, it was in a small cup, so Xu Xian didn't care, but the small cup of light wine sometimes made people more intoxicated. By the time the banquet was over, he was already half drunk and half awake.
Everyone staggered but returned to Jingtian Academy. The academy had already arranged buildings. No matter whether the students were rich or poor, they all had the same residence. They lived in the same room, and Pan Yu and Xu Xian lived in the same room.
Wang An and Xu Xian, who were originally from the same hometown, now sleep together. This is the arrangement of the elders. I only hope that the two can become good friends and support each other in their career in the future.
There is an incense burner, a small table, a bed with a carved screen, and the room is elegantly decorated.
Pan Yu and Xu Xian walked into the room supporting each other. Xu Xian fell on the bed and let out a slight groan.
Pan Yu's blurred eyes immediately became clear. He took out a piece of bright red jade leaf from his mouth, poured a cup of tea, and put the piece of jade leaf into the tea. After a while, the leaf changed color, and the tea exuded a fragrance.
It smells like wine. Pan Yu will turn white, but the jade leaves are taken out and put back into the arms.
"Brother Pan, what is this?" Pan Yu was startled by the question, and the jade leaf in his hand almost fell to the ground. He should have been lying on the bed and sleeping soundly, but Xu Xian looked at him as if nothing happened, his eyes burning.
There was no trace of drunkenness at all. Pan Yu's heart froze, and she thought to herself that she had misjudged the person. This Xu Xian was actually a person with such a high profile in the city?
Xu Xian doesn't have any city, but the Taoist mental method he practices, no matter how drunk he is, there is always a little bit of spiritual light that never goes out, and sobering up is especially fast.
Xu Xian stretched out and said, "Oh, I'm so thirsty!" He came over, picked up the cup of tea on the table, and drank it. Pan Yu didn't have time to stop him, so he could only sigh. Xu Xian had regained his clarity, but
His eyes suddenly became intoxicated again.
That piece of jade leaf is a spiritual object carved from drunken jade. drunken jade is a sacred jade that is hard to find in wine circles. As long as you put the jade in the wine, after a while the jade will turn red, as if you are drunk. And the original wine pulp will turn red.
It will be as light and tasteless as water. After soaking several jars of bad wine in this way, the jade will be as red as drunk. Now immerse the jade in clear water. When the jade turns white, the clear water will turn into fine wine.
Pan Yu used this beautiful jade to carve leaves into leaves and put them in his mouth. Naturally, he would not get drunk after a thousand cups. But those drunkards would not know how to restrain themselves if they knew that such an artifact was used to do such a disgraceful thing!
The small glass of water was soaked with Zuiyu, and it was no different from the strongest wine. Xu Xian drank it in one gulp, and it was of no use even if he practiced any Taoist techniques. He shook on the spot twice and fell on the bed again.
.Muttered in his mouth: "Good wine, good wine."
Pan Yu looked at Xu Xian on the bed and really didn't know how to evaluate it. Was it a lack of scheming or a deep scheming? He could only smile bitterly.
Pan Yu looked at Xu Xian's unconscious appearance and sighed slightly: "Freedom and magnanimity are good things, but drunkenness is not in line with the way of a sage."
Xu Xian heard Pan Yu's discussion in a daze, but thought it was a joke from his college roommate, and couldn't help but chant: "
If heaven does not love wine, the wine star will not be in the sky.
If the earth does not love wine, there should be no fountains of wine.
Both heaven and earth love wine, and the love of wine is worthy of heaven.
I have heard that the pure Tao is as good as the sage, and the turbid Tao is as good as the sage.
Since the sages have already drank, why ask for gods?
Three cups lead to the road, and one bucket leads to nature.
But if you get the pleasure from drinking, don’t pass it on to those who are sober.”
Li Bai's "Drinking Alone Under the Moon" was something he often talked about in his previous life, specifically to laugh at him when he was drunk. Even though he was drunk today, he could still recite it very smoothly.
Pan Yu couldn't help being stunned. He originally thought that Xu Xian was not good at reciting poems and composing poems, but he didn't expect that what he casually recited after being drunk was such a good poem. The simple and clear poems can probably be understood by even illiterate people, but the kind of
The taste of being bold and free and playing with the world was something he could not describe no matter what.
Pan Yu secretly thought: With such a poetic talent, it is no wonder that Wang Xuezheng was attracted by it. He recited the poem several times and was even more impressed in his heart. When he saw that Xu Xian was already snoring slightly.
But if you get the joy of drinking, don’t pass it on to those who are sober. But I don’t dare to get drunk, and I can’t get drunk!
Chapter completed!