Seven Bowls Zhai” teahouse is the most famous teahouse in Jingnan County, located in the centre of the county, covers an area of about two hundred square meters, two floors, can accommodate more than a hundred people gathering to taste tea at the same time, decorative style of elegance and common appreciation.
The name of the teahouse “Seven Bowls” is taken from “Seven Bowls of Tea Song” by Lu Tong, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, who is the Saint of Tea. Lu Tong in the “seven bowls of tea song” in the words: “a bowl of throat kisses moist, two bowls to break the loneliness. In the third bowl, I searched my withered intestines, but there were only 5,000 volumes of words. Four bowls of light sweat, all the unfair things in my life are dispersed to the pores. Five bowls are clear, six bowls are through the immortal spirit. Seven bowls of tea can’t be eaten, but I feel that the wind is blowing in my armpits.”Lu Tong wrote all the wonderful tea, the shop as the name of the teahouse, not only considerate, but also very stylish.
Not only the name of the shop to get seconds, the owner of the teahouse is also very understanding of the way of business, not only tea, ingredients carefully selected, and will often ask the storyteller, singing, singing opera to the teahouse free performance for tea guests to enjoy the pastime, so the teahouse business is very hot, the teahouse every day convergence of the three religions of the nine streams of the county of Jingnan, many mouths and mixed news collision, more than half of the current news and gossip in the county of Jingnan is here brewing andCirculated.
For example, today, the seven bowls of fasting invited a storyteller to say a section of the Three Kingdoms, the teahouse full. The story told by the storyteller was the story of Feng Daisy Pang Tong trying to guard Leiyang county magistrate, and after the story was finished, the storyteller went to the backstage to have a tea break. After half a day of the Three Kingdoms, the storyteller’s throat was dry and smoky, so he had to drink half a pot of tea to moisturise his voice and rest for a while before he could continue to tell the story.
The storyteller went down to rest, the teahouse teetotalers lively up.
Mr Storyteller is talking about Pang Tong try to guard Leiyang county magistrate story, coincidentally, now Jingnan County’s hottest and most concerned about the topic also happens to be the new governor. After the storyteller went down, the tea drinkers naturally chatted about the new magistrate Zhu Pingan.
“People can’t compare, look at others Pang Tong, half a day’s work, will be backlogged for hundreds of days of political affairs are dealt with, we this new governor? It’s been a few days, and not a single case has been heard. ……The people of Jingnan are really hard pressed to have such a rubbish governor.”
Tea house from the book table nearest table, sitting a bearded teetotaler, he just listened to the most serious, this will think of the storyteller in the mouth of the phoenix Pang Tong’s style, and then think of this new governor’s performance in the past few days, so a comparison, can not help it, drank a mouthful of tea, spit it out.
“Do you know why? I tell you ah. My brother-in-law is the magistrate of the county government office, I heard from his mouth, our new little county honourable by the county government of those old oil combined to hollow out, the little county honourable let people send the backlog of cases of the dossier, this are a few days, froze a dossier have not received.”
A tea guest on the table next to him, while getting high on melon seeds, deciphered to the bearded man as well as the surrounding tea guests.
“Indeed, I’ve also heard about it, I have a relative who is a clerk at the county office, and mentioned a mouthful to me the day before yesterday when I was drinking. It’s said that it’s the county magistrate Zhang picking up the pieces behind the scenes, and that all six houses of the Suxian officials are united in their non-cooperation.”
Someone soon nodded in agreement, further demystifying the situation.
“I’ve always said that if you don’t have hair on your mouth, you won’t be able to do anything right. This young magistrate is too young, he probably hasn’t even grown his hair yet, and he doesn’t have any help, so he alone is no match for County Magistrate Zhang and the others.”
“It is said that a new official takes office with three fires, our little magistrate is good, the new official took office, the fire folders are held by the following people do not give, the matches were also splashed with a pot of water, not to mention the three fires, he can not even light up a tiny flame.”
“Ai, this little governor is afraid that he will soon be ousted, even if he is not ousted, he will be chastised and dismissed by the higher peaks. As the head of a county, he can’t carry out any work in Jingnan County, so if he’s not chastised, who will be.”
“The people of Jingnan are really suffering, having such an incompetent county governor. If you look at other people’s Chun’an County, the magistrate of that county, Hai, has a good reputation. We are unlucky, the governor has changed so much, it’s just like a weasel laying its eggs, a nest is worse than a nest.”
“Hey, we would rather the magistrate is greedy for money and sex, but also do not want the magistrate is incompetent, a general is incompetent to exhaust the three armies ah.”
As soon as the topic was opened, the brakes were off, and the people in the teahouse had a speech from you and a comment from me. Basically, all that could be heard was the voice of dissing Zhu Pingan, who was disappointed to the core.
The more they dissed Zhu Pingan, the more passionate the crowd became, and there was a tendency for the heroes to see eye to eye and sympathise with each other.
“Xiao Er, quickly come with a bowl of tea, our throats are almost smoking from walking.”
Just when the “Seven Bowls Zhai” people were dissing each other, five or six people came into the teahouse, urging the shop assistant to pour tea.
As soon as these people came in, they became the centre of attention, attracting the eyes of the crowd.
For no other reason, just because of the clothes these people were wearing, what they were wearing was – Prisoner’s Clothes!!!!
Prisoner clothes?
Fugitives?
As soon as the crowd saw the prison uniforms on them, they couldn’t help but associate them with words like fugitive and jailbreak.
Then looking at them more closely, they were dirty and unkempt, they looked like prisoners who had been locked up for a long time.
Why are the prisoners here if they are not squatting in prison?
As we all know, Xiao Zhi County has not even received a single file, not even a single case has been tried, so how could a prisoner be released.
This is not a prison break?!
Jingnan County is not big, how many years haven’t heard of anyone escaping from prison, now all of a sudden there is such an escaped prisoner, this is explosive big news ah. All the tea drinkers were shocked and turned their eyes towards the prisoner in prison clothes who came in.
“Quickly look out, there are many more outside.”
A tea guest by the window saw a prisoner in prison clothes passing in front of the teahouse, fixed his eyes and looked again, and realised that there were a lot of prisoners in prison clothes passing right by the teahouse, he couldn’t help but shout loudly, reminding the crowd.
The crowd heard the reminder, have to look out, and really see a lot of prisoners in prison clothes, at least seventy to eighty more, just from the front of the teahouse passed through, look at the direction of the orientation, they should be to the direction of the city.
“How come there are so many people escaping from prison?!”
“What is the county office doing, how did they let so many people break out of jail?!”
“What does this little county honourable do for a living? What incompetence, unable to control his subordinates, unable to control even the prisoners, letting so many people escape from prison!”
The crowd of diners in the teahouse were stunned, their eyes gazing at the several prisoner-uniformed tea drinkers with strange eyes, pointing and whispering at the same time.
“What are you guys talking about! It’s fine for you guys to talk about us behind our backs, but you can’t say bad things about the governor’s grand master behind his back! What jailbreak? We were specially granted permission by the Great Master of the Governor County and went home for the autumn harvest.”
“We are all prisoners imprisoned for failing to pay our taxes, the Great Master of the Magistrate took pity on us, we have an old man and a young man, it’s not easy for us to live, and considering that the autumn harvest is coming up, in order not to delay the farming season, he gave us special permission to go home to take part in the autumn harvest, and let us return to report to the prison after the autumn harvest.”
“Zhi Xian Daoliang is such a good official, whoever of you dares to speak ill of Zhi Xian Daoliang behind his back again, don’t blame me for my fists not being long-sighted!”
A few prisoners who were begging for tea in their prison uniforms tolerated the whispers behind the crowd at first, but when they heard them talking about Zhu Pingan’s incompetence behind his back, they couldn’t help but clap their hands and glare angrily at the crowd in a loud voice.
