“I’m wondering why you gentlemen are so pedantic.” The person who answered was the storyteller.
“You say we are pedantic?” Zhou Peng said in disbelief. The folding fan in his hand was pointed directly at the storyteller, “An old scholar from a border town. At this age, I am afraid that he has not even been admitted to the scholar’s exam, so he is willing to degenerate into a sideshow of storytellers. His stomach is full of low-quality ink. How can he have the courage?” Call us pedantic.”
No one would be happy to be eliminated in this way. The job of storyteller is very prestigious in Beiyuan City, especially the storyteller who tells the stories produced by Siye Mansion is a public official and is very popular among the people of Beiyuan City.
The storyteller had a cold expression on his face, and the expressions of the tea-goers beside him were also not good-looking.
“Young Master, what you said is very unpleasant.”
“How come storytelling is just a sideshow?”
“If you don’t want to hear it, just don’t listen, why bother to hurt others with your words.”
“I thought that people coming from the Imperial City must be well-informed and elegant. But it turned out that they didn’t go anywhere and had little knowledge.”
Foreign young men, including Zhou Peng, were equally embarrassed by such comments.
“You bunch of evil people from the border towns!”
“Ridiculous.”
Seeing conflicts between the two sides aroused.
The shopkeeper quickly came out to mediate.
“Everyone calm down, calm down, otherwise, everyone’s tea money will be free of charge today.”
The shopkeeper came to Zhou Peng and said kindly: “This young master is really sorry.”
Zhou Peng snorted coldly. He was about to say that apologizing was useless, but he heard the shopkeeper’s next sentence: “If you and your friends don’t like the stories told in the teahouse, there is no need to embarrass yourself and continue to stay here. How about changing to a place you like?” Get together.”
Zhou Peng heard the meaning of the words and said angrily: “Are you driving me away!?”
The shopkeeper said: “Whatever the young master said, I can’t help it. I just don’t want you to drink tea and get angry.”
He looked like he was thinking about Zhou Peng and the others, but Zhou Peng and the others were not fools. How could they not understand that they were chasing people away.
I thought that all of them were young men from aristocratic families in the imperial city, and none of their father or brothers were high-ranking officials in the court. It was a matter of honor for Beier to travel with the monarch this time.
The people in this barren border town may only have the opportunity to meet a noble person once in their life, but they don’t know how to treat him with caution and even speak rudely.
“Evil people!” Zhou Peng shouted.
He was originally a dandy in the imperial city, someone who dared to secretly commit crimes under the emperor’s feet. At this time, he didn’t even think about restraining himself, so he kicked the shopkeeper in anger.
He was an adult, wide and fat, and if he kicked him hard enough, he would have to stay in bed for ten days and a half.