The term "big headscarf" was a synonym for the bureaucratic class in the Song Dynasty. It not only represented the dress code of the bureaucrats, but also served as a satire and criticism of the bureaucratic class by those who were dissatisfied with the government. Of course, this "big headscarf" also included the quasi-bureaucratic class such as the students of the Imperial College of the Song Dynasty.

"Who are you?" The Song people were afraid of the big turban, but Chenliu was not.

The man in the turban raised his head slightly, his nose pointed upwards, and said, "I am Wu Dao, a student at the Imperial College. Han Xianggong once said that the men who call out names outside the Donghua Gate are true heroes. I quite agree with him and believe that only the high-ranking officials of the court are worthy of serving the country and the people. That hero Guo Ju is just a warrior, he is not worthy."

"Oh, so you're a student at the Imperial Academy." Chen Liu's words were thick with sarcasm, and he said in a sinister tone, "No wonder you look down on people with your face turned upside down. You were talking about Han Qi, who was defeated at Haoshuichuan and pursued like a stray dog ​​by Li Yuanhao, right?"

"You, you, you!" Chen Liu specifically pointed out the stain on Han Qi's life, leaving Wu Dao dumbfounded and shaking with anger.

"Although Han Qi once said that only those whose names are called out outside Donghua Gate are heroes, I believe that only warriors like Wei Qing, Huo Qubing, and Ban Chao, who have brought national prestige to foreign nations, are the pillars of our nation. Furthermore, I believe that heroes aren't made by being called out outside Donghua Gate. Even if you are called out outside Donghua Gate, what good is it? If you don't contribute to the country and don't help the people, no matter how high your official position or how famous your name is, you are nothing but a parasite to the country. Even if you are just a small soldier, if you can fight in battle and keep the enemy out of the country, then to me, such a person is a hero."

"Good!" Everyone present couldn't help but cheer after hearing Chen Liu's words. Even Guo Juxia couldn't help but cheer.

Chapter 59 Beggar Makeup

"You, you, you..." Upon hearing this, Wudao's face suddenly turned red with anger, almost turning purple.

"What do you mean by 'you'? Don't you know that disturbing others at will is very immoral? Do you still have any sense of public morality? But your name is quite appropriate, Wu Dao Wu Dao, doesn't it mean immoral? What does it have to do with you that we are chatting here? You are indeed a person without morals. You are still a student, bah!" Chen Liu spat fiercely on the ground.

"So vulgar, not a human being, not a human being." Wu Dao was so angry that his whole body was shaking.

"That bastard!" Chen Liu raised his middle finger towards Wudao.

"Puff..." A sweet, crisp laugh echoed from the crowd. Chen Liu looked towards the source of the sound and saw that it was Huang Rong, the man who had ripped him off the previous day. Huang Rong was already shaking with laughter at Chen Liu's words... well, Huang Rong, with her beggarly image, wasn't exactly a woman.

"Looking down on others? Is that immoral?"

"Hahaha..." Seeing someone laugh out loud, many people couldn't help but laugh out loud. Anyway, since so many people were laughing, it didn't matter if they laughed a little, right?

As for Wu Dao, he was so angry that he almost fainted.

"Oh! It's you, little beggar." Chen Liu waved at Huang Rong.

"My name is not Little Beggar, my name is Huang Rong." Huang Rong glared at Chen Liu angrily. He clearly knew her name, but he didn't call her by her name. He always called her Little Beggar.

Huang Rong? Guo Fu and Guo Xiang felt a little strange. Could it be that Huang Rong?

Huang Rong then walked towards Chen Liu with a grand demeanor. Although she was dressed as a beggar, she didn't mind at all and even exuded a bit of vigor. Passing by an empty table, she grabbed a stool and placed it next to Chen Liu. She sat down beside him and patted the table. "Boss, give me a glass of honey water so I can rinse my mouth. Then, make me a few stir-fries. I don't think you have any fancy dishes here, so maybe roasted young chicken, white tripe, braised mixed vegetables, mixed shredded duck, braised pork slices in vinegar, braised duck kidneys, and three fresh stews."

Chen Liu:......

Noodle stall owner: ...

Chen Liu complained, "Huang Rong, don't you consider the place when you eat? You ordered these dishes at a small street stall, why don't you go to heaven?"

"Isn't there a restaurant next door? If he doesn't have it here, won't he go to the restaurant to buy it? It's not like I won't pay." Huang Rong said.

"Then why don't you just go to the restaurant and eat?"

"I just enjoy eating here, what's your business?"

"Okay, okay, do whatever you want."

"Hurry up and go." Huang Rong said to the stall owner opposite.

The boss wiped his clothes with his hands and looked at Huang Rong, who was dressed as a beggar, with a strange look in his eyes. He wanted to ignore her, but he saw that the little beggar was very imposing and, most importantly, knew the rich man from Chen Liu. He couldn't ignore her either, so he said with some embarrassment, "This little brother..."

"She's a girl." Chen Liu said, "You should call her little sister."

Huang Rong:......

Noodle stall owner: ...

"Miss, this noodle stall of mine is a small business, and I don't have that much money..."

Huang Rong turned her head towards Chen Liu.

"what?"

“Give me money!”

"I give?"

"If you don't give it to me, do you expect me to? Do I look like I'm rich?"

"Didn't I give you five ounces of gold yesterday?"

"used up."

"It's been less than a day, and you've already spent it all? Where did it go?"

"It's up to you whether you give it or not."

Chen Liu:......

"I'm unlucky to have met you." Chen Liu sighed, rummaged through his clothes, and pulled out a five-liang ingot of silver, handing it to the boss. He said, "Go ahead, order your food based on this amount, and we'll be done with it."

"What can I order for five taels of silver?"

"I didn't bring that much money with me today."

"You don't have any money and you still want to go to a brothel?"

"how do you know?"

"You stood in front of the brothel for so long, everyone knew you wanted to go in."

Chen Liu touched his nose awkwardly and said, "I'm not visiting a brothel, I'm going to save fallen souls."

Huang Rong:......

Guo Juxia: ...

Guo Fu and Guo Xiang: ...

I guess only Chen Liu could describe the thought of visiting a brothel in such a fresh and refined way.

"Shameless, obscene, and vulgar." Wu Dao finally found an opportunity to despise Chen Liu.

Chen Liu glanced at Wu Dao and said, "If I remember correctly, Kaifeng's brothels are right next to your Imperial College, right? They all look respectable on a daily basis, but the ones who frequent the brothels the most are you students and the high-ranking officials of the imperial court. You just said that only the high-ranking officials of the imperial court are worthy of the words 'serving the country and the people.' That's true. The girls on Kaifeng's brothels have seen a lot more business because of you guys. Because, every day after court, they go to the brothels on the brothels to spend money on the national treasury and increase the income of the girls on the brothels. If the girls on the brothels didn't have the high-ranking officials of the imperial court to spend money there, many of them would probably starve to death."

"Puchi!" Huang Rong laughed so hard that she bent over again, and her stomach almost hurt from laughing.

Although the common people nearby didn't dare laugh at the high-ranking officials in the court, they bit their lips tightly and trembled violently. Guo Juxia, with a strange expression on his face, scolded Guo Xiang, who was laughing so proudly, and told her to shut up.

"You, you slandered the officials of the court." Wu Dao's face flushed red.

"Just tell me if what I said is true?" Chen Liu said.

"Impossible! You are slandering me. I will sue you."

"Really? Then I'll go to Kaifeng one day and specifically wait in the red-light district, staring at those high-ranking officials from the imperial court. Whenever I see one, I'll draw a picture of them all going to a brothel."

Wu Dao: ...

"Haha..." Huang Rong covered her stomach with one hand and slapped the table with the other hand in a very ungraceful manner.

"That person is so funny." Guo Xiang laughed so hard that tears almost came out.

"Oh, I'm a pretty good painter. I know a sketching technique that allows me to draw a person exactly like the real person. I can definitely spread the glorious image of the officials in the imperial court throughout the Song Dynasty, allowing the people of the Song Dynasty to admire how the officials in the imperial court serve the country and the people."

"It's unreasonable, it's unreasonable." Wu Dao was terrified. He didn't know if Chen Liu was trying to scare him, but if Chen Liu really did that, he was finished. Afterwards, the officials in the court would definitely find out that it was because of a dispute between him and Chen Liu that he was asked to paint the pictures of the officials in the brothel. How could those officials let him go?

Wu Dao didn't dare stay here any longer and immediately fled. Chen Liu was definitely a madman, and such a person could not be provoked.

Seeing Wu Dao flee in panic, everyone present burst into laughter. However, Guo Juxia couldn't help but sigh slightly. He knew the character of the people in the imperial court. While the common people could laugh, he couldn't.

"You are quite an interesting person." Huang Rong wiped the tears from her laughter with the back of her hand.

"Your beggar makeup is smudged, why don't you go and touch it up again?"

Huang Rong:......

Chapter 60 Guo Juxia

"Young man, Miss Huang Rong, would you like to come up and sit with us?" a resonant voice rang out from the restaurant not far from the noodle stall. Chen Liu and Huang Rong looked up and saw a middle-aged man with a square face, thick eyebrows, and large eyes standing at the window of the restaurant's second floor. He looked at them with admiration in his eyes. Behind the burly man with thick eyebrows and large eyes stood six young people: two women and four men. One of the women was a bit older, around seventeen or eighteen, while the remaining four men and one woman were all around fourteen or fifteen.

"Master Guo! It's Master Guo!" Wang San'er and Song Zhong couldn't help but exclaim in surprise. They hurriedly stood up and bowed to the middle-aged man upstairs.

Chen Liu felt a little strange. He didn't expect that they were chatting here, and the person they were talking about happened to be upstairs, and was overheard by someone. This was a bit embarrassing.

"So it's Hero Guo. Hero Guo, I dare not refuse your invitation." Chen Liu stood up and bowed to Hero Guo. Then he and Huang Rong went to the restaurant together. When they reached the second floor, he greeted Hero Guo again and said, "Young man Chen Liu greets Hero Guo."

"Huang Rong greets Hero Guo." Huang Rong also saluted Hero Guo Ju.

"Brother Chen and Miss Huang Rong, there's no need to be so polite. Come, let me introduce you." Guo Juxia pointed to the oldest of the six young people, four men and two women, behind him and said, "This is my eldest daughter, Guo Fu."

"Chen Liu meets Miss Guo Fu." Chen Liu felt a little strange.

Guo Fu seems older than Huang Rong. I remember Huang Rong was about fifteen or sixteen when she ran away from home, and Guo Fu looks like she's already seventeen or eighteen. The daughter is older than the mother. Haha, interesting.

Huang Rong:......

Guo Fu: ...

Guo Xiang: ...

"Guo Fu greets Brother Chen Liu, and greets Sister Huang Rong." The corners of Guo Fu's mouth twitched slightly, and she almost couldn't hold it back.

"Huang Rong has met Guo Fu and Sister."

Chen Liu bit his lips again and again to prevent himself from laughing out loud.

[Interesting, really too interesting, the mother becomes the younger sister, the daughter becomes the older sister. Ouch, ouch, I almost couldn't hold it in.]

"Puchi!" Guo Xiang couldn't help it any longer and burst out laughing.

Huang Rong turned to look at Guo Xiang, and saw that she almost laughed to death. Her eyes flickered slightly, and she thought to herself: There is nothing funny about what I said. Could it be that she can also hear what this bad guy is thinking?

"Xiang'er, you are so rude. Hurry up and apologize to Brother Chen and Miss Huang Rong." Guo Juxia scolded.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Brother Chenliu, Sister Huang Rong, I didn't mean to laugh." Guo Xiang apologized quickly.

"Unless you can't help it?" Chen Liu didn't know why Guo Xiang suddenly burst out laughing. He never thought that his thoughts would be eavesdropped on by someone. He just thought that this was the Little East Evil, and it didn't seem strange for the Little East Evil to be a little weird.

"Yes, unless I can't help it, uh..." Guo Xiang turned to look at Chen Liu and blinked.

Guo Juxia continued to introduce her somewhat helplessly, "This is my second daughter, Guo Xiang. She has always loved to play mischief since she was little. Little brother and Miss Huang Rong, please don't be offended."

"It's alright, Miss Guo Xiang is just being true to herself." Chen Liu said with a smile, "Since I arrived in Xiangyang, I've heard that Miss Guo Xiang, the second daughter of Hero Guo, is elegant and beautiful, charming and charming. She's lovely and pure, yet bold and forthright, innocent and bright, yet intelligent. Seeing her today, I can see she's truly worthy of her reputation."

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