Chapter 20: One of the Golden Fingers: Never Forgetting a Single Glimpse
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Only to hear Yue Buqun inside loudly drunkenly saying, "Wine Sword Immortal and Drunken Sword Saint, you two hurry up and drink! Save the wine in the bowl for the fish!"
Jiang Bu Bu Bu laughed heatedly, "Senior Brother Yue, as the saying goes, 'there is no size above the drinking table', if you ask us to drink, you must have an order to persuade us to drink. Otherwise, the senior brothers will be forgiven for not following orders ah."
Yue Buqun's drunken eyes were hazy as he laughed, "How hard can it be!"
He picked up one of his chopsticks and chanted loudly as he knocked on the bowl, "
If you don't see, the water of the Yellow River comes from the sky and flows to the sea without return.
Do not you see, the high hall mirror sad grey hair, the morning like green silk into snow.
Life must be enjoyable, don't let the golden bottle empty to the moon.
Born to be useful, a thousand pieces of gold are scattered.
Cooking sheep and slaughtering cows is a pleasure, and we will have to drink 300 cups in one go.
The Wine Sword Immortal, the Drunken Sword Saint, the General will enter the wine, the cup will not stop.
Sing a song with you, please listen to it for me.
The bells and drums are not expensive enough, but I wish to be drunk for a long time and not want to wake up.
All the ancient sages are lonely, but only the drinkers leave their names.
The King of Chen used to feast at Pingle, where he would drink 10,000 cups of wine and make merry.
Why does the master say that he has little money? He must sell it to you.
Five-flower horses, a thousand gold furs, call for a child to change wine, and with you to dispel the sorrows of the ages."
Listening to this poem, Jiang Bu Bu Dou and He Bu Dou drained their bowls of wine in one gulp and roared their approval, and the three of them slapped the table and laughed.
Outside the room, Ning Qingman only felt that this poem was magnificent and bold, quite to his liking. Song Qing Shan's heart, however, was shocked beyond words, what this Yue Buqun chanted was clearly a superb poem!
Inside the room, Jiang Bufu laughed out loud and said, "Eldest Senior Brother has a good poem to persuade you to drink! Although Senior Brother doesn't understand it very well, it's soothing to hear."
"But walking in the jianghu can't be done with just persuasive poems. Now that all the senior brothers have their names for travelling in the jianghu, have you thought of a name for the eldest senior brother?"
Before Yue Buqun could reply, he saw two people walk in from outside, and the first one said in a Lang voice, "His name is just 'Gentleman's Sword'!"
Once Jiang Bu Bu Dou and He Bu Dou saw the visitor, their wine instantly woke up halfway and they hurriedly saluted.
Ning Qingman waved his hand and looked at Yue Buqun with glowing eyes, "Worthy of being my disciple, even a drink can produce a poem. Senior Brother Song, what do you think of this poem?"
Song Qingshan gave a thumbs up in admiration, "Atmospheric and magnificent, truly a superb poem!"
Ning Qingman laughed out loud and said, "Buqun, what is the name of this poem?"
Yue Buqun shook his head and tried to recall, "This poem is called 'Will Enter the Wine', made by Li Bai during the Tang Dynasty."
Upon hearing this, Ning Qingman was greatly surprised and asked Song Qingshan, "Master Song, you're a keen poet, can there be one called Li Bai in this Tang Dynasty?"
Song Qingshan thought for a moment and said, "In Tang poetry, Du Fu was the leader, and the others, such as Li Shangyin and Bai Juyi, were slightly inferior to this person, Li Bai? I've never heard of him."
"This poem is majestic and bold, slightly better than even Du Fu's poetry, if it was made by a previous person, it would not be nameless. It must be that Master Yue's nephew was drunk and made up a story that someone else did it, just nonsense."
Ning Qingman laughed, "I told you so, this kind of top-notch poem, if it was made by the previous generation, it should be famous all over the world, how could it be possible that Senior Brother Song has not even heard of it."
He said to Jiang Bufu, "That's all for today, you all disperse, what 'Wine Sword Immortal' and 'Drunken Sword Saint', forget about them, don't be afraid of being laughed at if you spread the word."
After saying that, Ning Qingman skimmed Yue Buqun, seeing that he was already drunk by the looks of his drunken speech.
Ning Qing Man wanted to knock Yue Bu Qun for a couple of sentences, but seeing that he was already unconscious, Ning Qing Man shook his head and instructed Jiang Bu Bu Bu and the others to take care of Yue Bu Qun, and after some careful instructions, he went back to Jade Maiden Peak together with Song Qing Shan.
Jiang Bu Bu Bu and He Bu Dou coyly promised and went to clean up themselves. Yue Buqun was drunk on the surface, but his brain was shocked and awake: "There is no Li Bai in this world? How is it possible?"
Early in the morning of the second day, Yue Buqun woke up on time, three months of extremely self-disciplined routine had been carved into his bones.
After he had finished his morning lesson, he turned his eyes and glanced at the book case in the corner, and could not help but cry out, "Drinking is a mistake, drinking is a mistake!"
It turned out that yesterday Ning Qingman gave him the task, threw over a pile of four books and five classics, ordered him to study books after the evening class, who thought that last night drinking for fun, will forget about this matter a clean, but also called Ning Qingman caught a square.
Thinking that he still had to go up to Jade Maiden Peak today to learn basic swordsmanship, and that Ning Qing Man was bound to ask after his literature lessons, Yue Buqun couldn't help but have a headache.
It was too late for regrets, Yue Buqun drew out a copy of The University and read it at a glance.
The University of a book of seventeen hundred words, Yue Buqun a moment of effort to flip through. Yue Buqun again from the first page to turn up, just read the beginning of a few words, Yue Buqun froze, he suddenly found that the content of the back word for word presented in his mind.
The seventeen hundred or so words of The Great Learning, he had memorised and was truly word for word!
He pulled out another book with the most words, Mencius, and read it from the beginning. After a tea break, Yue Buqun closed the book and looked up to the sky and laughed. The book "Mencius" with more than 35,000 words was presented squarely in his mind.
The golden finger that he has been longing for since crossing over finally arrives at an inadvertent moment.
Traveller's Gold Finger #1: Overwatch. Open!
Ten days later, Ning Qingman put down the Mencius in his hands with satisfaction and said, "Not bad, not a word out of place, it seems that you haven't missed any of your previous homework, so I can go down the mountain without worry."
Yue Buqun said: ''Master is going down the mountain? Why did you leave so hastily? I haven't served Master properly yet."
Ning Qingman said, "It's good that you have this heart. The matter of your master's ancestor cannot be delayed, and if we find the descendant of the great warrior Zhang one day earlier, your master's ancestor will also suffer less."
"Your master's mother came down the mountain with me, and Ah Li lives with your master ancestor. Your master grandmaster needs to use his strength to get rid of the poison on weekdays, so he probably won't look after her too much. She was very attached to you in the past, so you should visit her more often."
Yue Buqun said, "Ah Li is innocent and lovely, just like disciple's little sister, Master please don't worry, disciple will visit Ah Li from time to time."
Ning Qingman admonished, "My Huashan introductory swordsmanship has a total of thirty-six moves, you have learnt them as much as you can, you need to practise them diligently day and night, and you must not waste them. When I return to the mountain, I will examine your basic swordsmanship, and if I pass the examination, I will come back to pass on your subsequent swordsmanship."
Yue Buqun said, "Yes, honoured to follow Master's orders."
Spin asked again, "How long will Master be able to return from this trip down the mountain?"
Ning Qingman said, "I reckon it'll be within three or two months, so go and say goodbye to your master's wife. Don't come back up the mountain after today."
"Master Teacher's wife's descent from the mountain this time is an extremely secretive matter, so you should not come to say goodbye, lest you fall into the eyes of someone with a heart of gold, which would in turn be unattractive."
Yue Buqun attached himself and said yes, saying goodbye to Madam Ning and going without mentioning it.
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