As a familiar figure walked out of the cave, the little cabbage, which was in a period of hunger, poked its head out with joy, "Dongpo!"
The traveler who was leaning against the pillar of the small bridge and called himself Li Bai also turned his head to look over, still drinking the contents of the sachet sip by sip.
Su Shi responded from a distance. At this time, Xiao Baicai also saw that Su Shi was holding a lot of things. In his arms was a large jar, and in his hands was a pork elbow. He hurried over to help.
He began to mutter to himself, "Dongpo, it's enough for you to come here, why do you bring so many things?"
"Hahaha, when I saw this kind of food, I thought you would like it, my dear brother Baicai, so I brought it here!" Su Shi smiled brightly, gave some food to Baicai, and suddenly sniffed, "I think I smell wine, Baicai, you have brewed something in your Peach Blossom Spring..."
Before he could finish his words, he looked past Xiao Baicai and saw Li Bai leaning against the bridge pillar behind him, looking at him lazily.
Su Shi paused, "Who is this?"
"He said his name is..." Xiao Baicai then realized that this was the first time two travelers had come to her Peach Blossom Spring together. Before she could introduce them to each other and was about to explain, Su Shi spoke up:
"But Li Bai?"
"Do you know me?" Li Bai raised his eyes, his expression calm as if he hadn't woken up yet. He carefully examined Su Shi's face and shook his head. "I haven't seen you before."
"Of course." Su Shi laughed, "I just didn't expect Mr. Taibai to be so similar to what I imagined, so I guessed it when I saw him for the first time."
Seeing that the traveler named Li Bai seemed to be interested, Xiao Baicai asked Su Shi what his name was and what poems he had written, saying that he might have some impression of him.
But after Li Bai said these words, Xiao Baicai saw Su Shi reveal a melancholy and slightly regretful expression. He smiled and shook his head before slowly saying, "How many gods and men are in the same puddles? The exiled immortal is not exiled, but wandering, commanding the eight poles and narrowing the nine states."
——This line of poetry is the beginning of a poem that Su Shi once wrote on Li Bai's portrait. The poem is titled "The True Image of Li Bai as Shown by Dan Yuanzi".
However, no matter how free Su Shi's mind was and how rich his imagination was, he could never have imagined that one day he would be able to recite this poem in front of Li Bai.
What a wonderful experience this is.
Li Bai was quite accustomed to people praising him in poems, so he didn't blush when he heard this sentence seemed to be a compliment to himself. Instead, he heard the spirit and talent in this short poem and said curiously, "Since you can write such a poem, you can't be a borrowed name. Do you have a name?"
"Su Shi, also known by his courtesy name Zizhan," Su Shi said with a smile, "is just a poet."
"What a coincidence! I'm just a poet too." Li Bai also laughed. "It seems like we're on good terms. Just call me Taibai."
…
At this moment, the wind and snow were silent.
Everything in this Peach Blossom Spring seems to be bearing witness to this meeting that spanned more than three hundred years.
This is Li Bai and Su Shi, also the prosperous Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty.
[I don't know what's going on here, but... this atmosphere feels like a story.]
[Hey, why does Dongpo know this traveler, but this traveler doesn't know Dongpo? ]
[Back upstairs, it should be in a different place]
How many heavens and humans share the same ooze? The exiled immortals are not exiled, but wandering, commanding the eight poles and narrowing the nine states. I can't quite understand this sentence even with the translation. Can anyone analyze what it means?
[I can't understand the meaning +1. Last time, I could barely understand what Dongpo wrote according to the translation, but this one really... I really want to understand it QAQ]
"Well...how about we go into the village first?" Xiao Baicai looked at this one, then at that one, and felt that although these two people seemed to be meeting for the first time, there was a very strange atmosphere when they were talking, which made it impossible for Xiao Baicai, who knew nothing, to intervene.
He scratched his head in confusion. "Wouldn't it be a bit cold standing here all the time?"
Neither of the two travelers had any objections. Li Bai said that he came here following the smell of wine and asked if there was any good wine he could sell him.
Xiao Baicai thought about the information on the winery that said the probability of travelers who like to drink appearing increases, and suddenly realized it.
So this is the traveler who likes to drink, no wonder!
But what exactly is wine? He hasn't even finished brewing it, nor has he ever seen it.
But just as they were about to walk towards the village, the big yellow dog started barking again.
"Could it be that there is more??" Xiao Baicai was shocked.
Could it be that because he'd been so unlucky lately, his luck had suddenly exploded today? Xiaobaicai hadn't heard of three travelers appearing at once. This scenario was probably even less rare than getting three SSRs in a ten-draw streak in "Shan Hai Lu"? At least getting three SSRs at once was a real possibility.
"Is anyone else coming?" Su Shi also looked towards the cave.
"In this situation, the person who appears should be someone acquaintance of the two travelers." The land slowly floated over. Li Bai, upon seeing the floating land, exclaimed in surprise, "This is... So I was drunk today and dreaming?"
This is a common reaction among travelers.
But Li Bai's reaction after he finished speaking was...ton ton ton and he took a few more sips of wine.
"Could it be Ziyou?" Su Shi's eyes lit up when he heard the land god's words. "Or someone who is acquaintance of Mr. Taibai?"
It was snowing and the cave was very dark. I couldn't see the face clearly from a distance, I could only see a vague figure.
However, when the figure was about to reach the cave entrance, Su Shi could already tell that it was not his brother, nor did it look like anyone else he knew, so...
The figure appeared just like the other travelers, walking out in the snow step by step, looking left and right as he walked, as if looking for something?
"Here, here!" The wind and snow had picked up. Xiao Baicai saw that the traveler's route was beginning to deviate, and fearing that he had gone astray, he quickly raised his hand and waved a few times.
As expected, the traveler looked over in the direction of the voice.
And after looking over, the first thing he saw was not Xiao Baicai standing in the front, nor Su Shi, but the man standing a little further back, drinking...
"Brother Taibai!" the man said happily.
Li Bai raised his head when someone called his name, also surprised, "Zimei?"
The man quickened his pace and ran over, his expression filled with joy. "I was wondering why I felt sleepy so quickly today. It turns out that Brother Taibai was urging me to come and see you in my dream!"
…
Xiao Baicai heard Su Shi, who was standing next to her, sigh softly, and whispered in a voice that only Xiao Baicai could hear, "It really is Du Gongbu."
The tone was much more complicated than when he met Li Bai just now.
Xiao Baicai didn't know why Su Shi sighed in such a tone, just as he didn't know that in another world, Su Shi, who was born in the Song Dynasty, also sighed and shed tears for the endings of Li Bai and Du Fu, who were buried in the lonely piles of old papers.
——But it’s okay, he will know sooner or later.
【Three travelers coming at once, awesome!】
[I'm so jealous, I'm thinking back to how I felt every time when I couldn't draw an SSR but had to watch the little cabbages appear one by one.]
[However, how come the styles of the three travelers are unified? Haha]
[Wait, that's not the point. The point is that the travelers knew each other before. This probability is the best, right?]
When Xiao Baicai saw the comments on the barrage, he secretly checked the food stored in his warehouse in his heart, confirming that there would be enough food for another ten or twenty people, not to mention the three travelers now.
After counting like this, he became confident again. After everyone got to know each other and talked for a while, he and the three travelers walked towards the village.
On the way back, the cabbage learned the information of the last traveler.
In other words, the information about the three travelers in his Peach Blossom Spring is as follows:
[Li Bai, also known as Taibai, was a Buddhist monk from the Qinglian family (52 years old)]
[Su Shi, also known by his courtesy name Zizhan, was a Buddhist monk in Dongpo (47 years old)]
[Du Fu, courtesy name Zimei (43 years old)]
"Wait, doesn't it seem like Du Fu is missing a 'Jushi'?" Xiao Baicai became confused again when she saw the three names lined up together.
"Because I took this myself, I'll have more in the future." Su Shi put down the big jar. The big yellow dog ran around him. He put the pork elbow he brought on the stove.
"Well, there will be in the future." Du Fu also said.
After arriving at the village, Li Bai followed the smell of wine to the winery near his residence. After Du Fu realized that he was not dreaming, but had accidentally entered the Peach Blossom Spring like Tao Yuanming in the past, he accepted the matter well. He came over and said "sorry for bothering you" to Xiao Baicai, the owner of the Peach Blossom Spring, and took out the things he had on him and gave them to Xiao Baicai as accommodation fee.
There was no reason for Xiao Baicai to charge travelers for accommodation. He was hoping more travelers would come. He explained the situation to Du Fu in detail before letting him go back.
"But you all have so many names. If I'm called Xiaobaicai, it seems a bit out of place..." Xiaobaicai looked at Su Shi thoughtfully, "Should I also choose a different name, for example..."
"Mr. Baicai?" A light bulb went off in his head.
"Not bad." A voice came from the doorway of the wooden house. It was Li Bai, who had just gone to the winery. He was still leaning against the door frame, looking like he was always leaning on something to drink. "If I had only met someone once, I might not remember their nickname, but if your name is Bai Cai Jushi, I would remember it without having to remember it."
"Really?" Xiao Baicai became more confident after receiving the affirmation.
Du Fu also nodded.
Su Shi suppressed a laugh and coughed, then said with a smile, "So it seems that my special visit today to bring pickled cabbage was a perfect opportunity. It can be considered as a celebration for Brother Bai Cai's appointment today."
The author has something to say:
Zizhan and Li Bai are both the poets I admire most, but if I had to say who I admire the most, it would be Zimei!
When I was younger, I admired Li Bai's unrestrained spirit and copied his poems in a notebook. Later, I gradually understood why Li Bai was an immortal, but Zimei was a saint.
Teacher Jiang Xun once said that no matter at what stage you start reading poetry or who you start to like poetry from, in the end, the one waiting for you must be Du Fu.
But he is really too miserable QAQ
At this time, Li Bai was 52 years old, and the Anshi Rebellion would break out three years later.
Du Fu was 43 years old and still in Chang'an. His "Great Ceremony" was appreciated by Emperor Xuanzong, but he was not given a high position.
ps: In addition, Zizhan's poem "Li Bai's True Calligraphy"
How many gods and humans are in the same pond? The banished immortal is not banished but is traveling, commanding the eight poles and narrowing the nine states.
They transformed into two birds singing to each other, one singing and the other stopping for three thousand years.
The first sentence praises Li Bai, while the second sentence praises Li Bai and Du Fu. The two birds should refer to them.
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