At this time, it happened that a long-term worker came to the Sese River to carry water. Seeing this, he was very angry. He immediately took out what little money he had and helped Li Bai pay for crossing the river. Not long after arriving in the county seat, the news that the great poet Li Bai came to Liyang spread like wildfire. Finally, even the businessmen and rich people on the ferry that day knew about it, and they all visited Li Bai, invited him to drink and gave him money, hoping that Li Bai could write a poem for them to show off everywhere.
Li Bai did not refuse. Every time he went to a house, he said he would write a poem and give it to him in a few days. But a few days later, instead of writing poems, Li Bai secretly visited the janitor. After finding the porter, Li Bai gave him all the money given by the businessman and the rich man, and said to him, "Don't refuse, thanks to your generous help last time, I won't be embarrassed." You have worked hard for most of your life. Take this money and go home to spend your old age. "Words say that finish, li bai bowed away. Before the porter understood what was going on, Li Bai had already left the boat.
Li Bai came to Liyang three times in his life. He once looked at Wawu Mountain in Beihu Pavilion and wrote an inscription for the Virgin of Laishui History. In the 15th year of Tang Tianbao, he met Zhang Xu, a county commandant and grass sage of Changshu (real name, good at weeds) in Liyang. They came to Liyang Hotel together to drown their sorrows. Li Bai became very poetic by drinking, so he asked the singer in the restaurant to play the flat tune. Hearing this song, he danced and sang: "Let the tiger go in the morning and let the tiger sing at night." My heart is broken, and my tears are not for the sake of Yongmen's relatives ... In Liyang Restaurant in the spring of March, Huayang knew nothing about killing people ... I went fishing in the East China Sea from then on, and I got a smile from the fish. "This is the famous tiger walking.
When Li Bai sang, the dinner was suddenly silent. Later, someone shouted, "Get a pen!" "Looking back, I saw Zhang Xu shaking up from his chair and writing Li Bai's farewell song on the wall! Since then, this restaurant has become famous. In the Tang Dynasty, "Li Bai's Poems, Zhang Shi's Poems and Pei Jian's Poems" were three unique skills. Later generations renamed this building "Taibai Restaurant" in memory of the poet Li Bai, and built "Li Bai Temple" in Shengyin Temple in old county to commemorate this great poet.
Due to disrepair, this restaurant was abandoned several times. In the eighth year of Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty (1669), Liyang County ordered Xu Yi to rebuild Taibai Restaurant in Sheung Shui Pass (now Hongqi Bridge) in Xinxian County, and placed the stone carving of Li Bai's poem Roaring Tiger written by Zhang Xu beside the building. Unfortunately, the restaurant was killed again during the Anti-Japanese War. Today, the Taibai Pagoda rebuilt in 1986 is located in Gaojing Garden in the center of liyang city. There is a stone statue of Li Bai's till, raising my cup, I asked the bright moon, and a couplet is engraved on the big column: "Who was the host and guest when climbing the tower?" Today, he looks at the mountains and rivers. "