Chapter 40: Changes Unseen in Thousands of Years
Speaking of Luzhou, the first thing that popped out of Shi Yiguang's head was that song, Luzhou Yue.
When I was a child, I chiseled the wall and stole the light of whom, I didn't comb a bitter ten years of cold windows, and now I read the red sleeves under the lamp, and the fame of half my life is just false, in March, the smoke and the warbler flies and the grass grows, and the catkins fly in the hometown I see, I don't know if you are still in Luyang, a wisp of green silk is treasured for a lifetime....... It was common to sigh at the time...... Luzhou moonlight pear blossom rain cool ....... The moonlight of my hometown is deeply seared on my heart, but I can't shed the tears of the year.
In junior high school, she liked this song very much, not only her, but also the people around her, who liked to copy the lyrics on paper, humming in a low voice, and self-absorbed in the sound of reading in the morning reading class.
At that time, she always wanted to come to this place with ethereal beauty, to find the catkins flying, pear blossoms and rain, and then she grew up, but she slowly forgot about it, and it was like making a wish to be admitted to Wudaokou Technical College when she was a child, to be a great scientist, but in the end, most people have returned to reality.
Now that I finally came to Luzhou, there is still plenty of time, a ten-day tour of Luzhou.
The first stop, Sanhe Ancient Town, an ancient town, under the sky and white clouds, white bricks and green tiles, arched bridges diffusing a simple atmosphere, six-story flying red towers, and painting boats rippling back and forth on the green water, from time to time there are girls in ayaluo shirts to cover their faces, hiding in the high white walls.
The poetic emotion, the picturesque artistic conception, is like this, stepping into it, suddenly feel that the fatigue has subsided, and the troubles have run away, but do not ask the direction to move forward, go around and around, everywhere is a surprise.
Sanhe Ancient Town gave Shi Yiguang too many surprises, but he didn't pay attention to it, so he spent five more days here, during which he turned the Quezhu Covered Bridge, Yiren Lane, Ancient Street, and Taiping City Wall Fort all ran again, and rowed a boat by the way.
The original ten-day trip to Luzhou, a Sanhe ancient town took seven days, and the remaining three days were not enough, the trio could only sift through and choose one of the six remaining scenic spots.
Wanqing Chongchen, the former residence of Lord Li, came here at Gan Yuexin's request, she said that she had heard about the deeds of this lord a long time ago, and she had never had the opportunity, so she took this opportunity to see the place where he once lived.
Shi Yiguang is still quite familiar with this Lord Li, it is written in the history books, it is the last pillar of the last feudal dynasty, and it is he who has signed one unequal treaty after another with the great powers. Many people have the impression that he is a traitor and a traitor.
Gan Yuexin sat in a wheelchair, looked at the two golden characters 'Li Fu' on the black plaque, and was silent for a long time before sighing leisurely: "He is a respectable person and a poor person!"
"Why?" Shi Yiguang was puzzled, in her impression, this Lord Li was still a pillar of the feudal dynasty: "He has signed many unequal treaties in modern times, and he is a sinner of the nation." ”
"Sinner!" Gan Yuexin repeated, and then shook his head: "Different positions, different plans, he has done his best to maintain it, it can be said that he is a 'lackey' of the feudal dynasty, but he can never be said to be a traitor, let alone a sinner of the nation." ”
"Why?" Shi Yiguang asked, scratching his head.
"Although the Tao is not the same, but he is indeed a respectable guy, he sacrifices his life to benefit the country, and he will not give up, he is a person of faith and a person of dedication!" Xie Xiaoqi touched the stone lion on the side of the gate, and his tone was also a little solemn.
"Yiguang, let me tell you a true story!" Xie Xiaoqi, a foodie, rarely doesn't stuff anything into his mouth.
"You still tell stories!" Shi Yiguang doubted: "It can't be that there was a mountain in the past, it was built with bread, there is a temple on the mountain, it is made of sugar, and there is an old monk in the temple, it is made of meat, one bite at a time, it is really fragrant!"
"Hmph, you don't want to hear it, I don't want to say it yet!" Xie Xiaoqi turned his head with a snort, and stuffed a piece of sugar into his mouth as he spoke.
"You don't want to say it, I don't want to hear it yet! You foodie, you can tell stories, and you can fly. Shi Yiguang did not show weakness, and also turned his head.
At this time, Gan Yuexin frowned, thought for a moment, and looked at Xie Xiaoqi with a smile: "Xiaoqi, talk about it, I want to hear it!"
"Don't say, don't say, someone doesn't want to hear it. Xie Xiaoqi continued to turn his head, puffing out.
"A bag of sugar!" Gan Yue was very generous.
"A bag of sugar bought in Sanhe Ancient Town?" Xie Xiaoqi's eyes widened: "Okay, don't regret it, pull the hook, and hang yourself for a hundred years!" said as he pulled the little short leg and pulled Gan Yuexin's hand.
"Say it!" Gan Yue was wealthy, saying how could I regret it.
"Actually, it's nothing, I've heard what people say, I don't know if it's true. At the opening ceremony, the national flags of various countries were raised in turn with the national anthems, only when the dragon flag of the Qing Dynasty was raised, there was nothing, and it was silent. ”
"I've heard people say that Westerners are laughing at it endlessly, a so-called Heavenly Empire, and all nations are coming to court, and the dragon crawling in the East doesn't even have a national anthem, where is an ancient civilization, it's simply a group of barbarians, just like the Indians of the Americas, a group of inferior people waiting to be enslaved. ”
"In the Middle Ages, Byzantium was powerful, looking down on the small countries around it, and they divided the world into races, noble whites and lowly blacks. At that time, in the east of them, there was the mighty Tang Empire, a vast country, so the Tang people were also white like them!
"Why do they think so! I have been in China for 5,000 years, others are strong, we are strong, others are ruined, we are still strong, but something has gone wrong in modern times, and when they catch up, we are discriminated against? What qualifications do they have!" Shi Yiguang was indignant: "We don't disdain to be with us, we still don't disdain to be with them, our Chinese nation is the best!"
"Naturally, we are naturally the best, unique race, and we are now on the road to great rejuvenation!" Gan Yuexin nodded with a smile, then turned her head and looked at Xie Xiaoqi: "You go on!"
At that time, the accompanying officials who followed Master Li were ashamed and did not dare to raise their heads, but the silver-haired, seventy-year-old man, with steady steps, resolutely walked to the dragon flag, straightened his waist, and sang a hometown tune, "Jasmine". ”
After singing the song, the applause was thunderous, not to the stormy so-called Heavenly Empire, but to this old man who was dying of old age, but still worked hard to defend the dignity of the motherland, this old man, enough to win everyone's respect. After Xie Xiaoqi finished solemnly, he began to chant softly again: "What a beautiful jasmine flower, fragrant and beautiful, full of branches........"
"Good story!" Gan Yuexin applauded, and then said: "It's a pity that in 1896, Master Li was indeed appointed as a diplomatic envoy by the Qing government, but he did not participate in the World Games, but rushed to Western Europe to visit, and in August of the same year, he also went to Laomei. ”
"The story, true or false, who can tell clearly!" Xie Xiaoqi shrugged his shoulders and said jokingly: "It's not good to say, Lord Li took time out of his time because of some accidents and went to participate in the World Games!"
Gan Yuexin frowned, but did not argue anymore, history has always been true and false, even if it is recorded on paper, in black and white, it cannot be said to be true, only if you have experienced it yourself, you can definitely adhere to it.
She has not experienced this history of humiliation and is not qualified to refute.
"Listening to Xiao Qi tell this story, I feel that Master Li is so ......." Shi Yiguang was a little short of words and didn't know how to describe him.
"It's so respectable, pitiful, pathetic, lamentable!" Xie Xiaoqi said, "He is a poor man under changes that have not been seen for thousands of years. ”
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"It's a pity!" Gan Yuexin knocked on the handle of the wheelchair and said leisurely.
"It's a pity? It's a pity because he is for the country and the people, but it's pitiful because the traitorous treaty was scolded by later generations, and it's sad and sad that he tried his best all his life but couldn't reverse the general trend, but the Qing Dynasty still fell. Where did the pity come from?" Xie Xiaoqi asked, tilting his head.
Xie Xiaoqi then suddenly said: "I understand what you mean! He was the first person to realize this key turning point in the land of modern China, and the first person to start the Westernization Movement, but he failed!"
Gan Yuexin bowed her head and did not speak.
Shi Yiguang didn't have any ink in his stomach, and he couldn't interject until he heard the familiar words, and immediately rushed to say: "A change that has not been seen in thousands of years? I remember, Teacher Kong often said similar things in the courses of the ladder list! He seems to say that it is a turning point for the power of science and technology to replace the power of gods and demons!"
"It's not easy for Yiguang to remember what the teacher taught in class!" Xie Xiaoqi jumped over and said jokingly: "It's because Vice Principal Kong is handsome, everything sounds good!"
Shi Yiguang smiled wryly, scratching her head embarrassedly, indeed, she can remember these things because Vice Principal Kong's voice is good-sounding, very magnetic, and the person is also good-looking, with a pair of peach blossom eyes, as if it can drip water.
Shi Yiguang saw that Gan Yuexin was not good in her eyes, if she wasn't in a wheelchair, she would have beaten her buttocks, she decisively diverted the topic and asked curiously: "Yuexin, do you have any other stories about Master Li?" ”
Shi Moumou's 'water-based poplar', when he saw his little brother, he had starry eyes, which made Gan Yuexin very unhappy, and said angrily: "I don't know, I don't want to say, I'm not in the mood, I want to know more to go to the data management institute to read the history of bloodline, I am really too lazy to read, and I can also choose a course on bloodline history." ”
"Don't read the book, choose a course, there is a fault in the history of bloodline, and it is not clear in the book, if you choose a course, the professors may reveal some speculation, or the wild history that is not determined, which is very interesting. Xie Xiaoqi interjected on the side: "Next semester, let's choose together, right?"
"Oh, oops, chatting and chatting about how to talk about course selection, it's so annoying!" Shi Yiguang, a scumbag, said with two big heads: "Don't talk about it, we're here to travel, don't talk about these unhappy things." ”
As he spoke, Shi Moumou spread his legs and ran into the Li Mansion.
Gan Yuexin gestured with her eyes, Xie Xiaoqi obediently pushed the wheelchair and followed to the Li Mansion.
At this time, from an unknown place, there was a hoarse and vicissitudes of life whispering: "What a beautiful jasmine flower, fragrant and beautiful, full of branches......"