At this moment, I heard a woman's mountain song from far away on the upstream river:

A galaxy wide and wide,

My sister is over there.

The Weaver Girl wants to see the Cowherd face,

Dig up the Milky Way and drain the water.

Yang Xianmao listened to this mountain song very heroic, couldn't help but praise it, looked up, and saw a small boat coming down the river upstream. At the bow of the boat stood a fisherwoman, about fifteen or sixteen years old, with a long braid and a coarse cloth skirt, looking very delicate, but her little face was red from the cold. The wide dress can hardly hide the graceful figure, *** slender and sturdy, holding a fishing net in his hand, singing mountain songs, while constantly casting nets to fish, the action is very skillful.

Yang Xianmao hurriedly shouted: "Fishing girl, can you borrow your fishing boat to cross the river with me?"

The woman glanced at him, smiled, put down the fishing net, picked up a penny, propped up the fishing boat to the river, but did not dock, looked at Yang Xianmao and said with a smile: "I sing the first song, if you can answer, I will cross the river for you." ”

"I can't sing mountain songs!"

"I don't want you to sing, you just answer the questions in my song, and you can answer them. ”

"Okay, then I'll try!"

The fisherwoman stood at the bow of the boat, holding the penny, and looked at him laughing and singing, and her voice was gentle and clear:

What kind of spring comes in winter?

What is the flowering season?

What opens two seasons a year?

What flowers fall cold?

There are florists in the palace who grow flowers, including the Tai Hospital. Yang Xianmao has heard the gardener also talk about flowers over the years, so when she heard her sing about flowers, she didn't panic, she thought about it for a while, and said: "Come to Xiaoyangchun in winter!"

The fisherman girl smiled and nodded, indicating that she had answered correctly.

Yang Xianmao was happy, thought about it and said: "The flowers bloom all year round, and the moon will bloom, so of course the moon is red!"

The fisherwoman nodded again, and her smile became stronger.

Yang Xianmao guessed two correctly in succession, and was even more happy, thought for a moment, and said: "The flowers that bloom twice a year are plum blossoms." -- It is open only in winter and spring, and not in summer and autumn. ”

The fisherwoman nodded approvingly, "That's right, what about the last flower?"

Yang Xianmao thought for a long time and muttered to himself: "What flowers fall cold? It's hard to guess, -- the petals are cold, but all flowers are like this, what kind of flowers fall cold? Could it be a flower that blooms in winter?" So she guessed several winter flowers in one breath, but the fisherwoman shook her head.

Yang Xianmao was a little deflated. At this moment, I suddenly felt something fall on my face, and it was cold. When I looked up, I saw that the sky had fallen heavily and fell one after another.

He reached out and took a slice, and the snowflake fell on the palm of his hand and turned into a drop of water, which was cool.

Yang Xianmao's eyes lit up and said, "I know! It's snowflakes, -- snowflakes are falling cold!"

"That's right, you're so smart!" said the fisherman's smile, propping the boat up to the shore and the bow of the boat crashed onto the ice. Yang Xianmao carefully stepped on the ice, helped her to stretch out the penny to get on the fishing boat, and saw that she had a pair of feet exposed under her grass-green pleated skirt, but she was standing barefoot in the bow of the boat, and was a little surprised: "Why are you barefoot? Isn't it cold?"

"I'm used to it, I have to go down the river at any time to fish, and it's not convenient to wear shoes. ”

Yang Xianmao saw that her small white feet were red from the cold, and couldn't help sighing: "Fishing is really hard enough, it snows in the cold winter, and you have to run on the river." ”

"What is the way to make a living? As she spoke, the fisherwoman's penny stretched the ice, and the boat floated leisurely to the other side of the river in the fluttering snowflakes. The river froze on both sides, and the water was not wide, and after a penny of twos, the boat crossed the river, and the bow of the boat washed up on the ice on the opposite bank and stopped.

Yang Xianmao said: "Thank you, girl, how much does it cost to cross the river?"

The fisherman girl smiled and shook her head: "If you answer my pange, you will pay for it, and you don't need to pay more." ”

Yang Xianmao hurriedly thanked him. Seeing a wooden basin in the cabin, in which were several fish of different sizes, presumably caught by casting a net, he said, "Do you sell your fish?"

"Selling it, it was originally going to be sold at the city market. If you buy it, it will save me from running away, and sell it to you cheaply, and if you sell it for a pound of 30 wen in the bazaar, you will be counted as 25 wen. ”

"Thanks, then I'll buy them all. ”

The fisherman's girl was very happy, jumped lightly on the ice, went to the shore, plucked a willow branch from the weeping willow tree on the shore, skewered a few fish, took a rod and weighed the fish from the cabin, and spared a small number of dollars, and received him a hundred wen, and handed him the fish.

Yang Xianmao paid, said goodbye to the fisherman's girl, took out an oil-paper umbrella from his backpack, stepped on the snow on the ground, braved the cold wind, and carried the string of fish to Xuanzhou City.

After walking for a short time, they entered the city.

When Yang Xianmao was six years old, the Tai Hospital selected and recruited medicine children and scholars in various places, and he went through layers of selection, and finally entered the Tai Hospital as a scholar in the library pavilion. Since then, I have never come back from my hometown Xuanzhou City, and ten years have passed, and now I have returned to my hometown and seen the familiar street scene, and I am not very emotional.

It's just that at this moment, the snow is falling, the streets are scarce, the roadside stalls and chairs are almost empty, and the shopkeepers are still waiting for customers to come to the door with their hands folded, looking at the lead-colored sky and the heavy snow with a sad face.

The original snow on the street had been swept away and piled up on both sides of the street, but now it was snowing heavily, and soon the bluestone slabs were covered again.

Yang Xianmao held an oil-paper umbrella, stepped on the soft snow, looked all the way, walked a few streets, and finally came to the pharmacy opened by his family.

His father was a man who opened a pharmacy called "Huichun Tang", and he sat in the hall to treat people while selling medicines. It is precisely because Yang Xianmao has been familiar with medical books under the guidance of his father since he was a child that he was able to stand out in the selection of Tai Hospital and was finally selected.

He raised his oil-paper umbrella and looked up at the old plaque on the door of the pharmacy. The paint on the plaque has partially peeled off, and the words "Rejuvenation Hall" on it are a little blurry and indistinguishable.

He imagined in his heart how happy his parents would be to see him after not seeing each other for ten years.

He came to the door, took the oil-paper umbrella, carried the hem of the white robe, and was about to step over the high threshold into the pharmacy, when he heard a man inside shouting: "I'll put my words here, if you don't settle the money for the medicinal materials you owe before the sun sets today, I can only move all the medicinal materials from your pharmacy to pay off the debt!"

Yang Xianmao couldn't help but be stunned, stood up at the moment, and then heard his father's familiar voice again, full of helplessness, with some pleading: "Money shopkeeper, you take away all the medicinal materials, my pharmacy business will not be able to continue, they are all old acquaintances, and they have been in business for many years, please give me some more time." ”

"No way! If you can't pay the money, you can pull the medicinal herbs, there is no need to discuss!"

Then, a familiar voice came from the pharmacy: "Money shopkeeper, you can do it, let's give some time, we will pay back the money owed to you for the medicinal herbs." ”

"I've given you grace several times, and I still have to give you a grace limit? Seeing that the end of the year is approaching, I must collect the bills, and there is no need to discuss!"

Hearing this, Yang Xianmao had already roughly guessed it. It seems that his own pharmacy is not as prosperous as his father wrote to him, and he can't even pay off the money for medicinal materials, which shows how bleak the business is.

In a hurry, Yang Xianmao walked in, and saw a middle-aged man with a fat head and big ears standing in the lobby, who was pointing and talking to his parents.

Yang Xianmao's father's name was Yang Mingde, and when he saw someone coming in and looking up, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment. He didn't recognize his son for a while, he just felt familiar. Because Yang Xianmao was only six years old when he left home, ten years have passed at this moment, and in the past ten years, his parents only visited him in the capital once five years ago, and they haven't seen each other since. After five years, Yang Xianmao has grown into a half-grown teenager, and his size is about to catch up with his father.

After Yang Xianmao called "Dad", Yang Mingde dared to confirm that the young man who looked like himself in front of him was his child, and couldn't help but be surprised and delighted: "Xianmao, why are you back?"

Yang Xianmao's mother, Zhang, had her back to the door, so she didn't see Yang Xianmao come in. Hearing this, he quickly turned around and saw a young man carrying a bag and a string of fish in his hand, looking at her, it was his son, but he was already taller than himself, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Xianmao? Oh, you have grown so big? Why did you come back?"

Yang Xianmao said: "The emperor decided to surrender to the Great Song Dynasty, so he dismissed all the people in the palace and the imperial hospital, and I came back." ”

This matter has not yet reached Xuanzhou, Yang Xianmao's parents did not know, and they couldn't help but be taken aback when they heard this.

The chubby middle-aged man was very happy and asked, "What did you say? The emperor wants to surrender to the land? Then our Wu Yue Kingdom will belong to the Great Song Dynasty?"

Yang Xianmao nodded.

"Is this true?"

Zhang hurriedly said: "Money shopkeeper, my son is a scholar in the Imperial Palace Hospital, and what he said will definitely not be false." ”

The shopkeeper said happily: "Okay, it's good to return to the Great Song Dynasty! I heard that the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty ruled the world with benevolence and righteousness, and our people have a good life." The best thing is that there will be no need to fight when the land is surrendered! I am afraid that if a war breaks out, the army will be in chaos, my family property will be plundered, and I will be reluctant to sell my property and flee from my homeland. Now I can rest assured, hahaha. ”

The money shopkeeper laughed, and said to Yang Xianmao: "Since you are from the Imperial Palace Hospital, you must have some money." Your father owes me a large sum of money for medicinal herbs, so you can pay it back for you! ”

"How much does my family owe you?" Yang Xianmao asked.

"Twenty-eight taels and seven coins in total. ”

Yang Xianmao's package contained the monthly money he had saved over the years, plus the severance pay and the honorarium given by the palace maid, except for the expenses of hiring a carriage for food and accommodation on the road, there was a little more than twenty-three taels left.

At that moment, he took off his backpack, took out a bag of silver from his bag, handed it to his father, and said, "Dad, I have some money, you can use it to settle the money for medicinal herbs." ”

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