Chapter 6: Beauty Juanjuan Across the Autumn Water [1]

When you see the water, you can only look behind your waist. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The white yarn is broken, and how do you know how many joys and sorrows before and after the sound.

Section 1: Dengfeng

In Dengfeng Zhongyue Long Street, there is a sunny day on the road.

People had lunch and walked the streets chatting.

Or sit in a teahouse, chat with people, sip a cup of fragrant tea, or stroll leisurely with your hands behind your back, only looking left and right on the road, or shop along the street, select goods, and compare the baht. The voices of the people were bustling, and there was a different kind of liveliness and peace.

"Big jujubes, big jujubes, big and sweet jujubes!

A young man squeezed into the crowd in West Point, picked up a jujube from a street vendor, and secretly stuffed it into his mouth while the stall owner was unprepared. The middle-aged man next to him glanced at him, turned his head and continued to pick his dates.

Henan's jujube is no less famous than Shanxi Jinzhong, especially Xinzheng jujube, which is not only big, but also sweet and crisp, known as "Lingbao apple Tongguan pear, Xinzheng jujube is sweet like honey".

The young man ate the dates, and as he left, he took the sheep with him, and took a farmer's purse.

He chuckled and poured out a few strings of copper coins inside, counted them, stuffed them into his arms again, and walked away.

The middle-aged man who was picking dates turned his head and sighed, but he heard an old voice behind him: "The world is like this, and people's hearts are not ancient. Old and unembarrassed, young sighs. He turned his head and saw an old man over seventy a year, with a white beard, rags and clothes that were quite clean, and his bearing was very extraordinary, sitting on the side of the road, holding the huqin, plucking the strings in his hands, "Zheng Zheng" several times, and was tuning.

The old man continued to play, and the song was hoarse, only to hear him slowly open his lips and sing an ancient tune, and the words said:

"Qiankun pitches, the virtuous and foolish wake up drunk, and the ancient rise and fall. The sword flower is cold, and the heart is strong when you sit at night, and it is a foreign country. Nine days of Ming Dynasty wine, a good year orange yellow. On Longshan, the west wind tree sounds, blowing the frost of the old sideburns. ”

This song is "Man Tingfang" written by Zhang Kejiu in the Yuan Dynasty, which is used to lament the world's virtuous and foolish, the rise and fall of change, the wanderer's wandering, and the feeling of the boss returning home. Although the middle-aged man didn't understand the song, the sentence "Nine days of Ming Dynasty wine" suddenly reminded him: "In a few days, it will be the Double Ninth Festival." ”

At this moment, several officials came over, and one of them kicked the old man and shouted, "You bad old man, who let you sit here and play the piano!? The county magistrate gave an order yesterday that no singing is allowed in this whole street from now on!"

The other also said: "Old man, get out of here, don't let the masters see it again, otherwise it will be a good fight." ”

The old man stroked the kicked back, lifted the huqin, slowly got up, shook his head and whispered: "The wind and moon of the pen have passed from time to time, and there are more and more Cao under the eyes." Someone asked me how things were, and there was a wide sea of people, and there was no turmoil every day. He hunched his back and walked away slowly.

Dengfeng's strange Ning Jing seems to contain an undercurrent, which is not easy to detect. Before the wind and rain come, don't they all have a peaceful scenery?

"What a weird old man. Seeing that he obediently retreated, the patrol officer was no longer embarrassed, sat down in the teahouse near the left, ordered a pot of tea, and chatted left and right: "In the past few days, that thief has made our Dengfeng Yamen restless, which is really annoying. Fortunately, there were also several such cases along the Wuchang line, and Hu Guangming was like a sea revenge catcher, so he agreed to take over the case and come to Dengfeng to co-organize. ”

The other said: "Yes, if he doesn't come, it will be bad for the county lord to ask us for guilt." ”

"Hmph, I'm afraid that the master himself won't be able to eat and walk around. ”

"Okay, you two are worried, just revenge and catch the head, and you will definitely succeed immediately. ”

Another said: "I heard that the head of the enemy is very strict, but I am afraid that I will be exhausted by then." The first one sighed: "It's okay to run errands, but I'm afraid of fighting that thief." ”

This group of errand servants is afraid of the soft and the hard, and when they heard it, they remembered it, and said in unison: "Yes, more than a dozen brothers have been injured. ”

As they spoke, they grabbed a handful of beans and put them in their mouths to chew, then "gurgled" and took a sip of tea. The others peeled the peanuts, threw them up, caught them with their mouths, and enjoyed the taste of the peanuts. If it can be accompanied by a pot of old wine, this afternoon must be more relaxed. However, when you are on duty, you obviously can't drink, and even if you want to drink, you can't drink so blatantly.

"I heard that the head of the revenge hunt is from the Fujian Wuyi faction, not only proficient in the art of pursuit, but also strong in martial arts, no thief can stop him in three moves and two styles. One of the officers said.

The companion on his right patted him on the head: "Isn't it stupid, if the thief this time is really that simple, why don't you pat your chest and say, 'Look at my hand.'" 'What a style, a lot of face. Do you want to ask our county master to go to the Shaolin Temple to ask the Shaolin monk to come down and help? I look at the thief's methods, I am afraid that it is a hundred times higher than his revenge. ”

"Yes, yes, I'll tell you secretly, I saw the thief's martial arts with my own eyes, but I'm afraid that the three revenge heads are not opponents!" one of the officials chimed in.

"Fart, with your three-legged cat kung fu, if you see it, you can still sit here and talk, go home and lie down in the morning!" the rest of the people scoffed.

The man blushed and muttered, "I... I... I am, witty! I can't beat it, I can hide. Not to mention, the thief came out of nowhere with a sword, and just stabbed six or seven brothers down with a brush! The brothers didn't even touch his sleeve. He gestured with his hand, and then said: "His steps are even more magical, step on the left, step on it again, obviously in front, and suddenly go to the back, not to mention that I can't see it clearly, even I can't understand it, it's amazing!"

"Well, what should I do then? First the Liu family, then the Chen family, and now I don't know which one it is. A young servant sighed. Young men who have just debuted often have a dedication and enthusiasm for their work, although this relationship does not last long.

"It's a pity that those girls are like flowers and jade, and Lao Tzu didn't have a chance to kiss Fangze, but let the thief take the lead. An old man said, and there was still a sense of vinegar.

The officials drank another cup, and when they saw that the teapot was bottoming out, they shouted, "Boss, make another pot!"

As a few officers spoke, they suddenly heard a person at the next table ask: "A few errand brothers, I am here for the first time, I don't know what is happening in your county? ”

The servants turned their heads to look, and saw three people sitting at the next table, a sixty-year-old man, a young man, and a young girl, and the one who asked the question was the young man who held a folding fan and gave it away.

The servants looked disdainful and shook off: "The matter of the yamen, can you ask more?" After speaking, he went to drink tea by himself.

The young man was embarrassed, but he couldn't say anything more, so he had to sit down. The girl beside him smiled and said, "Brother Yang, how about it, I'll just say you can't ask, right? ”

The young man sighed, "Your method is nothing more than dragging them over and beating them, isn't it?"

The girl giggled and said, "Brother Yang, when will you become Zhuge Liang, you know this." In these days, officials have bullied the weak and feared the hard, what is the real big deal, what use can they have? When they see the dignitaries and nobles, they bend down and laugh, and ordinary people like us are not willing to pay much attention to it. If you really don't want to cause trouble, we might as well go to ordinary people's homes and inquire, and the people will not bully others. The old man listened, sighed and nodded: "What Cai Ling said is very true. ”

The three of them didn't speak lightly, and when the officials heard it, where could they still swallow their breath, and scolded one after another: "The stinky boy who got up with that big egg, stinky girls, are you begging to be beaten?" The girl saw that they got up to fight, and she was even more in the middle of it, and said with a smile: "Yo, what do the big brothers want to do? We are chatting on our own, but it doesn't hinder you from anything?"

An errand officer scolded: "Stinky girls, what do you say is the master bullying the soft and afraid of the hard, can't you hear when the master is deaf?" Another said: "What's more, a few of you are arguing about the government affairs of Dengfeng, or go with us to the county government!" Another saw that the girl was pretty, not only did he have evil thoughts, but he smiled lewdly: "Hey, you see, this girl is three points more beautiful than the Oiran of Yichun Courtyard!"

Several officers said yes, and one of them said: "Could it be the ** of Kyoto, running to our Dengfeng?" haha." "This girl is convex and backward, and she must be pink and tender when she peels it, hahaha. These few foul words were vicious, and besides, the speaker was unintentional, and the listener was intentional, the old man's expression suddenly became solemn, and the young man snorted heavily, and the girl's face turned blue and scolded: "What nonsense are you talking about!!"

"Haha, the little girl is angry, shouldn't I blame my brother for not hurting you for a long time?" haha!" Several officials laughed at each other: "Look at her pungent and prodigal appearance, she must be a Sichun." "It's just that the breasts are smaller, stuff two steamed buns in, and it's all right! The girl's eyes turned red, how could she have been so humiliated......?" You bastards!Watch your aunt tear your dog's mouth!!" I saw her snatch forward, her body was fast, and before the servants came to their senses, they immediately received a slap on the left and right cheeks, and one of them was even kicked to the wooden fence of the tea house.

"Bloody sons are so bold!" the officers were furious, and drew their swords. The old man sat calmly, his white eyebrows raised slightly, and he didn't care at all. The young man got up, and saw that the girl was still aggrieved, and his heart was slightly angry, he slapped the table with his hand, and said coldly to the group of errands: "Yang doesn't want to do more things in Dengfeng, if you know each other, get out!"

Although those servants were slapped in the face, they were just careless, and the other party was only three people, old and young, so how could they stop because of his words?

"Thieves, do you dare to beat up the officials and rebel? You two, if you want to help her, you will be accomplices, gather a crowd to rebel, that is not to mention killing!" They surrounded the three of them one after another, and the customers next to the teahouse saw this, fearing that they would be implicated, and they all ran out quickly.

The owner of the teahouse hid by the cabinet and shouted: "Poor master, poor master! The small shop can't stand such a toss, and the poor men ... Be merciful!"

The girl snorted coldly and was about to make a move, but listened: "Stop!"

Everyone followed the prestige, and saw a twenty-seven or eighteen-year-old boy walk into the teahouse, smile slightly at the young man, and then show a token with his left hand to the officers.

The token was written with the words "Huguang Governor Hunting Revenge", and the officers were shocked, and one of them lost his color, and the blade fell to the ground, and he hit his toe again, and he "ah" half a sound, and was covered by his colleagues.

Seeing this, the leader hurriedly put away his blade, took a few steps back, and said with a smile: "It turned out that the old man of the head of the enemy had arrived, and the little ones did not come far to greet him, so please forgive me." ”

The boy said in a deep voice: "I'm not an enemy. But the other person has already arrived at the county office, hmph, if he knew that the official of Dengfeng was actually this virtue, he must ......"

His words were stopped, and the servants saw that he was dressed luxuriously and held Qiu Ruhai's token, so they hurriedly took over the conversation and said: "The little ones know that they are wrong, so they will go back to the yamen to report, and ask the prince to forgive him, and say a few kind words in front of the county lord and the head of the Qiu catcher." As he spoke, the leader stepped forward and quietly handed the boy a money bag.

The boy smiled slightly, took it, waved his right hand, and said, "Let's go." ”

[1] From Tang Dufu's "Notes on the Advice of Han and Han", the full poem is as follows:

"Today, I don't like to think about Yueyang, and I want to fly and get sick in bed. The beauty Juanjuan is separated by autumn water, and she looks at the eight wildernesses in the cave garden. Hongfei is white, the sun and moon are white, and the green maple leaves are red and rainy. The emperors of Yujing gather Beidou, or ride the unicorn phoenix. The smoke of the hibiscus flag fell, and the shadow shook the scene. The king of the star palace is drunk with elixir, and the feather people are scarce and not around. It seems to have heard of yesterday's red pine nuts, probably Han Zhangliang in the Han Dynasty. In the past, with Liu's Dingchang'an, the curtain did not change his mind and was tragic. How dare I dare to succeed or fail the country, and it is difficult to eat the maple fragrance. It is a pity that Zhou Nan stayed in ancient times, and the old man of Antarctica should be Shouchang. The beauty Hu is separated by autumn water, and it has to be placed in the tribute jade hall. ”