Chapter 40: The Jiangnan River
From Suzhou City to the capital Luoyang, first sail north along the Jiangnan River, pass through Chuzhou and Surabaya, and then turn into the Grand Canal Tongji Canal, and arrive at the Shangqiu Nanguan Wharf outside Luoyang City. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
The fleet left the Suzhou dock and headed north. The warm sun of early spring shines on the river, the river shimmers, and the Jiangnan River meanders like a silver thread. From time to time, the singing from the fishing boats floats in the sky, and the boats on the river come and go in an orderly manner, which is a good river scenery.
However, the people of the Xu family on the boat had no intention of appreciating this beautiful scenery, and the people were seasick.
Xu Wanzhen's face turned pale, she drank some warm water from Biluo's hand, forcibly held back the discomfort in her heart, and asked, "Is grandmother okay?"
Biluo gently put down the teacup and said, "The old lady ate some Poria cake at noon, which is much better than yesterday." He added: "The old lady said that the river surface of the Jiangnan River is narrower and the current is turbulent, but fortunately, our boat is stable enough, and it will be better if we get used to it." When you reach the Tongji Canal, the river is wide and gentle, and you will no longer feel uncomfortable. ”
Xu Wanzhen nodded.
Although the daughters of the Xu family are the daughters who grew up in the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River, they are raised in the deep boudoir after all, and they are not allowed to go out easily, and they are not as good as the fishermen who beg for a living on the river. The first time I took the boat, I had different degrees of seasickness.
The most dizzy is Xu Wanzhen, Xu Wenyu's sister and brother, vomited a few times, and was not energetic, Xu Wenyu snuggled in the arms of the nurse Liu's mother, and didn't even want to speak. Mrs. Xu is slightly better, she was also along this river, married to Suzhou City, and she had to adapt to it after taking a boat. Sangzi and Yulu in the maid are also seasick, only Biluo, who has never been on a boat, but has directly adapted well.
Han Runiang was exiled to Yangzhou because of her wandering in the south of the Yangtze River, and then arrived in Suzhou, where she has been on the ship for almost two months, and now she is completely seasick. But she was not a relative of the Xu family, and with Su Liangzhi on the ship, she easily went out of the hatch. Fortunately, the painting fan is also a girl who grew up on the river, and three meals a day are brought into the cabin by the painting fan.
Not to mention Su Liangzhi, who has followed his father to practice medicine in Jiangnan Province since he was a child, what is seasickness? Seeing that everyone was suffering from seasickness, he pondered for a while, and said to Mrs. Xu: "Old lady, I have a way to alleviate the symptoms of seasickness." ”
Mrs. Xu was very interested and said, "Oh? ”
Su Liangzhi said: "Moxibustion at Baihui acupoint should be useful. However, the boat is bumpy, and acupuncture cannot be done, so it must be docked steadily. ”
Mrs. Xu asked Biluo to ask the boatman, there is a docking place ahead, and after a while, Biluo replied, and then sailed for half a day before there is a Xie family ferry, and Shen should be able to arrive. Then he was ordered to go down and prepare to land.
After nothing to do for a while, Su Liangzhi walked out of the cabin and sat on the deck comfortably. He is very familiar with the Jiangnan River, but he has not been to the Tongji Canal further north. All the female dependents of the Xu family are seasick, and Han Runiang is a woman from another family who needs to avoid suspicion. He has always practiced medicine alone, and he has no habit of taking a little medicine boy, and he doesn't even have anyone to talk to at the moment. No matter how beautiful the scenery on both sides of the strait is, I am a little tired of watching it for two days, and I am a little bored. Suddenly, I heard the sound of "Zheng Zheng", stretched my neck to look, and saw a high-spirited man standing at the stern of the boat, raising a bow in his left hand, and forming a full moon with his right hand, and then letting go. But the strings don't match the arrows, and so on.
Su Liangzhi was curious, this man was obviously not a boatman, it should be Han Yi that Xu Wanzhen had talked about, he was a person with real skills, so he walked over.
Although Han Yi has not practiced martial arts seriously, he has developed a habit of hunting for many years, and he is extremely alert to the surrounding environment. When he saw someone coming, he lowered his bow.
Su Liangzhi said: "You are Han Yi, and Su Liangzhi is the little uncle of the eldest lady of the Xu family." Practice your own, and leave me alone. ”
Han Yi was not good at words, so he lowered his head and said, "Young Master Su, I am a black dog, ah, no, I have a name, Miss took Han Yi." ”
Su Liangzhi saw that he was honest and simple, so he put away his habit of playing tricks and asked, "How old are you this year?"
Han Yi scratched his head embarrassedly and said, "I just turned eighteen years old, and I haven't married yet." Life in the mountains is too hard, and no girl wants to marry in. ”
Su Liangzhi smiled when he heard this: "Why should a good man have no wife! When you arrive in Luoyang, I will find you a beautiful lady." ”
Hearing this, Han Yi's face was feverish, but fortunately, he had a black face, and he couldn't see it on his face at all. The two talked for a while, Han Yi had a simple temperament, and Su Liangzhi liked it very much. One speaks, the other listens, and it is unusually harmonious. In the end, Su Liangzhi said: "You are one year older than me, so we don't want the young master to come to the young master, I am not a young master in the first place." You and I will call you Brother Han Yi, and you can call me Brother Su. ”
Han Yi hurriedly refused, and before leaving, his aunt specially told him that he would call the main family Miss and Mrs., and the relatives of the main family would also be called this way. Those who have not left the cabinet are called young ladies, and the women who are married are called Mrs. I didn't tell him that he could call his relatives brothers and sisters.
Su Liangzhi said that he broke his mouth, but Han Yi insisted, and said helplessly: "You are really stubborn, I'll go tell Zhen'er." I guess you have to listen to the words of the eldest lady. ”
Han Yi only smiled innocently.
It is worthy of being a boatman who sails for Hejialou's boat, and is extremely familiar with the river. When they first arrived in Shen, the fleet docked at Xiejiawan Wharf. This was not originally in the sailing plan, but Qian Feng sent someone to ask, and Mrs. Xu told the reason, and he knew that the daughter of the Xu family was seasick.
For the sake of safety, Biluo was ordered to come to ask Su Liangzhi: "Third Master Su, the old lady asked, do you want to go ashore for acupuncture?"
The water flow of Xiejiawan is gentle, the wharf is built in the bay, the boat is wide and stable, and the water in the bay gently pushes the boat gently after docking. Su Liangzhi stood at the bow of the boat and felt it, and said: "Acupuncture is no problem on the boat, but it will take some time for the female dependents to get off the boat, and it is even more difficult to do moxibustion when it is late." ”
Xu Wanzhen and Xu Wenyu all went to Mrs. Xu's cabin, and Su Liangzhi took acupuncture one by one. Su Liangzhi took out a set of acupuncture in a swallowtail green building velvet bag, the four corners of the bag were a little worn, and the silver needles flashed with a cold light. His hand was slender and stable, first roasted the silver needle on the hot mugwort, and after the silver needle was warmly ironed, he quickly used the mango needle method to quickly needle up and down the Baihui acupoint of Mrs. Xu, and then twisted it finely. Mrs. Xu closed her eyes and let him do it, feeling the gentle heat of the moxibustion fire slowly flowing into the top of her head with the silver needles, and her head, which had been a little dull and dizzy, slowly became relaxed.
Xu Wanzhen has been watching with bated breath, and such a mysterious medical skill as acupuncture has long been lost in modern times. Silver needles pierce acupuncture points to cure diseases, which sounds tantamount to mythology. Although she had confidence in Su Liangzhi's medical skills, she had not seen it with her own eyes after all, and when she saw Mrs. Xu's more and more relaxed expression, she had a real sense of what was happening in front of her, and she admired it very much, the wisdom of the ancients was really not to be underestimated.