It may be because the Double Ninth Festival is approaching, the golden chrysanthemum is beginning to bloom, the dignitaries and nobles of the capital go to enjoy the chrysanthemum, or the lotus leaves are desolate and the lotus flowers are withering, or the sky is floating with dots of rain, there are very few visitors to the Qianli Pool, only a half-old and not new boat docked at the pool and waiting for visitors. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

I can't imagine that Qianli Pond is so bleak, Qingling came three years ago, it was June, the quiet pond water turquoise lotus leaves lined with white lotus flowers, Qianli Pond is full of tourists.

Qingling and Wanxin got on the painting boat, and each person could swim in the lake for ten yuan, but they had to make up enough for ten people. The blue water surface, a few sparse lotus leaves, in addition to the two of them, how can there be people swimming in the lake to enjoy the lotus in Qianli Pond today, it is obviously impossible to get together ten people.

"The boatman, there is not even a figure around, how can there be enough ten people! You don't want the two of us to pay for ten, do you? Wan Xin had already seen that there was only one pleasure boat by the pool, and the boatman wanted the two of them to pay a hundred silver dollars.

Often there are not enough ten guests on the boat, and the boatman must insist on ten people to drive the boat, and there are tourists in the capital who are not short of silver. This trick has been tried and tested again and again.

The boatman's intentions were broken by Wan Xin's words, but he did a lot of this kind of business, and his face was not red, "The little brother can get off the boat if he doesn't want to swim in the lake, but he can't blame the small one, it's not easy to make money by manual work, and the small one is so tired that he only has the gas to enter." Who said that there are not enough ten people, little brother, look, isn't there someone over there! ”

A horse-drawn carriage came over and stopped under the willow trees on the embankment.

A guy jumped down from the car and lifted the curtain, and a man got out of the car, and the guy took out the food box and baggage from the car.

The master and servant saw the boat on the shore and walked in the direction of the boat, looking like they were also going to swim in the lake.

The boatman laughed.

Coupled with the two people who came, there were only four of them, obviously there were not enough ten people, and they had to pay dozens of dollars to the boatman for nothing, no wonder the boatman was happy.

Wanxin's mouth dug high, and she said angrily, "What's so funny? and not to stumble and pick up gold. ”

"Hehe, don't say it, the gold harvest is here." The boatman's face remained unchanged, but his words were full of joy, "The two little brothers don't need to spend money to swim in the lake, so they just stand aside for a while, wait for the little one to say something, and just nod." ”

Although Wanxin is also a first-class maid from a large family, but Jiang Fu is famous for blowing a trumpet in the crack of the door, and the monthly salary of a young lady's personal maid like her is only two taels of silver, Wang's never gives rewards on weekdays, and she can be exempted from dozens of boat fares, of course she is happy, she listened to the words of the boatman, but she didn't dare to call the shots, and looked at her young lady with her eyes.

Although Qingling was loved by Mrs. Tai and was not short of money to spend, after listening to the words of the boat family, he was inevitably curious, and wanted to see what the boat family had to do to make a living by collecting gold, so he didn't speak, pulled Wan Xin up, and stood aside.

Before the master and servant approached, the boatman shouted loudly, "Great official, you can come, the little one has been waiting here for a long time!" ”

The two jumped on the boat, and the man in the servant's costume was about ten years old, and asked softly, "It's really strange, how do you know that my family official is coming today?" ”

The boatman looked at the two people who jumped on the boat, and said with a smile, "The small one has been in charge of the boat for three years in Qianlichi, and the big officials have come for three years. ”

The man, known as the Great Official, snorted coldly and did not speak.

"It's a man with a heart." The teenage manservant looked around with a pair of intelligent eyes, pointed to Qingling and Wanxin who were standing on the side and asked, "Who are they?" ”

"Back to the big officials, the two of them are the younger sisters, and the mother is sick in bed, so the two of them have to dress up as men, come out to help the little one get some lotus roots, and change some medical expenses for the mother." The boatman's face was gloomy, and his voice seemed to be sad.

"Oh?" The manservant walked over and looked at the two of them carefully, and sure enough, he didn't see the Adam's apple, and found that the two of them had small ear holes on their earlobes, which are unique signs of girls, so he nodded to the big official, "Official, it's really two girls." ”

"Hey!" The official has not yet grown a beard, and at the age of twenty-eight or nineteen, he is depressed between his eyebrows, and sighs, "I ...... I can't imagine that in Kyoto, where Kyoto is prosperous, the life of the people is still so difficult. ”

The official's gaze froze, his handsome eyes stared at the boatman, Qingling looked at the eyes that could carry Ling Ran's anger when he sighed like this, and for some reason, there was a feeling of horror in his heart.

The boatman's gaze at Shangguan seemed to be drenched in cold water, and he hurriedly lowered his head, not daring to look at it again.

"Look at you in your twenties, elegant temperament, young age, why don't you go to study and take a career to find a way out, but you are here to support the boat?" The official's gaze immediately floated, like scattered rain in the air.

"Returning to the big officials, the small one earns a few silver coins while studying, and this year he is catching up with the scientific examination. Who knows that after waiting for more than two months, Enke has not yet released the list. The boatman bowed his head and said.

In the scientific examination in June of the ninth year of Qianfeng, the test questions were leaked, which was a secret of the imperial court, although the news inevitably spread through some channels, it was still controlled in a small area. Ordinary people like the boat family naturally don't know, and they just blindly wait for the list to be released.

The official was silent for a moment, and his handsome eyes fell on the young face of the boat family, "What's your name?" ”

"Little Zhang Zheng."

"Zhang Zheng, Zhang Zheng ......" The official repeated a few times, and as soon as he stretched out his hand, the manservant immediately handed over a money bag. The official took the money bag, put it in Zhang Zheng's hand, and shook his hand meaningfully, "Take it to treat my mother, don't come to support the boat anymore, study hard." ”

The official let go of his hand after speaking.

Zhang Zheng's eyes were shining, trembling all over, he didn't grasp the money bag, the bag fell to the ground, and dozens of golden melon seeds were scattered on the ground. Zhang Zheng was stunned, and his voice was choked, "The small one thanked the big officials, and the small one can't accept it." ”

"The son wants to raise but does not wait, and the tree wants to be quiet but the wind does not stop." The official's eyes were deep, and his voice was full of loss and regret, and then his expression changed to loneliness, and he said with a smile, "Only by taking good care of my mother can I study quietly, read well, and do something for the people." ”

"Big official, this money, the small one really can't take it. The mother's medical treatment can't be spended, just in case, just ask the big officials to give the small one the due lake swimming fee. Zhang Zheng knelt on the ground, picked up the golden melon seeds one by one and put them in the bag, held them in his hands and raised them above his head, and for some reason he burst into tears.

"You can take it, it's all the boat fare, and the rest of your mother's medical treatment will be kept for your two younger sisters to add makeup. Zhang Zheng, hold the boat. ”

In the era of science and religion of "preserving heavenly principles and destroying people's desires", strict women showed their faces, and many women were accidentally touched by strange men or abandoned by their husbands, or their marriage contracts were dissolved, and even more were sunk in the pond. As a last resort, I wouldn't disguise myself as a man to come out and get a few lotus roots, presumably my family background is really bad.

There was a little pity in the eyes of the big official, but this pity only flashed, and without looking at the two of them again, Qingling almost suspected that he had seen it wrong.

The big official didn't say anything more, walked to the bow of the boat, stood on the side of the ship, looked at the boundless and endless sky, let the sporadic rain sprinkle on his body, the early autumn wind blew his clothes, Qingling looked at the tall and majestic body, and was stunned.

The boat moved, rowing a few people towards the middle of the lake, stopping at a place where the lotus flowers had not yet withered.

The manservant had already opened the food box, placed some bowls containing food on the board of the boat, and after burning incense, he opened the baggage, took out some white paper lotuses, and put them in the hands of the officials. I don't know who is paying tribute, the official put the paper lotus into the water along the side of the boat, and the paper lotus and the real lotus are mixed together, and they can no longer distinguish the real from the fake.

Zhang Zheng silently held the boat, his eyes red.

Qingling and Wanxin sat at the stern of the boat, looking at the lotus flowers floating on the water from afar, gathering together for a while, and being blown away by the wind for a while.

Qingling remembered her mother, who she had never seen before, she and her mother, like a lotus flower put in the middle of the lake, were blown away by the wind on the day she was born, even if she woke up in a dream for more than ten years, she couldn't catch that blurred face.

The people who care about him have long left him, and now, the only one who loves him the most is Mrs. Jiang, and the happiest time is only spent in the old garden for three years. Even this little happiness can't last long, and in a few days, I will marry into a strange squire's mansion and spend a year with a strange squire.

Stubborn like her, looking at the lotus flowers drifting in the wind, her mind was confused. The direction of the wind determines the passing of the lotus, and what about his own fate, for the rest of his life, will he have to go with the flow and pass away with the wind?

The boat docked, and the officials hurriedly disembarked and left in a carriage.

Zhang Zheng stood at the bow of the boat, watched the direction of the carriage leaving, solemnly knelt down, and kowtowed three times before getting up.

Seeing his abnormal behavior, Wan Xin couldn't help but say, "You should be happy to pick up such a big bag of gold, why is your face so ugly, and you are afraid that others will not be able to share it?" ”

Zhang Zheng turned his head and glared at Wanxin, "What do you know!" ”

Qingling called Wanxin, counted twenty silver coins, put them on the board, and then said, "I hope that what Brother Zhang Zheng picked up is not a money bag, but a future." ”

Zhang Zheng's original expression was solemn, where was the casual tactfulness of teasing the two just now, and the idea of overcharging the two people for the boat had long been replaced by doubts, listening to Qingling's language with a pun, he bent down deeply and saluted, "Little brother seems to know the identity of the big official, can you make it clear?" On his day, Zhang Zheng also reported the kindness of the big officials today. ”

Today is the 28th day of August in the ninth year of Qianfeng, and the 28th day of August 20 years ago is the day of the death of the immortal of Yuguiren, the biological mother of the saint today, and she really heard a word, is it the self-proclaimed word of the saint, or is it a real word that I can't imagine?

Today's saint is also in his twenties, which is the same age as the people he meets today. Is this a coincidence?

Several coincidences meet together, and there must be a hidden truth hidden in them.

Qingling smiled, looked at Zhang Zheng's suspicious face, and said, "His kindness is like the light of three springs, and you and I can repay him with the light of fire?" If you really want to give something back, study hard, I can be sure that only you will do your best to prepare for the Enke exam in January. ”

When Zhang Zheng was even more suspicious and surprised, Qingling left with Wanxin, and before leaving, asked Zhang Zheng where he lived.