Chapter 5: Traveling in the Night (I)
What are you thinking at the moment? Is it homework that hasn't been done yet? Or tomorrow's basketball game? Or is it a girl who always blushes when the next class sees you?
Guan Yiyi sat on the bow of the boat with his knees crossed, it was the time of the sea, as for how many moments it was, Guan Yiyi didn't know, because she learned a lot in the Ming Dynasty, but she could only guess the law of time so far. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
The night breeze was a little cool, blowing on Guan Yiyi's body, making Guan Yiyi's brain more and more sober.
"One by one? Why haven't you slept yet? Zong Jiming, who got up in the middle of the night to relieve himself, was startled by Guan Yiyi, who was sitting on the bow of the boat.
They were on the way back to the Northern Jin Dynasty at this time, from the Eastern Jin Dynasty to the Cangyi tribe south of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, it took them more than four months, their footsteps were slow, and they were eating and playing along the way, and the time was from the beginning of summer to the middle of autumn, and when they came out of the Cangyi tribe, they were already approaching the end of autumn.
As soon as winter arrived, Guan Yiyi must be spent in the room, this time he ran too far, and the time to return to the Northern Jin Dynasty was a little late, so the two chose to take the waterway.
"What's the matter, is it a side effect of Zhou Tieshan's medicine, why are you still sitting here blowing cold wind, be careful of the wind cold, and then you refuse to take the medicine obediently, and you have to let me coax you," is the medicine three poisonous, Zong Jiming didn't dare to give Guan Yiyi too much of the medicine Zhou Tieshan gave her, for fear that the medicine would have any side effects that would affect her.
"It's nothing, I just thought of something, I couldn't sleep, and I came out." Guan Yiyi wanted to get up one by one, but her legs were numb from her hug, and she was a little unsteady when she got up.
Zong Jiming wanted to step forward to help him, but his brain and body were not yet sober, so he was still a little slower after all, and watched Guan Yiyi fall on the deck with his feet upside down, and he couldn't hold back for a while, and laughed out loud.
Guan Yiyi, who fell like a little Wang Ba, didn't feel embarrassed, he stood up on the deck, patted the ash stuck to his body, and walked to the cabin, the time was indeed a little late, and it was time to wash and sleep, as for the inexplicable laughing and happy person behind him, he would naturally go back to sleep when he was tired of laughing.
In the middle of the night, Guan Yiyi was woken up by the sound of fighting outside, and before she woke up, she felt her temples pounding suddenly and her brain dizzy.
When they walked to the deck, they didn't find Zong Jiming, but saw the two fishermen who drove the boat for them.
"What's going on? Why is it so noisy in the middle of the night? Rubbing his temples, he stepped forward to ask the two fishermen, and seeing that they were nervous, Guan Yiyi immediately relaxed after seeing him, and one of them pointed to a small boat under the boat and asked Guan Yiyi to look over.
They took the waterway, in order to let Guan Yiyi sleep well, Zong Jiming rented a small and medium-sized passenger boat, and specially changed the hard bed on the ship, starting from the Surabaya River in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, it has been five or six days, at this time there is no one around, the sky is dark, where are the boats and people?
"Hey, why are you fighting?" Seeing that the two of them were fighting in full swing on the boat, seeing that Zong Jiming was about to be injured, Guan Yiyi immediately opened his mouth.
The voice that has not yet woken up has the unique softness of the girl, and the two of them paused when they heard it, and put away the palm wind, at this time Zong Jiming was still wearing a middle coat, and the coat he wore when he came out before did not know where it was blown to.
"Dead old man, it's all your fault, you didn't sleep at home in the middle of the night to catch some fish, and you made such a big noise, and woke everyone up." After speaking, Zong Jiming raised his hand again, ready to strike at the other party again.
"Why are you so unreasonable, the old man is fishing here to relieve boredom, what's in the way of you, it's just a knock on your boat, you are good, do it directly, now you are reasonable, those little dolls on the side of the road are better than you, at least they all know what it means to respect the elderly." The one who spoke was an old man, the sky was not very good tonight, the clouds covered the moon, and the old man should be wearing a black robe, otherwise he would not be unable to see him in this ink-like night, on the other hand, Zong Jiming, wearing a snow-white middle coat, let people know where he was standing at a glance.
"I said, who will fish in the Surabaya River in the middle of the night, not to mention that it is so dark, there is not even a person around, in case you fall in, who will save you, just now I saw you in a drunken state, the whole person staggered and almost fell into the river, only to take a shot to pull you, if you don't thank me, forget it, why do you slander me for not respecting the elderly." Zong is not angry.
People who practice martial arts have much higher eyesight than ordinary people, and when he finished laughing, Guan Yiyi went back to sleep in the morning, so he stood on the deck alone and thought, if he was Guan Yiyi, what would he think about at that time in such an environment, but unfortunately Guan Yiyi's heart was too deep, and Zhou Tieshan didn't want to say anything more to him, so in the end he could only sigh and comfort himself, when the time came, he would naturally know everything.
Just as he was about to go back to the cabin to rest, he felt the hull of the ship shake slightly, and saw that it was a small boat that crashed up, Zong Jiming felt strange, is there anyone sailing like them in the middle of the night?
Then he smelled the smell of wine wafting into his nose, and the people on the boat seemed to be a little unstable, and they were about to turn into the water, Zong Jiming immediately flew over, grabbed the man's collar and wanted to pull him back, who knew that the man was also a martial artist, so he grabbed his wrist, and then the two began to fight, now that I think about it, it is really inexplicable.
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"Uncle, why do you remember that you came here to fish alone when you don't sleep at home in the middle of the night?" Guan Yiyi persuaded the two of them to get on the boat in a good voice, and the three of them entered the cabin, where they sat at a low table and drank hot tea.
"The world is big, where is home." The old man drank tea slowly, and the smell of alcohol on his body had dissipated a lot in the fight just now.
"This is interesting, the world is big, where can't it be home?" Guan Yiyi supported his head with both hands, and as he spoke, his eyelids began to be unable to hold on.
When the old man heard this, he was shocked, this woman didn't look big, but she saw so clearly.
Zong Jiming didn't care if the old man had anything to say, seeing that Guan Yiyi's head was about to hit the low table, he immediately picked her up and walked to the room, and then returned to his seat lightly, looked at the old man, and asked, "Uncle has no home?" ”
"Home is the country, the country is the home, the Eastern Jin Dynasty is so big, how can there be no home!"
"But listening to the old man's tone doesn't seem to be as simple as he says."
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He Siyuan was a young man, he entered the dynasty at the age of eighteen and was favored by the new emperor, and at the age of twenty, he was already a famous genius boy in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
Entering the palace as an official is equivalent to half-stepping into a coffin, one wrong step and one wrong step, everything you do must be considered, and you must not be caught by the villain standing behind you.
He Siyuan was originally born in an unknown small mountain village in the suburbs that deviated from the Eastern Jin Dynasty, his parents were farmers who had never studied, and He Siyuan was not called He Siyuan, his parents had never studied, how could he be given such a name.
He Xiaoer is He Siyuan's real name, He Adaa is his elder brother, before he could walk, his elder brother carried him to raise pigs and sheep, and his brother did not read, and drove the sheep to the hillside with his younger brother all day long, climbed to the top of the mountain by himself, and sang the mountain songs he learned from the older generation.
After seven or eight years of such a life, in the past seven or eight years, He Xiaoer has gone from being able to climb to walking, from being able to walk to running, standing on the top of the mountain with his brother and singing mountain songs and cutting weeds.
What else would they do besides singing mountain songs and cutting weeds?
They often lie on the grass with a weed in their hands and chew it in their mouths, which is sweet.
They used to have this conversation:
Xiao: Brother, do you like Wang Xiaoya?
Big: What's wrong? She doesn't look good at all, her face is full of pockmarks, her nose is too collapsed, her mouth is thin, except for those eyes like stars, she is not good-looking anywhere, there is no flesh on her body, if you want me to say, Fang Meili is better-looking, she has a big belly, and she will definitely be able to give birth to a son in the future.
Xiao: But Fang Meili is already married to Ah Cai.
Big: So I'm going to find someone who is more beautiful and bigger than Fang Fang, and give me many sons.
Little: Brother, have you thought about what you want to do in the future?
Big: Feed the sheep and pigs, open a few acres of land, marry a daughter-in-law, give birth to his sons, and then let them work for me.
J: I want to go out, I want to read.
Big: What is reading? Can you eat enough to have a son?
Xiao: Two days ago, when I went into the city with my father, I saw a bookstore, which is for buying books, and I went in and looked at it twice, but it didn't fill my stomach, and my daughter-in-law never showed up.
Big: There's a bird for that.
Small: It's not for birds.
Talking in a rural accent and learning the vulgarity of a rural villager, the two ended the conversation like this.
Later, He Xiaoer ignored the opposition of his father and mother, and resolutely walked out of this village surrounded by mountains, He Xiao was twenty years old that year, and when he left, he said a word to He Ada:
Brother, I'm leaving, I've been thinking about it for a long time, the library has been calling my name in my heart, if I haven't come back in ten years, you can take your father and mother to live a good life, that beauty is not a good thing, you don't want her.
He Adaa stood at the entrance of the village, looking at He Xiaoer's back with a reluctant face, he didn't know the outside world, and he didn't know what a book was, just looking at his younger brother's determined face, he wanted to support him.
In fact, He Adaa had also entered the city, but all he saw was roadside stalls and juggling, but he had never seen the bookstore.
He Xiaoer entered the city and begged the bookstore shopkeeper many times, each time he was swept out of the door by a broom, fortunately, He Xiaoer played with his brother since he was a child, and he was always beaten by his father and mother when he went home, and he was used to it, and then the shopkeeper was finally willing to let him in, doing some chores every day, no salary, and finally agreed to teach him to read under He Xiaoer's soft grinding and hard foam.
From the beginning of the only way to recognize a few words, to later be able to read the whole book, He Xiaoer remembered that learning to walk when he was a child is also like this, over time, He Xiaoer spent two years to read the entire library of books, he slept later than everyone every day, got up earlier than everyone, regardless of spring, autumn, winter and summer, every day is reading books, encounter words or paragraphs that will not be known, just take it down, and wait until the shopkeeper has free time to run to ask him, two years later, Wang Xiaoer's excerpts are as thick as more than ten books.
Xiao Er: Shopkeeper, I've read all the books in the library, and I recognize a lot of words, it's time to go out and see the world.
Shopkeeper: Xiao Er, you are a smart one, you have read all the books in this library, and I have nothing to teach you, you go, be careful on the road.
He Xiaoer walked out of this small city, he had great ambitions, and walked straight to the direction of the imperial capital, along the way, he robbed business with beggars, and food with vicious dogs, and when he arrived in the imperial capital, he met the prince who had not yet ascended the throne.
Prince: You stink, this roast chicken is for you, don't follow me.
Primary 2: ...... (Gobbling up)
Prince: Why are you still following me, haven't you eaten yet? Then you go wash up first, there are still a lot of delicious foods in my house.
Primary 2: ......
Prince: Are you mute?
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Sometimes it's more than hard work, but luck is what you need.