After eating the zongzi, the Du family hurried to the old locust tree and the others gathered, waiting for the people to arrive, the old people and children sat in the ox carts contributed by several families, the middle-aged people followed the car leisurely, and a group of people happily drove towards the county seat.

There are many people in the village who go to the county seat, not all of them go to see the swimming competition, and most of the aunts and aunts take advantage of the cheap goods in the county today, and go to the county seat to purchase.

Du Xiaoxi was hugged by Du Niang and sat in her car, and Du Xiaohu and the children next door huddled together, giggling and sharing the interesting things that happened around them. Du Xiaoxi also followed Baba to eavesdrop on the side, and when he met something fun, he also followed everyone to giggle.

After entering the city, the large group diverged.

Du Niang took her daughter-in-law and four sons, who were reluctant to work as coolies, to buy things, while Du Dad took his sons straight to the dock.

"Ahh Ahh "I'm going! I'm going!

Du Xiaoxi patted Du Niang's arm, and stretched out her hands to Daddy Du.

She's going to see a group of men out of the bath!

Don't go to the wet market!

"Xiao Xi'er wants to follow Daddy? Good! Good! Follow Daddy! ”

Father Du ran to Du Niang, and stretched out his hands to snatch Du Xiaoxi into his arms.

"Hey! You are so noisy by the river, what are the children doing with you? Du Niang slapped Daddy Du's fat paws.

Seeing this, Du Xiaoxi said, "Ah! Yes! "It's more cheerful.

"I'm going! I'm going! ”

Daddy Du scratched his head, my daughter looked like you didn't take me, I didn't recognize you as a father, it was too embarrassing.

"Sakura, you see that the child wants to follow me, so let her follow, I'll just stand by the river and take a look, don't move forward."

Du Xiaoxi slapped Du Niang's hand even harder when she heard this, and Du Niang had no choice but to put another gown on Du Xiaoxi before handing the child to Du Dad.

Du Xiaoxi rewarded Daddy Du with a loving Momoda, only to make Daddy Du dizzy with excitement, and walked all the way through the county in a daze, to the north-south Grand Canal of the competition.

The North-South Grand Canal is a great feat that was completed by the great monk Du Yi Master Tiyì at the founding of the Great Shang Dynasty after decades of hard work by two generations of emperors.

Before the construction of the North-South Grand Canal, the only way to cross the north and south was to cross the eastern coast of Guò by sea and by land over the mountains. The completion of the North-South Grand Canal was an absolute blessing for the Shang Dynasty. Not only economic and cultural exchanges, but also the control of the southern region by the imperial family, which was advantageous to prevent the division of the north and the south.

Shanshui County, as one of the few ports in the middle of the North-South Grand Canal except for a few military towns, has naturally expanded over the past few decades by virtue of the ships coming and going, and has become a booming county town on the Grand Canal.

In recent years, although the dragon boat race in the south has been introduced, the villagers still regard swimming as the biggest event of the Dragon Boat Festival.

Rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, rely on the water to eat the water.

Shanshui County thrives on the canal, and half of the villagers rely on the canal to make a living. Men are good at water and come and go freely in the water, which is naturally an essential survival skill.

Daddy Du hugged Du Xiaoxi and led a few little radish heads, and with his meatballs and the figure of his sons Douding, he successfully occupied the position behind Lizheng.

Are you embarrassed to fight for a position in the front row with a bunch of dwarfs?

"Girl, do you see? The county lord is on it. Daddy Du's thick fingers pointed directly at the high platform in the distance, and added with envy: "Our county master is handsome!" ”

Du Xiaoxi followed Daddy Du's fingers, exerted his eyes, and mobilized his vision that belongs to young children who have absolutely no myopia, and as a result, he could only see a group of people with blurred faces sitting upright, and he couldn't see the faces clearly at all.

Du Xiaoxi spit out two bubbles, and despised Daddy Du fooling the child.

Separated by such a distance, can you tell which county magistrate it is? Do you know that the county magistrate is a flower and not a short, fat and round bad old man?!

On the high platform, the county magistrate who Daddy Du was thinking about was holding a teacup in both hands and handing it to a thin old monk.

Wei Lang is indeed a beautiful man as Daddy Du thought, with phoenix eyes flying obliquely into his sideburns, red lips and white teeth, and a face as white as jade, Duan Duan is a romantic character.

However, at this time, Wei Lang was full of smiles, and held the teacup infinitely flatteringly, "Master, come and taste it, the best Longjing before the rain, the emperor gave me a little bit." ”

The thin old monk, Master Xile, took the teacup and laughed, "Lord Wei is loving, but the old man is disrespectful." ”

The fragrance is fragrant, full of fragrance, and the aftertaste is lingering.

It is worthy of being the best dragon well before the rain that only produces a few taels every year.

"This time, the blessing of the master can share the emperor's worries with you, it is really a great fortune in Zizhao's life. To be able to create the same great achievements as Master Wataichi, Zizhao died without regrets! ”

Zizhao is Wei Lang's small character, and the young master of the dignified Guogong Mansion showed an expression that he could die at any time, and Master Xile was also drunk.

The corners of Master Xile's mouth twitched, and he complained in his heart that Wei Lang was a forced goods, and unhurriedly crossed the best pre-rain Longjing in the teapot into his stomach.

Master Xile is a wild monk in the countryside who emerged more than ten years ago, but in just a few years, with his superb medical skills, he has helped the people survive the plague many times, and has gained great prestige among the people. He also entered the eyes of the emperor when he met the emperor and became a monk with the same name as the master of Huangjue Temple.

Unlike Master Renhe, who guarded the nobles of Huangjue Temple and the Imperial City, Master Xile traveled through Guò to save people and practice.

Five years ago, Master Xile and a few apprentices suddenly disappeared, and when everyone gradually forgot about him, he suddenly reappeared with a shocking bomb.

More than two years ago, Master Xile appeared in the capital of Kyoto with a few apprentices. After a simple tidying up, Master Xile asked to enter the palace and had a secret conversation with Emperor Jiayuan for a day. After that, Emperor Jiayuan urgently summoned important members of the Ministry of Engineering to enter the palace at night.

A day later, Master Joy disappeared again, and no one knew what an astonishing discovery Master Joy had made, except for a few officials from the Ministry of Works. People just found that on the west mountain, where every inch of land was precious outside the imperial city, a very wide Xile Temple suddenly appeared.

The Great Shang Dynasty was a square country.

This square refers to the country.

The north, east, and south are bordered by the sea, and the west is connected to the nations.

The north is an endless grassland, the southeast is dominated by uneven mountains, and in the southwest there is the largest treasure house of the Shang Dynasty - the mountain plain.

The mountain plain was the largest producer of grain and medicinal materials in all dynasties, but due to the barrier of layers of mountains, the mountain plain can easily become a local separatist force. It is not impossible to use the mountains and plains as the base camp, cut off the food supply in the north, occupy the land as the king and then win the world.

Well, that's how the founding emperor of the Great Shang Dynasty made his fortune and became the emperor!

Because of its own family history, the Great Shang Dynasty was founded for nearly 80 years, and controlling the mountain plains has always been the top priority in the careers of successive emperors. It is also the gold standard to measure whether an emperor is wise and powerful.

It took him nearly three years to travel all the rivers in the mountain plains to the east and north, and finally found a gentle river that could lead directly to the North-South Grand Canal. Not to mention "a day in a thousand miles of mountains", it is still easy to shorten the journey of half a year to half a month.

This is no less than the Grand Canal!

Emperor Jiayuan said that I no longer have to worry about my brothers and sons occupying the king, and I no longer need Baba's marriage princess to envelop those mountain people.

Can't be too happy!