(There are three days left until the end of the book)

Emperor Guangen was stunned for a moment and asked, "Boatman?" ”

It seemed a little unreasonable for the king of a country to see a boatman, and besides, he was so busy every day, so he hesitated, but he was as smart as him, and he also knew that since Shen Xizhen would specifically mention that person, that person must have something different about him, so Emperor Guangen immediately said: "Okay, then arrange a time to meet him." ”

"He has to make a living by opening bamboo rows every day, and I'm afraid he won't have time to come into the palace to see you, so why don't we go to see him in casual clothes?" Shen Xizhen said.

Emperor Guangen sneered: "Empress, no matter how busy he is, he is not busy, right?" ”

Shen Xizhen smiled and scratched his nose and said: "You are the king of a country, and you should work day and night for the people, but people only have one job and income, if you don't do it, you won't get any income, and the meaning is different." ”

"It seems that the queen is really considerate of the people, and I am really proud to have a queen like you. Okay, then I'll go with you in plain clothes to meet him for a while, how about going tomorrow afternoon? ”

Emperor Guangen also suddenly realized that he hadn't left the palace for nearly a month.

"Okay, okay." Shen Xizhen couldn't stop nodding.

"I'll send someone to invite Second Elder Matsuyama early tomorrow morning."

"Uh-huh."

Shen Xizhen answered while helping him get dressed, and a smile bloomed on his face.

Early the next morning, Emperor Guangen really sent someone to Songshan to invite the second elder of Songshan, and personally wrote a letter to him to take with him.

When he came back from the next dynasty, as soon as he stepped into the Zichen Palace, he saw that Shen Xizhen was already waiting there in civilian clothes.

He had lunch with him, took a nap, and went out.

As it is casual clothes. In addition, Shen Xizhen is good at disguise, so the faces of the two of them are also slightly decorated, and no one can recognize them when they walk on the road.

Liu Shuihe is on the outskirts of the city. The river is quite wide, the scenery on both sides is beautiful, and the houses are scattered and scattered, giving people a sense of idyllic scenery.

When the two of them arrived at the shore, they saw a bamboo row docked on the shore from a distance.

The bamboo row was only more than a zhang wide and two zhang long, and there was nothing on it except a few small stools, and it was dusk. No one was going to cross the river, so the boatman was lying on his back on a bamboo raft.

I don't know if I'm asleep or not, but his posture is very comfortable.

When the two of them were about to come forward to say hello, they suddenly saw the boatman turn over. And chanted a poem:

The knot is in the human realm, and there is no noise of cars and horses.

How can you ask you? The heart is far away from itself.

Picking chrysanthemums under the east fence, leisurely see the South Mountain.

The mountain weather is good, and the birds are returning.

There's a real meaning to this. I have forgotten to tell the truth.

The two looked at each other and smiled. I think this boatman should still have some feelings.

Since he didn't see the boatman's face, Shen Xizhen couldn't tell his age, so he called out to him: "Hello, we want to cross the river." ”

The boatman, one of the agitators, immediately looked at them, and then stood up.

This is a man in his forties, although his face is a little tanned, but he has a dignified appearance, dignified and dignified, and his eyes are dark and bright. At first glance, it is not a thing in the pool.

And the man looked at Emperor Guangen and Shen Xizhen and said with a smile: "The two of them are unearthly in appearance and majestic in demeanor, they must be people of noble status." ”

"Big brother can look at faces?" Emperor Guangen asked with a smile. Pulling Shen Xizhen from the river bank to jump onto his bamboo raft.

The man smiled slightly and said, "No, it's just a matter of feeling." With that, he picked up the penny and pressed it the riverbank, and the bamboo raft left the riverbank and slowly moved to the other side of the river.

"Big brother, dare to ask your surname?" Shen Xizhen asked him.

"Don't have your surname Long, call Long San."

"Hello Brother Long, how long have you been holding the boat here?"

"Nine years."

"Stuffy? Not ready for another job? ”

"That's it, I'm at ease every day, and the family's expenses aren't big anyway." Ryusan replied with a smile.

"If it is peaceful today, it is naturally rare to have enough to eat." Emperor Guangen said.

"Otherwise, even in the times of peace, there will be people who will not have enough to eat, because there will always be some people who can only rely on others like parasites, and if they lose their support one day, they will only starve to death." Ryuzo said.

This is indeed reasonable, Emperor Guangen and Shen Xizhen nodded again and again.

"Then according to Brother Long's intentions, what can be done to solve this problem?"

"As long as it doesn't involve ethics and morality, we should be ruthless in the face of this kind of person, start with education, it's actually better not to be soft-hearted than not to condone."

"Yes." Emperor Guangen nodded.

The three of them just chatted.

Long San really had his own unique views on people or things as Shen Xizhen said, and after a conversation with him, Emperor Guangen liked him more and more, and he also liked Emperor Guangen and Shen Xizhen very much, and invited them to his house for dinner, and they did not refuse.

Ryuzo's house was not far from the river, and they saw a gray-haired grandmother standing at the door of the house to greet them.

"It was my grandmother, almost eighty years old, and she taught me how to think independently, how not to be burdened by material desires, how to behave in the world...... I learned a lot from her. Ryuzo said.

During the banquet, Emperor Guangen and Shen Xizhen also chatted with his grandmother.

"He was very good at studying back then, and if he went to get fame, I'm afraid there were few people who could compare to him, but he didn't want to get fame, saying that it was all a passing thing......" Long San's grandmother said with great interest, her eyes staring at Long San, her expression full of love.

"Haven't you married?" Shen Xizhen asked curiously.

"I got married, but my wife drowned in the river, she was pregnant at the time, and I've been here ever since." Long San said with some embarrassment.

"Yes, this child is really infatuated, so he has been staying here all the time, and he refuses to remarry." His grandmother continued.

Both Shen Xizhen and Emperor Guangen couldn't help but have a deeper respect for him.

"Brother Long, if there is an opportunity for you to come out, would you be willing?"

Long San thought for a while and said, "No, I want to stay here with her and grandma." ”

Naturally, this 'she' refers to his drowning wife.

How deep does it take for him to treat her like this?

It's hard to say, but everyone understands the feelings and persistence in his heart, so they can't bear to oppose him.

"Okay, since that's your wish, but if we want to ask you for something, I'd like you to be as kind of a friend." Emperor Guangen said.

"No problem, you are welcome to come often, I think I will be holding the boat as long as I can walk, you don't have to worry about not finding me."

So Emperor Guangen and Shen Xizhen left happily.

When they walked away, Ryuzo said to his grandmother, "The two of them are the current Saint and the Empress. ”

"How can you tell?" His grandmother was shocked.

"I can see it without a trick." Ryuzo replied with a smile, picking up his wine glass and leaning back. (To be continued......)